Example sentences of "i [verb] not take " in BNC.
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| 1 | You see , I 'd mentioned the fact that I 'd seen this chap several mornings hanging about in the Cove , so I decided not to take Miss Celia down there for a bit , even though we were having a real Indian summer that year . |
| 2 | ‘ Obviously if I decide not to take the job he 'll need to start looking for a replacement . ’ |
| 3 | I do not take this view , but I do think that there are certain deep assumptions about how the mind-body problem should be addressed which increase its difficulty . |
| 4 | As a member of the ‘ shadow board ’ of the Football League , with whom the Professional Footballers ' Association have no quarrel , propriety demands that I do not take sides in the dispute between the Premier League and the PFA . |
| 5 | Therefore I do not take kindly to slander that Pink Floyd or even Mike Oldfield are unwelcome icons . |
| 6 | I do not take a lapwing diversion from the nest via such topical matters of the day as the political turmoil in Eastern Europe , the freshest African coup , the survival chances of the whale , and that surly ripple of low pressure currently pendant from Greenland 's coathook . |
| 7 | But I do not take the regress argument to be concerned with temporal relations between acts of justification . |
| 8 | The four-foot-long nozzle is heavy for me and hard to hold level , but I do not take my eyes off the spider . |
| 9 | First , I do not take the view that the recovery of money paid under duress other than to the person is necessarily limited to duress to goods falling within one of the categories hitherto established by the English cases . |
| 10 | As a former Lambeth housing chairman , I do not take lectures from anyone in Lambeth about housing . |
| 11 | The hon. Gentleman , who is an old parliamentary hand , knows that I do not take points of order until after the statement . |
| 12 | And there is much more advice that I did not take in , except that later I remember it when a new situation arises . |
| 13 | 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 … |
| 14 | As you might expect , I did not take Mr Farraday 's suggestion at all seriously that afternoon , regarding it as just another instance of an American gentleman 's unfamiliarity with what was and what was not commonly done in England . |
| 15 | That is to say , I did not take sufficient account of the fact that at that time of the day , what Mr Farraday enjoys is a conversation of a lighthearted , humorous sort . |
| 16 | I did not take too much notice of them , Paul and I had so much to share . |
| 17 | I did not take any banned substance and will continue to try and clear my name and resume my athletics career which was just beginning to flourish . ’ |
| 18 | I did not take any of that seriously , though I would have had to be ice all through to hear it with utter in-difference . |
| 19 | But I did not take his rebuff too personally , since , having worked with him , I was now accustomed to his habit of being unctuously civil to his seniors and much less than civil to his juniors . |
| 20 | I did not take it seriously . ’ |
| 21 | If I did not take the goods out , he would stay there . |
| 22 | I was interested in my work and I did not take one day 's holiday during the next two years . |
| 23 | But I did not take it . |
| 24 | Stupidly — but I did have a lot of luggage — cheeses , books for John and my hill boots — I did not take it out with me this trip . |
| 25 | I did not take it personally , but I thank my hon. Friend none the less . |
| 26 | Anyway , to calm her I said not to take it so hard , we could always try again . |
| 27 | If I said not take for granted in here advantage . |
| 28 | All I could do was to mumble that I regretted not taking my degree , and , though I could see it was irritating of me to whine , to feel stale and bored was not such a trivial thing ; that though we might have the vote now , meals still had to be prepared and children looked after and since this kind of drudgery was despised by society as not being ‘ real work ’ , we were in the hideous position of being both exhausted and imprisoned by it and also looked down on for doing it ; that I had honestly tried to be the sort of wife Richard wanted — and the sort of wife I felt I ought to be — but it was like being in a kind of airless cell and I could only see Richard as a jailer ; that I saw myself becoming progressively more and more incapable of doing anything , not just mentally , but from some kind of paralysis of will . |
| 29 | Foster said : ‘ It 's a surprise because I am fully aware that I have not taken many wickets , although I also feel I have been bowling well . |
| 30 | I am not pregnant , I have not taken a hallucinatory drug , and I have never killed anyone . |