Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] taking a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the old What Personal Computer office , prior to the move , things were a little , er … informal , and I was worried about the cable taking a pounding . |
| 2 | Perhaps this was the main anxiety , and the main reason for the RHA taking a role in local decision-making . |
| 3 | Now Brampton was last seen late in the evening taking a wine cup up to Sir Thomas 's chamber and was not seen alive again . |
| 4 | The bulk pack being broken down into smaller units for re-sale to other parents with the school taking a percentage of the discount . |
| 5 | Leave the shelter taking a course slightly north of east . |
| 6 | Stand around the fire , talk to the night-watchman but all the time taking a risk that the sergeant might have doubled back on you , to see if you were working your beat . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been having problems with the windscreen-washers on my car , so he 's in the garage taking a look . |
| 8 | A neophyte taking a skiing holiday used to spend the first week in excruciating , character-forming exercises . |
| 9 | To take an example , a person taking a lien on subfreights is not affected by the register since this is not a registrable charge but a person taking a floating charge would be . |
| 10 | He 's a technician taking a look at some technical stuff . |
| 11 | A MAN taking a morning dive near a tourist town north of Sydney was killed today in Australia 's second fatal shark attack in five days . |
| 12 | A tunnel taking a footpath through a hillside close to the village church was actually built in 1835 for Stephenson 's ( q.v. ) horse-drawn Whitby and Pickering Railway . |
| 13 | Another American film of that year , A Workingman 's Dream , has a very weary hero who fails to find a job at a factory ; he falls asleep and dreams of a Professor Wonderful who offers him instant wealth and a new set of clothes , but he is told that these new gains will disappear if he breaks certain simple instructions ; on three occasions he accidentally carries out simple actions which break the instructions and his wealth disappears ; he wakes up to see an ambulance taking a worker from the factory — there is a vacancy and this time his application is successful . |
| 14 | The combination is ideal for an expert taking a holiday with a novice . |
| 15 | When a new drug arrives in a society , it is like an infant taking a screwdriver to a clock . |
| 16 | Jackson sniffed the air like an animal taking a spoor . |