Example sentences of "[be] taking [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's as if we 're taking responsibility for men 's problem , but if I want to be safe , I feel I have to . |
| 2 | I mean , you 're taking responsibility for human life all the time . |
| 3 | And , while her hopes dropped down to basement level , ‘ Now , ’ he added , ‘ I 'm taking Azor for his walk . ’ |
| 4 | I 'm taking Fido for a nice walkie because it 's such a nice day . |
| 5 | One of the other the other things that we will erm be taking responsibility for is , is something called the Front Line Review which I want to come back too , because it 's something that will interest you as a group erm , but that 's basically again a Council learn initiative , where the Council 's want to look at over the next month all of the front line services we provide , the , the services that you come into contact with on a day to day erm level and look at , you know , are we providing a service as you want , are we providing them efficiently , how would you like to see them better provided . |
| 6 | Art 93 , which is , with the collapse of the rival attraction formerly held at Olympia , now London 's only fair for contemporary art , will be taking place for the fifth consecutive year at Islington 's Business Design Centre ( 21–24 January ) . |
| 7 | ‘ It needs to be worked through at local level and discussions will be taking place for some time , ’ said Mr Smith . |
| 8 | I am taking responsibility for my life . |
| 9 | It is Ego that thinks we should constantly fret about our family and the future , in case God decides we are taking life for granted , and hurls down a bolt of lightning . |
| 10 | ‘ If we are taking responsibility for the stock and the write-off of obsolete and redundant stock , then the supplier is giving us improved discounts ; that 's essentially the deal , ’ Mr Barker answers . |
| 11 | We are taking responsibility for people who we were not taking responsibility for before so it is n't sort of entirely buckshee money which we distribute , there are real responsibilities here . |
| 12 | At the time of writing negotiations are taking place for another Drummond locomotive to be at the show . |
| 13 | I 've been taking chlorambucil for six days now and the lumps are diminishing with staggering rapidity . |
| 14 | ‘ She 'd been taking hush-money for the last ten years . ’ |
| 15 | Closures of railway lines had been taking place for many years , accelerated by the growing availability of cars in the 1950s . |
| 16 | In one sense this kind of thing has been taking place for centuries . |
| 17 | The document ignores the debate on curriculum which has been taking place for 20 years . |
| 18 | Britain would now be in the fortunate position of having had , in 1991 , nothing worse than a shallow and short-lived recession , from which a smart recovery would already have been taking place for several quarters , with no balance of payments constraint and little rise in unemployment . |
| 19 | Negotiations between the National Trust and MoD have been taking place for two years and have reached a critical stage . |
| 20 | ‘ The discussions have been taking place for such a long time that I rather got used to the idea that I should be leaving . |
| 21 | Such a process has been taking place for a long time . |
| 22 | Negotiations have been taking place for almost two years and their failure is a big setback to the ambitions of the Edinburgh-based financial institution set up with £26 million in 1991 as a building society acquisition vehicle . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | No longer did the garrison feel that their sufferings were taking place for the amusement of the crowd . |
| 25 | And as to Spasov and being saved — ‘ Il me semble que tout le monde va à Spassof ’ — there is still some comic devillife in him as he quotes the Saviour against his bible-selling saviour because she is taking thought for the morrow , and as he turns the gospel on its head with ‘ Happiness does n't pay me because I start at once forgiving all my enemies . ’ |
| 26 | The person who acts like a chicken or conducts an orchestra for the stage hypnotist may be play acting , or he may genuinely feel that it is the hypnotist , not himself , who is taking responsibility for his actions . |
| 27 | Denied the opportunity of supervising a major programme of construction in New York , where the Whitney Museum 's trustees have been unable to agree Michael Graves 's proposal for an extension , he is taking responsibility for the final stages of the conversion , now estimated to cost $35 million , of an ornamental warehouse located on Pittsburgh 's North Side , which will accommodate the museum . |
| 28 | The SAUS team is taking responsibility for a survey of local employers . |
| 29 | Much youth work in the region is led by young people and a lot of training is taking place for the leaders of different groups . |
| 30 | She tells him she is taking Sycorax for a piss and the man backs away , scared , and lets them turn behind their dwelling . |