Example sentences of "believe [pers pn] [conj] [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " I want to know what you 're up to , " he said , and I do n't think he believed me when I told him I was only trying to find out whether there were any rabbits who wanted to leave the warren . |
| 2 | I do n't think the woman in the New York Avis office believed me when I told her that I wanted to hire a convertible . |
| 3 | Nobody , he once remarked , believed him when he said it was an attempt to create a world in which a language agreeable to his own private aesthetic might be made to seem real , and even his childhood seems to have been enlivened by inventing as well as learning remote languages . |
| 4 | Of course I believed her when she said it would , but I wish you could have seen those first two lepidopteral visitors . |
| 5 | ‘ I believed her when she assured me I would meet someone much more suitable when it was time for me to get married . ’ |
| 6 | She did n't believe me when I said I was sure it was because she was n't taking the carriage far enough over to the right , clearing the pattern selector . |
| 7 | ‘ You did n't believe me when I said I had n't distracted Simon and you would n't have believed me if I 'd told you it was your child I might be carrying , ’ she replied , her voice shaking a little despite all her efforts to project a calm image . |
| 8 | David did n't believe me when I said he was black . |
| 9 | He did n't believe me when I told him about you , which just goes to show how much people judge by outward appearances . |
| 10 | Nicola did n't believe me when I told her she thought I was playing a joke |
| 11 | Milk up Nicola did n't believe me when I told her . |
| 12 | You would n't believe me if I told you . ’ |
| 13 | Blaming it on the Company would be just a fallback — you would n't believe me if I said I was n't drinking of that but you might believe me if I say we 'd prefer the good old British way : that nothing happened and there 's no blame at all . |
| 14 | ( ‘ Would you believe me if I called myself a Puritan ? |
| 15 | Nobody would believe her when she told them she 'd seen Mrs Sugar . |
| 16 | " Nobody would believe her when she told them she 'd seen Mrs Sugar , " How do you think the conversation went ? |
| 17 | She longed , oh , she burned to be able to tell him the truth , but Ace 's threats held ; also by the way Mike was looking at her at the moment he probably would n't believe her if she told him the truth about their relationship . |
| 18 | She said he said er I could n't believe it but she said he did n't mind cos it was all frozen . |
| 19 | ‘ You would n't believe it if I told you , ’ Adam said , and gave a sudden mirthless laugh . |
| 20 | ‘ We could just not believe it when we heard what he had been fined . |
| 21 | ‘ We could n't believe it when she took her first step five months later , ’ Mrs Hamlet said . |
| 22 | Farmer Tom Savage , from Worcester , told Dogs Today : ‘ I could n't believe it when I saw them . |
| 23 | Neil 's mother , Sherie , 28 , said : ‘ I could n't believe it when I saw him . |
| 24 | I could n't believe it when I saw it cos we had just cemented the ill-fated Admiral deal . |
| 25 | I could n't believe it when I saw it . |
| 26 | My mum could n't believe it when I shaved my legs , thought it absolutely outrageous . |
| 27 | He merely nodded , however , as if he as a doctor fully appreciated the difficulties and while Rachel was searching for what to say next he said , ‘ I could n't believe it when I found you working here . ’ |
| 28 | I could n't believe it when he said he 'd take the room . |
| 29 | I could n't believe it when he told us ! |
| 30 | ‘ Who would believe us if we said we are changing our policy to win votes ? |