Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] [not/n't] take [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's a fabulous guy and very funny , but it took a long time , and I do n't take credit for it , but it took a long time to put him in a situation where I felt that he was at maximum ‘ comfortableness ’ , so that his shyness — and he was very shy — was overcome . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't take payment by drastic plastic , I 'm afraid . ’ |
| 3 | If I do n't take control of things at once , she thought , I never will . |
| 4 | Cos I have n't taken paracetamol for ages . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm surprised you do n't take lunch with Mike 's secretary , ’ Rob remarked , holding open the door . |
| 6 | The argument is that you only have one life , that you are the most important person in the world and that if you do n't take responsibility for your own development , who else will ? |
| 7 | ‘ It 's difficult to say that you do n't take notice of criticism , because you ca n't avoid taking notice of it . |
| 8 | no offence meant and I I really hope that you do not take offence in that way . |
| 9 | Some viruses can be so vicious that if you do not take care of yourself for a couple of days when you first fall ill you could spend three weeks or more under par . |
| 10 | But you do not take account of the consumption value these improvements have for your neighbours . |
| 11 | Anyway , the position now is that if you do not take silk at the right moment , it may mean that you have to continue working much too hard for your time of life ; on the other hand some barristers who take silk repent it , for they find too late that their services in the more expensive class of advocacy are not in demand . |
| 12 | Mrs Vendrely , mother of Alexander , seven , Ryan , two , and Lianne , five weeks , said : ‘ I am disgusted because , as the wives of US servicemen , we are not eligible for any state benefits and we do n't take advantage of the public services . |
| 13 | We do n't take time over it . |
| 14 | They do n't take advantage of the state of the economy . |
| 15 | And pro tabacco company groups question Research fund 's figures claiming they do n't take account of other factors contributing to deaths . |
| 16 | The reaction can also be represented by an ionic equation : In this equation the sulphate ions , have been removed since they do not take part in the reaction . |
| 17 | Note , however , that they do not take account of post-1985 changes . |
| 18 | Like Lockwood they base their analysis on market and work situations , but they do not take account of status situation . |
| 19 | Socio-cultural anthropologists do not need to be expert anatomists or geneticists or specialists in the biology of nutrition but they are likely to talk a lot of nonsense if they do not take account of what experts in such matters have been able to discover . |
| 20 | However , police forces reject the Home Office figures because they do not take account of many cases in which a caution is not recorded . |