Example sentences of "not taken him " in BNC.

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1 Young Daniel 's death had been as great a tragedy , but had not taken him like this .
2 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 .
3 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 …
4 The Villa Fiesole was a fairly big house and yet it had not taken him long to find the box .
5 It had not taken him long , Ashley thought wryly .
6 I reckon poor old Charlie was glad I had n't taken him into partnership .
7 His Mum had n't taken him to work with her since last year .
8 She had n't taken him seriously when he said he was giving up .
9 It was unlikely that the boy had got out , even if DeVore had n't taken him .
10 Well , it had n't taken him long to show his true colours !
11 Ben had mentioned his withdrawal and she had n't taken him too seriously .
12 well there is that would n't taken him went off to the ch
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