Example sentences of "[pron] could take " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fully dressed , midnight butterfly in this light of day , we hold each other , grind , baby , grind so I could take a chunk out of your neck by way of breakfast . |
| 2 | But how , when he had nothing that I could take by force , steal , hide , break in front of him , tear up or trample underfoot , to vent my rage and spite ? |
| 3 | Cale also had misgivings about setting Thomas 's poems to music , ‘ because they sound really beautiful and I did n't know whether I could take something with so much noise in them , so much built-in jazz , and maintain it . ’ |
| 4 | I asked the soldiers if I could take a photograph and was told : ‘ Only if you keep moving . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Well , by Wednesday I 'm clear of the Committee , and I could take him to a Regional Office . |
| 6 | If I could take up my pen again and find some hard , satisfying work it would be the better for me . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I could take you across a desert , ’ I said . |
| 8 | His agitation seemed an aspect of my fading dream , and it was several moments before I could take in what he was saying . |
| 9 | It was more than I could take . |
| 10 | Are there other measures I could take to improve its cooling . |
| 11 | However , in the tourist centre of Cuzco I could take my knowledge of its markings , no further . |
| 12 | At gym lessons I needed to organise my changing routine so that I could take off my outdoor shoes , slip my feet immediately into my gym shoes and , even before I tied my gym-shoe laces , put my outdoor shoes into my satchel hoping that they would stay there throughout the lesson . |
| 13 | My pleas fell upon deaf ears — that was the deal , I could take it or leave it . |
| 14 | Each night I could take out the Vitou dog , a fine little white fox terrier called Mitsy . |
| 15 | As the summer came I could take the pram along the Hastings promenade , and meet up with an old form mate of mine from school days . |
| 16 | I could take John Gordon to many areas where disrespect for the environment has been virtually institutionalised after an initial piece of industrial dereliction has blotted the landscape . |
| 17 | My whole thinking , every waking moment should have been concentrating on the 100 metres in which I was still convinced , despite losing to Carl in Madrid earlier in the season , that I could take the gold medal . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm sorry but I 'm afraid there is no way I could take an untrained girl onto my books . |
| 19 | If I wanted I could take some revenge on him , which would also — some puny power — be a bitter reproach to my own pointless life . |
| 20 | Zephyr was a definite yes , a dog I was proud to own , obedient , gentle , one I could take anywhere . |
| 21 | My daughter was beyond Play Group when punch card machines became popular , so I asked the mother of her school friend ( who ran such a group ) if I could take jumpers to show her mothers . |
| 22 | Next time the Snows are on the programme : ‘ It would be nice if you and I could take them on and split them up , ’ Mr Wilson said . |
| 23 | Er … would you by any chance have a room I could take for the night ? |
| 24 | Left to its own devices and trimmed out , I could take hands off the yoke , making minor heading corrections with rudder . |
| 25 | And having noticed that there is nothing whatever in this ‘ I think , therefore I am ’ which assures me that I say the truth , other than that I see very clearly [ je vois très clairement ] that to think it is necessary to be , I judged that I could take it as a general rule that the things which we conceive very clearly and very distinctly [ que nous concevons fort clairement et fort distinctement ] are all true … |
| 26 | ‘ I would only go if I could take Terry , ’ he said . |
| 27 | ‘ I do n't think I could take the excitement , doctor . ’ |
| 28 | I could take him to sea and keep him clean for three months , but how do you know that the moment the court case is done he wo n't just stuff his nose full of crap again ? ’ |
| 29 | I could n't tell what was happening so I asked them to move so I could take the coal into Granny 's house . |
| 30 | Do you think I could take Monday off , please ? |