Example sentences of "was taking [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had put on weight , but he was taking exercise . |
| 2 | The teacher turned up at the police station at eight the next morning to tell me she was taking responsibility for my daughter . |
| 3 | Another very important factor was that at the Boat Show the R Y A announced that it was taking responsibility for the national coordination of all activities er for sailors with special needs , that 's blind , deaf , disabled and there are many organizations who are working in this field but the R Y A is the coordinator . |
| 4 | During this period , much of the structure of the main L-shaped building was taking shape , the majority of the iron castings being dated 1813 . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , while the statute was taking shape the nobility were able to reduce the quantity and quality of land in peasant hands and to extract limited amendments to the legislative proposals . |
| 6 | Against this backcloth , the first phase was taking shape , and in October 1983 the problem of heroin use was raised in the local Council , initially in the Education Committee and subsequently in the main Policy and Resources Committee . |
| 7 | The story of Swanage begins when the Isle of Purbeck was taking shape during the Ice Age . |
| 8 | Wellington Road had recently been constructed — a large road through open countryside to the west of the old town centre — and a new turnpike road to Cheadle was taking shape . |
| 9 | And yet … and yet … as she continued to rough out sketches , almost in spite of herself , something was taking shape inside her head . |
| 10 | While the first issue of Black Dwarf was being planned , across London its diametrical opposite was taking shape . |
| 11 | At least the morning plan was taking shape . |
| 12 | And just as a bulldozer began clearing the coal , another demonstration of anger was taking shape at the unlikely venue of Cheltenham ; a town far removed from collieries and pits , but nevertheless a hotbed of outrage . |
| 13 | A triangular pond was taking shape and trees , shrubs , seats and market barrow style stalls are planned for the aisles . |
| 14 | He was taking advantage of one of the training schemes . |
| 15 | From the adult position it will be clear that he or she was not in fact guilty of anything but that someone in a position of strength and power was taking advantage of his or her vulnerability mentally as well as physically . |
| 16 | ‘ He was taking advantage of us and the tourists , ’ said Dale . |
| 17 | During the troubles of 1173–4 the inhabitants of the citadel seized the opportunity to turn their enclosure into a proper circuit of walls , a move which was probably aimed against the city rather than against ducal authority , though clearly it was taking advantage of the latter 's temporary weakness . |
| 18 | The Leningrad party leader Boris Gidaspov , a member of the Secretariat from 1990 onwards , placed most of his emphasis upon central control and discipline ; he was openly dismissive of ideas of ‘ people 's capitalism ’ and ‘ nonparty glasnost' ’ and in 1991 attacked what he described as the ‘ anti-democratic liquidationist movement ’ that was taking advantage of the weakness and indecision of the party leadership . |
| 19 | Every time he removed his glasses to wipe the rain off them he could see that everyone was taking advantage of his short-sightedness to stare at him and grin and point . |
| 20 | Khrushchev , whose ‘ peaceful coexistence ’ policy had been criticised both at home and abroad ( by the Chinese Communist party at the Congress of the World Federation of Trade Unions held in Beijing in June 1960 ) was taking advantage of the situation in Cuba to reassert Soviet strength . |
| 21 | One , she felt , was taking advantage of Bernard and her by knowing about the business — he had requested some shares in the company , which she considered an outrageous request ; another had called her by her Christian name which was equally unacceptable . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'd hate you to feel I was taking advantage of your hospitality . ’ |
| 23 | In the year 1669 , a peasant was taking grain from Reblingen to Nordhausen . |
| 24 | She was tremendously impressed by a casual comparison which he drew between the victorious hero of the film and Corneille 's Le Cid , and all the more impressed because Le Cid was one of her set texts for A Level , whereas he was taking physics , chemistry and mathematics . |
| 25 | He told his defence advocate , Herbert Kerrigan , QC , he had been a registered heroin addict for several years and was taking methadone . |
| 26 | The Americans must have felt as if he was taking revenge on them for what had happened , but they had the final laugh since most of Rank 's films were n't very good . |
| 27 | It was n't only Simon she pushed over the edge : in that defiant , violent act she was taking revenge on all those people who had ever hurt her and made her feel worthless . |
| 28 | So he was taking bucket to get it . |
| 29 | Europe 's biggest joint semiconductor research programme , JESSI , booted ICL out of three of the five projects in which it was taking part . |
| 30 | At Cambridge , NUPE put a picket around the Union building where I was taking part in a debate and the police wanted to take me in by a side entrance . |