Example sentences of "[indef pn] could take " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a takeover campaign that has already seen vitriolic language , he responds to the charge that he is mounting the bid to enrich himself and his friends by saying : ‘ Nobody could take that as a criticism — this is an investor group . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Rather breathlessly , he told her that despite this , no one and nothing could take from them what had been . |
| 4 | But nothing could take the gloss off Townsend 's night of glory . |
| 5 | Nothing could take that from her , and so she clung to the memories . |
| 6 | How ever none of this really detracted from the pleasure of seeing and holding such a splendid fish — I had caught my two-pound roach , nothing could take that away from me . |
| 7 | ‘ Nothing could take you from me , or put aught between us . ’ |
| 8 | But she would have those things for ever ; she would have them in her head , in her memories and her dreams , and no one could take that away from her . |
| 9 | One could take the view , for example , that important constraints on social equality are imposed by the opportunities available in society , regardless of who avails themselves of them , and that we do not want a measure that is insensitive to such constraints . |
| 10 | Thus , one could take a random sample of the battalions first and then on through the companies and platoons until the actual individual soldiers were sampled only from a limited number of platoons instead of from the whole brigade . |
| 11 | By and large , those principles were soundly based although one could take issue with the question of ‘ full overhead costs ’ . |
| 12 | One could take home to mother |
| 13 | In that case the solutions that I have so far given to the first equation would no longer be acceptable , but one could take x=1 , y=2 , and z=1 . |
| 14 | ‘ I left because no one could take what he 's had to take ; surely he 'd have put a gun to his mouth by now ? |
| 15 | I do n't believe she heard me because she yawned , handed me the key and told me to hang it round my neck so that no one could take it from me . |
| 16 | As time went on , and particularly by the early Seventies , I began to question whether one could take this point of view in a situation where things were going on which I clearly saw to be ‘ bad ’ . |
| 17 | On the other hand , if one can not predict the behavior , one could take that as an operational definition that the organism has free will . |
| 18 | No one could take death by force . |
| 19 | Gavin stuck his head out from under the duvet , giving me cause once more to marvel at the impressive way the lad 's shoulders merged into his head with no apparent narrowing in between ( this appeared to be the principal physical benefit bestowed by the game of rugby ; the acquisition of an extremely thick neck , just as the most important thing one could take to the sport was a thick skull , and from it an intact one still in satisfactory two-way communication with one 's spinal cord ) . |
| 20 | But I do n't consider it really music ; it 's not music because anybody could take those words and learn how to say them and it would sound just as good with anybody else saying them . |
| 21 | After all , the work was done , and anyone could take Famagusta now who was willing to pay the price in lives from both sides . |