Example sentences of "and [v-ing] take " in BNC.
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| 1 | A new teaching video challenging negative social practices affecting women 's health and development , Tradition Tradition uses African storytelling , dancing and singing to take a critical look at practices such as female circumcision and other matters relating to women 's health . |
| 2 | It 's important to have enough space and a well-thought out arrangement that allows both eating and cooking to take place without the one interfering with the other . |
| 3 | Then other dhāmis , immersed in the crowd , stand up shaking , jostling their neighbours and struggling to take off their jackets and their opis or turbans , and shoes if they have them . |
| 4 | Bonefish Straker had rescued Masquerade , propping her up in his own backyard and refusing to take any money from me as a salvage fee . |
| 5 | The description of the brewing process varies from brewery to brewery : in some mashing , boiling and fermenting taking place in open or partially-open vessels . |
| 6 | A few months ago , Snodin also produced Tony Marchant 's acute and bruising Take Me Home , the best drama serial of the year , in which another Yuppie ( he does n't like them , does he ? ) , this time in a new town , lost his wife and lifestyle to a mini-cab driver . |
| 7 | ‘ Yes , one day we were all laughing and going to take the world by storm with our painting , our films , our crazy music . |
| 8 | On Jan. 20 the chairman of the National Security Court announced that " about 20 " people had been charged with murder , treason and attempting to take over the government by force . |
| 9 | Harty , 27 , of Zetland Hunt , The Chase , Aycliffe , admitted fishing without a licence and attempting to take fish in water where there was a private right of fishery . |
| 10 | For the uninitiated , they met 18 months ago , enjoying a common outlook on music and deciding to take it from there . |
| 11 | There 's one or two empty shops , but they appear to be moving fairly quickly and getting taken over . |
| 12 | However she did seem to get better , and no one could have been happier than my master , when he saw her sitting up in bed for the first time , and beginning to take an interest in the people and things around her . |
| 13 | These " necessary steps " , Bush said , included " condemning the [ May 30 ] operation , dissociating itself from it , and beginning to take steps to discipline Abul Abbas , the perpetrator " . |
| 14 | As each of the three variables seemed to be related to risk of relapse , it followed that those living in high contact with high EE relatives and failing to maintain prophylactic medication should be at greatest risk of relapse , while those living with low EE relatives and continuing to take their medication should have the lowest risk . |
| 15 | ( Searching and examining take time . |
| 16 | The application , if granted , would appear to allow entertainments involving music , singing and dancing to take place until a late hour every night of the week , every day of the year . |
| 17 | But Edward was stunned last week to receive an abrupt letter from the DoE accusing him of ‘ damaging ’ their land and threatening to take him to court . |
| 18 | In response , the USSR Interior and Defence Ministries issued a joint statement on May 4 saying that responsibility for the latest violence lay solely with the Armenian leadership because of its support for paramilitary groups , and threatening to take " all necessary steps " to stop it . |
| 19 | Marie told him about Mr Bishop being drunk and getting himself drowned ; about Gazzer finding Madge wandering along the prom and having to take her to Mr Bishop 's brother because she was n't responsible for herself . |
| 20 | They might find themselves having to issue a succession of fixed-term contracts to each worker , and having to take steps to include in these contracts provisions for their premature termination . |
| 21 | It was not common at that time to see a soldier at home in Britain wearing parachute wings , for despite the Parachute Regiment — a newcomer to the army 's Order of Battle — having mounted raids in France and Italy , and having taken part , with heavy casualties , in the Tunisian and Sicilian campaigns , airborne forces did not have a very noticeable public profile before the days of Normandy and Arnhem . |
| 22 | The therapist pointed out that the changes that had taken place in her life were the result of her having discussed her problems with her family and having taken the necessary steps to solve them . |
| 23 | Without consulting Ann , he announced that the boy was to be named after is grandfather Tristram Pascoe ; and having taken that decision he went off down to the harbour to see if Gristy was back from the fishing and to crow over winning the wager . |
| 24 | Better chance of fish at Barry Docks where flounder and pouting taken on light tackle . |
| 25 | In view of public concern about violence and indiscipline in schools and the problems faced by the teaching profession today , to consider what action can be taken by central government , local authorities , voluntary bodies owning schools , governing bodies of schools , head teachers , teachers and parents to secure the orderly atmosphere necessary in schools for effective teaching and learning to take place . |
| 26 | The importance of good behaviour amongst pupils has been stated thus : ‘ Good behaviour is a necessary condition for effective teaching and learning to take place , and an important outcome of education which society rightly expects . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ The consciousness secretly indwelling in matter , the occult inhabitant , is able to make its way upward from the lower to the higher gradations , taking up what it was into what it is and preparing to take up both into what it will be . |
| 28 | In sport reds blushes speedy chops forest down And preparing to take America by storm . |
| 29 | But this morning appears to have been was tragetted by a ground to air missile as it was taxi-ing down the runway and preparing to take off . |
| 30 | It was a fine summer morning when they left and , avoiding the roads as much as possible , made their way up on to the high muirs on the Lanarkshire/Ayrshire boundary , intending to travel direct towards Priesthill and hoping to take John Browne by surprise . |