Example sentences of "could [not/n't] take [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said that intellect took one so far but could not take one the whole way . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She could not take him back to America with her , he could not take her home . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | When she was ready for discharge the youngest son said he could not take her back . |
| 6 | He could not take her to bed in his double , conjugal room , but , no doubt Amaranth had a single somewhere . |
| 7 | But he could not take its mythology too seriously . |
| 8 | My imagination could not take me to such depths of anger , so I implored her to tell me what was happening before Kareem ( my husband ) paid his afternoon visit . |
| 9 | Ruth could not take her eyes off him . |
| 10 | He continued to look at her and she could not take her eyes off him . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But she could not take her eyes off him . |
| 13 | She could not take her eyes off Heathcliff . |
| 14 | Julia could not take her eyes off the beautiful mare . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She could not take him back to America with her , he could not take her home . |
| 17 | One of them , Machik , ‘ manifested great inventiveness , cunning and insidiousness in his struggle against the Russian authorities , and the voevody could not take him at his word ’ . |
| 18 | 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 … . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | There was something strange about these and they seemed to scare me though I could not take my eyes away . |
| 21 | I wanted a space blanket even more , but I could not take anything from the Land Rover for myself until the next settlement . |
| 22 | Although ostensibly listening to what Jonadab was saying , he could not take his eyes off Sarah . |
| 23 | Willie could not take his eyes off him . |
| 24 | He noticed a sketch I had been doing of Miss Oliver , and could not take his eyes off it . |
| 25 | Alec could not take his eyes off her . |
| 26 | But he could not take his eyes off the photograph in front of him . |
| 27 | Jim Lester , a portly Tory MP , who was partly hidden by a pilaff , could not take his eyes off her . |
| 28 | Edward undid his tie , but for the life of him he could not take his eyes off her . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | But this — the group decision to put make-believe before reality — he could not take it in . |