Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] [prep] taking " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hobbs , who last played for Great Britain in France in 1987 , returns to international favour on the strength of the maturity he has displayed since taking over the captaincy at Bradford this season . |
| 2 | W. H. Auden once said that he learned to read by taking down the Encyclopaedia Britannica from his father 's densely stocked shelves . |
| 3 | In the early days , when they still slept together , he had insisted on taking her during a period : remaining perfectly motionless , in her , on her — sometimes for hours . |
| 4 | She informed her great-granddaughter that if she filed for a divorce she would take Andrew 's side and say that what he had done in taking a mistress and in finally attempting suicide was because she had never acted as a wife to him . |
| 5 | He had agreed to taking on a reading tour in Scotland . |
| 6 | Observers noted that Prime Minister Suleyman Demirel appeared far from being able to implement any of the liberal measures towards the Kurds of the south which he had promised on taking office in October 1991 [ see p. 38592 ] . |