Example sentences of "that [pron] could take [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My next-door neighbour agreed to take her , but I promised I 'd do my best to get back in time so that I could take her myself . ’ |
| 2 | And having noticed that there is nothing whatever in this ‘ I think , therefore I am ’ which assures me that I say the truth , other than that I see very clearly [ je vois très clairement ] that to think it is necessary to be , I judged that I could take it as a general rule that the things which we conceive very clearly and very distinctly [ que nous concevons fort clairement et fort distinctement ] are all true … |
| 3 | ‘ I knew , the moment I put the phone down from making that call to England , that not only did I love you with every breath of my being , but there was no way that I could take your being married to anyone but me . ’ |
| 4 | His first ministry was brief , but when his government was defeated it was clear that nobody could take his place : for three months George II had to run the administration without any parliamentary ministers — an operation that was not as impossible as it would have been seventy years later , though not nearly as normal as it would have been seventy years earlier . |
| 5 | She thought then that she could take anything but that he should know she loved him . |
| 6 | If there was a swell on the east side where the the grating but there was also a gully landing which you get into the gully but it had to be a very fine day to get into the gully and there was a derrick there er you could a crane there that you could take everything out of the boat but it had to be a very fine day to get into the gully . |
| 7 | They were very attractive and they did have the advantage that you could take them down and plunge the whole thing in water and wash it and er |
| 8 | Not that you could take what was left of your mind off the sockets and the junction boxes . |
| 9 | But I do know that the real Louise Müller was removed some time ago so that you could take her place . ’ |
| 10 | I think if I was a rich peasant I would be using that to argue that you could take my rented land , it was |
| 11 | if you passed , if you failed the eleven plus and if you were clever enough , you could take an exam , like an entry exam to go , it 's sort of if you improve from eleven to fifteen you could take an entry exam to go into grammar school then , so that you could take your G C E's |
| 12 | They are still the most glamorous club in Britain , but our confidence is so high now that we could take them apart . |
| 13 | It was all quite civilised and there were so many of us girls there that we could take it in turn to do the observations . |
| 14 | the only reason that we could take his |
| 15 | The Bohemians thought of the halls as catering essentially for the masses but they were delighted that they could take their place beside them as part of what Vachel Lindsay was to call ‘ a jocular army ’ . |
| 16 | The Rosenblooms had long known that they could take her with them anywhere in society . |
| 17 | The electricity people called to ask my permission to put poles in my land so that they could take it even higher , and I agreed to it . |
| 18 | She senses what he 's after : she ca n't exactly explain it , but she knows that he could take her away . |
| 19 | For the next hour Fabia was alternately angry that he could take her to such heights only to call a halt when she responded too readily , and despair that he had made such a nonsense of her that she had n't known where the dickens she was . |