Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] for [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The whole country was hostile … its shabbiness I took for granted , ’ Sisson recalls about his school-age surroundings . |
| 2 | So successful was St Etienne 's PA you worried for Flowered Up and , in particular , the now legendary diva of frug pop , Barry Mooncult . |
| 3 | It was strange — hard — to think about something she took for granted . |
| 4 | Even were he able to persuade her to marry him , somehow he could not envisage her being content to live on a ranch among a whole lot of strangers and without the luxuries she took for granted . |
| 5 | It crossed Harry 's mind that on the kind of salary he received — even if he was lucky enough to be paid as well by an English employer as he was by Wendell Harvey — Madeleine would not be able to afford designer dresses , or any other of those expensive luxuries she took for granted . |
| 6 | You took for granted the presence of the Germans and the wire as ordinary citizens take for granted the law of gravity . |
| 7 | Lucenzo seemed to be making up his mind about her , and she knew intuitively that everything she longed for hung on his decision . |
| 8 | We asked principal carers , therefore , which of a list of symptoms the person they cared for suffered from . |
| 9 | They took for granted what was dying in their hands . ’ |
| 10 | They took for granted the historical events of Jesus : his birth , life , death and resurrection . |
| 11 | As Robert Rothstein has commented , Realism was popular with politicians because it ‘ encapsulated what they took for granted , especially after the failures of the 1930s and during the height of the cold war ’ . |
| 12 | The incidence of syphilis itself , though a real problem , was actually declining from the 1860s while the Acts were manifestly unfair , for they took for granted the double standard and consequently sought to control working-class women while ignoring the major source for the spreading of the disease , the men . |
| 13 | I barely understood any of the cultural references that they took for granted . |
| 14 | They took for granted all the hard work that my assistant , Billy McCullough and I put in over all those years . |
| 15 | It tells us that the soldiers are thinking back to before the war , to the sun as if it were something in the distant past which they took for granted but has now become their last hope and so they are turning back to nature to put right a problem they caused . |
| 16 | When he graduated Hugo took a succession of low-paid jobs in 7th Avenue and the optimism with which he had set out began to be dimmed by the sheer sick-making banality of what he had to do — cutting samples in the disgusting fabrics with which the greedy cutthroat manufacturers he worked for made their living . |
| 17 | ( Leavis , a forceful opponent of traditional literary education , indicated in Education and the University just how much cultural competence he took for granted in the student . ) |