Example sentences of "[v-ing] to be taken " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thanks to his hobby some splendid pictures of his son and daughter 's early life were preserved — on their tricycles , walking through the local park , playing with their cousins , skating and skiing , and some more imposing ones of them with the grown-ups — getting into the car while Kerry the chauffeur holds the door open ; looking very serious with the uncles and aunts , their mother appearing to be taken up with the idea of not being photographed with them ! |
| 2 | Alida Thorne wiped away the tears with the back of her soft hand , only wanting to be taken to bed , like a child , and soothed , to have someone decide and make arrangements , tell her that all would be well , she should have her way . |
| 3 | Most of her boyfriends have been collected at a time of crisis in their lives , lame ducks , my father calls them , who tend to move on when they have reorganised their existence , not wanting to be taken over . |
| 4 | Do not immediately put him on the lead , for this will reinforce the idea that when he comes back to you , he is immediately going to be taken home and , in future , will associate coming to you with the end of the walk or game . |
| 5 | Self appraisals can also make your life much easier during the delicate stage of deciding what action is going to be taken to improve performance . |
| 6 | This is usually a very pleasant and reassuring interview for a worried old person , who can be helped to feel that much of the anxiety about her heavy housework is going to be taken off her hands ; and the supervisor then tries , as far as possible , to choose just the right member of her staff to suit the needs of the applicant . |
| 7 | Although technically complete the full line-up for Murrayfield 1993 has yet to be confirmed , simply because no-one knows whether the slot allocated to the former Soviet Union is going to be taken by a CIS selection or by one of the break-away republics . |
| 8 | But I 'm not going to be taken for granted again . |
| 9 | ‘ It looks like we 're going to be taken back to Woodstock here , ’ quipped Patrick Forge recently , as the motley Mother Earth crew took the stage at his and Gilles Peterson 's Talkin Loud night at the Fridge in Brixton . |
| 10 | It 's all going to be taken away from you , we 're going to appeal to the Ministry of Culture and the Foreign Ministry ’ , and so on . |
| 11 | Right up to the nineteenth century the winegrowers of Anjou and Touraine would refer to their best wines as " vins pour la mer " , the wines which were going to be taken down to the sea via Nantes . |
| 12 | ‘ And that chap — Giles Thingy — do you imagine he 's going to be taken in ? |
| 13 | Exactly what extent they could be taken up in the period to ninety six , is not necessarily erm clear because we we do n't know exactly when those are going to be taken up . |
| 14 | ‘ So , if you get wind of a rumour from Salome on , say , Bloggs International , which says that tomorrow they 're going to be taken over on very generous cash terms , then you buy as much Bloggs stock as you can . |
| 15 | Erm , so we 've got , resources are always going to be taken out of the most efficient sectors if we , if we use protectionism . |
| 16 | And finally , as you will know , there is a new Criminal Justice Act which will be coming through , there are new steps that are going to be taken about juvenile offenders . |
| 17 | Right , erm , I 'm not too sure Paper ten , Treasury Management , and I believe this is going to be taken by Noel Harrison . |
| 18 | Then if it 's not going to be taken up on one of those five years , you have to leave that payment , you lose it . |
| 19 | AS a resident and on behalf of the residents of Prescott Street , Albert Hill , I am appalled that our bus service we fought so hard to get is going to be taken away from us . |
| 20 | and we knew exactly what photographs were going to be taken who was shaking who 's hand and you know . |
| 21 | You can guarantee that over during the five ten fifteen years ten thousand ozone molecules are going to be taken up discarded and left . |
| 22 | Like we 're really going to be taken seriously now . |
| 23 | And I think it would actually need , if it 's going to be taken on board , somebody appointed to look at this , or it be put in somebody 's job brief and I would have thought ideally that it would be placed with the community worker , and I do n't know quite how we 're placed for community workers in East Oxford , but maybe it 's something we could put to that department . |
| 24 | To look through one of these windows is instant enchantment , from the piles of golden , buttery croissants to the delightful fruit tarts , mahogany coloured chocolate cakes and delicate mignardises , all pleading to be taken home . |
| 25 | Mankind will have to accept that this product of immense periods of time was indisputably in existence inside the evolutionary story , waiting to be taken up as the only source available from which could be acquired a foundation for the God that man must ultimately have , and which was not completely imaginary , and therefore subject to unlimited interpretations . |
| 26 | As I passed what had been the marshalling yard and sidings , I glanced at the rows of rusting buffer stops and rotting wooden buffer beams , and conjured up a picture of its lines of laden coal wagons waiting to be despatched and the coal empties waiting to be taken to the collieries to be filled . |
| 27 | ‘ Apparently he had a word with her while she was waiting to be taken along the line . |
| 28 | And today he 's not some lost boy waiting to be taken seriously as a grown-up actor . |
| 29 | Standing in her place was Alina , red-eyed and waiting to be taken home . |
| 30 | On some doorsteps the milk was still waiting to be taken in . |