Example sentences of "[pers pn] did [not/n't] take [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did not take it seriously . ’ |
| 2 | I did not take it personally , but I thank my hon. Friend none the less . |
| 3 | listen to this , I 'm becoming increasingly aware that my landlady 's been making sexual passes at me , I did n't take them seriously until she climbed in the shower with me |
| 4 | Yeah but I did n't take it then . |
| 5 | I did n't take it seriously until a holiday took me to the Blakeney area of north Norfolk in 1974 . |
| 6 | It would be a little discreditable of me if I did n't take it seriously ! ’ |
| 7 | In the taxi that had waited all evening in the piazza for them , the Captain glanced sideways at the point of glowing ash and said politely , ‘ I hope I did n't take you away from something more important this evening . ’ |
| 8 | You did n't take it then no . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Blushed and took her hand she did not take it away . |
| 11 | That 's where I see her when I think of her , though she did n't take me there at first . |
| 12 | Hell , he could n't even ask , having told her the next time she would have to take the initiative , but if she did n't take it soon he was going to go out of his mind ! |
| 13 | I think I knew already that she did n't take it seriously . |
| 14 | Well you know what kids , we kind of laughed at this you know , we did n't take it as serious . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | to me that 's where they took her the first time , they did n't take her right on the the roads , you know , the first time she 'd |
| 17 | They let me read them , they did n't take it away . |
| 18 | Germans were confidently walking in the streets when the alarm sounded but they did n't take it seriously and failed to go to air raid shelters . |
| 19 | He said there were items which he had wanted to buy but Mrs Knight did not want to sell and he did not take them away . |
| 20 | For Darwin , this estimate was embarrassingly short , although fortunately he did not take it too seriously . |
| 21 | He did not take it too seriously , but nonetheless he wheeled his pony and made off at speed , back towards the fringes of Clocaenog , where he had passed the last of the prince 's watch . |
| 22 | He did n't take her seriously . |
| 23 | He was just as much of a mad f—er as anyone else on the paper — he recalls sulphate-fuelled weeks spent in East Germany , for example — but he did n't take it too seriously . |
| 24 | She waited silently behind the door , her face flushed , half excited , half disappointed that he did n't take it further by knocking for admittance , until she came to her senses . |
| 25 | I was just going to say that I 'm sure he it 's not that he did n't take it seriously . |
| 26 | Apparently it did not take her long to provide services for both husband and wife . |
| 27 | It did not take her long to work out that the meal was going to cost her considerably more than she 'd saved by spending a rather miserable night in rue Roland . |
| 28 | It did not take me long to realize that this was the man I had needed so badly . ’ |
| 29 | It did not take me long to wish that we Christians might have a similar preparation for confirmation and acceptance as a full worshipping and working member of the Church . |
| 30 | It did not take me long because the big grin with which Yorkshire 's finest snooker player greeted me told its own story . |