Example sentences of "believe it or " in BNC.
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| 1 | This week , believe it or not , another , almost identical saga began . |
| 2 | Well a few weeks ago the city fathers installed dose nasty little tings at a cost , believe it or not , sir , of some turty tree tousand pounds , and the day atterwards dey declared the whole area a no waiting zone . ’ |
| 3 | Name 's Virginia , believe it or not . |
| 4 | Lives in the next village , believe it or not . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm tryin' to think … believe it or not . ’ |
| 6 | One thing you soon learn from interviewing Emo ( it 's his real name , believe it or not ) is that you 're never going to get any straight answers . |
| 7 | Believe it or not , even my own branch manager was unaware of changes made in the charges on my account ( through computers , of course ) by his head office and unsurprisingly , the customer — me — was never told . |
| 8 | THERE are some Conservative voters who , believe it or not , are hoping for a Labour victory , on the simple logic that ‘ it has to get worse before it gets better ’ . |
| 9 | Harbour Town , believe it or not , is a rather superb public course , with its 18th laid out alongside the Calibogue Sound , where a lighthouse forms the backdrop to the green — no excuse for missing this one . |
| 10 | I often used to read it when we were in action and , believe it or not , every time I took up the book it opened at page 92 , although I have never deliberately read that page , as far as I can remember — so I took the hint and wrote … ’ |
| 11 | There 's a Rembrandt , believe it or not . |
| 12 | Believe it or not — one feeble attempt by shoe manufacturers to cash in was a ridiculous boot thing like this . |
| 13 | The eventual headliners , believe it or not , were Mud . |
| 14 | In the afternoon we 're on the Palmer charge and believe it or not he hits his tee-shot at the 17th to exactly the same spot again , and turns to me and says , ‘ Before you say anything , Tip , do n't tell me it 's a 6-iron . ’ |
| 15 | The very first school was , believe it or not , in Australia where a Norwegian taught the miners of the Snowy Mountains how to slide on skis as early as 1861 . |
| 16 | Believe It Or Not ! |
| 17 | Such is fame : our exploit brought us international mention with a few lines by the Canadian Press but our feat was not mentioned in Robert Ripley 's ‘ Believe It or Not ’ column , and we had never heard of the Guinness Book of Records in those early days . |
| 18 | Believe it or not , Mr Murray continued in this well articulated vein for nearly 20 minutes and ended with an emotionally patriotic finale which sounded very much like ‘ long live the new CHAB and God save the King ’ . |
| 19 | One of the staunch supporters of the Macmillan Clubs , believe it or not , was the famous American contralto Marian Anderson . |
| 20 | Believe it or not , and I did n't before I came out at work , it is possible to change the people around you , just by honestly being who you are . |
| 21 | We 're travelling up together , believe it or not . |
| 22 | The point is that whether I believe it or not , and whether I convince my friends that I 'm right or not , does not alter the fact that smoking cigarettes causes lung cancer . |
| 23 | I once astounded a good guitarist friend of mine — who was also an electronics engineer , believe it or not — at the difference in tone and volume between a Whirlwind lead and a cheapo cable . |
| 24 | ‘ This guarantee does not affect your statutory rights ’ : we 've all seen it written and , believe it or not , this statement must by law be on all guarantees , in order to explain and remind us that we also have rights against the supplier , as well as the issuer of the guarantee . |
| 25 | However , some processes still need the human touch — as in the case of Steinberger strings , loop-end strings and , believe it or not , the machine has yet to be invented that can put strings into their packets . |
| 26 | People , believe it or not , and that means Tories , socialists , Liberals and greens , vote by and large for those who they think can run things better . |
| 27 | Believe it or not , height is not dangerous to this type of model ! |
| 28 | Believe it or not , I jump up and down on the touchline like that every week ! ’ |
| 29 | Believe it or not , it is the centre of the European iron industry . |
| 30 | I worked hard , slept well , and believe it or not , batted eight hundred on The Rancho softball team . |