Example sentences of "[prep] taking [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After taking possession of the letter Pérez de Cuéllar returned to Geneva and opened diplomatic negotiations aimed at bringing the hostage crisis to an end . |
| 2 | 24 Paid Drake £682 after taking advantage of a 2.5% discount for prompt payment . |
| 3 | Woman died after taking overdose of paracetamol |
| 4 | ‘ It 's not just for me , you know , ’ Charlie said once , after taking money . |
| 5 | Dilip Vengsarkar , who lost the captaincy after taking part in an unauthorised tour of North America , has also been included in the squad . |
| 6 | Bobby Robson received further encouragement when Stuart Pearce , the Nottingham Forest captain reported fit after taking part in the 3-3 Littlewoods draw at Huddersfield . |
| 7 | The RAF is well equipped for such a role after taking part in food drops in Ethiopia and northern Iraq . |
| 8 | As Group Captain Leonard Cheshire , he was the RAF 's most decorated bomber pilot after taking part in over 100 missions . |
| 9 | The court was told that he had killed the girl after taking part in sex play with her and then discovering that she was under age . |
| 10 | A few months later Who Dares arrived at a channel port on a trailer , completing her journey by road after taking part in a power boat race abroad . |
| 11 | It had been announced in mid-December 1989 that police were investigating allegations that Zhivkov 's son Vladimir Zhivkov was responsible for the death in suspicious circumstances in 1988 of Tatyana Tityanova , a television announcer , and that Zhivkov 's grandson Todor Slavkov had escaped prosecution after taking part in the gang rape of a 17-year-old girl in July 1988 . |
| 12 | The Union of Independent Kosovo Trade Unions called on all firms and institutions to reinstate the ethnic Albanians dismissed from their jobs after taking part in nationalist protests and the general strike of 1990 . |
| 13 | After taking part in the opening of the Madrid Middle East peace conference [ see p. 38513 ] , Gorbachev had a two-day summit meeting with French President Mitterrand . |
| 14 | On Sept. 4 a member of the High Council of the Republic ( HCR ) , Madeleine Adayoma , was flogged by security personnel as she left the Lomé radio studios after taking part in a programme . |
| 15 | Leigh Spencer served 150 hours community service , after taking part in an attack where a passing jogger was stabbed . |
| 16 | Russell France is back home in Brackley after taking part in the Washington experiment . |
| 17 | After taking counsel 's opinion , Smith & Jones ' solicitors obtained a hearing before 13 January 1986 for a motion for the dismissal of this winding-up petition . |
| 18 | Indeed when Richard marched against Angoulême he made this move after taking counsel with the barons of Poitou . |
| 19 | Yes , that meant we were earning less in real terms after taking inflation into account but at least we still had a job at the end of it . |
| 20 | But , after taking inflation into account , that is a decrease in real terms . |
| 21 | He stopped payments to the Fund shortly after taking office in 1985 , as part of a unilateral policy to restrict payments on Peru 's $18billion foreign debt , which stands at 10 per cent of export earnings . |
| 22 | Last week , seven months after taking office , Mr Fujimori therefore reshuffled his cabinet . |
| 23 | The vice-president , Salvador Laurel , would love to take over from Mrs Aquino , with whom he fell out soon after taking office . |
| 24 | On 7th July , a week after taking office , Fitzroy was pressed by Tite to adhere to Manners ' promise to exhibit Scott 's new design for the Foreign Office along with the tenders and the prize-winning schemes from the competition . |
| 25 | Dalglish , whose side visit Southampton tomorrowsun , got his priorities right when he took on the former Luton and Wimbledon boss as his right-hand man soon after taking office just over a year ago . |
| 26 | One of the earliest communications on penal matters received by Maudling , after taking office as Home Secretary on 20 June 1970 , was a letter signed by the Chairman of the Advisory Council on the Penal System dated 30 June . |
| 27 | Soon after taking office Reagan won much popular sympathy when he was shot and wounded in an assassination attempt . |
| 28 | The non-interventionist Edward Stanley , Foreign Secretary in his father 's Conservative government of 1866–68 , stated a fortnight after taking office that " if North Germany is to become a single great Power , I do not see that any English interest is in the least degree affected " . |
| 29 | Three weeks after taking office the new centre-right government introduced its 1990 budget , a revised version of the proposals presented by the outgoing Labour government . |
| 30 | Soon after taking office the National Party government estimated that the budget deficit by the end of fiscal 1991/92 ( June 1992 ) would be NZ$3,700 million , rising to NZ$5,200 million at the end of fiscal 1992/93 . |