Example sentences of "[pron] take [pron] for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said I did n't appreciate her , I took her for granted , I did n't notice all the little things she did and that I sulked if she made the slightest mistake . |
| 2 | The reality surprised me at first , and then like everyone else , I took it for granted . |
| 3 | I took it for granted that I could associate with people from all walks of life , from every background . |
| 4 | Back then I think my girlfriends and I took it for granted that washing regularly was an exclusively feminine pursuit . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It means that every night I do my homework ; I take nothing for granted . |
| 7 | This is not because I take them for granted — On the contrary I marvel every year at the miracle of that never-empty basket in The Undercroft and the crowds round the stalls . |
| 8 | It encourages in us an arrogance which takes everything for granted . |
| 9 | Such studies are rare since they require an examination of media practices and content as well as a critical assessment of the media 's presentation of the ‘ real world ’ — an assessment which takes it for granted that the media do not reproduce ‘ reality ’ in a pure form ; their use of language and images as well as the working practices of journalists inevitably refract ‘ reality ’ , so ‘ distorting ’ it . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | It is easy to think of the doctor , for example , whose father and grandfather were doctors before him and who takes it for granted that his son will follow in his footsteps — without really stopping to consider whether that is what his son wants to do . |
| 12 | To give this impression would ensure shipwreck on a reef which we shall in any case be lucky to avoid , the indifference of the reader who takes it for granted that we are trying to deduce imperatives from the facts of which one ought to be aware , and assumes in advance that there has to be a flaw somewhere , hardly worth the trouble of locating , as in a new proposal for a perpetual-motion machine . |
| 13 | But you see you take it for granted . |
| 14 | She took them for granted , of course . |
| 15 | On Saturday mornings she took them for riding lessons , waited and took them back , while Norm went out to play golf . |
| 16 | She took you for granted , as though she 'd always known you , that was really what it was . |
| 17 | She took it for granted that they talked about ‘ the handover ’ . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She took it for granted that he would know who Julian was . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | She took it for granted he would be eager , and released him from her bear 's hug . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | You take it for granted one of the maids will come in and tidy it for you . |
| 26 | George Orwell was particularly fond of striking these contrasts between the ordered stability of the past against the awfulness of the present , and he was also thoroughly wound up in the myths of English civility : ‘ The gentleness of the English civilisation is perhaps its most marked characteristic ’ , he wrote in an essay of 1940 , ‘ Everyone takes it for granted that the law , such as it is , will be respected , and feels a sense of outrage when it is not . ’ |
| 27 | I also discovered that Granpa used to switch suppliers regularly , ‘ just to be sure no one takes me for granted ’ . |
| 28 | Why do we take it for granted that education is a good to which everyone equally is entitled ? |
| 29 | No longer do we take it for granted as meaning that we get a job in a company , or an industry , with the hope and intention of learning new skills , gaining experience and becoming part of an enterprise , in turn passing on skills and giving others the benefit of our experience . |
| 30 | If anything , we were too extravagant in the late 1980s when money was rolling in — we took everything for granted . |