Example sentences of "i was take [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All I could think about while I was taking up that extraordinary inheritance was you . ’ |
| 2 | A week later I was called back to Downing Street by Margaret Thatcher and told that I was taking over the Department of Health and Social Security and also the question-and-answer session . |
| 3 | I appreciated I was taking on quite a responsibility — I knew it would n't be like having a budgie in a cage as a pet — but I felt I could cope . |
| 4 | I was so eager to start training an owl , I felt I knew what I was taking on , and yet the right bird eluded me . |
| 5 | So when he was approached in the early '80s to be part-time chairman of Wandsworth Health Authority in London ‘ I knew what I was taking on ’ . |
| 6 | As much as I love her I did n't realise what I was taking on , she 's absolutely obsessed with Paul McCartney . . |
| 7 | I was taking off my trousers when the radio operator came in and said someone was having an epileptic fit in one of the seismic camps . |
| 8 | Eric was sitting in the front looking absurdly English and in the back was an old man I was taking back to the mountains . |
| 9 | I was taking out my fury on a bit of practical work last Saturday — painting the front gate posts — and he stopped , and got out of the car and introduced himself . |
| 10 | I was taken over one by my History mistress . |
| 11 | I do n't think so because it 's in the main street called street and I was taken over the first day . |
| 12 | I had been his guest in the air very briefly before when I was taken up to see Low Birk Hatt as a bird would see it , and I found it a thrilling experience , quite the best way to travel . |
| 13 | I was dismissed from the library , but with a good reference and I was taken on the staff of the local Employment Exchange to ‘ sign on ’ the others . |
| 14 | I was taken on as a staff programme researcher for " Here Today " , Salary : £1,100 . |
| 15 | In April , I was taken on a tour of three of the modern French resorts : Les Arcs , Valmorel and Les Menuires . |
| 16 | We had ages together before I was taken off to the ward . |
| 17 | They had been country people and I was taken off to visit relatives and friends in Shepley and Harewood , sucking mintoes as a treat . |
| 18 | I wonder how many times I was taken in by his Yankee sincerity , his B-movie honesty . |
| 19 | So I was taken in and the first job I was taken , by this young fella , eighteenish , big chap to me , but he said , Come on young'un , this is what you 've got ta do . |
| 20 | One night in late July I was taken out to supper by Ian Gow , the Prime Minister 's Parliamentary Private Secretary . |
| 21 | When I was nine months old I was taken out to India by my parents who had a theatre company — they still have it , in fact , and they still tour . |
| 22 | I was taken out to another room , sat down and then heard that thick voice , full of soft , sickly fruit . |
| 23 | I was taken out to dinner on the day of my arrival , and yesterday there was a ‘ coquetel ’ ( cocktail party ) after the inaugural ceremony , which contained a lot of unintelligible speeches in Portuguese . |
| 24 | How I did not develop pneumonia I shall never know , my sciatic nerve was outraged by this treatment , and fortunately I was taken back to Fulmer House . |
| 25 | I was taken back to the cell , where I started throwing the furniture about . |
| 26 | Eventually , I was taken back up to my wing . |
| 27 | Then I was taken back home to my mother 's and tried to build up the relationship again . |
| 28 | I was taken back to Holloway while they made inquiries . |
| 29 | But he was good enough to allow me some writing materials before I was taken back to my cell , formally charged with murder . |
| 30 | I was taken down to the block [ punishment wing ] and they left me there for two days . |