Example sentences of "could [adv] take a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So he said that they could perhaps take a look round to see were there any secluded windows anywhere or any openings where they might just squeeze through . |
| 2 | There were no recognised Departments of Education offering a full initial teaching qualification in any community language ( other than English or Welsh ) at the time of the LITE survey : bilingual school leavers with the determination to promote their language in the British school system could perhaps take a degree by treating their home language as a foreign language where such courses existed , but the available Postgraduate Certificate in Education ( PGCE ) courses could allow them to qualify fully only if they selected a main teaching subject other than their chosen language . |
| 3 | It seems that the church could perhaps take a lead in looking at the implications of suicide , and at possible ways of providing services to try and prevent it . |
| 4 | I wonder if I could just take a step back in conclusion and ask you a couple of rather broader questions , more general questions . |
| 5 | You could hardly take a woman to her own restaurant , but because of his limited social life he knew of nowhere better . |
| 6 | The leaving present given to an ambassador could still take a variety of different forms . |
| 7 | ‘ You could always take a dog . ’ |
| 8 | Could always take a dog for walk . |
| 9 | In this way she developed her instinctive talent as a fashion editor ; she could instantly take a detail from this and an idea from that , while keeping well within her overall style . |
| 10 | Having driven past in the usual manner , the driver then had to go through a second time in reverse so that the mourners on the other side could also take a look . |
| 11 | ‘ Completing your dog-training course could take a couple of months but it could also take a couple of years because of the waiting period . ’ |
| 12 | well my thoughts had cristalized that we would have to change the direction of er , we communicating with them as we 've done in the past , we could n't just use adverts that we might have used regional in a regional press , we had to pick out the point , in the , in the actual article so that four example there were six or seven points that had clearly been made , statements that had been made , I had to devise a scheme then , er , it was only a scheme in my thinking that actually , I had to devise a scheme that would pick up each of these points encounter them , now there was no way I could simply take an advert out and say , they said this , we say that because that would have had no credibility , so what I was thinking at that time is how we might be able to use some other form of being able to counter those six or seven points and I started to come up with an idea perhaps using a third party , because in our business , third party recommendation are very , very powerful and when selling to the elderly because they do not take , I 'm sorry , they take a long time to come to a decision , they mull over it and such like , they take a lot of influence from people , take advise from family , accountants , solicitors , bank managers and such like , so the idea of having a third party in a sense recommend then would have allowed us to get over those particular points , so that 's what was germinating in my mind at the time |
| 13 | With all the flowers- and the birds- and the presence of the Sea , the purity & brightness of your own heart could surely take a day nearly perfect . |
| 14 | Without that leverage , the RPF could either take a vow of self-imposed isolation ( in the hope that this would be rewarded by electoral victory in 1956 ) or risk its anti-system character by participating in parliamentary politics and even holding a share of power in coalition governments . |