Example sentences of "they took [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The one they took him for in the end , she was eighty-five years old , and ailing , and he robbed her of her life-savings , and that was less than three hundred pounds . |
| 2 | He had the operation the next day and they took us for a couple of minutes and that was it — they just did n't care . |
| 3 | They took it for granted that this was Ramsey . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Without such a stimulus , Libyans lived comfortably enough with Truth ; that is to say , they took it for granted , and ignored it . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It is the vision of people looking up from the depths , de profundis , from the ‘ dark shadow of death ’ and of despair , and seeing a new light : ‘ unlooked for , glittering and bright ; and the people of Middle-earth beheld it from afar and wondered , and they took it for a sign , and called it Gil-Estel , the Star of High Hope ’ . |
| 8 | This year , as well as his old regulars , the Hoflins , Busacher , and old Anton , the répétiteur from Vienna , he had invited his friends on the theatre committee who had assisted so nobly in quelling the Gesner revolt , and Luiza , Freddi and Alfred , who came nearly every year but not so often they took it for granted . |