Example sentences of "believe [pers pn] be [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women would come up to me very unhappy about how I walked out on my children they REALLY believed I was their mother . |
| 2 | You 've hoodwinked a silly old woman into believing you are what you 're not . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I forged my passport fooling Croat officials into believing she was my daughter . |
| 4 | He himself believed he was his father 's son , and even more importantly , his uncle 's nephew , and that is what matters . |
| 5 | On reflection she believed it was something to do with the way she looked — her casual dress . |
| 6 | James Lippett , Bumstead 's immediate superior : ‘ Another of the casualties of reorganisation ’ ; saw bad practices in the relay room , but took no action — ‘ believed it was their way of doing things ’ . |
| 7 | When Mrs Abigail answered the door he handed her the box , saying he believed it was her property . |
| 8 | But she did n't respond — at least she did n't do that ! — or only a little bit , only the very smallest bit , because it was so very sweet , so very exciting , so very much what she had always hoped a kiss might be , and if he believed it was what she wanted , why not let him think so ? |
| 9 | He believed it was his duty to speak out . |
| 10 | He still believed it was his God given right to govern . |
| 11 | It was Allen he asked as though he believed it was he who had been responsible for the verderer 's disappearance . |
| 12 | Jason Prior was going to come out of this shining like a knight in armour while she would be condemned to eternal darkness , everyone believing it was her fault . |
| 13 | ‘ The more anonymous I am as an actor the easier it is to make you believe I 'm someone else . ’ |
| 14 | My conscience over that headache of an interview you 'd promised Cara — and me making believe I was my sister — was really getting to me . ’ |
| 15 | A lot of people do n't believe she 's mine . |
| 16 | Alan 's ideas were so good that the Creative Director could n't believe they were his and set him a difficult test which had to be carried out in the agency . |
| 17 | The way she stoops over Jamie 's body , I could believe he is her patient . |
| 18 | The Ocean Princess will make you believe it 's your own personal yacht . |
| 19 | I ca n't believe it 's you . |
| 20 | At first he could n't believe it was hers . |
| 21 | Pointing to the box on the bed , she continued to stare at herself as though she could n't believe it was her . |
| 22 | Even as Philip pushed the boy to the ground he could n't believe it was him that was doing it . |
| 23 | He still could n't believe it was him . |
| 24 | And then there 's this technician or something here and they ask me to breathe in helium from a mask and make me repeat some of the things gorilla man said on the video so I feel like I 'm becoming him they 're trying to make me him ; I do n't think I sound the same as the guy on the brain-snuff video but fuck knows what they think there are too many to know what the fuck they think ; loads of them , officers from all over the fucking place with different accents , London , Midlands , Welsh , Scottish , elsewhere , God knows , it 's not just Flavell and McDunn though I still see them now and again especially McDunn who looks at me kind of weird most of the time like he ca n't really believe it was me did all these things and I get this bizarre feeling that he thinks I 'm kind of pathetic I mean that in a grudging , still-determined-to-bust-the-fucker way he actually has more respect for gorilla man than he does for me because I 've just gone to pieces under the questions and the things they put in my head with those photographs and that video ( ha which means gorilla man has already put stuff into my head , already has fucked my brains , filling my head with the idea of that , the vision , the meme of that ) and I thought I was some tough cookie but I was wrong I 'm just a dunked digestive baby I 'm soft I 'm flopping I 'm disintegrating and that 's why unless I 'm the best fucking actor he 's ever seen McDunn ca n't accept I was capable of the things gorilla man did , yet so much of the evidence , especially the dates and times that sort of stuff , points at me not to mention that piece of TV-crit I did that reads like a hit-list now . |
| 25 | And you still , ’ he tacked on softly , ‘ despite all the evidence , do n't believe it was your grandfather , do you ? ’ |
| 26 | When a few minutes later , amid the oohs and aahs from the three women , she stood and looked at the person staring back at her from the long mirror , she could n't believe it was herself . |
| 27 | — I believe I am anything but candid : in fact — I am naturally suspicious — & exceedingly reserved , the first good quality arises from my having seen plenty of the evil part of the world from my youth up — the second from being but very little used to company or society — for — excepting Mr. Yarrell — ( whom Mrs. Hewitson & Atkinson know , ) — to whom I go to study bones & muscles — I do n't know a single person in all London to visit intimately . ’ |
| 28 | It was five years ago but I believe his was he sounded fairly young I 'd say about in his twenties . |
| 29 | I mean , you tell somebody that and they 're forced to believe you are you ? |
| 30 | ‘ I really believe you are what you eat , and I 'm certain that 's why I feel so different in myself . |