Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] be taking " in BNC.
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| 1 | Britain 's Vivienne Westwood has been taking the historical fantasy tablets for some time . |
| 2 | ‘ Spencer has been taking money from customers and only entering a part of the amounts in the books . |
| 3 | Ann had been taking an antidepressant for 6 months without much benefit . |
| 4 | Reuben Boll had been taking the last part of his annual leave . |
| 5 | These Chelsea-supporting , three-minute Johnnies have been taking the piss out of ordinary folk for too long , indulging their libidos at our nation 's expense , laughing while communities crumble , hospitals are shut and the economy goes down the pan . ’ |
| 6 | Kim Barnes has been taking a look at what went wrong , and at the hopes for the New Year . |
| 7 | Pease had been taking part in a march through the capital , Lima , when the officer shot him at close range with bird shot . |
| 8 | Talks between the government and the ANC had been taking place against a background of mounting violence , particularly in Natal and the townships of the Transvaal , between supporters of the ANC and of Inkatha [ for eventual Mandela-Buthelezi meeting in January 1991 see p. 37951 ] . |
| 9 | Where Cooper has been taking instruction on board , Waters has been tossing it aside . |
| 10 | Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd has been taking a break from the Bosnian crisis , to tackle less troubled waters closer to home . |
| 11 | Photographer Robert Doisneau has been taking pictures of the city for sixty years . |
| 12 | Mr Butler had been taking a collection-box home when he was attacked on the Tube , kicked in the face , kneed in the stomach , had his head banged against a door and almost strangled . |
| 13 | Eddie Chattaway had been taking part in the tournament for over twenty years before he loosed his winning arrow in 1977 . |
| 14 | I think the key point is Yeltsin , like Gorbachev , unlike the coup leaders is part of a very privileged elite in the Soviet Union and the difference is that to express the erm , you know trying to put them , advance themselves in society at the expense of the rest of Soviet 's society , applicable difference is erm much more inventive and sort of packed on the end to justify er that , that the moves they are making , I mean at , you know like I say that can be seen in the very democratic step that Yeltsin 's been taking since he 's been the Russian president . |
| 15 | Sharon has been taking evening classes at college for the past two years . |
| 16 | Some SSDs have been taking part in a project tracking children 's experiences of care under the Children Act . |
| 17 | Ronnie Convery 's been taking the spiritual temperature of the nation 's main churches . |
| 18 | Britain has been taking part in a limited relief programme using a Hercules from RAF Lyneham to fly supplies from Zagreb to Sarajevo , Bosnia 's capital . |
| 19 | Mr Major had been taking private soundings about such a move before Christmas . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Susan had been taking a few items of clothing from a chest of drawers to a suitcase open on the bed . |
| 22 | On the day she took her overdose , Pamela had been taking her end-of-term examination in Biology and English , but thought that she had done very badly . |
| 23 | Kochen maintained that DEC had been taking a worldwide census of ‘ hundreds of customers ’ recently to ascertain whether OSF/1-on-MIPS was a viable policy . |
| 24 | The legal opinion obtained by CPRE and the Council for National Parks from Professor Francis Jacobs , one of the leading authorities on EEC law , makes it clear that both MAFF and DoE have been taking an unduly restrictive view in adopting their stance . |
| 25 | In the latest in our occasional series , Inside the Globe , Wesley Smith has been taking a look behind the scenes at the Weather Department . |
| 26 | Since 1979 , and with increasing impetus since 1989 , negotiations with South Yemen have been taking place towards a merger of the two countries . |