Example sentences of "could [not/n't] take [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They told him in no uncertain terms that he could not take a holiday whenever he felt like it . |
| 2 | Already evidence exists of underprovision of respite care : one recent study reported that a quarter of carers had not had a holiday for more than five years , and another found that 40% of carers could not take a break when they wanted . |
| 3 | Was she a child then still , that she could not take the decision for herself ? |
| 4 | Since Ferdinand 's instructions to the Junta of Government ( which he left in Madrid to govern while he was at Bayonne ) were to cultivate French friendship at all costs , and since these counsels were not modified until after the outbreak of a popular rising , it meant that official Spain could not take the leadership of the instinctive movement against France . |
| 5 | This meant that Mr Wright and the Darlington Cricket Club secretary Mr Brian Dobson could not take the West Indian official team portrait . |
| 6 | Those who could not take the Pioneers at any price had the option of training for essential civilian work . |
| 7 | The benefit of the system was that it demanded that society intervened for those who were under great pressure and could not take the stress . |
| 8 | Anyway as I indicated , we could not take the chance . |
| 9 | I remembered so painfully the anguish of estrangement , and I felt I could not take the risk of spoiling our amity , nor of living with memories of discord , should he be killed . |
| 10 | There were plenty of excuses ( she had endured a very bad journey to Paris , the going was appallingly heavy , and her regular jockey William Lane was injured and could not take the ride ) , and she resumed her winning ways later that month with an easy stroll in the Free Handicap at Newmarket . |
| 11 | Mary would work like a slave , but a woman could not take the animals to market , though he knew of widows living alone , soldiers ' wives mostly , who farmed on in a rough way by themselves , their cattle straying and mixing with the herds of others , their oats still standing in November … |
| 12 | She could not take the radio , but as before she had acknowledged that . |
| 13 | Sharpe reckoned it could not take the enemy longer than an hour to overrun the fragile line of Dutch-Belgian troops , and in one further hour they could have fortified the crossroads to make them impassable to the British . |
| 14 | I just could n't take a journey in a confined space with a man who pronounced Sgurr na Ciste Duibhe as Sisty Dub and did n't think it was as good as the Lake District . |
| 15 | ‘ Not in the wine bar , though , ’ she insisted hastily ; she could n't take a chance on Luke walking in . |
| 16 | But when I was seeing him he offered to write me a check for five million pound , I said , I could n't take a check for five million pound because I was a to me . |
| 17 | You could n't take a boat out in that wild sea alone . |
| 18 | I then er , we then broke away and went up to the er , I suppose it 's the , I do n't know what part of the , but it 's the Dales , that 's where I moved to then and then to because my dad could n't , getting on in years , he could n't take the hills up and then from I got married and we moved into this address here and then that was the day after war was declared that I got married . |
| 19 | There are some doubts about one or two others so I just could n't take the chance of McCall getting an injury . |
| 20 | You surely must realize that I could n't take the responsibility … if anything should have happened to his daughter … ’ |
| 21 | I could n't take the responsibility for what was happening . |
| 22 | ‘ But she could n't take the withdrawal symptoms so she went back to them , ’ he said . |
| 23 | The standard hydraulic pto , in particular , could n't take the torque . |
| 24 | The hire desk made a phonecall on the first credit card that he offered , and then told him that he 'd exceeded his limit and they could n't take the charge . |
| 25 | ‘ We could n't take the risk of blowing so much money on someone we are unsure of , ’ said Toulon 's manager Roland Courbiss , ‘ I wanted Charlie in the team but we had to be sure because of his reputation . ’ |
| 26 | I should have reported it first , but I thought I could always plead urgency if I was disciplined again , and I could n't take the risk of being denied access . ’ |
| 27 | But , most of all , she could n't take the risk of Naylor guessing , from some thoughtless word or look , that she thought the world of him . |
| 28 | The worst of it was , she could n't even afford to apologise , could n't take the risk of opening up to this dangerous man . |
| 29 | She could n't take the risk any more . |
| 30 | He sums up Revie 's reign by saying ; ‘ He enjoyed ‘ dishing it out ’ but could n't take the pressure when the tide turned . |