Example sentences of "did not take [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , although I visited her regularly , taking little presents ; remembered her birthday and saw to it that her sons did the same ; looked after her once when she was ill ; and respected my husband 's love for her , I did not take much notice of her suggestions : ‘ My mother seems to think … |
| 2 | One approach is to hire a sociologist to peer into the black box ( the quotation from Heusch 1981 : 423 , and p. 46 in this book about the role of the sociologist is apposite here ) , in a similar way to anthropologists who sought to tell colonial administrators how to avoid irritating the people they governed ( although , according to Feuchtwang 1973 , the administrators did not take much notice of what they had to say ) . |
| 3 | As Erica Macdonald admits , it did not take much to make the girls steer away . |
| 4 | It did not take much to reason that international capitalism had failed and that a new order must replace it . |
| 5 | My detectives had established your many moves and it did not take much intelligence to realise why . ’ |
| 6 | A study showed that the level of stress related illness among employees in a department which provided support as described was much lower than in a similar department that did not take such precautions . |
| 7 | He did not take many head blows . ’ |
| 8 | But it did not take many weeks of the Lancashire cotton famine ( due to the interruption of raw material supplies by the American Civil War ) to reduce even such a family to charity . |
| 9 | John Lade , later to be MP for Southwark , shortly after the passage of the Abjuration Act of 1702 , said " that his friends , meaning the Jacks , were milksops for kicking at oaths , asserting they should never be able to do anything if they , his friends , did not take all the oaths that could be imposed " . |
| 10 | First , it did not take all the development value . |
| 11 | Those who were closest to her were going to make sure she did not take that gift for granted . |
| 12 | Joan , over the last week , had applied calamine lotion , witch hazel , petroleum jelly , and had even contemplated using a sinister looking ointment concocted by Dotty , but did not take this final drastic step . |
| 13 | Davidson , who was used to him , did not take this seriously , and rightly so , for Baldwin 's next railway activity was to leave Chequers early on the Tuesday morning in order to catch the 8.55 from Wendover and be available to see first Stamfordham and then the King . |
| 14 | I note that the hon. Gentleman did not take this ideal opportunity to deny that he may have been involved in the passing to the press of a bogus document about the alleged future of InterCity . |
| 15 | At Great Dunmow Inspector Martin Reed said often people did not take enough care when leaving their cars , which could remain unlocked , or with keys in the ignition . |
| 16 | The teacher did not take these up but remained ‘ glued ’ to the program as an activity . |
| 17 | The mean extent of gastric metaplasia in 39 patients who were treated continuously ( >1 year ) with H 2 receptor antagonists was 19% ( range 0–88% ) and 15% ( range 0–88% ) in 53 patients who did not take these drugs . |
| 18 | I would not be so ungallant as to doubt the word of the hon. Member for West Bromwich , East today , but given the pressure that Labour Members placed on that Bill , a serious question mark would hang over any Labour Secretary of State who did not give way to pressure regarding the timetabling of a public inquiry procedure and who did not take some time to allow the result to be published or deliberated on . |
| 19 | But Joe did not take any notice . |
| 20 | JOANNA Greenside did not take any chances . |
| 21 | I did not take any banned substance and will continue to try and clear my name and resume my athletics career which was just beginning to flourish . ’ |
| 22 | I did not take any of that seriously , though I would have had to be ice all through to hear it with utter in-difference . |
| 23 | This policy meant that the USA did not take any special steps to control her deficit but instead allowed the balance of payments to deteriorate . |
| 24 | As his title suggests , his conclusions were based simply on reason ; in other words , they did not take any account of observations of the universe . |
| 25 | The people who heard the rumour and did not take any action are as guilty as the man who used the clenbuteriol . |
| 26 | I have checked with our Information Services manager and he tells me that Wimpey did not take any photographs of military airfields prior to or during the war years . |
| 27 | But he told me he did not take any clubs abroad with him . ’ |
| 28 | Hence the EC did not take any significant steps towards establishing the Common Market , despite the fact that the Treaty of Rome clearly committed the member states to achieving this objective . |
| 29 | Sometimes the king allowed subjects to take deer for themselves in his forests ; the warden 's duty was to see to it that they had a proper writ of warranty when they came to his forest , that they did not take more than the specified number , and that they took them in the prescribed manner . |
| 30 | The other question that needs answering is why the RCM did not take more care in choosing foster parents . |