Example sentences of "n't take [det] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Please do n't take all day over it it 's important that you do n't .
2 And do n't take all day about it , because I want to kiss you again .
3 Do n't take all day about it . ’
4 She had hesitated but he could n't take that hesitation as a refusal .
5 ‘ But listen , I do n't take that kind of lip from anyone , understood ? ’
6 ‘ You do n't take that turn at 80 miles an hour , you slow down .
7 Do n't take that attitude with me , Joe .
8 Erm they do n't take that attitude to local government elections .
9 He did n't take that copy of the paper home .
10 She 's just that if she did n't take that potion of mine she would have killed herself anyway .
11 With a snarl Death reached out a bony finger and stopped the man 's heart , but he did n't take much pride in it .
12 If you 're the sort of person who thinks that Parliamentary democracy is a reasonably important thing , you could n't take much pleasure from the findings of the enquiry into the way Rover was sold off .
13 Dr Mackintosh went on , ‘ I do n't take much pleasure in modern poetry myself .
14 And he did n't take much interest in my mother either and that put enough emotional pressure on her to maybe no , not be such a good mother as she might otherwise have been .
15 But , like most mothers , I did n't take much notice of the dangers until my son , at about 18 months old , nibbled a poisonous plant .
16 I did n't take much notice of him then .
17 I did n't take much notice of that , and then the door at the other end would open and close .
18 I did n't take much notice of it the first few years after I left school , but now I 've been gone , what , fifteen years or so , I find quite a lot of interest in what 's happened .
19 Naturally I did n't take much notice of that .
20 I suppose I 've seen Matthew with the safe open , and I may have noticed the books , but this firm has been going for more than a century and one does n't take much notice of such things , one has grown up with them . ’
21 I do n't take much notice of what people say about me .
22 ‘ No , I do n't take much notice of newspapers . ’
23 It did n't take much thinking about .
24 Dr Javed , advising on the Civil Service had six enquiries but could n't understand why students did n't take more advantage of a unique opportunity to talk with Salford graduates already established in the field they probably intended entering themselves .
25 Neither will you ever make old bones if you do n't take more care of yourself .
26 ‘ We ca n't take more food on this ship , Titus .
27 Anyhow I just could n't take another week like this again .
28 At that stage in my life I could n't take any kind of failure , and so this latter model of womanhood was as unacceptable to me as the former .
29 I did n't take any money with me .
30 Erm I mean some people say , quite wrongly , that it 's something that does n't take any part in the reaction but speeds it up , but how can it do that .
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