Example sentences of "one take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the other one takes seventy minutes or longer if they wish to examine things . |
| 2 | He added tranquilly : ‘ No one takes much notice of them . ’ |
| 3 | If a snake is encountered no one takes any chances . |
| 4 | A woman spends many years charring in Cremona ; she saves all her money to buy an apartment for her son when he gets married ; her no-good husband , the boy 's father , reappears after years and demands assistance ; she refuses ; when the son is engaged , she relents and negotiates subsidies to her ex-husband , for a suit , a car , a wedding-present ; she organizes a big reception to which she invites all her former employers ; nobody comes except a tennis-star ; there is no sign of the husband ; her lawyer tells her that the girl her son is marrying is her husband 's mistress and that he had already taken over the apartment ; she reflects a moment and decides to carry on with the reception , everything is all right , ‘ if no one notices anything , it is as though nothing has happened ’ ; passers-by are invited to join the wedding-party , which they happily do because the tennis-star is present ; the husband turns up in his new car ; no one takes any notice of him because no one knows who he is , except for the dealer he sometimes does jobs for , who tells him all new cars lose half their value as soon as they are bought and end up on the scrapheap anyway . |
| 5 | Do too little and no one takes any notice ; do a vast number of papers and you may be accused of superficiality or lack of care . |
| 6 | As far as awful games go this one takes some beating . |
| 7 | If one takes this attack by Strabo into account , it seems strange that specialists on the ancient sources about Gaul , such as P. Duval , can still believe that Eratosthenes wrote at least thirty-three books of Galatica on the Celts . |
| 8 | Four players had especial reason to remember the Oval game : two scored double centuries , one took fourteen wickets and one became the leading Test wicket-keeper . |
| 9 | No one took much notice of them . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , it seems he dived from the terrace and no one took much notice but he hit his head on the way down . |
| 11 | No one took much notice of me , only one man saying , ‘ Is that you , Jim ? ’ |
| 12 | No one took much notice of him then . |
| 13 | There was only a skeleton staff on duty and no one took much notice of him . |
| 14 | The hon. Member for Thurrock asked whether I did not know that if one took economic resources from one area and instilled them into others that was merely a way of upsetting the ordinary economic mechanism and that it did not result in any advances . |
| 15 | The best gamekeepers are former poachers and no one took old Shallot for a ride . |
| 16 | Not one took any delight or pride in what he had done . |
| 17 | They were in their early thirties , so 1 did not feel too out of place from the point of view of age , and at first no one took any notice of me , as if they thought I was just another mature student . |
| 18 | No one took any notice of Behan , so he got angry and fired a bottle of whiskey at a shelf , breaking all the glasses … ‘ |
| 19 | No one took any notice of him . |
| 20 | No one took any notice . |
| 21 | ‘ He was trying to flag down cars to help , but no one took any notice . |
| 22 | Back when no one took any notice of them , they kept the band together to entertain themselves . |
| 23 | Knocking ‘ I kept knocking on the boards but no one took any notice . ’ |
| 24 | No one took any notice . |
| 25 | No one took any notice of auction estimates and the media loved the idea of naming names ’ . |
| 26 | I thought I heard her say that she 'd packed the gallery , but she was lighting a cigarette and no one took any notice of this remark . |
| 27 | No one took any notice of him . |
| 28 | No one took any notice of him when he arrived back in Mouncy Street . |
| 29 | In our opinion , the duty is not simply one to take reasonable care in the abstract , but to take reasonable care not to injure a person whom it should reasonably have been foreseen may be injured by the act or neglect if such care is not taken . |
| 30 | Unfortunately for IBM , the catalogue does show up some of the problems it has pricing and delivering its own product lines — of the X-terminals in the catalogue for instance , IBM 's Xstation 130 , priced at £3,574 , is both more expensive than any of the Network Computing Devices Inc and Tandberg Data A/S models listed , and the only one to take 15 days for delivery rather than 96 hours for the rest . |