Should a hippo be allowed to wallow, as she would do natively, or must she partake of the strange customs of her new environment?
If she is doing you this big favor, and you notice shots are being missed because she is partaking of the festivities (she is a guest, after all, eh?), you're not in a very good position to ask her to "get back to work" -- you'll feel like you are imposing.
She has partaken of the great adventure, and now she is the same as all nature".
While sleuthing, Nancy gets knocked out by a crook, and comes to in an elegant old mansion ("Nancy saw lovely damask draperies, satin-covered sofas and chairs"), where she partakes of a refreshing tea service and cinnamon toast; renewed, she discovers a secret passageway, thanks to a cunning knob of some kind, rapidly solves the mystery, and restores social order.
Protocol is that you should hold the tray for the person next to you as he or she partakes of the sacrament, then pass it on.
Brown does not limit her writing to Cunningham; she was partaking of many dance opportunities in those early years.
She ordered a cappuccino and admitted that she was slightly hung over: the previous night, there had been a ceremonial dinner at Brasenose College, and she had partaken of more after-dinner drinks than were strictly advisable.
Like Robert Ryman's work, Ms. Yamaoka's is a reverent dissection of the modernist monochrome, but she also partakes of a more parodistic approach, exemplified by Robert Rauschenberg's "White Paintings" from the early 1950's, in which the viewer's shadow becomes part of the work.
She began partaking of the social life around her. "The night before last I laughed as I have never done before," she wrote in 1851.
She has partaken of reflexology, acupuncture, and craniosacral therapy, and has said, "There is huge merit in both Eastern and Western medicine, and I've taken a little bit from both".
