Example sentences of "[adv] take 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 He just takes it for granted that it always looks like this .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 Let us not take it for granted .
7 The ethnomethodologist does not take it for granted .
8 A reminder that he should not take it for granted that he would in time succeed to England , Normandy and Anjou ?
9 Do not take it for granted that Accounts will be paying up the way you want or that suppliers will stay with you if they do n't get paid on time .
10 So you can not take it for granted .
11 For that reason we should take extra care that we do not take it for granted or abuse it . ’
12 ‘ 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 .
13 ‘ 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 . ’
14 ‘ 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 .
15 ‘ Because she just took it for granted that I was there to wait on her .
16 I just took it for granted he was on his way back to the group . ’
17 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
18 Somehow I just took it for granted you worked in London . ’
19 Davis is not taking it for granted .
20 Young people especially just take it for granted and order it automatically .
21 I do not intend to list all the normal things Excel can do — just take it for granted that you will be able to set up a spreadsheet to calculate whatever you want to — but I want to concentrate on some of the features that will certainly save time , effort , and head scratching .
22 No , well they all said next time they 'll check , because some of them just just take it for granted .
23 We know how cars work , but we do n't appreciate how our skeletal machinery works ; we just take it for granted that it does . ’
24 You just er , you just take it for granted do n't you ?
25 On the other hand a Kachin will always take it for granted that anyone whom he is prepared to classify as a Jinghpaw is a kinsman of some sort .
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 " Why — Martha , girl — I 've always taken it for granted that you and me would — would - "
29 Because she had been fond of Simon in a sisterly way — as a much older sister — she had always taken it for granted that the affection he had shown her in return had been brotherly , with maybe a spot of heroine worship thrown in .
30 Yet can we really take it for granted that parents are so utterly changeless in their behaviour and attitudes to their children ?
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