Example sentences of "[pron] took it for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reality surprised me at first , and then like everyone else , I took it for granted . |
| 2 | I took it for granted that I could associate with people from all walks of life , from every background . |
| 3 | ’ ’ I took it for something inevitable . |
| 4 | I took it for a continuation . |
| 5 | Back then I think my girlfriends and I took it for granted that washing regularly was an exclusively feminine pursuit . |
| 6 | Then she held out her hand to me , and I took it for a second . |
| 7 | I took it for granted I 'd just been lying there since I went out , and whoever had jumped me had made off and left me there . |
| 8 | You see , he was exceptionally nice and he used to lecture at the colleges and er he was a real , very nice gentleman and er and so he , of course he , he , he took his drink across to the table with him and sometimes I took it for him it just depend and he , he wrote this book and er I forget now , perhaps you would like to read and see what he says |
| 9 | in fact , I took it for a taxi up here from there went to pit club , we had one in pit club and a game of bingo , went to Peacock we had one in Peacock and eat our sandwich . |
| 10 | so it er , it were running alright then , and er I took it for a spin I went round the block , up Robin Hood Way |
| 11 | Yeah I 'd considered buying it and all that , you know it do n't take five minutes you know , and I took it for a test drive |
| 12 | ‘ There was a postwar cult ’ , wrote Mrs Le Mesurier in 1931 , ‘ which took it for granted that as the devil has all the good tunes , so youth had all the good qualities ’ , and faced with the giddy enthusiasm of people such as S. F. Hatton , Basil Henriques , James Butterworth , Herbert Casson , H. S. Bryan and Robert Baden-Powell we can perhaps see what she was driving at . |
| 13 | She took it for granted that they talked about ‘ the handover ’ . |
| 14 | She took it for granted that each knew who the other was , and standing aside to motion him in she said : ‘ It 's good of you to be so accommodating , Mr Dalgliesh . |
| 15 | Ruth saw at once that her grandfather was not in the room , but she took it for granted that by some miracle he had improved enough to get upstairs and was resting in bed . |
| 16 | She took it for granted that he would know who Julian was . |
| 17 | She was aware , she must have been aware , she says , of the deep affection her father bore her , but alas she took it for granted . |
| 18 | She took it for granted he would be eager , and released him from her bear 's hug . |
| 19 | When she began to unbutton his shirt he stood , paralysed , staring at the slack flesh round her stomach , he shivered and she took it for excitement ; he had dreamed about this , waiting for the moment when he would instinctively know what to do , would take control , but instead she was rubbing against him with a cool professionalism that unnerved him . |
| 20 | Personally , I would go further : employers who took it for granted that this was exactly what they were doing should not be open to fresh claims from the DSS . |
| 21 | The early feminists make more of an impression on us than the overwhelming mass of their contemporary sisters who took it for granted that their place in society would be one of legal and social inequality to men . |
| 22 | And , as one of my brothers said , if you took it for a walk it panted . |
| 23 | It 's only afterwards , in the Epilogue , that we learn with surprise and perhaps some vexation that repentance and acceptance of suffering come to him not then but much later , in prison ; his confession was not the decisive moral feat we took it for . |
| 24 | ‘ We were so good for so long that we took it for granted . |
| 25 | We took it for forensic tests . ’ |
| 26 | We thought it a good idea to start off by hiring a motor caravan , or camper van as they 're called in NZ , but as it was quite expensive we took it for a fortnight just to try it . |
| 27 | Everyone took it for granted that it must be Oxford or Cambridge . |
| 28 | Jack had gone to India soon afterwards , and although Susan wore no ring they were definitely engaged , and everyone took it for granted that they would marry as soon as circumstances would permit . |
| 29 | Just as everyone took it for granted that the young Scot was on the point of fulfilling the potential she had shown in the amateur game , so she stopped in her tracks . |
| 30 | They took it for granted that this was Ramsey . |