Example sentences of "and [pron] take [pers pn] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then she held out her hand to me , and I took it for a second . |
| 2 | Yeah I 'd considered buying it and all that , you know it do n't take five minutes you know , and I took it for a test drive |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 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 | ‘ Be soft with this London lot and they take you for a ride . |