Example sentences of "[not/n't] take [adv] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The second , referred to obscurely in Helen 's last letter from Margate , was Mr Thomas 's decision that Edward should not take up a Civil Service post , but instead prepare himself for an Oxford entrance scholarship .
2 It announced that it would not be concerned with the public sector and that it would not take over the extant SORPs from the Accounting Standards Committee .
3 They did not deserve to be taken seriously because they did not take seriously the main currents of the culture they were attacking .
4 A massive demonstration of trade union muscle on Saturday , when 5,000 placard-waving supporters gathered in the city square , heard the stakes in the dispute raised dramatically with a call to shut the factory for good if management did not take back the 340 strikers .
5 But they could n't take away the heavy bathroom ware and one of our blessings was the unlimited hot water gushing at our touch into the expensive surroundings .
6 ‘ I COULD N'T take seriously a political debate about the name of a punk rock band ; that seems to me to be an absolutely trivial issue , like the size of a shoe .
7 But whatever you do , do n't take out a new policy .
8 She did n't take out the folded sheet .
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