Example sentences of "he did not take [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | For Darwin , this estimate was embarrassingly short , although fortunately he did not take it too seriously . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He did n't take her seriously . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I was just going to say that I 'm sure he it 's not that he did n't take it seriously . |