Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] take the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next day I was to take the train to Puno , yet another notorious journey . |
| 2 | If I locked my door at night , I was to take the key out , never leave the key in |
| 3 | I was taking the piss , suggesting they pour petrol over themselves , set themselves on fire . |
| 4 | ‘ He has the effing gall to say I suggested it myself and he knows bloody well I was taking the piss . ’ |
| 5 | When he first came in I offered him a drink out of courtesy and I think he thought I was taking the Mick out of his drinking in the past . |
| 6 | And anyway , after all , it was nothing to say , I mean , that I was taking the towels over for you . ’ |
| 7 | One of the bigger problems was that Fergie believed I was taking the mickey out of him by either cheating or going soft and feigning injury . |
| 8 | I was taking the minutes of the meeting . |
| 9 | And then , when I was taking the exhibition down , a couple of women helped me and they said , ‘ Why are you so angry , dear ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I always , ’ he explains , ‘ had the feeling that I was taking the club back straight for the first two feet of the backswing but now I am taking it slightly inside . |
| 11 | While I was taking the dog out . |
| 12 | No I was taking the piss out of when you were in the remembrance service when |
| 13 | And then I was taken the dog out slowly do you see , and the old vixen coming out forward do you see . |
| 14 | Craig : ‘ The funny thing is we had a piss-take album title which was taking the piss out of that whole thing , which we all found was funny . |
| 15 | In fact holidays was the the theme taking by the elders who were taking the family service at ten o'clock this morning . |
| 16 | That i it would be the people who stood up first and accused the landlords and took the lead in the settling accounts procedure , they were more likely to be able to , to get more in the way of than anybody else , that they would get more land , more erm better quality land the animals , implements etcetera and those sort of , th those peasants who were taking the lead were actually members of the Party were they ? |
| 17 | I i it 's saying something about the motivation of the people who who are doing this , those peasants who were taking the lead and becoming members of the Party . |
| 18 | Remember a couple of weeks ago when you were taking the piss out of him for being scruffy , you told him not to come in again unless he was wearing a tie . |
| 19 | When , when you were taking the was it better ? |
| 20 | Keep two cartridges in your hand all the time , and then as soon as you 'd handed your gun , and you were taking the other one , and he was the empty one . |
| 21 | And that presupposes in that calculation , if you were taking the worst case , that that would all be greenfield land . |
| 22 | But can can I can I just come back to the point that if you were taking the lowest figure , I mean how realistic is it to assume that you could actually hold to that ? |
| 23 | I went no you 're not , I thought you were taking the piss out of me when you said it . |
| 24 | Those of us who sat on the urban policies committee for a number of years seeing Moat devour and all the stoppages and problems there , knew that you were taking the wrong line . |
| 25 | And also you said , you were going , you were taking the piss out of me about that thing I told you about something to do with Aaron erm |
| 26 | ‘ So if you were to take the TARDIS a few hundred years back , ’ she said , ‘ what could you do ? ’ |
| 27 | She was taking the eight-to eleven-year-olds . |
| 28 | ‘ Not to Mother , ’ I said sadly , for she was taking the ‘ disgrace ’ very badly . |
| 29 | It was late in the day and she was taking the last of the sun . |
| 30 | He and Merlyn had planned to go somewhere else , and she was taking the box there . ’ |