Example sentences of "was take [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It all checked , but the guard was taking no chances now , not in view of Manville 's openly aggressive attitude . |
| 2 | Mum was taking no chances . |
| 3 | For Weaver just fired blindly at Doyle , and though his shot went wild , Doyle was taking no chances . |
| 4 | Saint Julien was taking no chances , his acquired Smith & Wesson discreetly out of sight as he allowed them in . |
| 5 | I was taking no chances . |
| 6 | ‘ Or his killer was taking no chances on the bodies being discovered too soon . |
| 7 | He was taking no chances on having too many deaths to muck up his statistics . |
| 8 | After her recent experience she was taking no chances . |
| 9 | But Spatz was taking no chances . |
| 10 | He was taking no chances as his clear gaze dared her to lie . |
| 11 | Then it was probably safe , but Shelley was taking no chances . |
| 12 | I was taking the minutes of the meeting . |
| 13 | It came on 14 July , a day on which the French Ambassador had asked for an audience with King William , who was taking the waters at the spa town of Ems , and had been twice refused , courteously but firmly . |
| 14 | When challenged by the head gardener the Americans pretended to be a press gang , which was sufficient to set ‘ all the stout young fellows ’ on the estate running off to the town for safety , but he also informed them that their intended victim was taking the waters at Buxton , and Jones set off back to his boat , until the two officers with him pointed out that , having left Whitehaven empty-handed , the crew should at least be allowed to loot the house . |
| 15 | Like every other parent in Bootle 's Strand shopping centre yesterday , she was taking the words of Merseyside Police 's Det Supt Albert Kirkby very seriously . |
| 16 | That was taking the clips off and clipping the wagons on . |
| 17 | And anyway , after all , it was nothing to say , I mean , that I was taking the towels over for you . ’ |
| 18 | My father meanwhile was taking the tickets and having the luggage labelled . |
| 19 | One of Einstein 's ways of working things out was to take the laws of nature as they were understood at the time and imagine them in unusual fictitious situations — such as , for instance , trying to imagine what it would be like to catch up with a light beam . |
| 20 | Flaherty asked who was to take the sketches to the Fire Court and the Gnomes at once looked alarmed , because had n't they already travelled all the way from Gallan and it a terrible long journey , never mind getting lost twice , as well as the Robemaker 's Workshops and the Cruachan Cavern being on the route . |
| 21 | Henry of Almain was to take the profits of the forests and castle for himself , subject only to the duty of maintaining the castle . |
| 22 | For various reasons they were unable to attend this meeting , and so all the arresting officers could do was to take the names of those who were present . |
| 23 | Mr Lloyd , 39 , a councillor who works on the Ford assembly line in Southampton , is used to hopeless cases : his first political action as a child was to take the newsboys on his street out on strike . |