Example sentences of "was taking " in BNC.
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| 1 | Long string of jokes about the funeral , as though to show how well he was taking it . |
| 2 | Seeking to unravel police decision-making in relation to the classification of crimes , McCabe and Sutcliffe ( ibid. ) admitted that as outsiders they were usually not quick enough to grasp the nuances of what was taking place before them . |
| 3 | The old man was taking refuge in confusion . |
| 4 | Cameron was taking off his head-band and shaking out his hair . |
| 5 | It was taking a risk , when she thought about it , to go to the seaside in September . |
| 6 | He was taking advantage of one of the training schemes . |
| 7 | This was in The Little Review for May 1919 , where Williams was taking issue with praise of Eliot by one of Pound 's British friends , Edgar Jepson ; but Williams 's hostility to British culture ran deeper than that , and was to be a permanent feature of his outlook . |
| 8 | A PROFOUND shift away from the Tory Party among women voters was taking place , but many women still believed the Labour Party was too male-dominated , Clare Short warned the conference yesterday . |
| 9 | Lord Aldington was taking the witness stand on the third day of his libel action against the historian Count Nikolai Tolstoy and Nigel Watts , a property developer , who circulated a pamphlet describing him as responsible for repatriating 70,000 Yugoslavs and Russian Cossacks to be massacred by the communists in 1945 . |
| 10 | Moon died in 1978 , after an overdose of the prescribed drug he was taking to ease himself out of alcoholism ; Townshend had his own dark periods of excess ; even Entwistle , the quiet , static one , felt inclined to release a solo album entitled Smash Your Head Against The Wall . |
| 11 | Last night , United announced that Edwards was taking leading counsels ' advice as to the validity of his agreement with Knighton . |
| 12 | While the Labour conference was taking place the Prime Minister had a trial run with the televising of Parliament . |
| 13 | While Karpov was taking the difficult road to a draw , Speelman and Timman were trying hard to beat each other . |
| 14 | Constable Dale Buckingham had just collected the car from the scene of the raid , in Bristol , and was taking it to his police station when he saw two men he suspected of being involved in the raid , and stopped . |
| 15 | MICHAEL HESELTINE yesterday eclipsed the conference with a sideshow at the Grand Theatre , a couple of hundred yards down the road from where the full conference was taking place . |
| 16 | At least one MP was taking some solace from the economic medicine . |
| 17 | Mr Anderson had also claimed to investigating officers that the woman told him she had had three Aids tests and was taking a contraceptive pill . |
| 18 | ‘ They could see I was taking it easier on some of the sessions and they told me so . |
| 19 | This occurred frequently during field-work , and in these circumstances the police concerned negotiated the appearances of the case in order to decide whether or not something abnormal was taking place . |
| 20 | ‘ I think he said he was taking a trip down to the Orne bridges round about mid-day , and would like you to accompany him . |
| 21 | The new shithouse clerk , a small , wiry Liverpudlian , was taking his new appointment very seriously when I arrived at his canvasstructured place of work . |
| 22 | It was atypical of most provincial towns in that it had been a thriving industrial centre for some time , and was taking off again after the disruption caused by the Civil War . |
| 23 | It was in the Transport Workers , above all , that the main battle was taking place , with the Ford dispute leading to another threatened strike by British Oxygen workers , and finally a conclusive dispute amongst the drivers of long-distance lorries and oil tankers . |
| 24 | By the late 1970s , the average self-respecting British household expected to have its video recorder or microwave oven ; in a variety of occupations the computer was taking over . |
| 25 | London itself , however , may have furnished encouragement for the lines Eliot 's thought was taking . |
| 26 | He climbed into the bus that was taking him and the company 's guests back to the hotel and he sat next to someone he did not recognise in the only seat left vacant . |
| 27 | Maggie was taking a plane to London that night and Sheila and Mona were driving her to the airport . |
| 28 | During the entire day he felt a violent , dissatisfied feeling that his whole life was taking place in front of his eyes without anything at all taking place . |
| 29 | Maggie had risen and was taking breakfast when he came in . |
| 30 | Maggie was going to a dance and she was taking Mona and Sheila . |