Sentence examples for granted thinking from inspiring English sources

"Yeah, you want to be starting but I took it for granted, thinking I was ahead of him.

We take it for granted, thinking of the poverty-stricken thieves, hanged for stealing handkerchiefs in eighteenth-century London, that the argument of the "The Beggar's Opera" is not wrong: even when not explicitly political, crime can have an implicit politics.

Taking people for granted, thinking I can do it tomorrow -- that is wasting time.

You take it for granted, thinking people know about Freedom Fighters and the sit-ins and know about Jim Crow and the March on Selma and all of these things.

Two generations have grown up taking 8% annual growth for granted and thinking recession was an ailment of the sclerotic West.

I guess I was kind of taking things for granted, maybe thinking I had a good year, that I deserved this or that.

We are so used to taking and using plastic for granted without thinking of the detrimental effects that it has on society and the environment.

"We just [took] this for granted without thinking it through".

In everyday life, we normally handle such facts fluently without consciously adverting to them: we take for granted without thinking about it, for example, that the colour of a car does not normally change when one changes gear.

Granted, Irish thinking on that matter was hardly in a healthy state to begin with, but by the mid-2000s, if a piece of land was not a site, it was seen by many as a wasted opportunity.

"We're not taking anything for granted, not even thinking about advancing" said wing Patrick Sharp, who scored the Blackhawks' first goal.