Example sentences of "and taking [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The exercises involve exploring your thoughts , feelings , beliefs , desires , imagery and expanded states of awareness , looking at everyday events from a metaphysical perspective , and taking practical steps to change your life . |
| 2 | This might well involve getting to the bottom of disputes and taking disciplinary action if necessary , but never forget your real aim is to keep things running . |
| 3 | Terry B says he had some treatment and lots of help from friends … he goes to meetings every week and he 's enjoying life and taking one day at a time … he 's had one innings and is now enjoying his second |
| 4 | ‘ I think they know what 's to be done , Mrs Crumwallis , ’ said Hilary Frome , coming in from the sitting-room and taking immediate charge . |
| 5 | She is suing a hunter who chased wild boar on to her land and taking legal action over articles about her love life with Bernard , a close friend of extreme right-wing politician Jean-Marie le Pen . |
| 6 | Meanwhile police here are liaising with Interpol and taking legal advice on whether they can extradite Mrs Hilali . |
| 7 | Two days a week — Mondays and Tuesdays — he went out with the van delivering orders to customers and taking new ones for both the printing and the art sides . |
| 8 | ‘ Going to Mestre to save Maria a journey , and taking such care not to offend Rosa 's notions of propriety . ’ |
| 9 | Living alone and trying to bring up a small daughter is no easy task , and taking extra time to learn a new skill is just an added burden . ’ |
| 10 | She peered closely at the surrounding mass of faces , comprising ten of the cleaner or nicer-looking boys from the boarding section , who were whispering and fooling among themselves and taking little notice of her . |
| 11 | ‘ I ca n't single out any bad ones in particular — they all performed more or less the same — but a lot of people were taking an extra day , guaranteeing 48 hours and taking 72 hours . |
| 12 | In the meantime , they were pressing on with the task of handing leaflets to anyone prepared to take one , and taking limited encouragement from the presence of a junior Labour front-bencher , Kate Hoey , at their conference fringe meeting . |
| 13 | He is also accused of indecent assault , indecency with a child , and taking indecent photographs . |
| 14 | Next day they had collected the rejuvenated Goblander , catching one of the rare buses to Colchester and taking all day about it . |
| 15 | Thus Quality Control is basically a system for setting quality standards , measuring performance against those standards and taking appropriate action to deal with deviations outside permitted tolerances . |
| 16 | Medlycott turns the ball the most while the dependable Neil Kendrick finished last season much more strongly , displacing Medlycott and taking 10 wickets at Old Trafford . |
| 17 | Such efforts are , of course , eminently consistent with local knowledge in the open communication culture we have been describing , in terms of shared expertise and taking personal responsibility , and also in terms of managerial dependency . |
| 18 | There he led a small group of men from the 22nd NZ Battalion to rescue an injured officer , in the process silencing five machine-guns and an anti-tank weapon and taking 130 prisoners . |
| 19 | In the Middlesbrough area , Marton Sixth Form College has lost Mr Thomas Hume , who has retired at the end of a 28-year teaching career , and taking early retirement from Nunthorpe School in the summer after 19 years is Mrs Margaret Brown . |
| 20 | What A View of the Present State of Ireland saves its worst condemnation for is those Old English who had ‘ degenerated ’ and gone native even to the point of abandoning their original names and taking Gaelic ones . |
| 21 | It consists of checking items as they progress through the process , comparing them with relevant standards and taking corrective action , where required . |
| 22 | Yet Jake had negotiated it with skill and creativity , darting up side-roads to avoid the congestion and taking clever detours that saved both temper and time . |
| 23 | Later on he would utter cries for help and expect to be nursed back to health by sympathetic doctors , demanding attention as a substitute for love and taking masochistic pleasure in its denial . |
| 24 | Ken lost interest completely , For the moment he contented himself with pinning the notice to the inner door of the club and taking great delight in reading it to two young black guys who had arrived carrying saxophone cases . |
| 25 | ‘ I did n't know the meaning of the word ‘ challenge ’ until my first night of slinging drinks in the Susweca , ’ she said , giving him nothing , and taking great satisfaction in it , too . |
| 26 | But the day belonged to biplanes with a stirring co-ordinated aerobatic routine from Vic Norman and Brendan O'Brien in Stearmen ; lyrical singleton aerobatics routines from types as varied as Jungmann , Great Lakes and Stampe ; Barry Tempest crazy flying and taking much advantage of the local topography ; the Diamond Nine Tiger Moth team dominating the intimate skyline with their outstanding final burst ; the Tiger Walk twin Tiger Moth girl-on-the-wing team ; with the weather preventing a migration to France for a booking , the Crunchie Flying Circus aerobatic girls-on-the-wing attended for a show on ‘ home ’ territory . |
| 27 | Alice hoped that Alfred was listening and taking due note . |
| 28 | He was eating a mess of pottage and taking deep gulps of wine from a large ornamental cup . |
| 29 | These consist very largely of colleges of technology and technical colleges which offer only a minority of advanced courses and where most of their students are in the sixteen to nineteen age group and taking non-advanced courses . |
| 30 | ‘ That 's why they 're common in the fire service and the army , where people are doing something out of the ordinary and taking greater risks than others . |