Example sentences of "he can take " in BNC.
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| 1 | He can take some comfort in the fact that , while his mistress works on becoming music 's ‘ Name of the 90s ’ , he can fully indulge his passion for roast chicken . |
| 2 | It 's not the severity that worries him but his inability to universalize the verdict and therefore take it to himself as he can take ‘ Vous l'avez voulu , Georges Dandin , ’ the thing of Molière 's Dostoevsky liked to quote . |
| 3 | He can take heart from the events of 1966 . |
| 4 | He can take no more pleasure from a second initiative that is making its rounds on the Hill . |
| 5 | But North himself , on the point of abandoning the operation , begging to be moved on ‘ to other things ’ , made plain the point of everything that had gone before : ‘ Wd very much like to give RR two hostages that he can take credit for . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I think Neil Kinnock will probably stand down quite soon , ’ said Mr George Galloway , MP for Glasgow Hillhead : ‘ He has reached the summit of where he can take the British Labour Party . ’ |
| 7 | However , he is likely to feel much more satisfied if he can take an active part in looking after the plants . |
| 8 | A few successful trips to restaurants will not only be enjoyable for the patient , but they will boost his confidence and help him to realize that he can take part in normal social life . |
| 9 | Stanley has been going to Scourie for more than twenty years and knows every single blade of grass and stone , by name ; he can take you to a loch and point out precisely where you will catch fish and where you wo n't , to the inch , and Stanley is never wrong . |
| 10 | His case raises some immensely difficult issues : issues about death and dying , issues about the appropriate moral and legal responses to be made when a man who has received the best that modern medical technology can offer decides finally that he can take no more . |
| 11 | ‘ He can take a clock and put it back together again . |
| 12 | The three front men appear to have worked out a rota so that when one of them tired of the constant leaping about he can take a breather while the other two step in and compensate with eye-catching leaps of their own . |
| 13 | He can take on a back row and come out trumps , giving good ball sooner or later for his backs to benefit . |
| 14 | But any court action is bound to hang ominously over him , even though he can take some comfort from Mr Key , who added : ‘ There was an assessor at the game from the Premier League and the incident was mentioned in his report . |
| 15 | Jimmy Quinn looks like landing the jockeys all-weather crown and he can take another step towards that landmark by winning the Milton Handicap on Westfield Moves . |
| 16 | Lastly , perhaps the biggest danger of electronic coursework is the possibility of a virus attack , but if the marker is aware of the problem he can take reasonable preventive measures . |
| 17 | And the Substitute had better be with me — tell Bacci he can take my car down to Florence , I do n't really need him and the Substitute can take me back with him … |
| 18 | ‘ Well , Archie has a boat , and he says he can take us out to the bird islands , and I 'm sure we could get him to take you somewhere in the Land-Rover where you can fish . |
| 19 | Now DEC has re-affirmed its commitment to OSF/1 , it 's as keen as mustard to spread the gospel , and Straub for one is busy readying proposals he can take to OSF hierarchy . |
| 20 | With South Africa back in the international fold , maybe Jonty Rhodes will find he can take the Centenary Olympics by storm in his other sport , hockey . |
| 21 | He shares an Honda RC30 with brother Edwin and has a VFR750F so he can take his wife . |
| 22 | After breakfast at the palace all the inmates are thrown out , whatever the weather , and the only place he can take his child is outside : " Usually I take my little boy at weekends to the fair at Whitley Bay , or I take him on the metro and we sit at the front — he loves trains . |
| 23 | The genius of the football supporter is that he has managed to convert something as unappetizing and unpromising as an English football season into something from which he can take pleasure . |
| 24 | If he can take control of the Highest Science , the consequences could be cataclysmic . ’ |
| 25 | He can take it out and look at it . |
| 26 | Then he can take her quietly into the conservatory at the same time as Mrs Hampton leaves the dining-room . ’ |
| 27 | We decided to present him with a small token which he can take to his new life , and keep in memory of his bachelor days and the friends he has left behind . |
| 28 | She was like a cured alcoholic who finds he can take a drink without again becoming addicted . |
| 29 | ‘ He thinks he can take us there . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ The aggrieved consumer needs an accessible local service to which he can take his troubles and where he will receive a realistic appraisal , a measure of help in presenting his case , or a pointer to the next step . |