Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] believe [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The registration plates said it was only two years old but I stopped believing registration plates about two years before I gave up waiting for the tooth fairy . |
| 2 | ‘ I happen to believe variety is the spice of life , it just happens to be that women end up victimising themselves a lot , or subjecting themselves to a lot of bullshit to get some sort of coverage . |
| 3 | I do believe Fru Møller is angry with me ! ’ the Colonel 's lady whined to her husband . |
| 4 | I do believe people carne from far away to buy her cheeses . |
| 5 | Though I do believe Alfieri is still important for the role he plays which I mentioned at the beginning as it is clever of Miller to incorporate the ‘ narrator ’ into the play in this way although it is not an original idea as Shakespeare used it with his characters ' soliloquies . |
| 6 | ‘ I am not worried by this because I do believe war has been glamorised beyond all belief . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I am not a missionary , ’ he said , ‘ but I do believe schools have an important part to play . |
| 8 | She added said that she had believed Allen had homosexual tendencies and she had concerns that he would sexually abuse Satchel . |
| 9 | She had believed Jamie when he told her that Puddephat 's passion for him was not reciprocated . |
| 10 | She had believed Jack at the start when he had told her that she was the pillar , the guardian , the deep essential truth of his life , the indestructible centre point . |
| 11 | She had believed Thomas was shy of the Dane , but now she realised that the child gave nothing out because he received nothing back in return . |
| 12 | They talk in joke Scottish voices to each other and joke Scottish German voices , and act out the scenes of depressive Presbyterian fornication in which they affect to believe Neil 's evenings are spent . |
| 13 | Hey , this is my lavatory here , they have to believe work . |
| 14 | They parried before she admitted her father 's list had been missing since the day before his death , and he had believed Mona Washbrooke had stolen it and was also guilty of going through his papers . |
| 15 | The site was gutted by a blaze in January and it 's believed animal rights protestors were involved . |
| 16 | Privately , it 's believed Washington put great pressure on President Chamorro to rid herself of remnants of the Sandinista administration . |
| 17 | Eddington was shocked by that implication , and he refused to believe Chandrasekhar 's result . |