Example sentences of "could [adv] take [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was true enough : the Company needed to sell about £100,000 of goods a year in West Africa to carry on enough trade to cover its fixed costs for shipping and for its forts ; it was never able to manage this and in a good year it could only take about 6,000 slaves across , which might be worth £90,000 . |
| 2 | Because he only had to be in the same room for her nervous system to run haywire , and she could only take so much punishment . |
| 3 | Their problem is not that they could not take on this responsibility before but that they were not asked to . |
| 4 | At the end of the first year Susan realised that although the business was profitable she could hardly take out enough money to live on because she was heavily reliant on her bank and creditors already . |
| 5 | Well I could I could er I could probably take on that task if you wish , cos it 's easy enough to actually write letters to people , cos I can just ask my secretary to do that . |
| 6 | It might not succeed in stopping Home Rule , but it could certainly take up enough time to stop a Plural Voting Bill from getting through . |