Example sentences of "[vb -s] taking [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I reckon that he 's the sort of person who would turn into someone that would hit someo hit his his woman , because he takes her for granted enough as it is , and that , I reckon that 's how wife battering starts because the husband starts taking the woman for granted so much |
| 2 | The media , major users of public relations material , loves taking the mickey out of public relations which is so busy working on someone else 's image that they have no time for the image of their own industry . |
| 3 | Billig ( 1987a ) illustrates Taking the Side of the Other by examples where people , who have generally argued for a particular stance and against the counter-stance , seem to turn around and use the arguments of their former opponents : in this way , they take up the side of the other . |
| 4 | John insists he did nothing wrong — but a solicitor says taking the law into your own hands can be risky . |
| 5 | ‘ A fair solution justifies taking the cost to the Exchequer rather than playing pass the parcel with taxpayers , ’ said , convener of ICAS 's international tax committee . |
| 6 | This involves taking a sample of households and classifying them according to their income groups . |
| 7 | I can see the town airport from where I am , indeed I can touch its tarmac with a digit thrust through the chain-link fence — all that separates it from the Lofleiđ3ir — but to get from here to there is not so easy , and involves taking a bus into town and back out again or taking a taxi . |
| 8 | Old-style publishing was based around retail sheet-music sales , but current publishing is a banking operation which involves taking a risk on an artist . |
| 9 | This involves taking a risk : there may well be expression of anger or despair or criticism of the group or ( more commonly ) the church . |
| 10 | There is a bad reason for thinking this , which involves taking the regress as temporal ; before I can justify A , I have to justify B and C , and so on ad infinitum , and thus I can never get started . |
| 11 | But the narrow idea of bindingness does not in itself take us to a real ‘ ought ’ , to a genuine obligation ; it only says that if you are going to play the game of law this involves taking the rules and decisions as mandatory or non-optional . |
| 12 | An obvious extension of head-counting research involves taking the fact that a TV set is switched onto ITV , and finding out whether anyone is actually in front of it watching it . |
| 13 | Option 4 involves taking the power supply as a spur from a power circuit instead of from a lighting circuit , in the same way as adding extra socket outlets to the circuit . |
| 14 | This means taking every opportunity in 1993 to sort out flaws and differences in existing relationships . |
| 15 | For some , as in the Roman Catholic Church , this means taking a vow of celibacy ; for some entering religious orders it means taking the vows of celibacy , poverty and obedience . |
| 16 | That means taking an interest in little things as well as big ones . |
| 17 | For some , as in the Roman Catholic Church , this means taking a vow of celibacy ; for some entering religious orders it means taking the vows of celibacy , poverty and obedience . |
| 18 | P means taking the mirror image , so left and right are interchanged . |
| 19 | If it means taking the wood back , then fair enough . |
| 20 | it is , I said I 've given you a lot of time in the holidays and what have you come in and now you 're making a big song and dance about an hour and she said oh I 'm sorry I did n't mean to speak to you like that , but she did , she was just plain rude and really quite nasty , eh she should of yeah , and she should of told me that I was n't , becomes taking a lunch break and then she said well you could of taken half an hour , I said you did n't tell me well I said to her Matt rung up this morning and said to you , surveyor 's coming up to , at four o'clock , he wants both of us to be there so we know which way the windows will be and all the rest of it , just bear in mind , now I said to her I know it 's short notice but can I please go at four o'clock , she said yeah it is short notice but yeah no problem come in at eight o'clock tomorrow morning as a joke and then she totally changed her attitude when she came back from her thing mm yeah oh yeah that was nice of her well I said to her , I said to her oh I said to her look she would take |
| 21 | For example , does taking a tablet three times a day mean every eight hours or three times during waking hours ? |
| 22 | The Tory Party likes taking the medicine . |
| 23 | The response has been so good that he anticipates taking the show out again in the autumn . |
| 24 | Sir Stephen , who is president of the High Court Family Division , said : ‘ Unfortunately , as appears from this case , if a local authority doggedly resists taking the steps which are appropriate to the case of children at risk suffering harm , it appears the court is powerless . ’ |