Example sentences of "believed [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went home every weekend for three nights and on Wednesday night , and believed I could blast up the motorway when summoned for the birth . |
| 2 | I remember thinking that if Andy Norman believed I could be Europe 's top sprinter , if he had such faith in me , well then maybe I could . |
| 3 | ‘ By the second race I believed I could win a GP . |
| 4 | I believed I could do it . |
| 5 | ‘ I believed I could . |
| 6 | I believed I could use that electricity to give life to things that were dead . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I would never have been a dancer or believed I could do anything if it had not been for him , ’ said Crawford . |
| 9 | I never believed I could wish anyone dead , but last night changed all that . |
| 10 | If only Italy believed you could get ahead without it , simply by doing things well . |
| 11 | I really believed you could take that way out . |
| 12 | At times she believed she could make her hard man into a piece of putty , but not when he spoke of duty . |
| 13 | One trainee of the author 's acquaintance believed she could predict the movement of both specific shares and the market as a whole by the tapping of her fingers . |
| 14 | The officer said she believed she could link them to the offence . |
| 15 | Goram said : ‘ Not many people in England believed we could beat Leeds and I do n't suppose there are many Frenchmen who think we can beat Marseille either . |
| 16 | They believed they could win votes in Sunderland just as surely as in Mid-Sussex . |
| 17 | Either because those in power simply underestimated the potential for resistance or simply because they believed they could in the end over-ride such resistance , industrial companies in conjunction with waste disposal firms ( and often in collusion with state health regulatory agencies ) dumped indiscriminately and with disregard for human health and life . ’ |
| 18 | Once a retreat had been forced from one dump site , people believed they could do it again , and did . |
| 19 | Captain America and Billy the Kid had blown it when they believed they could make a lot of money and retire , but life was not simply about economics ; they had , according to Fonda , found their freedom but their liberty was like the statue in New York harbour , surrounded by polluted waters . |
| 20 | The Incas believed they could harness the power of Inti , the sun , to them and each temple had its hitching post , a small column compared to the huge masonry surrounding it , but sacred . |
| 21 | Personal computer makers are likely to face continued pressure to keep prices low for the foreseeable future , former Compaq Computer Corp chief Rod Canion told Reuter in an interview : ‘ Anybody that wants to be successful in the computer business better be prepared to be very aggressive and have a lot of aggressive competition — in that environment , you can predict pricing pressure is not going to ease up ; ’ Canion , now chairman of the Houston-based consulting firm Insource Management Group , says that in his time at Compaq , customers were willing to pay a little more to ensure they got quality and performance but that as the market changed , they believed they could get quality , performance and low price , and now , ‘ that will never change . ’ |
| 22 | But the brothers believed they could do no wrong . |
| 23 | In fact there appears to be no doubt that Stalin simply resented the independence that the Yugoslav leaders were displaying and believed they could be brought to heel as easily as communist leaders in other parts of Eastern Europe . |
| 24 | As Coote himself protested , both men were privately committed to legislation but believed they could not involve the government on the issue . |
| 25 | If they liked you they believed they could teach you to do anything and by God ! you 'd do , it as well as anyone . |
| 26 | Merging companies believed they could achieve significant gains in productivity and profits , and government policy assumed that these would offset any adverse effects from an increase in monopoly power . |
| 27 | ‘ People can dip in and out , looking at objects which represent the best that artists of a certain period believed they could do woven in with some everyday things . |
| 28 | Perhaps the most important aspect of attempts to manage the ‘ mixed economy ’ during the golden years was that people believed they could work . |
| 29 | If Mr Gorbachev believed he could acquire a breathing space through repression , during which the economy could be transformed by unpopular but necessary reforms , he might be willing to pay the price , but this would reverse his strategy of the past three years . |
| 30 | Mr Mobutu said on Thursday he believed he could produce an agreement this month , after Mr Savimbi had had a week of talks with US officials , including 30 minutes with President Bush , and agreed to accept Mr Mobutu as mediator between his Unita guerrilla organisation and the Luanda government . |