Example sentences of "you [modal v] [adv] believe [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His response : ‘ You may not believe this but I 'm not allowed to tell you on council notepaper . ’ |
| 2 | You may not believe this , but though Richard and I have now known each other for eighteen years on and off , the first time he kissed me was in the car-park last Thursday . ’ |
| 3 | And you may not believe this , but in my country all the important people look like Yahoos . ’ |
| 4 | In the sentence below , the underlying attitude of the speaker is betrayed somewhat by the adverb actually ( suggesting " you may not believe this " ) , and one understands as in ( 69 ) that he would not have thought it possible for someone to be so audacious as the public relations officer was : ( 70 ) But Drew was as determined as any Soviet Commissar to fulfil his self-imposed quota , and the fuse to his temper began smouldering whenever anyone suggested the 15% target might be overly ambitious . |
| 5 | You may not believe this and then so it 's nice to have Adam here to say yes , that 's right . |
| 6 | ‘ You must n't believe all you read in Pravda , ’ I said . |
| 7 | ‘ You must n't believe all Lori says . |
| 8 | You should n't believe that though . |
| 9 | Carrington , you 'll not believe this , but I 'll tell you . |
| 10 | You 'll never believe this . |
| 11 | Oh , and sir , you 'll never believe this — it 's quite peculiar , really . |
| 12 | You 'd never believe that would you ? |
| 13 | He was very friendly with erm who was in charge of the Extra Mural Board and erm then possibly because of this connection erm we were asked by the erm Ministry of Defence to provide lectures and courses for erm units of H M Forces stationed in the area and erm so a panel of lecturers was erm formed and erm they used to go out , the , the units used to have their own Education Officers , usually a sergeant or perhaps a second lieutenant and erm they used to come into the office and say that they 'd like somebody to go out to their Searchlight Unit or A A Unit stationed somewhere out in the sticks and er lecture on this that or the other and erm we were supposed to try and fix them up and erm the panel erm , it had quite a number of erm people on it that erm , I ca n't remember who they all were , I know that erm you 'd hardly believe this but there was a chap named Mr and another chap named Mr |
| 14 | ‘ You ca n't believe that . ’ |
| 15 | It just goes to show that you ca n't believe all you read . |
| 16 | ‘ Ha , you ca n't believe this , Um Yusef , ’ she said . |
| 17 | I am an old age pensioner , you would n't believe that would you ? |
| 18 | I thought cor blimey it 's a wonder he can walk look at that you would n't believe that today would you nineteen ninety two oh no wonder they all come over here , is so really , ca n't blame them if that 's the sort of quality of life they 've got |
| 19 | ‘ You would n't believe some of the things that go on in here . |
| 20 | Mind , you would n't believe some of the prices they charge up West , talk about daylight robbery . |
| 21 | You would n't believe some of the people he 's got in there . ’ |
| 22 | If you once stopped and thought about it rationally , you would n't believe any of it . ’ |
| 23 | But I dare say you wo n't believe that . |
| 24 | Warren Mitchell went around to see him after a performance and was amused — following Burton 's initial reaction to the money — when he grumbled , ‘ You wo n't believe all they give me for this ? |
| 25 | ‘ You wo n't believe this but Margot Iverson died in the night … ’ |
| 26 | You wo n't believe this , but I really do understand . |
| 27 | Bubbles Rothermere stars as the wife of an important proprietor ( ‘ you wo n't believe this , but she took her maid to a ball recently ’ ) . |
| 28 | And you wo n't believe this , but she rounded off the meal with a wedge of Black Forest gâteau . |
| 29 | They sell out you wo n't believe this they sell you wo n't believe this , they sell |
| 30 | They sell out you wo n't believe this they sell you wo n't believe this , they sell |