Example sentences of "[pron] had [not/n't] take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I had n't taken that opportunity I 'm sure I would never have done the things I later did in the refinery business . |
| 2 | It was nicely presented , moreover , and since I had n't taken any eating irons with me I am pleased to report that nobody asked me to cup my hands together to take my Cottage Pie a la Toulon ? |
| 3 | Until now she had n't taken much notice of him , so she could n't say for certain whether he was handsome or not . |
| 4 | However , on 30 June we were told in response to inquiries by the court that she had not taken solid food since 21 June and that , although she had maintained a fluid intake of 12 cups of tea a day , her weight had dropped from 39 kg. on 16 June to 35.1 kg. on 30 June . |
| 5 | She had not taken any precautions , nothing had been further from her mind . |
| 6 | This would affect the estimated 26,000,000 Russians in other Soviet and former Soviet republics by extending rights to those who had not taken local citizenship . |
| 7 | On Nov. 6 preliminary results showed that 87 per cent of those eligible had acquired citizenship , but 370,000 people who had not taken Lithuanian citizenship effectively became stateless or foreign citizens ; dual citizenship had not been permitted . |
| 8 | Very pleased to have yours and as I said in my last it 's your money , God has been very kind to you and you must n't fly up in the face of his kindness and I wish you had not taken this step , your Uncle Steve says property 's more trouble than it 's worth . |
| 9 | If we had n't taken that cash out , that is , if borrowings had been £150m more than they actually were , we probably would n't have got those covenant changes and the whole group could have gone under . ’ |
| 10 | If we had n't taken this step we could 've had fans from both sides mixing inside the ground and locked out on the streets . |
| 11 | But above all , the Conservatives were impaled on the difficulties of saying why , since they had run the country for 13 years , they had not taken certain actions sooner . |
| 12 | But she told me she would have been perfectly content if they had not taken this course . |
| 13 | At first Johnson denied it , in the sincere belief that he had not taken illegal substances , but when the doctor asked if he had taken Reactivin , Johnson endearingly replied in his strong Fife accent ‘ Aye , but they 're no drugs . ’ |
| 14 | Although he worked in accounts , he had not taken any examinations towards becoming a certified accountant . |