Example sentences of "believed he [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His autobiography tells of expeditions to Houndslow Heath , on the advice of Major John Wildman [ q.v. ] , to dig up buried treasure , of programmes of alchemical experiments , and of meetings with dignitaries from the fairy kingdom of the ‘ Lowlanders ’ ( whose Queen , Penelope , he believed he married ) . |
| 2 | As he smiled Lisa sensed he believed he 'd won her over . |
| 3 | But tonight he said he believed he 'd been punished enough . |
| 4 | They really believed he cared for them . |
| 5 | Their Lord was a merciful Lord and if she had sinned as she believed He existed to forgive sinners . |
| 6 | Never leaving us to feel that he has short-changed us , each observation complete in itself , as if it has been roundly considered before utterance , he manages to accommodate the following items of interest in that eighteen hundred words : a comparison between Hebridean manners of burial and Roman funeral rites ; the weather ( repeatedly ) ; the literacy of the Hebrideans ; how travellers are accommodated , there being no hotel system ; diet — wild-fowl , fish , venison , beef , mutton , goat , poultry , bread ; whisky for breakfast ( the morning dram , known as a ‘ skalk ’ ) ; the availability of tea , coffee , marmalade and other preserves , honey and cheese ; trading practices — wine from the French in exchange for wool ; culinary variety , short on vegetables other than potatoes , not good on custards ; napery , crockery and cutlery ; the abating fervour of the clans in the wake of Culloden ; and he believed he saw the slow rise of prosperity under the ‘ unpleasing consequences of subjection , . |
| 7 | Hofmeyr believed he knew why she acted like this . |
| 8 | He did not know the man 's name but was certain he had seen him before and believed he knew where he worked . |
| 9 | She just had to hold on to the thought that , although he believed he knew who , he did n't know where . |
| 10 | He believed he looked ill bodily rather than mentally in his bed things . |
| 11 | Legspinner Ring believed he owed his place to Tribe 's absence . |
| 12 | He said the case against him had been adjourned after he said he believed he owed less than £12 . |
| 13 | By the use of these three methods Morgan believed he had the means with which to discover the history of marriage in human societies . |
| 14 | The first stage however remains nothing more than an extrapolation from the overall pattern of evolution Morgan believed he had discovered . |
| 15 | A Hungarian source told the Guardian the pastor 's family believed he had been taken to a village in north-eastern Transylvania , near the Hungarian border . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He believed he had had a determining influence on Modigliani 's evolution although the painter was too haughty to admit it . |
| 18 | Nicholson believed he had arrived : ‘ I said to myself , ‘ This is it . |
| 19 | He believed he had no soul . ’ |
| 20 | He killed 19-year-old Walter Smith because he believed he had been mistreating his childhood friend Sharon . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | If Stone believed he had slipped quietly away to the phone box , he had underestimated — or forgotten — the pursuit abilities of CI5 . |
| 23 | Within a few months , Charles firmly believed he had made the biggest mistake of his life . |
| 24 | The scenario has left Lewis , who believed he had a cast iron agreement to fight Bowe or Holyfield after his stunning knockout of Razor Ruddock a fortnight ago , thinking he 's a victim of another Bruno panto script . |
| 25 | Wei 's severe sentence shocked many people ; he had become a dissident almost overnight and few believed he had ‘ passed on state secrets to foreign powers ’ , as accused at his trial . |
| 26 | All that those LA police offices had to say to get acquitted of beating Rodney King was that they believed he had been using PCP . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He shuffled around the lower reaches of the ATP Tour 's top 100 , consistently breaking the hearts of those who believed he had the potential to hit the big-time . |
| 29 | An outstanding example was provided by the GEC merger with English Electric in 1968 in which its promoter , Arnold Weinstock , firmly believed he had been helped by government support through the IRC . |
| 30 | Mr Athulathmudali 's bodyguard said he had shot at the assassin , but believed he had missed . |