Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] believe that [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although I do not begin to claim the sort of historical breadth of either Brown or Bynum , I do believe that their approach is not only helpful but necessary if we are going , as we must , to use the lives of women before us to encourage us forward . |
| 2 | We also went a few nights later to Stavanger , and I do believe that my bomb-aimer at least claimed he saw , through broken cloud , what he took to be hangars on the airfield at Stavanger and these were bombed . |
| 3 | Persuading others to accept the hard financial facts of life is not usually a very popular job , but he does it with great tact and skill , and under his guidance I do believe that our deficit is under control , and that it will be reduced . |
| 4 | But she did believe that her revelations had not been bestowed upon her for herself but for everybody . |
| 5 | She wanted to believe that her friends were still alive . |
| 6 | With them , we long to believe that our expectations of happiness can be transformed , so that we can become happy in a way we never thought possible . |
| 7 | While we may not believe in everlasting life , while we have it , we do believe that our life is everlasting . |
| 8 | With clothes , most of us like to believe that our tastes are idiosyncratic , which suggests that we will often go out of our way — and pay through the nose — to buy something a bit different . |