Example sentences of "have been take a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been known for some time that the Inland Revenue has been taking a close interest in the marketing practices of livestock farmers in parts of Wales and the West Country . |
| 2 | She has been taking a small holiday . |
| 3 | A working group of the Royal College of Psychiatrists has been taking a fresh look at the problem , and its report was endorsed by the college this week . |
| 4 | The traditional role of the tape back-up unit has been to take a complete copy of your hard disk . |
| 5 | It 'd been taken a few years earlier at a family Christmas party when we were playing Musical Chairs . |
| 6 | Mr Butler had been taking a collection-box home when he was attacked on the Tube , kicked in the face , kneed in the stomach , had his head banged against a door and almost strangled . |
| 7 | The other women often talked about young men they knew , and one of them had been taking a young man back to her flat during the evenings . |
| 8 | Kochen maintained that DEC had been taking a worldwide census of ‘ hundreds of customers ’ recently to ascertain whether OSF/1-on-MIPS was a viable policy . |
| 9 | Susan had been taking a few items of clothing from a chest of drawers to a suitcase open on the bed . |
| 10 | A campesina woman who had been forced to move into the capital because her brother had been taken a political prisoner , had participated in the UN ) : |
| 11 | And that 's what upset us most about these people going back to work , the fact that a meeting had been taken a few months before in which everybody had voted for us to get the sack , and then all of a sudden they had been threatened and no vote was taken on whether we should stay out or go back , and they just dribbled back to , that really knocked us I think . |
| 12 | If they have been taking a prescribed drug this is likely to have been methadone , and if the daily dose can be established this can be prescribed . |