Example sentences of "not take him " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could not take him back to America with her , he could not take her home . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Rose did not take him at his word . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The Storys leave for Rome at the end of this month and can not take him with them . |
| 6 | Certainly the intelligence services did not take him seriously . |
| 7 | As a free man in a growing country , it did not take him long to see the potential . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | 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 , |
| 12 | One of them , Machik , ‘ manifested great inventiveness , cunning and insidiousness in his struggle against the Russian authorities , and the voevody could not take him at his word ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ I shall not take him to Court . |
| 14 | She could not take him to Nan-Nan who would soon be , if she were n't already , fussing , supervising the nurserymaids , the care of the baby … . |
| 15 | The Asian client 's basic pension does not take him or her above income support levels . |
| 16 | If you do n't want me to touch your child then I would not take him . |
| 17 | It did not take him long . |
| 18 | Summers does attempt to list his subject 's achievements ; it does not take him long . |
| 19 | He murmured something to the effect that youth must be served , ‘ John Donne ’ , but the interviewer did not take him up on his quotation . |
| 20 | But it did not take him long to sort out what was wrong with it . |
| 21 | It did not take him very long to decide in favour of the second course . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm not taking him home , ’ said Lee . |
| 24 | ‘ Not taking him home , ’ he said stupidly . |
| 25 | Richard looked at him in surprise , not taking him seriously . |
| 26 | Do you think if I , do you think if I gave him a fright , s see the , time he says he 's going off to his granny 's and I say away you go , and my mam says she 's not taking him . |
| 27 | He told us off for not taking him there |
| 28 | Young Daniel 's death had been as great a tragedy , but had not taken him like this . |
| 29 | However , although these disanalogies were fundamental , Darwin 's theorizing had not taken him out of the causal , lawful , deterministic Newtonian universe , into one as irreducibly acausal and absolutely probabilistic as is sometimes thought implicit in quantum mechanics . |
| 30 | He had been the weaker of a hatching of two males and would almost certainly have died within a few days if local ornithologists had not taken him from the nest and reared him themselves in the hope that a home might finally be found for him as worthwhile as the Zoo … |