Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [been] taking [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | When I 've been taking Paul to work in the morning they 've been giving me flashes and then if I , you know , flashed them back they have n't put their headlights on so I thought oh bugger yous ! |
2 | I 've been no I 've been taking kind of palpitations , I do n't know , and I 'm as tired as |
3 | I 've been taking chlorambucil for six days now and the lumps are diminishing with staggering rapidity . |
4 | After Black Sheep , Paul went on to be involved with Racer X , and so on , but yeah , I 've been taking care of his gear for many years now … ’ |
5 | I have been taking Woodworker now for some 10 years and have at last been inspired to write a letter replying to that of David Thomas in the December issue . |
6 | ‘ She has been taking medication but we do n't know yet whether that had anything to do with it . |
7 | I mean I think er , when your blood pressure was found out and you 'd been taking tablets ever , so , I think it 's kept it all under control and you 've , you , we eat a sensible diet . |
8 | How dared he believe that she 'd been taking money from Travis to pay her way ? |
9 | ‘ She 'd been taking hush-money for the last ten years . ’ |
10 | Oh she 'd been taking Matthew to work . |
11 | You 've been taking lessons . |
12 | The court 's heard that she had been taking cocaine and drinking whisky . |
13 | A Lebanese chauffeur who denies Kim 's manslaughter has told the court that she had been taking cocaine and drinking whisky . |
14 | From what I can gather from Joanie , she 's been taking drugs since her last year at school . |
15 | She 's been taking lessons at the Swallow flight centre since she was fourteen — now , on her seventeenth birthday she 's at last allowed to fly solo . |
16 | ‘ We 've been taking statements all day , and have discovered certain — anomalies in yours which need sorting out . |
17 | So what we 've been doing is we 've been taking words and we 've been changing their appearance . |
18 | In England , we have been taking steps through the Housing Corporation to increase the accountability of housing associations to their tenants by , for example , promoting tenant membership of management committees , and by requiring management committees to consult much more effectively . |
19 | I mean when you 're on picket line it 's very depressing it 's very heart breaking unless you get some comedian or something you know it gets er y you do n't know what to do with yourself and perhaps they 'd been taking pots of this paint I 'm not saying . |
20 | They 've been taking part in Playday '92 … a national event emphasising the importance of play . |
21 | Some elderly people suffer from iron deficiency due to a very slight , and sometimes unrecognisable , blood loss from such conditions as piles , diverticulitis , hiatus hernia — and occasionally bleeding from the stomach , if they have been taking aspirin for rheumatism daily for long periods , and this may cause anaemia . |
22 | ( If her son enters when he is a few years older , he will surely be unique in being able to say he has been taking part since before he was born . ) |
23 | Charles Walker has recently returned from a world trip , during which he has been taking photographs in preparation for his next book . |
24 | He has been taking photographs for ten years and divides his time between Paris and New York , where he was born . |
25 | Charles Walker has recently returned from a world trip , during which he has been taking photographs in preparation for his next book . |
26 | He has been taking medication and it is believed he may have been able to hide some of the drug . |
27 | At the Court of Appeal today , Rachael 's solicitor explained that he 'd been frightened of losing the children , and that for several weeks before the killing he 'd been taking medication for depression . |
28 | When the code was broken , it was found that he had been taking placebo rather than ursodeoxycholic acid . |
29 | A police statement on Nov. 14 , however , claimed that the shots had gone astray ( one into the air , the other into the ground ) only because a policeman had pounced on the gunman , Aleksandr Shmonov , as he had been taking aim at the leadership 's reviewing stand atop the Lenin Mausoleum , only 46 metres away . |
30 | He 's been taking tablets ever since and they appear to have controlled his condition . |