Example sentences of "[pers pn] did n't take [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | listen to this , I 'm becoming increasingly aware that my landlady 's been making sexual passes at me , I did n't take them seriously until she climbed in the shower with me |
2 | Yeah but I did n't take it then . |
3 | I did n't take it seriously until a holiday took me to the Blakeney area of north Norfolk in 1974 . |
4 | It would be a little discreditable of me if I did n't take it seriously ! ’ |
5 | In the taxi that had waited all evening in the piazza for them , the Captain glanced sideways at the point of glowing ash and said politely , ‘ I hope I did n't take you away from something more important this evening . ’ |
6 | You did n't take it then no . |
7 | That 's where I see her when I think of her , though she did n't take me there at first . |
8 | Hell , he could n't even ask , having told her the next time she would have to take the initiative , but if she did n't take it soon he was going to go out of his mind ! |
9 | I think I knew already that she did n't take it seriously . |
10 | Well you know what kids , we kind of laughed at this you know , we did n't take it as serious . |
11 | to me that 's where they took her the first time , they did n't take her right on the the roads , you know , the first time she 'd |
12 | They let me read them , they did n't take it away . |
13 | Germans were confidently walking in the streets when the alarm sounded but they did n't take it seriously and failed to go to air raid shelters . |
14 | He did n't take her seriously . |
15 | He was just as much of a mad f—er as anyone else on the paper — he recalls sulphate-fuelled weeks spent in East Germany , for example — but he did n't take it too seriously . |
16 | She waited silently behind the door , her face flushed , half excited , half disappointed that he did n't take it further by knocking for admittance , until she came to her senses . |
17 | I was just going to say that I 'm sure he it 's not that he did n't take it seriously . |
18 | It did n't take her long to regret taking part . |
19 | It did n't take her long to dress , freshen her make-up and add touches of silver jewellery on ears , neck and wrists , and it was quite a bit less than Tom 's stipulated twenty minutes later when she approached the veranda again . |
20 | It did n't take her long to pack the few clothes she would need , even though her mind was far away in the past . |
21 | It did n't take her long to decide she had precisely two choices — well , one , really , because even though it was n't cold it would look wrong to go out in thin cotton to the sort of party he was talking about . |
22 | It did n't take her long to realise that he could n't really be spending much time here . |
23 | It did n't take her long to change into her jade swimsuit and moments later she walked on to the poolside . |
24 | It did n't take them long to reach Kenilworth . |
25 | ‘ It did n't take me long . ’ |
26 | But it did n't take me long When you 're finished , tell me what you think my profit was for the day . |
27 | It did n't take me long to realise it was very different from the kind of journalism I 'd been used to . |
28 | Besides , it did n't take me long to figure out I was wrong . ’ |
29 | It did n't take me long to find out otherwise . |
30 | It did n't take me long to realise I 'd fallen in love with love rather than with Dave . ’ |