Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] for [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fishmonger blessed her for calling and wished her a continued pleasant time in their beautiful city . |
| 2 | I do n't want that to happen to my daughter so I smacked her for stealing and lying . ’ |
| 3 | He thanked her for coming and saw her off the premises , but he was left wondering at her distress which seemed to arise more from fear than from grief . |
| 4 | He said , ‘ Did you have a good Christmas ? ’ , and not looking at him she thanked him for asking and replied that it had been quiet but nice . |
| 5 | She wished him goodbye , thanked him for coming and could see again the face of his wife on the only occasion she had met her : tight-lipped , unable to approve , fiercely loyal to John . |
| 6 | How right we were : he drew plans with all the details we needed and submitted them for planning and building approval . |
| 7 | I loved him for saying that , for trying to cheer me up . |
| 8 | They defined fire as a means of warmth and used it to heat their dwellings ; as a means of defence and used it to ward off wild animals ; and as a means of transforming substances and employed it for cooking and hardening the points of wooden spears . |
| 9 | Everyone took it for granted that it must be Oxford or Cambridge . |
| 10 | They took it for granted that this was Ramsey . |
| 11 | She took it for granted that they talked about ‘ the handover ’ . |
| 12 | They took it for granted that the international world was one of competing powers and that their duty was to make the most of whatever assets were available to them . |
| 13 | The church found it hard to enforce chastity within marriage when a pagan man took it for granted that he had the right to sleep with his slavegirls . |
| 14 | Almost all philosophically minded people of Clement 's age , except for only a tiny handful of Epicureans , took it for granted that the order of the world reflects a designing providential hand . |
| 15 | Until recently , they took it for granted that their supplies from domestic sources could be obtained on credit and that , when these bills matured , any shortage of funds would be made good by the banks . |
| 16 | ‘ I used to see and feel things in the house , but being a child I just took it for granted that everybody else was seeing and feeling the same things . |
| 17 | ‘ I would n't mind , ’ she explained , ‘ but they just took it for granted that she would go back to work and I would look after the baby , without even asking me . ’ |
| 18 | I took it for granted that I could associate with people from all walks of life , from every background . |
| 19 | Jack had gone to India soon afterwards , and although Susan wore no ring they were definitely engaged , and everyone took it for granted that they would marry as soon as circumstances would permit . |
| 20 | Medieval law was indeed profoundly conservative , and most medieval vassals took it for granted that the right of resistance was a law which could not be abrogated . |
| 21 | He took it for granted that people would fall in love with Eva . |
| 22 | She took it for granted that each knew who the other was , and standing aside to motion him in she said : ‘ It 's good of you to be so accommodating , Mr Dalgliesh . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . |
| 24 | Ruth saw at once that her grandfather was not in the room , but she took it for granted that by some miracle he had improved enough to get upstairs and was resting in bed . |
| 25 | Personally , I would go further : employers who took it for granted that this was exactly what they were doing should not be open to fresh claims from the DSS . |
| 26 | Harriet walked home wondering why she had not organised something of this sort before and marvelling at Mrs Rafferty 's complete acceptance of her own role in the community , one in which she obviously took it for granted that she herself had no need or right to ‘ a bit of a break ’ . |
| 27 | At that moment Mollie Green appeared , and both took it for granted that Robins could borrow the car . |
| 28 | She took it for granted that he would know who Julian was . |
| 29 | The early feminists make more of an impression on us than the overwhelming mass of their contemporary sisters who took it for granted that their place in society would be one of legal and social inequality to men . |
| 30 | 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 . |