Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] take [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In effect the people working in the industry were to take it over and to run it as an industrial co-operative , organised nationally . |
| 2 | Only I doubt if he realised just how seriously Mrs Kettle was taking him . ’ |
| 3 | Finnish Environment Minister , Kaj Barlund , said that sulphur deposits in the south of the country " surpass the level nature can bear by two or three times " and that unless action was taken they would face serious problems in the next 10-20 years . |
| 4 | So we put them all into bin bags and we was trying to carry these bin bags so the wind was taking them like balloons ! |
| 5 | She need n't have worried ; a brief note from Dana on the kitchen table said that Roman was taking her out to dinner and that she was not to wait up , neither was she to wake Dana in the morning ; she would come for her fitting in the afternoon . |
| 6 | BELOW These chicks hatched two days apart — when this picture was taken they were 29 , 27 and 25 days old , but you can see the heart-shaped facial disc emerging clearly from the ball of fluff . |
| 7 | Still clapping , I sat down and looked to see how his team-mates were taking it . |
| 8 | For example , I might butter a piece of bread and be unable to gauge whether the procedure was taking me seconds or days . |
| 9 | The custodian was taking it back to the clubhouse area , where it would be needed for the final ceremony in about an hour 's time . |
| 10 | The Scentmakers ' Bazaar , which was where Mahmoud was taking them , was one of the oldest and most traditional of the bazaars . |
| 11 | They 'd each think the other was taking him home . |
| 12 | And gallant Spiderglass was taking them food and medicine . |
| 13 | Employing one of those supremely disingenuous somersaults of logic that only long training in double-speak and the official brand of British arrogance can confer , Mr Howard told a Westminster audience of backbenchers that ‘ If the Commission were to take us to the European Court I can think of few things more calculated to bring the Commission into disrepute ’ |
| 14 | Sir Gregory , Amyas and two menservants were to take him down to the landing stage where a boat was waiting . |
| 15 | If he came sniffing round , Davide was to take him off somewhere . |
| 16 | And now the train was taking me to Aunt Louise through the quiet countryside , and in spite of my preoccupation I could not help enjoying the journey . |
| 17 | A Norwegian freedom fighter who knew the area was to take her to the nearby village , after which she was on her own . |
| 18 | What notice was taken it is impossible to say . |
| 19 | The woman was taking him for a ride , working on him to get what she wanted , and that included Lissa 's destruction . |
| 20 | And they continued to discuss the personality of Lady Henrietta , or rather her apparent lack of personality , for some time , until Alix , almost as an afterthought , got round to enquiring how Liz was taking it . |
| 21 | Alina had assumed that Belov was taking her to another of the buildings , but it seemed now that he was going to lead her out of the settlement altogether . |
| 22 | He told her his instructions were to take her wherever she wanted to go , but nothing else . |
| 23 | Our journey was to take us from one end of the village to the Bar-Tabac at the other end , a trip of some 200 metres down the straight street that led to the plump , vine-studded hills in the distance . |
| 24 | Confusingly for him he saw where his logic was taking him . |
| 25 | She wondered how Jacob was taking it . |
| 26 | Ooh God , Sally was taking her out ! |
| 27 | Only the walls heard this delirious talk , but I was suddenly seized by a guilty fear , and became convinced that the two children were taking it in and that it was ringing in Aisha 's ears at work , and I rushed to pack my suitcase before she came back . |
| 28 | ‘ Looking back , the cracks were really showing when the religious thing began to get obsessional and paranoid , and the weird hangers-on were taking him over . |
| 29 | That Fräulein Hubert was taking him around , introducing him to the group , and he was being — oh , well — you know , like Gesner , laughing , shaking hands , holding the women 's hands too long , you know the kind of thing . ’ |
| 30 | Isambard was taking it for granted , it seemed , that a boy of fifteen could easily be seduced into giving his confidence , or at least some incautious fringes of it , to companions not so far from his own age and under orders to ingratiate themselves with him . |