Example sentences of "taking [pers pn] for granted " in BNC.
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| 1 | But not when he 's taking me for granted . |
| 2 | ‘ If you have been taking me for granted , ’ Mr O'Hara argued , ‘ then that is my fault . |
| 3 | ‘ What makes you think you 're taking me for granted ? ’ |
| 4 | Art helps us to break out of this prison-house by subverting conventional sign-systems and forcing us to focus our attention on signs themselves rather than taking them for granted . |
| 5 | I have obviously been taking you for granted . ’ |
| 6 | For taking you for granted . ’ |
| 7 | He was afraid she might see him sticking out and start taking him for granted or make unwomanly advances . |
| 8 | If she missed his letters for a few days , she would probably stop taking him for granted . |
| 9 | John was taking her for granted , so were the children . |
| 10 | She felt that the ‘ on — off ’ nature of their relationship — when he was here today but not tomorrow , or even the next day — was all part of Nicky 's habit of taking her for granted . |
| 11 | I could have pointed out that there was never any chance of me taking her for granted , because the minute I stopped thinking about her she sobbed until I noticed her again . |
| 12 | Davis is not taking it for granted . |
| 13 | Yet others may deplore British nationalism while taking it for granted that there is some homogeneous group called the British , thus conceding the basic premise for a British nationalism . |
| 14 | Ludens was right in a way to complain that they were now all taking it for granted . |
| 15 | She was taking it for granted that he knew who she was ; but then anyone who had read the papers must know that . |
| 16 | By citizens and burgesses he meant the freemen of corporate towns , taking it for granted that his readers would understand that this privilege had in practice come to be restricted to the richer inhabitants — merchants , not working craftsmen . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She thought , looking at the pleasant room : I 'm taking it for granted already ! |
| 19 | ‘ You are taking it for granted that when I say ‘ what they like ’ I mean sexual experience . |
| 20 | She seemed to accept Neil 's presents as her right and , what 's more , was increasingly taking it for granted they would be expensive . |
| 21 | Because that was when I stopped taking it for granted . |
| 22 | Between waking and full consciousness I see clearly that I should never have so casually left the inn once I had got there , taking it for granted I could get back quite simply . |
| 23 | Dane was either unaware of her stunned reaction , or else was simply taking it for granted , she thought irritably . |
| 24 | Acceptance of mystery — taking it for granted that the spirit is beyond our total comprehension , that this dimension can not easily be put into words , or expressed adequately in any art form . |
| 25 | I am taking it for granted that if you used the term , even in minutes and reports , you must have meant something by it . |
| 26 | You seemed to be taking it for granted , ’ she pointed out . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | So he was taking it for granted or or chancing his hand that this Monday for this year was going to be another good day . |
| 29 | Isambard was taking it for granted , it seemed , that a boy of fifteen could easily be seduced into giving his confidence , or at least some incautious fringes of it , to companions not so far from his own age and under orders to ingratiate themselves with him . |
| 30 | They 're taking us for granted ! |