Example sentences of "was take [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | There I finally decided to throw in my efforts at making contact with the Delhi eunuchs ; it was taking up a lot of time and there was still no hint of a breakthrough : after ten days I still knew as little about them as I had when I had begun . |
2 | It was taking up the game at such a young age that caused him to hold the racket with both hands , rather than playing tennis , which he did to county standard at the age of 12 . |
3 | As Clinton was taking up the reins of power , a disconsolate President Bush flew back to Washington to make arrangements for the handover . |
4 | He added that Virgin was taking up the matter of the fairness of take-off and landing slots at UK airports with the European Commission . |
5 | He was taking up an ‘ exceptionally demanding ’ post ‘ determined to uphold the law and serve the brave and law-abiding people of Northern Ireland ’ . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | Somehow the virtual reality had overflowed the confines of that simulated chamber , and was taking over the entire broadcast . |
8 | On 26th May , Hunt came to see him and said that he was taking over the purchase negotiations for the Downing Street scheme , and particularly upset Pennethorne by producing one of Pennethorne 's drawings to assist him in the work . |
9 | He was taking over the enquiry into the death of Angelica Standish , he said . |
10 | Germany 's chief federal prosecutor Alexander von Stahl announced he was taking over the murder inquiry because of its links to Right-wing terrorism . |
11 | House music was taking over the galaxy , and this was an indication that you could do whatever the hell you liked with the genre . |
12 | The curia was taking on a new role , as the centre of a vast network of appeals ; increasing numbers from near and far came to Rome in search of judgement . |
13 | Corvan 's career was sufficiently close to the industrial conflict and Chartist agitation of the turbulent 1840s to draw inspiration from them ; but , by the 1850s , the musical culture of most British workers was taking on a less class-specific quality , characterized by the consumption of commercially supplied music hall song , the replacement of old tune-types by newer types originating in bourgeois theatre and drawing-room , and a shift from protest , street music and spontaneous singsong to formalized performance in choirs and brass bands . |
14 | Loretta speculated to herself that Bridget 's nerve was becoming a little less steady now that her own involvement in the affair was taking on a more practical aspect . |
15 | His own brand of performing was taking on a very definite shape . |
16 | I suddenly realised the air was filled with soot from the chimneys above and the snow was taking on the appearance of cottage cheese sprinkled with black pepper . |
17 | Working at the top end of the market as he did , Roche was taking on the most difficult assignments , but they were also the most remunerative and had the greatest publicity value . |
18 | It looked as if he was taking on the whole KGB . |
19 | Today ranked number eight , he was taking on the best of British , Jeremy Bates . |
20 | Yesterday he was taking on the anti-government creed of the 1980s which left economics to the free market . |
21 | It was taking out a girl with a trail of boasts littering the streets behind you , although you both returned as virginal as you had set off but usually much colder . |
22 | Fernando turned to her from the fridge where he was taking out a bottle of wine . |
23 | Pete went over to the wagon , and as he was taking out the inventory clipboard he explained that they 'd be going down to the boat house in Diane 's pickup truck . |
24 | The fact she was taking back a Moabitess as her , as a relation , as her daughter-in-law was a , would be a constant reminder , I disobeyed God ! |
25 | PERSONAL VIEW The night rugby 's Holy Grail was taken on a bender |
26 | Victoria , always pretty and amenable , was taken on a round of the treats considered traditional for an upper-class London child : the zoo , the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace , ice-cream at Fortnum & Mason 's soda fountain , a visit to the enclosure reserved for some overweight rabbits near the statue of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens and a Christmas pantomime called Where the Rainbow Ends in which four intrepid children fed their pet British lion a medicine called the Commonwealth mixture . |
27 | The photograph was taken on a favourable day or it could not have been taken at all . |
28 | In April , I was taken on a tour of three of the modern French resorts : Les Arcs , Valmorel and Les Menuires . |
29 | A Dorset family was taken on a VIP trip to Wytch Farm 's production sites on Furzey Island after the father had bid for the BP-donated prize in a charity auction . |
30 | The woman was taken on a terrifying 45-minute journey in another car into the countryside before the gunman committed what police described as a ‘ serious sexual assault ’ . |