Example sentences of "[pers pn] assumed that it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Happiness ( or unhappiness ) was not mentioned , and I assumed that it was of subsidiary importance . |
| 2 | I seemed to recall that in the past when we 'd met we 'd got on reasonably well , so I assumed that it must have been something that Jennifer had told you that had turned you against me , or , failing that , that you were just embarrassed at having to work with your sister 's ex-fiancé . ’ |
| 3 | Whether she realized that the French alliance of 1548 was exceedingly fragile , entered into faute de mieux , or whether she assumed that it had a solidity which almost three centuries might have been expected to give it , is not clear . |
| 4 | This makes the special position of the maternal uncle seem even more anomalous , and led Junod to suppose that we could only understand this peculiar relationship if we assumed that it represented an anachronistic throwback or ‘ survival ’ of an earlier matriarchal stage . |
| 5 | Sometimes the dog would bark for no apparent reason and they assumed that it had sensed a wildcat or a leopard stealing up in silence through the darkness . |
| 6 | The inconsistency of demanding frankness and openness from the African while practising a form of government depending largely on influence wielded behind closed doors seems not to have troubled the British ; they assumed that it was precisely their own qualities of straightforwardness and transparent honesty which would effect the required transformation in the African character . |
| 7 | They assumed that it was legal before the third month , and only illegal when procured . |
| 8 | In particular they assumed that it was possible , at any given moment , to make reasonably precise comparisons of the real strength of the States concerned , to estimate accurately the advantages of Britain 's wealth as against Russia 's population or Prussia 's efficient bureaucracy . |
| 9 | He assumed that it was exhausted , wasted by the work at the end of the long winter , and he blamed himself . |
| 10 | On the contrary , he assumed that it is constant , as have all physicists before and since . |
| 11 | In 1836 one pamphleteer urged the creation of a " Diplomatic College " for this purpose ( though significantly he assumed that it would produce only attachés , secretaries and consuls and that ambassadors and ministers would always be appointed on grounds of " rank and property " ) . |