Example sentences of "[pers pn] 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 | But you see you take it for granted . |
| 9 | She took them for granted , of course . |
| 10 | On Saturday mornings she took them for riding lessons , waited and took them back , while Norm went out to play golf . |
| 11 | She took you for granted , as though she 'd always known you , that was really what it was . |
| 12 | She took it for granted that they talked about ‘ the handover ’ . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She took it for granted that he would know who Julian was . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She took it for granted he would be eager , and released him from her bear 's hug . |
| 18 | You take it for granted one of the maids will come in and tidy it for you . |
| 19 | Why do we take it for granted that education is a good to which everyone equally is entitled ? |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | If anything , we were too extravagant in the late 1980s when money was rolling in — we took everything for granted . |
| 22 | ‘ We were so good for so long that we took it for granted . |
| 23 | We take it for granted . |
| 24 | We take it for granted , but it is important that the emergent nations of the Third World — themselves , many of them , deeply divided culturally , linguistically and genetically — should see what we have achieved , and where we have fallen short . |
| 25 | But the worst silence of all is when we take it for granted that they know how much they are still appreciated and that the calloused hands or fingers are symbols to us of the love and caring poured into our lives . |
| 26 | We take it for granted that we have light to see by , natural or artificial . |
| 27 | And unless he speaks in a very odd way we take it for granted that he knows what he is saying . |
| 28 | In most physiological psychology we take it for granted that lesions will centre on the structure selected by the experimenter . |
| 29 | In discussing texts we idealise away from this variability of the experiencing of the text and assume what Schutz has called ‘ the reciprocity of perspective ’ , whereby we take it for granted that readers of a text or listeners to a text share the same experience ( Schutz , 1953 ) . |
| 30 | We take it for granted that organisations should have objectives . |