Example sentences of "[vb pp] it for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Low-growing , almost mat-like , with white daisy flowers in summer , chamomile dates back to at least the time of the ancient Egyptians who are said to have used it for curing ague . |
| 2 | I 've used it for carrying pens — you do n't get too many grizzlies or wolves where I live ! |
| 3 | We have used it for scouting exercises . ’ |
| 4 | Bristling with moonstones , the collar was primitive and barbaric ; the mastiff of a prince of medieval Persia might have worn it for going out hawking in a miniature . |
| 5 | Economists have taken it for granted that to get round it , creditors will in practice need to get most of the benefit from debt relief . |
| 6 | He had taken it for granted that his verbose and glib explanation of the facts would convince the jury of his innocence . |
| 7 | I 'd rather taken it for granted that she 'd come to London with me . |
| 8 | There is nothing essentially new in thus narrowing the scope of will ; most of mankind throughout most of its history seems to have taken it for granted that they were moved by forces from beyond them and mysterious to them , which might lift them above or drag them below the capacities of which they might presume to be in command ( in Christian theology , the unpredictable visitations of divine grace assisting a will otherwise impotent to resist the Devil ) , and in the present century , ever since Freud demonstrated that the same conception of man could be translated from a religious into a psychological language , we have found ourselves thinking our way back to it . |
| 9 | She had taken it for granted that if Isobel accompanied Hank to the ball , it would be a kind of aunt and nephew relationship , but now she wondered . |
| 10 | All his life , he had taken it for granted that they loved each other to the exclusion of anyone else . |
| 11 | Until the 1640s the colonies had taken it for granted that they would trade only with England , partly because Charles 's government gave orders that they should , partly because the hostile Spanish colonies offered them no real alternative . |
| 12 | " Why — Martha , girl — I 've always taken it for granted that you and me would — would - " |
| 13 | Ruth instinctively clasped Fand 's hand again ; she 'd taken it for granted the half-mortals would be hostile to one of Fincara 's Women . |
| 14 | So far we have taken it for granted that the distinction between ambiguity and generality is intuitively obvious . |
| 15 | ‘ As a matter of fact , I had taken it for granted that you would n't want a boring old fart like me trailing after you round Siena . ’ |
| 16 | In fact , the calculation above hides a significant assumption : We have taken it for granted that there are precisely 3 offspring . |
| 17 | And they have happened as I have wanted , and I have taken it for granted that they have because I know where I 'm going . |
| 18 | He had taken it for granted that the other reasons did n't need to be spelled out . |
| 19 | I should have taken it for granted there was something the matter . ’ |
| 20 | Because she had been fond of Simon in a sisterly way — as a much older sister — she had always taken it for granted that the affection he had shown her in return had been brotherly , with maybe a spot of heroine worship thrown in . |