Example sentences of "could [adv] take [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you prove your ability there are good career prospects and , further promotion could soon take your salary up to £22,135 . |
| 2 | If I could just take your address . ’ |
| 3 | Well , he could just take his insults and his offers of assistance and — |
| 4 | My men could hardly take their eyes off them . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | When he looked up the light was pearly and the sky a blue so tender he could hardly take his eyes off it , with the result that on several occasions he collided with people coming the other way . |
| 7 | While stressing IBM good behaviour , IBM chairman John Opel in a speech in London in May 1984 told Europeans that IBM could always take its investment elsewhere . |
| 8 | It could certainly take us years to completely assimilate and comprehend them . |