Example sentences of "[adv] take for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her mother and cold-hearted step-father tax her wage packet , the job is drudgery — and finally there 's the man … whom Iris , with her mind full of trashy romances , mistakenly takes for the fairy prince she 's awaited so long . |
| 2 | Rented property is usually taken for a period of a year with an option to renew for the second and third years of the contract ; even six-month lets are rare . |
| 3 | Sometimes , the doppelganger appears to friends or relatives of the dying , and their mimicry is so convincing that they are usually taken for the person involved . |
| 4 | Liability extends to damage caused in the United Kingdom , the cost of any measures reasonably taken for the purpose of preventing or reducing such damage , or damage caused by any measures so taken . |
| 5 | One of her sententious entries reads : ‘ Tactlessness is often taken for sincerity , and sincerity is in turn often taken for a compliment . |
| 6 | A mass of evidence follows , most of it from sound medical sources , that the medical profession has become hopelessly hooked on prescription drugs ; that the drugs are neither so effective nor so safe as our doctors would have us believe ; and that the public and the profession is being remorselessly taken for a ride by the pharmaceutical industry . |
| 7 | The only relatively new thing about it was its romantic and truthful name , which someone in the family had thought up early in the nineteenth century as an improvement on ‘ The Leybourne Arms ’ ; for the Leybourne family had been extinct since the fourteenth century , while salmon regularly did return several miles up-river from this house , and were regularly taken for a mile on either side . |
| 8 | And then you see they when the crafty was by they used to set out the next day , some maybe taken for the West Mainland and some taken for and some were . |