Example sentences of "took it for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone took it for granted that it must be Oxford or Cambridge . |
| 2 | They took it for granted that this was Ramsey . |
| 3 | She took it for granted that they talked about ‘ the handover ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The church found it hard to enforce chastity within marriage when a pagan man took it for granted that he had the right to sleep with his slavegirls . |
| 6 | Almost all philosophically minded people of Clement 's age , except for only a tiny handful of Epicureans , took it for granted that the order of the world reflects a designing providential hand . |
| 7 | Without such a stimulus , Libyans lived comfortably enough with Truth ; that is to say , they took it for granted , and ignored it . |
| 8 | Even Crosland took it for granted , in trying to disarm those critics who argued that comprehensives would damage standards , that pupils who would have gone to grammar schools would of course still be taught with those of their contemporaries who would also have gone to grammar schools . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The reality surprised me at first , and then like everyone else , I took it for granted . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | Barney took it for granted Yanto would have a cup , and made a signal to his wife through the kitchen window . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 14 | I took it for granted that I could associate with people from all walks of life , from every background . |
| 15 | Jack had gone to India soon afterwards , and although Susan wore no ring they were definitely engaged , and everyone took it for granted that they would marry as soon as circumstances would permit . |
| 16 | Medieval law was indeed profoundly conservative , and most medieval vassals took it for granted that the right of resistance was a law which could not be abrogated . |
| 17 | He took it for granted that people would fall in love with Eva . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Personally , I would go further : employers who took it for granted that this was exactly what they were doing should not be open to fresh claims from the DSS . |
| 22 | He found himself unexpectedly touched by her simple assumption , the way she absolutely took it for granted , that he was innocent . |
| 23 | 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 ’ . |
| 24 | Even Nanny took it for granted . |
| 25 | At that moment Mollie Green appeared , and both took it for granted that Robins could borrow the car . |
| 26 | She took it for granted that he would know who Julian was . |
| 27 | ‘ We were so good for so long that we took it for granted . |
| 28 | The early feminists make more of an impression on us than the overwhelming mass of their contemporary sisters who took it for granted that their place in society would be one of legal and social inequality to men . |
| 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 | Gulliver 's Travels went back to telling fantastic tales , but Swift wrote the book in the same realistic style as Defoe , and took it for granted that his readers would find it quite natural that at the ends of the earth men were just the same as in England — petty , trivial , grasping , and generally unpleasant . |