Example sentences of "[noun] took [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Barney took it for granted Yanto would have a cup , and made a signal to his wife through the kitchen window . |
| 2 | But as her parents took her for a swim , she collapsed without warning and died . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's nigh on two year since I 've been out that house , ’ said Bella suddenly , ‘ since the Warden took me for that X-ray after I fell over and hurt me wrist . ’ |
| 4 | With rare exceptions the classical economists took it for granted that a reduction in the money-wage rate would be translated into the all important reduction in the real-wage rate which was required by marginal productivity theory . |
| 5 | His absorption with Mao and Castro was so open that the neighbors took it for a double bluff , and each new discovery of an agent transmitting messages from some ordinary-looking English suburb increased the tension of their interest in the land mine who was surely bound one day to go off in their own street . |
| 6 | She could n't quite remember when it was that she 'd realized Georg took it for granted they 'd get married as soon as she was old enough . |
| 7 | Nobody used the shed , and Conradin took it for his own . |
| 8 | It is evident that Lakatos took it for granted that physics constitutes the paradigm of rationality and good science . |
| 9 | One day , after a particularly good school report , Father took me for a walk past a second-hand bookstore where I often browsed enviously . |
| 10 | People took them for sisters . |
| 11 | The Radio Times stressed that Ghostwatch with Mike Parkinson on Saturday was a drama yet people took it for real . |
| 12 | Even Nanny took it for granted . |
| 13 | It was late in the afternoon when we arrived , and Taylor took me for a drive through the town , which apart from the centre had been badly damaged . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The mare took it for affection and pushed her face into Mrs Totteridge 's stomach . |
| 16 | But many biologists took it for granted that the main purpose of evolutionism was to elucidate the precise course of life 's development from its earliest origins . |
| 17 | I could n't even manage the children — friends took them for odd days . |
| 18 | Britain took him for granted . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Roland took him for a caricature and bristled vestigially with class irritation . |
| 21 | At first Alistair took them for other screenplay writers and wedged himself behind the door , at the back of the queue . |
| 22 | George took his for want of something else to do . |
| 23 | At 10 am precisely a bell rang and Miss Maine took me for introductions . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Mother took him for lessons on the violin when he was five years old . |
| 26 | Eventually I protested so Father Prior took me for a walk in the meadows and said I was to prove my worth with one final task . ’ |