Example sentences of "been take [adv] " in BNC.

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1 You know Connells ' all been took over by Gala ?
2 yeah he said oh Margaret wages have been took out me car he said I ge , I 'll get it at some point for you Margaret he said when I go at the bank but he said , yours was taken out Jack 's car
3 I can tell school you been took poorly again . ’
4 I had also been taking up quite a lot of time for public service , chairing the National Gas Consumers ' Council , and also , more relevantly , working under Richard Hoggart who was chairing the Advisory Council for Adult and Continuing Education , which had a remit to develop national policies for education as a process continuing throughout life .
5 The only way this impinged on the message Macmillan had been taking up to the generals in the front-line was that they might now have to prepare even more urgently for military operations to reinforce allied policy .
6 They have been taking up to 100,000 salmon and sea-trout a year and probably many more if the truth were known .
7 I ca n't of course foretell er what 's gon na happen in Eastern Europe , but looking externally er at the lower interest rates and the er more competitive value of the pound and internally at the improved cash flow and the actions that we 've been taking over for the past couple of years and I can say that there 's now generally a more optimistic feeling in the air amongst our group companies .
8 We have been running an experiment in our laboratories , which erm , employs about eighteen hundred people , and I 've been paying a sum of money , so that they can have anybody with a problem in the laboratories , can have independent counselling , er , and it seems to me , I 've been lo reviewing it , measurement again , we 've just been running it for a year , and I 've been interested to see the types of problem they 've been taking outside .
9 It has been taking on staff , including temporary organisers in the constituencies , whose contracts will expire four weeks after a general election .
10 Mothers of younger and younger children have been taking on the dual burden of paid work and child rearing ( see Hunt , 1968 ; Martin and Roberts , 1984 ; Joshi , 1985 ) .
11 Members may well be aware of , of some of the actions that the A T C have been taking on this , and have been calling on that to actually look at that to list of alternate .
12 Cricket now … the amateur players of the Minor Counties have been taking on the game 's elite in the first round of the Nat West Trophy .
13 Brenda Thornton , do you think that men have changed very much as a result of the more forthright stance that women have been taking recently ?
14 Yeah , but I 've been taking out , cos we had a rogue living above us you see , and I thought well he 's one of these that 'll take owt if he can get it you see .
15 If it had n't have been for her I would n't have been taking so many exams .
16 ‘ have been taking off your white ankle socks
17 George Brettel , 54 , and Tony Wilson , 29 , have been taking home just £50 a week since January to keep their company afloat .
18 I 'm going to leave you with four grooves that include some of the triplet applications we 've been taking about .
19 Perhaps she had been taking too little care , or perhaps it was the strain of the bereavement coming out in physical symptoms .
20 Er but that 's been taking about six years now
21 And the view — overlooking the couple 's farm , in Bronham , Wiltshire — could easily have been taken straight from a postcard .
22 So really it 's for information Chairman , but it 's a watch this space one , I think , because , I think there is probably more behind the steps that have been taken here , as we 're seeing on the face of it at the moment .
23 Many of these have since been taken on by the wider society and are to be found in all its corners influencing even those who would now deny them any real significance and tend to look back on the decade as only times of silliness and self-indulgence .
24 This average conceals an important fact : many of the industries that tend to suffer most during recessions ( suppliers of consumer durables , transport and communications , for example ) have actually cut their debt-service burden since 1980 ; the biggest increases in debt service have been taken on by relatively stable industries ( such as producers of services and consumer non-durables ) .
25 Children have been taken on by the Institute and given trial periods .
26 He has never deified himself ; that role has always been taken on by the press , or more usually , the fans .
27 My mother had a fit when I went home and my aunt said I 'd been taken on .
28 Winter and the new Food and Beverage manager had considered that the best applicant was a female graduate with a proven record and innovative ideas , but there was opposition from the Head Chef and the rest of the ‘ old guard ’ , who contacted the previous owner : he in turn had spoken to David Edwards , who had rung Winter and suggested ‘ cooling it ’ ( the disappointed applicant had subsequently been taken on by Duchy 's expanding Hotels Division ) .
29 One extra part-timer has been taken on and another part-timer and one full-time worker are being sought .
30 Up until the accident LF363 was the longest serving aircraft in the RAF , having been taken on charge on January 28 , 1944 , serving with 63 , 309 ( Polish ) and 26 Squadrons .
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