Example sentences of "for [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Treasurer Keating had used high interest rates as his main weapon in the struggle to reduce the country 's current account deficit , but they had been for blamed for contributing to the loss of business confidence . |
| 2 | It has been taken for granted for a long time that criticism and the academy go naturally together , and a large pedagogic and publishing industry has been built on that assumption . |
| 3 | As she took her wedding vows , Diana was saying goodbye to the life that she had taken for granted for twenty years . |
| 4 | But , taking that for granted for one moment , just what standards do we apply when making such strong pleas on behalf of a recorded performance ? |
| 5 | She had taken it all for granted for so long , her creature comforts had been assured and she had not given a moment 's thought to how they were provided . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This is all for provided for Broadmoor . |