Example sentences of "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 | 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 … |
| 3 | Suddenly the Norths ' car was purposely rammed by a man who believed that his footloose wife was hiding in it . |
| 4 | During their courtship they believed that his true future was to be a poet . |
| 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 . |
| 6 | Like Wilson , Nixon believed that his national mandate gave him a legitimacy that the legislature lacked , a body that was , ‘ cumbersome , undisciplined , isolationist , fiscally irresponsible , overly vulnerable to pressures from organized minorities , and too dominated by the media ’ . |