Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] taking a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were talking about your career , in which I am taking a fatherly interest . |
| 2 | I have stressed that I am taking a particular linguistic phenomenon , deixis , and examining its occurrences and behaviour in a specific genre . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm taking a full-time degree at London University . |
| 4 | I 'm taking a steroid inhaler . |
| 5 | I 'm taking a steroid inhaler . |
| 6 | At this early hour I was taking a final look at the layout of the course . |
| 7 | I was taking a long time ! |
| 8 | However , to illustrate my belief that nothing has really changed , while I was taking a few notes from a caddie in Montpellier in the south of France — he was telling me how ‘ we 'd hit a great pitch in at the last ’ — I happened to notice the sign above the caddie shack . |
| 9 | ‘ Have you been taking a medical history , Nurse Dungarvan ? ’ |
| 10 | This means that you would be wise not to set your heart on one career but to keep options open , even if you are taking a vocational course . |
| 11 | Sound public relations demands you know why you are taking a particular course of action . |
| 12 | ‘ You 're taking a long chance , sitting there and making with all this stuff . |
| 13 | Now if your house , like our office , has tanks stuck on every available surface , chances are that you 're taking a similar risk . |
| 14 | She was taking a long time to come to the attempt on Marek 's life that morning . |
| 15 | She was taking a contraceptive pill and denied misusing drugs . |
| 16 | She was taking a secretarial course , and I was able to tell her about the importance of that work in hospital . |
| 17 | Girl thief snatches bag from pensioner A 62-year-old woman had her bag snatched by a girl thief in Stockton while she was taking a short cut between Hartington Road and Lawson Walk . |
| 18 | By considering the intergenerational transmission process , and by focusing on the equilibrium properties of the distribution , we are taking a long-term view . |
| 19 | In the present economic climate , I feel we are taking a backward step to the bad old days . |
| 20 | Well , here we are taking a longer view . |
| 21 | The loss could well be considerably higher , particularly if you are male or heavily overweight ; but over-high expectations can be just as demoralizing as very slow weight loss , so we are taking a restrained attitude . |
| 22 | We are taking a leading role in recasting all the main international institutions to which we belong : the United Nations , the European Community , NATO , and the Commonwealth . |
| 23 | ‘ We are taking a positive approach and our attitude is not that there might be problems . ’ |
| 24 | Although we are taking a whole day to film it , it will only occupy thirty five seconds of real time . |
| 25 | Today we 're taking a stylish trip down memory lane . |
| 26 | So we we 're taking a consistent line on existing employment sites , we do want to reuse them but we do recognize that there may be circumstances where that er that is n't the case . |
| 27 | We 're taking a hundred and fifty odd thousand out from a budget we have for additional staffing , and we 're also taking |
| 28 | There are other things on the list erm we 're taking a hundred thousand out of our budget to buy places for mentally handicapped people out of county . |
| 29 | In this month 's column we 're taking a close look at jazz chord concepts . |
| 30 | ‘ We 're taking a late holiday now the package-deal tourists have gone home . ’ |