Example sentences of "[pron] have [adv] assumed " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one ever asked me to do so — though everyone has since assumed that , for all eternity , it will be my round of drinks . ) |
| 2 | I understand there was some kind of rift and Mr Swinton is not recognized by his brothers , the eldest of whom has now assumed the baronetcy . |
| 3 | We 'd never talked about that day , and we never again came near this old air shaft ; I do n't know what he might have done since but I 'd always assumed he was like me and just tried to forget about it , pretend it never happened . |
| 4 | Barbara it 's , I 'd always assumed that people were probable born with asthma , but that 's not , not the case ? |
| 5 | It brought back to me the reality of the life I had so abruptly left behind : I had somehow assumed it would fade out of existence when I wanted , fade back in when convenient , unchanged . |
| 6 | I had just assumed that the only possible commentary game was West Ham vs Us. 8thvs9th or 2ndvs10 ? ? |
| 7 | I had always assumed that this sort of civilized dismay at barbarism was the monopoly of our cause . |
| 8 | I had always assumed that this song was either fictional or referred to events long ago , and Ricks ' talk contained nothing to contradict this . |
| 9 | AS a regular reader of Rugby World & Post , I had always assumed that your Postbag items were selected to instruct , inform , amuse or provoke constructive debate . |
| 10 | She was not at all beautiful , but even with her likeness before me I had always assumed that she must be , since she carried such conviction in her forgotten words and her enduring appearance . |
| 11 | I had foolishly assumed that the opportunity would be taken to eliminate a particularly hazardous S-bend and install a roundabout in its place thus easing the flow of the many cars , buses and lorries which use the road . |
| 12 | In my early days , I had merely assumed , since I knew so little of industry , that I was employed to achieve certain ends . |
| 13 | I I 've always assumed that that meant that it would be such a tremendous lever for the enemy to hold someone like that . |
| 14 | I 've always assumed that that was it , that erm , I do n't know . |
| 15 | So far , I have implicitly assumed that there is an ultimate theory . |
| 16 | The procedure for job applications and interviews is well known to most returners and I have therefore assumed that you do not need detailed guidance on this . |
| 17 | ‘ I have always assumed it to be apocryphal . ’ |
| 18 | I have always assumed that the other side of the gate is private property and that somewhere deep within the woodland is a cottage . |
| 19 | I must admit that I have always assumed that ‘ last day ’ of one month compared with ‘ last day ’ of any other month , irrespective of actual date . |
| 20 | However , I have always assumed that public nuisance was primarily concerned with the effect of the act complained of as opposed to its inherent lawfulness or unlawfulness . |
| 21 | I have always assumed that Brightside had it right and Dagenham was merely contributing a series of Gouldisms to the discussion . |
| 22 | First , and of most immediate relevance as far as the tax-protest movement is concerned , the past two decades have witnessed a remarkable change in the nature of political dissent which has increasingly assumed unconstitutional and , on occasions , violent forms . |
| 23 | Newton is head of A&R and joint MD at Circa Records , which has recently assumed responsibility for all of Virgin 's subsidiary labels . |
| 24 | Hopefully , the Fox and Hedley Walton cases will encourage the executors of land-owning taxpayers to fight over-valuation , which has often assumed the status of a national scandal . |
| 25 | She 'd automatically assumed that it was from Ryan , only of course it was n't , and if she had been thinking rationally before she would have known it could n't possibly have been from him . |
| 26 | She learned that Maxim had an elder sister — oddly , she 'd always assumed he must have been the first child — who had married a Quaker school-master and lived up North , had three children and did n't work , ‘ Except at disapproving of the Army , ’ Maxim added . |
| 27 | She had never questioned his facts ; he had been ten or twelve at the time and she had confidently assumed that he knew what he was talking about . |
| 28 | She had just assumed … |
| 29 | Which she foolishly assumed would be easy , because she had foolishly assumed that Irish villages were like English ones . |
| 30 | Now he was filling their relationship with a seriousness she had always assumed it could not possibly contain . |