Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] take [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jack had gone to India soon afterwards , and although Susan wore no ring they were definitely engaged , and everyone took it for granted that they would marry as soon as circumstances would permit . |
| 2 | Back then I think my girlfriends and I took it for granted that washing regularly was an exclusively feminine pursuit . |
| 3 | Then she held out her hand to me , and I took it for a second . |
| 4 | Yeah I 'd considered buying it and all that , you know it do n't take five minutes you know , and I took it for a test drive |
| 5 | Back in Australia I have a dog called Gabby and I take her for walks — I really miss her . |
| 6 | ‘ When I play , some days it 's off , some days it 's on , and I take it for what it is . |
| 7 | It is easy to think of the doctor , for example , whose father and grandfather were doctors before him and who takes it for granted that his son will follow in his footsteps — without really stopping to consider whether that is what his son wants to do . |
| 8 | Miss Clapp sees the excuse notes and she takes me for English . |
| 9 | ‘ So it was Alain all the time , and she took him for me , ’ mused Dieter . |
| 10 | When she began to unbutton his shirt he stood , paralysed , staring at the slack flesh round her stomach , he shivered and she took it for excitement ; he had dreamed about this , waiting for the moment when he would instinctively know what to do , would take control , but instead she was rubbing against him with a cool professionalism that unnerved him . |
| 11 | It is the vision of people looking up from the depths , de profundis , from the ‘ dark shadow of death ’ and of despair , and seeing a new light : ‘ unlooked for , glittering and bright ; and the people of Middle-earth beheld it from afar and wondered , and they took it for a sign , and called it Gil-Estel , the Star of High Hope ’ . |
| 12 | He had the operation the next day and they took us for a couple of minutes and that was it — they just did n't care . |
| 13 | ‘ Be soft with this London lot and they take you for a ride . |
| 14 | W. C. T. had been busy in other ways too , fathering a series of children ; three at least were to die young , and he took them for burial to his cousins , Baptist Chapel at Worship Street , Shoreditch . |
| 15 | It was defective and he took it for repair to the accused , who sold it . |
| 16 | Ruth saw at once that her grandfather was not in the room , but she took it for granted that by some miracle he had improved enough to get upstairs and was resting in bed . |