Example sentences of "[vb past] been taking [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been taking a bucket of slack to the washhouse where all the women were gathered gossiping . |
| 2 | Jessamyn lay flat on the contoured table as the Doc sliced away the facial bandages , still relaxed from the morph-plus shots she had been taking every day . |
| 3 | Morse had not started the crossword yet ( ‘ Ichabod' this week ) , but just to the right of it Lewis noticed a brief item on a fatal accident at the Marston Ferry Road traffic lights : a young student who had been taking a crash course in EFL . |
| 4 | Builder Dave Young , wife Jane and son Paul , three — who had been taking a dip in the hotel pool — were left with just the costumes they had on . |
| 5 | Sir Robin Day , who had been taking a nap on a sofa in the BBC room in the balcony , was hurriedly awakened . |
| 6 | Ann had been taking an antidepressant for 6 months without much benefit . |
| 7 | All of us young people , even unbelievers , had been taking an interest in Thomism . |
| 8 | What made this worse was that we ( there were a few of us Leeds fans in my school ) we friends with a west brom fan , and had been taking the piss all year … had nt they recently gone up to div 1 ? |
| 9 | Yet he knew I had been taking the Pill every day . ’ |
| 10 | After a dress rehearsal for a Symphony Hour show , I suggested , as producer , that in the adagio movement of the main symphonic item the violins had been taking the tempo slightly too fast . |