Example sentences of "be taking [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's as if we 're taking responsibility for men 's problem , but if I want to be safe , I feel I have to . |
| 2 | I mean , you 're taking responsibility for human life all the time . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been thinking , it 's a long time since the two of us went out together , so I 'm taking Ruth for a bite to eat . |
| 4 | " I 'm taking sandwiches for lunch , so I sha n't be back . |
| 5 | And , while her hopes dropped down to basement level , ‘ Now , ’ he added , ‘ I 'm taking Azor for his walk . ’ |
| 6 | I 'm taking Fido for a nice walkie because it 's such a nice day . |
| 7 | One of the other the other things that we will erm be taking responsibility for is , is something called the Front Line Review which I want to come back too , because it 's something that will interest you as a group erm , but that 's basically again a Council learn initiative , where the Council 's want to look at over the next month all of the front line services we provide , the , the services that you come into contact with on a day to day erm level and look at , you know , are we providing a service as you want , are we providing them efficiently , how would you like to see them better provided . |
| 8 | Art 93 , which is , with the collapse of the rival attraction formerly held at Olympia , now London 's only fair for contemporary art , will be taking place for the fifth consecutive year at Islington 's Business Design Centre ( 21–24 January ) . |
| 9 | ‘ It needs to be worked through at local level and discussions will be taking place for some time , ’ said Mr Smith . |
| 10 | I am taking responsibility for my life . |
| 11 | It is Ego that thinks we should constantly fret about our family and the future , in case God decides we are taking life for granted , and hurls down a bolt of lightning . |
| 12 | Ward said : ‘ We are absolutely sure that athletes are taking substances for which there is no adequate test . |
| 13 | ‘ If we are taking responsibility for the stock and the write-off of obsolete and redundant stock , then the supplier is giving us improved discounts ; that 's essentially the deal , ’ Mr Barker answers . |
| 14 | We are taking responsibility for people who we were not taking responsibility for before so it is n't sort of entirely buckshee money which we distribute , there are real responsibilities here . |
| 15 | At the time of writing negotiations are taking place for another Drummond locomotive to be at the show . |
| 16 | I 've been taking chlorambucil for six days now and the lumps are diminishing with staggering rapidity . |
| 17 | Some elderly people suffer from iron deficiency due to a very slight , and sometimes unrecognisable , blood loss from such conditions as piles , diverticulitis , hiatus hernia — and occasionally bleeding from the stomach , if they have been taking aspirin for rheumatism daily for long periods , and this may cause anaemia . |
| 18 | ‘ She 'd been taking hush-money for the last ten years . ’ |
| 19 | Twenty patients who had been taking NSAIDs for more than six months underwent a screening phase and all 13 with NSAID enteropathy were recruited to the study . |
| 20 | The Society needs more teachers ; many of teachers have been taking classes for 20 years or more ! |
| 21 | Closures of railway lines had been taking place for many years , accelerated by the growing availability of cars in the 1950s . |
| 22 | In one sense this kind of thing has been taking place for centuries . |
| 23 | The document ignores the debate on curriculum which has been taking place for 20 years . |
| 24 | Britain would now be in the fortunate position of having had , in 1991 , nothing worse than a shallow and short-lived recession , from which a smart recovery would already have been taking place for several quarters , with no balance of payments constraint and little rise in unemployment . |
| 25 | Negotiations between the National Trust and MoD have been taking place for two years and have reached a critical stage . |
| 26 | ‘ The discussions have been taking place for such a long time that I rather got used to the idea that I should be leaving . |
| 27 | Such a process has been taking place for a long time . |
| 28 | Negotiations have been taking place for almost two years and their failure is a big setback to the ambitions of the Edinburgh-based financial institution set up with £26 million in 1991 as a building society acquisition vehicle . |
| 29 | At the Court of Appeal today , Rachael 's solicitor explained that he 'd been frightened of losing the children , and that for several weeks before the killing he 'd been taking medication for depression . |
| 30 | He has been taking photographs for ten years and divides his time between Paris and New York , where he was born . |