Example sentences of "[that] [pron] take [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was at this point , when I was twelve years old , that I took to reading junk books the way some people take to eating junk food . |
| 2 | And if it did happen , your physical health could be just the first of many things you lose , that you take for granted now . |
| 3 | Remember that the amount of care and time that you take in pressing your material will be very apparent when you look at your finished work , so never be tempted to cut corners . |
| 4 | He spent a month there , and his photographs show that the production of tyres , which are things that we take for granted , depend on individuals , their skills , and a surprising amount of physical effort . |
| 5 | But many of the household products and home improvements that we take for granted are potentially harmful . |
| 6 | To understand the meaning of what is said to us is a cultural accomplishment that we take for granted . |
| 7 | Large , powerful computer systems based on minicomputer architectures but built using microprocessors , were beginning to offer the sort of graphical interface and high resolution screen that we take for granted today . |
| 8 | I think there 's one other thing that 's worth thinking about , and that is that many of our students come into the University for one-day schools , for lectures , for activities of this kind , and this gives an opportunity for a kind of reciprocal traffic , if you like , so that people outside who often have very odd ideas of what universities do and what they 're about and what they 're like , can actually see your University , participate in its activities , and we can see ordinary folk who sometimes ask the shrewdest questions and make sometimes what seem to be the most penetrating kinds of points about the sort of things that we take for granted . |
| 9 | I barely understood any of the cultural references that they took for granted . |
| 10 | He said that he took to writing novels to support himself and his family and to enable him to devote himself to his religious writings and poems . |
| 11 | The risk that he took in bringing the whole Windsor Conference together was enormous . |