How to use "taking" in a sentence

'We're taking you to the hospital in Moab,' he replies.

I was also taking eighteen different medicines a day

While I was taking them, I couldn't do anything well

When we cleaned our faces and our eyes, the squid was gone, taking the man with it.

'I'm taking lessons in music, and I want to be a singer,' she told me

Well, lots of newspaper men started taking photographs before Colonel Gooch could run across and pull me away!

The music sounded like a plane that was taking off! But the students loved it.

And the police were taking some of them away.

'Why don't you tell everybody that you're taking a long holiday, Forrest?' he said

Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time

If there be an object to HURRY any of you in hot haste to a step which you would never take DELIBERATELY, that object will be frustrated by taking time; but no good object can be frustrated by it.

Madeleine said gently, taking her hand

'How much do you need?' the old man asked, taking an old leather wallet from the pocket of his coat.

Leblanc had begun to suspect what was happening because often, when Marius appeared, he got to his feet and walked away, taking his daughter with him

Enjolras and his other friends tried to cheer him up by taking him to exciting places, but these expeditions always ended in the same way: Marius would leave the group and walk around the streets of Paris unhappily on his own.

The daughter, taking her father's words seriously, began to scream with fear

' he said, taking a purse from a drawer and putting it on the table

Valjean untied the rope around Javert's feet and, taking him by the belt of his coat, led him outside

Then, taking Cosette's sleeve and pressing it to his lips, he said, 'Come close to me, both of you

The wolf ran as fast as he could, taking the shortest path, and the little girl took a roundabout way, entertaining herself by gathering nuts, running after butterflies, and gathering bouquets of little flowers

They all have a camera and are all taking photos

I escaped from the gardai van that was taking me to hospital

"Fantastic," said Sala, taking off her wet boots

She got up and returned to her tomato plants, taking off the dead and dying leaves from the bottom of each one

He wasn't taking Gran's suggestion seriously

In one corner, the woman was taking the yellow hag off her back

I'm taking mine up to the Real Space

Mrs Danvers has accused him of taking a valuable ornament from the morning-room

She finished it quickly, as though she were a child taking medicine, and then put the bottle away.

Hundreds of gamblers - pretty young women, sweet-faced grandmothers, men in jeans and decoratively stitched Western shirts, retirement-age men in expensive but tacky leisure outfits, a few guys in three-piece suits, salesmen, doctors, mechanics, secretaries, Americans from all of the Western states, junketeers from the East Coast, Japanese tourists, a few Arab men - sat at the semielliptical blackjack tables, pushing money and chips forward, sometimes taking back their winnings, eagerly grabbing the cards that were dealt from the five-deck shoes, each reacting in one of several predictable ways: Some players squealed with delight; some grumbled; others smiled ruefully and shook their heads; some teased the dealers, pleading half seriously for better cards; and still others were silent, polite, attentive, and businesslike, as though they thought they were engaged in some reasonable form of investment planning

Two uniformed security men were performing first aid on the unconscious man, loosening his tie and collar, taking his pulse, while a third guard was keeping curious customers out of the way.

"Why would someone break in and leave without taking anything?" Michael asked.

And why would a first-rate burglar leave without taking anything? Why break in merely to write on Danny's chalkboard and to wreck the dead boy's things?

She got up and began to pace, taking another swallow of cognac.

"But I'm not taking them."

Determined not to let them see that he was frightened, aware that any sign of fear would be taken as proof of weakness, Elliot said, "Well, you've got one hell of a weird approach for someone who's just taking a public opinion survey."

I don't enjoy taking guns away from men half again as big as I am."

He preferred to deal with hard facts, realities; that was why he was such a good attorney, so adept at taking threads of evidence and weaving a good case out of them.

"That's Stryker's military-intelligence training taking hold," Kennebeck said

Unable to prove his identity, he was required to pay for both nights in advance, which he did, taking the money from a wad of cash he'd stuck in his pocket rather than from the wallet that supposedly had been stolen.

Like an old athlete back on the playing field after a long absence, testing his reflexes, taking pride in the fact that his old skills are still there."

'I'll read it tonight,' I said, taking the precious envelope

'Ah, yes I heard that Madame Delambre had been writing a lot, but we could find nothing but the short note informing us that she was taking her own life.'

'I am sorry that I am so useless at taking care of the house,' said my wife, whose name is Griselda

'Ah! I am glad you are taking action after what happened

Poor Mr Hawes felt more and more guilty about taking the money from the collection.'

The army was certainly taking things seriously.

I saw an empty boat, very small and far away, moving down the river and, taking off most of my wet clothes, I swam to it

There were one or two carts with refugees going along Oxford Street, but the news was spreading so slowly that Regent Street and Portland Place were full of people taking their usual Sunday night walk

After trying unsuccessfully to get onto a train at Chalk Farm my brother came out into the road, pushed through the hurrying lines of vehicles, and had the luck to be at the front of a crowd which was taking bicycles from a shop

He was told that the Midland Railway Company had started running trains again, and was taking people north from St Albans

With these it was taking pieces of metal out of the cylinder and laying them on the earth behind it

At Waterloo I found that free trains were taking people to their homes

'No, it's just that women allow them to behave the way they do instead of taking some freedom themselves.'