Example sentences of "take [pron] for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Take nothing for granted . |
| 2 | He flicks through his computer in search of the file marked : ‘ Over-confidence ; The Perils Of , ’ and he produces a stream of anodyne phrases which might have been scripted at Anfield or Old Trafford : ‘ Take nothing for granted … great respect for the opposition … must get it right on the day . ’ |
| 3 | It means that every night I do my homework ; I take nothing for granted . |
| 4 | Take nothing for granted . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In fact , those foods were luxuries then , but we all take them for granted now . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | We take it for granted . |
| 9 | We take it for granted , but it is important that the emergent nations of the Third World — themselves , many of them , deeply divided culturally , linguistically and genetically — should see what we have achieved , and where we have fallen short . |
| 10 | In ecology the Germans take it for granted that they are more ecology-minded than anyone else , and that they have a special sensitivity for this too . |
| 11 | People who do n't put on weight take it for granted that the rest of us are greedy and lacking in will power . |
| 12 | And Italians seem to have the most matter-of-fact attitude to drinking wine ; they take it for granted , just like the bread and salt on the table . |
| 13 | Some families take it for granted that the elderly are the natural responsibility of the unattached , but this is not so . |
| 14 | But the worst silence of all is when we take it for granted that they know how much they are still appreciated and that the calloused hands or fingers are symbols to us of the love and caring poured into our lives . |
| 15 | We take it for granted that we have light to see by , natural or artificial . |
| 16 | That 's so long ago , hillwalkers now take it for granted ! |
| 17 | And unless he speaks in a very odd way we take it for granted that he knows what he is saying . |
| 18 | Graham Murdock and Peter Golding , like other Marxists , take it for granted that there is a relationship between ‘ ownership and control ’ . |
| 19 | In most physiological psychology we take it for granted that lesions will centre on the structure selected by the experimenter . |
| 20 | They take it for granted , for instance , that |
| 21 | It 's a modern affliction to look at an aircraft , something that has yet to reach its 100th birthday in our history , and take it for granted . |
| 22 | In discussing texts we idealise away from this variability of the experiencing of the text and assume what Schutz has called ‘ the reciprocity of perspective ’ , whereby we take it for granted that readers of a text or listeners to a text share the same experience ( Schutz , 1953 ) . |
| 23 | Most people take it for granted they can out-smart a peeper like me without too much trouble . |
| 24 | And the financial institutions , subscribing fully to the ideology of the ‘ smoothly functioning capital market ’ , take it for granted that the best interests of their personal sector customers are served by placing funds where they can get the ‘ best ’ and ‘ safest ’ monetary returns , regardless of the consequences for productive investment . |
| 25 | You take it for granted one of the maids will come in and tidy it for you . |
| 26 | Young people especially just take it for granted and order it automatically . |
| 27 | It was argued by some on the Public Schools Commission ( DES , 1970 ) , for , that parents and children would appreciate the value of the education they received and not simply take it for granted if they actually had to part with some money . |
| 28 | We take it for granted that organisations should have objectives . |
| 29 | We take it for granted that individual departments and even individual managers should have objectives . |
| 30 | Because social anthropologists take it for granted ( sometimes mistakenly ) that the distinction between true-kin and affines is of absolutely central importance they expect to find that the behaviour that is appropriate between affines will be a kind of coded inversion of the behaviour that is appropriate between true-kin . |