Example sentences of "do n't believe [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But perhaps when you 're lying down on the floor and tied up by little people you can hardly see and do n't believe in , that 's not the best time to start communicating . |
| 2 | ‘ And you did n't believe for a minute that I would agree and that 's why you said it . |
| 3 | Never in the history of their friendship had Candy given up so easily — and she did n't believe for one split second she had now . |
| 4 | ‘ One that even I did n't believe at first . |
| 5 | He did n't believe like his Mum , that Lee had been making trouble , knocking and then running off . |
| 6 | He did n't believe in it himself . |
| 7 | Two thoughts immediately flow from this preliminary verse to those unfamiliar with these texts : ( 1 ) so they believe in some form of ghosts then do they ? and ( 2 ) but he did n't believe in God so what has happened to my husband ? |
| 8 | Reagan 's suite had been given a special phone number for the occasion , but the postmistress did n't believe in such nonsense . |
| 9 | Yeats was a complete atheist — he did n't believe in anything . |
| 10 | ‘ I thought you did n't believe in it . ’ |
| 11 | They did n't believe in the magic spell literally , of course , but they had had their experience of telepathic closeness at that time of the month . |
| 12 | A Jekyll and Hyde journalist , who ‘ never drank tea or coffee — he believed in water , ‘ God 's ale ’ as he called it , he was a natural vegetarian , he did n't believe in killing anything . ’ |
| 13 | No , he did n't believe in Creed 's innocence , not for a moment , but then innocence and guilt had never been the parameters , had they ? |
| 14 | Terry did n't believe in social workers , left-wing politicians , radical lawyers , liberals or gradual improvement . |
| 15 | I might have to say things I did n't believe in . |
| 16 | My father did n't believe in prisons . |
| 17 | They were meant to be devoid of personal feelings , deadpan , like lawyers who had to defend a case they did n't believe in , who went home at the end of the day leaving all their patients ' foibles filed away in their consulting rooms . |
| 18 | Mum did n't believe in paying any premiums for herself , though . |
| 19 | This story concerns the sounds of footsteps walking in the ballast ; no one was seen but the sounds were very convincing and one respects the account of this mystery from Mr Leslie , who certainly did n't believe in the supernatural , preferring to find a logical explanation of this sort of thing . |
| 20 | Nora Simpson did n't believe in crying over spilt milk . |
| 21 | It seems the Reillys , who live in Dorset , stockpiled their life savings in the car because they did n't believe in banks or building societies . |
| 22 | ‘ They are responsible for a lot of the machine tools that we have now , ’ Gerwyn says , ‘ and they developed them because they did n't believe in wasted labour . |
| 23 | Religious people did n't believe in witches and Mr Evans was very religious . |
| 24 | She had announced at once that she did n't believe in God . |
| 25 | Latterly , she had stopped saying that she did n't believe in God . |
| 26 | But Katherine Lundy did n't believe in omens ; she imagined her untroubled night 's sleep was due to nothing more than complete exhaustion . |
| 27 | They did n't believe in things like that any more , but neither of them made any move to get out of the car . |
| 28 | Those served earlier had nearly finished : they did n't believe in standing on ceremony , in the family . |
| 29 | Addy was one of those rare people who never makes a sacrifice She did n't believe in them . |
| 30 | MAX : She always told me you did n't believe in Freud . |