Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] for grant " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The whole country was hostile … its shabbiness I took for granted , ’ Sisson recalls about his school-age surroundings . |
| 2 | Unrepentant , the naive Petrashevskii proceeded in February 1848 to circulate a document which called for granting merchants the right to own populated estates on condition that they dealt with their serfs in accordance with the Law on Obligated Peasants of 1842 . |
| 3 | It was strange — hard — to think about something she took for granted . |
| 4 | Even were he able to persuade her to marry him , somehow he could not envisage her being content to live on a ranch among a whole lot of strangers and without the luxuries she took for granted . |
| 5 | It crossed Harry 's mind that on the kind of salary he received — even if he was lucky enough to be paid as well by an English employer as he was by Wendell Harvey — Madeleine would not be able to afford designer dresses , or any other of those expensive luxuries she took for granted . |
| 6 | You took for granted the presence of the Germans and the wire as ordinary citizens take for granted the law of gravity . |
| 7 | They took for granted what was dying in their hands . ’ |
| 8 | They took for granted the historical events of Jesus : his birth , life , death and resurrection . |
| 9 | As Robert Rothstein has commented , Realism was popular with politicians because it ‘ encapsulated what they took for granted , especially after the failures of the 1930s and during the height of the cold war ’ . |
| 10 | The incidence of syphilis itself , though a real problem , was actually declining from the 1860s while the Acts were manifestly unfair , for they took for granted the double standard and consequently sought to control working-class women while ignoring the major source for the spreading of the disease , the men . |
| 11 | I barely understood any of the cultural references that they took for granted . |
| 12 | They took for granted all the hard work that my assistant , Billy McCullough and I put in over all those years . |
| 13 | It tells us that the soldiers are thinking back to before the war , to the sun as if it were something in the distant past which they took for granted but has now become their last hope and so they are turning back to nature to put right a problem they caused . |
| 14 | ( Leavis , a forceful opponent of traditional literary education , indicated in Education and the University just how much cultural competence he took for granted in the student . ) |
| 15 | On the other hand , the middle classes would have been shocked and appalled if the workers had actually asked for the sort of life they themselves took for granted , and even more if they had looked like achieving it . |