take notice

• “The patient speaks while he sleeps; his super-consciousness therefore remains awake and is able to take notice directly of the scene taking place.”

  The Journal of Abnormal Psychology

• “Slater was too preoccupied to take notice of any of them, his expression grim and haunted as he rode the brake and swung the low-slung sportscar into its stall.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Second Time

• “Of all the Divines in London, not members of the Assembly, none had come to be better known for his Presbyterian acrimony than the veteran Mr. Thomas Edwards, of whose maiden pamphlet of 1641, called Reasons against the Independent Government, with Mr.. Chidley's Reply to the same, we have had occasion to take notice (ante, p. 110).”

  The Life of John Milton

• “To my daughter, Teliza; son-in-law, Will; and my granddaughter, Samayya, thank you for making Dallas take notice of me.”

  Simon & Schuster: A Love So Deep

• “I take notice of it the more, because it seems to have been his favourite composition — It is upon mortality; and is tied length-ways and cross-ways with a yarn thrum, and then rolled up and twisted round with a half-sheet of dirty blue paper, which seems to have been once the cast cover of a general review, which to this day smells horribly of horse drugs. —”

  The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

• “I came to take notice of such things because of Ross Peel, a nervous guy who guarded the town landfill and who lived there in a twelve-foot Shasta trailer someone had driven in there and never drove back out, who dated me for the the last month before he got in big trouble for allowing big tractor-trailor trucks filled with dangerous hospital waste onto the landfill grounds in the middle of the night.”

  Simon & Schuster: Hoopi Shoopi Donna

• “I almost forgot to take notice of the young Wormelys coming in next fleet its agreed by all concerned tht Capt.”

  Letter from Robert Carter to [Thomas Corbin,] August 20, 1706

• “I have nothing uncommon to take notice of in my passage through France-nothing but what other travellers have given an account of with much more advantage than I can.”

  Robinson Crusoe

• “Archbishop Purcell felt called upon to take notice of Mr. Vickers's sermon.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss

• “Claudel and his men were within 20 metres of the Ml 13 before the enemy seemed to take notice and, even then, it was only a speculative burst of machine-gun fire which clattered overhead.”

  First Clash

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