Example sentences of "take it for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | For that reason we should take extra care that we do not take it for granted or abuse it . ’ |
| 32 | If I gave them an order to couple up a full line of maybe ten coaches , I would n't take it for granted that they 'd done it , I 'd walk up the coach , one walk up one side , down the other side and I would n't If there were a heating valve not open , if they forgot that you see , I would n't do it for them , I would go back and I 'd say , that S K third from the back end , the heating valve is not pulled down , you 've missed it , you 'd better When you 're up that way , just pull it down you see . |
| 33 | But you see you take it for granted . |
| 34 | Do n't take it for granted it 's it stuff . |
| 35 | Davis is not taking it for granted . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | Ludens was right in a way to complain that they were now all taking it for granted . |
| 38 | She was taking it for granted that he knew who she was ; but then anyone who had read the papers must know that . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | She thought , looking at the pleasant room : I 'm taking it for granted already ! |
| 42 | ‘ You are taking it for granted that when I say ‘ what they like ’ I mean sexual experience . |
| 43 | She seemed to accept Neil 's presents as her right and , what 's more , was increasingly taking it for granted they would be expensive . |
| 44 | Because that was when I stopped taking it for granted . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | Dane was either unaware of her stunned reaction , or else was simply taking it for granted , she thought irritably . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | I am taking it for granted that if you used the term , even in minutes and reports , you must have meant something by it . |
| 49 | You seemed to be taking it for granted , ’ she pointed out . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | Everyone took it for granted that it must be Oxford or Cambridge . |
| 54 | They took it for granted that this was Ramsey . |
| 55 | She took it for granted that they talked about ‘ the handover ’ . |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | 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 . |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | Without such a stimulus , Libyans lived comfortably enough with Truth ; that is to say , they took it for granted , and ignored it . |
| 60 | Even Crosland took it for granted , in trying to disarm those critics who argued that comprehensives would damage standards , that pupils who would have gone to grammar schools would of course still be taught with those of their contemporaries who would also have gone to grammar schools . |