Example sentences of "could [not/n't] [adv] take " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could not properly take account of my experience of separatism without acknowledging my feelings of being swept away by this sort of fervour . |
| 2 | A strategic site if it comes forward would be away from the main urban areas and would only be available for developments that could not otherwise take place on the I five allocations . |
| 3 | She had her difficulties , too , or she would have been with him by this ; but she was as much the prisoner of circumstances as he , and could not well take ship until she had established a firm and safe regime for her young son . |
| 4 | How true , for Leicester could not even take yesterday 's three points for granted until the end . |
| 5 | The scientists could not even take for granted that human factors were causing the bay to deteriorate ; cryptic changes in the natural world could , for all that was known , have been responsible . |
| 6 | A lord taking over a forfeited estate could not entirely take for granted the good will of the affinity , at least in the short term . |
| 7 | A lord taking over a forfeited estate could not entirely take for granted the good will of the affinity , at least in the short term . |
| 8 | You must understand that , upon discovery of such an unsavoury correspondence , your master and mistress could not possibly take the risk of leaving their young children in your hands . |
| 9 | That would be a major constitutional and economic decision which we could not possibly take here and now . |
| 10 | Many of the benefits of programmes , or decision units , were unable to be quantified so that the ranking process could not always take place . |
| 11 | The strawberry jam she 'd made had n't set , she could n't even take a telephone message . |
| 12 | Could n't even take a joke . |
| 13 | It is i i I I we have a wide range of changes that would flow out from that so you could n't just take a change to Cornwall which would then create an oversized Devon seat , I quite accept that and we 've argued from the first that this would have to be part of the review as a whole . |
| 14 | I just went over there and said it was okay , th I 'd put in a letter and they still could n't just take it off . |
| 15 | All I knew , in the heat of that moment , was that I had to protect you from me , had to take heed of that barely grasped truth that I could n't perhaps take your virginity and then just walk away . ’ |
| 16 | or saying we could n't really take to their child , |
| 17 | you could n't really take him to a tribunal could you , 'cos ya |
| 18 | there 's no slow start on the reverse I got it while I was working in Leicestershire so I could n't really take it back it 'll cost me more in petrol |
| 19 | They brought presents of ham , nuts , cakes and bottles of wine for the journey , most of which we could n't possibly take with us as we had no room in our suitcases . |