Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] take much " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , although I visited her regularly , taking little presents ; remembered her birthday and saw to it that her sons did the same ; looked after her once when she was ill ; and respected my husband 's love for her , I did not take much notice of her suggestions : ‘ My mother seems to think … |
| 2 | One approach is to hire a sociologist to peer into the black box ( the quotation from Heusch 1981 : 423 , and p. 46 in this book about the role of the sociologist is apposite here ) , in a similar way to anthropologists who sought to tell colonial administrators how to avoid irritating the people they governed ( although , according to Feuchtwang 1973 , the administrators did not take much notice of what they had to say ) . |
| 3 | As Erica Macdonald admits , it did not take much to make the girls steer away . |
| 4 | It did not take much to reason that international capitalism had failed and that a new order must replace it . |
| 5 | My detectives had established your many moves and it did not take much intelligence to realise why . ’ |
| 6 | In fact the chronicle succeeds in having its cake and eating it , all the way back to the stir caused by Nicholas Stavrogin 's arrival in ‘ our town ’ , when it is recorded among other things that he seemed to know a lot — ‘ But of course it did n't take much knowledge to astonish us ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ I did n't take much , ’ muttered Philip . |
| 8 | She lifted the hem of her skirt a little , which did n't take much doing since it was practically touching the ground . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I did n't take much notice of him then . |
| 11 | It was n't much of a joke , but then it did n't take much to make Karen laugh . |
| 12 | But it seemed the doctor could persuade Sarah to do anything , for it did n't take much argument to convince her that it was wrong to be ungracious . |
| 13 | It did n't take much to persuade her to come and nothing would have prevented me from seeing precisely what it was that had turned my schoolfriend into what the Daily Express called ‘ a phenomena ’ . |
| 14 | They were very polite , however , and did n't take much persuading to go away . |
| 15 | I did n't take much notice of that , and then the door at the other end would open and close . |
| 16 | Cami knickers and french knickers became popular because they did n't take much material and were economic in coupons . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Naturally I did n't take much notice of that . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Bishop did n't take much persuading . |
| 21 | Like Paula , I thought they were old ledgers and I did n't take much notice . |
| 22 | It did n't take much to move Dreadnought . " |
| 23 | It did n't take much imagination to supply another word in place of ‘ protegée ’ . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I thought he was fun but I did n't take much notice especially since this boy I was with was angry . |
| 26 | I did n't take much . |
| 27 | Dosh and Freddie did n't take much persuading but Chase thankfully declined saying that parties did n't like him . |
| 28 | The exhibition 's open to all , but it did n't take much to persuade Scotland Today 's Patsi MacKenzie to wander along for a preview . |
| 29 | I vaguely recall the event , but I did n't take much notice . |
| 30 | It did n't take much thinking about . |