Example sentences of "assume [pron] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was all very quiet around the villa , and she assumed everyone was having a siesta . |
| 2 | ‘ Why do you assume I am ? ’ he asked . |
| 3 | ‘ Now , ’ Benjamin murmured , ‘ let's assume I am the assassin . |
| 4 | Having seen me she had also seen that I was alone , and watching me from cover as she undoubtedly was , she would assume I was going to the pool to drink as she had done . |
| 5 | When I was at school and I got a row , my mother and father would assume I was in the wrong . |
| 6 | I simply assumed his was for later on , like mine . ’ |
| 7 | The gas station attendant was an Israeli Arab , a young man with light brown hair who assumed I was a tourist and wanted to know what I was doing in the cold far north of Israel in winter . |
| 8 | Just because I had a bat and had played at school , they assumed I was some kind of expert . |
| 9 | But would it have been fair to point all this out as they nuzzled one another on some Anglian plage and assumed I was n't noticing ? |
| 10 | I assumed I was suffering from dandruff but it has n't cleared up . |
| 11 | You simply assumed I was . ’ |
| 12 | Like the rest of the family , you assumed I was for sale . |
| 13 | We started accumulating works of art and people just assumed I was in the business . |
| 14 | I assumed I was just too ordinary to interest you — in that way . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ And you assumed I was the father , no doubt ! ’ |
| 16 | I assumed I was the senior man but one of my mates , a very good pal of mine to me , a senior shunter , he says , Oh you 'll get the job , they 'll be wanting to get rid of you Jimmy . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , Jessamyn 's appearance has changed over the years , from her first arrests as a pre-teenager to this last photograph — please excuse the quality , it 's a blow-up from a spysat picture taken from an orbital pass over Arizona last December — which shows her as we must assume she is now . |
| 18 | He would n't miss her right away , and even if he looked up and saw the empty stool he 'd probably assume she was inside the hut . |
| 19 | When they saw her appear at the bedroom window , they could only assume she was all right . |
| 20 | ( if it IS N'T in neutral , the computer will assume you 're trying to change players . ) |
| 21 | Well , let's assume you 're saving the questions for after the second paper . |
| 22 | Do n't assume you 're being told the whole story this week just because you ca n't imagine how anyone could distort it . |
| 23 | Just because you are British you ca n't even assume you are eating your 20g a day . |
| 24 | We will assume you are using an efficient undergravel , or internal power filter . |
| 25 | If you have read your way all through this article , then I 'll assume you are interested in membership . |
| 26 | If you ignore these new impulses , your subconscious will assume you were not really serious about changing , and will carry on as before . |
| 27 | I , I think erm I think it may have been that er you , they assumed you 're lacking confidence because you were laughing at yourself so much when you were asking the questions . |
| 28 | I naturally assumed you were using your dust-pan and had left it out in the hall . |
| 29 | I assumed you were the type of patient who would have been told … ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I assumed you were enjoying it , señorita . ’ |