Example sentences of "take for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can not put a time on how long it takes for a swimfeeder to empty . |
| 2 | The amount of time it takes for a lizard to turn into a bird ; love |
| 3 | Cos he was , he takes for a pee anyway |
| 4 | Frequently they are relevant and will be followed on appeal — but during the six months to a year it takes for an appeal to come to a hearing the minister could have changed , while the current appeals will have been lodged long before the words have been spoken . |
| 5 | What are the maximum covers the hotel can take for a banquet ? |
| 6 | And what a long time it took for a tradesman to recover what he was owed ! |
| 7 | And what I took for a womb , slowly flaking apart with age . |
| 8 | David is concerned at the length of time he says it took for an ambulance to arrive . |
| 9 | And they 're coming I do n't think I 'm taking for a couple of months , and then I take them every fortnight . |
| 10 | So imagine my surprise when , taking for a flight the farmer friend whose generosity allows me to afford to keep an aeroplane , he pointed out a familiar white outline on a lake below . |
| 11 | ‘ Submitting ’ to the experience is a necessary step which a participant may be deterred from taking for a number of reasons , particularly if he has too great a vested interest in the subject-matter or in his own reputation . |
| 12 | It might have been a delayed reaction to the drugs I had been taking for an operation I 'd recently had on my foot , but this seemed unlikely . |
| 13 | Blackpool Council were impressed with the smooth running and high speeds , when they were taken for a trial run on July 1st in 1898 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Harvey said , ‘ You said projecting ears , bad teeth , long hair , sounded like an Englishman who wanted to be taken for a Yank , bad breath . |
| 16 | Perhaps because I was taken for a Jew . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | If taken for a hybrid , could she really fool a Stealer brood , or their Patriarch , over a period of time ? |
| 19 | She would not be taken for a fool , either , not when it mattered so much as this . |
| 20 | ‘ I feel I 've been taken for a fool . ’ |
| 21 | The fastest production car in the world was taken for a test drive today by the President of the Board of Trade Michael Hesletine . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 ? ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Whereas the time taken for a computer working randomly but with the constraint of cumulative selection to perform the same task is of the same order as humans ordinarily can understand , between 11 seconds and the time it takes to have lunch . |
| 26 | It was a bay horse on its side , and the waving object he had taken for a branch was a leg which in its faint struggles to rise the beast threshed weakly in the air . |
| 27 | It was he who blushed now at being taken for a country bumpkin . |
| 28 | The time taken for a component to pass through the column is called its elution time . |
| 29 | One of her sententious entries reads : ‘ Tactlessness is often taken for sincerity , and sincerity is in turn often taken for a compliment . |
| 30 | He enjoyed being taken for a walk by Angela . |