Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] [vb infin] [pers pn] to 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | And you did n't want her to take a job in London . " |
| 8 | They did n't want us to take all day about it ( hurry up ) . |
| 9 | Right , well I did n't expect it to take that long to the apostrophe . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't want him to take the ball off the back four and stroll around in areas where play might break down . |
| 11 | ‘ And I do n't want him to take the rap for something he did n't do . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | You do n't want me to take all this now ? |
| 14 | You do n't want me to take it outside do you ? |
| 15 | I just do n't want it to take too long . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | do n't want you to take them outside because you trail them in the wet . |
| 18 | Here again , do n't expect them to take the boots back if they 've been marked or worn outside . |
| 19 | ‘ So until you know a little more of what it 's all about , do n't expect me to take you seriously . |
| 20 | ‘ There never was any arrangement of that kind , but I do n't expect you to take my word for it . |
| 21 | ’ You do n't mean me to take this idiotic interpretation of events as gospel truth , do you ? ’ |
| 22 | Do n't ask me to take that in again tomorrow , cos I ca n't ! |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . ’ |
| 26 | It does not require it to take care of particular individual or sectional interests , since these will often conflict . |
| 27 | Which tells us how to determine our housing requirements and does n't ask us to take into account restraint in North Yorkshire . |