In three months he'd taken the country by storm and become very famous.
"Our friend is going to try to take the place by storm, I think, and we shall have to stand him off."
This is going to take them by storm, believe me.
His party is the one to take Britain by storm.
A week or so later it took London by storm.
Just over one month later they took the fashion world by storm.
See a band that took the world by storm next.
It may be, I mean, do you get the sense that it's taking the world by storm?
"You seem to have taken the town by storm," he wrote.
One could say that the book took the fair by storm.
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