Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] assume [conj] [pron] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | you , you could not work out that it was one pound fifty nine , you could , you could assume that it was a proportion of that six pound thirty five |
| 2 | All were agreed that multiple homage was an aberration , displeasing to God ; but we may assume that it was rare for a man to refuse a good gift or a bargain on this account . |
| 3 | We must assume that they were killed , or at least injured , in order to create a legal problem . |
| 4 | We must assume that he was a man like ourselves , and apply our own experience and use our own sympathetic imagination to visualise and enter into his mind . |
| 5 | Anyone reading it would assume that we were still living together , and very close . ’ |