Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [pers pn] take for " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were none of the comforts we take for granted now . |
| 2 | For it often happens that the things we take for granted are the very things that need most explaining , but to which we give least attention because we are barely conscious of them ourselves . |
| 3 | It throws words like real and normal into question , continually challenges and subverts the things we take for granted , the things we think we know . |
| 4 | She is a kind and thoughtful provider — of home comfort , food , clean sheets , ironed shirts , fresh bread — all the things you take for granted at home . ’ |
| 5 | All the things you take for granted that are going to screw you up in London . |
| 6 | Even were he able to persuade her to marry him , somehow he could not envisage her being content to live on a ranch among a whole lot of strangers and without the luxuries she took for granted . |
| 7 | People only see the good-for-nothing sons who hang around bars getting into fights and pushing drugs ; they do n't see the real shepherd , the man who spends almost all of his life alone , spends his days making the cheeses they take for granted and his nights sleeping sometimes only for a couple of hours because it 's lambing time . ’ |
| 8 | Over the last ten years , the Government has removed many of the freedoms we take for granted . |