Example sentences of "could not take [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he could not take its mythology too seriously . |
| 2 | Ruth could not take her eyes off him . |
| 3 | He continued to look at her and she could not take her eyes off him . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But she could not take her eyes off him . |
| 6 | She could not take her eyes off Heathcliff . |
| 7 | Julia could not take her eyes off the beautiful mare . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | There was something strange about these and they seemed to scare me though I could not take my eyes away . |
| 11 | Although ostensibly listening to what Jonadab was saying , he could not take his eyes off Sarah . |
| 12 | Willie could not take his eyes off him . |
| 13 | He noticed a sketch I had been doing of Miss Oliver , and could not take his eyes off it . |
| 14 | Alec could not take his eyes off her . |
| 15 | But he could not take his eyes off the photograph in front of him . |
| 16 | Jim Lester , a portly Tory MP , who was partly hidden by a pilaff , could not take his eyes off her . |
| 17 | Edward undid his tie , but for the life of him he could not take his eyes off her . |
| 18 | When the AA van arrived they informed him they could not take his car home unless he or his girlfriend were in the recovery van . |