Example sentences of "could [adv] take the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | A ministry that enjoyed royal confidence could generally take the House of Lords for grated , and provided it did not prove incompetent or seek to impose excessive taxation , " its position was unassailable in the Commons . " |
| 2 | Now we could just take the pattern of responses out of there as being some classes . |
| 3 | To say that no man could ever take the place of Tony is to say that I 've never got over his death . ’ |
| 4 | A resident 's assessment could also take the form of an attempt to quantify the pecuniary benefit of owner-occupation . |
| 5 | These could either take the form of specific questions on the material contained in the case studies or they may be used to provide the base for students to be set exercises involving library research . |
| 6 | You can hear it in the jazz metal fills in ‘ Glam Slam ’ and ‘ U Got the Look ’ , in the way the West Coast power pop of ‘ I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man ’ subsides brilliantly into a brooding meander of acid guitar , in the raga anthem ‘ The Cross , … |