Example sentences of "could [adv] take her " in BNC.

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1 Ruth could not take her eyes off him .
2 He continued to look at her and she could not take her eyes off him .
3 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 .
4 But she could not take her eyes off him .
5 She could not take her eyes off Heathcliff .
6 Julia could not take her eyes off the beautiful mare .
7 Over the next few afternoons Mrs Phelps could hardly take her eyes from the small girl sitting for hour after hour in the big armchair at the far end of the room with the book on her lap .
8 Bernice could n't take her eyes from the tall woman , and realized that her companions , too , must have been staring .
9 She could n't take her eyes off it .
10 He ate so swiftly that Libby could n't take her eyes off him ; she remembered all they were told about behaving properly and eating slowly .
11 She could n't take her eyes off the livid scratch on his nose .
12 But doctors say a smaller chair could n't take her body weight .
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