Example sentences of "[pers pn] have assume [conj] [pron] " 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 | I had assumed that everyone else was constantly in search of erotic adventure , of physical fulfilment , and I was affronted to discover that I was not , after all , unique . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I had assumed that it meant the characteristic of being alive , livingness , whatever it is that makes life life . |
| 5 | ‘ You 've made a success of your work , therefore I had assumed that you must enjoy it . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I had to erm until the whole of the h the premises had been searched and secured then I had to assume that there was someone in that room until the contrary was shown . |
| 8 | I I 've assumed that we 'll be doing a review and I think |
| 9 | In the above I have assumed that we are dealing only in values , and that we are not considering how prices of production , average rate of profit , etc. , are formed by the introduction of ‘ Dept . |
| 10 | Then I have to assume that your name does not appear on the club champion 's board . |
| 11 | She 'd assumed that he was probably a touch simple . |
| 12 | Whereby you 're sitting with a customer and you 've assumed that he 's bought |
| 13 | She had assumed that everything was over . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She had assumed that he had come to Claudine as soon as he had finished chastising her , but clearly he had n't . |
| 16 | If you say that children are completely non-rational then you have to account for the fact that they become rational , and to do that it appears from these examples that you have to assume that they already are . |
| 17 | For example , in the absence of state pensions you have to assume that there is some form of post-employment support ( presumably private pension schemes ) , and not that people will have zero income when they retire . |
| 18 | So again perhaps tied in our prices , it might be that we 've assumed that we 'd do more , perhaps than the other groups . |
| 19 | We had assumed that their affair would in some way be a violent one , because O was known to be violent , and because Boy made you feel strange when he gave himself away to you , a strangeness , and a feeling that you always wanted more , that often came out as violence . |
| 20 | So far we have assumed that we understand the suggestion that there are minds other than our own , and asked merely how much evidence we have in its favour . |
| 21 | The speaker continues with a change of location and we have to assume that what follows is within the newly introduced location : |
| 22 | Nevertheless , a 15 m ( 50 ft ) animal is no mean beast ; moreover , because of the way that the earliest known whales so closely resemble modern ones , we have to assume that their ancestry stretched back some way , even though no relevant fossils have yet been discovered . |
| 23 | For the time being , we have to assume that it 's a single line kite you want ( multi-line stunters come in Chapter Eight ) and , without any prior experience , you have n't a clue where to begin . |
| 24 | IBM Corp was scheduled to make an ‘ operational announcement ’ on its Adstar storage business in San Jose just after we closed on Friday , but we have to assume that it was not anything sufficiently dramatic that it would move the share price , otherwise the company would have had to announce it on the New York Stock Exchange before the market opened to prevent a false market operating in the shares ; the announcement was to be made by vice-chairman Jack Kuehler , and was also to include some personnel news ; IBM has been studying ways to separate Adstar from the rest of the company , Dow Jones & Co notes , and earlier this year , it hired Morgan Stanley & Co and the Boston Consulting Group to recommend ways to speed up the process , which could involve outside investors or a new class of IBM share — and those advisors were scheduled to be done with the preliminary work by now ; a first step would likely be the creation of Adstar as a wholly-owned subsidiary — it has kept separate books since last year ; but the IBM spokesman said some observers might be surprised by the announcement , which was to be concerned with Adstar 's ‘ operations as an IBM business unit and its future direction . ’ |
| 25 | Second , in order to interpret Politically as a unit of information , we have to assume that it is meant as a foregrounded rheme — foregrounded by omitting the thematic element Israel was being a little hard to take . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , unless he turns himself in we have to assume that he is the killer . |
| 27 | Yeah well I me and Margaret should be in the hall but I think they 've assumed that there will be less |
| 28 | When Cinzia said she was staying ‘ in town ’ , he 'd assumed that she meant the Miletti villa . |
| 29 | He 'd assumed that she had money ; everyone assumed that she had money . |
| 30 | I had said nothing and he had assumed that we were engaged , telling his mother that night and mine the following morning . |