Example sentences of "[pers pn] could not take [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Ellen was emphatic : — I could not take myself to a Foreign Land as you did Lily and never wanted such a thing and though you would be there that alone would in no way satisfy me and I should be afraid .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 There was something strange about these and they seemed to scare me though I could not take my eyes away .
5 I wanted a space blanket even more , but I could not take anything from the Land Rover for myself until the next settlement .
6 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 .
7 She could not take him back to America with her , he could not take her home .
8 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 … .
9 He continued to look at her and she could not take her eyes off him .
10 But she could not take her eyes off him .
11 She could not take her eyes off Heathcliff .
12 She could not take it in .
13 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 .
14 She could not take him back to America with her , he could not take her home .
15 When she was ready for discharge the youngest son said he could not take her back .
16 He could not take her to bed in his double , conjugal room , but , no doubt Amaranth had a single somewhere .
17 But he could not take its mythology too seriously .
18 But this — the group decision to put make-believe before reality — he could not take it in .
19 Although ostensibly listening to what Jonadab was saying , he could not take his eyes off Sarah .
20 But he could not take his eyes off the photograph in front of him .
21 Edward undid his tie , but for the life of him he could not take his eyes off her .
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