Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] taking [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Mr Butler had been taking a collection-box home when he was attacked on the Tube , kicked in the face , kneed in the stomach , had his head banged against a door and almost strangled .
2 The other women often talked about young men they knew , and one of them had been taking a young man back to her flat during the evenings .
3 Kochen maintained that DEC had been taking a worldwide census of ‘ hundreds of customers ’ recently to ascertain whether OSF/1-on-MIPS was a viable policy .
4 Susan had been taking a few items of clothing from a chest of drawers to a suitcase open on the bed .
5 Reuben Boll had been taking the last part of his annual leave .
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