Example sentences of "she believe [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to one of the staff , she believed that she was Queen Victoria and did not like anyone encroaching on the space around her throne . |
| 2 | That when it did , she believed that they would be obliterated totally , like midges slapped into nothingness by a giant . |
| 3 | She believed that as much as she believed the moon was made of green cheese . |
| 4 | She believed that ‘ representation without taxation ’ led to councils gaining support more for what they could promise as spenders rather than save as prudent housekeepers . |
| 5 | Now she was a young widow , dignified but vulnerable , busy but not tastelessly careerist ; she believed that she always put her family first . |
| 6 | The dangers of the Naples street-life did not bother her ; she believed that no one would mistreat her . |
| 7 | The development officer also said she believed that the husband thought the Support worker was critical of the way he shouted at his wife . |
| 8 | She told me that she believed that evil was real , and not merely the absence of good , which , I felt , was a good start . |
| 9 | Julian , of course , would not have described herself as a prophet , because like all monotheists at this date , she believed that God 's revelation was complete and that the day of prophecy was therefore over . |
| 10 | Whereas hitherto she had looked upon sex as highly enjoyable for its own sake , now she believed that , in some inextricable way , she would not be able to help equating it with what might — and , presumably , should be — the end result : procreation . |
| 11 | The publication of the tape is likely to cause further concern to Diana who has already told friends that she believed that at least some of her private calls were being monitored and recorded . |
| 12 | What Aggie did n't know about the ways of loose women , prostitutes , and pimps was n't worth learning , but it was a business and she believed that everybody should mind their own business . |
| 13 | Hari thought again of her father and sitting there on the edge of her seat she believed that the man standing before her , handsome and young though he might be , was the same kind of man as Dewi Morgan , upright and steadfast , his eyes clear and direct as they looked down at her . |
| 14 | At times she believed that he was seeking Camilla 's advice about his marriage or making arrangements to see her . |
| 15 | She believed that if we wanted children badly enough , then somehow it would happen . |
| 16 | She did not believe that the wicked could be caught by ten-year-old children and returned to the police station in exchange for a pony , any more than she believed that constant hot water would make young mothers smile constantly with relief and proud love . |
| 17 | She believed that there would be changes , a new cycle of prosperity , Mussolini will fall . |
| 18 | She believed that she had accepted . |
| 19 | And she believed that she was , then . |
| 20 | She signed it because her husband pressed her to do so and told her he was being pressed by Campbell , and because she believed that if she would sign it … it would enable her husband to settle the beer contract . … |
| 21 | If anyone had challenged Frederica directly as to whether she believed that , she would have argued the toss . |
| 22 | She believed that girls needed a fair dose of daily and vigorous exercise . |
| 23 | She believed that private medicine ought not to coexist by the side of the Health Service ; or perhaps more fairly , that if it did exist it should not derive any benefits from the Health Service , and that none of the resources of the Service ought properly to be available to private practitioners . |
| 24 | Everything David had shown her of himself had made her love him and yet she believed that he had done something unspeakable . |
| 25 | As to direct selling , she believed that seeing off the threat of publishers was even easier : ‘ No publisher can supply all the books a school needs . ’ |
| 26 | Like Finn , she believed that Lydia had now relented , mistaking her lack of interest for compliance , which led to further misunderstandings at bedtime when Lydia told Finn that he was to sleep in the tiny room where she kept the oil lamps which was furnished with a camp bed and sleeping-bag . |
| 27 | The more she considered the matter , the more she believed that Rose Cottage was as much a victim as she . |
| 28 | A firm advocate of temperance , she believed that drink was the cause of much of the crime , vice , and misery of the poor . |
| 29 | She was chairman of the British section for ten years but left , partly because she believed that the League 's pacifism was unrealistic . |
| 30 | But she believed that the more a woman covered up , the more she was attractive to the opposite sex , while Bernard grasped the idea as a way of using up more fabric . |