Example sentences of "[adv] take [pron] for [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 | I have told him he is n't the same man I married any more and he just takes me for granted . |
| 3 | He just takes it for granted that it always looks like this . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ Because she just took it for granted that I was there to wait on her . |
| 9 | I just took it for granted he was on his way back to the group . ’ |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | Somehow I just took it for granted you worked in London . ’ |
| 12 | Owen normally took them for granted . |
| 13 | Young people especially just take it for granted and order it automatically . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | No , well they all said next time they 'll check , because some of them just just take it for granted . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | You just er , you just take it for granted do n't you ? |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | So al do n't ever take anything for granted . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Smith is still taking nothing for granted — he 's had the Danish champions watched five times . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | " Why — Martha , girl — I 've always taken it for granted that you and me would — would - " |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Yet can we really take it for granted that parents are so utterly changeless in their behaviour and attitudes to their children ? |
| 26 | Cutting a whole sequence of further corners I shall now take it for granted that the total process by which we habitually segment and classify the things in the external world and recognize them as belonging to species entities originates in an introspective self-awareness that " I " can be distinguished from " my body " . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | That 's so long ago , hillwalkers now take it for granted ! |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | She seemed to accept Neil 's presents as her right and , what 's more , was increasingly taking it for granted they would be expensive . |