Example sentences of "[verb] taken for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is that someone among them has taken for himself some of the treasures of the city which were destined for God 's own sanctuary . |
| 2 | Biological anthropology in the present context considers infants and their care within an evolutionary perspective , arguing that over the millions of years it has taken for humans to evolve , infant-parent contact was likely to have been virtually constant for at least the first year of life . |
| 3 | I fundamentally disagree with his proposition , although I congratulate him on the stand that he has taken for his principles . |
| 4 | Beryl Smith is giving up these classes all of which she has taken for many years . |
| 5 | He has informed his doctors and begun the painful process to negate the effects of the hormones he has taken for the last nine months . |
| 6 | Wimpey refused to quantify the additional charge it has taken for its involvement in the Channel Tunnel project , but it is thought to be similar to the £8 million announced by its fellow Chunnel contractor , Balfour Beatty , recently . |
| 7 | Before 1989 , dolphin and porpoise hunting in Japan was unregulated , and from 1981 catches rose steadily so that by 1987 over 21,000 animals were reported taken for human consumption , and the following year officially reported numbers had risen again to over 25,000 . |
| 8 | They were n't alone ; and then the next thought was that Sandy must have come up from below and was now standing on the quay , but then that thought died as what he 'd taken for her shadow came out from under the stairway . |
| 9 | Mediterranean , perhaps , if the skin colour that he 'd taken for suntan was natural . |
| 10 | You could no longer do the things I 'd taken for granted , like making a cup of tea and sitting down for a gossip when I came in from college . |
| 11 | It is a wide-ranging analysis of the world picture which almost all the old writers would have taken for granted but which we , our minds fed with different mythologies and sciences , would very easily mistake . |
| 12 | Perhaps only William Joyce could have taken for his text , as he once did , Edmund Burke 's axiom , ‘ In politics magnanimity is often the truest wisdom ’ — and promptly used it to show the necessity for the extinction of Jewry . |
| 13 | Frightening a woman by looking into her bedsit at eleven at night causing her to fear violence was held to be immediate despite the fact that the victim could have escaped in the time it would have taken for the accused to get to her : Smith v Chief Superintendent , Woking Police Station ( 1983 ) 76 Cr App R 234 ( DC ) . |
| 14 | We should not underestimate the courage it must have taken for Clinton to give the go ahead to the Bosnian airlift . |
| 15 | That institutions work in this way , contributing to the general status quo , becomes taken for granted by Radcliffe-Brown . |
| 16 | There have been an awful lot of people though who 've taken for granted the right to go into a Sherpa house and abuse Sherpa hospitality . |
| 17 | Suddenly a part of you you 've taken for granted all your life gives out , or plays you up . |
| 18 | than they 've taken for months or years before . |
| 19 | What , what appear to be , as I said , naive questions very often are most penetrating and bring us up short because they involve things we 've taken for granted for many , many years and perhaps ought to look at again . |
| 20 | As she took her wedding vows , Diana was saying goodbye to the life that she had taken for granted for twenty years . |
| 21 | Then I thought of all the trees I had taken for granted in the past — beside the Cherwell at Oxford or on the pavements of a Surrey suburb . |
| 22 | Now , looking back with the wisdom of adulthood , she could appreciate what she had taken for granted at the time . |
| 23 | It was a bay horse on its side , and the waving object he had taken for a branch was a leg which in its faint struggles to rise the beast threshed weakly in the air . |
| 24 | It was just possible that the painkillers she had taken for her shoulder had reacted with the alcohol , but it seemed unlikely . |
| 25 | Like him she had taken for granted the fact that Martha would marry the miller 's son . |
| 26 | The wine he had taken for lunch , together with the oppressive afternoon heat , had quite tired him out . |
| 27 | Finally , in February 1470 , the king regranted the offices which Warwick had taken for himself in the previous August , with Gloucester again the main beneficiary . |
| 28 | But within a few days , all her mother 's youth and vigour were gone and the energetic , independent woman whose health and dependability she had taken for granted for so long had turned into a helpless invalid , unable to hold down the thinnest gruel , unable to sleep more than a few minutes at a time , unable even to answer the calls of nature on her own , so that she had to be lifted like a child onto the pot and lifted back into the jumble of stinking bedclothes . |
| 29 | A brand-new Tavern , redolent of fresh mortar and size , and fronting nothing at all , had taken for its sign The Rail way Arms ; but that might be rash enterprise — and then it hoped to sell drink to the workmen . |
| 30 | The ‘ classical ’ effect of the market and commercial competition , which both Marxist and liberal economists had taken for granted , namely a differentiation between successful and unsuccessful producers , between rural ‘ bourgeoisie ’ and rural ‘ proletariat ’ , was not taking place . |