Example sentences of "[pron] take [adj] notice " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Immediately , though I took little notice of it when I was in Cheshire , I admit . |
| 2 | Nobody takes much notice . |
| 3 | Rotten pun , but seriously , it drives the neighbourhood wild when the thing rings for hours , and most importantly , nobody takes any notice if it happens too often . |
| 4 | Oh well that 's because nobody takes any notice about |
| 5 | nobody takes any notice of poor Simon , even though he is the only one admitting that they are only afraid of one another . |
| 6 | They produce press releases and they send it off and they feel terribly bitter and twisted and unhappy because nobody takes any notice of it , but they do n't realize that what they 've actually produced makes no sense at all to the person receiving it on the other end . |
| 7 | But as the same people said that at every quarter day for the past year nobody took much notice . |
| 8 | Nobody took much notice . |
| 9 | Nobody took much notice . |
| 10 | Nobody took much notice . ’ |
| 11 | Nobody took much notice of them or expected them to start up any form of conversation , so Charles was surprised when Eric addressed him by name . |
| 12 | He lingered on , drinking more heavily , occasionally interrupting proceedings with a bit of the old invective , but nobody took any notice . |
| 13 | He had a hammer and banged it against the walls to restore order but nobody took any notice of him . |
| 14 | Nobody took any notice of a dead dog , but it had a timing device that blew a charge against the gate . |
| 15 | Nobody took any notice , but official letters were always polite . |
| 16 | Fay : ‘ Mr Potts , he was ever such a laugh : but when he got in a temper he used to really shout and nobody took any notice . ’ |
| 17 | Oh God , have I forgotten how poor old Eddy sat at his desk in Hand and Ball Court on the last day of his life , talking about those past times which were most important to him , and how nobody took any notice ? |
| 18 | ( Goibniu and Fiachra Broadcrown sniggered at this , but nobody took any notice . ) |
| 19 | Cleo cried out , but nobody took any notice of her . |
| 20 | She 's getting on now , but she takes good notice of whatever anyone says . |
| 21 | And even if she had cried out , who takes any notice of anyone shouting , even screaming ? |
| 22 | Is n't this better for tra would n't you take more would n't you take more notice of the traffic and travel if it was like this every time ? |
| 23 | Do n't you take any notice of George . |
| 24 | Do n't you take any notice of what they say , ’ said Melissa tartly . |
| 25 | She took little notice until it reappeared on her own side , and drew up alongside her . |
| 26 | They drank wine , consulted the menu , ordered , but she took little notice of what she was eating , trying to calm the turmoil within her . |
| 27 | ‘ D' you mean to say , Elaine , that you took more notice of her than he did ? ’ |
| 28 | It is true to say that the only overweight animals are those cared for by humans who take more notice of the time on the clock than of natural feelings of hunger . |
| 29 | He added tranquilly : ‘ No one takes much notice of them . ’ |
| 30 | A woman spends many years charring in Cremona ; she saves all her money to buy an apartment for her son when he gets married ; her no-good husband , the boy 's father , reappears after years and demands assistance ; she refuses ; when the son is engaged , she relents and negotiates subsidies to her ex-husband , for a suit , a car , a wedding-present ; she organizes a big reception to which she invites all her former employers ; nobody comes except a tennis-star ; there is no sign of the husband ; her lawyer tells her that the girl her son is marrying is her husband 's mistress and that he had already taken over the apartment ; she reflects a moment and decides to carry on with the reception , everything is all right , ‘ if no one notices anything , it is as though nothing has happened ’ ; passers-by are invited to join the wedding-party , which they happily do because the tennis-star is present ; the husband turns up in his new car ; no one takes any notice of him because no one knows who he is , except for the dealer he sometimes does jobs for , who tells him all new cars lose half their value as soon as they are bought and end up on the scrapheap anyway . |