Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] assumed " in BNC.
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| 1 | Michael Young , in his paradoxically assumed role , quotes approvingly the strictures of Lord James on misguided attempts to generalize an élite education : |
| 2 | These articles were signed by his newly assumed name , Nguyen Ai Quoc . |
| 3 | A flippant defiance was audible in the explanation but the mockery that dragged at her deliberately assumed smile , making a travesty of it , was aimed at herself . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 5 | One just assumed … |
| 6 | The dismissal of an HIV-infected employee ( or one erroneously assumed to be HIV-infected ) because co-workers feared transmission of the virus should be remediable . |
| 7 | Okay has anybody ever assumed things with people that they 've been training ? |
| 8 | Everybody just assumed that that 's what they were playing . |
| 9 | Or is it just assumed you would do an open day ? |
| 10 | The unsuspecting object of Mandy 's interest had come out of his room in the main lodge and was on what he probably assumed was an immensely private balcony . |
| 11 | By hybridizing different varieties of peas , Mendel had shown that some characters are inherited as units on an ‘ all or nothing ’ basis — they did not blend together as Darwin and almost everyone else assumed . |