Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] assume that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just assumed that he 'd be alone . |
| 2 | But I just assumed that it was . |
| 3 | I also assume that there is an ellipted main verb , the past tense copula were , but this is not immediately apparent on a first reading . |
| 4 | From the co-operative principle , I also assumed that my neighbour was telling the truth ( there was no evidence that she was lying , hallucinating , or playing a practical joke ) . |
| 5 | Instead , I simply assume that there must have been a valid reason for the cessation of emotional hostilities between us and have no desire to resume them . |
| 6 | She obviously assumed that I would n't go to the trouble of prosecuting her once it was in her possession . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ And why on earth should you automatically assume that I came here with the express purpose of blackmail ? ’ |
| 8 | Yeah , so you see the few selected ones that come from other schools and you instantly assume that their school must be much more er much better looking than ours . |
| 9 | ‘ And you immediately assumed that you had outstayed your welcome and I would be thinking to myself , ‘ Mon Dieu , now I have to face that idiotic English girl . ’ |
| 10 | Erm I thought that erm I , I mean I was getting some things that John has n't , has n't mentioned , erm when you mentioned the wife being there erm when you , when you were introducing the C C Q you then assumed that you would be coming back with recommendations |
| 11 | We usually assume that our minds can tell us a lot about what things are really like , but this is an idea which Proust , like Bergson , I may say , erm rather firmly rejects . |
| 12 | We also assume that there is an odd number of individuals and that they vote ‘ sincerely ’ ; i.e. , they do not strategically misrepresent their preferences . |
| 13 | If we also assume that my neighbour assumed that I knew these facts about the world , and that I interpreted her words according to the co-operative principle , then we can also see why the way she actually phrased her request is not only true and relevant , but also brief and clear . |
| 14 | We now assume that there is a natural rate of unemployment , U n and that the relationship between unemployment and output is given by : where β 2 is a negative constant . |
| 15 | If we go to consider the folk as being on the ‘ inside ’ we then assume that what is on the ‘ outside ’ can only be impersonal processes that just have effects upon people . |
| 16 | In addition , we ordinarily assume that what is stated on one occasion may be identical with what is stated on a different occasion , even though its truth-value might change . |
| 17 | We therefore assumed that he knew what he was doing , and got on with our work as well . |
| 18 | Let me now assume that you are being considered by a prospective principal and are seeing him for the first time . |
| 19 | That is to say , although the New Critics were less interested in evaluation than Richards , and more interested in description and analysis , they nonetheless assumed that their principles constituted criteria for distinguishing good literature from bad , and that good literature had an important part to play in human affairs . |
| 20 | It says a great deal about the natural stupidity of tyrants that , having discovered that torture works extremely effectively in intellectual or political cases , they immediately assume that it will work as well in the inspiring of desire in young women . |
| 21 | They either assumed that what appeared in such a paper was nonsense or establishment propaganda , or they read such papers as the Manchester Guardian , as it was then called . |
| 22 | It also assumes that there has been no hidden export of Leicestershire 's residents to cheap ( and possibly nasty ) nursing homes elsewhere in Britain , a practice that some other health districts have been accused of . |
| 23 | It also assumes that there is an even number of coupon payment dates remaining before maturity . |
| 24 | ‘ He automatically assumed that I was a lesbian . ’ |
| 25 | As he grew older , he simply assumed that he was Dermot Corcoran 's child , but conceived outside wedlock … |
| 26 | He therefore assumed that it was Tim 's voice on the machine . |