Example sentences of "[pron] believe [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I believed that this world of darkness and changing images went on without a break , as unceasingly as the other less real one outside , wherever outside was , and by some unlikely philanthropic gesture of the city corporation was allowed to co-exist and be connected by the little dark doors with dark portholes . |
| 2 | And I believed that to others I who looked thus strangely upon them , I also was strange . |
| 3 | I did not want that , but I believed that the top salary awards were so out of line with what we were proposing in the rest of the public sector that in the real world of industrial relations it made my job infinitely more difficult . |
| 4 | I believed that we should assess the future cost of the whole social security system , and make any necessary changes now . |
| 5 | For a long time , I believed that it would be possible to overthrow the Irish regime by English working class ascendancy … |
| 6 | Later , he would tell Radio One 's Janice Long : ‘ I believed that I had my own work to do . |
| 7 | Whatever the case , I believed that my disability was obvious and that was what determined my approach . |
| 8 | From the day I first got an inkling of ‘ where babies come from ’ and taxed my mother with the proposition that I was therefore no relation to my father , I believed that it was me and me alone who had been responsible for all that pain and trouble called my birth . |
| 9 | I believed that with that double victory I had now achieved more than most in British athletics , with the exceptions of course , of Coe , Cram and Ovett . |
| 10 | I believed that I should again have been running the anchor leg , but our Director of Coaching decided otherwise . |
| 11 | So I went to a designer , Denise Vaughan of Deni Vee , and she made me a couple of suits which really pleased me and I believed that I was on to something . |
| 12 | Then , later , I believed that I had been born to die for someone . |
| 13 | I made my original prediction because I believed that , whatever people said , once they got into a polling booth , lots of them simply would n't vote for Kinnock . |
| 14 | Funnily enough I believed that , but not Santa Claus , but my parents seemed to believe it , so I had to go along with them . |
| 15 | For this reason I believed that Dr Mumby should always have had full resuscitative equipment readily at hand . |
| 16 | At that time I believed that the United Kingdom would be facing severe economic problems in the future , and I decided that I wanted to work somewhere where I could serve the community , and make a contribution to the resolution of those problems . |
| 17 | At the time I believed that I surrendered completely to him but that he did not surrender completely to me . |
| 18 | I believed that a murrain would fall on the hens that he kept on his house-top , a wasting illness on the sheep that he kept by his door . |
| 19 | It was this last that gave him pause , for , he was to say , ‘ Although I had no knowledge of it — that place where the Twelve Judges sit — I believed that I had long since dreamed it , and I knew it for a place of great finality and immense power . |
| 20 | But I believed that I could avoid them , with some help from the Vadinamian processes themselves . |
| 21 | I believed that he might bring forward such an amendment , but he has not done so . |
| 22 | Durance said : ‘ I believed that if I were there I could control what she told you . ’ |
| 23 | At first , I believed that disorder would decrease when the universe recollapsed . |
| 24 | And I believed that the affair might have had something to do with her death . |
| 25 | Every little thing concerning Jacob turned into a private battle between Rachel and I. When I gave birth to Reuben , I believed that my husband must love me for giving him a son . |
| 26 | Let me say I believed that the wrongs of women were interconnected with and subsidiary to the wrongs of man ; that to work for the revolution was to work , indirectly , for women . |
| 27 | Although my history was vague on the point , I believed that Victor was — in this development as elsewhere — some decades ahead of his time . |
| 28 | At one time , my right hon. Friend thought that there were only 500 , whereas I believed that there were 1,000 . |
| 29 | Because I believed that something fine might come of it ? |
| 30 | [ … ] And I saw a man who was holding a stick , and I believed that he was going to castigate the bad violins , for I heard many of them … |