Example sentences of "took for " in BNC.
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| 1 | They took for granted what was dying in their hands . ’ |
| 2 | It was strange — hard — to think about something she took for granted . |
| 3 | ( Leavis , a forceful opponent of traditional literary education , indicated in Education and the University just how much cultural competence he took for granted in the student . ) |
| 4 | Before we leave this topic , with some doubtless well-received witticisms about the American ateliers that are called Schools of Creative Writing , let us ask ourselves how an artistic tradition is transmitted from generation to generation in England , if it is not transmitted in the way that Pound took for granted . |
| 5 | ‘ The whole country was hostile … its shabbiness I took for granted , ’ Sisson recalls about his school-age surroundings . |
| 6 | The City took a dim view of what it regarded as the inordinate amount of time it took for the group to return a profit there . |
| 7 | Membership of a working-class community was something their fathers took for granted . |
| 8 | I found that Mrs Knelle regarded the Ascendancy as comic dodos , and took for granted that they were all opposed to Home Rule . |
| 9 | In some forests he took for himself the profits of the minor pleas : a thirteenth-century Cumberland jury swore that if any man ‘ furtively ’ felled an oak in Inglewood Forest , then the warden 's duty was ‘ to attach his body according to the law of the forest ’ to answer before the Justice of the Forest at the Forest Eyre . |
| 10 | This they took for ‘ all animals except swine , and swine all the year round in the hay of Plumpton , and during the fence month … in the rest of the forest ’ |
| 11 | His first impressions of England were his contemporaries ' upper-class accents , which he initially took for caricatures , and the vast post-war housing estates , unlike anything in his native land . |
| 12 | For example , over half of the participants ( 56 per cent ) did not know how many beers they could drink before reaching the legal limit for driving and well over two-thirds of them knew neither how long it took for alcohol to be burned up by the body ( 71 per cent ) nor what , if anything , was an effective way of sobering up ( 71 per cent ) . |
| 13 | Silhouetted against the grey sky , on the top , was a figure Roland at first took for a seated monarch by Henry Moore , enthroned and crowned . |
| 14 | He gazed at her in silence that she took for acceptance . |
| 15 | In fact , his total figure at the 11th was almost as much as some took for just one hole . |
| 16 | The plan was to look back at intervals after leaving camp to see how long it took for various features of the Land Rover to disappear , so that I would know how much longer there was to walk when they reappeared in the evening . |
| 17 | You took for granted the presence of the Germans and the wire as ordinary citizens take for granted the law of gravity . |
| 18 | To tell the truth I have only hazy memories of the magazine that I took for a long time and until it ceased publication for reasons that were beyond me . |
| 19 | Mostly nowadays Hugo took for granted all the assets that talent had brought him . |
| 20 | The women , too , had to cope with all the household duties , including feeding men and hired hands with appetites honed by constant fresh air and exercise , with none of the labour-saving aids which most women took for granted . |
| 21 | A bottle of what he took for whisky and four of beer . |
| 22 | And what a long time it took for a tradesman to recover what he was owed ! |
| 23 | ‘ My GP prescribed an oral antibiotic which I took for five months , but it did n't do anything . |
| 24 | I remember being unable to connect those grainy breasts and pubic hair with anything in my own life — flesh , for instance — but the image gave me a mysterious frisson which I mistakenly took for sex . |
| 25 | But in the classroom teachers constantly used technical terms such as noun , verb , adjective , metaphor , simile , paragraph and sentence , and took for granted that children would know what they meant . |
| 26 | They took for granted the historical events of Jesus : his birth , life , death and resurrection . |
| 27 | The 9.96 seconds it took for 32-year-old Linford to grab gold in Barcelona crowned a glittering career . |
| 28 | CLENBUTEROL , the supposed steroid weightlifters Andrew Davies and Andrew Saxton took for asthma , now seems NOT to be banned after all . |
| 29 | We never noticed it during the time it took for me to qualify and start work as an intern at St Andrew 's in Marylebone . |
| 30 | What has to be described is the sort of thing which Europeans took for granted as they went about their daily lives . |