Example sentences of "[pron] believed [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because I believed that something fine might come of it ? |
| 2 | I believed that we should assess the future cost of the whole social security system , and make any necessary changes now . |
| 3 | At one time , my right hon. Friend thought that there were only 500 , whereas I believed that there were 1,000 . |
| 4 | I believed that he might bring forward such an amendment , but he has not done so . |
| 5 | [ … ] And I saw a man who was holding a stick , and I believed that he was going to castigate the bad violins , for I heard many of them … |
| 6 | Later , he would tell Radio One 's Janice Long : ‘ I believed that I had my own work to do . |
| 7 | I believed that I should again have been running the anchor leg , but our Director of Coaching decided otherwise . |
| 8 | So I went to a designer , Denise Vaughan of Deni Vee , and she made me a couple of suits which really pleased me and I believed that I was on to something . |
| 9 | Then , later , I believed that I had been born to die for someone . |
| 10 | At the time I believed that I surrendered completely to him but that he did not surrender completely to me . |
| 11 | It was this last that gave him pause , for , he was to say , ‘ Although I had no knowledge of it — that place where the Twelve Judges sit — I believed that I had long since dreamed it , and I knew it for a place of great finality and immense power . |
| 12 | But I believed that I could avoid them , with some help from the Vadinamian processes themselves . |
| 13 | For a long time , I believed that it would be possible to overthrow the Irish regime by English working class ascendancy … |
| 14 | From the day I first got an inkling of ‘ where babies come from ’ and taxed my mother with the proposition that I was therefore no relation to my father , I believed that it was me and me alone who had been responsible for all that pain and trouble called my birth . |
| 15 | Whatever the case , I believed that my disability was obvious and that was what determined my approach . |
| 16 | Every little thing concerning Jacob turned into a private battle between Rachel and I. When I gave birth to Reuben , I believed that my husband must love me for giving him a son . |
| 17 | My mother and my best friend , both of whom believed that I could just as well have a bath at home , came with me . |
| 18 | Well David said that we were at the end , everyone believed that they were that the time has come that we was at the end of the world . |
| 19 | Many of them believed that they were failing to find jobs because they were too old and a large number of the older respondents had become reconciled to the prospect of never working again . |
| 20 | Some of them believed that it would be brought about by an ideal representative of God , an anointed one , a Messiah ( see chapter 8 ) . |
| 21 | of them believed that recession would get worse under a Labour Government , and not one of them believed that it would get better . |
| 22 | The students from that time remembered a man with a sharp sense of the ridiculous ; who ragged them but was too shy to be intimate with them though they liked him much for his friendliness and his humour ; who was famous for long , sudden , and embarrassing silences ; who was so eccentric that none of them believed that he could later be a man of distinction in England or his Church ; a man who loved theology — they never met anywhere else a man who so loved theology , and who regarded theology as the highest intellectual activity for humanity ; a fierce defender of liberty of opinion , for Marxists as for anyone else ; whose principal theme was the glory of God , and who was evidently touched by his ideas of Plato ; who did not give the impression of a mind of exceptional ability — there was not enough knife in the mind — but who gave the impression of being an exceptional person ; who disturbed other people 's prayers in chapel with convulsive fidgets and sudden face-rubbings — they regarded him as tense in his devotions and were afraid of a nervous breakdown ; who had a manifest and rare mystical sense of the immediate presence of God , a presence so brilliant that it could almost overpower . |
| 23 | Dr Bach himself believed that his flower remedies helped to bring the physical , emotional and mental planes of the individual more into harmony with the spiritual plane and said that there could be ‘ no true healing unless there is a change in outlook , peace of mind and inner happiness ’ . |
| 24 | Both the media and academia had generations who believed that they had got a production-based right to ‘ do things to people ’ . |
| 25 | From their respective sites at Stowmarket and Peterborough , Prentice and Alcock could work out the heights and paths of the dust particles by triangulation , showing that these sporadic meteors were members of the Solar System , in contradiction to the view of professional astronomers in the United States who believed that they entered from interstellar space . |
| 26 | These , in turn recruited and controlled others who believed that they were members of a genuine loyalist secret organisation . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , however strong the churches remained , there were many sympathetic who believed that they were crumbling , and felt sad , nostalgic or alarmed about it . |
| 28 | Although Almond and Verba found few people in their survey who actually sought to exert such influence , the proportion who believed that they could exert influence was significant . |
| 29 | Meanwhile the actual direction of the party under Mr Callaghan , aided by Mr Foot , was in the hands of those who believed that its main task was to represent the interests of trade unions . |
| 30 | The decision was not well received by those Americans who believed that their allies should concentrate on the provision of conventional forces . |