Example sentences of "[noun sg] i believe [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 My wife , Joyce also came close and peered , but in her case I believe she was looking for a miracle .
2 In our case I believe it has helped all three of us. has been exposed to a greater variety of people and situations which may have contributed to his easy-going nature .
3 After three enjoyable years as chairman I believe it 's time to stand down I shall miss those monthly meetings at thank you Betty for all the tea and coffee making but I shall have many happy memories , I suppose to me the highlights were the fiftieth anniversary celebration and the brilliant production of Stepping Out .
4 I feel sceptical but would give them a try I believe they work but only in conjunction with a healthy diet and regular exercise
5 Of course I believed her when she said it would , but I wish you could have seen those first two lepidopteral visitors .
6 ‘ Yes of course I believe you , but I 'd just like to make sure she 's really expecting you all . ’
7 ‘ Of course I believe you , Sarah .
8 Sylvia 's mothers ' response is : Of course I believe you .
9 ‘ Of course I believe you , ’ she told him lovingly .
10 ‘ Of course I believe it !
11 After much thought and careful study I believed I had found the answer .
12 Had there been sufficient daylight I believe I could , that evening , have turned the tables on the tigress , for the conditions , after she left the shelter of the rocks , were all in my favour .
13 Erm and as part of that committee I believe we 've not been very successful .
14 ‘ As chairman of the community services committee I believe I should go to see all the community centres in Belfast as Seamus Lynch did when he was chairman . ’
15 That was once a week the bread , we used to have to collect the bread from Road , there was a small office at the side of the Infirmary I believe it was Mr or something like that , but we used to have to go to this office in Road and collect this four pound loaf every Wednesday and you did n't get another issue you had it all at once , so we had four four pound loaves , so we did n't know what new bread was after the first day , I 've never ate so much bread pudding in my life as I did then with a and er
16 But when there is a conflict between the Bible and either tradition or the assumption of theology I believe we should assert the supremacy of the written Word if for no other reason than that our Lord adopted precisely this approach with respect to the Old Testament .
17 But in the first place I believe we should direct our attentions to unschooled lay usages of the word .
18 In conclusion I believe it is in the best interests of the Council and the public to notify individual Bandings as part of the canvas exercise .
19 If a listeners ' poll had been taken that evening I believe we would have rated 100% listenership .
20 ‘ They 're a good side , though on our day I believe we 're a better one .
21 You had to wait , wait about twenty eight before you went on top I believe I do n't know
22 ‘ By the second race I believed I could win a GP .
23 Although it may hold back for reasons of cost and supply , and because the housing market is static , during this decade I believe we will see an increasing spread of relocation moves to those parts of the country which offer a better quality of life than London and the South-East . ’
24 Though some of these reasons are currently out of fashion in discussions of political authority I believe they all have their role to play , though some are more important in some societies than in others .
25 In the shadows and its gentle movement I believe I see the firelight which constrains and defines the Masai night .
26 I never doubted what I was feeling , but I was shocked when it did n't fade over the years , and I went through phases of trying to convince myself that it was some sort of obsession , a perverse desire for the one woman I believed I could never have — or not in the way I wanted you , loving me as well as wanting me . ’
27 From the point of view of social and economic policy I believe we face a choice : either we accept the present trends which will lead inevitably to a decline in individual freedom and responsibility and the restriction of opportunities for our children and grandchildren or else we face the seemingly impossible task of dismantling the corporate state .
28 In view of the attempt by euro-communists and Latin American ‘ Christian Marxists ’ to develop a non-dogmatic form of Marxism I believe we need to ask some basic questions about what Marxism really is .
29 Now one commentator I believe it was the the foreman mason involved in the building of Skerrymor described the landing on the rock as being like climbing up the side of a bottle .
30 A tranquil mood had come over me , and for this reason I believe I was again motoring very slowly — probably at no more than fifteen miles per hour .
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