Example sentences of "they take [pers pn] for " in BNC.

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1 What did they take her for ?
2 Did they take you for a week and show you
3 The one they took him for in the end , she was eighty-five years old , and ailing , and he robbed her of her life-savings , and that was less than three hundred pounds .
4 He had the operation the next day and they took us for a couple of minutes and that was it — they just did n't care .
5 They took it for granted that this was Ramsey .
6 They took it for granted that the international world was one of competing powers and that their duty was to make the most of whatever assets were available to them .
7 Without such a stimulus , Libyans lived comfortably enough with Truth ; that is to say , they took it for granted , and ignored it .
8 Until recently , they took it for granted that their supplies from domestic sources could be obtained on credit and that , when these bills matured , any shortage of funds would be made good by the banks .
9 It is the vision of people looking up from the depths , de profundis , from the ‘ dark shadow of death ’ and of despair , and seeing a new light : ‘ unlooked for , glittering and bright ; and the people of Middle-earth beheld it from afar and wondered , and they took it for a sign , and called it Gil-Estel , the Star of High Hope ’ .
10 This year , as well as his old regulars , the Hoflins , Busacher , and old Anton , the répétiteur from Vienna , he had invited his friends on the theatre committee who had assisted so nobly in quelling the Gesner revolt , and Luiza , Freddi and Alfred , who came nearly every year but not so often they took it for granted .
11 you know they take them for a little visit so they get used to the school before they go , which is a good idea , I mean we were just thrown in
12 And Italians seem to have the most matter-of-fact attitude to drinking wine ; they take it for granted , just like the bread and salt on the table .
13 They take it for granted , for instance , that
14 ‘ Be soft with this London lot and they take you for a ride .
15 And then they test the evacuation alarm then , so that everybody knows the alarms and er where to be and then th Every six eight weeks or something they take you for a helicopter evacuation where everybody 's taken from the lifeboat master station .
16 People who do n't know them take them for man and wife . ’
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