Example sentences of "could not take [pron] [prep] " 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 | He could not take her to bed in his double , conjugal room , but , no doubt Amaranth had a single somewhere . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 … . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | I wanted a space blanket even more , but I could not take anything from the Land Rover for myself until the next settlement . |