Example sentences of "do not take [noun sg] at " in BNC.
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1 | Lane did not take offence at his boss 's comment , nor did he slow down . |
2 | Casual , individual violence was almost certainly more common than today but ‘ hooliganism ’ in the collective and contemporary sense did not take place at football matches . |
3 | The story I have sketched here should be sufficient to indicate that the Copernican Revolution did not take place at the drop of a hat or two from the Leaning Tower of Pisa . |
4 | Anyway , the position now is that if you do not take silk at the right moment , it may mean that you have to continue working much too hard for your time of life ; on the other hand some barristers who take silk repent it , for they find too late that their services in the more expensive class of advocacy are not in demand . |
5 | The driver would have known it was his first time , did n't take offence at the yelling . |
6 | I 'd just like to add er , that I did n't take offence at the question , I think it was a perfectly qu fair question , it was the , the inference of , of rigging salaries . |
7 | ( Luke : The account of the trial in Luke does not take place at night but in the morning . |