Example sentences of "[vb past] it [prep] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've had great fun and great service from the package and used it for designing several garments for both hand and machine knitting . |
| 2 | This was a sensible policy which would bring stability to Britain , and took it for granted that stability would mean that relations with the colonies would remain unchanged . |
| 3 | It is evident that Lakatos took it for granted that physics constitutes the paradigm of rationality and good science . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | What made it worth recording several centuries later was that Ella was successful ; for the next fifteen years or so he established his authority in the south by force of arms , firmly ‘ pacifying ’ recalcitrant Britons . |
| 6 | It has not inherited this behaviour ; it has either worked it out for itself , or learned it by observing another chimpanzee . |