Example sentences of "take their [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He takes their word for this . |
| 2 | No one with any wisdom or common sense still takes their job for granted . |
| 3 | Do they take a blindfold and a pin into the booth with them , and then spend four years boasting that nobody had better take their support for granted if they want to get re-elected ? |
| 4 | They would take their chance for the sale price of $380 million . |
| 5 | You could take their word for it and leave it at that . |
| 6 | But do n't just take their word for it . |
| 7 | So from London to King 's Lynn is , they say , a hundred miles and I 'll take their word for it , London to Ipswich in fact is seventy miles . |
| 8 | Monday will see everyone take their seats for the return journey via Amiens and thence to Calais and a very special lunch on board before the voyage home to England . |
| 9 | But precisely because Edward I could not take their consent for granted and in his later years preferred to tap the clergy 's wealth instead by mandatory papal levies , the survival and role of an independent clerical body for the gathering of taxation remained uncertain at his death . |
| 10 | People can take their dogs for walks , train whippets and pigeons free of restrictions . |
| 11 | They could n't come to a decision so they put it to the vote when — as the book put it — a pair of bearded anarchists , one with flame red hair , appeared out of nowhere and took their decision for them , smashing down the gates with sledgehammers . |
| 12 | Chris Waddle 's club , who this week took their spending for the season so far to £14 million by signing the Nantes player Didier Deschamps , have signed agreements with four players which give them priority should they wish to sign any of them . |
| 13 | WIVES of Tottenham Hotspur players took their backing for embattled chief executive Terry Venables to the gates of Alan Sugar 's mansion yesterday . |
| 14 | The miners took their fight for survival to Downing Street yesterday with a 638,000-name petition opposing the closures . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's my first time here , ’ she whispered as they squeezed into a table and a waiter took their orders for drinks . |
| 16 | As Ibn Fayoud 's guests took their seats for dinner , he introduced himself to Kelly with edgy formality . |
| 17 | But the serrated gratings must have sufficiently broken the crust of the brick-broken mutilated plastimetal that covers a great deal of the world that is an eyeball , and little light yellow-green stubs poked through , cos the Sun was still up there , way up there , even though someone had devised a new kind of force of matter transference and was attempting to move the Sun to his laboratory-country where it would be used to grow humlants — in which the old human brain was to be stretched in durable fibrosity and connected inextricably to root and flower , making rings of energy that took their partners for a whaltz or a flexitrot and multiplied their species by being fried on a plasetal plate whose temperature was so great that they never actually touched it but skimmed over , coming off the other side as a more-than-when-they-started . |
| 18 | Mina and Kāli are taking their offering for the festival to the house where the dhāmis have been dancing at night . |
| 19 | The Highland dancers bad left , taking their swords for other employment . |
| 20 | EVERY day people passed by our house taking their dogs for a walk . |
| 21 | Never having cornered Milton , I am content to take their word for it . |
| 22 | Apart from the very great difficulty of establishing how a couple manage their finances ( in effect one would have to take their word for it ) and the strong incentive they would have to arrange their affairs so as to safeguard the woman 's claim to benefit , the fact that she is receiving benefit may itself make it unnecessary for the man to give her more than is required for his own keep . |
| 23 | He said , " You need n't think I 'm just going to give up , that I 'm just going to take their word for it ! " |
| 24 | One or two of his friends and sympathisers began to take their departure for Germany while there was still time . |
| 25 | ‘ Mr McQuaid 's room is ready , ’ Maggie said as they prepared to take their leave for the night . |
| 26 | It is clear that the architects intend to take their revenge for years of perceived slights by firmly nailing up the poor old builders . |
| 27 | Tiriac is also concerned that the Germans are beginning to take their success for granted . |
| 28 | Desperate parents often ask adults flying to a safe country to take their children for them . |
| 29 | Du Pont Pixel says , ‘ the OGI strategy is now operational and Silicon Graphics ca n't afford to take their markets for granted anymore , with this architecture once a piece or hardware or software has been modified it will run on full blown Sparcstations , clones , in fact anything that it is Sparc-compatible ’ . |
| 30 | It is becoming painfully clear , however , that students at Stirling University can no longer afford to take their Association for granted . |