Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] take " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recently we 'd been taking ten minutes a night off it in order to have more time in the pub . |
| 2 | I 'd been taking a bucket of slack to the washhouse where all the women were gathered gossiping . |
| 3 | He 's costing me a fortune in tights — I wondered who 'd been taking them at first . |
| 4 | It was clear that she 'd been taking him for a ride , in that there was no ride in it for him at the end of the process . |
| 5 | It must have been in that one moment of darkness , as she 'd been taking her hand away . |
| 6 | He 'd watch them quietly ; and he often told me how he had a good idea where they 'd been taking their honey : if they came to their hives low , they 'd most likely have come off a field of clover . |
| 7 | ‘ She 'd been taking hush-money for the last ten years . ’ |
| 8 | I mean when you 're on picket line it 's very depressing it 's very heart breaking unless you get some comedian or something you know it gets er y you do n't know what to do with yourself and perhaps they 'd been taking pots of this paint I 'm not saying . |
| 9 | How dared he believe that she 'd been taking money from Travis to pay her way ? |
| 10 | They 'd been taking their very last walk of a well earned holiday . |
| 11 | At the Court of Appeal today , Rachael 's solicitor explained that he 'd been frightened of losing the children , and that for several weeks before the killing he 'd been taking medication for depression . |
| 12 | I mean I think er , when your blood pressure was found out and you 'd been taking tablets ever , so , I think it 's kept it all under control and you 've , you , we eat a sensible diet . |
| 13 | Oh she 'd been taking Matthew to work . |
| 14 | My mother had a fit when I went home and my aunt said I 'd been taken on . |
| 15 | He 'd been taken prisoner by the Japs , and had been shipped to Japan , and was working in a warehouse in the docks on the morning of 9 August , 1945 . |
| 16 | He 'd travelled half round the world , seen and done things she could only guess at , while she 'd never been further than Kingswood when she 'd been taken to be viewed as apprentice to a nailmaker . |
| 17 | Shortly after his death , I was working a ‘ noon and night ’ at a local Working Men 's Club when the top of the bill — a Welsh comic called Dave Swan — was unable to do the evening performance , as he 'd been taken ill . |
| 18 | Mr Lee stood firmly by the decisions that had been taken in collaboration with members of the RSSPCC , who had been involved from the beginning in the disclosure work with the eight W children who 'd been taken away then . |
| 19 | Claudia was talking to Philip ; she wished he was beside her , but after the first ten minutes , he 'd been taken away to talk to someone else . |
| 20 | They 'd been taken care of . |
| 21 | Vernon told him he 'd been taken home in a chauffeur-driven car . |
| 22 | She 'd been taken completely by surprise , and fright added to her bewilderment . |
| 23 | ‘ He 'd been taken back to Germany for slave labour . |
| 24 | She wanted to rush into the sitting room and ask why , ask where he 'd been taken , but she knew she could not do that . |
| 25 | She heard Hitch mention where he 'd been taken . |
| 26 | If only he could have spoken to her one last time before he 'd been taken down . |
| 27 | From there he 'd been taken in a police van to Whitely by two police officers . |
| 28 | They make the poor girls look as though they had n't been properly unpacked , as though they 'd been taken out of the box and someone had left half their wrappings on . ’ |
| 29 | I learnt by various devious means , ’ and here he winked at her , ‘ that they 'd been taken out by someone in the section that deals with the interrogation of defectors from the Soviet Union . |
| 30 | There was one abominable story of a young man to whom this happened , a freelance journalist , who 'd been taken on by one of the agencies on a temporary trial which had n't worked out . |