Example sentences of "would [not/n't] believe " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robertson Nicoll told A. S. Peake in 1898 , ‘ You would not believe what hosts of letters I get , and do not print , about the kind of thing that is preached in many of our chapels just now , especially by the younger men ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ You would not believe the way French cultural tsars try to meddle in the musical life of the country . |
| 3 | Sara would not believe him , and a row ensued . |
| 4 | When the disciples first heard from the women that Jesus had risen , they were incredulous : ‘ The story appeared to them to be nonsense , and they would not believe them . ’ |
| 5 | You would not believe our 10,000 MANIACS Material World ! |
| 6 | If you saw him you would not believe it . |
| 7 | And he would not believe . |
| 8 | You would not believe it , ladies and gentlemen . |
| 9 | Anyone who may have passed the mill , a few years ago would not believe the transformation now . |
| 10 | if p were not true , a would not believe that p . |
| 11 | Someone who claims that he knows that p is claiming that if p were not true , he would not believe it and if p were true he would believe it . |
| 12 | For a necessary condition for such knowledge , 3 ( that if it were not true that you are not a brain in a vat , you would not believe that you are not a brain in a vat ) fails . |
| 13 | We can simplify this conditional as follows : if you were a brain in a vat , you would not believe that you are not a brain in a vat . |
| 14 | It is true that you are sitting etc. , you believe that you are sitting etc. , if you were not sitting etc. you would not believe that you are , and if you were sitting etc. you would believe that you are . |
| 15 | The palace kitchen is huge — if I described it , with its great pots on the fire and the mountains of food on the tables , perhaps you would not believe me . |
| 16 | When my husband was lost people told me he must be dead , but I would not believe it . |
| 17 | Underground services are more difficult to locate and identify — the claim of the British Gas advertisement on television that ’ you would not believe our main crossed here ’ is only too true . |
| 18 | I said that I would not believe a son of mine could behave as he was alleging you had behaved . ’ |
| 19 | The general run of shoppers would not believe that the two girls came from the same family . |
| 20 | He saw from her eyes that she could not , would not believe him . |
| 21 | Miss Linnet Gage , therefore , would not believe and would not wish to believe Cara 's story . |
| 22 | In this case the Court also said the trader who ‘ clocks ’ the odometer to zero ( or some other figure so absurdly low that a customer who reads it would not believe it ) would still be guilty . |
| 23 | Were my friends in Cambridge to see the change in me I vow they would not believe it . |
| 24 | He could not , would not believe it . |
| 25 | You would not believe the variety of personalities of the babies . |
| 26 | ‘ Because she would not believe me . |
| 27 | He was a devout Methodist , a devoted husband and father , and — though John would not believe it — an ardent womanizer . |
| 28 | He would not believe anything till he saw them with his own eyes . |
| 29 | I know twenty men who just would not believe it . ’ |
| 30 | You would not believe the amount of fluid used , it was true waterless embalming — fascinating . |