Example sentences of "can [adv] take [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are like people at a meal who can only take a bite from each course . |
| 2 | I 'm very shy and I can only take a lot of people in small doses . |
| 3 | At the moment I can only take the family thing so far : I can talk about certain things , but then everything becomes a blank because I still feel too close to it all . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , it is n't the sort of place you can just take a look at . ’ |
| 5 | The adventurers can just take the damage and shut the door behind them ; the puppets wo n't follow , they 'll just hurl a torrent of abuse at the cowardly adventurers . |
| 6 | It can not be said , on the other hand , that he goes very deep or that we can ever take the idea of Michael 's art very seriously . |
| 7 | You can also take a conversation where all the sentences are complete and go through and make all the deletions which make it natural . |
| 8 | Activities can also take the form of drama , role-play or debate . |
| 9 | You can also take the train : a mini-train , billed as Europe 's highest small railway ( it could just as well be smallest high railway ) , which coils for no less than ten very lofty , lonely kilometres around the spurs of rock to a distant terminus from which you can walk to the Lac d'Artouste , nearly 200 acres of it , in a stonily unforgiving ring of granite mountains . |
| 10 | This can be annoying sometimes because jobs that would only take a little while can often take a lot longer . |
| 11 | Even within the work environment you can often take a lift rather than use stairs . |
| 12 | This is where counsellors can often take the opportunity of expressing some of their own thoughts , feelings and experiences as a means of legitimizing the subject for discussion . |
| 13 | The conversation can sometimes take a detour , via the Animal Line ( this extends to the rest of the family ) : ‘ Do we have to have all these bloody animals , the house is like a zoo … |
| 14 | Transport into central London from here is relatively straightforward : you can either take the East London Tube line from Surrey Docks station ( five minutes ' walk away ) or take the river bus from the pier right outside the marina when the route reopens later this season . |
| 15 | But the Commission believes that no radio or television presenter can adequately take the place of a live teacher , and that no school should depend almost wholly on a centralised choice of music , particularly of hymns or songs . |
| 16 | They 're quite flexible , because he can actually take the income from the P E P if he wants to increase his er income as he goes along . |