Example sentences of "he believe " in BNC.

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1 Wilder will be the first black governor in American history and the union endorsed him believing that he will ensure fairer treatment at the hands of state officials .
2 But the alternative — to have him believing her poor showing had been caused by drugs , was equally untenable .
3 Using Britain as an example , Napoleon III and the economists who advised him believed that the introduction of free trade would help to strengthen the French economy , since only by opening up French industry to greater competition would it be galvanized into accepting new methods of production .
4 Hodge and those around him believed Syngman Rhee should be encouraged and believed he could be controlled ; they were later to regret having aided Rhee 's ambitions to the extent that they had done when they found themselves exposed to Rhee 's mordant censure .
5 He urgently gripped and shook Hector 's shoulders , trying to make him believe .
6 It required but a single coincidence , whereby an apparent answer to a prayer arrived at the appropriate time , to make him believe that his objects of supplication had powers beyond himself , and had brought him relief .
7 His attachment to the ‘ theory of courage ’ made him believe that the Western world in his lifetime had been short not of wit or of strength , but of will .
8 To help him believe you are on top of your work , have ready any relevant financial information about his public relations campaign .
9 " At first , " John went on , obviously bent on making a clean breast of everything , " at first when I tell him you a whore , he do n't believe me , so I got to make him believe .
10 There were a thousand uses for Herrick 's implants , but most would be used as they had on Haavikko — to make a man vulnerable by making him believe he had done something when he had n't .
11 It was easy to convince him of his worthlessness-to make him believe he was capable of such an act .
12 ‘ You let him believe Oliver and I were moving into his territory ? ’
13 She was content to let him believe it .
14 Because Florian Jones had made him believe that she was innocent of all that he had accused her of .
15 make him believe he 's in a hospital
16 Only how the devil to make him believe that ?
17 Let him believe what he liked .
18 Let him believe it if it helped .
19 I did n't like this town when I first came to it , and … and I must whisper this , I did n't care much for him either , for his deaf-aid makes him believe that everybody else is deaf . ’
20 With no more than a rather cryptic smile he went out , leaving her to the turmoil of thoughts that were no longer as crystal-clear as she had tried to make him believe .
21 I had to make him believe there was a good reason for my being constantly in the club . ’
22 In a most interesting essay in the recent volume of Essays on the Depopulation of Melanesia the great psychologist W. H. R. Rivers adduces evidence which has led him to believe that the natives of that unfortunate archipelago are dying out principally for the reason that the ‘ Civilization ’ forced upon them has deprived them of all interest in life .
23 Watching her now , in this setting , made it easy for him to believe this .
24 Again , it was reason rather than faith that led him to believe that this was the only adequate ground for the proclamation of the universal offer of the Gospel .
25 By the end of our discussion , however , he was still prepared to go on thinking about an editorial involvement — I ( mis ? ) led him to believe the amount of work could be contained and he would be given good backing by OUP .
26 There are also some splendid quotes ; Planck 's gloomy view of the advance of science led him to believe that scientific truth triumphs not by convincing its opponents , but rather because they eventually die .
27 All of which is what the people who meet the star traveller would like him to believe , even though it represents a far from comprehensive picture of what is going on .
28 His experience as president of the Scottish Institute had led him to believe that the way forward lay in joining forces with the English and Welsh in a single British Institute of Chartered Accountants , and in 1989 , he spearheaded the Scottish side of the campaign .
29 He was , however , concerned that information obtained by the SFO might be disclosed to other authorities , and might be used by them for a prosecution ; this concern did not lead him to believe that it would be proper to order the disclosure of the transcript to the SFO without any conditions .
30 Some earlier research in 1972 had led him to believe that very high pressures could be attained , and also that the hydrogen ions behaved as free in the palladium crystal lattice , moving around and probably bumping into one another .
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