Example sentences of "[adv] take it for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harriet walked home wondering why she had not organised something of this sort before and marvelling at Mrs Rafferty 's complete acceptance of her own role in the community , one in which she obviously took it for granted that she herself had no need or right to ‘ a bit of a break ’ . |
| 2 | He just takes it for granted that it always looks like this . |
| 3 | The practice of ‘ practical criticism ’ in fact unconsciously takes it for granted that the readers already know enough about poetry to have a grasp of rules and conventions sufficient to make adequate sense of the passage . |
| 4 | We can not take it for granted any longer that the division of Germany is sustainable ; in consequence , the whole European security order may be unstable . |
| 5 | The idea of taxing what most people regard as their birthright , fresh air , is startling , but perhaps Tolba is right : we should not take it for granted . |
| 6 | Let us not take it for granted . |
| 7 | The ethnomethodologist does not take it for granted . |
| 8 | A reminder that he should not take it for granted that he would in time succeed to England , Normandy and Anjou ? |
| 9 | Do not take it for granted that Accounts will be paying up the way you want or that suppliers will stay with you if they do n't get paid on time . |
| 10 | So you can not take it for granted . |
| 11 | For that reason we should take extra care that we do not take it for granted or abuse it . ’ |
| 12 | I ca n't just take it for nothing can I ? |
| 13 | whatever it is , deflate , and er guy come round , no problems , no problems with it , well I mean the head gasket 's gone and there 's a hole near the wing and bald tyre on it but mechanically it 's , this guy comes round to look at it , I mean he 's been driving it from Plymouth , he 's in the navy , up and down here , bloke comes round , yeah no problem , come on round mate , come and have a look at it , look round it , says yeah I like this can I just take it for a drive ? |
| 14 | ‘ I used to see and feel things in the house , but being a child I just took it for granted that everybody else was seeing and feeling the same things . |
| 15 | ‘ I would n't mind , ’ she explained , ‘ but they just took it for granted that she would go back to work and I would look after the baby , without even asking me . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ There was such an incredible level of will involved , ’ reflects Rowland , ‘ and we just took it for granted that we were , like , better than everybody else by about 50 million miles . |
| 17 | ‘ Because she just took it for granted that I was there to wait on her . |
| 18 | I just took it for granted he was on his way back to the group . ’ |
| 19 | Well the others have made a bit , we just took it for granted that she was giving us ten per cent rise , and did n't bother , cos they trusted her , but |
| 20 | Somehow I just took it for granted you worked in London . ’ |
| 21 | Davis is not taking it for granted . |
| 22 | Young people especially just take it for granted and order it automatically . |
| 23 | I do not intend to list all the normal things Excel can do — just take it for granted that you will be able to set up a spreadsheet to calculate whatever you want to — but I want to concentrate on some of the features that will certainly save time , effort , and head scratching . |
| 24 | No , well they all said next time they 'll check , because some of them just just take it for granted . |
| 25 | We know how cars work , but we do n't appreciate how our skeletal machinery works ; we just take it for granted that it does . ’ |
| 26 | You just er , you just take it for granted do n't you ? |
| 27 | On the other hand a Kachin will always take it for granted that anyone whom he is prepared to classify as a Jinghpaw is a kinsman of some sort . |
| 28 | When I went to live in the attic , Jean-Claude still took it for granted that the wood he needed for the stove should be filched from the railway sidings . |
| 29 | We know that , in general , the literati became the bureaucratic agents of the established political order and that they always took it for granted that hierarchy is part of the natural order of things . |
| 30 | " Why — Martha , girl — I 've always taken it for granted that you and me would — would - " |