Example sentences of "[verb] take [pron] for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because that was when I stopped taking it for granted . |
| 2 | As for his own comeback to the official international cricket scene , Gatting admitted : ‘ I 'd taken nothing for granted . |
| 3 | Ruth instinctively clasped Fand 's hand again ; she 'd taken it for granted the half-mortals would be hostile to one of Fincara 's Women . |
| 4 | But the Haig Avenue boss is refusing to take anything for granted as he lines up his first game as a manager in the first round proper . |
| 5 | He seemed to take it for granted that she was the one to talk to . |
| 6 | To her horror , Folly saw Luke nod and turn away down the corridor , leaving her alone with this sinister whispering woman who seemed to take it for granted that she was meekly going to strip off and join in what could only be some kind of orgy . |
| 7 | He seemed to take it for granted that everyone would do what he told them . |
| 8 | It appeals to reason , but in order to reason we have got to take something for granted as a starting point and this can not be proved . |
| 9 | Her eyes followed him as he unpacked the bike , and she wondered if he was just going to take it for granted that she would sleep with him of if he would offer her the choice . |
| 10 | If she missed his letters for a few days , she would probably stop taking him for granted . |
| 11 | I should have taken it for granted there was something the matter . ’ |
| 12 | When I was pregnant , and we did not have this constantly changing situation of togetherness and separation , my husband complained that I had not noticed him kissing me goodbye in the morning — I was starting to take him for granted after only a few months without going to the mikva ! |
| 13 | On the one hand , the researcher should try to take nothing for granted , but rather be surprised and intrigued by what is observed , as if trying to make sense of foreign culture . |
| 14 | The dogs were never collected , so Friends of Rough Collie Rescue ( FRCR ) at Marlow , Buckinghamshire , were asked to take them for rehoming . |
| 15 | He was afraid she might see him sticking out and start taking him for granted or make unwomanly advances . |
| 16 | There is nothing essentially new in thus narrowing the scope of will ; most of mankind throughout most of its history seems to have taken it for granted that they were moved by forces from beyond them and mysterious to them , which might lift them above or drag them below the capacities of which they might presume to be in command ( in Christian theology , the unpredictable visitations of divine grace assisting a will otherwise impotent to resist the Devil ) , and in the present century , ever since Freud demonstrated that the same conception of man could be translated from a religious into a psychological language , we have found ourselves thinking our way back to it . |
| 17 | ‘ We have learned to take nothing for granted . |
| 18 | Despite the darkness and unannounced approach , the raiding party found the Armstrong chiefs , Mangerton , Gilnockie , Whithaugh and the rest , awaiting their arrival at Langholm , their ‘ capital ’ , with some hundreds of their very tough riders assembled , a significant indication of their excellent information system in this wild Border country ; and when they heard of the descent on Dacre 's castle of Gilsland , they appeared to take it for granted that they would go along . |
| 19 | I have no doubt that the majority of staff working in this difficult field do their job with compassion and professionalism , but this trial has shown that we can afford to take nothing for granted . |
| 20 | But Limerick are the current league champions and Jim Nelson 's men ca n't afford to take anything for granted . |
| 21 | Beer seems such a simple drink that we tend to take it for granted . |
| 22 | However , with fewer breaks pilots tend to take it for granted that they will not get a cable break , and this makes them more vulnerable when one does occur . |
| 23 | Within the Western tradition of art we tend to take it for granted that much can be learned from the study of the art of the past and , traditionally , copying from the works of the Great Masters was one of a young student 's most important tasks . |
| 24 | Technology is so pervasive , so much an intrinsic part of modern life , that we tend to take it for granted . |
| 25 | For the rest of us , it seems commonplace and obvious that we should be able to think , imagine , perceive and remember in the ways that we do , and we tend to take it for granted that the rest of the world has the same sort of experience of everyday life that we do . |
| 26 | ‘ Mama — ’ Gratitude rushed up in him ; he realised that he had not always considered her , had taken her for granted , had consulted her in nothing ; and now she had probably saved his reason . |
| 27 | He had taken it for granted that his verbose and glib explanation of the facts would convince the jury of his innocence . |
| 28 | She had taken it for granted that if Isobel accompanied Hank to the ball , it would be a kind of aunt and nephew relationship , but now she wondered . |
| 29 | All his life , he had taken it for granted that they loved each other to the exclusion of anyone else . |
| 30 | Until the 1640s the colonies had taken it for granted that they would trade only with England , partly because Charles 's government gave orders that they should , partly because the hostile Spanish colonies offered them no real alternative . |