Example sentences of "[art] [pron] take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It came from a scene set in a bar not unlike ours , and was said just after everyone in the bar had turned pale at the sight of a particular young man , a regular , entering the bar after a week 's absence ; the thing was , they were all wondering how they were going to break the news to him that there 'd been a terrible suicide , they were all wondering who was going to be the one to take this boy to one side and tell him what had happened to his friend , and why .
2 No one took much notice of them .
3 ‘ Well , it seems he dived from the terrace and no one took much notice but he hit his head on the way down .
4 No one took much notice of me , only one man saying , ‘ Is that you , Jim ? ’
5 No one took much notice of him then .
6 There was only a skeleton staff on duty and no one took much notice of him .
7 The best gamekeepers are former poachers and no one took old Shallot for a ride .
8 They were in their early thirties , so 1 did not feel too out of place from the point of view of age , and at first no one took any notice of me , as if they thought I was just another mature student .
9 No one took any notice of Behan , so he got angry and fired a bottle of whiskey at a shelf , breaking all the glasses … ‘
10 No one took any notice of him .
11 No one took any notice .
12 ‘ He was trying to flag down cars to help , but no one took any notice .
13 Back when no one took any notice of them , they kept the band together to entertain themselves .
14 Knocking ‘ I kept knocking on the boards but no one took any notice . ’
15 No one took any notice .
16 No one took any notice of auction estimates and the media loved the idea of naming names ’ .
17 I thought I heard her say that she 'd packed the gallery , but she was lighting a cigarette and no one took any notice of this remark .
18 No one took any notice of him .
19 No one took any notice of him when he arrived back in Mouncy Street .
20 He added tranquilly : ‘ No one takes much notice of them . ’
21 If a snake is encountered no one takes any chances .
22 A woman spends many years charring in Cremona ; she saves all her money to buy an apartment for her son when he gets married ; her no-good husband , the boy 's father , reappears after years and demands assistance ; she refuses ; when the son is engaged , she relents and negotiates subsidies to her ex-husband , for a suit , a car , a wedding-present ; she organizes a big reception to which she invites all her former employers ; nobody comes except a tennis-star ; there is no sign of the husband ; her lawyer tells her that the girl her son is marrying is her husband 's mistress and that he had already taken over the apartment ; she reflects a moment and decides to carry on with the reception , everything is all right , ‘ if no one notices anything , it is as though nothing has happened ’ ; passers-by are invited to join the wedding-party , which they happily do because the tennis-star is present ; the husband turns up in his new car ; no one takes any notice of him because no one knows who he is , except for the dealer he sometimes does jobs for , who tells him all new cars lose half their value as soon as they are bought and end up on the scrapheap anyway .
23 Do too little and no one takes any notice ; do a vast number of papers and you may be accused of superficiality or lack of care .
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