Example sentences of "take any [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody 's even took any notice of it . |
| 2 | Check that he takes any medicines prescribed for him correctly . |
| 3 | Laws of Canute of 1020x1022 state : " It is heathen practice if one worships idols , namely if one worships heathen gods and the sun or the moon , fire or flood , wells or stones or any kind of forest trees , or if one practises witchcraft or encompasses death by any means , either by sacrifice or divination , or takes any part in such delusions . " |
| 4 | A new s 382B is also added ; this provides that , if the sole member takes any decision that could have been taken in general meeting , that member shall ( unless it is a written resolution ) provide the company with a written record of it . |
| 5 | If a snake is encountered no one takes any chances . |
| 6 | Compagnie des Machines Bull SA 's European labour-management committee has asked for a meeting with Gerard Longuet , French minister of Posts & Telecommunications , before he ‘ takes any decisions concerning [ our ] company , ’ according to La Tribune . |
| 7 | Section 12(1) states : … a person shall be guilty of an offence if , without having the consent of the owner or other lawful authority , he takes any conveyance for his own or another 's use or knowing that any conveyance has been taken without such authority , drives it or allows himself to be carried in or on it . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ Much too fast and he never takes any notice when I tell him to go slower , so I do my knitting . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Do too little and no one takes any notice ; do a vast number of papers and you may be accused of superficiality or lack of care . |
| 12 | And even if she had cried out , who takes any notice of anyone shouting , even screaming ? |
| 13 | Oh well that 's because nobody takes any notice about |
| 14 | Parsons seldom , if ever mentions the so- called black books , let alone takes any notice of what they , what they say . |
| 15 | nobody takes any notice of poor Simon , even though he is the only one admitting that they are only afraid of one another . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Any Uttlesford town of some size has got a comprehensive recycling centre now that takes any paper |
| 18 | She circled three times , then thought to herself , ‘ Maybe I should just take any exit — at least I 'll be heading somewhere . ’ |
| 19 | A court should take any map or plan , etc. into account when deliberating on the question of what is a highway . |
| 20 | Last year , after a fortnight 's holiday in California , his first for two years , he complained , ‘ My wife would n't let me take any work with me ’ . |
| 21 | He does not take any part in the actual slaughter . |
| 22 | ‘ No officer involved with the investigation of the case against the suspect may take any part in these procedures . ’ |
| 23 | Erm I mean some people say , quite wrongly , that it 's something that does n't take any part in the reaction but speeds it up , but how can it do that . |
| 24 | which we did , and I 'm pleased to say that they endorsed that that general position , in other words their not going to come to a conclusion whether or not they should take any part in the proceedings , whether they should intervene or seek to stop the project until much later in the day . |
| 25 | Such players , whose strength knows no moderation , require pianos that can take any excesses . |
| 26 | If this be so , surely the leaders of the Western world must take any proposals he makes for arms limitation extremely seriously ? |
| 27 | This can take any integer value between 0 and 100 . |
| 28 | Er we do n't take any offers |
| 29 | I did n't take any money with me . |
| 30 | We do n't even take any money off him for keep |