Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | You , you , you may come across er legislature like this but you , you would n't be sure , when you they 're justifying it by saying that this is natural , this is a progression in er a historical progression and that in fact that it 's a erm it 's only because the , the landlords were , were sort of evil and nasty to us that , that i it , that they , this is happening . |
| 2 | Unschooled children , if the evidence does demonstrate that they are being less explicit , may in fact be taking it for granted that the questioner can see what is being referred to so that there is no apparent need to be explicit . |
| 3 | I am taking it for granted that if you used the term , even in minutes and reports , you must have meant something by it . |
| 4 | ‘ You are taking it for granted that when I say ‘ what they like ’ I mean sexual experience . |
| 5 | They are in danger of becoming complacent now that we have reached welcome lower levels of inflation , and are lulling themselves into believing that the problem has been ’ licked ’ . |
| 6 | They are lulling me into believing that they suspect nothing , so that they can catch us together . |
| 7 | She would come back to camp after a day off , call in at the office to see what was going on , and if we were all running around like headless chickens , snowed under with miles of paper from the teleprinter , and an irate Wing CO was tearing his hair out because the visibility had suddenly slumped from three miles to fifty yards and all his boys were up there somewhere running out of fuel , Rosemary would calmly take over the plotting while one of us rushed out to the screen to read the instruments , or go into the screaming teleprinter to shut off the insistent ear-piercing bell which was reminding everybody within hearing that we were late in sending in the hourly observation . |
| 8 | She was taking it for granted that he knew who she was ; but then anyone who had read the papers must know that . |
| 9 | Robert Sheldrake was taking it for granted that the only threat to his practice was that of two small-animal vets , and even that was sufficient for him to be rather unpleasant . |
| 10 | And what was stopping her from accepting that offer ? |