Example sentences of "not take [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Could you not take her up to the castle , sir ? ’
2 Apparently it did not take her long to provide services for both husband and wife .
3 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 .
4 She could not take him back to America with her , he could not take her home .
5 Oh right can we not take her home ?
6 Although the Russian qualifier is ranked only 238 , she won her first two tournaments ever on grass and Durie did not take her lightly .
7 When she was ready for discharge the youngest son said he could not take her back .
8 ‘ People do not take me seriously and it is very frustrating , ’ said Richard , of in Zetland Street .
9 It did not take me long to realize that this was the man I had needed so badly . ’
10 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 .
11 It did not take me long because the big grin with which Yorkshire 's finest snooker player greeted me told its own story .
12 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 .
13 He murmured something to the effect that youth must be served , ‘ John Donne ’ , but the interviewer did not take him up on his quotation .
14 As a free man in a growing country , it did not take him long to see the potential .
15 It did not take him long .
16 Summers does attempt to list his subject 's achievements ; it does not take him long .
17 But it did not take him long to sort out what was wrong with it .
18 She could not take him back to America with her , he could not take her home .
19 Certainly the intelligence services did not take him seriously .
20 ‘ 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 .
21 Richard Dorment of the Daily Telegraph said : ‘ What a pity a dealer did not take him aside and tell him the work he proposed to exhibit was unexhibitable … a visual boredom so total that no amount of metaphor or allusion can give it the kiss of life ’ .
22 Napier was not the only sheriff to find that there was more honour than reward in his office , for according to the petition submitted by Erskine of Alva , who had been appointed sheriff-depute of Perthshire in 1748 , his salary of £250 per annum did not take him very far , for his county ,
23 It did not take him very long to decide in favour of the second course .
24 ‘ You can not take them away .
25 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 .
26 It appeared last night that some of the staff entitled to 10 to 15 per cent of the shares might not take them up , but all the key board members will , thus ensuring the success of the scheme .
27 ‘ It is important that they do not allow the depressing things they have heard to affect them ; that they do not take them home with them . ’
28 Can we not take them home ?
29 Tea breaks and chats in the yard and dart games in the pub make life pleasant ; the fact that nobody will do anybody else 's job gives everybody security ; people 's aspirations do not take them out of their group , but concern the group as such ’
30 It did not take them very long to get the hang of it , scraping carefully with the blade at an angle of forty-five degrees and pausing from time to time in order to wipe it clean .
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