Example sentences of "believe [pron] [prep] [det] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ While I might have had difficulty believing you at that particular moment two years ago , it was two years ago .
2 Weinberger believed none of that .
3 Ramsey believed none of this .
4 It would not square with any value she had taught herself to cherish , for she believed herself above such petty sentiments , and could cope with them now only by turning her dislike upon herself .
5 I believed her on both counts , especially when she visited me for a weekend and gave me a bottle of ‘ Denim ’ aftershave which she had shoplifted from a Chemist in mid Wales .
6 ‘ That 's partly because , being unaccustomed to serious illness , they ca n't believe something like that can happen to them , partly because they do n't want to believe it .
7 ‘ Only humans could believe something like that .
8 Do you still believe anybody in that place ?
9 You have no proof one way or the other , so can you really believe it without that ? ’
10 ‘ I ca n't believe it of that old girl , you know , I just ca n't .
11 But EEI President Thomas Kuhn acknowledged that even the most optimistic environmentalists do not believe anything like that number of electric vehicles will be on the streets , even in the next 20 years .
12 Likening Tony Benn to the Erich Honeker of the Labour Party , he said the left-wing MP got it right when , after the multilateralist vote , he commented : ‘ Who will believe us on this ?
13 I was up there three days campaigning , objecting to this that I 'm being charged and believe me for those three days I stood right in Queen Street , just outside the offices there , and at no , any time during , at any particular time of day , you could have come along to me , and there were still one thousand five hundred people standing there , rain , hail , sleet or blow .
14 And er the reason we took the biggest jug we could find it was n't so much to feed two children in the house you 're parents also wanted a bowl because believe me in those times we were we were hungry , we were dear , very very hungry .
15 I believe something like this to be very much the case .
16 Again , I believe something like this to be very much the case .
17 I believe everybody at some point needs support .
18 ‘ Such persons commonly live in a dream world , and believe themselves in all they say .
19 This meant that loyalty forbade her to tell Philip — who would n't have believed her in any case .
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