Example sentences of "[vb past] assumed that [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Up to virtually the last minute I 'd assumed that we , or at least yours truly , were going on the plane as well . |
| 2 | She 'd assumed that he was probably a touch simple . |
| 3 | When Cinzia said she was staying ‘ in town ’ , he 'd assumed that she meant the Miletti villa . |
| 4 | He 'd assumed that she had money ; everyone assumed that she had money . |
| 5 | I had said nothing and he had assumed that we were engaged , telling his mother that night and mine the following morning . |
| 6 | ‘ You 've made a success of your work , therefore I had assumed that you must enjoy it . |
| 7 | The offending blob had been on the left side of the X-ray as I had looked at it , and I had assumed that it was my left lung that was affected . |
| 8 | He had no intention of ‘ Gothicizing ’ the neighbouring buildings , and he was not going to demolish the State Paper Office for this reason , as Palmerston had implied , although like the other competitors he had assumed that it would be removed . |
| 9 | At first he had assumed that it must be Siban , baulked from attaining the Dragon Throne , who had hoped to govern the realm through the medium of his son . |
| 10 | At first he had assumed that it was taking much longer than the boy had estimated or that his work on the Project was taking up his time , but this explained it all . |
| 11 | I had assumed that it meant the characteristic of being alive , livingness , whatever it is that makes life life . |
| 12 | If he discovered a new rule he would immediately seek a way of breaking it , and I had assumed that he would have some sympathy with those who flouted the laws against drugs , yet there was no denying the genuine anger in his voice when he talked of cocaine . |
| 13 | She had , only the other day , seen a policeman and -woman exerting more force than had seemed strictly necessary on a man in the street : at the time she had assumed that he had offered fierce resistance until she had turned the corner , at which moment he had been subdued . |
| 14 | She had assumed that he had come to Claudine as soon as he had finished chastising her , but clearly he had n't . |
| 15 | At the time he had assumed that she had simply contacted the address on some pretext and discovered that he had n't been there , but it was only later , when the argument had blown over , that he remembered that the address he had given his mother had been vacant . |
| 16 | When Lucy had first talked about Christine taking her over , Josie had assumed that she was merely finding words to describe some devised means of survival . |
| 17 | He had thought that he had done with her long ago , had assumed that she had lost the power to hurt him . |
| 18 | Loretta had assumed that she would have to leave a message for Jamie with some college functionary , and wait for him to ring back . |
| 19 | At first he had assumed that she had climbed down to the lower deck and gone forward . |