Example sentences of "[not/n't] taken a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marjorie Perloff has remarked that young American academics and students have a shared culture based on having read or studied the same books : ‘ they have , by and large , taken courses that expose them to writers like Freud , Nietzsche , and Marx , whereas the odds are that they have not taken a course in , say , the lyric poetry of Goethe , the fiction of Stendhal , or the theatre of Molière . ’ |
| 2 | I mean he 's not taken a turn for the worse or anything ? ’ |
| 3 | Apart from a cameo role in the ill-fated and so far unreleased Bloodhounds of Broadway , she has not taken a film role since the poorly conceived Shanghai Express and Who 's That Girl . |
| 4 | Some members who had not taken a journey by train and particularly by steam train for years came on one or both of our trips on the 22nd of June ( Central Wales Line ) and the 15th of July ( Severn Valley ) , to recapture the atmosphere . |
| 5 | Although the Labour Party as a whole has not taken a stand on the political position of the monarchy , Tony Benn has expressed the view that these two powers of the Crown should be transferred to the Speaker of the House of Commons because he stands apart from the political parties and is directly answerable to the Commons for the conduct of the chair in a way that does not apply to the position of the Crown . |
| 6 | When the p cos the press have been there I mean they ha they had their own stand , they 've not taken a photograph have they ? |
| 7 | The only staff who have not taken a drop in their pay packets are manager Steve Coppell , his assistant Alan Smith and the players . |
| 8 | The only staff who have not taken a drop in their pay packets are manager Steve Coppell , his assistant Alan Smith and the players . |
| 9 | Because saves are not taken a target with only 1 wound will be slain if it takes damage , there is therefore no need to roll the D4 to decide the number of wounds . |
| 10 | Had he not taken a vow of celibacy ? |
| 11 | Especially as apparently you 'd gone out in a hurry and not taken a handbag . |
| 12 | ‘ You have n't taken a shine to the girl , have you ? ’ |
| 13 | Tell them the company has n't taken a stance at all , that our analysts are still working on it . " |
| 14 | Rachel had n't taken a lot of notice of the young SHO — she had been more interested in her own circle of friends at the time — but he had been a frequent visitor at the Stevenses ' home and she knew her parents had liked him and had been pleased at the prospect of him becoming their son-in-law . |
| 15 | ‘ I have n't taken a penny in wages since we opened the shop and in the past five months Douglas has n't had a wage either . |