Example sentences of "he [verb] been taking " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( If her son enters when he is a few years older , he will surely be unique in being able to say he has been taking part since before he was born . ) |
| 2 | He has been taking medication and it is believed he may have been able to hide some of the drug . |
| 3 | Charles Walker has recently returned from a world trip , during which he has been taking photographs in preparation for his next book . |
| 4 | The attention has catapulted Singleton to the fore of the newwave of black film-makers and he has been taking full advantage of the limelight , running off his mouth on issues of Black America and the worldwide struggles of the oppressed , with a revolutionary fervour that threatens to eclipse even his hero and mentor , Spike Lee . |
| 5 | He has been taking photographs for ten years and divides his time between Paris and New York , where he was born . |
| 6 | Charles Walker has recently returned from a world trip , during which he has been taking photographs in preparation for his next book . |
| 7 | ‘ He has been taking it ? ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | We had indeed , and Denis was in a filthy mood because his motorbike had died on him on the way into Cambridge and he had had to push it five miles back — and he had been taking his temper out on me ever since lunchtime . |
| 10 | He had had to ask Hank the name of the principal and what courses he had been taking , since he had never bothered to inquire about these before . |
| 11 | The company had wanted him to transfer to London , in order to resume the computer studies he had been taking at school . |
| 12 | Silas told me he had been taking you round the sheep . ’ |
| 13 | A police statement on Nov. 14 , however , claimed that the shots had gone astray ( one into the air , the other into the ground ) only because a policeman had pounced on the gunman , Aleksandr Shmonov , as he had been taking aim at the leadership 's reviewing stand atop the Lenin Mausoleum , only 46 metres away . |
| 14 | When the code was broken , it was found that he had been taking placebo rather than ursodeoxycholic acid . |
| 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 | Another time in the same club he turned to me and said , ‘ The fellow on my other side went up the Irrawaddy in 1943 and he 's been taking me back there with him . |
| 17 | ‘ I could n't tell him for sure , but he 's been taking Vulcan out most days . |
| 18 | He 's been taking tablets ever since and they appear to have controlled his condition . |