Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] assumed that " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd always assumed that this was a piece of official terminology until one day he 'd asked what it meant , and found out that it stood for Another Fucking Drunk . |
| 2 | Barbara it 's , I 'd always assumed that people were probable born with asthma , but that 's not , not the case ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She had not reflected upon what , alone , she would be , had perhaps assumed that she would sit motionless as a statue with vacant eyes . |
| 5 | Which she foolishly assumed would be easy , because she had foolishly assumed that Irish villages were like English ones . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I had just assumed that the only possible commentary game was West Ham vs Us. 8thvs9th or 2ndvs10 ? ? |
| 8 | In her fantasies Phoebe had somehow assumed that the mammogram would be visible . |
| 9 | When she 'd learned that Ben and Carole Meadows were staying at their beach-front cottage Laura had somehow assumed that it would be a very small , modest building . |
| 10 | She had always assumed that something would happen , sometime , to sweep away her marital comfort . |
| 11 | Henry had always assumed that this was due , on her part , to an entirely natural physical repugnance for him ; she moved away from him as one might move away from a bad smell or a dangerous horse . |
| 12 | He , after all , found her quite as repulsive as she found him and , as the two of them waltzed from oven to sink , from window to cutlery drawer , staring up , down , sideways , anywhere but at each other , Henry had always assumed that this was no more than the usual politesse of a failed English , suburban marriage . |
| 13 | I had always assumed that this sort of civilized dismay at barbarism was the monopoly of our cause . |
| 14 | Knowing the King , as he believed , Nicholas had always assumed that now , through his placing at table , Zacco would take his chance to belittle in public this favoured commander who had failed to give him his kingdom as promised . |
| 15 | Hers was not a type of female beauty which attracted him and he had always assumed that she was physically cold . |
| 16 | I had always assumed that this song was either fictional or referred to events long ago , and Ricks ' talk contained nothing to contradict this . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In her innocence , Constance had always assumed that it was an activity that took place in bed . |
| 19 | He could always claim of course that he knew nothing of the layout of the engine-room and had always assumed that there had to be a reserve tank or that in a panic-stricken concern for the welfare of his beloved niece he had quite forgotten that there was no such tank . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | No matter how tedious she was in other ways , he had always assumed that it was n't in her nature to be coarse , and certainly she 'd never displayed evidence of the inclination . |
| 22 | He had always assumed that John got it from Paul . |
| 23 | For that reason , Sabine had always assumed that her mother was a Parisienne by birth . |
| 24 | Though she had no personal experience , she had always assumed that Jake would be a man of vigorous sexual appetites . |
| 25 | Even Will , she realised , for all his consideration , had subconsciously assumed that she was there solely to support him . |
| 26 | He had warned her that desire was all he had to offer her , and he had probably assumed that his warning had hit home . |
| 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 | SEP had simply assumed that expenditure on upkeep would more than compensate for any deterioration of its warehouses ’ . |
| 29 | He had naively assumed that the Concorde ticket he had seen on her desk had been one she had gone out and bought in order to join him in New York . |
| 30 | He had therefore assumed that the preparation of a European plan would be broadly similar to the planning practices normally followed in the United States . |