Example sentences of "took [adj] notice " in BNC.
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| 1 | The verderers hurried along the forest path and took little notice of Marian . |
| 2 | She took little notice until it reappeared on her own side , and drew up alongside her . |
| 3 | They took little notice of her , though ; the rough , bawdy crowd were more interested in the fortunes of their local football teams , Millwall and West Ham . |
| 4 | They drank wine , consulted the menu , ordered , but she took little notice of what she was eating , trying to calm the turmoil within her . |
| 5 | ‘ Immediately , though I took little notice of it when I was in Cheshire , I admit . |
| 6 | Not surprisingly , Muscovites took little notice of the death among them of Uvarov , for in the atmosphere of late 1855 Granovskii and Shchepkin were dearer to their hearts than a former government minister . |
| 7 | ( The reviewer adds that it is ‘ high time ’ the director of the ensemble in question ‘ took some notice ’ of such criticisms a clear indication , if any were needed , of the Early music reviewers ' sense that reviews address performers directly and can even be used to call them to account . ) |
| 8 | But as the same people said that at every quarter day for the past year nobody took much notice . |
| 9 | Nobody took much notice . |
| 10 | Nobody took much notice . |
| 11 | No one took much notice of them . |
| 12 | Nobody took much notice . ’ |
| 13 | In other circumstances she would have been more than willing to engage in this conversation herself , for it was one she had frequently enjoyed ; she liked Otto , she had always mildly fancied that he liked her , she was amused by the offhand continental gallantries with which he interspersed , absent-mindedly , the rigour of his argument ; but tonight she was tired , her eyes were closing , she had had four hours of party already , had not enjoyed the Hargreaves drama , had not enjoyed her talks with Ivan Warner and Teddy Lazenby , had been polite enough for long enough , and wanted to go home ; so stood at Brian 's elbow , dully , a reproachful wife , slightly annoyed that neither of them took much notice of her , as Otto invoked the name of Max Weber , a name which meant nothing to her at all , a name which excluded her , exhausted her , and provoked her into prodding , yet again , but this time successfully , Brian 's arm , and murmuring of baby-sitter Sharon , who was only sixteen . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , it seems he dived from the terrace and no one took much notice but he hit his head on the way down . |
| 15 | We also appealed to the Government to respond to an extraordinary press conference given by the Iranian chargé d'affaires in London on the anniversary of Terry Waite 's imprisonment a few weeks ago , but no-one took much notice of that , either . |
| 16 | We tried to point out that the ‘ no deals ’ policy was obviously no deterrent to the kidnapping of Britons , but again , nobody really took much notice . |
| 17 | No one took much notice of me , only one man saying , ‘ Is that you , Jim ? ’ |
| 18 | No one took much notice of him then . |
| 19 | Nobody took much notice of them or expected them to start up any form of conversation , so Charles was surprised when Eric addressed him by name . |
| 20 | There was only a skeleton staff on duty and no one took much notice of him . |
| 21 | Not many took much notice . |
| 22 | I feel now that if everybody looked after their own surroundings or took more notice of what 's going on immediately around them , the world might be a better place … ‘ |
| 23 | ‘ D' you mean to say , Elaine , that you took more notice of her than he did ? ’ |
| 24 | Di — who smiled when wellwishers gave her flowers — said people took more notice if someone well-known was involved . |
| 25 | We were a tiny fumbling company for ten years before anybody took any notice of us . |
| 26 | Nora never took any notice of what she said either . |
| 27 | ‘ They 'd just be straight through to Dad , if they took any notice of you . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He lingered on , drinking more heavily , occasionally interrupting proceedings with a bit of the old invective , but nobody took any notice . |
| 30 | No one took any notice of Behan , so he got angry and fired a bottle of whiskey at a shelf , breaking all the glasses … ‘ |