Example sentences of "taking [adj] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was taking eight months ' leave without pay from Coronation , but in the back of her mind was the odd feeling that she would n't be going back , and she did n't quite know what it meant . |
| 2 | Christian Aid has agreed to my taking three months ' unpaid leave , and the English-Speaking Union of the Commonwealth has kindly awarded me a bursary to cover costs of travel . |
| 3 | Last night , United announced that Edwards was taking leading counsels ' advice as to the validity of his agreement with Knighton . |
| 4 | But yesterday Dunnes Stores ( Billingham ) made a £1,000 offer and a former Oxford blue promised a £50 cheque to end worries that Richardson 's build-up would be affected after taking ten weeks ' unpaid leave from work . |
| 5 | Mr Silvers , however , had remembered the significance the visit would have for my father , and had thus called him in to offer him the option of taking several days ' leave for the duration of the General 's stay . |
| 6 | The business-inclined Whigs believed that victory in Europe would automatically secure our overseas interests : the land-owning Tories , with their traditional dislike of the high taxation needed to pay for a standing army , sought to achieve the same ends with peripheral maritime operations , carried out by the Navy , which could largely pay for themselves by taking other powers ' colonies and trading posts . |