Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] believe that this [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
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 I wanted to believe that this man — this stranger — had seen me and wanted me .
4 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 .
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 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 .
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