Example sentences of "take any " in BNC.
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| 1 | In those days they did n't use mileometers , what they did was they took any particular route number and the number of journeys they did , because in those days a bus kept on a route which applied , say between Witton and Rushmere Heath all day , did n't run around like they do nowadays and erm when the schedules were prepared , each bus had got a route number or was placed on a route number , say one Witton , two Witton , three Witton and a copy of its schedule was recorded on another sheet and the mileage , having known what the mileage was and we 'd used to obtain that from the Borough Surveyor 's Department , er I think it was about nine point one four miles a return trip Witton and Rushmere Heath , er you 'd work out how many journeys they did there and say well that bus was due to run a hundred and twenty six miles during the day . |
| 2 | Nobody 's even took any notice of it . |
| 3 | Rotten pun , but seriously , it drives the neighbourhood wild when the thing rings for hours , and most importantly , nobody takes any notice if it happens too often . |
| 4 | ‘ Much too fast and he never takes any notice when I tell him to go slower , so I do my knitting . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Check that he takes any medicines prescribed for him correctly . |
| 7 | If a snake is encountered no one takes any chances . |
| 8 | A new s 382B is also added ; this provides that , if the sole member takes any decision that could have been taken in general meeting , that member shall ( unless it is a written resolution ) provide the company with a written record of it . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Compagnie des Machines Bull SA 's European labour-management committee has asked for a meeting with Gerard Longuet , French minister of Posts & Telecommunications , before he ‘ takes any decisions concerning [ our ] company , ’ according to La Tribune . |
| 11 | Any Uttlesford town of some size has got a comprehensive recycling centre now that takes any paper |
| 12 | And even if she had cried out , who takes any notice of anyone shouting , even screaming ? |
| 13 | Oh well that 's because nobody takes any notice about |
| 14 | Laws of Canute of 1020x1022 state : " It is heathen practice if one worships idols , namely if one worships heathen gods and the sun or the moon , fire or flood , wells or stones or any kind of forest trees , or if one practises witchcraft or encompasses death by any means , either by sacrifice or divination , or takes any part in such delusions . " |
| 15 | Parsons seldom , if ever mentions the so- called black books , let alone takes any notice of what they , what they say . |
| 16 | Section 12(1) states : … a person shall be guilty of an offence if , without having the consent of the owner or other lawful authority , he takes any conveyance for his own or another 's use or knowing that any conveyance has been taken without such authority , drives it or allows himself to be carried in or on it . |
| 17 | But potential cannabis raiders — beware — Pete Messenger has a licence from the Home Office to grow and use his crop , but anyone who takes any of these plants is committing an offence under the Misuse of Drugs Act . |
| 18 | nobody takes any notice of poor Simon , even though he is the only one admitting that they are only afraid of one another . |
| 19 | They produce press releases and they send it off and they feel terribly bitter and twisted and unhappy because nobody takes any notice of it , but they do n't realize that what they 've actually produced makes no sense at all to the person receiving it on the other end . |
| 20 | Grilled beef can take any style providing that it 's not too sweet ( as German mustards are ) or flavoured with an unsuitable herb such as dill . |
| 21 | Anyway , I just held her , and it felt like she 'd broken , could n't take any more , then she kissed me . |
| 22 | Lawrence feels like going back and saying to her ‘ It 's all right , do n't take any notice of that mental lunatic ’ ( p. 304 ) , thereby offering a new inflection of the erotic triangle : intervening between Swift and Celia , Lawrence displaces his own anal neurosis on to Swift while offering his healthy ideal self to Celia — or rather he seeks to become his ideal self in her eyes . |
| 23 | I could n't take any more . |
| 24 | She does n't take any rubbish and there are one or two others like her . |
| 25 | But , as before , he did n't take any notice . |
| 26 | Do n't you take any notice of George . |
| 27 | I ca n't take any more of this . ’ |
| 28 | But he also said : ‘ Let's not take any credit away from Oldham . |
| 29 | ‘ If the government does not have these conditions , I can not take any responsibility for what happens . |
| 30 | Without probate of the will or letters of administration , neither executor nor administrator can take any steps in any other court of law , for the executor 's proof of his title , and the administrator 's title itself , can only be given by the Ecclesiastical Court . |