Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] it [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | But he only did it by sacking thousands and thousands of workers . |
| 3 | ‘ I used to see and feel things in the house , but being a child I just took it for granted that everybody else was seeing and feeling the same things . |
| 4 | ‘ I would n't mind , ’ she explained , ‘ but they just took it for granted that she would go back to work and I would look after the baby , without even asking me . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ There was such an incredible level of will involved , ’ reflects Rowland , ‘ and we just took it for granted that we were , like , better than everybody else by about 50 million miles . |
| 6 | ‘ Because she just took it for granted that I was there to wait on her . |
| 7 | I just took it for granted he was on his way back to the group . ’ |
| 8 | Well the others have made a bit , we just took it for granted that she was giving us ten per cent rise , and did n't bother , cos they trusted her , but |
| 9 | Somehow I just took it for granted you worked in London . ’ |
| 10 | It then took some time to raise the heavy engine and cut the rope from the propeller , but I finally managed it before drifting ashore . |
| 11 | But when one track came dangerously close to being ‘ rompalong , knees-up , power-pop anthem ’ the band quickly sabotaged it by sticking ‘ a cheesy drum machine behind it and turning the last two minutes into a total sonic attack ’ — much to the tearful bewilderment of their paymasters , left-field Belgians Play It Again Sam . |
| 12 | When I went to live in the attic , Jean-Claude still took it for granted that the wood he needed for the stove should be filched from the railway sidings . |
| 13 | We know that , in general , the literati became the bureaucratic agents of the established political order and that they always took it for granted that hierarchy is part of the natural order of things . |
| 14 | Someone once felt it worth fortifying ; beneath grey-white nun Can , a castle stands at the roadside , formidable and hostile even in bright warm sunshine . |
| 15 | The firm is pushed to continue as long as it can without breaking the law — indeed Dista can claim CSM positively discouraged it from taking action , a situation which , some observers claim , shows that the British drugs watchdog has power without responsibility . |
| 16 | Even the employer operating from his own premises often took it for granted that if his advantage dictated it , the parish must take the strain . |
| 17 | Although Bush signed this measure on Aug. 18 , he effectively nullified it by refusing to declare the budget emergency required to permit additional spending . |
| 18 | We simply took it for granted that women can function well in psychology in all kinds of settings , and we showed that they could by doing our work . |
| 19 | TODAY proved it by showing six women a picture of Clinton lookalike Bill Kay , who is on the books of modelling agency Susan Scott Lookalikes , and telling them he sold Hoovers for a living . |
| 20 | Karen knocked on the door , then opened it without waiting . |
| 21 | He sounded impressed , then spoilt it by lapsing back into the mocking tone of their earlier conversation . |
| 22 | Following this , he took the last piece of pork from his plate , chewed on it , then swallowed it before asking the next question . |
| 23 | Like Mr Kravchuk , Khmelnytsky won independence for Ukraine but then lost it by making a fatal alliance with Russia . |
| 24 | Suppose that I have a sudden impulse to settle when I retire in the village where I was born ; but reality breaks in , I recognize that I had better remember it not as a nostalgic vision but as I indeed saw it before experiencing the city , admit to myself that it will have changed beyond recognition , try to anticipate living in it not as I am now but as an old man who no longer easily makes new friends , try to see myself through the villagers ' eyes as already a stranger who may no longer deserve a welcome . |
| 25 | Said , ‘ I am not a very political politician , ’ and then proved it by singing ‘ My Darling Clementine ’ live on Irish TV a few hours after an IRA massacre . |
| 26 | ‘ You did quite well , ’ Mrs Freer admitted grudgingly , then spoiled it by adding : ‘ Do n't let it go to your head . ’ |
| 27 | Gerald Seymour-Strachey 's name coming to the forefront of the picture so unexpectedly made it worth looking more closely at him — in the past as well as the present . |
| 28 | Beata Bishop in her book A Time to Heal , which describes her experience of cancer and how she ultimately cured it by using alternative healing methods , writes of her first experience of conventional surgery . |
| 29 | Only in the room Sally had chosen especially for her was Harriet amongst familiar echoes of the past and she never entered it without feeling a wave of gratitude towards her aunt . |
| 30 | He found himself unexpectedly touched by her simple assumption , the way she absolutely took it for granted , that he was innocent . |