| 单词 | take to |
| 例句 | Back in camp, bound and ready to be taken to a city he’d never seen before? Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z I still had no idea I was about to be taken to school. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Whatever it takes to make people want to care about rescuing animals. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Conditions on the potato farms in the Bethal area, where black prisoners were often taken to relieve the overcrowded jails in Johannesburg and provide cheap labour for white farmers, were described as inhuman. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z All of Momma’s people had been stolen too, and taken to Jamaica where she was born. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z I wonder how long it takes to ride a bus to Arizona. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z “But what has mademoiselle to do with it? I don’t care for the fairy: you said it was mademoiselle you would take to the moon?” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Finally we came to the conclusion that the burglars had taken to their heels when they heard footsteps in an otherwise quiet building. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z We were taken to a big burrow and told to make ourselves at home. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z No longer able to afford her “hatchetation” raids, she instead took to the stage, where she entertained audiences by reenacting some of her most spectacular saloon-destroying accomplishments. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z “You shouldn’t have told him that he’s being taken to school,” my mother said. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “But because of what they’re putting him through, I don’t have any reservations anymore. About doing whatever it takes to destroy the Capitol. I’m finally free.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Was that all it took to sway him—being asked? The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Jackson, who police said had been drinking, was taken to Good Samaritan Hospital, where he is being treated for burns and bruises. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Since then Arya had taken to walking around with her cloak draped over her right arm, to conceal the blade at her hip. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Each mourner was to be taken to his own home. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I get chocolate ice cream swirled with Oreos, and for the ten minutes it takes to eat it, I almost feel normal again. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z We were taken to a makeshift village where the huts were made out of thin plastic, making it look like a sprawling garbage-bag town. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Guess that is what it takes to feed Shayleen to the Dragon. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z I assured them that they already had what it would take to succeed. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “Kids sure are taking to the place,” he said. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Fie took to sleeping at his friends’ houses occasionally just in case he was being followed. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “I take to heart the blessed words, ‘Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z If it takes as long to know Jesus as it took to know you, I think, I’m in trouble. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z A van had hit him while he was on his bike, and he had been taken to the hospital. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z When I was taken to Dr. op-oi’s rooms upstairs for our lessons to be resumed, I dreaded the interview. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z "What would it take to make you believe?" City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Once he got a fact, it stayed, but the hours it took to pass into his cranium were not to be believed. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z The clue, still in its sheath, was taken to the chief of police. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z And it was all done in about the time it takes to make a sandwich. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z They kept their eye on the prize and did whatever it took to reach it. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Harvard’s campus was big, and I had no idea where the science building was, or how long it’d take to walk there. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z In fact, to my eyes, the appearance of informality had been taken to a faintly ludicrous degree. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Dad had taken to disappearing for days at a time. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z We have known the Will family since our boys were in kindergarten, and are confident that every measure will be taken to ensure this doesn't happen again. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z ‘You two have everything it takes to make first-class police detectives.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z “Dylan said whatever it took to make you out to be the bad guy.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z “But I do hope,” he said, with a smile, “that you ain’t taken to drinking moonshine, sister.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Thus what Koyré took to be the key concept that made possible the new science, the concept of inertia, was, he held, constructed by Galileo thinking about everyday experience, by a mere thought experiment. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Whoo! I forgot how long it takes to drive down here. Me and Angelo been in that car almost a hour.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I shrugged, which she apparently took to mean yes. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He was taken to Tralfamadore, where he was displayed naked in a zoo, he said. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z When Malcolm X next came to my room in the Hotel Wellington, I said, “I’ve gotten something for you to take to Attallah and Qubilah for Christmas gifts,” and I “walked” out the dolls. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Then think how many it would take to build a universe. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z After we finally received our visas, we were taken to be examined by doctors. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z On another occasion they were taken to examine the bloodied bedroom curtains hanging in the palace of the former dictator. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Mr. Royal, my old schoolteacher, who took to whisky and shot himself, didn’t shoot himself. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z At Tyrion's approach they took to the air, squawking and flapping their black wings. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Two hours later, the bodies of the dead saboteurs were taken to the morgue. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z “How long would it take to go from here to the—to the town?” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I collect each dog’s breed, age, color, weight, and gender, and the number of days it took to be adopted. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z They were taken to a place that Amari heard them call the “customhouse.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Celia took to her bed by early summer and stayed there for the next eight months. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z They took to the air in a wild beating of wings. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I took to looking for books, trying not to grin so as not to get yelled at for smiling too loudly. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z She had gone to the police station to get a statement, which she would take to her visa interview at the American embassy to prove that she had never been convicted of a crime. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z And as she thought and watched and listened, Beetle noted that the midwife had taken to mysterious errands. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Finestein has taken to wearing fitted red suits and jaunty pillbox hats trimmed with matching cherries. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z He found pictures of his children when they were smaller, pictures from a vacation they’d all taken to Spain, pictures from their trip to Syria. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Feo I took to mean not literally ugly so much as ruggedly handsome. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The mettle that it takes to look away from the horror of our prison system, from police forces transformed into armies, from the long war against the black body, is not forged overnight. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z “I was taken to a room, and my backpack was dumped out. ‘Be careful!’ The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company and the Puget Sound Power and Light Company indicated steps would be taken to guard their facilities here. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Actually, his third if you counted the twenty minutes it took to coax him out from under my bed and lock him up in his plastic carrier. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z They couldn’t care less about what it takes to be a pro. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z Percy wondered if that telkhine would pop up some other place in Tartarus, and how long it would take to re-form. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Would they be taken to a refugee camp somewhere, maybe in a different country? Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z It was in those days, then, prompted by my natural admiration for the lady, that I had first taken to perusing her volumes in the library whenever I had an odd moment. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z The amount of chicanery it would take to slip prom past her mother ... it boggled the mind. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z Him not being the one Daddy wanted to take to the park. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z I still was not sure that it belonged to the Aleuts, but I decided to pack the things that I would take to the cave in the ravine. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d taken to wearing socks on my hands for sleeping to cut back on bites and rashes, and as I peeled them off, I used one to wipe his nose. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z But not before over one hundred marchers had to be taken to Washington’s Emergency Hospital. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Children always clamored to be taken to see it. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z In his last year at Princeton he read too much and took to wearing spectacles. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z “No. Contrary to what my mom said, we weren’t taken to the police station.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z What steps are we willing to take to protect ourselves and our own from truth and consequences? A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z I explained that Melissa, Katie, and I were feeling overmatched by the volume of media requests and the work it took to travel on the tight budget we were on. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z In the time it takes to read this sentence, another person has died of malaria. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z It had been with the best of intentions, Joe was sure, but he had felt suffocated by the ceaseless rejoinders and advice—on everything from what classes to take to how to tie his necktie. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He thinks maybe it’s the medicine he's taking to sleep, so he stops taking it. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z He knows he's loyal, but he wonders if he is also brave, if he has what it takes to be a hero. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z Dad misjudged the time it would take to get there, so we did not arrive until after they had left for their morning walk. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z It was Christmas week: we took to no settled employment, but spent it in a sort of merry domestic dissipation. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z “I wanted him to make catfish cakes for me to take to school for my birthday.” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z I was taken to the local hospital, the first time in my life I had ever been to a hospital or seen a doctor. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z From there McCandless took to the sea, traveling south down the eastern edge of the gulf. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It was only a matter of time until they took to their personal language. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z She carried the same suitcase she had taken to Canton, this time filled with seeds and bulbs. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Where once he’d had our names written, now he had taken to writing the titles of books he wanted to read. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Then they were taken to the old slave barracks—low shacks where several men shared a small space, slept on wooden cots, and coped with bad drainage and damp floors. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z All that was left of the old Thebes was Harmonia’s necklace, which was taken to Delphi and for hundreds of years shown to the pilgrims there. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I can’t imagine the courage it takes to maintain that part of their Muslim identity in the face of everything. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z His words of purging our souls of anger and hatred were so taken to heart by some that they rose out of their seats, just itching to praise the Lord. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z All this flashed through Digory’s mind in a second; then he took to his heels and ran for the gates as hard as he could pelt; the Witch after him. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z Lyddie took to copying out passages from Mr. Douglass and the Bible to paste on her looms. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z He gets taken to museums and gets enrolled in special programs and goes to summer camp, where he takes classes. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z “She’s taken to wearing water wings when it rains,” I said. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Yes, we can eventually kill them, only there are so many, an endless supply pouring from the pipe, not even hesitating to take to the sewage. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z She wondered if her own Product, her boy, number Thirty-six, had been taken to the Nurturing Center yet. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I was forced to leave the room because of my behavior, and when I did I was taken to a different room, full of chairs, with two huge glass windows. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z After Governor Baldwin watched the lion perform, he was taken to Main Street and fed 25 pounds of raw meat in front of the Cross Keys Theater. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z On the last day of August, his grandmother packs his clothes: his bathing trunks with the elastic band broken at the waist, his buckled sandals, the round straw hat he’s taken to wearing indoors. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He had taken to counting the crosses, and he had also personally begun to saturate them with gasoline each day around 11 :oo A.M. when the men returned from their patrols. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He was taken to Berlin and hanged in the gallows of Plötzensee prison. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z She blew through special machines, had a blood sample taken to measure her capacity for absorbing oxygen, and underwent a chest exam. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Brian had taken to carrying a pocketknife with him at all times, and he often whittled pieces of scrap wood when he was working something out in his head. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z They took to the court in earnest, and in earnest played to lose, just as Tyger had. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z When Mole didn’t show, she took to the air. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z He reads aloud, “All were taken to Brookdale Hospital, where only Ruth was detained for a fractured right leg.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z Pollard was soon off his crutches and took to leaning on a cane. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “How small a thought it takes to fill someone’s whole life,” the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Only the harpies were unafraid; they took to their wings and soared above, scanning backward and forward, flying back to reassure those still in the tunnel, flying ahead to search for the way out. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Kaiser Wilhelm II had built a sprawling summer pavilion in Griinau so the imperial family could reside in splendor while watching the competitions or taking to the water themselves. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Joe got too weak to look after things and took to his bed. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z The boys were taken to the Hamburg prison. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z She did not take to the idea of capture. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z In his memoirs, Reagan wrote, "I intended to let the Soviets know that we were going to spend what it took to stay ahead of them in the arms race." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z What the economy consisted of in 1960 was potential—raw materials, human beings, high spirits, some money from the marketing board reserves left over from what the British had taken to rebuild their postwar economy. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z My squad was taken to a sawmill a few hundred yards behind the main building, inside the fence. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Thousands at a time, pushed into trucks and taken to villages “in the east.” Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Even though Coach Mustilli told me he believed I had what it took to make it all the way to the Olympics, my path to becoming a world-class athlete didn’t suddenly materialize. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z If pushed a little farther, he might have taken to crime—because that was what was expected of him. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d had coughing spells and asthma for years, and had been taken to the black doctor at church before. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z She had taken to chanting “No, no, no, no,” over and over. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z It was because so much intricate care was taken to weave fine rugs in countries where rags were so culturally versatile. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “Wherever the wind takes us. High, low. Near, far. East, west. North, south. We take to the breeze, we go as we please.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z A loss will only fuel the fire of those who think he doesn’t have what it takes to win the ones that really count. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z How good is he at the myriad of skills and attributes that it takes to be a successful athlete? Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z But if that was true, how come he made such a fuss ’bout where he wanted our wagon to be took to? The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z When that thought flowed out of me, a flock of ducks rose up from the water, taking to the air with furious honks and squawks. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z And now Charlie noticed that every single button had a tiny printed label beside it telling you which room you would be taken to if you pressed it. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z If he came the other way, climbing atop the tarpaulin from astern, I was in the best position to see him early and, again, take to the water. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Once more they took to the road, walking north toward the United States border. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z She don’t take to so much Bible study and don’t like me having visitors, even if they good Christians.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z For one second, the time it takes to blink, I imagine throwing my sponge into the air. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z She learned it from her pa, but folks didn’t take to women doing a man’s work. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z “The block leaders are preparing a statement to take to them.” Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z A serious lady in thick black glasses even suggests I be taken to her lab and studied. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Of late the sheep had taken to bleating “Four legs good, two legs bad” both in and out of season, and they often interrupted the Meeting with this. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Our desks and equipment were taken to Germany. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “Two, three years ago, there was another girl here, slave like you. She talked back. Madam called her surly and took to beating her regular-like. One day she beat her with a fireplace poker.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z “On the top of the hill near King Darzin’s palace there was a garden and here his many children and his chief followers’ children used to be taken to play by their mothers and nursemaids. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Miep’s been back since yesterday, but today it was her husband’s turn to take to his bed—chills and fever, the usual flu symptoms. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z One of the women had taken to sleeping in Weese's bed, and she got a piece of ripe blue cheese as well, and a wing off the capon that Weese had spoken of that morning. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Cregan Karstark had taken to howling in the night of late, and throwing frozen feces at whoever came to feed him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z There were some people who would do whatever it took to silence the voices that spoke out against injustice, even if it meant killing people. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z In the seconds it took to really get going, cake flour blew up from the mixing bowl and swirled around the room, recipes flapped off the counter and caught fire on the stovetop. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Casualties had been light, and the few campers who’d previously died and come back to life, like Gwen, hadn’t been taken to the Underworld. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z We suspected Mr. Axelroot of having better boxes that he took to luckier children elsewhere. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Had some unknown magic drawn Hermione to this spot, or was the doe, which he had taken to be a Patronus, some kind of guardian of the pool? Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z His parents were taken to the railroad station where they were loaded into cattle cars and deported. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z All over the USSR, young women were taking to the skies and trying to join the Red Army so they could be like their modest and hardworking hero, Marina Raskova. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “Caw,” he said again, which Luna took to mean, “Be careful. Also, are you aware that rock is on fire?” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z "Hornet was taken to the orphanage of the Merciful Sisters. Apparently that's where Ida was brought up," he explained quietly. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Now that the setting, the territory, had changed, I wasn’t sure how he would take to me if he came upon me. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z She reached for her pine branch and silently took to the air, not to disturb him but to see that he came to no harm. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Fetching my camera, I snapped a picture of what I took to be the last columns to stand on the old Canopic Way. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z But we felt sorry for him and took to leaving him pieces of fruit in there. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z In the middle of the night, I am abducted by crewmen I don’t know and taken to clean the cannon. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Did they think if I was taken to Germany, they’d have the house to themselves? The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Occasionally we were taken to Chinese restaurants or Italian pizza parlors. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The walk to the museum was the same route she took to the Andersons’, until she turned right at the courthouse. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I didn’t know enough to be aware that I wasn’t taken to the desk and booked. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Every Sunday morning, then, since John could remember, they had taken to the streets, the Grimes family on their way to church. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z The women carried leaf-wrapped packets of manioc and other things on their heads, food they were taking to their husbands in Bulungu, they said. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The equation for finding how far it fell was S = ½at2, or sixteen times the square of the time it took to fall. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “But they jumped Big Dub. His injuries are a lot worse than yours. Broken jaw. Missing teeth. Not sure how many blows he took to the head from those bats.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z "With rings on your fingers and gold in your pockets, you can take to the roads like gentlemen. You'll be traveling about in fine coaches. But first you've got to lay hands on the treasure." The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z You will see by his letters what pains he is taking to invite a reinforcement, at all events, there, and to transplant the war to the Southern Colonies. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Franz lay under the table, keeping an eye out for Paganini, who had taken to drinking from his water bowl. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Lacking wood for the stove most of the time, she took to turning her electric iron upside down, plugging it into the one outlet, and cooking their stew on it. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “Here—guns I promise to Great Powhatan. You take to him.” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Was that all it took to find what you were looking for? The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z She did a double take to something on her right. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z Since Mrs. Caruthers’s fit, Ophie had taken to leaving it open; the old woman couldn’t complain of an imaginary draft when she was sleeping most of the time. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z He watched as one by one the gulls took to the air. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z By mid-February the reporters had figured out that when Howard went to the training track Seabiscuit was soon to follow, and they had taken to trailing the owner around. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Madam took to her bed when Becky brought back the news. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Rowan took it away from him anyway, and in the time it took to put it back on the wall, Tyger had taken down a machete and was swishing it through the air. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Amari would not to be taken to the rice swamps—at least not today. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z After dinner we were taken to Block 16, a cluster of fifteen barracks that had just been finished a day or so earlier—although finished was hardly the word for it. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z There are hundreds of different immigration scenarios, but I’ll focus on the path my family took to get naturalized. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z He said he’d do whatever it took to get out of Sing Sing. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes that was all it took to lull him back to sleep. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Mom and Dad looked at the hole in the wall and then at the little crater in the windowpane and talked quietly about what it would take to fix the damage. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z As we made a turn into Sixteenth Avenue, the street leading to the tribal school I was being taken to, a short, chubby black woman came along from the opposite direction. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z It was just after you were kidnapped and taken to the Dominican Republic that the dictator Jean- Claude Duvalier was finally persuaded to leave our Haiti. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Ophie and her mother were kept there so late in the day that they took to eating supper at Daffodil Manor, making it home when it was nearly time for bed. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z It was remarkable how little it took to make my stomach feel full. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Just when we decided she had to be taken to the vet too, she started getting better. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z We were ushered into a rectangular stone building and taken to a large open room. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Sliding over to make room for her in the bucket seat, Jack says, “Just do what it takes to get those hours over with, right?” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z They were looking down a broken, rugged slope toward a cluster of wooden buildings beside a wide stretch of snow as flat as could be, which Lyra took to be the frozen lake. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z She said that Prince had never taken to material things. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z The burgeoning cultures took to fighting with each other. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I wonder what it will take to uncover another of them. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Now he saw that his life span had always been determined by how long it took to eliminate all the Horcruxes. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z A half-dozen men took to chopping the King and his steed to bits. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Clouds of seagulls take to the air in front of us, quarreling and shrieking. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z It also seems like the worse the trouble is that you get into, the more steps it takes to get there. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z She was taken to the room with the long, brown table, except now there was a bowl of sugar-coated almond candy in the middle of the table, a Koran, a green veil, and a mirror. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z But the pitch of it said she didn’t take to the idea at all. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z And right along with a passion for liberty, those were the things they were about to take to Berlin and lay before the world when they took to the water at Griinau. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I was asking Dad how many fans it took to make something move from being side- stream to mainstream when Kat reappeared brandishing a plastic bottle of blue liquid. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z This equation is very useful when you are calculating how long it will take to get from New York to Chicago on a train that moves exactly 120 miles an hour. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Since he had been gone, I had taken to wearing my brother’s T-shirts almost every day. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z It's bad enough in the wings, and I realize the courage it actually takes to get onstage and tell the truth. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z It is like healing her sliced-open fingertips as a child, taken to an extreme. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z And as more and more women stopped drinking secretly at home and took to drinking openly in speakeasies, the “speaks,” as they were sometimes called, underwent changes. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Years after, Bobby recalled that he was unhappy with the outcome and took to heart Nigro’s advice: “You can’t win every game. Just do your best every time.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “I’ll try,” I answer, and pick up my dishes to take to the kitchen. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Wilfrido took to the podium and cleared his throat about twenty times, then smiled. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z There are two kinds of texts: one involves driving directions that Maggie must take to get to a party; the other are related to social information about the party and who will be there. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z He's got my blanket carefully folded into a suit box with the controller all reassembled, set to take to the lab in the morning. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Let’s just see what it takes to double our altitude,” he said. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z She wanted to know how much wood it took to keep the fire going. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z “I will write a note for you to take to the lawyer’s office before you go home, and another for Anne, telling her that Elihu will be soon set free.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Otto avoided the matter entirely by taking to the overhanging vegetation, but the reedy swamp trees weren’t nearly sturdy enough to carry my weight. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Dr. Strayer said he was presently doing experiments in how long it takes to regain “situational awareness” once a person was finished texting. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z But what happens when this stress response is taken to an extreme? Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Well, it’s roughly how long it takes to put in ten thousand hours of hard practice. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z The girl looked at me and made a motion with her hands which I took to mean that Rontu was hers. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z We did our laundry in the Laundromat, but those things that required ironing were taken to Lee’s house and the ironing chore was shared, as was everything else. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “I did not take to him much,” I said. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z We demanded to be taken to work like the other prisoners, and this was soon granted, but we were taken out alone, supervised by Kleyrihans. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Whenever the two schools met, he took to going out of his way to talk with the Cal boys. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z There’s only the sound of my breathing, the enormous effort it takes to draw the water in, push it out of my lungs. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Haukelid was taken to meet with an officer of the Special Operations Executive. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Nor could they find any “grinds,” people who worked harder than everyone else, yet just didn’t have what it takes to break the top ranks. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z She’d taken to always carrying The Gold-Bug and the Poe collection of stories with her, too, but because her backpack was so bulky she almost removed them. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z She took to reading with a fervor so extreme, Baba Joseph had to take the books from her hands by force. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The youngest princess produced a daughter so very, very tiny that her mother took to keeping her in a pocket, where the girl went unnoticed. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z In the time it takes to gasp, the race is over, and to everyone’s shock, Liberty has swept the event. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z The men were extremely militant, and they did not take to prison life easily. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z When Helm and Girard took over, no one in the city wanted to be taken to Bush Hill, fearing it was a death sentence. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z The next morning, Mother woke up with the rooster, made tea, fried several eggs for breakfast, and boiled others for my brothers to take to school. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z “It wouldn’t surprise me at all to learn that he had taken to scalping people in the Tartar fashion.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z He had been playing the game for eight years, as long as it took to go to medical school, serve an internship, and complete a residency, but what loomed down the road because of it? Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Once the journey has a destination, it is easy to ask how far away that destination is and how long it will take to get there. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “Can I have a piece to take to my friend Gloria Dump? And another one to take to Otis down at Gertrude’s Pets? And one for the preacher? And one for Sweetie Pie, too?” Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Ugwu did not remember his name, but he tended to eat up all the chin-chin right after it was served, so Ugwu had taken to placing the tray as far away from him as possible. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Where, desperate as he was, he took to stealing from others, one of them a young priest who saw something to salvage and took him to a Catholic orphanage. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I shudder when I think of the many internees who might be forced to join us here or be taken to the other camps, as yet unnamed and unpopulated. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z He was taken to the Huffer Funeral Parlor to be identified, but there was no identification on the body except for many colorful tattoos which revealed his devil-worshipping ways. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Neeley had taken to school cheerfully when he found that many of his old gang were entering Eastern District High. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon, he had to take to his bed. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Excited by this new game, Otto took to the trees, following me from up above. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z My mom packs this food in brown bags for my dad to take to work for lunch. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z More butterflies took to the air as the largest fetterling I could’ve ever imagined tried to squeeze through a gap like a T. rex. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Sesame Street is best known for the creative geniuses it attracted, people like Jim Henson and Joe Raposo and Frank Oz, who intuitively grasped what it takes to get through to children. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z For the first ten minutes of the drive, I take to ripping my suspension notice into pieces. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z The afternoon was wet: a walk the party had proposed to take to see a gipsy camp, lately pitched on a common beyond Hay, was consequently deferred. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Quite peculiar considering my parents never took to water. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Time and time again, military leaders told presidents what it would take to win. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “Do you want to know how much it will take to buy me off? I’ll take forty-five thousand in cash.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “He was in one of the earlier buses they were taking to Maryland. Who knows?” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z “What are the odds that some previously undetected someone will stumble into that very isolated spot, during the precise fraction of a second it will take to push him over?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The boy played with it for more than three hours, shaping a number of crude figures that he took to show his grandmother. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z If she had friends she took to the west wing it was not exactly my affair. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The heart part he showed every time he took to the water. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “First of all, we appreciate the time you took to write down all of the reasons why you want to do this. It tells us how important this is to you.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z They took to the trees where they could hide from us. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z On Monday, the twentieth of April, under the tightest of security, we were taken to the Palace of Justice, this time to begin our defense. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In the brief moment it took to do that the entire shingle was smoldering and smoking, hot in my hand. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I knew that Cristiana would not be out of doors, for she had taken to her bed with a sore throat. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “True,” said Faraday, “but only good can come from a keen understanding of what it takes to be a scythe.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z How many bounces would it take to come to a stop? Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Umma had taken to calling her Stick, but names did not matter. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She loved dancing and took to it instinctively. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z According to a note we left for Mr. Goldschmidt, she was to be taken to the neighbors, who would give her a good home. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z And when no one could run anymore, they’d been taken to the cemetery and shot. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z He was a mess at first, and each time the car twitched my mom would exclaim, “Ay!” but he took to the basic coordination of it surprisingly easily. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z The other four men were taken to London to prepare for the job. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Worsley had little confidence that they could take to the open ocean in only two boats, and he pestered Shackleton every day about returning to Ocean Camp for the Stancomb Wills. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z She would serve his food, a plate on a tray taken to him in his study or in front of the TV in the kitchen. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z It was in the middle of the night when I was asleep, but Stephen has taken to getting up secretly and looking out of his bedroom window at the stars. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Anna’s alligator purse, which she had taken to Mollie’s luncheon, was now lying on the floor, the servant said, with “everything torn out of it.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z While there are other not-quite holidays, though they are rare, the boy is not taken to see any other magicians. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I look closer—what I took to be closet shelves are just the front layer of a complex construction. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Even once the kata-kata got in, the enclosure was large enough that I could secret myself away like the bonobos, taking to the trees. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z On November 17, 1896, he was taken to Mercy Hospital, where he died five days later, apparently of typhoid fever. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “The time it took to say the Shema. A few lines.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Not Mike, not a burst of random luck—I would get us out, and seeing Clancy’s face slack with my influence would be well worth the effort it would take to break into his mind. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z She always said, “You’re just like your grandfather,” which he had always taken to be a good thing no matter how angrily she said it. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z When I got on, he didn’t take to bucking, which was something I was ready for. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Momma gave her small gifts of food to take to her aunt, and on Saturdays Uncle Willie would sometimes give her a dime for “show fare.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The enslaved Africans who were taken to the sugar plantations lost their names; they were meant to be pure property. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Zeitoun could think of no indication so far that any measure could be taken to advance his case. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z I only really wanna spend the energy it takes to be alive if I'm original. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z It often happened that he had no sooner finished putting someone back together than the same prisoner was taken to be tortured again. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Her father had brought home three American pencils, and he gave them to her to take to class. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z How much longer would it take to eradicate the scars of interracial civil war, which could not be fought without a great loss of life on both sides? Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The light startled the creatures, and one of them took to the air, its wings whirring heavily through the dust. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z Something had been established which Emily took to be a criticism of herself. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “And how long will it take to reach it?” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z In broken English, the official explained that I would be taken to a place right at the airport. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z If they don't, then I go back to the big list and call another hundred, another two hundred people—whatever it takes to see whatever there is to see. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z There had been a report in the Johannesburg newspapers that my wife had come to see me at Pretoria Local, but that they had not informed her that I had been taken to Robben Island. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Then they had tied the VC up and threw him in the back of a jeep to take to an intelligence unit, and the captain gave Peewee hell for giving information to the enemy. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z She dropped it into the metal wastebasket counting the seconds it took to fall. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The bus we take to get to the Choosing Ceremony is full of people in gray shirts and gray slacks. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z I pause my picture taking to see his reaction. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z He came home and took to his room. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z “The longer you’re sick, the longer it takes to get better?” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The visitor, for her part, was teetering on the absolute brink of the brown chair in what Gilly took to be a state of total shock. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z That was the mission of John Blackburn, Virginia’s easygoing admissions dean, when he rented a car and took to the road in the spring of 2005. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z What remained of Mantell’s collection after his death passed on to his children, and much of it was taken to New Zealand by his son Walter, who emigrated there in 1840. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z After 1919, the next large-scale unrest exploded nearly a half century later, when blacks took to the streets in cities across the country during the civil rights movement. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He had taken to bed with a bad cold the day I did, so he had missed out on looking for Dismay as well. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z But some care must be taken to correctly transpose accidentals. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The resulting thick sheet was then coated with soft resin and taken to the hot-room to set. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The more steps a cipher had, the more time it took to encrypt. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z It was Miss Bivens who convinced him to return and earn his diploma, telling him he had what it took to be somebody. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The Aristotle of the universities was thus not the real Aristotle but one adapted to provide an educational programme within a world where the most important discipline was taken to be theology. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z How much water will it take to save us? Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z And he was determined to do whatever it took to destroy it. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Is that all it took to make a problem disappear? The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The drug trade ran so rampant and gang warfare was so ubiquitous in that part of Brooklyn that most people would take to the safety of their apartment at nightfall. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In the last analysis, that was all it took to win her heart—a good night’s sleep. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Zohra loved the Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups I took to Pakistan with me, and I’m definitely going to have her try this when she visits. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z I’m taken to the doctor’s once a month, for tests: urine, hormones, cancer smear, blood test; the same as before, except that now it’s obligatory. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z They made another journey in to town, taking to Dame Agnes such of Robin’s clothing as needed repair. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z “How long do you think it would take to walk?” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z He talked about how he had spent his childhood bouncing around in foster homes, until he and Jason and Piper had been taken to Camp Half-Blood. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Then I gave it to Sergeant Simpson to take to HQ. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Once a year, Luke, Richard and I would help Grandpa round up a dozen or so to take to the auction in town, where they’d be sold for slaughter. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The time it took to get my dad out of the car and into our house almost killed my sister. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z As a matter of fact, Mr. Ray was there the day my mom was taken to the hospital, the day she left home for good. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z "I brought it to take to the recycler, but you can have it!" A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z I have to do whatever it takes to find him. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z It was as if she were seeing how much it took to provoke a savage. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Booth’s diary, money, keys, compass, small knife, and tobacco would be taken to Stanton as treasure and evidence. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “And so . . . hypothetically, if these two people liked each other, what would it take to get the stupid guy to kiss the girl, huh?” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z The guard returned from dumping their clothes in a bin that would no doubt be taken to the incinerator. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z He is still going back and forth, sometimes pretending it doesn’t matter and at other times letting the cast know what it will take to get there. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z The look on his face reminded me of the look on the face of the inmate I’d taken to the ER when he thought he had a cockroach in his ear. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z As a new coach at the foundation, Akhi needed to prove he had what it took to turn regular athletes into champions. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z The crew had taken to calling him the Black Flame, a name fastened on him by Steffar Stammerer, who could not say “Moqorro.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She has taken to smoking the same brand herself late at night when she totals the day’s receipts at the kitchen table. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He took to hiding in the truck, creeping in and trying to make himself look small. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z With only hook latches for locks, Louise took to sitting by the front door on an apple box with a rolling pin in her hand, ready to brain any prowlers who might threaten her children. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z There, he was struck down by a fever and took to his bed. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Already I was helping Lin Nai-Nai fill baskets with food to take to Wuchang as soon as the city gates opened. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I was taken to Volks Hospital in Cape Town, under heavy security. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Dark earth instead may take to her cold bed a few brave suitors who preyed upon your cattle. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z We take to a country road, where posters advertising the Roxbury Country Fair are nailed to every telephone pole. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “How many dogs will it take to kill a thing that size?” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z The former chief magistrate pursuing peace every where with sincerity, tho’ mistaking the means; the latter taking as much pains to get into war, as the former took to keep out of it. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z I can hear cries of "To the lake! To the lake!" and know they hope to evade the wasps by taking to the water. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z It smelled like the walk we took to get here. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The reporters were immediately and thoroughly confused, and some took to spying on Smith. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z How I will convince them, where we will go in the dead of winter, what it will take to evade capture are unanswered questions. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “Luke meant well, Percy. But taking to the air . . . that would not be wise for you.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Other Ebola experts have taken to calling this loop the eyebolt, after a bolt of the same name that can be found in a hardware store. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They had rested rather less than five hours when they took to the Road again. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z We sit like that for a few seconds until Belén comes out of the store with the sack of meat we have to take to Mamá Jacinta for dinner. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z ONE MORNING, several days after my meeting with Bram and Joel, we were taken to the head office. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He was taken to the mini-hospital and put to sleep for several days so that he would stop hurting himself. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z She was taken to the police station and given a set of photographs. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z He was determined to do whatever it took to save his father’s life, even if it meant risking, or even sacrificing, his own. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z When Katie went to the hospital again, she was taken to the doctor’s office. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Though I had been in prison for nearly two years before I was taken to Robben Island, I was still in D Group when I arrived. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z You need a swift eye, strong wrists and a very quick pair of hands to play fives well, and it was a game I took to right from the beginning. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Passengers in dark, square cars shuttered their eyes at what they took to be a drunken man. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Or what it would take to win it. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Under such relentless arm-twisting, we finally gave in and allowed ourselves to be taken to Coffin’s. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Galahad, a priggish, mute little boy, was playing some private game with his dolls—to which he remained attached long after most boys would have taken to soldiers. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Theseus succeeded in kidnaping the little girl, just how we are not told, but the two brothers marched against the town she had been taken to, and got her back. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Richard puts an ember into a pan to take to Reverend Hunt in case his fire, too, has gone out. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Only two people in the country were qualified to do this, and Tendai was never taken to one of these possessions. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z In an attempt to discourage wild animals from eating the other half of his food while he worked, Tree-ear had taken to hiding it closer to the house. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z He was taken to a room where a tray of food rested on a table. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Judging by the carefree liberality with which dusts for lawn treatments by suburbanites are laced with chlordane, this warning has not been taken to heart. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z One of our worst nights of talk was after he suggested that the girl I was taking to the eighth-grade Spring Dance didn’t—or couldn’t—find me attractive. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The other boys had taken to calling him Mr. Individuality. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Once while I watched I saw a small object which I took to be the ship, but a stream of water rose from it and I knew that it was a whale spouting. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Cobb had taken to “Swell the Anthem, Raise the Song,” and since it had nothing in it about dying, Turner played it almost every time. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z It was obvious that Mr. Benedict believed they had what it took to form this special team. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z So that was all it took to send the drüskelle scurrying and bring the boy back. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z With some of that new land in cotton, we had some extra to take to the mill. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Unfortunately in the 1970s no tests existed for determining how long such a deposit might have taken to accumulate. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Since I loved music, learning to play piano seemed like a good choice, even though I’d never actually seen a piano, let alone had any idea of what it took to play one. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z A child adapts rapidly, or not at all — and I had taken to the Great Place as though I had been raised there. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It is hard for me to picture him taking lovers, no less the quantity he must have taken to have so many children, an unnatural number for a Faerie. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The next day the Husky crews performed a time-honored Poughkeepsie ritual and visited each of their rivals’ shell houses to pay grudging respect to their competitors before taking to the river. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He wondered how long it took to go to Detroit. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The combatants discussed for a minute, and then the woman took to the tree on the other side of the trail, knife clenched between her teeth. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z But first we have to walk through all the beep beep beeps it takes to get to the cancer ward. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z He shook the fruit bowl and noticed how few fruit flies took to the air. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z But I didn’t want to be found by the policeman and be taken to Father, so I stayed on the shelf and didn’t move, and no one saw me this time. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z It was May, remember, and the wandering men had only recently taken to the roads, now that the warming months let them spread their blankets by any water course. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I take to my old habits from District 13. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z It was a plump one, speckled brown, busily pecking at a crust that had fallen between two cobblestones, but when Arya's shadow touched it, it took to the air. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z A few days after the wedding, Reverend Hunt takes to his bed again. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z She was growing weaker and weaker with the effort it took to continue speaking, but the story inside her was bubbling up again. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Even my sister's taken to calling them "Auntie Harm" and "Uncle Harm" in private. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Speaking of horses makes me remember the Atabrine pills we had to take to keep from getting malaria. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The white raven took to the air, its pale wings slapping him about the head. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He imagined how much trust it would take to give his lifeline—his entire fate—to another person. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z And I'm not sure how well carbon composite is going to take to that. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z We knew we were going to “get it” up there, but didn’t know exactly how or when; other sessions had been taken to a different spot. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The funny thing was, the people of Bone Gap shouldn’t have taken to Roza at all. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z “The lucky two will be taken to Athens and sacrificed to Gaea at the Feast of Hope.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Lately, Britain’s taken to referring to all his guy friends as a women’s undergarment. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z Hay was taken to the horses, and Kote topped off the oil in all the lamps. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z We’re ushered out the back door, into a car, and taken to the train station. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z So, the bats took to the air with the remaining packs. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Without him, who knows how long it would have taken to force the issue into the federal courts. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z At around three o’clock, Laila was taken to an interview room. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z The next day, she disappeared, and people would say she had been taken to Napa or Agnew. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The boy’s dæmon took to the air and fluttered with Kulang among the rainbows, and slowly they began to understand each other. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Dad remained silent at the table, but I noticed he and Jim exchanged a look of what I took to be agreement about the shame of me being in the band. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The shyest of the three girls, she was slow to take to Alpharetta. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z I glared at him, wondering how much glue it would take to keep his mouth shut. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Joe took to arriving early to change into his rowing clothes before the others showed up. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Woody was taken to his house in one of the police cars while Wes was brought down to district booking. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z If he made arrangements for our luggage to be taken to the boat before we went, he said, we could probably avoid trouble. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Just after our return he had taken to sarcasm, picked it up as one might pick up a stone, and put it snufflike under his lip. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “The more I leave behind, the more there is for you to take to the prison.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z All I can think of as I drive home is what it would take to say those words. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z We visit the Indiana Moon Tree, which is a giant sycamore more than thirty years old that grew from a seed taken to the moon and brought back. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Fighting for the people she cared about and doing everything it took to fix her mistake? Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “But you don’t seem to know what it takes to make a revolution,” I explained. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The bow and arrows I had first made I likewise took to the cave. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z The millions of Africans taken to work in sugar were not taught to read and write. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The wolves had taken to sitting on one side of the trench, the knights and southron lords upon the other. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I heard Papa telling Dadi there are riots everywhere and, if we don’t leave, we could be killed or taken to a refugee camp. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Imagine what it would take to clear Kansas. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z So I put on what I take to be a respectable-looking outfit of ironed Bermuda shorts and scooped-neck T-shirt and set out for a tour of the local hotels and supermarkets. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z When buses finally arrived, the prisoners were taken to Hunt. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z “Ma’am, I’m very grateful. We’re still rising. I guess we’ll go on up awhile yet. How many of you will it take to pull us north?” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z When my daddy died three years ago, Momma took to her sewing machine to help her ease the pain. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z He took to wearing a leather jacket and a porkpie hat like legendary tenor man Lester Young, joined a neighborhood R&B band, and Ma had increasing difficulty in getting him to go to school. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Surprise, skill, and power—this, the navy tells its sailors, is what it will take to win the war. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Well, it was awful to think what it had taken to make Grandpa treat Loma and Uncle Camp nice. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z After being singled out as a lazy kfdtinvfm, I took to spending four hours a night on my homework, putting in even more time whenever we were assigned an essay. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The jurors filed out, and I was taken to the little room where I had waited before. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z To relive the pain and confusion and my life changing in the time it took to drop a bag of chips on a sticky floor. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The victim, a notorious cardsharp, was taken to the morgue. doggy-dog world. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It is true that young rabbits are great migrants and capable of journeying for miles, but they do not take to it readily. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Ghost went bounding up the rocks after it, but the bird flapped its wings and took to the air. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Within a day or two a magistrate was brought in from Cape Town and I was taken to the room at headquarters that was used as the island’s court. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He had not elected to eat in the bath, however—or even to linger beyond the not inconsiderable time it took to get clean—being far too eager to continue talking with Suheyla. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The scarring was inevitable—to live in fear of their father’s death, and then to find out he had been taken to prison at gunpoint, made a prisoner, made to live like a rat? Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z So I took to roaming to forget it all. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, after the races were over, Graham was taken to the hospital, where Luther sat by his bed. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z One Bay Area sports scribe took to calling him the “sphinx of Berkeley” and wondered if he even so much as said hello to his wife in the evening these days. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Often you forgot to use the other, and when they were taken to be washed there was one that was still quite clean and untouched. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z So honored was she by the presence of these three stud football players, according to Derric and Gary, that she insisted on Polaroid pictures being taken to commemorate the occasion. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z A swarm of gulls took to the air with a great noise as the boat drifted toward the jetty. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z The kite zigzagged and quickly took to the sky. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z The hobbits were taken to a corner and given a low bed to lie on, if they wished. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Look inside and find whatever you think you are and that’s all it takes to be good. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z In the morning they came up out of the ravine and took to the road again. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z “The day had only begun at Midtown School of the Arts,” says Megan Sullivan, “when students took to the steps and rallied.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Like in The World at the End of the Tunnel when Jack is taken to the hobgoblin king’s castle and thrown in the highest tower. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Carl held her up with his strong hands clenching the muscles in her legs and leaned the side of his face against her breasts and took to licking them. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z He thought the adults were the ones being taken to work, while the younger ones would be killed. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z He stopped harping on how long it would take to get home. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z He drew Freya’s feathered cloak around him, then stretched his arms and took to the skies. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z But now we were having to save the funnies indefinitely, and sometimes the newspaper got taken to start a fire with before I could tear out the page. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Ben grabbed for a history book Mary Anne was taking to her first afternoon class. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Big Ma took to hiding in her room when Mr. Lucas stayed to watch the moon mission. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z We took to going to their funerals right regular over the years. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I gathered the dishes to take to the kitchen. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Quicker than it takes to tell, Grandma was back, and already raised to her aproned shoulder was the twelve- gauge Winchester from behind the woodbox. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Then one day in late March, with only a few hours’ warning, prisoners were informed the camp would be evacuated and prisoners taken to another camp. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z “He’s going to die if we don’t get something into him. I knew I had to do whatever it took to get him to you.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z She was worth anything it took to show her that I was the only possible guy in the entire school she should think about spending time with. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z As desperation started to kick in, I tried to think of alternate routes my mom and I could take to get out of Belgium. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z My mother ladles out a mug of broth for me, and I ask for a second mug to take to Haymitch. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z On the morning of December 13,1 was again taken to Tuynhuys. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d read them in dentists’ offices, and sometimes on planes; I’d bought them to take to hotel rooms, a device to fill in empty time while I was waiting for Luke. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z “How can I help you? You don’t even understand what it takes to make money in this country. You think I’m having a good time down there?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I had a soccer ball I was going to take to meet the American family since they had a boy my age. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z She did not take to her bed as I expected but was driven round to the home of Missus Taylor to play cards and, no doubt, complain about her husband. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z “Do what it takes to stay alert in my class,” he snarled. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I’ve taken to doing these mirror things with one lens in my mouth, glassy and thin like the tag end of a lemon drop. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Finally, "Oh, Say-So. I didn't hear you. In here trying to get my jokes together. Trying to write a zinger for you to take to school tomorrow, y'know?" Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z He’d be able to read as long as he liked, as long as it took to find out who Flamel was. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z “No free trip this year? Last year we were taken to Boston to a stage show.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Surely rats would have developed reading and writing, judging by the way we took to it. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Here is her account of “subject #18”: A Russian tailor artisan comes to America, takes to the needle trade, works in a sweat shop for a small salary. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z “As far as I can see, it would be wiser and more judicious if you were to take to yourself the original at once.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Got so miserable on the school bus, with him pulling my ears and singing that song he made up, that I took to riding my bike. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z We ride down Laguna Canyon Road, a main street that we’ve always taken to get to the beach. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z In my eagerness to please, I accidentally complimented chipped baseboards and sacks of laundry waiting to be taken to the cleaners. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z He is taken to the airport, boards a flight to Boston. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Lilya flew to her rescue and damaged the enemy fighter so badly that the pilot had to abandon his plane in the air and take to his parachute. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Dewey, for example, found it difficult to understand “how two individuals could reach the same degree of rage, the kind of psychopathic rage it took to commit such a crime.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z I took to wearing the strap across my chest, the drum riding my hips like a desperado's revolver. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Seabiscuit took to stomping and bellowing for food day and night. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z They ate some food, and then they took to their paddles and hastened on their way. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z To his servants he said that the guest was to be taken to a distant room where he could hear no sounds of grief, and given dinner and lodging there. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The engine chugged through the twilight, moving down the road much more quickly than the rented carriages we’d taken to Baltimore. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z One shrill ring was all it took to get me into the kitchen. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z If they took to the sea again, they faced another perilous journey 130 miles around the tip of South Georgia to the whaling stations. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z For a whole day they took to their paddles and hastened forward. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z She got disgusted with wetting on the floor and took to going outside. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z They had been in the Fire Swamp for one hour, and it turned out to be the easiest one they had of the six it took to cross it. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z I have come to believe that God takes to himself those who are afflicted with madness. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Working-class men attempting political power took to calling one another ‘brother.’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I then took to wheeling in a big color television so that we might spend an hour watching One Life to Live. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z If that's what it would take to bring my brother back, that was fine by me. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z So when a man is taken farther and farther away from experience, he is being taken to his death. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z By then I’d taken to going for long solitary walks, and I think I was setting out on one of these, and had just gone past the goosehouse, when I heard Tommy calling me. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z You know how long it takes to wheel all that stuff back home? Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Everything was overgrown, but it was really peaceful and Ruth had taken to doing a lot of her reading there, near the back railings, on a bench under a big willow. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The gold was taken to a bank vault, the saris and blouses and petticoats put away in a mothproof box. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z My leg took to aching right off, but I pushed the pain down and headed for the riverbed. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z I looked at Mr. Kirk’s shuttle as it returned and tried to imagine the power it would take to tear such a machine apart. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z In sixth grade, all the girls had been taken to the auditorium for a special film on the subject. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z The splinters took to the wind and scattered for hundreds of miles. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z He has taken to demanding speech from me; or else he puts his hand over my mouth. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z She’s taken to saying stuff like, “Look at the trim color on that Lancaster. That’s not a regulation trim color. It looks like pea soup.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Thomas Jones, Captain Cox, the Garrett sons, and many more were seized and taken to prison. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He turns to me and smiles, whispering that he's tucked a little something extra into my packet for me to take to my family. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Whenever he screamed in pain, the soldiers in the front grunted something he took to be Vietnamese for “Shut up!” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z There were no more fifty dollars in brown envelopes to count on, so she took to cleaning rather than fret away the tiny seaman’s pension her parents lived on. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “There’s four teams left in the state of Texas, and the Permian Panthers are one of those four,” Gaines softly told his players moments before it was time to take to the field. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Helmholtz and the Savage took to one another at once. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The treasury clerk, Joshua Dawson, did note “fine doings in the River, easy means of smuggling, & most likely, little precaution taken to prevent it.” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Victory and Joe had been joking, speculating on what it would take to kill Wild if they happened on her. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Complaining loudly, me bird took to the air. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “And I’ll do whatever it takes to make sure that happens.” Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z “Of course, he denies having anything besides what he took to the pawnshop. He claims the jewelry belonged to his grandmother. ‘Nothing wrong with pawning what’s mine,’ he said. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z “While I’m happy that steps are being taken to change the culture here at Granger, I wonder if maybe your curriculum could use some changes as well.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z He remembers all the little coincidences it took to get them to meet and fall in love. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z This drive is much longer than the one we took to the clam-digging beach, so we’re eating breakfast in the car. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z When Pocock had repaired the shell, and the boys took to the water again, the results were spectacularly disappointing. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z So now they crossed the stony bed and took to the orc-path, and for some time they marched along it. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z My mother owes the course her life took to the timing of her birth, to the rioters of 1937, and to W. M. MacMillan. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z When Dad made a motion study, he broke down each operation into a Therblig, and then tried to reduce the time taken to perform each Therblig. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Think how many cubic centimeters there are in the world outside your window–how many sugar cubes it would take to fill that view. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z To avoid the traffic, Boori Ma took to sleeping on the rooftop. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z After my brothers, sister, mother, and I made it across the river, we were taken to a man’s house. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z I’m taken to a waiting car, one of a dozen sleek black vehicles in a line outside a private side exit. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “We take to the woods and make a run for it,” I say. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z “In those days, a government denial was all it took to make a reality disappear.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z My beloved was interrogated to the tune of a broken rib, taken to Léopoldville, and imprisoned in the rat-infested courtyard of what was once a luxurious embassy. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The music starts up again, off a record this time, and couples take to the floor. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z He was laughing and talking and telling stories and singing the whole time, all the time it took to pick the last of the beans and pull all those carrots and beets.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Nor did I think about how long it might take to fly to the moon. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She seems to have grown fond of my cap, for she has taken to wearing it rather than her celluloid visor on occasion. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It took about the time it takes to eat a tuna-fish sandwich to get to the top. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Alby had made it clear they could take no chances: they’d make the Homestead their fortress, and must do whatever it took to defend it. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z In the summer of 1844, while Charles Darwin was writing his first essay on evolution, Galton left England to travel to Egypt and Sudan—the first of many trips he would take to Africa. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “How many hundreds of years is it going to take to fix this thing?” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z After a while he tried to speak to her, but she would only clutch tighter to her broom and sweep furiously in silence, so instead he took to talking to the cat. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The other five were taken to a concentration camp and interrogated by the Gestapo. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z We talked about the crops, and about people, and he gave us a message to take to Betsy Read. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Was it any wonder Tim wanted to pull out all the stops to make sure her father’s event tonight got the press’s attention, or that she was willing to do whatever it took to help? Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z The path we took to Virgil’s house from the Tanakas’ led straight through the woods. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Then you will be taken to a place called Charles Town, where you will be sold to the highest bidder.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z The pains they took to make themselves smooth! Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z And so it was that Edward took to the road with a hobo and his dog. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z “For good reasons or not, we all have things we’re shy about,” said Mr. Benedict with a significant look at Sticky, who immediately took to polishing his glasses. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z I wondered what it would take to become an astronaut. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Must be taken to health clinic every forty-eight hours for hemodialysis. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z At noon, the guns at the Battery, which the British had taken to calling Fort George, would fire a royal salute. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Before being brought here he had been taken to another place which must have been an ordinary prison or a temporary lock-up used by the patrols. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z I can sweep faster, but the longer it takes to get over by them, the longer I can linger in their area once I get there. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The next day, someone else on W had been beaten up—a reprisal, from the looks of it—and was taken to the ER. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Have you taken to catching bats these days?” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z He was like an angry machine, shaking as if he’d just eaten those caffeine pills my mother used to take to stay skinny. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z The taxi driver, while taking me to the Hotel Aletti, described the atrocities the French had committed, and personal measures that he had taken to get even. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “More Cheerios,” says Becky, and all the while I’m making her breakfast, I’m thinking the best route to take to find aluminum cans. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z How long will it take to get there? Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z These would have been some of the measures taken to protect me from sezisman, or total, crippling shock. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z “So you reckon you've got what it takes to be center forward for Liverpool? For Man. U.? For England?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z That same strong current made it easy to bring slaves across the Atlantic to Brazil, and over the next four hundred years some three million Africans were taken to Brazil. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z There was a simple reason for my having taken to perusing such works; it was an extremely efficient way to maintain and develop one's command of the English language. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Why was Neewo taken to the next world and she left behind? The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z That, I’ll take to my grave: I was on the ground laughing, Assef straddling my chest, his face a mask of lunacy, framed by snarls of his hair swaying inches from my face. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z They also never sugarcoated what they took to be the harder truths about life. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Horace Danver and his crew had taken to gathering behind the soddie, talking in low growling whispers that seemed to work them up into a stampeding frenzy. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z His manner was not helpful to him, and I could see by the thin line of Colonel Julyan’s mouth that he had not taken to Favell. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “Whatever it take to turn that wagon round!” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes bold steps must be taken to uncover the truth. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z Mario had noticed that the cricket took to hiding after each recital, and it worried him. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Just the thought, the image, of having to touch one of those guns, of being expected to fire one of them...Is that what it would take to be a part of their family? The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Until Mr. Fitt strode out of his office; and then, though she didn’t actually say anything, she did give Ralph a crooked smile, which Ralph took to mean she might have cared for him. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z I also did not know how I would get a copy of it to take to him so that we could go over it. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They fought, and Flo “took to whiskey,” and then, when Perry was six, she departed for San Francisco, taking the children with her. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z So the people had taken to the streets, but in honor, not anger. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z When he arrived, he was greeted politely and taken to an office where he met an agent. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z So many times she had heard stories about how children who were taken to the orphanage never saw any of their family again. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Christmas Eve, along with the rest of the de la Torre children, I was taken to the National Cathedral for the nativity pageant where the new creche was to be unveiled. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Years later, Aimee told me that was the day she knew I had what it took to go all the way—to Nationals, to Worlds, and, one day, maybe even to the Olympics. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Done took to high heel slippers and a ten dollar hat! Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z "Common travelers attract less notice. A father and daughter taken to the road on some family business, say." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Yet when morning came, they invariably discovered that a group of the finest slaves had taken to their heels. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z He staggered out of the cafe, was clubbed on the head and collapsed in the street, where he lay bleeding until he was taken to a hospital in Selma, thirty miles away. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z It was during that trip, perhaps as a result of the chronic food shortage, that C. J. had taken to eating termites. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He pointed, and they saw that what they had at first taken to be boulders lying at the foot of the slope were huddled bodies. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Dr. Strayer said that there was a long history of research into the concept of switching costs, the time it takes to refocus after moving from one mental task to the next. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z However, while being able to think about two things at the same time is terribly convenient, the training it takes to get there is frustrating at best, and at other times rather disturbing. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z But something tugs on me — the position of his lips, the extra effort he takes to swallow—and I know before Castor tells me. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z There’s the natural gas in the fertilizer and the fossil fuel energy it takes to make the pesticides, the diesel used by the tractors, and the fuel needed to harvest, dry, and transport the corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z This is a route you take to become a legal resident of the United States when you’re escaping persecution in your home country, and when returning to said country could put your life at risk. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z As soon as they reached the canal and the wind uncurled her wings, she pushed herself off from Bo's hand and took to the air. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z If that’s all it took to put her off my brother, she wasn’t worthy of him. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Then keep waiting, however long it takes to finish your shake. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z But finally my legs took to twitching and feeling that they were ’bout to bust out afire. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z The one who made cupcakes for me to take to school on my birthday while Mama watched soap operas in her bathrobe. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z White liked to interview a subject in a place that was unfamiliar to the person in order to unsettle him, and so he had Lawson taken to a room off the warden’s office. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z It’s like Nazi contempt for the Occupied country taken to extremes—as though they welcome the locals to come and ransack their own heritage so no one else need bother. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Worried he’d lose his sight, he took to wearing a blindfold around the house, learning to navigate our living room and kitchen by feel. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Ermis missed the occasional three-hour bus rides they had taken to Tegucigalpa to buy things, his mom’s spaghetti, how they would go to the tortilla store together. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z She made another motion which I took to mean that Rontu was now mine. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z I often felt like taking to bed myself. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Denna shrugged and headed back into the trees for more firewood and I began the elaborate guesswork of how much denner it would take to poison a five ton lizard. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Very soon it would be taken to Germany. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He would do whatever it took to accomplish his mission. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Even the Preacher, who most times is a pretty serious man, took to throwing his head back and howling. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z “Whatever it takes to make you put me down,” gasped Loki. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z I barely saw Grandma sit down, let alone take to bed. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z With the bikes now fully operational, we wheel them outside, manually pull down the garage door, and take to the streets. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z “How’d you like it if someone came to take your boy away? Huh? How would you like it? I bet you’d do whatever it took to get him back. I bet you would.” Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z Many of their sons had clamored for the honor of riding with the Young Wolf, as they had taken to calling him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z What was it going to take to shake some life back in him? Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z Finally I was taken to the police station where I was fed. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Mother asked him, “Are you all right?” so many times, he took to avoiding her. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z “Yes. Or none. There’s that option too, you know. These are terribly old-fashioned things you’ve taken to.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z She’s long enough in the post office to know how long it takes to deliver six telegrams even by foot. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Opportunities to make plans together became virtually nonexistent, and it was in desperation that Harry, Ron, and Hermione took to volunteering to feed the chickens just to escape the overcrowded house. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z I'm not sure how long it will take to finish; I’m in the second semester of eighth grade, so I only have weekends. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z Frankie mentally ran through the path he’d taken to get here and the stops he’d made along the way and Tad, who had said his time was up just before the first bomb went off. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z The football boys had taken to walking around in a gang all summer, as if daring anyone to say anything about their suspension. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The meat and plants from the woods combined with the exertion it took to get them have given me a healthier body than most of those I see around me. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z I have ten days, because I haven’t accounted for the time it will take to mail it to New York. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Then they turned aside, leaving the highway and taking to the sweet upland turf again. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The sirens droned on, a soprano counterpoint to the bombs’ relentless bass, their pitch so eerily human it sounded like every soul in London had taken to their rooftops to cry out collective despair. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z I was taken to a room and confronted with the two brothers. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Mingo opened with the story of his journey, the nights he spent begging the Lord for guidance, the long years it took to purchase his family’s freedom. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Lately, he had taken to starting up the instant Flittman got off to deliver milk. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z She used to buy a roll almost every day and feed me as many as it took to get to the first green one, which she’d eat. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Such evil must be avoided, they felt, and precautions must naturally be taken to protect themselves from it. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Beowulf lived quietly, doing country things—he took to the keeping of bees, and most days would see him tending his tawny hives in the sun. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z But I can handle the pain if that’s what it takes to erase the old me. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The truth was plenty good enough: I had what it took to be her boyfriend. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Admit me for less and I will be here every day, while every night I will do what it takes to stay alive while I study here. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The bicycle she had ridden to school throughout her earlier years was taken to be refurbished and given to a different, younger child. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z As she recovered, the Lady took to reading all of the newspapers printed in the city. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Upon admission we were taken to an outdoor quadrangle and ordered to strip completely and line up against the wall. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They had fallen into step back in Alkonost, and taken to riding and eating meals together. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I’d taken to sleeping on my mattress out in front of the cabin in the last week. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z After that Beetle took to watching through the windows when the midwife was called. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z We laughed about a trip the whole family had taken to another park last spring, when Ji-yong had dropped the knife out of a rowboat so we had to eat our apples without peeling them. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He doesn’t talk, he lilts, his words taking to the air like birds. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z “We will be taken to the boat of death on the horizon, and we will never see this place again.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z “And when you were in the body of that girl who I took to all of my classes, what did the note you passed me say?” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z The upper cabins are occupied by the privileged and the refugees have gladly taken to the mattress pads. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Seven thousand husbands and fathers, wives and mothers, brothers and sisters, and children had been taken to their deaths—or so we heard from survivors. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z I would do whatever it would take to regain their trust. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z “Anyway,” Inigo said, “we don’t know how long it takes to swallow something like this.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Strange, too, the way Ma takes to him. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Later, I learn that Azaan was taken to the temple’s infirmary with several injuries, but thankfully none that are life-threatening. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z ‘This is where we leave the open and take to cover,’ said Strider. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z She insisted that he be taken to Nairobi for treatment. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z How many do I have to take to stop feeling so bad? Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Another woman—who would spit at everyone else— took to Morrie and called him her friend. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The man had recently taken to wife a freedwoman who had been the noble’s bedwarmer before the city fell. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Play was stopped, and Qendrim was taken to the sideline wincing in pain. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Because this library had true champions, intellectual freedom fighters who would do whatever it took to protect it: Mr. Lemoncello, of course, and all the library lovers from the first-ever Library Olympiad, plus Andrew Peckleman. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z Then I gave my husband the baby and told him to take it to his family, and I gave him all the money we had taken on raids to take to my family. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z But the Low Cuts don't just take to be taking. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z Her reply had been a dozen smiley faces, which I’d taken to mean she approved. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Quinn said shortly, “How long would it take to make one?” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Jaime was taken to the Ministry of Defense, which had been transformed into a barracks. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She had taken to flight as soon as the gun went off. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z When the labours of repair had all been planned and set going he took to a quiet life, writing a great deal and going through all his notes. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z I said I needed access to a law library and demanded to be taken to Pretoria. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z We were then taken to our cell, one of the best I had ever seen. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They took to my barging without any offence, making room for me like a good-natured crowd. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “But not everyone shares Ms. James’s view. Some people feel that whatever it takes to clean up the community, so be it. Like Roger Stuckey.” All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z He jumped over a low place in the hedge at the bottom, and took to the meadows, passing into the night like a rustle of wind in the grass. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z However, the term “egalitarian” should not be taken to mean that all band members are equal in prestige and contribute equally to decisions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The body was taken to Anchorage, where an autopsy was per-formed at the Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z They were taken to a large synagogue that had been burned and then rebuilt after the events of Kristallnacht. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z She was given no choice of hospitals; she was simply taken to Wood- hull, the city hospital Will Wlson had rejected. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Solemn, silent rows of people being taken to God knows what, and we stare after them, helpless. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z The police then decided that he be taken to an interrogation center in Johannesburg, a distance of about two hundred miles. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z It took to the air, flapping its wings in his face, slowing him, blinding him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “I hear there was another shtetl taken to a railroad station somewhere in Russia.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Four heavily armed guards inform me that I am to be taken to headquarters for questioning. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She recently took to wearing shawls and granny glasses, American fashions. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It almost killed her to tell Mom she would have to leave, and she offered to do whatever it took to help her get reestablished, but Mom insisted she’d be fine. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I’m sleeping in Etienne’s room now—“hiding in plain sight” taken to extremes. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Volkheimer has taken to switching on his field light and focusing its frail beam into the far corner, where eight or nine white plaster heads stand on two shelves, several toppled onto their sides. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z This broke the spell and we took to our heels in giggly panic. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Afterward, the prisoners changed into their uniforms and were taken to their tiled cells. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Horses I cannot take to Ithaka; let me bestow them back on you, to serve your glory here. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Most folks immediately take to the general store, a line of dark faces lining up out front waiting to spend their money. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Upon my return to Pollsmoor I was taken to a new cell on the ground floor of the prison, three floors below and in an entirely different wing. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He had even taken to smoking, and smoking cigars, since Joe’s death and tried to bite ’em tight in one side of his mouth like Joe. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z He took to kicking a football, soccer style, into a small net that he set up in our backyard. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z As he was making his way back to his bed, he passed the room he’d been taken to as a prisoner the night he’d tried to escape Regalia. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He took to watching her house as obsessively as he had when he had first discovered her existence. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z The first is that a pretty reliable figure for the time light takes to travel from the sun to the Earth was available seventeen years after Rømer’s first estimate of eleven minutes. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “I wonder how much gas it would take to go all the way to Chicago,” I said. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z His father had been an armorer at Bitterbridge, he said, so he had been bom with the sound of steel ringing in his ears and had taken to swordplay at an early age. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z After my father’s desertion, my mother’s ardently religious disposition dominated the household and I was often taken to Sunday school where I met God’s representative in the guise of a tall, black preacher. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Jinny felt a little ashamed of how long it had taken to bother with writing out the alphabet. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z But she wasn’t about to go back, so she just hiked up her dress and ran up the street, trying to remember which turns Misha had taken to bring them there. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z He told no one what he did all day and Mrs. Lapham was convinced that he had taken to, or was about to take to, ‘evil ways.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “As it takes to change whatever it is the secret's about. Miss.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z “Wasn’t she taken away from you and taken to the hospital at Pawhuska? Weren’t you administering insulin to her?” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z She nods, watches me the entire time it takes to start the old truck. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Jon filled his fist with a pillow and let fly, but the bird took to the air. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z And yet there was a problem, one I discovered in the split second it took to lift my little fingers to the keys. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z It opened clear on my comprehension that Helen Burns was numbering her last days in this world, and that she was going to be taken to the region of spirits, if such region there were. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Since his marriage to little Lady Ermesande three days past, the other squires had taken to calling him "Wet Nurse" and asking him what scut of swaddling clothes his bride wore on their wedding night. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z At one point, some of us kids were taken to the Congolese embassy in the capital of Burundi to take final exams. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z I know I have what it takes and I am going to do what it takes to make my next goal, a college degree and an NFL career! The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z "Summon her personal guard. Tell him there's been a small accident. That poor Camille must be taken to the Palace Infirmary at once. Alert the royal doctor." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Aunt Nancy says that Frank doesn’t have what it takes to be a family man. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z His scalp was split open, and a police car came and he was taken to a nearby precinct. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I was calling because the rest of my friends had taken to unplugging their phones after ten P.M. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Then she say, ‘You done got took to the gates of Heaven and turned you’self back ’cause you might not never see me again? Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z In the brief moments it took to tear down our years of work, I felt nothing. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z The badly wounded Conquering Bear was taken to his lodge. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z Instead, the map was scattered with tiny spirals, which I took to be the location of loops. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z They took to the Kareh-Ariana hillside, living in makeshift slums, packed in huts, fifteen or twenty at a time. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Somewhat recovered, Otto took to the branches while I scrambled through the overgrowth, making sure to shuffle my feet so I wouldn’t step on any wasp nests or vipers or millipedes. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I couldn’t believe that the man who could top a tree faster than most men take to shave ever thought on something as slow and small as tinkering. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z Albert and I find a mahogany bed which can be taken to pieces with a sky of blue silk and a lace coverlet. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Dumbledore had wordlessly immobilized Harry, and the second he had taken to perform the spell had cost him the chance of defending himself. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Theresa and Helen and Ralph slipped from tongue to tongue like turtles taking to land, taking to sea; though one remained their more natural element, both had become essential. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Breaking the Silence Can I have two hundred dollars to take to the Dallas Cup? you ask. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Would the boats be separated when they took to the ocean? Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Mathematics is often taken to be mechanical, the work of low- level technicians who will report to the rest of us anything we absolutely must know. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z When Galileo pointed his telescope towards Jupiter on the night of 7 January 1610, he noticed what he took to be some fixed stars near the planet. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z And in fourth grade, he actually stuck his pen into the electrical socket while sitting on the carpet, got zapped, and was taken to the hospital in an ambulance. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z He understood now; it was the inquest he had been taken to. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “Whoa now! Just cuz I don’t want a serious girlfriend at the moment doesn’t mean I don’t know what it takes to maintain a relationship.” Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z When it came and Brother Hinton was taken to Harlem Hospital, we Muslims followed, in loose formations, for about fifteen blocks along Lenox Avenue, probably the busiest thoroughfare in Harlem. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z It all happened in the time it takes to draw a sharp breath. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z There were only two men besides Master Lockton- Goldbuttons, wearing a shabby waistcoat of black wool, and the third man, who I took to be the mayor. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Trotter recognized this appalling possibility, but maintained that there was some moral obligation to inform next of kin when one took to one’s bed. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z “We’ve been through hell and back, kid. I know it. But it’s toughened us up, right? We can do what it takes to live through one more challenge.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Mr. Montsisi came back with me and was told about how long it took to get a passport. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Uncanny little beast, she could never take to him, but Farid loved him like a dog. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z And now it wasn’t just getting taken to a new place. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z In the few seconds it takes to rouse them, I begin to blister. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z We took to covering his cage more and more often so that we could have some peace. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z He paid particularly close attention to reports about border-crossing conditions, the routes defectors were taking to travel from China to South Korea, and the lives they led after getting there. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z And so they all took to the water again. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z To his relief, he learned that sailors had rescued his brother and that he had been taken to a neighborhood hospital. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Armed men took to the streets to hunt down the animals. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z I then had the privilege of being taken to a small room with a few computers that engineers used to map out the location of the rover, using information that the rover sent back! The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z He climbed the curving staircase to the balcony, following the same path the Lincolns took to their box. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The letter explained that Charles Parker had made arrangements for his cousin to be taken to the state insane asylum two hundred miles away. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z They wanted their wives to like the climbing, the acquiring, and the work it took to maintain status once it was achieved. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z I can still recite the litany of efforts it took to push a husband and children alive and fed through each day in the Congo. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Without Euclid the Messerschmitt could never have taken to the sky. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Pocahontas, her husband John Rolfe, and their son Thomas, were taken to England by Sir Thomas Dale to promote the James Town colony and help Dale get financial assistance. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z I might take to gardening myself, and in time have one or two things altered. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z I was taken to Tygerberg Hospital, on the campus of the University of Stellenbosch, in a rich and verdant area of the Cape. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In the ten minutes it took to get home, even with the heater off, the interior of the rover became an uncomfortably hot 37°C. The RTG would definitely be able to keep me warm. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z With Philippa occupied, Nehemia and Dorian had taken to attending her—and the prince often read aloud to her long into the night. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Like a skulk of foxes taking to its dens, the soldiers had retreated to their trenches: a few still digging, others working on equipment, still others talking together over charts. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z All those locked gates and guards and barbed wire made them feel as if we had been taken to a prison rather than a training camp. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z It struck her how quickly the meeting had unfolded, how little time it took to confirm four of her family dead. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z And though he was loath to make this leap, was it so improbable that he, like so many others, might be taken to an undisclosed location—to one of the secret prisons abroad? Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Under Kellerman’s authority, we were then handcuffed and taken to isolation. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I said, “Uh-huh, we kind of had a fight. How long’s it take to get out west?” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z Calls flooded in for his resignation from the Republican ticket, and impolite members of the public took to waving placards speculating on whether or not his wife Pat wore a mink coat. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z My mother was taken to the train in an ambulance and put on board upon a stretcher. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Miss Celia takes to the week of warm weather, though, and actually goes outside and sits by the pool in these tacky white sunglasses and a fuzzy bathrobe. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z This habitable earth had a centre, which was generally taken to be Jerusalem. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z A little chunky girl took to picking a play out of Tea Cake in the fields and in die quarters. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z I have taken to arriving at the office one hour later than I am expected. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She’d taken to always carrying The Gold-Bug and the Poe collection of stories with her, too, but because her backpack was so bulky she almost removed them. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z She’s taken to laying on the couch while my stories are on, interrupting the whole time. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The beasts had taken to swimming, it seemed. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Before I traveled, staffers drove the routes I’d take to venues, timing my transit down to the minute, scheduling my bathroom breaks in advance. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z That day when I first met Bodega he had said, “Should something happen to me, people will take to the streets.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z I did whatever it took to wash myself at Little Hobart Street. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Though I was curious how long she would take to spot the error, Rosy was not about to play games with me. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z At first they refused, not because of the time and effort it would take to get Caroline to the mainland every Saturday, but because there was no money. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Cooper, a motel clerk, was taken to jail in two pairs of handcuffs with a wound over her right eye. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Even so, it would be years before they were large enough to take to war. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Within an hour he would be taken to court where they would tell him if he was to live or die, and when. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z It got so about the only time I went to see my grandfather was when I had a bundle of fur to take to the store. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Genie had taken to apples too and was getting pretty good at seed spitting as well. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z In the early 1980s, an advocate for the homeless named Mitch Snyder took to saying that there were about 3 million homeless Americans. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Summers he would be taken to Europe to see his grandfather. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z “The barrels were on skis like a sleigh, to take to the planes.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “He has lately taken to listening at doors, I don’t know what he means by it... You were saying, Narcissa?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Mama—a monogrammed suitcase from El Gallo for taking to the capital. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z "You will do whatever it takes to help me, right?" The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z From the emergency room, Sasha was taken to the burn unit. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z That I did what it took to stay alive, to keep us both alive in the arena. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z And her shoes pinch; she takes to wearing three pairs of socks and a pair of Etienne’s old tasseled loafers. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z His mate would be marching sturdily beside him, also with a price on her head—her hair shaven off before she took to the woods, and known as a weyve. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z She stopped cleaning herself, and I took to bathing her in the sink. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “It isn’t true!” repeated Mollie, but she could not look Clover in the face, and the next moment she took to her heels and galloped away into the field. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z In pain, half starved, with a tapeworm and an eye infection, he collapsed on the road to town and was taken to the infirmary by a kindly widow. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Such influential support was all it took to generate dissension. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z He refused cow’s milk in any form or container and took to drinking black coffee. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the year my mother died, my apartment got broken into, and I was taken to the emergency room suffering from what the attending physician diagnosed as "housewife's knee." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z He liked the length of time it took to count to eight, always the perfect amount of time to make a decision or take aim. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The floor, though buffed shiny, is dingy with scuff marks and rust streaks, which I take to be old bloodstains. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite the care Severo took to hush all speculation, Rosa’s death became a public scandal. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z For some reason, though—perhaps because I have an appointment and haven’t worn out my welcome yet—I get taken to an inner office where a young woman interviews me absentmindedly. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z At night gangs of young people took to the streets to attack their ideological rivals. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Before I can escape, she hands me a money pouch with deposit slips to take to my dad at the store. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z He makes clear what it will take to win a role. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z We pile in as many men and goods as we can, and then the sailors take to the oars and row to shore. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Stranded at home in yet another day of oppressive heat, many took to the open air, sitting out on porches. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He took to himself a wife and before long had two fine young sons to whom he taught everything he knew so that one day they might rule wisely. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z She said nothing of her plan at home, but fell to work next day, much to the disquiet of her mother, who always looked a little anxious when ‘genius took to burning’. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z She wanted to know how much sap it took to make a gallon of syrup. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Percy guessed that meant they would’ve been taken to Greece for some big horrible sacrifice. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The children sniff around, trying to get used to me, all except for two-year-old Gerald Jr., who takes to me right away, follows me like a puppy. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z A few adventurous members of the gentler sex took to wearing ridiculous “windshield hats,” watermelon-sized fabric balloons, equipped with little glass windows, that fit over the entire head, leaving ample room for corpulent Victorian coiffures. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Because of this, Mom has taken to spotting irregularities whenever we drive into or out of the development. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Next to him, in the back of the incognito van they’re taking to Buckingham Palace, Zahra has her arms folded resolutely. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z At ten o’clock in the morning, I was taken to the operating room. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z She was ready to spend all the time it took to help her son, Levi, build a humdinger of a car to race in the peninsula’s 1960 soap box derby. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Nine months is how long it takes to grow a baby. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z “Exactly. Loopy old Lemoncello said paperback books were meant to be taken to the beach, where they’d have suntan lotion, melting ice cream cones, and sand dribbled all over their pages.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z I can only hope she won’t take to practicing, later when it’s really winter, on the outdoor rink, where somebody I might know could see her. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “Alfred, these people are very important. They have papers. I’m going to help the doctor, but these people must be taken to the same ship I will be on. Do you understand?” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Then they sealed the box again with a new label and the first thing on the following day it was taken to the capital of the province. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z She wanted to ask how long it would take to get to the garage, but she didn’t have a chance. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z The bonobos had taken to the branches and were already far ahead — I could see fronds waving in the distance. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Is there a chain saw of the soul, an ax I can take to my memories or fears? Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z That extra moment it takes to place our unfamiliar scent means their death. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z It felt like I was being arrested, or being taken to get a spanking or something. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z I had taken to smiling more often, and my jaws hurt from the unaccustomed activity. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z A couple of kids standing nearby screamed in terror, and their parents looked alarmed for about one second—all the time it took to assess the situation. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z We listened as she took to the airwaves to tell the radio audience she knew a heck of a bargain when she saw one. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I turn to Garrett as we leave our neighborhood and take to the bike lane of a major avenue. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Gradually he took to dropping the rope until the pony followed him unled wherever he went. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t think he’ll ever do what it takes to be one hundred percent.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “They sing when mothers and their children are taken to the gas chambers.” Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z When the forest sprouted in between our houses, and the brambles grew new bright green leaves, we took to spring-cleaning the tree house and Charlie started to talk about building The Amazing Deck. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z My father had a big envelope of them that he always took to these meetings. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “We admired,” she said, “the courage it took to stand in front of us and do what you did.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z They can’t see through our tinted windows, but they know that this is the only route taken to escort the players to the dome. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z In fact, any measures possible should be taken to keep her from the island in the year immediately after the accident. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z The Cunninghams and the Coninghams married each other until the spelling of the names was academic— academic unless a Cunningham wished to jape with a Coningham over land titles and took to the law. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z That split second it takes to go from safe to a full-on fight for survival. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z “How long will it take to make, anyway?” said Harry as Hermione, looking happier, opened the book again. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z “Isn’t it the oddest thing, the way Joe took to that old man?” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z I was taken to Groutville, where the chief lived, and we met in the house of an Indian lady in town. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z My cousins who we called cousins but weren’t really cousins were working the Saturday lunch shift while the rest of us took to the streets. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z I changed my name to Jacob Gruener and took to calling myself Jack, like the American soldiers called me. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z He took to gazing at the mountains and the trees, even at faces, as though to memorize them for eternity. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z I would stir up my fire and think about how much food it must take to keep one little bird alive in that fierce cold. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z After the room where we were tattooed, we were taken to another room with a huge pile of old, used prisoner uniforms, and told to find something that fit. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z “Mouse,” she said, which I took to mean What’s the matter? Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z As soon as his dad and Boots had woken, they were taken to the dock where Gregor had made his escape the first night. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z And they walked on, and I went another way, and I never took to another street corner. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z ‘I don’t know how long we shall take to — to finish,’ said Frodo. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z When they came for me that morning, I thought that maybe I was being taken to the officers’ lounge for questioning. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But to Pong's surprise, they weren't taken to a police station at all but to some sort of stable. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z The best thing to be said about this cliche is that it’s better than being taken to the cleaners. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “This Academy would not be built on iron if it were only a tall tale. Do you realize how much effort—how much magic it took to raise this place?” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Tree-ear’s long hours of work for Min left the two friends no time or light for walks or other activities; instead, Crane-man had taken to telling stories. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z I hardly had time to think about my own answer—why, it was taken to be a foregone conclusion. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The crow took to the air and flapped around Bran's hand. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z They took to huddling on the float before and after workouts, talking about what, precisely, they could do to make each row better than the one before, looking one another in the eye, speaking earnestly. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Not long after Desdemona took to her bed, I’d begun to notice, in the vague creepy way of a sister with a brother, a new, solitary pastime of Chapter Eleven’s. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z By the time a new reservation could be arranged and she could make her way back to Iceland, Bobby had been taken to the hospital by Sverrisson in the car. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z She was the rock, a role she’d always taken to and sort of relished. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z What it really takes to find particles these days is money and lots of it. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Having failed to find Gobblers below ground, Lyra took to the streets again. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “You could only kill one person a night, I suppose. Maybe two. I wonder how many moths it would take to suffocate someone.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z A group of his fellow teachers wagered on how large the child would be, and even took to calling the baby “Lil’ Dub.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z She and the children had taken to each other at first sight. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z And all it would take to give them away would be a nervous child crying out at the presence of strangers in the nursery.... The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z This large crucifix had been a "security blanket" I took to bed with me for years after coming to this country. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z The girls had taken to playing a hide-and-seek game with him on the South Lawn, crouching behind trees and shouting his name as he scampered across the open grass, following their voices. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z From there, I was taken to Marshall Square, the rambling red-brick Johannesburg prison where I had spent a few nights in 1952 during the Defiance Campaign. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He was taken to a small private hospital. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Loki put on the feathered cloak and he took to the air, in falcon shape. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z I hurried back to Erickson’s Hotel, asked for a cup of tea to take to my room, and wrote letters until supper at six. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z And Cady vowed that if she ever got another chance, with another family, she would do whatever it took to make it work. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z That was what it would take to figure it out for anyone who knew how to drive a car. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Please leave your luggage on the train, it will be taken to the school separately.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z But I’m afraid if I give her anything to take to my mother, she will keep it and sell it at the market—if Detroit is anything like Port-au-Prince. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z We sit in a room in Candor headquarters called the Gathering Place, which the Dauntless have taken to saying in a mocking way whenever they can. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Finally, “Rise up, take to the streets! Join my comrades and me in the mountains! When you die for your country, you do not die in vain!” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Though it’s still early morning, the desert heat has set in, and I fidget under the itchy weight of the cloak I’ve taken to wearing. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Dora Lewis had been left by herself while the other women were taken to their cells. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z During the three months that it took to write and ponder the paragraph above, I often wondered what it would take to explain this process to someone who hadn’t lived it. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “Me too,” I whispered, and both boys smiled and nodded as though leg hair was all it took to win them over. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z This is what most people would take to be the commonsense view. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He had taken to smiling and tipping his head salaam when Mariam passed by. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z “It seems like a huge risk to take to only get a few kids.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Sensing my fear, Kim tells me the route Meng took to Vietnam is very safe, and does not cross any Khmer Rouge zones. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Support your selection with as many details as possible, including what it takes to survive in a variety of situations. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z If Shawn stabs you, you won’t be taken to a hospital. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z That was all it took to break him from his fear. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Forty-seven minutes passed—thirty-five more than it had taken to take the test! Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z So Old Yeller and I took to sleeping in the corn patch every night. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, the team needs you to win. We need a saber fencer, and you have what it takes to help this team repeat as state champions,” he said. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Big Ma had taken to reading her supermarket gossip news out in the open, and Ma Charles was none too pleased about “these chirrens today.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z That’s how long it was going to take to get enough measurements for his science experiment. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z After a frantic hunt, two veterinarians were finally located and taken to the stall. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Butler seems to be cooperating with the officer, but as you can see, he is taken to the ground. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z If the Baconian system can be summed up in a sentence, it is that science must be built on the foundations provided by facts—a lesson that Boyle very much took to heart. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z I stayed with them for three years, I believe, and the main reason I stayed on was a woman there I took to. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z The boys took to making up jokes then, saying things you wouldn’t want said about your grandpa’s wife even if you hated her. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z She had lately taken to making conversation with the dummy to add some theater for the audience. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “He’s bragging that he’s the biggest and toughest and meanest. He’s telling all the other bulls that if they’ve got a lick of sense, they’ll take to cover when he’s around.” Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z He took to pacing with the baby from the swamp, past the workshop, past the castle ruin, and back again, reciting poetry as he did so. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Then there was the daily forty milligrams of OxyContin she took to cope. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z My mother has taken to spraying air freshener when he isn’t looking. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z I stood by the boards in the little driveway the Zamboni took to get out onto the ice, and found myself getting lost in the cuts and grooves the skates had left everywhere. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z He unpacked his bags and arranged the presents he would take to Antonapoulos on the bed. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Adam had taken to sleeping late, or, rather, he had taken to sleeping very often—short sleeps during the night and during the day. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Charles had taken to attempting to train them, but Emma told Lenny he “does not make much progress, as they can neither see nor hear’ So they could not respond to cues they were given. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The following day, on Sunday June 28, Dasch was escorted to New York and taken to the federal court building. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Not taken to a hospital, not in the brig. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z People had taken to calling them “banana boats,” because once they were exposed to water both their bows and sterns tended to curve ever so slightly upward. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Someone pushed Moss to the right and he turned, hoping to see his mother behind him, but she was taken to the other side of the room. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z As if that’s all it would take to help me forget. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “But how long is it taking to drive them back?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The shot to the chest cracked a rib and punctured his right lung, but the bullet he took to the right shoulder messed up a bunch of nerves. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Soon after he passed away, a magazine poll taken to determine who “was the greatest man in the United States” placed Billy Sunday eighth, tied with the legendary philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Mom packs up a lot of food to take to the hospital. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z The young woman had a small dog, a Pomeranian, that yapped nonstop during the three hours it took to empty the apartment. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Of course he looks as they pass two important landmarks: Daniel Berrios’s house with its huge front porch, and the exit ramp that he will take to the Delaware Valley Raptor Sanctuary this Friday. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z No suggestion that he had wasted yet another night risking his life for an ungrateful foreigner who would never be able to repay him—the Aerodrome Drop-Off Principle taken to extremes. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Wimmer says that Clark asked him, “What will it take to make this work for you? What can I do to get your vote? What do I need to do to make this palatable?” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z We would be taken to an uninhabited island, Lolue, where I could watch vervet monkeys. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z What’s more, they “informed me that Mrs. Frear had been taken to a private house in Huron Street, and was perfectly safe and well cared for.” The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z Jojen had even taken to climbing up to the cave’s mouth when the day was bright. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Work, play—at sixty our powers and tastes are what they were at seventeen. Old men in the bad old days used to renounce, retire, take to religion, spend their time reading, thinking—thinking!” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew what it took to get them pumped up. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z The boys took to responding by extending their own hands and shouting, “Heil Roosevelt!” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “The girl should have been taken to the Field when she was born and still nameless. It is the way.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Even my mother had been taken to the factories when she was caught out on the streets. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z And the white folks took to coming out here to see us and talk with us. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Jimmy died on the scene but was still put into an ambulance and taken to the hospital with his wife. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z After that, one of them swallows a dime and has to be taken to the school nurse. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z Hinted at the gravity of the so-called “trauma of decanting,” and enumerated the precautions taken to minimize, by a suitable training of the bottled embryo, that dangerous shock. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, ma’am. Sure do. Store-bought clothes ain’t hardly worth the thread it take to stitch them.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z It seemed like a nightmare where everything you take to be the rock-hard, solid basis for reality becomes unreal. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “But I really don’t understand. Everyone wants to save the peregrines, but no one will do what it takes to save them—from stopping work on a bridge to returning chicks to their parents.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Did you stay indoors where it was safe, or did you take to the streets with the other protesters? Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z He had recently been taken to the dentist in Cape Town and discovered that the dentist himself was related by marriage to a well-known political prisoner. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And then, for the first time since being pregnant with Zoe and the last time before climbing in forever twenty-five years later, my grandmother took to her bed. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Just like Lucy Jo Rose had done to Mom, she took to spraying disinfectant and air freshener in my general direction. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Turner soon took to going down there most afternoons, and more often than not, Willis was there, too. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z In Maine I took to stopping the night in these parks, talking to the managers and to the dwellers in this new kind of housing, for they gather in groups of like to like. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z He led us through the crowd and toward the exit, chuckling and shaking his head to let us kids know that these fools were not worth the time it would take to kick their butts. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z But it wasn’t the woods we had been taken to, or another factory. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z The point of my arrow disappears into his right temple, and in the instant it takes to reload, Johanna has buried an ax blade in Cashmere’s chest. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z He had become much disheartened after losing money in a lawsuit, and had taken to drinking more than was good for him. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z She had the curiosity of a true scientist, the patience it took to raise insects, and the superb artistic skill necessary to share her observations. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I wanted a committed coach who had made an Olympic team, who knew exactly what it took to get me to the promised land. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z The other subjects he was taught, fencing, wrestling, and driving, he took to more kindly, and his teachers in these branches all survived. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z These, detached in our minds from all the rest, we take to be unnatural events, anomalies, outrages. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t take to dogs, but this one is just plain pitiful. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z No matter how long I take to get into the weapons shed, the sword is always right there where I left it. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Lindsey saw me wince and touched the top of my knee, left her hand there for a second longer than it took to ask if I was okay. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z “I may have my differences with the Gantrys, Mr. Peale, but I don’t take to low-down tactics. If you’re amenable, Horace will be here to help you with the harvest. For free.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z Even if you try to ignore it, the energy it takes to ignore it will exhaust you. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z “I used to give him tips sometimes, to buy himself his little things. Beaumain’s the kitchen page. He took to me for some reason. I knighted him with my own hands.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “If you were starving, I would kill as many bonobos as it took to keep you fed.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z This news he took to Admetus, who at once set about finding a substitute for himself. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z She had to survive this, she had to go home to her mother and Jabir, and she’d do whatever it took to make sure of it. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z But now he was gone, Banished to the world of the Grievers, taken to wherever they took their prey, victim to whatever was done there. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z We stay away from the dirt road the Erudite and Dauntless took to get to the Amity compound, following the train tracks toward the city. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z She had taken to wondering lately, during these swift-counted years, what had been done with all those wasted summer days; how could she have spent them so wantonly? The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z As I made another careless swipe at the rough reeds, I spotted on the road below a cloaked figure that I momentarily took to be Falconer. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z She phoned my mum that evening and one week later I was taken to see Mrs. de Roo, the speech therapist at Malvern Link Clinic. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Dr. Zamborska says that the chemicals it takes to keep the pool, golf course, and grounds lovely would fertilize the wheat fields of a small nation. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe that was what it took to survive in the Barrel. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z A number of these kids have the slightly dull, vacant look of people on drugs, and I wonder what they’re taking to keep them here and breathing. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Kaz would tell her to just put the gloves on, to do whatever it took to get the job done. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z And Root himself was willing to do whatever it took to hire her. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z I had read the dramatic poetry of Wilfred Owen, who had been killed in the first world war, and took to filling pages with my own romantic poetry about the nurse, war, and heroic deaths. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z She had heard people say that occasionally, though rarely, small groups were taken to visit other communities. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Sometimes she dreamed about the ones who’d given her away, and she woke up running from faceless brown-haired people, their arms reaching out for her, Maya sweating from the effort it took to escape. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z And yes, there were precautions administrators took to indemnify themselves against all eventualities. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z That land I have no one to take to anymore? Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z About how long it can take to calm me down. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z He had taken to calling them relatives from the very first. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z Not all of the top Nazis were tried at Nuremberg: Several committed suicide before they could be arrested or taken to trial. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z At the interview they asked me how I felt about the bornb threats and snipers and were impressed by what they took to be my courage. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z No one doubted the origins of that nameless child: he looked exactly like the colonel at the time he was taken to see ice for the first time. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z I did my pacing, counting the strides it took to get from one side of the back garden to the other. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z If I had anything urgent, Mrs. Danvers said, I must telephone through to Robert and he would give orders for it to be taken to the post. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z On Monday, yesterday, last night I mean, we got collected by the rose lady’s chauffeur and taken to collect the Rosalie for our trip to the pickup airfield. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z “Yeah, I let him think he was being taken to his execution,” I say, loud enough that he can hear. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z He had no idea how long it would take to travel through the underground galleries. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z In the few short minutes it took to scrounge up some food, the plate on the table had grown hot to the touch. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z This outburst does little but boost the boy’s status in the eyes of his friends, who take to devising ingenious ways to irritate Mr. Curran without giving themselves away. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z I gloried in the recklessness it took to reach that velocity. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The wounded are taken to the dressing station. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z I’ll set me up in a market on market day, sing songs, juggle a little, whatever it takes to make a penny or two for a poor boy like meself. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Ma took to telling me about hidden blessings, saying I should be thankful Doc Kelly had come to town to tend to his dying father. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z They stopped only as long as it took to feed and water the horses, and then they were off again. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z After thirty-six hours alone, the door to Dasch's cell was unlocked and he was taken to a room to speak to two FBI agents. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Then it was that Mr. Malloy took to renting the larger pipes as sleeping quarters for single men at a very nominal fee. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z She also took to walking around the house in her stocking feet, trying to catch me unawares as I scrubbed or dusted or polished, often with Ruth at my side. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z I free the dinghy from the pulleys, and take to the sea alone. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Arya wondered how many it had taken to bring him down. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I used to believe that all it took to make him happy was us, his family. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z ‘How long will it take to pass by the enemy and come back to the road?’ asked Éomer. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Several dust bombs later, they were all arrested and taken to court. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z I watched as he was taken to the hospital and watched as the culprits were arrested. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, in the shantytowns and working- class neighborhoods whole families—parents, children, and grandparents—took to the streets in their Sunday best, gaily making their way toward the center of the city. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “The earth doesn’t take to being poked. Not its sky or beyond its sky. No, sir! The earth doesn’t like it.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z The Queen of Lothian had taken to her chamber, cutting off communication with her guests, and Pellinore broke his fast alone. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z It had been nothing, the yellow-green remnants of a crack he’d taken to the face during a training exercise, but apparently Hoede had caught sight of it and didn’t like his guards looking like thugs. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z I take to getting up early in the morning, before Sarah is awake, to paint. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes, all it takes to save people from a terrible fate is one person willing to do something about it. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Then they talked about the sick man, and C. J. learned that he was being taken to Fairfax Hospital. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Tamara’s plane had to be replaced; but the bullet holes in Raya’s Yak were completely repaired, and soon she was able to take to the skies in it once more. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Lyra had taken to wearing a little white leather shoulder bag everywhere, so as to keep the alethiometer close at hand. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z I hid it because I didn’t want to be taken to the hospital and it was just a small cut. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Silver and Buckthorn, with Bigwig helping them, had covered the retreat until, once all were together outside, they had taken to flight. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Parvati Patil and Lavender Brown had taken to haunting Professor Trelawney’s tower room at lunchtimes, and always returned with annoyingly superior looks on their faces, as though they knew things the others didn’t. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z But when, beginning with the passage of the Volstead Act, criminals realized that most Americans would pay whatever it took to get around Prohibition, everything changed. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z The Army offered us rations, which gettings Sip and I could not refuse; and so we repaired to the city gates, where our fiddlers’ fingers took to ruder labor. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Taran heard what he took to be a scuffle, then a high-pitched little shriek, followed by a larger shriek and a moment or two of loud smacking. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z I could hear the wives of the umunna, chattering in the backyard, scooping soup and stew from the huge pots on the fire into bowls that would be taken to serve the people. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z The single men took to stopping by her flat, the married ones to bumping into her outside her department. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z A few years before, Ann had taken to slipping out of the house with a wild group that included French—wild by the standards of rural North Carolina in the 1950s, anyway. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z They were being taken to Varanasi so they could be scattered over the Ganges. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z His short, powerful body took to a uniform well. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Tiny, his face buried in carpet, has taken to crying again. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z “I demand to be taken to the gate immediately, you big blond lump.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “You think I have what it takes to be a part of the in-crowd?” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z Looking back, I appreciate how much courage it must of took to say something like that. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Beside her Charles, who was still standing, smiled too and raised a polite eyebrow—a gesture which might have been nervous, might have meant anything, really, but which I took to mean Is that all? The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z He’s taken to drinking in my presence, to unwind after the day, he says. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z I'm immediately taken to see the queen—still covered in Prince Alfred's blood and Belle-rose tea, still angry from his disgusting advances, still shaky from almost stopping his heart. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z They took to leaving food outside her room, and she took bits and shreds, enough to stay alive. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Goebbels himself—a failed novelist and playwright earlier in life—had taken to reviewing the scripts of nearly all films personally, using a green pencil to strike out or rewrite offending lines or scenes. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z When Andy took to his bed for the last time, the boys bought him a genuine swansdown pillow that cost seven dollars. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Nobody was taken to school by car in those days. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Of the thirty-eight ingredients it takes to make a McNugget, I counted thirteen that can come from corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z That wood should have been taken to the kiln and unloaded. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z He took to jumping the field fence and eating the corn that I’d never yet gotten around to gathering. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z I was confused about which one to take to Conakry. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Jerrod had done everything it took to become a starter for the Permian football team. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z At port in Rio de Janeiro, the Boss suffered a heart attack and took to his bed. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Because she missed him so, she had taken to writing little stories about him. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The fourteen panels I took to Pathfinder provided the 18 kilowatt-hours that the batteries could store. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z But when Old Yeller and I got well and took to the woods again, we wouldn’t have time to wait around on a fool pup, too little to follow. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z And how long did I take to turn deadly? Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Ashima was fully dilated and being taken to the delivery room, the person on the other end had said. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The demand for new garments has slowed, and people have taken to mending their own clothes— it’s one place they can easily cut corners. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z “Everyone without a work card will be taken to a labor camp.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z No sooner had the mournful song run its course than the minister took to the altar and delivered a sermon that in my state gave little comfort. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z How long would it take to get to the hospital from here? The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z From the court, I was taken to the Johannesburg Fort. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Were we really being taken to the woods to be shot? Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z That year he also took to exposing miracles. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z After each execution, the dead body was taken to the basement under guard. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z It’s the policy enforced by every editor and composition instructor, and you should understand what it takes to please them. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z When he was taken to the female two-legs, he was already angry. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z What was clear was that he was being taken to a child to make up for the loss of a doll. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z Probably Mama and Jakob were taken to the gas chambers that very day. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z Buoyed by this example of success, thousands of new migrants massing in the city’s second ward in 1917 and 1918 took to the polls and elected two black aldermen to represent them. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Almost forty of the one hundred participants were arrested and taken to court, where the judge began sentencing the women to the District Jail. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Since his accident he had unconsciously taken to wearing his hat at a rakish angle. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Do you know how much work it takes to make a book? Years and years of a monk’s life, to make just one! How many books are they burning?” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Steeling herself, she turned toward the Wood and her mother’s grave, and just beyond it was the track she and her mother had sometimes taken to gather mushrooms or wild plants. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z She later said the police had to untwine him before he could be taken to the ambulance. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z How long will it take to get me to 174th Street? The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z She saw with satisfaction his nerves begin to go, his hands take to quivering, his loss of weight, and the wild glazed look in his eyes. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Some Americans seemed to embrace it, understanding all too well the amount of organization and drive it takes to raise children. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z By contrast, Lauritsen and his Caltech colleagues soberly devoted two full pages to a meticulous accounting of every step they had taken to validate the French findings on carbon and boron alone. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I said, “Do you mean ...” I stopped, and tried, “That could be taken to mean that . . . you know . . . we . . .” My feed was like, Tongue-tied? Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “He thought he would be taken to the commander’s office. There he would have a chance to clear up whatever confusion there was. But they steered him toward that building there.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z So I took to the trees like a bonobo. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I wanted to buy something at the Cova to take to Catherine. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z I was handcuffed and taken to Pretoria in an old van in the company of another prisoner. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And I knew the true cost of this food, the precise amount of time and work it had taken to get it and prepare it. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Also, in between coughing fits, she took to sucking on one or the other of Edward’s ears. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z In her head, she calculates how long it would take to halt the train, how long she might be able to keep her heart beating. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “What—like you’re so busy on the trail you can’t spare the three seconds it takes to open a zipper and look inside?” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Then Reb Saunders became ill, and at the same time my father also took to his bed with the flu, a severe case that bordered on pneumonia for a while and frightened me terribly. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z As the weather became colder, and the days became shorter, some of the men took to searching for the scraeling village, hoping to find food, and women. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z We were taken to our barracks, which were no better than our last at Plaszów. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Ten dollars a week is what it takes to start, ten dollars for the right of knowing a someone in the city for you who are yet nobody. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom was skilled at charming her way around corruption, which had helped her cut through the endless red tape it took to get the sanctuary off the ground. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The Andersons’ bags were taken to the first coach on the train headed south—the Jim Crow coach reserved for blacks. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z I took to going into the bathroom at these times, and closing the door, emerging when the murmuring of his voice had stopped—hoping that made him more comfortable. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Mothers took to waiting in the doorways for their children when school let out. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z She had even taken to wearing their mother’s jewels. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z From Cape Town, I would be taken to a local airport and flown out of the country. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Around him, Aziza had taken to giving an exasperated, queerly adult headshake. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z I start the hour-and-a-half trek it will take to cover our snare line. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z No telling what it might take to get back in his good graces. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Instead of conferring with the general in the visiting area, I was taken to his residence on the grounds of Pollsmoor itself. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Darin steps in front of me and glances at the fence, as if gauging the time it will take to reach it. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z I pressed my lips gently to the back of her hand for the space of time it takes to draw a quick breath. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The three of them had driven through the storm and over the mountains, following the path that Mark had taken to Seattle. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The earth there was so dry we couldn’t properly bury the bodies of those who died of hunger or sickness—they’d stink from underground—so we took to burning them in our bonfires. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Dill sat in his living room, waiting for Dr. Blankenship, with everything he was taking to college surrounding him. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z These days she took to cutting her hair in the back with her dress-pattern scissors to keep it from growing. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z They looked as naked as blind salamanders for the few days it took to get over the shock of their pale, weak chins. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z He took to his bed, eventually so enervated that he was forced to take an indefinite leave from his job at the shipyard. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “Against me? Gosh, no. You are much too good. It would only be a contest against yourself to see if you really have what it takes to show your work on Mount Olympus.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The time it will take to send an arrow through his brain versus the time his trident will reach my body. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z “Fool boy that I was, I told a man I took to be my friend, and he told our serjeant, and my brothers-in-arms come and relieved me o’ that' burden. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Behind us, I heard the sound of giant wings as Kampe took to the air. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z “She didn’t much take to living in the holler, I guess. Wanted to see the world. She hated being stuck up there in his little cabin, so one day she up and left.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z The nest bursts open like an egg, and a furious swarm of tracker jackers takes to the air. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z The Americans were taken to the fifth building inside the gate. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “It has to do with a cat named Archie, who got taken to the Very Friendly Animal Center and...” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z “She was arrested and taken to Namwon. When I finally found out where they took her, I begged the Governor to release her, but he refused. That's how you ended up being born there.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z But moving into the fall, with the end in sight, I wanted to squeeze as much of the four or five years it took to make a good CO into my single rookie year. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Every person who bought a particular model of television came to believe that TV shows had become particularly mean-spirited of late, and they all canceled their cable and took to other hobbies. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z He had taken to chasing me from the gymnasium through the dark walkway that connected it to the main building. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “How much mercury would it take to reduce two gills of white sulfur?” he asked pompously, as if I’d already given the wrong answer. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z If it takes half as long to get back as it took to get here, we’re going to be much later than I’m comfortable with. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Frankie took to his heels and fled around the corner and hid behind a barrel in the alley. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He was taken to the Sing Sing emergency room. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It got so bad that when the concerts were over, he took to crawling into the matchbox and pushing up a piece of Kleenex to block the entrance. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z “He even gave me a bottle to take to my family....” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Billy had heard from a nurse that children who had had the operation were often taken to hostels further south, which might explain how Tony Makarios came to be wandering in the wild. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z ‘How long will the dream take to work?’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z "I've always believed there are many different roads you can take to get somewhere. And you look like a girl who can build a new road for herself if she needs it." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z The next day he asked a Harvard graduate he knew how long it would take to learn Latin. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z If that had happened, it’s very possible I never would’ve been taken to an orphanage. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Enjoy the time it takes to find your own. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z In just the short time it takes to cross to the edge of the jungle, I become aware of the change. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Some of the shelves held the textbooks Mother used for teaching seventh-grade English and for the night classes she took to get her master’s degree. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z How he didn’t have what it takes to be a hero. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z When I was taken to the courtyard with the others, we greeted each other warmly. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Just then he raised his head, so massive I wondered at the blood it must take to animate, and he saw me. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z It was the most useless thing to take to a refugee camp, of course. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Children sent out to herd goats were snapped up by evil traders, loaded onto camels and taken to far cities where they suffered horribly. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z It’s an attempt to set a backfire to his own empathy—whatever it takes to prevent his conscience from burning him alive. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Then Tea Cake took to popping in at the kitchen door at odd hours. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z She couldn’t stop thinking about the path she had taken to Rook Hill. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z She took to bearing the heaviest of her bags. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He also knew it would be just about impossible for her to sit on a bus with him for the three days it took to get there. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z So I took to the cellar; I hibernated. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z But the builder in him thought of the damage, how long it would take to rebuild. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z “Either way he runs, a dog can get pretty close to him, and so he would have to take to a tree.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “You are a suffering dog, so maybe he will take to you right away. Maybe he’ll let me keep you.” Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z “Were you able to get any sense out of your Praise Singer before he, er, took to the trees?” asked the police chief. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z The sheer number of actions and reactions it’s taken to form our solar system, our galaxy, our universe, is astonishing. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z By writing about the images he saw in Sarajevo, he was ensuring that no one would deny that ethnic cleansing was taking place, and that thousands of innocent men were being taken to their deaths. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z At last he took to wandering near the wooded copse by the river, hoping to hear Grace’s flute. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Rosaleen liked to say May was a bona fide candidate for the nuthouse, but she still took to her. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “The map was hard to read, but it showed a spot on the Tiber River in Rome. I think that’s where my quest starts...the path I’ve got to take to follow the Mark.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z But when we plundered Priam’s town and tower and took to the ships, God scattered the Akhaians. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z They don’t know what it takes to get by in the city. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “He was measuring,” Dr. Posner explains, “the time it takes to have a thought. “As you go into the history of the study of attention, the really epic discovery was the speed of mental processing.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Do you know how long it takes to sound out a word like soliloquized? Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The investigation stalled, I took to reading for religion class again, which seemed to please the Old Man, whose pop quizzes I’d been failing consistently for a solid six weeks. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z “I know we do. And I appreciate the time you’ve taken to try to help us in that regard. I’m grateful. Really.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z Entering the monument, they were taken to a small room where Interior Secretary Ickes was waiting. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z And a message came back this afternoon saying you was to be arrested and taken to Bywater, not direct to the Lockholes. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The five minutes it took to run to my home on the other side of the field felt like a lifetime. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z My mouth is dry, but I don’t want to risk the thirty seconds it would take to get water from the kitchen sink. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “It seems my family has taken to your description of said wondrous outhouse,” Grandpa Firewood said. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z It was almost one o’clock, and although Frankie had already been picked up and taken to a friend’s house, I still had to get to Grand Island before the matinee started. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z When grown men are infantilized, most don’t take to it nicely. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She shook her head with barely a movement, enough that Toby did a double take to make sure he’d actually seen it. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Following the triple victories in California, he had taken to telling Seattle that he would sweep the regatta in Poughkeepsie this year, winning all three events. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “Erlone was picked up and taken to police headquarters and questioned,” the man continued. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Finally, everyone is taken to a jail next door, run by la migra. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z After the match, the boys took to the field themselves, to receive their medals. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z It’s the way I felt on the two flights it took to get here. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z They were using his having killed Bessie to kill him for his having killed Mary, to cast him in a light that would sanction any action taken to destroy him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “If from the milk,” asked Dr. Poitevint, “why were not special precautions taken to protect our children who drank milk from local dairies?” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The family waited around the table for him while he sat happily alone at the Athenaeum, reading and eating his dinner as he had taken to doing. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Then climbing out of the dell they took to the road again. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z I took to the stairs and noticed right away that I was finding it a little difficult to breathe. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z Mummy didn’t exactly tell me, but what if the steps you’re taking to make things right just make things wronger? From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z If you do not, you must leave on the bus you took to get there. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z The rather modern-looking human skulls from Africa around 100,000 years ago have been taken to support the former view, with the leap occurring specifically in Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z On Saturday, May 9, 100,000 demonstrators spontaneously took to the streets of Washington, DC. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Moving into the king’s chambers could too easily be taken to mean he did not expect the king to return. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z My father, in his old age, had taken to traveling in disguise to enjoy the pleasures of common life. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Jack and the others were taken to a room where they were ordered to undress and then form lines. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z After the meal, the younger students would return to their lessons while the older ones took to their chores. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z To avoid the technical difficulties in actually performing the sum over histories, these curved space-times must be taken to be Euclidean. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The U-shape would soon be a complete rectangle, and the demigods had really taken to the new task with gusto. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z The owl saw it reflected in the pool, a blazing, glaring thing of pure light, so bright that she took to the wing and flew to another part of the forest. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z I had consumed practical guides to homicide investigations, so I knew that the longer it took to solve a crime, the more likely it was that it would never be solved. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z “You are well enough to leave. It would be immoral to turn a child out into the streets, so you will be taken to the orphan house.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I could tell Albert took to you right off.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Then she added four ears of corn from the box she was planning to take to the roadside stand to sell once we left for school. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Fortunately, the camo pants had huge cargo pockets—plenty of room for his wallet, his car keys, and the minirecorder, which he'd taken to carrying everywhere. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z The first volume dealt with the interval from the Creation to the Flood, a period he took to be 432,000 years or about a hundred times longer than the Old Testament chronology. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The name meant “earth pig,” and the book said that a “sharp blow with a stout stick” was all it took to kill one, if that was what you wanted to do. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z It whittles you down to lie up to fifty times in the space of the fifteen minutes or so it takes to do a “survey,” even when there’s a higher moral purpose to serve. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z When the local court order was appealed to a federal court, voting rights demonstrators took to the streets again. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z We took to it the horrifying news that the Irgun had hanged two innocent British sergeants in retaliation for the three Irgunists who were hanged on the twenty-ninth of July. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z In the old days it would’ve been a graveyard, but most sensible folks have taken to burning their dead and mounting a cross in a field or yard, like these. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Min spent his time on the new set of vases, one or two of which would be selected to be taken to Songdo. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z It was a tall order, but every time Al Ulbrickson watched his new varsity crew take to the water his confidence that he could pull it off grew. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z When we were showered and tattooed and dressed again, we were taken to our new barracks. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Does he know my brother was taken to prison for spying on his shop? An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z They were taken to a small closet without enough space to lie down. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The North Vietnamese were vowing to fight for as long as it took to win, Johnson pointed out. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “I just wondered how big a rocket it would take to put her into orbit.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z My mom packs this food in brown bags for my dad to take to work for lunch. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Gandhi was taken to the police station, where he was whisked through a side door disguised in a police uniform. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “Remember that if conflict is not taken to the Council of Guardians, and if there is a death . . .” She heard a murmur. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We were taken to a nearby banana farm, where we practiced stabbing the banana trees with bayonets. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z The policeman told me that on really cold days, homeless people are actually taken to the city shelters so they won’t freeze to death. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z “It was a test you needed to take to get into the school. You did very well on it, by the way.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z Without the baby coming back right here when he’s healthy and taking to the sky to show his dad, “I’m okay. I’m okay.” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z I wondered, though, how my friends would take to all this publicity. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The woman flashed her light at a couple on a bench, illuminating them for the split second it took to confirm that they were pretty. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Sasha had been taken to Saint Francis Memorial Hospital in San Francisco so that they could be admitted into the Bothin Burn Center, a specialized unit that treats burn victims from around the Bay Area. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z She wanted to call out his name, run to him, and hug him, but she found she could say nothing as he was taken to the far corner of the holding pen and chained there. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Why, then, were they taking to their heels in such numbers that it was necessary to pass a law to compel them to enjoy the benefits they derived from slavery? Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The two were taken to a nearby military camp. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z They jumped over the low place in the hedge at the bottom and took to the fields, passing into the darkness like a rustle in the grasses. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z How much it took to put on that hardest of all performances, being my old self again. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Since the mess with Lolo yesterday—and all the time it took to get Abuela calmed down—Mami’s been a little crabby and impatient, too. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z She was confident that none of that concern showed on her face as she took to the podium. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z We needed information to figure out which school Minerva would have been taken to. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z All it took to unleash it was her thinking of the unfinished crib in the toolshed or the suede coat in Rasheed’s closet. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z I discover even before joining Katherine in the rich end of town that she has taken to her role of displaced lady like a duck to water. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z The terrified chicken took to ungainly flight in a flurry of golden feathers. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z I couldn’t say I had taken to Albert. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Ruth they would take to her death first, because she had asthma and was too weak to work. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The King had been hunting the Questing Beast a few months earlier, on the south coast of Gramarye, when the animal had taken to the sea. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z As long as it might take to count ten, there was complete silence. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z But there was a fraction of a second when their eyes met, and for as long as it took to happen Winston knew—yes, he knew!— that O’Brien was thinking the same thing as himself. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z But damaged people were useless; they were always taken to the Field. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We: were miles from the things, which I had taken to be almost within arm’s reach. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z She’d rebraided her hair, spilled a box of thread, and after picking the spools up, had taken to pacing back and forth. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z But Art and Archaeology was reassuring to them: I could veer off in the archaeology direction and take to digging things up, which was more serious. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Claudette told of having been put into a car, handcuffed through the window, taken to city hall, and locked in an adult jail cell. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z “If that’s what it takes to get you to wake up, then a little fear is good.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I may assure you that every pain is currently being taken to find the boy. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z This pretty little girl who was born by day wants to get taken to the candy store. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z Her emotions soared for the time it took to reach the street, maybe five or eight seconds. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Lightning flashed across the dark blue clouds, but for Tayo, the bolt zigzagged slowly up the dark mountain peaks of cloud, taking longer than Robert’s words had taken to reach him. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z “If you or your daughter will just read that over, it’ll explain all the steps you need to take to renew Young Ju’s green card.” A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z He took to carrying one of the guitars onto the school bus every day. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z And I knew he was calculating how long it would take to get the place back into order. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z That very night, as if he were playing a scripted role, Kevin called me and said, “So, who are you taking to the Ocotillo Ball?” Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z I should have realized that he would not be content to take to Simon Bass a secondhand version of the play. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z After only a moment or two they gave up trying to defend themselves and took to their heels. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Harry began to talk about a trip they had recently taken to Medical Lake, but then choked up and had to stop. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Leaves and spiderwebs lashed my face as I pushed through, and fat panicked birds took to the sky. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “We don’t know. Probably you just collapse and need tending for a year or however long it takes to get your strength back.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Selvam, who for all that he had been reared on the land and had the earth in his blood, yet did not take to farming. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z “That there’s a memory I’ll take to my grave,” he told me years later. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z It was there for the taking to anyone who had already cleared the First Gate. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z That evening Mother took to her room with a large bottle of her tonic. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z These are the thoughts I take to bed with me that night. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z My father had always taught me to address anyone I took to be an adult as “mister,” but Timothy didn’t seem to be a mister. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z As he was taken to the jail in Guthrie, he was confronted by a local reporter. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The ones I hated have taken to the water, horrible scaled things that tear my salty flesh with needle teeth. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Of course Rømer’s figure for the time light takes to travel from the sun to the earth was a very crude approximation! The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z At her age, and with the years it would take to restore the home, she would likely never return. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z When she wrote home, she asked to be sent used children’s clothes, which she took to the orphanage. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z We have decided to uphold the official complaint of Mr. Lucius Malfoy, and this matter will therefore be taken to the Committee for the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Eventually, one location wins favor and the whole swarm takes to the air. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She had no time to fool with Fern, but Fern stamped her foot, confounded by the effort it took to get Big Ma near the chicken run. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z I sure wish she’d taken to getting me clothes off a store rack, instead. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z This is what the children had taken to calling Penelope. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z She must have caught the next plane behind that one I took to New York. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Afterward, the teacher was taken to a concentration camp. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z No amount of standing and staring was going to change the amount of time that it takes to walk from the Free Cities to their home at the top of the sleeping volcano. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z All the time and effort I took to write down the information Doc gave me, and so much of it was gone. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z And she grinned, delighted at what she took to be an oblique compliment. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Neither she, nor Dr. Gazzaley, believed their findings should be taken to mean that the simple act of playing a video game improves the brain, or, specifically, the attention networks. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Somehow this is taken to imply that it never will. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But she doesn’t know which subway train to take to get downtown. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z “What will it take to get rid of you?!” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Death is a path we take to meet on the other side. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Chronicler dipped his pen and Kvothe looked down at his folded hands for as long as it takes to draw three deep breaths. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Between the loss of the tourniquet and the effort it took to get to the lake, his wound has opened up again. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z More recently, the youngest of Lord Yronwood’s daughters had taken to following him about the castle. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z A little burning and dodging was probably all it took to make the “invisible” boy’s head disappear. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z “Your mother was taken to the infirmary hut last night.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z As Worsley commented, “The few minutes that it took to fetch Shackleton were among the most anxious I have ever known.” Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Eventually the body trade grew so reckless that relatives took to holding graveside vigils, lest their loved ones disappear in the night. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Eva knew there was time for nothing in this world other than die time it took to get there and cover her daughter’s body with her own. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z |
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