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Example sentences for "cannot take"

  • I cannot take er--the responsibility of advising you as to a course of action.

  • I am not so absorbed in Humphrey's career that I cannot take an interest in yours.

  • How far they prove effectual I cannot take upon me to say, but suppose that they are of the nature of our stimulant medicines, and that the direction of the passion is of course indiscriminate.

  • But, said I, I am so loaden with the burden that is on my back, that I cannot take pleasure in them as formerly.

  • And yet we cannot take up again the position occupied by an earlier age; we cannot take up a past phase unchanged.

  • I cannot take leave of the cathedral without commending, in strong terms of admiration, the lofty flying buttresses of the exterior of the nave.

  • I like such things, and there is not a fence or a ditch in the neighborhood which I cannot take.

  • I cannot take Archie, or do very much for him either.

  • I know the legal arguments that can be made,--that after a court has decided that it cannot take jurisdiction in a case, it then has decided all that is before it, and that is the end of it.

  • I cannot take it into my own hands without producing inextricable confusion.

  • Reverend Father, I cannot take it away from those to whom it now belongs," said Dino, faltering, and growing red and white by turns.

  • You seem to think I cannot take care of myself.

  • I cannot take up the trade of a footpad, though disbanded soldiers turned robbers are common enough in Spain.

  • Any other day it would be different, but to-day I cannot take anyone in.

  • The house is full," he said gruffly, "and I cannot take in strangers.

  • I cannot take up a few propositions, bind them into faggots, and say, "This is theology, and that is metaphysics.

  • I cannot take up work merely for the sake of taking it up.

  • But I cannot take it upon me to say, whether this can be said to have well begun in the present Ann.

  • Miss Ross had left her home without stating where she was going, or when she would return, I cannot take upon me to expatiate.

  • Something seemed to have infused fresh vitality into the girl's existence; but of Helen's sentiments I cannot take upon me to furnish an analysis.

  • Any other day it would be different, but today I cannot take anyone in.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    cannot afford; cannot attempt; cannot bear; cannot call; cannot come; cannot describe; cannot doubt; cannot escape; cannot forget; cannot give; cannot help; cannot here; cannot hope; cannot know; cannot pass; cannot possibly; cannot read; cannot refuse; cannot represent; cannot tell you how; common enough; easily discovered; much frequented; oral instruction; positive knowledge; when nearly