Sentence examples for had assumed a from inspiring English sources

They had assumed a special importance as cues.

Mr. Strand had assumed a recent buyer was cleaning up.

Neither was he, as many had assumed, a lobbyist.

Many had assumed a drifter had left the suitcase in the field.

By then, when we spoke again, Hackett had assumed a hard-edged pragmatism about his profession.

Horsley had assumed a previous conviction for possession of amphetamine sulphate had expired.

Key by this time had assumed a central role as the fundamental articulator of form.

He had assumed a black inflection just slightly more emphatic than the black inflection Ahmet sometimes assumes.

In our target price for BP we had assumed a $25bn to $30bn gross liability to BP.

Mr. Fujimori, Peru's president from 1990 until he fled the country in November, had assumed a dictator's mantle.

Officials and terror experts said it was believed that other lieutenants had assumed a larger operational role.