Example sentences of "[vb infin] take [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd like to take it for a spin . |
| 2 | If she missed his letters for a few days , she would probably stop taking him for granted . |
| 3 | say if you 'd done it I could have took it for you tomorrow or the next day . |
| 4 | Anyone who did n't know them might have taken them for a couple of businessmen out for a Sunday afternoon stroll . |
| 5 | A stranger would have taken them for brothers . |
| 6 | Anyone seeing them together on the common outside Oswaldston would have taken them for husband and wife , though Hilary was by nearly three years the younger . |
| 7 | The flood apart from ruining their home made their own car which should have taken them for the fully-paid honeymoon in Scotland , float off down the road and crash into another car . |
| 8 | Some might have taken him for a mere apprentice enchanter who had run away from his master out of defiance , boredom , fear and a lingering taste for heterosexuality . |
| 9 | I knew I should n't have taken you for that coffee . ’ |
| 10 | The playing of the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Peter Eötrös , who had given the work several times before this 1991 Prom performance , seems immensely confident and assured , all the complexities mastered ; and the recording quality is so good ( and the audience so quiet ) I would have taken it for a ‘ state-of-theart ’ studio job . |
| 11 | If he had accepted her invitation to supper she would have taken it for encouragement ; he would simply have put off the evil day . |
| 12 | I should have taken it for granted there was something the matter . ’ |
| 13 | I said well if you got us a dog I 'd have to take it for a late night walk would n't I ? |
| 14 | ‘ Would n't it buy something for the girls here or put someone through school even if you did n't want to take it for yourself ? |