Example sentences of "not take it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When the prince saw her standing in his door , he would not take it up . |
| 2 | ‘ I suffered an attack two years before I came here — I shall not take it again , that is certain . |
| 3 | " Why not take it downstairs , mamma ? " whispered Gemma . |
| 4 | Begging you will not take it amiss I shall ever be your dutiful servant . |
| 5 | Blushed and took her hand she did not take it away . |
| 6 | Did you not take it away with you on your weekend away ? |
| 7 | Norman , however , recollects that at first Minton did not take it very seriously ; but one evening , when the two men had arranged to meet in a pub before going to the opera , Norman arrived late , having spent the afternoon with Henrietta , and realised on seeing Minton that he had begun to feel left out . |
| 8 | ‘ Do not take it so to heart , Paul , ’ she said . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | For instance , it has been noted that when ‘ parents are depressed and irritable they do not take it out on all their children to the same extent : often one is more or less scapegoated . |
| 11 | But I can not take it out of store because I would be breaking the law effectively if I did . |
| 12 | If we do not take it now , it will be gone forever . |
| 13 | But this — the group decision to put make-believe before reality — he could not take it in . |
| 14 | She does not take it in — you will understand this , with your experience . ’ |
| 15 | She could not take it in . |
| 16 | But Gran did not take it in . |
| 17 | The Cleveland firm which installed the panelling for a drugs trial could not take it down until today at the earliest . |
| 18 | Why not take it down to the firm 's office and let the experts see it for themselves ? |
| 19 | I did not take it personally , but I thank my hon. Friend none the less . |
| 20 | For Darwin , this estimate was embarrassingly short , although fortunately he did not take it too seriously . |
| 21 | He did not take it too seriously , but nonetheless he wheeled his pony and made off at speed , back towards the fringes of Clocaenog , where he had passed the last of the prince 's watch . |
| 22 | Pace the unjustified slur , naming 10 famous Belgians is easy , even if the Singing Nun , the Mannekin Pis and Hercule Poirot are declared ineligible ( and Jacques Brel counts five of most other countries ' famous people in our book ) — and there could just be another one soon , in the person of Finance Minister Philippe Maystadt , who could become the father of a whole new economics after his proposal that Belgium levy a robot tax on factory machines to get humans back to work : it 's a great idea , and why not take it further and ban construction machinery from the roads to get the shovels back into navvies ' hands — and no doubt computers can be included under the tax , so that in no time , in a dramatic return to Victorian values , while the Belgian economy may not actually start booming , the country will have the world 's biggest quill pen industry . |
| 23 | I did not take it seriously . ’ |
| 24 | If so , then why not take it along to the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum next Tuesday and let it be admired . |
| 25 | ‘ You can not take it off , Roger , ’ my master ordered . |
| 26 | I 'm not taking it away from directors . |
| 27 | ‘ We have simply said we are not taking it seriously . ’ |
| 28 | They 'll see us and think I 'm not taking it seriously . " |
| 29 | Lucy insisted on not taking it seriously for days . |
| 30 | The truth of the matter is that Picasso was almost certainly aware of tribal art when Matisse showed him the piece which he admired , but that he was still not taking it very seriously and only ‘ discovered ’ it for himself during his now legendary visit to the Trocadero . |