Example sentences of "was taking [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He suffered from insomnia and was taking barbiturates . |
| 2 | ‘ I was taking exams at the end of my second year studying architecture at Liverpool University . ’ |
| 3 | Well when I was taking mares down into |
| 4 | I do n't think anyone but me was taking notes at this stage of the proceedings . |
| 5 | Many years ago I was taking notes in a legal matter and only realised when I was transcribing them that police commissioner and police constable have the same initials . |
| 6 | He said ‘ Okay , I want you to show me everything , ’ and I said ‘ Well , there are six strings , they 're tuned like this and written down an octave , ’ ( For those that do n't know , when guitar music is transposed onto a stave , it 's dropped a whole octave to keep it on the treble clef — Ed ) and he was taking notes and I gave him a beginning guitar book so that he could see how it was all written out ! |
| 7 | So was taking notes during my daily 15 minutes in the library , for the law course I was doing . |
| 8 | Hilda Ogden was taking notes — but she was n't the real key |
| 9 | He watched Ewen steadily , while the constable , who had seated himself at the kitchen table , was taking notes . |
| 10 | Roberts , recently appointed Classics Master ( and one of the wartime evacuees from the Manchester Grammar School ) was taking boys sailing on the Norfolk Broads ; and Mr. J.G. Gosling with the Venturers , and Mr. Theodore Horn with the Railway Society , were also travelling far and wide . |
| 11 | I had a notepad and I wrote poems on it when he was talking , so they thought I was taking letters . |
| 12 | Dexter was still mulling over the scene in which Nicola pretended she was taking drugs . |
| 13 | They had no previous medical history of gastrointestinal , inflammatory , hypersensitivity , or neoplastic diseases , and none was taking drugs ; two of 13 were smokers ( subjects 3 and 6 , Table ) . |
| 14 | A stenographer was taking things down . |
| 15 | Her life felt empty and meaningless and she was taking anti-depressants . |
| 16 | She was taking crates out of her car ; Flavia gave her a hand . |
| 17 | She nodded towards the stage , where Fabbiano was taking bows . |
| 18 | That was a very real concern and my Right Honourable Friend has er tried to allay that concern by saying all right , er we we will have er an independent body of people who will undertake this selection and they will er off offer a short list o of candidates er to the Home Secretary to appoint , but the Noble Lord , Lord Callaghan er of Cardiff said that er that this was taking powers through the s to the Home Secretary increasing his powers enor enormously and actually of course if anyone is going to be appointed as an independent member , somebody 's actually got to do the appointing . |
| 19 | While he ran thorough hands and eyes over his shattered body , Kathleen started cleaning up the chest area ready for the heart monitor after checking the IV line that was running in Haemacel and taking blood for cross-matching , dodging round the radiographer who had brought the portable in and was taking X-rays . |
| 20 | Mama was taking cookies out of the oven . |
| 21 | I told you she was taking classes , did n't I ? ’ |
| 22 | I mean it stuck out like a sore thumb , I mean er by King George 's playing fields erm cos of the , they had n't the , th the , the s other story for that was as I said was we they sent er some of us to a class in Walsall for er aircraft recognition and er the days I went to this class , cos I went as er , er both for the factory and for the Home Guard , so that I could cover both the factory and when I were on duty , Home Guard and we was at a building on the corner of Corporation Street and west , and we was taking classes in there . |
| 23 | A slim youth with curly hair pushed his way round , collecting used glasses , and a young girl with a notebook was taking orders for food at the bar . |
| 24 | The South Korean justification to Jessup was that no one would be convicted , unless he or she was taking orders from a foreign power . |
| 25 | Col Alexander Skipalsky , head of Ukrainian military counter-intelligence , said he was taking measures to prevent ‘ outside ’ subversion and attempts to ‘ hijack ’ equipment to Russia . |
| 26 | Tesfaye Gebre Kidan ( Defence Minister in 1981-86 and appointed Vice-President on April 26 ) would " work in his place " and the government was taking steps through diplomatic channels to implement proposals for a ceasefire and a transitional government . |
| 27 | On 12 April , while Cavaletti prepared to arrange negotiations between Aguirre and Franco , and Hedilla discussed the spontaneous creation of a single party with Alphonsine monarchists and Falangists , Franco was taking steps to impose his full control on all political activity in the Nationalist camp . |
| 28 | TAG was taking steps to bring together a working party to design an appropriate scheme . |
| 29 | Mum was taking measurements of a boy I knew , for his new trousers and shirt . |
| 30 | Hunched forward , the lemon T-shirt tight across his broad shoulders , his thick hair curling untidily on his tanned neck , he was taking measurements from the chart and making notes on a pad . |