Example sentences of "not take [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could not take him back to America with her , he could not take her home . |
| 2 | No , Miss Cress told herself , and wanted to tell the daughter , angrily , no , this woman is not senile , she is not in need of a geriatric bed in a hospital , I could not take her , it would be ’ morally wrong , a sin . |
| 3 | Apparently it did not take her long to provide services for both husband and wife . |
| 4 | ‘ Could you not take her up to the castle , sir ? ’ |
| 5 | When she was ready for discharge the youngest son said he could not take her back . |
| 6 | He could not take her to bed in his double , conjugal room , but , no doubt Amaranth had a single somewhere . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Although the Russian qualifier is ranked only 238 , she won her first two tournaments ever on grass and Durie did not take her lightly . |
| 9 | Oh right can we not take her home ? |
| 10 | Then when I die she will not take me to her bosom to rest . |
| 11 | It did not take me long to realize that this was the man I had needed so badly . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | My imagination could not take me to such depths of anger , so I implored her to tell me what was happening before Kareem ( my husband ) paid his afternoon visit . |
| 14 | The doctors are appalled by the press , everybody is appalled ; the nurse is freaking out and saying she will not take me to the operating theatre because they will take my picture and harass me ; she is terrified somebody is going to hit her , so in the end my lawyer wheels me because nobody else dares . |
| 15 | It did not take me long because the big grin with which Yorkshire 's finest snooker player greeted me told its own story . |
| 16 | Slumber does not take me . |
| 17 | Let him not take me in his arms . |
| 18 | ‘ People do not take me seriously and it is very frustrating , ’ said Richard , of in Zetland Street . |
| 19 | Why not take ours ? |
| 20 | She could not take him back to America with her , he could not take her home . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Rose did not take him at his word . |
| 23 | As the enemy closes in , the hero , safe in the knowledge that his comrades have made it to safety , shoots himself so that the enemy may not take him alive . |
| 24 | The Storys leave for Rome at the end of this month and can not take him with them . |
| 25 | Certainly the intelligence services did not take him seriously . |
| 26 | As a free man in a growing country , it did not take him long to see the potential . |
| 27 | He thrust the clothes brush into the bewildered Prendergast 's hand , patted him on the shoulder , and made tracks for the Personnel Director 's Office by a circuitous route that did not take him past his own . |
| 28 | His repugnance , for example , does not take him to the point of seeking to prevent those who wished to take part in war from doing so . |
| 29 | 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 ’ . |
| 30 | 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 , |