Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] assume the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I want to assume the throne of the big-wave maniacs . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd assumed the letter was identical in each case . |
| 3 | I think you 've assumed the answer to my question which was going to be to , addressed to Mr . |
| 4 | On this occasion she had assumed the dress and name of a working girl , Miss Jane Warton . |
| 5 | Crown Prince Harald , who had assumed the monarch 's official duties since his father 's stroke in June 1990 , was sworn in as King Harald V on Jan. 21 . |
| 6 | At West Kensington Lee wanted to get out on to the roof and sledge to Gloucester Road but Dean , who had assumed the position of expert adviser , said he was n't sure about the tunnels . |
| 7 | In certain instances rights to the throne were strengthened by a theory of divine birth , in which a ruler claimed to the child of a sacred marriage between a god , who had assumed the form of the king , and the queen . |
| 8 | The Training Guide was developed to support the one-to-one training relationship between the recent graduate , the trainee , and the experienced general practitioner who had assumed the role of trainer . |
| 9 | Rabeh Kebir , who had assumed the role of principal FIS spokesperson following the arrest of Abdelkader Hachani [ see p. 38703 ] , was arrested on Jan. 28 . |
| 10 | Jim Paton , who had assumed the role of Managing Director of Rhenania after the sudden death of Wolfgang Ferber last year , now relinquishes that post to take up again his former role as Chairman of the Rhenania Supervisory Board . |
| 11 | Mr Tebbit is sometimes portrayed as a pantomime villain when he roughs up the clerics who venture to assume the prerogative in the political sphere . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm not being inhospitable , ’ he explained , ‘ but we have to assume the chance of them having my house and office both wired , and I imagine Number 10 would n't like that . |
| 13 | Neither would they wish to assume the responsibility in any event because of the repercussions which may fall on their heads from the council , who also rarely understand us . |
| 14 | The Germans , indeed , had been so confused by British musketry that they had assumed the enemy was equipped with a plethora of machine-guns . |
| 15 | In other words , he has assumed the throne of the Kingdom . |
| 16 | We looked in vain in Siemens AG 's first half report on Monday for any mention of its Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG computer subsidiary , and with all the dreadful economic news coming out of Germany , it began to assume the air of the dog that did n't bark : Siemens said of its overall business that it did not show any revival in the first half , and that continued economic decline affected domestic business and led to a decline in incoming orders , and there was no recovery in its foreign business ; laying it on with a trowel , Chancellor Helmut Kohl 's leading economic advisor was quoted on Tuesday as saying that German workers failed to recognise the danger of high wages in a time of recession , and that German products were too expensive for world markets as wage increases outpaced growth in productivity , and earlier , Siemens Nixdorf had had to rebut a magazine report that its losses would be even worse this year , saying that it was certain that its results would improve this fiscal year ; the article , in Manager Magazin , also said that Siemens was looking for a replacement for Siemens Nixdorf management board chairman Hans-Dieter Wiedig , and added that plans to reduce the workforce to 41,000 by 1995 from 47,200 at the end of February could well be accelerated . |