Example sentences of "[pron] did n't believe [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ One that even I did n't believe at first . |
| 2 | ‘ I thought you did n't believe in that kind of thing . ’ |
| 3 | Never in the history of their friendship had Candy given up so easily — and she did n't believe for one split second she had now . |
| 4 | Every one of us , we would n't devote our time , our precious time serving in local government if we did n't believe in local government and did n't want to provide the best possible services to the people of this city . |
| 5 | Oh er of course they erm , they did n't believe in married women working and er they thought a married woman should be at home you see , well I had n't got any family then you see , until er after oh we 'd been married a number of years when we had , when I had my first baby and er and then I had the other one pretty quickly and er then I was glad to go out to work again when they were school age , they were n't left unattended at all er one , the elder one looked after the one , we did n't live , we lived in then but erm there was n't any pressure for me to stay at home , it was with my husband 's consent , because he knew it was helping out because rent man 's wages were n't very good then , and erm he er he finished , he finished at the pits you see and he got a job rent collecting , and he er he used to do miles he 'd cycle part of the way and then er he 'd perhaps leave his cycle somewhere and call back for it , but he used to do all the and all round there , there 's a place called and then er a lot of places er he used to do the old , is this , is this on , erm he used to do round , round the top there there were some slums there . |
| 6 | ‘ They are responsible for a lot of the machine tools that we have now , ’ Gerwyn says , ‘ and they developed them because they did n't believe in wasted labour . |
| 7 | He knew that sooner or later , the flood would come , even if the sinful people around him did n't believe in that , or in anything else which God had said . |