Example sentences of "[pron] take for [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 To tell the truth I have only hazy memories of the magazine that I took for a long time and until it ceased publication for reasons that were beyond me .
2 This remarkable event , as unlikely as a Papal Bull encouraging polyandry , we took for a good omen .
3 Right , er Right , it 's how long it takes for a whole substance to react , so it ca n't Say you put two
4 The graph below shows how long it takes for the present value of £1,000 per year to reach £15,000 .
5 The basic idea can be captured in minutes and the total concept fully realised in , at most , a couple of hours , which is a lot faster than it takes for the same degree of finish to be achieved in any other medium .
6 In the days when Romanians were still in a mood to tell jokes , they used to ask a rhetorical question : how long would it take for a Soviet expeditionary force to reach Bucharest from the Soviet border ?
7 As the T1 determines how long it take for the magnetic resonance signal to recover after each image , a long T1 — that is , 1–3 seconds as in water , determines the maximum image frequency achievable in continuous , long duration experiments .
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