Example sentences of "believe [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't think I really believed it for one second . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm glad to hear that , ’ Claudia said , not believing it for one moment . |
| 5 | Do n't believe them for one minute |
| 6 | I did n't believe him at first . |
| 7 | You have no proof one way or the other , so can you really believe it without that ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I ca n't believe it of that old girl , you know , I just ca n't . |
| 9 | I could n't believe it at first that the problem was so simple ; in fact I walked out of that lesson without any pain at all … the first time for twenty months . |
| 10 | I could n't believe it at first : I 'd been so careful . |
| 11 | I did n't believe it at first . |
| 12 | I could n't believe it at first . |
| 13 | I did n't really believe it at first , er , and then I received couple or more phone calls from er various people in the industry who er , who were aware of it and started to congratulate me , and then I realised that it was the truth , that er I really did have a big hit record once again with Blue Velvet . |
| 14 | I thought I would never believe it at one time , but I now accept , along with every other carp angler , that carp can differentiate — given time — between a bait that is no more than a tasty morsel of carbohydrate and one that consists mainly of ingredients with a high nutritive value |
| 15 | I do n't believe it for one minute , personally , but this is the , this is the theory , and I 'll explain why I do n't believe it , later . |
| 16 | I ca n't believe it in actual , yeah but there was a fight or something so they might not have it again |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He continued firmly , and Faye relaxed a little , as if half daring to believe him at last . |
| 21 | She had refused to believe it at first , her mind so full of him that her eyes kept on seeing him , playing tricks on her , raising false and cruel hopes . |
| 22 | I did n't want to believe it at first , ’ she told him shakily , ‘ but I can now . |
| 23 | This meant that loyalty forbade her to tell Philip — who would n't have believed her in any case . |
| 24 | He had not believed it at first , but now he was not so sure . |