Example sentences of "have not taken [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now do n't ask me why , but ever since that fateful day ‘ Jaz ’ has not taken much of a liking to me . |
| 2 | It should be noted that the Board may withhold or reduce compensation of they consider that the applicant has not taken all reasonable steps to inform the police without delay . |
| 3 | Compare this to the golfer in diagram B. He has not taken such a positive approach to the same tee-shot , and has failed to stand behind the ball-to-target line before addressing the ball . |
| 4 | But fortunately his own cast has not taken such advice and under the musical direction of Marius Constant the singers soar above the lugubrious libretto based on Maeterlinck 's play . |
| 5 | ‘ He has not taken these drugs , I hope . ’ |
| 6 | Cos I thought he has n't taken any of my hints so far . |
| 7 | The patients fasted at 0900 having not taken any drugs which affect gastric secretion or motility over the previous 10 days . |
| 8 | The court refused to allow the claim , holding that the clause ( imposing an exorbitant charge ) was particularly onerous and unusual and the library had not taken all reasonable steps to bring it to the attention of the agency . |
| 9 | The mother of one of the teenage victims said that ‘ although many Press reports had treated the case as a racial attack , the court had not taken that attitude and she felt that was correct ’ . |
| 10 | A brother delivered up to death indeed , if another man had not taken that road before him . |
| 11 | But she told me she would have been perfectly content if they had not taken this course . |
| 12 | Very pleased to have yours and as I said in my last it 's your money , God has been very kind to you and you must n't fly up in the face of his kindness and I wish you had not taken this step , your Uncle Steve says property 's more trouble than it 's worth . |
| 13 | IN A LITTER of sleeping bags on the floor of the Gethsemane Church in East Berlin , Irene Schwidurski , who had not taken any solid food for four days , was trying to explain her reasons to a Western journalist , with the help of a pocket dictionary . |
| 14 | Party managers had not taken any chances , though . |
| 15 | The English had not taken any important part in this ; voyages from Bristol at the end of the fifteenth century had reached a few points in North America and had opened up cod fisheries off Newfoundland , and in the 1550s London merchants had used the northern searoutes to start trading with Russia , but most of the nation 's energies overseas in the first half of the sixteenth century had been devoted to the last and least rewarding of the attempts to conquer France . |
| 16 | Although he worked in accounts , he had not taken any examinations towards becoming a certified accountant . |
| 17 | She had not taken any precautions , nothing had been further from her mind . |
| 18 | Beales had not taken any notice of other customers until a man he recognized as MacQuillan came to the next table . |
| 19 | Mr Harty added he had seen signs saying fishing was for members only but had not taken any notice of them . |
| 20 | If I had n't taken that opportunity I 'm sure I would never have done the things I later did in the refinery business . |
| 21 | If we had n't taken that cash out , that is , if borrowings had been £150m more than they actually were , we probably would n't have got those covenant changes and the whole group could have gone under . ’ |
| 22 | I really had n't taken much notice of it before , in detail , I mean . ’ |
| 23 | Until now she had n't taken much notice of him , so she could n't say for certain whether he was handsome or not . |
| 24 | It had n't taken much to disturb the woman-of-the-world pose . |
| 25 | It was nicely presented , moreover , and since I had n't taken any eating irons with me I am pleased to report that nobody asked me to cup my hands together to take my Cottage Pie a la Toulon ? |
| 26 | She was a diabetic and had n't taken any insulin with her . |
| 27 | If we had n't taken this step we could 've had fans from both sides mixing inside the ground and locked out on the streets . |
| 28 | Yet on this important issue the Government have not taken that experience into account . |
| 29 | If there was any time when radical land reform would have succeeded , it was during nineteen forty eight to nineteen forty nine , and it 's precisely that time looking into an area which would seem to be the most favourable for radical land reform , they have not taken that opportunity . |
| 30 | But fortunately his own cast have not taken such advice and under the musical direction of Marius Constant they soar above the lugubrious libretto based on Maeterlinck 's play . |