Example sentences of "believed [that] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | They wo n't accept with Charles Wychwood that ‘ everything is copied ’ , and wo n't accept his opinion of Chatterton : ‘ Thomas Chatterton believed that he could explain the entire material and spiritual world in terms of imitation and forgery , and so sure was he of his own genius that he allowed it to flourish under other names . ’ |
| 2 | His father believed that he had a good eye and could have played the game well if he was not liable to slip into a trance and forget that his attention was needed . |
| 3 | Later in life Ramsey believed that he learnt a lot from his short time at Liverpool . |
| 4 | The students from that time remembered a man with a sharp sense of the ridiculous ; who ragged them but was too shy to be intimate with them though they liked him much for his friendliness and his humour ; who was famous for long , sudden , and embarrassing silences ; who was so eccentric that none of them believed that he could later be a man of distinction in England or his Church ; a man who loved theology — they never met anywhere else a man who so loved theology , and who regarded theology as the highest intellectual activity for humanity ; a fierce defender of liberty of opinion , for Marxists as for anyone else ; whose principal theme was the glory of God , and who was evidently touched by his ideas of Plato ; who did not give the impression of a mind of exceptional ability — there was not enough knife in the mind — but who gave the impression of being an exceptional person ; who disturbed other people 's prayers in chapel with convulsive fidgets and sudden face-rubbings — they regarded him as tense in his devotions and were afraid of a nervous breakdown ; who had a manifest and rare mystical sense of the immediate presence of God , a presence so brilliant that it could almost overpower . |
| 5 | The King , however , undeterred by this , told the Prime Minister that he believed that he was the only person who could carry the country through' . |
| 6 | Yet he had been Brearley 's choice to succeed him , for he had perceived that Botham was an intelligent , tactically aware player and believed that he offered ‘ tremendous hope for a new , vital start ’ . |
| 7 | It was won because Labour was the party of high taxation , because the Conservative Party presented an alternative , and because most electors neither admired Mr Kinnock nor believed that he could deliver the promises that he was making . |
| 8 | William the Conqueror , who was a second cousin to King Edward the Confessor , succeeded as Duke of Normandy in 1035 , and believed that he was entitled to the crown of England , despite the fact that Harold II had fought along side him in his many battles against his great enemy , the King of France . |
| 9 | Edward III believed that he had broken Scotland 's will to resist English domination . |
| 10 | He became devoted most of all to Mary Evans , the eldest daughter , and believed that he loved her . |
| 11 | He believed that he would have to give up a career to which he was deeply committed and which had promised to be highly successful . |
| 12 | Remembering that it was Wordsworth whom the Utilitarian John Stuart Mill turned to when he found that his philosophy produced nothing but visions of a grey and empty world , and that Matthew Arnold , after Wordsworth 's death , believed that he alone could heal human nature in the ‘ iron time ’ , the little poem that follows , written in 1833 , seems a convenient summing-up of Wordsworth 's mature attitudes . |
| 13 | It was because the rebels believed that he had stashed away rather more cash abroad than might be necessary to pay his tuition fees that Doe met an end still more grisly than that of his Romanian guests . |
| 14 | Muhammad believed that he had to reform the old pagan religion of al-Llah , the High God of the Arabs . |
| 15 | He believed that he came from God , revealed God , spoke for God , acted for God , was a channel for God 's grace and salvation . |
| 16 | ‘ did , without having the consent of the owner or other lawful authority ’ Means that this offence is not committed if the accused believed that he had lawful authority to do it or that he would have had the owner 's consent if the owner knew of his doing it and the circumstances of it . |
| 17 | Michael Holly had been a prisoner of the camp for less than one month , and already he believed that he could walk this path with his eyes closed . |
| 18 | After all , only Canute believed that he could alter external forces without actually doing anything , and we all know what happened to him ! |
| 19 | ( I remember having an urgent telephone call from a professional astronomer who believed that he had found a bright nova . |
| 20 | At times she believed that he was seeking Camilla 's advice about his marriage or making arrangements to see her . |
| 21 | To those who believed that he had not rigorously demonstrated the earth 's motion , it would look as if he had condemned himself . |
| 22 | John Mowlem believed that he descended from the de Moulhams who maintained Corfe Castle for several centuries and to whom had been granted lands near Godlingston . |
| 23 | Chamberlain also believed that he had arranged a mini-concordat of his own with Beaverbrook . |
| 24 | Moreover it had been enthusiastically received by the President of the Board of Trade , Mr Sydney Buxton , on whose friendship and support Wilson believed that he could rely . |
| 25 | He believed that he was the last hostage left . |
| 26 | Everything David had shown her of himself had made her love him and yet she believed that he had done something unspeakable . |
| 27 | But mainly because he did n't like the place and believed that he did n't like Italians . |
| 28 | Since he was practising alternative medicine under the guise of orthodox medicine the committee believed that he had misled his patients and that this amounted to professional misconduct . |
| 29 | Yes , and Li Yuan would fight to preserve the boy , for he honestly believed that he could control him . |
| 30 | I believed that he might bring forward such an amendment , but he has not done so . |