Example sentences of "she could take " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen , illustrated by Helen Oxenbury ( Walker Books , £9.95 ) Winner of the Smarties Award 1989 After one reading , Rosa gave this large format , handsome book her highest accolade ; she briskly wrote her name in the front and asked if she could take it to school ‘ to show Olga ’ , her favourite teacher . |
| 2 | Young Whizzquid and his City friends can not be expected to toil on Aunt Agatha 's behalf for nothing , and the spread between offer prices and bid — between what she puts in and what she could take out five minutes later — is around 6% . |
| 3 | Then she could take me backstage to meet her beautiful , talented , desirable sister , and who knows … ’ |
| 4 | Breeze was rather glad of the excuse to go out without Susan , because she could take this opportunity of returning Roger Kenyon 's wallet . |
| 5 | Or she could take one of her sleeping tablets . |
| 6 | If she works in a shop or office , she could take samples of her work to show her colleagues or she could offer to make a garment for a friend for just the price of the yarn . |
| 7 | It was inconceivable that she could take from Mrs Barnet anything that was rightly hers , nor did Ruth flatter herself that Joss Barnet 's interest in her was anything but transient . |
| 8 | Once she moved out , Pattie discovered that she could take care of herself and the baby and the sense of freedom was fantastic . |
| 9 | Yes , she could take him in , if he didna mind sharing a bed with Mr Hamilton , who was a pleasant young gentleman . |
| 10 | She heard him , incredulously , go on to tell her she could take herself off . |
| 11 | The first thing was to find a school for you three — for six months you had had no teaching , except what I could give you , and then kind Miss Budden , the headmistress at Auckland House school , Simla , said she could take you if I could come too and help her nurse about twenty children down with measles in the san. , because Matron was coping with some children with suspected diphtheria in another block . |
| 12 | I was really glad to be going out with Mary instead of Mum ; I do n't think Mary had ever asked if she could take me with her before . |
| 13 | She could take them along . |
| 14 | Demi , above , bought the rights to Patricia Cornwall 's book , Cruel And Unusual , so she could take the role of Dr Kay Scarpetta . |
| 15 | Mrs Mawdsley then asked administration manager Dave McCreary if she could take two weeks ' annual leave and a week 's unpaid leave to go on holiday . |
| 16 | She wished she could take him back with her . |
| 17 | A letter was received from Mrs. Hogan of Brighton asking if she could take over a sixteen-year-old blind boy , Arthur B. Her own son had died the previous year at the same age , and she said that she would ‘ do her best to make the lad happy , and find him light work in Brighton ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , one of them that caused the trouble , he has n't got a father , you see , so therefore … and he was mucking about and she told him to get out and of course he answered her back , which I do n't think she could take really . |
| 19 | I suggested that she could take the two pages if she wanted , for her reference . |
| 20 | There 's reasons for it , of course … there always are … but she could take the wrong step … out of cussedness . ’ |
| 21 | She wished she could take her son and Maisie 's children , and go from this place . |
| 22 | The court might be in a foreign country , there to try a citizen of yet a third nation , but it was her element and she was relieved to be back in it , even though she could take no active part in the trial . |
| 23 | He had been instrumental in getting Volkov released so she could take up her appointment in Geneva . |
| 24 | A little fat nun had once cried in the heat of Egypt 's afternoon , in the accents of County Cork , that she wished she could take off her flesh and sit by the well in her bones . |
| 25 | She lowered the window by the leather tab and clicked the lip into the groove of the embrasure to hold it down so she could take some photographs ; several boys climbing over the fence on the railway banks hooted at the sight of her camera and posed , arms akimbo , pretence starlets . |
| 26 | Oh hell , she said to herself and glared morosely at the scene before her , wondering why it was that while , in grief , she could still enjoy a good book or , say , a well-grilled sole , she could take no pleasure in a beautiful landscape . |
| 27 | There were two routes she could take . |
| 28 | Was there a middle course she could take ? |
| 29 | Meggie helped Mum , Granny sat there , wishing she could take on any job , as usual . |
| 30 | Celia wished she could take back the words . |