Example sentences of "could [adv] take [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 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 | She could not take him back to America with her , he could not take her home . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | When she was ready for discharge the youngest son said he could not take her back . |
| 6 | He could not take her to bed in his double , conjugal room , but , no doubt Amaranth had a single somewhere . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She could not take him back to America with her , he could not take her home . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | 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 … . |
| 11 | But this — the group decision to put make-believe before reality — he could not take it in . |
| 12 | The Cleveland firm which installed the panelling for a drugs trial could not take it down until today at the earliest . |
| 13 | She could not take it in . |
| 14 | ‘ And even if it was , my guess is that our Addams Family friend could just take it off its hinges without trying . ’ |
| 15 | But at the end of the discussions between the project coordinator and the client , when you have actually helped him and led along , you could have this , or you could have that , or perhaps we could just take it to this stage , cost some options out and give you a recommendation . |
| 16 | See I could , I could just take it round the edge of your carpet , you know , just , if er , if you want me to , if you want me to I 'll , I can lift the edge of your carpet and put it down onto the floor |
| 17 | Because I could easily take you upstairs … " |
| 18 | No one could possibly take it seriously . ’ |
| 19 | For a moment she could hardly take it in . |
| 20 | At first , Edward Carrington could hardly take it in . |
| 21 | I would take well you could still take her some . |
| 22 | You could al you could always take her to the dent , is the other tooth in front of it or behind it ? |
| 23 | But you could always take me and fetch me back as you did before . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ It was partly wanting to say to my children that on one day a week I could always take them to school . |
| 25 | Or you could always take it off the hook , which has a similar effect . |
| 26 | and even if I ca n't take it up on the day , I could probably take it up the night before . |
| 27 | With Wally out of the band we could really take it seriously . |
| 28 | Some of them had to walk because you they they could n't take them in in in any conveyance at all because er it was over what they call the viaducts , you know and the big rushes and reeds , I told you about a chap hitting them did n't I ? |
| 29 | Bill knows he must go to John 's now and explain why he could n't take them to Disneyland , clear it all up before John dies . |
| 30 | ‘ Billy told me to use my hook I can hook well as well as jab and found Jason could n't take them . ’ |