Example sentences of "could [adv] take [pron] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Well , I was thinking we could perhaps take her to Blagden Hall now that 's open . |
| 2 | It is possible to imagine that one of them was brightening with the low cunning of unscrupulous greed and that the other was already stepping into that heavy gloom of shame and guilt which could only take him to the hospital or worse . |
| 3 | A five year old boy from Bosnia who 's paralysed from the waist down could soon take his first steps with the aid of calipers . |
| 4 | If you prove your ability there are good career prospects and , further promotion could soon take your salary up to £22,135 . |
| 5 | He said that intellect took one so far but could not take one the whole way . |
| 6 | Ellen was emphatic : — I could not take myself to a Foreign Land as you did Lily and never wanted such a thing and though you would be there that alone would in no way satisfy me and I should be afraid . |
| 7 | She could not take him back to America with her , he could not take her home . |
| 8 | No , Miss Cress told herself , and wanted to tell the daughter , angrily , no , this woman is not senile , she is not in need of a geriatric bed in a hospital , I could not take her , it would be ’ morally wrong , a sin . |
| 9 | When she was ready for discharge the youngest son said he could not take her back . |
| 10 | He could not take her to bed in his double , conjugal room , but , no doubt Amaranth had a single somewhere . |
| 11 | But he could not take its mythology too seriously . |
| 12 | My imagination could not take me to such depths of anger , so I implored her to tell me what was happening before Kareem ( my husband ) paid his afternoon visit . |
| 13 | Ruth could not take her eyes off him . |
| 14 | He continued to look at her and she could not take her eyes off him . |
| 15 | The maid who opened the door to them could not take her eyes off the great fat woman in the biscuit straw hat with big cloth roses on its brim , and the cape that just covered her shoulders and showed an expanse of blue cotton bosom , the like she had never seen before . |
| 16 | But she could not take her eyes off him . |
| 17 | She could not take her eyes off Heathcliff . |
| 18 | Julia could not take her eyes off the beautiful mare . |
| 19 | But precisely because Edward I could not take their consent for granted and in his later years preferred to tap the clergy 's wealth instead by mandatory papal levies , the survival and role of an independent clerical body for the gathering of taxation remained uncertain at his death . |
| 20 | She could not take him back to America with her , he could not take her home . |
| 21 | One of them , Machik , ‘ manifested great inventiveness , cunning and insidiousness in his struggle against the Russian authorities , and the voevody could not take him at his word ’ . |
| 22 | She could not take him to Nan-Nan who would soon be , if she were n't already , fussing , supervising the nurserymaids , the care of the baby … . |
| 23 | My insomnia became chronic whenever Dana stayed the night , simply because I could not take my eyes away from his sleeping form beneath the bedside lamps . |
| 24 | There was something strange about these and they seemed to scare me though I could not take my eyes away . |
| 25 | I wanted a space blanket even more , but I could not take anything from the Land Rover for myself until the next settlement . |
| 26 | Although ostensibly listening to what Jonadab was saying , he could not take his eyes off Sarah . |
| 27 | Willie could not take his eyes off him . |
| 28 | He noticed a sketch I had been doing of Miss Oliver , and could not take his eyes off it . |
| 29 | Alec could not take his eyes off her . |
| 30 | But he could not take his eyes off the photograph in front of him . |