Example sentences of "not take him [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His mother came , but she did not take him away , and his Uncle Charlie told him that if he wrote another letter like that he would get a thrashing , so he stayed and coped . |
| 2 | He murmured something to the effect that youth must be served , ‘ John Donne ’ , but the interviewer did not take him up on his quotation . |
| 3 | As a free man in a growing country , it did not take him long to see the potential . |
| 4 | It did not take him long . |
| 5 | Summers does attempt to list his subject 's achievements ; it does not take him long . |
| 6 | But it did not take him long to sort out what was wrong with it . |
| 7 | She could not take him back to America with her , he could not take her home . |
| 8 | Certainly the intelligence services did not take him seriously . |
| 9 | ‘ He told them to leave the house immediately and it would appear that they did not take him seriously but laughed when he said this . |
| 10 | Richard Dorment of the Daily Telegraph said : ‘ What a pity a dealer did not take him aside and tell him the work he proposed to exhibit was unexhibitable … a visual boredom so total that no amount of metaphor or allusion can give it the kiss of life ’ . |
| 11 | Napier was not the only sheriff to find that there was more honour than reward in his office , for according to the petition submitted by Erskine of Alva , who had been appointed sheriff-depute of Perthshire in 1748 , his salary of £250 per annum did not take him very far , for his county , |
| 12 | It did not take him very long to decide in favour of the second course . |
| 13 | Richard looked at him in surprise , not taking him seriously . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm not taking him home , ’ said Lee . |
| 15 | ‘ Not taking him home , ’ he said stupidly . |
| 16 | He told us off for not taking him there |
| 17 | The Villa Fiesole was a fairly big house and yet it had not taken him long to find the box . |
| 18 | It had not taken him long , Ashley thought wryly . |
| 19 | However , although these disanalogies were fundamental , Darwin 's theorizing had not taken him out of the causal , lawful , deterministic Newtonian universe , into one as irreducibly acausal and absolutely probabilistic as is sometimes thought implicit in quantum mechanics . |
| 20 | It seemed that she was determined not to take him seriously . |
| 21 | She should have learned long ago not to take him seriously . |
| 22 | Only then would he decide whether or not to take him back to our glorious green Earth . |
| 23 | The first time , he asked the man to make love to him right there in the car , not to take him home yet but to do it to him there in the car . |
| 24 | It not take him long to realize that if the police wanted someone to carry the can , then Dirk Coetzee was heading for death row . |
| 25 | No do n't take him up there Chris . |
| 26 | Do n't take him away from me . |
| 27 | " Then if you wo n't take him willingly you can take him the other way . |
| 28 | It did n't take him long to master the basics of what British Steel was all about and he has been just as versatile in acquiring an understanding of a diverse range of other businesses , from computers and oil drilling to knitwear machines . |
| 29 | ‘ You see , it did n't take him long to find the riff-raff , ’ Moran said . |
| 30 | It did n't take him long to realize that one less headache was getting rid of me . |