Example sentences of "[pron] believed that his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Some of those who believed that his first bankruptcy had been engineered by the Shipping Federation had come to his rescue at the eleventh hour .
2 Suddenly the Norths ' car was purposely rammed by a man who believed that his footloose wife was hiding in it .
3 During their courtship they believed that his true future was to be a poet .
4 Certainly he believed that his inner feeling of being most alive , most engaged with real issues , in his contemplative experience , was a gift from God and that his whole integrity depended on his furthering a life-style which he believed enabled him to receive the gift , however strong the opposition he encountered : Above all else I have always longed to sit and concentrate on Christ , and him alone …
5 To the end of his days , he believed that his ten shillings a week pension kept him , but of course it was my father who kept the two homes going .
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