Example sentences of "[coord] taking [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The booklet points out that age is never a reason for giving up an activity or taking up a new one . |
| 2 | The booklet points out that age is never a reason for giving up an activity or taking up a new one . |
| 3 | Most mixed economy interventions involve the state in subsidizing or taking over the organization of necessary economic activities unprofitable for capital ; and most welfare policies can be understood as attempts to socialize labour costs falling on businesses , which become financed out of general taxation instead of showing up directly in employers ' wage bills and production costs . |
| 4 | Is it worth insuring your computer or taking out a separate contract with a third-party maintenance company ? |
| 5 | She 's half-turned away , hanging up or taking down a dress from a hook . |
| 6 | Austerity was Britain 's peculiar reward for surviving World War II unbeaten at the cost of selling her foreign assets and taking on a crippling load of debt to the United States . |
| 7 | Banishing an old life and taking on a new life and character when the time seemed ripe was a very Indian thing to do . |
| 8 | Behind the trees the late afternoon sky was growing pale towards the horizon and taking on a pellucid apricot tint . |
| 9 | In other cases he remains cut off , although he may then recover well enough physically and mentally to start a new life , perhaps even setting up home with someone else and taking on a new job . |
| 10 | A younger person marrying and taking on a teenage family may know very little about adolescents . |
| 11 | Wolfgang took the advice of his Mannheim friends — who professed themselves as disappointed as he on his lack of success — and decided to stay on until the spring , moving to cheaper lodgings and taking on a few pupils to earn money . |
| 12 | ‘ If it had n't been for her courage and fortitude in going out there and taking on the role of investigator , private detective and motivator , those files would still be closed and the police would just have an unsolved case of a missing person . ’ |
| 13 | Overwhelmed , he retreated to London , eventually setting up his own label in 1967 and taking on the design directorship for Kangol hats and berets in 1981 . |
| 14 | My separatist friends said I was selling out , and taking on the role of mother was just doing what the patriarchy had trained me for . |
| 15 | Instead of the dominant males moving in and taking over the females during the breeding period , they are simply allowed in for mating only and then driven out again . |
| 16 | ( One film surely crying out to be made is about a special-effects team which finds that their creatures are coming to independent life and taking over the movie — or the studio , or the world ) . |
| 17 | They had four sons and four daughters , the eldest son , Edward Prentice Mawson , becoming a successful landscape architect and taking over the running of his father 's firm . |
| 18 | However , Victoria 's weekly bath was a ritual , a ceremonial , absorbing all Aunt Margaret 's attention and taking up a great deal of time , and Melanie was by herself in the kitchen , which was warm and smug and complacent since its work was finished for the day . |
| 19 | Players do not like setting down an instrument that has just become nicely warmed up , and taking up a cold one , unless there is a very good reason for it . |
| 20 | Floorboards tend to be fitted in long lengths and taking up a whole length is an unnecessary bore . |
| 21 | It was thrown there on neutral territory between the two ranks and the person who was successful in breaking through and taking up the crown and running right down … round , circling their opponents , and right round and coming back without being caught , that person was successful . |
| 22 | I did n't really get my jollies hoeing and taking up the irrigation mats , putting them back and taking them up again . |
| 23 | Craig set down his glass and taking up the papers moved swiftly across the room . |
| 24 | Within months of Ray McSharry leaving Irish politics and taking up the post of E.C . |
| 25 | ‘ Good , ’ said Ben , moving back and taking up the oars again . |
| 26 | We had numerous inquiries about buying a detector and taking up the hobby . ’ |
| 27 | If the Home Secretary does not want the Bill to do serious damage to internal discipline in prisons , resulting in matters that should be dealt with by internal disciplinary procedures going to court and taking up the time of the criminal justice system — making it far more difficult for prison governors to run their prisons — he had better look again at that clause and amend it . |
| 28 | Possible considerations in the planning schedule will include : arranging the printing of publicity material ; posting invitations and publicity material , including media contacts ; framing ; arranging insurance of work and transport to and from the venue ; the private view ; hanging the exhibition and taking down the exhibition . |
| 29 | ‘ Take these , ’ she said , opening a drawer and taking out a pair of kitchen scissors . |
| 30 | I laughed and taking out a handkerchief , quickly wiped my face . |