Example sentences of "believes [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He did n't die , ’ replied Joan , ‘ he was murdered , but no one believes me . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Nobody believes me , ’ she continued , ‘ but my husband was a sailor , he knew the water . ’ |
| 3 | Nobody believes me , but I 'm really not interested in money . |
| 4 | I do n't think I 'm suspect numero uno any more ; I think McDunn at least believes me and that 's enough for now . |
| 5 | I think perhaps Stephanie believes me to be a … a rival for your affections ? ’ |
| 6 | I 'll explain the circumstances exactly , and I 'll make very sure that everyone believes me . |
| 7 | I say I 'll be back by lunch-time , but I ca n't tell if she believes me , because she do n't seem to have heard a word I said . |
| 8 | ‘ I ca n't marry a man who hates me — ’ her voice wobbled dangerously but she quickly brought it back under control ‘ — who believes me to be a traitor , without a single question or … or … ’ |
| 9 | I 've been round twice but nobody believes me |
| 10 | He believes everyone has ideas worthy of attention and that earth-saving decisions are best made at local level . |
| 11 | He preens himself in the parade ring and believes everyone is there purely to watch him . ’ |
| 12 | And her wide-eyed innocence soon exposes the pretensions of the art world and the characters it attracts such as the inane critic who believes everyone will buy white , and a dealer trying to sell an empty frame . |
| 13 | Obviously , he believes everyone he meets is a doctor . |
| 14 | Mrs Murchie , 48 , who has been a member for nine years , believes everyone needs some kind of first aid training . |
| 15 | The National Heritage Select Committee believes everyone is entitled to ‘ an area of privacy ’ and that the press is not keeping its promise to bring its own house in order though the Press Complaints Commission . |
| 16 | Hanson buys firms either because it believes them to be under-managed , or because it believes the firms ' existing managers have over-extended themselves . |
| 17 | Fairness requires that we judge a defendant on the facts as he or she believes them to be . |
| 18 | Thus the argument is that the victim 's right to autonomy and freedom of sexual choice does not need to yield to the principle that a defendant should be judged on the facts as he believes them to be ; it would be so simple ( because of the inevitable physical proximity of the man and woman ) for the man to ascertain the facts here . |
| 19 | The decision may certainly be said to be out of line with the recent trend , that a defendant should be judged on the facts as he believes them to be ; and this led the Criminal Law Revision Committee to recommend that the rules should be harmonized and that the prosecution should prove that the man realized that the girl was under 16 . |
| 20 | His men say they are gathering things ‘ for fair distribution ’ , though nobody believes them — a particularly strange compromise of evil with morality , for Middle-earth , where vice rarely troubles to be hypocritical . |
| 21 | After the torrent of adverse publicity they attracted last season , the hunters were anxious to show they 're not the rich savages most of the public believes them to be . |
| 22 | That must vary from individual to individual and there is no need to say that simply to hold these views ( if one believes them to be the revealed will of God ) is in itself misogynist . |
| 23 | To the extent that the schoolboy is less than certain of the answers that occur to him , can we allow that he still believes them ? |
| 24 | Some will be so distant or insignificant that whether one believes them or their opposite would have no effect on what one believes here . |
| 25 | His contacts in local government have told him , presumably before even seeing the Bill , that discounts will be difficult to administer , and uncritically he believes them . |
| 26 | It is not enough that he believes them to have been stolen : Haughton v Smith [ 1975 ] AC 476 ( HL ) . |
| 27 | Interestingly , during the same conversation , discussion switches to Merseyside , when Hounam makes it quite clear he believes someone in the Conservative government has intervened to prevent an investigation into a serious instance of corruption . |
| 28 | My wife also works at the accountants in Shoe Lane and she believes I was elsewhere , with a client . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ No one here believes her fine was really paid . |
| 30 | The tiny athlete believes her rare lapse in Tokyo was just a temporary blip in a career of major championship success . |