Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] assumed " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd never talked about that day , and we never again came near this old air shaft ; I do n't know what he might have done since but I 'd always assumed he was like me and just tried to forget about it , pretend it never happened . |
| 2 | He 'd always assumed that this was a piece of official terminology until one day he 'd asked what it meant , and found out that it stood for Another Fucking Drunk . |
| 3 | She learned that Maxim had an elder sister — oddly , she 'd always assumed he must have been the first child — who had married a Quaker school-master and lived up North , had three children and did n't work , ‘ Except at disapproving of the Army , ’ Maxim added . |
| 4 | Barbara it 's , I 'd always assumed that people were probable born with asthma , but that 's not , not the case ? |
| 5 | She 'd automatically assumed that it was from Ryan , only of course it was n't , and if she had been thinking rationally before she would have known it could n't possibly have been from him . |
| 6 | She had not reflected upon what , alone , she would be , had perhaps assumed that she would sit motionless as a statue with vacant eyes . |
| 7 | In her early days as a singer she had encountered those who had wrongly assumed she was nothing more than a beautiful but empty-headed blonde . |
| 8 | He had wrongly assumed he was able to use any APEX service as long as there was room . |
| 9 | Without waiting for an explanation from the men , who had all assumed sheepish expressions , the lady gracefully turned towards Cleo and Javelot , her arms extended . |
| 10 | Which she foolishly assumed would be easy , because she had foolishly assumed that Irish villages were like English ones . |
| 11 | I had foolishly assumed that the opportunity would be taken to eliminate a particularly hazardous S-bend and install a roundabout in its place thus easing the flow of the many cars , buses and lorries which use the road . |
| 12 | In my early days , I had merely assumed , since I knew so little of industry , that I was employed to achieve certain ends . |
| 13 | This was an empty gesture as Suharto had already assumed that position . |
| 14 | She would be hurting no one because , even if Rune had lied and was still involved in some emotional way with Lotta , the Swedish girl had already assumed they were lovers and obviously accepted them in that role without suffering undue pain . |
| 15 | Among the Cheka people high intellectual standards combined with education and culture had not assumed the outward expression which I had found to be so hateful among the former Russian intellectuals … . |
| 16 | The very fact that he held the parliamentarians partially responsible for the RPF 's demise suggests that he had not assumed in June 1951 that the Rassemblement was dead . |
| 17 | He had just assumed Kennedy had existed . |
| 18 | She had just assumed … |
| 19 | I had just assumed that the only possible commentary game was West Ham vs Us. 8thvs9th or 2ndvs10 ? ? |
| 20 | In her fantasies Phoebe had somehow assumed that the mammogram would be visible . |
| 21 | It brought back to me the reality of the life I had so abruptly left behind : I had somehow assumed it would fade out of existence when I wanted , fade back in when convenient , unchanged . |
| 22 | When she 'd learned that Ben and Carole Meadows were staying at their beach-front cottage Laura had somehow assumed that it would be a very small , modest building . |
| 23 | They no longer felt , as they had previously , that there was unlimited time or that things would unfold and develop along the lines that they had unconsciously assumed they would . |
| 24 | Now he was filling their relationship with a seriousness she had always assumed it could not possibly contain . |
| 25 | She had always assumed that something would happen , sometime , to sweep away her marital comfort . |
| 26 | Henry had always assumed that this was due , on her part , to an entirely natural physical repugnance for him ; she moved away from him as one might move away from a bad smell or a dangerous horse . |
| 27 | He , after all , found her quite as repulsive as she found him and , as the two of them waltzed from oven to sink , from window to cutlery drawer , staring up , down , sideways , anywhere but at each other , Henry had always assumed that this was no more than the usual politesse of a failed English , suburban marriage . |
| 28 | I had always assumed that this sort of civilized dismay at barbarism was the monopoly of our cause . |
| 29 | Knowing the King , as he believed , Nicholas had always assumed that now , through his placing at table , Zacco would take his chance to belittle in public this favoured commander who had failed to give him his kingdom as promised . |
| 30 | Hers was not a type of female beauty which attracted him and he had always assumed that she was physically cold . |