Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] take " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Fat Controller entered the caravan casually , his eyes darting about taking in my few effects , our scattered clothes , the pile of economics books on the little table . |
| 2 | Luch , returning from taking Marion some soup , drifted aside out of his way , and pattered back behind him to the shieling to find out what was happening . |
| 3 | Dr Mawhinney told MPs in a Commons written reply : ‘ This impressive contribution from GPs and their practice teams is exactly the sort of response we are looking for to take forward our plans to improve the nation 's health . ’ |
| 4 | She heard her own shaming urgency and winced self-consciously , but even if he had been an observant man , Florian was currently too preoccupied to have noticed it , still busily congratulating himself and probably fantasising about taking Hawaii by storm . |
| 5 | Election ‘ 92 : Searching for take off without a yogic pilot |
| 6 | Bower-bird ate daintily , plucking one scarlet berry at a time from its bed of leaves , chewing it thoroughly in his short beak and swallowing before taking another . |
| 7 | ‘ Yeah , with Quincx , Malamute and everyone looking on taking measurements ! ’ |
| 8 | Italy is now looking at taking into government the reformed social-democratic communists , an injection of incorruptibility ( well , more or less , and certainly far sea-greener than Craxi 's cynical wheeler-dealer pocket-liners ) long overdue . |
| 9 | Smoothing by taking repeated medians is very powerful , and can sometimes produce a result that departs more from the pattern of the original data sequence than we would like . |
| 10 | The residual swells coming over the reef were causing a moderate surf on the beach : I needed to reconnoitre , weighing up the possibility of swamping before taking the children in . |
| 11 | We have a standard for children which assumes they can either send very strongly amplifies the distress , and therefore , we are not going to taken them terribly seriously , or at least they can actual reach much higher intensities before we do take them seriously , whereas for adults we have a different standard which , which assumes that even slight expressions of distress in adult could be serious . |
| 12 | ‘ We 're also experimenting with taking the basic nickel-plated steel wire and having it made in various different tempers or levels of hardness : five per cent , ten per cent , fifty per cent harder . |
| 13 | So what we were doing of course is we were moving in taking her half of the stuff and moving it out . |
| 14 | This course , which is the only one of its type in Northern Ireland , is designed to cater for students who wish to study accounting and other related subjects before deciding whether they want to embark on the study of professional accountancy , or who wish to acquire sufficient knowledge of accounting before taking up employment . |
| 15 | Neath conceded some asinine penalties and , on a broader point of policy , their obsession with keeping the game moving by taking tap penalties instead of letting Paul Thorburn accumulate points is laudable but liable to cost them such a tight game as this . |
| 16 | In the meantime , drivers Frank Galashan and Danny Hopkins are keeping the Waste Recycling lorry moving by taking it in turns to drive the vehicle to Leslie . |
| 17 | I believe that the best way in which the State can encourage respect for human life is by refraining from taking life itself , unless it is compelled to do so by the direst and most certain necessity . |
| 18 | Mr. Park went on to argue that there were three phases in the operations carried out by the taxpayer , namely : ( 1 ) the pre-contract phase where business was solicited abroad , ( 2 ) the making of the contracts , and ( 3 ) the performance of the contract throughout the stipulated period of duration in the overseas country by refraining from taking action there against the sub-licensee . |
| 19 | erm , and if anybody else has any other post they , they 're interesting in doing in taking on or , or would like to help with that could be said as well could n't it ? |
| 20 | you can not recover loss that you could have avoided suffering by taking reasonable steps ; |
| 21 | Any fool can boost spending by taking out an overdraft ; no bank manager would deduce from such figures that the same growth could , or should , be extended indefinitely . |
| 22 | I was still debating between taking you away from him , waiting for it to end anyway , or doing nothing at all — the last because I knew that if your reaction to me was purely physical , I could have you … but probably damage you emotionally . ’ |
| 23 | In some cases joint ventures between the private sector and the NHS are succeeding in taking on areas which are proving too costly or cumbersome for the NHS alone . |
| 24 | have denied overreacting in taking seven children into care after they had been left at home alone . |
| 25 | David escorted her there on her first morning and was touchingly concerned for her , insisting on taking a cushion for her to soften the hard seat on the press benches and urging her to promise to leave the stuffy , dark-panelled room if she felt faint or troubled . |
| 26 | One thing about it , I do n't recall any CID man in my recollection , while I was serving , ever falling for taking money off . |
| 27 | We are not talking about removing powers from the layer of government below local government and sucking them up ; we are talking about taking power from the centre . |
| 28 | And that is what we 're talking about , we 're talking about taking out the two or three hundred really active people , the control and the command structure of the I R A and of the other terrorist organizations and putting them in . |
| 29 | when you 're talking about taking drugs and it 's been shown that the effects erm the biological dependency is n't that great and it 's no sort of worse than coming off erm , having a bad cold |
| 30 | I mean there 's a lady down there talking about taking |