Example sentences of "be taken for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dent , with its narrow cobbled main street and its white buildings , could almost be taken for a Westmorland village , whereas West Burton , by-passed by the Bishopdale road and standing with its houses clustered round a broad wedge of a village green with cross , stocks and children 's swings , is very much a village of the eastern Dales . |
| 2 | She would not be taken for a fool , either , not when it mattered so much as this . |
| 3 | Harvey said , ‘ You said projecting ears , bad teeth , long hair , sounded like an Englishman who wanted to be taken for a Yank , bad breath . |
| 4 | A stuck-up snob , hoping to be taken for a member of the ‘ upper class ’ having carefully studied Nancy Mitford 's Noblesse Oblige , will remain silent . |
| 5 | He has a blessing to give his eldest and favourite son , but it is a poor thing compared with Jacob 's , so poor it is hardly recognizable as a blessing and could be taken for a curse : |
| 6 | If he was n't careful , it might be taken for a bid , Mungo thought . |
| 7 | Now I think he 's considerably less likely to be taken for a ride . ’ |
| 8 | NSAIDs had to be taken for a minimum of four weeks before endoscopy . |
| 9 | I 'm about as much on my own here as a man with a dog that wants to be taken for a walk . |
| 10 | ‘ I feel I 've been taken for a fool . ’ |
| 11 | It altered her appearance considerably , making her look older and quite severe , and in her new black working dress she could have been taken for a widow . |
| 12 | Secondly , could an outsider have walked into the Lodge quite openly on Friday night before eleven o'clock and been taken for a member by anyone who happened to come across him ? ’ |
| 13 | Evans sees it as an adaptation of the Egyptian dog-ape , possibly developing from the monkey frescoes in the Knossos Labyrinth ; the monkey was not native to Crete and the animal may have been taken for a monster and so given an impulse to the creation of other monsters . |
| 14 | I thought Lee had been taken for a ride , and said so . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's not a pleasant feeling to find out you 've been taken for a ride by someone you trusted . ’ |
| 16 | Oxford 's bluff worked for some time , but when by late 1713 the Jacobites finally realised they had been taken for a ride , they began to look to Bolingbroke for support . |
| 17 | They claim they 've been taken for a ride . |
| 18 | One afternoon we had been taken for a walk up to the top of the mountain behind the camp , which had been good exercise ; from the top I had been able to see the sea . |
| 19 | When she arrived at the Rectory she found that Mrs Chamberlin was out , the Rectory children had been taken for a walk by the nursemaid , the Rector had asked not to be disturbed for he had both a parish letter and acute indigestion to tackle that afternoon . |
| 20 | Blackpool Council were impressed with the smooth running and high speeds , when they were taken for a trial run on July 1st in 1898 . |
| 21 | And at the end of the session we were taken for a tow round the harbour . |
| 22 | It was he who blushed now at being taken for a country bumpkin . |
| 23 | The drinking public was now aware they were being taken for a ride by the brewing barons . |
| 24 | He began to realize the possibility that he was being taken for a ride , that he was the stooge in a deadly game in which he was not being allowed to play a part . |
| 25 | No you 're not being taken for a ride , this is a 19th century cabbies shelter . |
| 26 | He enjoyed being taken for a walk by Angela . |
| 27 | She recalled an occasion when she was being taken for a walk in the park . |
| 28 | Having set the scene , it was about 2 years ago whilst I was being taken for a walk through the village by our springer dog , that I happened to meet up with the Church Warden who , after passing the time of day suddenly said ‘ Ah Bob , you do a bit of woodwork , do n't you ? |
| 29 | He claimed that after being taken for a walk in the evening the children had gone to their beds while the teachers remained in an annexe . |
| 30 | Wordsworth 's accent frequently struck Southern ears as harsh : even though suburban gentility had not yet forced all regional speakers to conform to the colourless vowel-sounds of the Home Counties if they wished to be socially acceptable , and even though Coleridge , like Sir Walter Raleigh before him , spoke broad Devon all his life without being taken for a peasant , it is clear that Wordsworth 's accent did contribute to a general impression of roughness . |