Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously blames me for sticking a needle into him , and I expect he always will . ’ |
| 2 | Oliver was very surprised to see all this , and greatly admired them for controlling their sadness so well . |
| 3 | As the horse learns from the voice to listen to the seat , leg and rein aids then you gradually dispense with the voice and only use it for rewarding when he is good . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | So thank you for approaching us , I wish you all the best , I ‘ ll hop off soon and catch my bus And give my brain a rest ! |
| 6 | Er so thank you for coming and do n't forget the candidates and and Thank John personally for for for being such a very good er candidate in in this erm hustings , er but do n't leave the candidates to You must fee The people in Salford and Eccles and in er Worsley , who get the Manchester Evening News , Er It 's it 's that they they put lo there 's local issues is n't there ? |
| 7 | So thank you for coming . |
| 8 | So thank you for giving me the chance to , to air that view . |
| 9 | I already hate myself for having taken the job , I know it was a mistake . |
| 10 | She wondered if fate had just punished her for picking wild flowers . |
| 11 | for the animal in its mud burrow , valuable time will be lost if it can not prepare itself for foraging until after the tide has left the shore . |
| 12 | Quietly sipping champagne in a corner of the large marquee , Laura was just chiding herself for having over-reacted in such a feeble , juvenile way towards a man who could n't possibly be interested in her , when she looked up — and suddenly found Ross standing in front of her ! |
| 13 | No , they just got him for beating somebody . |
| 14 | If charges are intended to raise money , it seems odd not to impose them for staying in hospital or visiting a GP . |
| 15 | Three years of being a member of the Campaign Team at AI had not prepared me for seeing human rights abuses first hand . |
| 16 | Living in close intimacy with Jean-Claude had not prepared me for confronting in musical shape the qualities I sensed and loved in him but could not define . |
| 17 | Jay 's life had not exactly prepared her for falling In Love , still less for I was never in love with you . |
| 18 | The local police no longer stop him for speeding through the sleepy streets of his home town of Riolo Terme , they just pull him over for an autograph . |
| 19 | The most important duty that I owe you , the reader , is that I be absolutely honest and candid , and therefore , although I have no doubt that the growers will not like me for saying so , I suggest that unless you aspire to the show bench , or base your gardening on taking chances , you should not heed the blandishments but look instead for the shortcomings . |
| 20 | ‘ But how can President Aquino overhaul the leadership of the armed forces after she has already commended them for putting down the coup ? ’ asks a congressman and former military officer , Mr Bonifacio Gillego . |
| 21 | We do not condemn him for having being successful , but we do condemn a social security system which is prepared to help Mr Deaves indefinitely when other struggling families who do not meet the DSS 's criteria are thrown out of modest homes . |
| 22 | I have told him he is n't the same man I married any more and he just takes me for granted . |
| 23 | He just takes it for granted that it always looks like this . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | All marriages are special occasions but a second marriage is a doubly precious time because you do not take everything for granted . |
| 26 | But Mills warned : ‘ We can not take anything for granted . ’ |
| 27 | But Mr Lyall will not take anything for granted even though Ipswich are 10 points clear at the top . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Let us not take it for granted . |