Example sentences of "[vb past] not take him " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Rose did not take him at his word . |
| 3 | Certainly the intelligence services did not take him seriously . |
| 4 | As a free man in a growing country , it did not take him long to see the potential . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | 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 , |
| 8 | It did not take him long . |
| 9 | He murmured something to the effect that youth must be served , ‘ John Donne ’ , but the interviewer did not take him up on his quotation . |
| 10 | But it did not take him long to sort out what was wrong with it . |
| 11 | It did not take him very long to decide in favour of the second course . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | It did n't take him long to master the basics of what British Steel was all about and he has been just as versatile in acquiring an understanding of a diverse range of other businesses , from computers and oil drilling to knitwear machines . |
| 14 | ‘ You see , it did n't take him long to find the riff-raff , ’ Moran said . |
| 15 | It did n't take him long to realize that one less headache was getting rid of me . |
| 16 | It did n't take him long , and all she wanted were her books and all the time the mother was crying and rocking backwards and forwards and the old father was ranting on in Yiddish . |
| 17 | She did n't take him to one of the two formal reception rooms opening off the hall . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , I did n't take him in that morning . |
| 19 | Apparently Dr. Lorrimer did n't take him his early tea this morning and it looks as if he did n't come home last night . |
| 20 | And no , before either of you start making up theories , I did n't take him into the bedroom . |
| 21 | Just as she did n't take him for granted , she made sure he could n't take her for granted either . |
| 22 | that 's disgraceful that yeah and so that was from erm Street down to the and down the back so it would n't take , did n't take him a couple of minutes down to the mission |
| 23 | Young Daniel 's death had been as great a tragedy , but had not taken him like this . |
| 24 | However , although these disanalogies were fundamental , Darwin 's theorizing had not taken him out of the causal , lawful , deterministic Newtonian universe , into one as irreducibly acausal and absolutely probabilistic as is sometimes thought implicit in quantum mechanics . |
| 25 | He had been the weaker of a hatching of two males and would almost certainly have died within a few days if local ornithologists had not taken him from the nest and reared him themselves in the hope that a home might finally be found for him as worthwhile as the Zoo … |
| 26 | The Villa Fiesole was a fairly big house and yet it had not taken him long to find the box . |
| 27 | It had not taken him long , Ashley thought wryly . |
| 28 | I reckon poor old Charlie was glad I had n't taken him into partnership . |
| 29 | His Mum had n't taken him to work with her since last year . |
| 30 | She had n't taken him seriously when he said he was giving up . |