"take" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- He took my silence for refusal to tell him, and accepted it with no more questions.
- The winner says, 'I take your silence to mean that you are in agreement with me'.
- As she'd hoped, he took her silence for an affirmative.
- He took my silence as a rebuff and didn't say another word.
- She didn't answer, and he took her silence as permission.
- To which she says nothing at all, and I take her silence for submission.
- She seemed to take his silence as an urging to go on.
- She did not know how to reply, but he apparently took her silence for agreement.
- When I did not respond she took my silence to mean the worst.
- He went on to name a figure, and took Merrill's silence as acceptance.
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