Example sentences of "he [vb past] taking [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He admitted taking his hand off the tiller at the group but denied any boardroom rift over strategy . |
| 2 | After he killed her he tried taking her wedding ring and when he could n't get it he hacked her whole fucking hand off . ’ |
| 3 | About the second week in December he began taking his still into the night lavatory every evening . |
| 4 | He started taking his own photographs to publicise his collections when he got impatient with photographers who did not understand what he was trying to say ; this has lead him to launch a parallel career as a photographer and his work is much in demand by magazines who like his candid portraits of such luminaires as Caroline of Monaco . |
| 5 | He insisted taking his three weeks annual leave on top , an industrial tribunal heard yesterday . |
| 6 | He remembered taking her to school , it was after their mother died , Georgia would 've been seven , she did n't want to go , there were girls who tied her to trees , it was her accent or her looks , he could n't remember now , but he had to take her because he 'd promised Dad , Dad who did n't know anything , the scratches on her legs were brambles , the bruises on her wrists were something else , he could n't remember now , how could they tell him the truth , how could they tell him anything when all he did was sit in dark rooms with his head in his hands , his head haunted by her ghost , and each dawn broke like the slow blow of a hammer . |
| 7 | He liked taking them apart and putting them together again in the wrong order to make new toys and would do this all day until he had forgotten what they looked like in the first place . |