Example sentences of "we [adv] take [pron] for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There was such an incredible level of will involved , ’ reflects Rowland , ‘ and we just took it for granted that we were , like , better than everybody else by about 50 million miles . |
| 2 | Well the others have made a bit , we just took it for granted that she was giving us ten per cent rise , and did n't bother , cos they trusted her , but |
| 3 | We know how cars work , but we do n't appreciate how our skeletal machinery works ; we just take it for granted that it does . ’ |
| 4 | Yet can we really take it for granted that parents are so utterly changeless in their behaviour and attitudes to their children ? |
| 5 | We simply took it for granted that women can function well in psychology in all kinds of settings , and we showed that they could by doing our work . |