Example sentences of "[pron] can take [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It comes up just short of the green , but he can putt it and he says , ‘ I can take four putts from here and still win . ’ |
| 2 | and erm you know , and I said Carla needs it for work anyway so Dave said I 'm gon na while I 'm on holiday I 'm gon na do all the stupid jobs , so I can take that computer in |
| 3 | Anyway , rather than attributing it to my childhood , I prefer to believe that I was born into the world with greater or lesser faculties than other people and that I can take full responsibility for them . |
| 4 | I may try to shrink myself to an infinitesimal point of thinking Ego to which all spontaneous process is external , but the spontaneous is always springing up at the centre of me , thrusting me forward or dragging me back , and it is only at the periphery that I can take full control of it . |
| 5 | ‘ I had a lot more left at the end , ’ he added , ‘ and I can take several seconds off my time in a fast race in Rome . ’ |
| 6 | This process , which can take several decades in open country , may be contrived in only a few years in a garden by reversing the natural scheme of things . |
| 7 | Such an ability would be of more than merely theoretical interest : there are specialists , detectives one might almost say , who can take enormous quantities of program in a lower-level language ( not binary numbers , but normally machine code or something a little ‘ higher ’ ) and make plausible guesses as to what they actually do at a higher level of description ; or rather , given that they are told what the program was designed to do , work out how it accomplished the task and by what ‘ higher-level ’ steps . |
| 8 | Now the Marais Poitevin is a pleasantly low-profile tourist attraction where you can take canal-boat trips from villages that have hardly changed in the 15-odd years I 've known them : Maillezais , with a huge and rather dull ruined abbey , and Coulon , where I first ate the delicious local version of moules marinieres called mouclade . |
| 9 | Choose one with a tape at least 3.5m ( 12ft ) long , marked with both metric and imperial measurements ; it 's a good idea to choose one with a lock so you can take long measurements without the tape coiling up . |
| 10 | Most instruction is PADI ; you can take advanced courses on board , but only qualified divers ( SAA , BSAC , PADI , etc ) can take extended cruises . |
| 11 | You can take that tin that you got in er you can take that tin as a pencil case that you got pardon ? |
| 12 | You can take that rubbish off that chair and wipe it , will you ? ’ |
| 13 | To a point at least , you can take each moment of inner soul searching as a sign that you are winning . |
| 14 | YOU can do something about the situation , YOU can take personal responsibility for conserving the worlds finite resources , by not consuming meat and animal products . |
| 15 | Having learnt the ‘ language ’ , you can take full advantage of the many facilities available , your ultimate aim being to gain a sound knowledge of the principles of husbandry and become expert in the many practical skills . |
| 16 | So , so you can take full authority of this ? |
| 17 | Jason says that you can take any group down the course and give them a thrill you do n't have to be good and special needs groups such as blind people can also have a go … |
| 18 | Cos even National Savings cycle over a five year period , and what you want to achieve is money coming back into your hands regularly over that period so you can take another look at what you 're doing . |
| 19 | As to Broughton moor , we shall do all that we can to take environmental considerations into account . |
| 20 | Whilst we can take suitable precautions within the Library to protect books , we are unable to protect publications on loan to staff , or indeed staff 's own copies of leather-bound books within the Herbarium . |
| 21 | In three alter the amounts calculated to read as follows , I hope that we can take that block in three as one since it all follows from what 's gone before . |
| 22 | And then we can take appropriate action from there . |
| 23 | We can take two people from each yacht , and course members join us afloat from 10am to 5pm each day for 4 days during the first week of a Villa-Flotilla holiday . |
| 24 | Reports : A copy of the report for the library ( two would be even better … ) from which we can take bibliographic information for listings . |
| 25 | We can take this argument to its logical conclusion and apply it to normal , ‘ own ’ genes . |
| 26 | If we can take full advantage of the limited opportunities presented in a depressed market , we shall create a springboard for our future prosperity . |
| 27 | Not that we can take any joy from declaring ‘ I told you so ’ . |
| 28 | As an initial pointer towards this counter-movement within respectable opinion , we can take some remarks by Robert Baden-Powell , the founder of the Boy Scout movement , in an address to a conference on juvenile crime . |
| 29 | However , if our policies once allow for the possibility of the human race existing for ever , or into the indefinite future , one can take average happiness over all future time as the effective goal , even from the totalistic point of view , since the contribution to quantity of happiness from population size will anyway be maximal . |
| 30 | The kids are born in the next year with the coming of spring and summer , so that they can take full advantage of the brief period when food is relatively plentiful . |