Example sentences of "believe he " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thought that Porfiry believed him innocent suddenly began to frighten him . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ It does n't ring a bell , ’ said Bardsley and Burden believed him . |
| 3 | One guest at the Hotel Bucharest , which saw fierce fighting in the initial stages and now stands deserted , has complained that nobody believed him when he pointed out the leader of the Securitate fighters . |
| 4 | Nobody believed him . |
| 5 | Most people who were not immunologists quite reasonably believed him . |
| 6 | Nigel was not quite sure Eleanor believed him , but he knew he had presented a plausible explanation . |
| 7 | Gazzer believed him . |
| 8 | He could not tell whether she believed him . |
| 9 | I know now he was just trying to make a sale and did n't have my size in stock , but since he was wearing a fleecy top and tracksuit trousers I believed him , and bought these huge leather edifices that a young married couple could quite comfortably live in and bring up a family . |
| 10 | But Nutty believed him , and the consequences of the turn of events gradually came home to her , and her face , instead of lighting up with joy , dropped with dismay . |
| 11 | Of this person she could form no idea other than that Hugh believed him to be the owner of whatever was in the sack and that he was in some way connected with the outlaws ' Camp . |
| 12 | You believed him safe in Portugal ? ’ |
| 13 | Not that she believed him . |
| 14 | If the bench believed him , they would set him free . |
| 15 | Her eyes lingered on him , then believed him . |
| 16 | Jean-Paul was n't sure if he believed him . |
| 17 | I believed him . |
| 18 | I believed him . |
| 19 | No-one believed him . |
| 20 | But Mr Onanuga 's girlfriend said last night she still believed him . |
| 21 | He said it with such heartfelt force that I believed him . |
| 22 | Maybe she believed him , for Rufus had once caught her lifting the lid and looking into the jar at the wood ash Adam had scraped up from the site of the handkerchief man 's last bonfire . |
| 23 | The problem was , who believed him ? |
| 24 | She believed him and still does . |
| 25 | I believed him . |
| 26 | The Captain believed him . |
| 27 | Nobody , he once remarked , believed him when he said it was an attempt to create a world in which a language agreeable to his own private aesthetic might be made to seem real , and even his childhood seems to have been enlivened by inventing as well as learning remote languages . |
| 28 | I believed him absolutely . |
| 29 | He said our flight had been delayed and he 'd spent the time in the bar , and then added , rather unconvincingly , that some woman had insisted on ‘ plying Phaeton with liquor ’ as he put it , but there was a hollowness in the way he said it , and I do n't think either Gill or I believed him for a moment . |
| 30 | And they believed him , people believed in curses then , and they did what he said . |