Example sentences of "believed he [vb past] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he smiled Lisa sensed he believed he 'd won her over . |
| 2 | Once more Reg Pybus was given command and many believed he had inherited one of the great Whaddon sides . |
| 3 | Mr Athulathmudali 's bodyguard said he had shot at the assassin , but believed he had missed . |
| 4 | He was a bully , he flew into rages , but to do what Albert believed he had done he would have to be wicked , and Carrie did n't think he was that . |
| 5 | Even now she felt sorry for him , unable to fix at the front of her mind the full extent of what she believed he had done . |
| 6 | Within a few months , Charles firmly believed he had made the biggest mistake of his life . |
| 7 | Johnny — who firmly believed he had fooled Fergie 's family , her lawyers , Prince Andrew and even the Queen about his intentions — arranged for Fergie and the two little princesses to holiday in Thailand and Indonesia . |
| 8 | I attacked your servant only because I believed he had killed you . |
| 9 | The first stage however remains nothing more than an extrapolation from the overall pattern of evolution Morgan believed he had discovered . |
| 10 | But the sight of the glass took him back into the past again , the past which he believed he had exorcised but was now fetched back in fragments and longer scenarios by every possible association . |
| 11 | Bums believed he had answered political demand : ‘ The people are really … satisfied with the new constitution they have gained ’ , he told the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association , adding , ‘ It is no good trying to hurry the Africans . ’ |
| 12 | If Stone believed he had slipped quietly away to the phone box , he had underestimated — or forgotten — the pursuit abilities of CI5 . |
| 13 | Nicholson believed he had arrived : ‘ I said to myself , ‘ This is it . |
| 14 | Even Frank Williams , who gave Mansell the fresh start he craved in 1985 , believed he had signed no more than a ‘ journeyman ’ , who would serve as a useful number two driver . |
| 15 | He believed he had found a good humoured gentleman in Holland who would send him plants , but was critical of him for overheating his stoves . |
| 16 | But , in Briggs words , ‘ there is no reason in principle why one can not have the best of both worlds ’ , he believed he had found just that in Sanskrit — a bridge between natural and artificial languages . |
| 17 | A CO Fermanagh pharmacist believed he had found a breakthrough in the treatment of psoriasis — the skin disease highlighted in the Singing Detective . |
| 18 | The tsar , however , believed he had found a better way to knit his territories together than any conceived by his predecessors . |
| 19 | Ken , meanwhile , believed he had found a play that suited his temperament and talents better than most of the things on which he had been working to date . |
| 20 | He believed he had had a determining influence on Modigliani 's evolution although the painter was too haughty to admit it . |
| 21 | And each time Dexter believed he had come closer to Blanche , understood her better , and liked her more . |
| 22 | The informer believed he had come under suspicion by his commanders but in fact the UDA/UFF leadership suspected another member of setting up the team . |