Example sentences of "try to persuade " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her mother tried to persuade the woman who had received the letters to let her talk with this guard ; a man who was actually in touch with her husband . |
| 2 | Around 1920 when Eliot , with anthropological ideas in the forefront of his mind , had attacked Gilbert Murray 's translations of Euripides , Pound tried to persuade him to translate Aeschylus ' Agamemnon , but Eliot ‘ sat on it for eight months or some longer period ’ . |
| 3 | If you go back to the time United Biscuits felt they had to close their Liverpool factory , the bishops up in Liverpool marched on Hector Laing and tried to persuade him to put the decision off . |
| 4 | Having failed in its objective , and having incurred the apparent disapproval of Kenyatta in the process , GEMA tried to persuade Kibaki ( the technocratic Minister of Finance ) to stand as vice-president against Moi in the abortive party elections of 1977 . |
| 5 | She added , referring to the two meetings she held with Mr Lawson on the afternoon before he resigned : ‘ I tried to persuade the Chancellor not to go . |
| 6 | She became a mediator between the authorities and student leaders , and on a number of occasions tried to persuade students to end their hunger strike , leave Tiananmen Square and return to campus . |
| 7 | He tried to persuade himself that he 'd locked it but he knew he had n't . |
| 8 | Paisley stood on a picket line outside the Ballylumford power station in Larne and tried to persuade workers not to go in . |
| 9 | From the start , he was in conflict with the DUP 's leadership who tried to persuade him not to accept the local branch 's nomination to stand for the Assembly . |
| 10 | Later in his career , when the top of the voice started to disappear , I tried to persuade him to do Wozzeck with me . |
| 11 | Then they tried to persuade me to part with the silver and everything else that had belonged to my husband . |
| 12 | The Grand Union committee tried to persuade the Leicester and Northants . |
| 13 | My rose-growing Surrey headmaster ( by now retired ) came to Banbury for a weekend , and as we drove off to the Cotswolds he tried to persuade me that the implication of all this was that secondary schools would no longer be a worthwhile place for teachers with academic interests : all the good work would hereafter be done within an inflated system of higher education . |
| 14 | He tried to persuade Dawn to ‘ take a run at her throws ’ , despite her protestations that simply standing up and walking required constant mental effort on her part . |
| 15 | Winstanley was summoned to Paris , where Louis tried to persuade him to remain . |
| 16 | The Huddersfield directors tried to persuade Chapman to stay , even offering him a salary to match Arsenal 's . |
| 17 | He tried to persuade his friend that he should lend him some tools . |
| 18 | Delegates returning from the conference , held in Ho Chi Minh City at the end of January , says American officials tried to persuade them not to go . |
| 19 | Sally tried to persuade him to stop but he said it was n't doing him any harm , even though he looked pale and drawn . |
| 20 | I tried to persuade him to join . ’ |
| 21 | Vincent once tried to persuade him to give up his safe career and join him as a fellow painter — like other famous brothers in art history . |
| 22 | ‘ Patrick McGoohan , who wrote the series , was looking for a car to use and Lotus tried to persuade him to use the Elan , ’ says Graham Nearn , managing director of Caterham Cars , which still makes the Seven today . |
| 23 | Olivier turned it down flat and tried to persuade Vivien to do likewise . |
| 24 | I vowed to have no more to do with her but thought I ought to return her shoes and her key , so I snatched Frankie 's comic and tried to persuade him to come with me . |
| 25 | In October Mozart 's English friends tried to persuade him to join them in England the following spring . |
| 26 | Mozart 's friends in Prague tried to persuade him to stay on to write another opera , but he declined . |
| 27 | Roy Smith , Labour member for Clacton West , tried to persuade the whole council to reject plans to close Priory Meadow , at St Osyth . |
| 28 | Opposition members tried to persuade the ruling Tories to push up spending to the Government-imposed limit and put extra cash towards economic development and jobs . |
| 29 | First the social worker went in at the old man 's request , and tried to persuade the daughter and son-in-law to leave . |
| 30 | And even as he began , a top executive from Renault-Williams tried to persuade him not to go through with it . |