Example sentences of "taking it " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Long string of jokes about the funeral , as though to show how well he was taking it . |
| 2 | It was of the two of us leaning up against the Arch of Titus in Rome — we had bullied some fellow tourist into taking it for us . |
| 3 | ‘ On second thoughts , ’ she said , taking it out again . |
| 4 | Only the walls heard this delirious talk , but I was suddenly seized by a guilty fear , and became convinced that the two children were taking it in and that it was ringing in Aisha 's ears at work , and I rushed to pack my suitcase before she came back . |
| 5 | That way , the same effect can be achieved without taking it to the full depth . |
| 6 | And when we remember what Eliot did with the gibe , taking it over in the title of Old Possum 's Book of Practical Cats , that collection of whimsical fireside charades in verse , we may well think again about Auden 's comment that in English family life ‘ it is becoming to entertain each other with witty remarks , hoaxes , family games and jokes ’ . |
| 7 | Labour 's transport spokesman , John Prescott , called on the Government to rescue the project by taking it into public control . |
| 8 | Constable Dale Buckingham had just collected the car from the scene of the raid , in Bristol , and was taking it to his police station when he saw two men he suspected of being involved in the raid , and stopped . |
| 9 | The Socialists , though , are not taking it lying down . |
| 10 | ‘ They could see I was taking it easier on some of the sessions and they told me so . |
| 11 | To correct erosion damage we built paths to concentrate pressure on a thin line that is capable of taking it . |
| 12 | They had not approved of the baby ; they had thought Phoebe negligent at best for getting pregnant and not taking appropriate action ; they had chivvied her through the later months of her pregnancy with a mixture of indulgence and irritation , cross both that she was pregnant and that she was n't taking it seriously . |
| 13 | Maggie had dealt with that as best she could , taking it quietly and never complaining about the minor injustices which a teacher can inflict — work returned because of untidiness , petty sarcasms , rigorous enforcement of minor school rules . |
| 14 | ‘ I was thinking of taking it , ’ Moran admitted . |
| 15 | She seemed willing to go to almost any length to appease , lull his irritation to rest , contain all the exasperation by taking it within herself . |
| 16 | She dropped Wexford 's hand , recoiling as if in taking it she had done something indecent . |
| 17 | When the doctors broke it to him that he would need an operation , his son noted that ‘ he is taking it like a hero . ’ |
| 18 | He saw that Lewis would not re-enter Christianity by a new door but by the old one : at least in the sense that in taking it up again he would also take up again or reawaken the prejudices so sedulously planted in childhood and boyhood . |
| 19 | More worryingly insidious is their ability to act as magnets to acid rain , taking it from the atmosphere and releasing it into the soil , where it leaches down and enters the water system . |
| 20 | He arrived at his drive , discussed the second shot , decided on a club and then , before taking it out of the bag , held out his hands in front of his caddie and said : ‘ Look , not a tremor . ’ |
| 21 | It was a warm , spring morning and I was lying in the garden , reflecting on life in general and taking it easy , when I heard this music coming from the top-floor flat where the windows were all open — and there was somebody singing . |
| 22 | They were n't used to doing this kind of thing — they were n't used to rock and roll or putting something up and taking it down every day , so really it was a white elephant from the beginning . |
| 23 | ‘ Giles Hawick is taking it seriously enough to have reported her as a missing person , ’ he said tightly . |
| 24 | The investment bankers that bought Wickes last November have already sold more than $400m in assets and are taking it private . |
| 25 | But taking our morality from the Bible does not necessarily mean merely taking it on trust and authority , and abandoning all thought of moral knowledge . |
| 26 | For these people , the last word in radical chic is Brut Soap-on-a-Rope ; they dress as though they have stepped straight from the pages of a Seventies mail-order catalogue ; they consider a good night out to be crowding into the only working public telephone box , and , hyperventilating in their over-excitement , taking it in turns to listen to the talking clock . |
| 27 | On Tuesday , the NUM was not only threatening strike action but taking it . |
| 28 | And he was n't taking it . |
| 29 | He knew the pattern of the carpet by heart but now it was as if he were looking at it for the first time , taking it all in , the design of orange and black squares . |
| 30 | He would grab a completed section of the overall plan from Mark 's private secretary just as soon as she had typed it , and dash off to his own office down the corridor to study it carefully many times over , before taking it along to Muldoon to keep him in the picture . |