Example sentences of "and [pron] [verb] not take [det] " in BNC.

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1 Like Paula , I thought they were old ledgers and I did n't take much notice .
2 I would not be so ungallant as to doubt the word of the hon. Member for West Bromwich , East today , but given the pressure that Labour Members placed on that Bill , a serious question mark would hang over any Labour Secretary of State who did not give way to pressure regarding the timetabling of a public inquiry procedure and who did not take some time to allow the result to be published or deliberated on .
3 general studies and that 's , you know , er she 's n not randy in that but she 's knows all the all the interesting bit , I du n no we have her for erm , yeah for that and she 's quite a laugh and she does n't take any shit from the boys at all .
4 and she did n't take any money
5 It was n't meant to be a cycling holiday and we did n't take any bikes with us , but Peter and Judy had a bike apiece for us to borrow .
6 I suppose I 've seen Matthew with the safe open , and I may have noticed the books , but this firm has been going for more than a century and one does n't take much notice of such things , one has grown up with them . ’
7 Also Keith thought he could n't have any children because he 'd been out with a girl for a year before I started going out with him and they did n't take any precautions and she never got pregnant .
8 And they do n't take any crap from anyone , I tell you !
9 And he did n't take much interest in my mother either and that put enough emotional pressure on her to maybe no , not be such a good mother as she might otherwise have been .
10 And he did n't take any notice of what she was asking or saying and he did n't take any notice of her at all .
11 And he did n't take any notice of what she was asking or saying and he did n't take any notice of her at all .
12 So it 's a And it does n't take all day .
13 You keep your teeth for life and it does n't take much to work towards this goal — just follow the advice given in this leaflet .
14 Otherwise , for a jingle of coin we can do you a selection of gory romances , full o fine cadence and corpses , pirated from the Italian ; and it does n't take much to make a jingle — even a single coin has music in it .
15 Appendages in the ‘ head ’ region often include powerful claws , and it does not take much imagination to conclude that these eurypterids were among the fiercest predators of their day .
16 And it does not take much for this dis-ease of the self to become disease of the body .
17 In other words , publishing commitments have to be substantial and it does not take much to sap confidence when the risk is so high .
18 To make the book come even more to life , the author introduces hypothetical characters , the Sportsman , the Visitor and the Engineer , and it does not take much imagination to think of their behaviour in driving or road design .
19 My detectives had established your many moves and it did not take much intelligence to realise why . ’
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