The system takes you through it a step at a time.

Do what you're told and the system takes care of you.

On the first day the system does not take effect.

His system had taken just about all it was going to.

"I've had about all the coffee my system can take for the next couple of years."

"The system took from people the responsibility of what was going on in their own lives," he added.

But the new system does not take account of that, he said.

"But there's been a decision made that the system can take only so much at one time."

But the entire system, he said, will take longer to perfect.

But there was nothing I could do about it; the system took me in hand.