Example sentences of "[conj] i believe [pron] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And although I believe he was referring to a certain kind of abstract thinking — the kind that reduced the English Hegelian tradition to a lyrical hymn to the Absolute , and of which his own thesis on Bradley of 1916 came very near to imitating ( which is why he declared , on its publication in 1963 , that he did not pretend to understand it ) , he possessed an outstanding capacity for reasoned argument . |
| 2 | This was our second day in Normandy and I believed we were getting used to it . |
| 3 | And I believed they were capable of murdering my mother , I honestly believe they would have murdered my mother — that 's why I signed the statement . ’ |
| 4 | But when the man Harry came back without the pirate , Silver seemed angry — and I believed he was . |
| 5 | It really did n't feel like it was such big stuff , it was just happening to me and I believed I was going to be all right . |
| 6 | ‘ That terrain was tax , and I believe it was not the best territory for us to choose . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ That terrain was tax and I believe it was not the best territory for us to choose . ’ |
| 8 | And I believe it was then , looking on that view , that I began for the first time to adopt a frame of mind appropriate for the journey before me . |
| 9 | Ever since then , China in its many and varied aspects has been in my mind , and I believe it was on that Saturday morning in Aunt Janie 's potato patch that I first became interested in the Orient . |
| 10 | Well the question as far as inset er is concerned , we 've we 've already touched on this morning and I believe it was discussed yesterday . |
| 11 | But I was a little person in er a commu community of little person and er my brothers worked down the pit and I believe it was an advantage not to be much greater than five foot in height down the pits . |
| 12 | And we have a bicycle which he made in the year eighteen seventy , that was before he had started business on his own and he had erm made it for a young solicitor in Galashiels and I believe it was used in a race from Galashiels from Place in Galashiels to the . |
| 13 | And as I understand it they came down from somewhere er near they obviously were involved in the slate business and then they or organized their own firm Brothers and I believe it was about seventeen er eighty nine , maybe earlier . |
| 14 | One wag , and I believe it was a junior officer of No 84 Squadron , said I wonder , please , we would prefer something from you . " |
| 15 | My daughter used to go to a lovely informal music group in a house in Northfield , and I believe there was a similar group in Moseley once . |
| 16 | Well I believe , I 'm not certain on that , it was in Street I think it was and er she also worked for Joseph in Street too , when she when she went , went out to work she was working for Joseph stitching for him too , but he became later Mayor of Walsall and I believe he was Liberal MP for it Pat the Liberal MP was n't it ? |
| 17 | ‘ But I believe it was sent to teach people how to love each other . |
| 18 | Now as to what type of person came into this field and from where I can only guess , but I believe it was not people from the very close area although they would have lived in the vicinity . |
| 19 | ‘ Not that I heard , but I believe it was looked into . ’ |
| 20 | It was five years ago but I believe his was he sounded fairly young I 'd say about in his twenties . |
| 21 | ‘ I killed her in the field because I believed she was the devil . ’ |
| 22 | Well you must be getting on for a hundred , because I believe you were in the Boar War , were n't you ? |
| 23 | Extremely annoyed , he had been obliged to change his uniform , substitute another set of medals , and order that Schweppes ( as I believe it was ) should be informed of the royal displeasure . |
| 24 | So even if Westermarck was right , as I believe he was , it would be extremely surprising if his hypothesis explained all of what humans do . |
| 25 | As I believe I was one of the earliest users in the country of county wartime incident archives from 1949 onwards , here are some East Anglian pointers . |
| 26 | Given his distressing complaint ( muscular dystrophy ) , he possessed , apart from a commanding voice , an ebullience which , as I can now see , suited Eliot , though I believe there were moments when the two temperaments were at odds . |