Example sentences of "[verb] taking the [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The famous horseshoe-shaped radiator was seen taking the chequered flag at Le Mans , Brooklands and Silverstone . |
| 2 | Retford class B1 No. 61225 heads for home with a local freight , seen taking the slow line behind Woodhouse Station on 15th July 1964 . |
| 3 | The Alliance were briefly the controlling party in local government and just missed taking the Parliamentary seat at the 1987 election . |
| 4 | England required a win to avoid taking the wooden spoon for the first time . |
| 5 | Her family is convinced Mandy 's weight problems started when she started taking the contraceptive pill at 14 after the Rolling Stone seduced her in a Paris hotel.They stayed silent for eight years but were angered this week by 56-year-old Bill 's decision to go public . |
| 6 | Most radio stations in non-NPN states had already stopped taking the national news from FRCN in Lagos , and so it is probable that they too ignored the event . |
| 7 | That is , at the beginning of the spell of unemployment the individual assumes that the environment will remain unchanged and carries out an optimisation to obtain the optimal reservation wage ; but someone still unemployed at time T is assumed to reoptimise taking the changed environment into account . |
| 8 | Daddy Den O'Neil died taking the high note in ‘ The Londonderry Air ’ . |