Example sentences of "had take it for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had taken it for granted that his verbose and glib explanation of the facts would convince the jury of his innocence . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | All his life , he had taken it for granted that they loved each other to the exclusion of anyone else . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The most recent major study of the link between breast cancer and the Pill concluded that younger women ran a greater risk if they had taken it for four years or more . |
| 6 | ‘ I did not ask her what she had taken it for . |
| 7 | ‘ As a matter of fact , I had taken it for granted that you would n't want a boring old fart like me trailing after you round Siena . ’ |
| 8 | He had taken it for granted that the other reasons did n't need to be spelled out . |
| 9 | She had heard the arrival as she weeded in the walled garden , but , like Taggy , she had taken it for Diggory . |
| 10 | The nearest Jaguar agents were in Vienna , where he had taken it for its first service , but the electronic engine management and monitoring systems were so complex that he wanted them checked over by experts . |