Example sentences of "[been] take " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can tell school you been took poorly again . ’ |
| 2 | Mum 's been took bad . |
| 3 | Edna 's had to go home because Mum 's been took sick . ’ |
| 4 | yeah he said oh Margaret wages have been took out me car he said I ge , I 'll get it at some point for you Margaret he said when I go at the bank but he said , yours was taken out Jack 's car |
| 5 | You know Connells ' all been took over by Gala ? |
| 6 | Closures of railway lines had been taking place for many years , accelerated by the growing availability of cars in the 1950s . |
| 7 | Enlightened dry-fly anglers , too , have already been taking some tremendous catches with it and it will surely prove devastating for dapping , the earliest form of fly fishing , a method still used extensively in Ireland at certain times of year . |
| 8 | The Cabinet outcast managed to upstage Kenneth Baker , the Conservative party chairman , who has been taking acting lessons from Kenneth Branagh . |
| 9 | The fact that after the Great War the Liberal party went into decline and the Labour party emerged as a governmental party seemed to indicate that the most interesting developments must have been taking place on the left of British politics , even before the war . |
| 10 | The priest , with folded hands and closed eyes , recited Grace , and the meal began : soup served by a daughter of the same sister of Rose 's who had been taking the photos ; chicken and ham , with salad . |
| 11 | Although the British Government ruled out the prospect of the US company buying Austin Rover , within days of it leaking out that talks had been taking place , Bob Lutz , Ford of Europe chairman , said : ‘ I honestly believe it would have been best for Britain . ’ |
| 12 | In one sense this kind of thing has been taking place for centuries . |
| 13 | He told the details to an incredulous audience , although tactfully leaving out the part about Steinmark 's base habits , merely suggesting that he had probably been taking a short cut across the line . |
| 14 | Discussions had been taking place since the middle of last week . |
| 15 | He 's been taking soundings about the possibility of shifting Mirror Group Newspapers , lock , stock and Joe Haines 's basket , south of the Thames to Great Dover Street while Maxwell House , his Holborn HQ , is flattened and rebuilt . |
| 16 | In policy areas ranging from mental illness to community nursing to staff development , the Welsh health service has been taking the plaudits . |
| 17 | My conclusions , expressed in the last chapter — ‘ Venice of the Twenty-First Century ? ’ — have been reinforced by the events that have been taking place in Eastern Europe since the autumn of 1989 . |
| 18 | These cold statistics do not show one important trend that has been taking place since 1945 . |
| 19 | It has been taking on staff , including temporary organisers in the constituencies , whose contracts will expire four weeks after a general election . |
| 20 | And the form of drug they had indeed been taking — a legal drug , as it happens , called alcohol — is under attack from the surgeon-general . |
| 21 | Mr Major had been taking private soundings about such a move before Christmas . |
| 22 | ‘ You been taking things again ? ’ |
| 23 | Competition is cut-throat and it seems some of the designers have been taking some dodgy tabs ( or suffering from over-worked stress syndrome ) , as the high-top becomes more and more ridiculous . |
| 24 | Health-seekers have been taking the Buxton waters since Roman times |
| 25 | Where Cooper has been taking instruction on board , Waters has been tossing it aside . |
| 26 | In recent years , a quiet revolution has been taking place as technical changes and new marketing methods for a vast range of home products have increased consumer choice and introduced alternative ways of home building . |
| 27 | Certain strange events have been taking place … culminating in the above address , and I was unable to write while wandering about Africa … . |
| 28 | Chapters 5 and 6 have discussed the changes that have been taking place in rural and urban areas and the effects these have had on social structure , poverty and inequality . |
| 29 | The changes that have been taking place in Latin America and the economic growth that the region has experienced have not brought about any redistribution of income in favour of the low-income groups , the trend has been if anything slightly towards a greater polarisation of wealth . |
| 30 | Those who have been taking notes continue to do so with even greater assiduousness . |