Example sentences of "[det] did [not/n't] take [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 However the weather and other commitments meant this did n't take place until 3 August .
2 Luckily this did not take place . ’
3 Various studies of enclosed parishes have emphasised the disruption caused by enclosure , but what happened in a village where this did not take place ?
4 This did not take place , however , because schools would be required to go through the process at different times and such training would probably be of limited value for schools which were not to undertake an appraisal for some time .
5 However , in many cases even this did not take place and the self-appraisal amounted to reflecting on past events and reproducing information for the benefit of advisers .
6 If this did not take place , he argued , the result would be increasing levels of crime and suicide as pre-social or instinctive , biologically-based , behaviour increasingly reasserted itself .
7 Immediate bombing attacks were expected , and when these did not take place the evacuees began to trickle back .
8 But that did not take account of what he called the very large compensating increases in Sheep Annual Premium and the Less Favoured Area supplement .
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