Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] take [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have that freedom because the law has not taken it away , though it does limit its exercise . |
| 2 | Well that has n't take him long , did it ? |
| 3 | Mum Lynn said at their home in Faversham , Kent : ‘ We have kidded him since he bought them for school camp that he has n't taken them off . |
| 4 | Decided not to take it out tonight . |
| 5 | If the hint was directed at the boy , he seemed not to take it . |
| 6 | If we ca n't see a way to market it effectively then we would probably decide not to take it on . |
| 7 | ‘ All were offered alternative jobs at Point of Ayr colliery and decided not to take them , ’ she said . |
| 8 | It was still expensive , but he could n't afford not to take it . |
| 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 | Apparently it did not take her long to provide services for both husband and wife . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Although the Russian qualifier is ranked only 238 , she won her first two tournaments ever on grass and Durie did not take her lightly . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Rose did not take him at his word . |
| 17 | Certainly the intelligence services did not take him seriously . |
| 18 | As a free man in a growing country , it did not take him long to see the potential . |
| 19 | He thrust the clothes brush into the bewildered Prendergast 's hand , patted him on the shoulder , and made tracks for the Personnel Director 's Office by a circuitous route that did not take him past his own . |
| 20 | 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 ’ . |
| 21 | 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 , |
| 22 | It did not take him long . |
| 23 | He murmured something to the effect that youth must be served , ‘ John Donne ’ , but the interviewer did not take him up on his quotation . |
| 24 | But it did not take him long to sort out what was wrong with it . |
| 25 | It did not take him very long to decide in favour of the second course . |
| 26 | ‘ 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 . |
| 27 | Elisabeth heard the words but did not take them in consciously . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It did not take them long to inform us that we had arrived with their traditional enemies , the Bugis . |
| 30 | It did not take them long to make their minds up : mobility , Jessica said , was the nicest thing she knew about being well-off . |