Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [pers pn] take " in BNC.

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1 They visited the homes of the women , talked to husbands , fathers and fathers-in-law who did not want them to take part in any struggle , and they urged the women themselves to assert themselves .
2 The the only job which I told Neil I do not expect him to take is working for waste disposal because he did that , this time last year and before he started he was full of big talk about you make a lot of money and you get a lot of tips at Christmas he found that you do not make a lot of money and you do not get generous tips at Christmas
3 In Commission of the European Communities v. Hellenic Republic ( Case 127/87 ) [ 1988 ] E.C.R. 3333 , 3348 , para. 7 the court referred to its established case law : see , inter alia , Hellenic Republic v. Commission of the European Communities ( Case 57/86 ) [ 1988 ] E.C.R. 2855 to the effect that the fact that member states retain certain monetary powers does not entitle them to take unilateral measures prohibited by the E.E.C .
4 I can not believe it took two weeks to discover that three of our Olympic athletes had taken drugs .
5 I 'm not expecting you to take this on personally .
6 In discussions with me , representatives of all the major brewing companies have admitted that the orders did not force them to take those actions against the tenants .
7 ‘ That 's why I 'm not letting you take me to the airport . ’
8 Be sure to remember to wear your smart trousers — and I 'm not having you taking your shirt off ! ’ ? ?
9 Be sure to remember to wear your smart trousers — and I 'm not having you taking your shirt off ! ’ ? ?
10 It does not require it to take care of particular individual or sectional interests , since these will often conflict .
11 ‘ Why do you not let me take my participation a stage further ? ’
12 ‘ But my chief at Liverpool CID would not let me take part , because he was away on holiday himself at the time , and required me to stand in for him .
13 " Whatever you do do not let them take the book back without admitting that your name is in it . "
14 His wife has given up work as a secretary to stay at home with their three young children , yet the law does not allow him to take up her full tax allowance .
15 On the other hand , his political opponents suffered too : Lord Lytton 's speech was so bad that many people had great difficulty in understanding him , and because his deafness did not allow him to take part in debates , everyone was often forced to wait until the next day for any reply from Lord Lytton because he would insist on reading what had been said in Hansard , the Parliamentary publication , before making his own speech .
16 He left because he had decided that his conscience could not allow him to take part in military action arising from the Gulf crisis .
17 He replaced Gen. Jorge Moreira Rojas [ see p. 37851 ] , who had stated that " professional ethics " did not allow him to take orders from the new Defence Minister , Klinsky , who as a rear-admiral was subordinate to him .
18 Southwark Crown Court 's senior judge , Gerald Butler , QC , said recently enacted legislation did not allow him to take the man 's 30-year-old record into account .
19 The treaty of Brest-Litovsk , which the military superiority of Germany forced upon the young Soviet State at the end of the year , revealed the limits of its power : ‘ The past keeps fast hold of us , ’ Lenin observed gloomily at the 8th Party Congress , ‘ grasps us with a thousand tentacles , and does not allow us to take a single forward step , or compels us to take these steps badly . ’
20 I told her that what she said was a load of bollocks , and one thing led to another and my mum told me she was n't allowing me to take Natasha with me .
21 Do n't make me take two .
22 So anything you do n't want me to take into account when it 's being marked , put a line through it , otherwise I will .
23 You do n't want me to take all this now ?
24 You do n't want me to take it outside do you ?
25 ‘ I do n't want him to take the ball off the back four and stroll around in areas where play might break down .
26 ‘ And I do n't want him to take the rap for something he did n't do . ’
27 And you did n't want her to take a job in London . "
28 They did n't want us to take all day about it ( hurry up ) .
29 And I do n't want you taking any short cuts through the new Lab .
30 ‘ The English — and of course I do n't want you to take this personally — the English are peculiar in that they have very little culinary self-esteem .
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