Example sentences of "[not/n't] take [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Apparently it did not take her long to provide services for both husband and wife .
2 It did not take her long to work out that the meal was going to cost her considerably more than she 'd saved by spending a rather miserable night in rue Roland .
3 She could not take him back to America with her , he could not take her home .
4 Oh right can we not take her home ?
5 Although the Russian qualifier is ranked only 238 , she won her first two tournaments ever on grass and Durie did not take her lightly .
6 ‘ People do not take me seriously and it is very frustrating , ’ said Richard , of in Zetland Street .
7 It did not take me long to realize that this was the man I had needed so badly . ’
8 It did not take me long to wish that we Christians might have a similar preparation for confirmation and acceptance as a full worshipping and working member of the Church .
9 It did not take me long because the big grin with which Yorkshire 's finest snooker player greeted me told its own story .
10 His mother came , but she did not take him away , and his Uncle Charlie told him that if he wrote another letter like that he would get a thrashing , so he stayed and coped .
11 As a free man in a growing country , it did not take him long to see the potential .
12 It did not take him long .
13 Summers does attempt to list his subject 's achievements ; it does not take him long .
14 But it did not take him long to sort out what was wrong with it .
15 Certainly the intelligence services did not take him seriously .
16 ‘ He told them to leave the house immediately and it would appear that they did not take him seriously but laughed when he said this .
17 Richard Dorment of the Daily Telegraph said : ‘ What a pity a dealer did not take him aside and tell him the work he proposed to exhibit was unexhibitable … a visual boredom so total that no amount of metaphor or allusion can give it the kiss of life ’ .
18 Napier was not the only sheriff to find that there was more honour than reward in his office , for according to the petition submitted by Erskine of Alva , who had been appointed sheriff-depute of Perthshire in 1748 , his salary of £250 per annum did not take him very far , for his county ,
19 It did not take him very long to decide in favour of the second course .
20 ‘ You can not take them away .
21 He said there were items which he had wanted to buy but Mrs Knight did not want to sell and he did not take them away .
22 ‘ It is important that they do not allow the depressing things they have heard to affect them ; that they do not take them home with them . ’
23 Can we not take them home ?
24 It did not take them very long to get the hang of it , scraping carefully with the blade at an angle of forty-five degrees and pausing from time to time in order to wipe it clean .
25 Let's play our childish games since we are children ; but at the same time , let's not take them too seriously .
26 I would imagine it will not take them too long to become a world power again . "
27 It did not take them long to inform us that we had arrived with their traditional enemies , the Bugis .
28 If their attackers were in any strength it would not take them long to get through .
29 It did not take them long to make their minds up : mobility , Jessica said , was the nicest thing she knew about being well-off .
30 ‘ I suffered an attack two years before I came here — I shall not take it again , that is certain .
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