Example sentences of "[verb] believe [that] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | And I kept telling him , yeah , Oliver , but the day that , you know , some Nicaraguan unity group appears and it 's evident that it 's got everybody in it … that 's the day I 'll begin to believe that this thing has a future . |
2 | ‘ This is excellent , lad , and I do believe that this exercise is having a beneficial side-effect , namely an improvement in both your grammar and the general ordering of your still-immature intellect . |
3 | However , I do believe that this exchange together with the evidence I heard illustrates the understandable concern of the dock company to ensure that it would have unrestricted access to the port for itself and its sublessees who would operate there . |
4 | First let her fear build up : let her come to believe that this prize , this catch of the season , would leave her not only as if she had never met him but somehow spoiled . |
5 | We observe a set of events , and decide that they have one explanation which is vastly more probable than all others ; so we come to believe that this explanation is correct , and we use it to make predictions in future . |
6 | Side by side with Voltaire and Kant , with their admiration of constructive and public-spirited autocrats , were others such as Helvétius , Holbach , Diderot and Rousseau , who refused to believe that this form of rule , however ‘ enlightened ’ , could do anything for the liberation of the individual subject . |
7 | I wanted to believe that this man — this stranger — had seen me and wanted me . |