Example sentences of "have [been] taking [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Photographer Robert Doisneau has been taking pictures of the city for sixty years . |
| 2 | Charles Walker has recently returned from a world trip , during which he has been taking photographs in preparation for his next book . |
| 3 | He has been taking photographs for ten years and divides his time between Paris and New York , where he was born . |
| 4 | Charles Walker has recently returned from a world trip , during which he has been taking photographs in preparation for his next book . |
| 5 | She has been working out in Sierra Leone for some years and has been taking children off the streets and teaching them the basics of domestic skills and education . ’ |
| 6 | I mean when you 're on picket line it 's very depressing it 's very heart breaking unless you get some comedian or something you know it gets er y you do n't know what to do with yourself and perhaps they 'd been taking pots of this paint I 'm not saying . |
| 7 | I mean I think er , when your blood pressure was found out and you 'd been taking tablets ever , so , I think it 's kept it all under control and you 've , you , we eat a sensible diet . |
| 8 | I had only just noticed her — so I must have been taking things seriously — but she was worth waiting to be polite to . |
| 9 | ‘ He could have been taking bills . ’ |
| 10 | To Zvi , Wine was an upstart — an interloper who had suddenly appeared in the community a year ago ( real name , Zvi had been told , was Benny Wineberg from Brighton ) , set up as a dentist , and by charging ludicrously low fees had been taking clients from Zvi . |
| 11 | She had a way of looking slightly obliquely at me , as if she knew something I did not — not anything to do with the role she was playing , but about life in general ; as if she too had been taking lessons from the stone head . |
| 12 | Well , Joan and Sheila there 've been taking cobwebs down and things like that you know and then paying her to do it . |
| 13 | You 've been taking lessons . |
| 14 | So what we 've been doing is we 've been taking words and we 've been changing their appearance . |
| 15 | ‘ We 've been taking statements all day , and have discovered certain — anomalies in yours which need sorting out . |
| 16 | Those who have been taking notes continue to do so with even greater assiduousness . |
| 17 | Today the Prime Minister will hear from party business managers , who have been taking soundings nation-wide , about how his speech to the Scottish Tories on Friday was received by Conservative MPs and rank-and-file workers alike throughout the country . |
| 18 | He says hoardes of people have been taking photos of the sunflowers . |
| 19 | The Society needs more teachers ; many of teachers have been taking classes for 20 years or more ! |
| 20 | However , breeders have been taking steps to reduce calving problems and also to breed longer , taller animals . |
| 21 | In England , we have been taking steps through the Housing Corporation to increase the accountability of housing associations to their tenants by , for example , promoting tenant membership of management committees , and by requiring management committees to consult much more effectively . |
| 22 | However , as the hon. Gentleman knows , the Libyan Government have been taking steps in parallel — that is , they have made an application to the ICJ and , at the same time , they are making a response to the UN Security Council . |
| 23 | He 's been taking soundings about the possibility of shifting Mirror Group Newspapers , lock , stock and Joe Haines 's basket , south of the Thames to Great Dover Street while Maxwell House , his Holborn HQ , is flattened and rebuilt . |
| 24 | He 's been taking tablets ever since and they appear to have controlled his condition . |
| 25 | From what I can gather from Joanie , she 's been taking drugs since her last year at school . |
| 26 | She 's been taking lessons at the Swallow flight centre since she was fourteen — now , on her seventeenth birthday she 's at last allowed to fly solo . |