Example sentences of "[noun sg] taking [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | What direction do you see your research taking you in ? |
| 2 | Here by calling the last witness , the judge was not only supplementing the prosecution ; he was in effect taking it over . |
| 3 | The congregation were like different parts of a huge engine , each one passing a movement on and the recipient taking it up and changing it . |
| 4 | It interests me , and I shall have pleasure taking it apart and examining its secrets . ’ |
| 5 | We need people of talent , whatever their political persuasions , in such public positions and I look forward to people of talent taking them up regularly . |
| 6 | In the back of the car taking them in to Paris , he sat with his hands clasped on his bare knees , and a tight closed expression on his face . |
| 7 | And if the old boy in the field had got a grudge against the bloke taking it off he used to shove it anywhere so he 'd have to pull it off , instead of following the the seam round , you see ? |
| 8 | Thame 's Russell was then dismissed for dissent taking them down to nine men , from which there was no way back and Headington ran out comfortable winners . |
| 9 | So it is important not to drift into caring or be hustled into it but to think through personal motives tor taking it on . |
| 10 | Falls partly because it 's shutting down the ends of the arteries , the arteries themselves can actually contract because they 're muscular walled , yes , the arteries can contract and that tends to shut down and reduce the pressure slightly in that area , right and also the body itself is gon na divert that blood is n't it to the core of the body taking it away from other areas , damaged areas , so how can we help to reduce the pressure any more ? |
| 11 | I had to hang blankets over the windows at night , and in the morning they were so heavy with moisture that I had a proper job taking them down . |
| 12 | She stood with the door open behind her , so that the order of the hall could be properly seen ; she saw the policewoman taking it in . |
| 13 | One of my bigger irritations is when I have an enormously tight schedule taking me all over the country and I get calls — sometimes on my mobile phone when I 'm stuck in the middle of a field somewhere — insisting that it 's vitally important I attend a meeting that has just been scheduled for three o'clock that afternoon in London , which could easily have been planned at least two weeks earlier . |
| 14 | From 10 or 20 yards you can sometimes force the ball directly into the bank , the first jump taking it almost vertically upwards and landing it softly on the edge of the green . |
| 15 | He was on a train taking him home from a visit to his sister in Vienna . |
| 16 | Many miners apprenticed their young sons to the trade taking them underground at 15 , 16 or 17 years of age and paying them their worth , or less . |
| 17 | Naturally we had to obtain Doctor Agrippa 's permission to leave but , within the hour , we were on a barge taking us upriver . |
| 18 | A business relies on a driving personality taking it forward , and the confusion about getting somebody on board who is working with you in the business and who is putting money board , is that they feel to some extent , proprietorial to that business , and you can find that that will result in those individuals who have done that tearing apart the business because they are trying to go in different directions . |
| 19 | For one thing I I do n't think that the next generation of parents are going to stand it because with the , cos I told you what , what I said Neil about erm when er when he was a father I said if you had a pretty fifteen year old daughter would you want to have some rough oaf taking her down a back alley and screwing her ? |
| 20 | Sanjurjo perished at the very outset when the plane taking him back to Spain from his Portuguese exile crashed on take-off . |
| 21 | There is a clearly written text with an illustrated chronology of the country 's history taking it up to 1992 . |
| 22 | They were very much caught up in the opinion that if they were an indie band , it could n't possibly be worth a major record company taking them seriously . |
| 23 | Other O'Rourke castles had been demolished to prevent the English taking them over , for they had stood too close to the Elizabethan English garrison at Sligo Town . |
| 24 | In London he sat beside Johnson in their various venues ; now he rode beside him in the post-chaise taking them up through eastern Scotland ; next he would canter along beside him to the Western Isles . |
| 25 | The twins , I was relieved to see , made a charming sight , crouched underneath a cot taking it in turns to lick one another 's ears . |
| 26 | Once conscious again , Effie began to scream , pain taking her over , and only McAllister 's soothing hands , and Dr Neil 's voice , urging her to push with each pain , stopped her from becoming a mindless howling thing on the bed , unable to help herself . |