He merely took his hand back to himself and sat down.

Or had they merely taken their battle to another part of the world?

We were on the watch and merely took advantage of the situation.

But she had merely taken it and shut the door.

He merely took advantage of something that had happened two years back.

We are merely taking advantage of all our available resources.

It would be some little store that merely took a message.

Unable to eat anything, I merely took a deep drink of water.

"It will take longer than one day merely to collect their weapons."

"I was merely taking advantage of it to state my own opinions."