Example sentences of "[v-ing] it for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was keeping it for cleaning the car . |
| 2 | The connotations of this in the creation of manhood were made clear by Baden Powell , founder of the Scout movement , who observed that masturbation checks the semen from getting its full chance of making the strong , manly man : ‘ You are throwing away the seed that has been handed down to you as a trust instead of keeping it and ripening it for bringing a son to you later on . ’ |
| 3 | Some have proposed other reasons for Planet X , blaming it for causing periodic comet showers and mass extinctions on Earth , or for stealing Pluto from Neptune and reversing the motion of Neptune 's satellite Triton . |
| 4 | Immediately in December 1979 , however , Parliament rejected the 1980 budget , criticising it for spending too much on CAP and too little on social and regional policies . |
| 5 | Davis is not taking it for granted . |
| 6 | Yet others may deplore British nationalism while taking it for granted that there is some homogeneous group called the British , thus conceding the basic premise for a British nationalism . |
| 7 | Ludens was right in a way to complain that they were now all taking it for granted . |
| 8 | She was taking it for granted that he knew who she was ; but then anyone who had read the papers must know that . |
| 9 | By citizens and burgesses he meant the freemen of corporate towns , taking it for granted that his readers would understand that this privilege had in practice come to be restricted to the richer inhabitants — merchants , not working craftsmen . |
| 10 | Unschooled children , if the evidence does demonstrate that they are being less explicit , may in fact be taking it for granted that the questioner can see what is being referred to so that there is no apparent need to be explicit . |
| 11 | She thought , looking at the pleasant room : I 'm taking it for granted already ! |
| 12 | ‘ You are taking it for granted that when I say ‘ what they like ’ I mean sexual experience . |
| 13 | She seemed to accept Neil 's presents as her right and , what 's more , was increasingly taking it for granted they would be expensive . |
| 14 | Because that was when I stopped taking it for granted . |
| 15 | Between waking and full consciousness I see clearly that I should never have so casually left the inn once I had got there , taking it for granted I could get back quite simply . |
| 16 | Dane was either unaware of her stunned reaction , or else was simply taking it for granted , she thought irritably . |
| 17 | Acceptance of mystery — taking it for granted that the spirit is beyond our total comprehension , that this dimension can not easily be put into words , or expressed adequately in any art form . |
| 18 | I am taking it for granted that if you used the term , even in minutes and reports , you must have meant something by it . |
| 19 | You seemed to be taking it for granted , ’ she pointed out . |
| 20 | Robert Sheldrake was taking it for granted that the only threat to his practice was that of two small-animal vets , and even that was sufficient for him to be rather unpleasant . |
| 21 | So he was taking it for granted or or chancing his hand that this Monday for this year was going to be another good day . |
| 22 | Isambard was taking it for granted , it seemed , that a boy of fifteen could easily be seduced into giving his confidence , or at least some incautious fringes of it , to companions not so far from his own age and under orders to ingratiate themselves with him . |
| 23 | Fibre-optic broadcaster WilTel Corp will be using it for transmitting television programmes as will Vyvx Inc , which also provides videoconferencing , production and editing facilities to over 65 US cities . |
| 24 | Growing sugar and preparing it for shipping to London was harder work than growing and curing tobacco , and a much larger labour force was needed for the process of harvesting the cane and crushing it which had to be done in a very short period of time . |