Example sentences of "believed [that] he be [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Coleridge himself long believed that he was born on 20 October , but his father , with a clergyman 's attention to such matters , recorded in the parish register that the true date was 21 October ‘ about eleven o'clock in the forenoon ’ .
2 Critics of the brave Brummie falsely believed that he was overdramatising his gruelling effort in a race with a theatrical limp afterwards .
3 Thus , for instance , suppose that Henry had believed that he was watching a recording of last year 's final , as he was ; in that case , his justification for his belief that p and thus by PC /j for his belief that q would have been destroyed .
4 Although during the 1987 congressional inquiry into the affair Poindexter shielded Reagan ( then President ) from any responsibility for the operation , his defence strategy against the criminal charges rested upon the claim that he had believed that he was acting with the President 's authority .
5 She knew that John truly believed that he was protecting her by keeping their love secret , but she was becoming frustrated and annoyed about the situation .
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