Example sentences of "do [not/n't] take [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for the way in which he presented his case to me , although I hope that he did not take away from our meeting any belief that I was totally persuaded by the argument that he put forward . |
| 2 | May I also say that the Department 's concern would be taken more seriously if it did not take over three months to get replies from the Secretary of State to hon. Members who draw his attention to accusations that have been made in relation to what goes on in Castlereagh ? |
| 3 | The young Gian did not take up his position in society , however , preferring to travel and to spend his money on his collection . |
| 4 | The Conservative Party did not take up any definite stand on comprehensive schools when it came into office in 1979 . |
| 5 | Only 600 schools did not take up the offer of half-price computers . |
| 6 | Sinn Fein did not take up their seats but instead formed a ‘ Provisional Government ’ of the Irish Free State . |
| 7 | Before yesterday 's hearing Mr McTear , gasping for breath , said his goal was to ensure youngsters did not take up the habit and go through his ordeal . |
| 8 | Just two mops were placed on the tank floor , and as the water depth was only 6½″ the mops did not take up too much tank space . |
| 9 | When he returned to England from Calcutta , which he did as soon as he was well enough to travel , he did not take up the glorious and interesting life that was waiting for him there , as one would have expected . |
| 10 | Some nations , like Great Britain , with a large quota , did not take up all their places , while others , like Italy , had a waiting list . |
| 11 | He was in Paris from June 1720 until November 1721 , but the ministry had little confidence in him and appointed first John , second Baron Carteret ( later Earl Granville , q.v. ) , as ambassador extraordinary in January 1721 , a post he did not take up , and secondly Sir Luke Schaub [ q.v. ] as ambassador the following month . |
| 12 | He did not take up the point . |
| 13 | Last year the majority of students did not take up their loan facility . |
| 14 | All in all , exports did not take up more than a fifth of the increase in the output of the economy as a whole . |
| 15 | Third , when the provincial gentry still did not take up the cause of reform with alacrity the tsar bypassed them by appointing a majority of keen reformers to the Editing Commissions . |
| 16 | Presumably killers did not take kindly to amateur detectives . |
| 17 | The Grocers did not take kindly to the breakaway and , with the support of the Lord Mayor , the Commons were approached to revoke the decision . |
| 18 | Ranulf and the lay brother were left behind as Thomas explained that the Picti were secretive people , hostile to those races who had pushed them from their lands and so did not take kindly to strangers . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , however humble the business , the City did not take kindly to outsiders trading within its boundaries ; William Charles had a bit of bureaucracy to sort out before he could feel safe and settled . |
| 20 | The rest were written off to the Chinese , who did not take kindly to violation of their air-space . |
| 21 | A bachelor who did not take kindly to children under any circumstances , he found the atmosphere at Four Winds appalling . |
| 22 | But these were a tiny minority of the West European population and European governments did not take kindly to idealists who believed that a European parliament and an American-style single market could be created swiftly on a continent whose linguistic , cultural and socio-economic differences had been ingrained over centuries . |
| 23 | These Sephardic Jews did not take kindly to newcomers , especially to European or Ashkenazi Jews , unless they came with large sums of money . |
| 24 | Some strong-minded women , however , of whom my mother was one , did not take kindly to being parted from their most precious possession . |
| 25 | Above all , they did not take kindly to the notion of becoming citizens of a European Union . |
| 26 | ‘ Very similar , in fact , to the way yours did earlier this evening — Melissa did not take kindly to your remarks about her . ’ |
| 27 | Such men did not take kindly to orders and supervision , and were indeed often beyond effective control , except by the collective of their workshop . |
| 28 | Although he might on one level enjoy his fame and success , his own tendency to withdraw from the world turned such fame into a kind of game which he was happy to play but which he did not take altogether seriously . |
| 29 | Gregory argues that if God did not take on a humanity like ours , then we are not redeemed ; for it was through sharing our humanity that Christ redeemed it . |
| 30 | This did not take on , but from the time of the Pioneers some red-figure artists sometimes draw in outline on a white slip , most often on the interior of a cup where there was not the problem of the receding surface . |