Example sentences of "[pers pn] did not take [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , although I visited her regularly , taking little presents ; remembered her birthday and saw to it that her sons did the same ; looked after her once when she was ill ; and respected my husband 's love for her , I did not take much notice of her suggestions : ‘ My mother seems to think … |
| 2 | I was interested in my work and I did not take one day 's holiday during the next two years . |
| 3 | That is to say , I did not take sufficient account of the fact that at that time of the day , what Mr Farraday enjoys is a conversation of a lighthearted , humorous sort . |
| 4 | I did not take any banned substance and will continue to try and clear my name and resume my athletics career which was just beginning to flourish . ’ |
| 5 | I did not take any of that seriously , though I would have had to be ice all through to hear it with utter in-difference . |
| 6 | KATRIN KRABBE 'S hopes of avoiding a four-year doping ban received a boost yesterday when it was revealed that influential scientific reports backed up her case that she did not take banned steroids . |
| 7 | Those who were closest to her were going to make sure she did not take that gift for granted . |
| 8 | She did not take those hours out and contemplate them ; she simply let them lie somewhere in the head , to surface no doubt at some point of low resistance . |
| 9 | Have no doubt in your mind about that because we did not take one of our representatives to negotiate with the guard force to enhance your and their membership that is not the ball game I 'm not playing it and we wo n't do that and you can rest assured we will pursue it to Bridlington if need be . |
| 10 | In this case we did not take sufficient care . |
| 11 | If they did not take legal advice before buying property together , its division could be complicated . |
| 12 | For years nurses had wanted special pay arrangements which recognized that they did not take industrial action in pursuit of their pay claims . |
| 13 | Sometimes the king allowed subjects to take deer for themselves in his forests ; the warden 's duty was to see to it that they had a proper writ of warranty when they came to his forest , that they did not take more than the specified number , and that they took them in the prescribed manner . |
| 14 | This option was given to working wives in 1948 and withdrawn in 1978 but women who had already chosen to pay the reduced rate were allowed to continue , provided they did not take more than a two-year break from employment after 1978 . |
| 15 | As his title suggests , his conclusions were based simply on reason ; in other words , they did not take any account of observations of the universe . |
| 16 | The controversial nature of Gates 's nomination was highlighted when many of his supporters , most notably Boren , warned him that they would be watching closely to ensure that he did not take retaliatory action against his critics within the CIA . |
| 17 | He did not take many head blows . ’ |
| 18 | He was advised by doctors Continued on Page 3 Continued from Page 1 that a degenerative disc might need surgery if he did not take complete rest . |
| 19 | Mr Dear has said he did not take earlier action because he was told there was no evidence to suggest a wider conspiracy . |
| 20 | But he told me he did not take any clubs abroad with him . ’ |
| 21 | But he moved towards Paris in late March : everyone knew that it did not take six weeks to get from Paris to Attigny . |
| 22 | First , it did not take all the development value . |
| 23 | But it did not take many weeks of the Lancashire cotton famine ( due to the interruption of raw material supplies by the American Civil War ) to reduce even such a family to charity . |
| 24 | As Erica Macdonald admits , it did not take much to make the girls steer away . |
| 25 | It did not take much to reason that international capitalism had failed and that a new order must replace it . |
| 26 | My detectives had established your many moves and it did not take much intelligence to realise why . ’ |
| 27 | Overall the 1986 Act made many detailed changes , it extended and rationalized means tests , but it did not take social security in the radical new direction that ‘ negative income tax ’ or ‘ social dividend ’ advocates were suggesting . |