Example sentences of "[pron] had n't take [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or if I 'd seen it , I had n't taken it in . |
| 2 | She had n't taken him seriously when he said he was giving up . |
| 3 | Ben had mentioned his withdrawal and she had n't taken him too seriously . |
| 4 | Well , it had n't taken him long to show his true colours ! |
| 5 | It had n't taken them long , but she knew instinctively as they hurried into the hollow gloom of the station that they had missed yet another train . |
| 6 | It had n't taken her long to discover that they had nothing whatsoever in common . |
| 7 | Angelica reckoned that she was a reasonable judge of people — one could hardly be a nurse for twenty years without picking up one hell of a lot of insight — and it had n't taken her long to decide that Alina Peterson was either dead straight or very plausible . |
| 8 | Perhaps , but it had n't taken her long to work out what the boy really was . |
| 9 | It had n't taken her long to clear out her room at the nurses ' home this morning , and her father had come over at lunch to take several boxes of things back to his suburban home for storage . |
| 10 | best of it is he had n't taken it out of the |
| 11 | Mr Evans listened in bulging-eyed silence , and when he still did n't speak , even when she had finished , she thought he had n't taken it in . |