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

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 Dr Mackintosh went on , ‘ I do n't take much pleasure in modern poetry myself .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 I did n't take much notice of him then .
7 I did n't take much notice of that , and then the door at the other end would open and close .
8 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 .
9 Naturally I did n't take much notice of that .
10 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 . ’
11 I do n't take much notice of what people say about me .
12 ‘ No , I do n't take much notice of newspapers . ’
13 It did n't take much thinking about .
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