Example sentences of "do not take " in BNC.
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| 1 | I enclose a Statement showing the approximate sums involved in connection with your purchase but you will appreciate that these to do not take into account any apportionment of general and water rates . |
| 2 | He did not take sides against Abstraction , even though he was one of the organisers of a Surrealist exhibition in London in 1937 . |
| 3 | It purports to be based on the recollections of courtiers and retainers hunted up after the fall : but I have heard it suggested that the author did not take to the Picador edition 's cover display of a picture of Haile Selassie , perhaps on the grounds of a misleading particularity . |
| 4 | It did not take long . |
| 5 | They knew the realist option but did not take it as a way out of a social impasse , because , I would argue , the phenomenalist tendency of thought is too strong . |
| 6 | Derrida 's reply did not take the form of a reasoned rebuttal but of ninety pages of verbal clowning , which put Searle in his place by referring to him throughout as ‘ Sarl ’ , an acronym for ‘ Societé à responsabilité limitée ’ , which means a limited company . |
| 7 | In the same week in which President Bush appeared on national television brandishing $3,200 worth of cocaine ( coercively obtained from a dealer who was dragged a block or two nearer the White House ) to raise the air-time mileage he earns on drugs , it did not take long for outrage to be expressed . |
| 8 | Mr Dear has said he did not take earlier action because he was told there was no evidence to suggest a wider conspiracy . |
| 9 | His mother came , but she did not take him away , and his Uncle Charlie told him that if he wrote another letter like that he would get a thrashing , so he stayed and coped . |
| 10 | The final shattering of the delusion did not take place until the 1940s ; but when it did occur , it prompted not the abandonment of the system of the delusion itself but a further and almost incredible elaboration of it . |
| 11 | But the idea for The Body Shop did not take root immediately . |
| 12 | Rose did not take him at his word . |
| 13 | And there is much more advice that I did not take in , except that later I remember it when a new situation arises . |
| 14 | Casual , individual violence was almost certainly more common than today but ‘ hooliganism ’ in the collective and contemporary sense did not take place at football matches . |
| 15 | The main thing was that the parade by the military vehicles did not take place . ’ |
| 16 | It did not take a mathematical genius to work out that — with 59 clauses still to go — this was not brilliant progress . |
| 17 | It was notable that Mr Adamec 's replacement as Prime Minister , Mr Marian Calfa , did not take part in the talks . |
| 18 | A processor on the train would match that information with the train 's performance , and the brakes could be applied if the driver did not take the required action . |
| 19 | ‘ We have two wills on file , ’ Timothy Hutton said , reaching the end of whatever internal debate he had been having , ‘ but the second , which was made in anticipation of her marriage to Mr Hawick , can not of course be submitted for Probate since that marriage did not take place . |
| 20 | He did not take many head blows . ’ |
| 21 | For years nurses had wanted special pay arrangements which recognized that they did not take industrial action in pursuit of their pay claims . |
| 22 | Government recognized that nurses did not take strike action and believed that it was right to have a system of pay determination which meant that they did not lose by that policy . |
| 23 | Our next meeting did not take place until after the Budget in mid-March , but from then on the committee ran reasonably smoothly through to its seventh and last meeting at the start of April . |
| 24 | Still , it did not take long to sell , and as soon as people started to look over it , she told her family . |
| 25 | He did not take Eleanor there in the end , though , as there was one that was even nearer and cheaper . |
| 26 | But Joe did not take any notice . |
| 27 | But he did not take in the words . |
| 28 | 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 … |
| 29 | In his school career , Gazzer had given a great deal of time , energy , and thought to getting round various people , to making sure that they did not take out their boredom , frustration or spite on him , the most obvious victim , the smallest and puniest boy in the class . |
| 30 | But his new picture of Marie did not take into account those disturbing scenes in her kitchen , or in the pill-box tunnels when her aggressive , violent behaviour had scared him half to death . |