Example sentences of "[pers pn] for [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The women who were working there looked at me in a kind curious way at first and then took me for granted . |
| 2 | But not when he 's taking me for granted . |
| 3 | ‘ If you have been taking me for granted , ’ Mr O'Hara argued , ‘ then that is my fault . |
| 4 | I have told him he is n't the same man I married any more and he just takes me for granted . |
| 5 | ‘ What makes you think you 're taking me for granted ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I warned you not to take me for granted , Kathleen . |
| 7 | It 's just that sometimes — well , I do n't even know if we have a relationship , and I do n't want him thinking he can take me for granted . ’ |
| 8 | I also discovered that Granpa used to switch suppliers regularly , ‘ just to be sure no one takes me for granted ’ . |
| 9 | We Westerners may take them for granted as part of the furniture of any self-respecting office and available to all on every high street . |
| 10 | The space-time machine had to be a very pedestrian-looking , everyday object to shock audiences into not taking the world around them for granted . |
| 11 | We want Annabelle and Steven to enjoy the things we never had , not to take them for granted , but to appreciate how lucky they are to be able to celebrate like this surrounded by their families and friends . |
| 12 | The test of that is , that the local people treat the experiences they claim to have had as perfectly acceptable — almost take them for granted . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In fact , those foods were luxuries then , but we all take them for granted now . |
| 15 | She had never queried such a thing before — indeed , had taken servants , their duties , and how one addressed them for granted , after the fashion of all wealthy and pampered girls , she now supposed . |
| 16 | Williamson 's theory of the firm is an attempt , following Coase , to explain the existence and internal structure of firms rather than to take them for granted . |
| 17 | She took them for granted , of course . |
| 18 | Owen normally took them for granted . |
| 19 | Our consumer society demands these , yet takes them for granted . |
| 20 | This is not because I take them for granted — On the contrary I marvel every year at the miracle of that never-empty basket in The Undercroft and the crowds round the stalls . |
| 21 | She took you for granted , as though she 'd always known you , that was really what it was . |
| 22 | I have obviously been taking you for granted . ’ |
| 23 | For taking you for granted . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I 'll never take you for granted again . |
| 25 | Britain took him for granted . |
| 26 | He was afraid she might see him sticking out and start taking him for granted or make unwomanly advances . |
| 27 | If she missed his letters for a few days , she would probably stop taking him for granted . |
| 28 | When I was pregnant , and we did not have this constantly changing situation of togetherness and separation , my husband complained that I had not noticed him kissing me goodbye in the morning — I was starting to take him for granted after only a few months without going to the mikva ! |
| 29 | She was very careful after that not to take him for granted , even occasionally making excuses to refuse his sporadic invitations , although it tore her to shreds not to be with him at every opportunity . |
| 30 | Just as she did n't take him for granted , she made sure he could n't take her for granted either . |