Example sentences of "he be convinced [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is convinced we have to adopt entirely new value systems , change our philosophical orientation and spiritual thinking ; stop behaving as though the earth is here for mankind 's personal convenience and learn to regard ourselves as one small part of a much larger whole . |
| 2 | He is convinced everybody needs a clear yardstick against which performances can be judged . |
| 3 | But although his selected trio — Northwich Victoria 's Liverpool-born defender Jeff Parker , Warrington Town utility man Paul McNally and Northern Ireland Under-21 midfielder Norman Kelly may not be household names , he is convinced they are the right choice . |
| 4 | His acceptance of a further two years appears a formality , and he is convinced he can bring honours to Hillsborough . |
| 5 | For he is convinced he knows his way around better than anyone else on earth . |
| 6 | He is convinced he is doing the right thing , despite the disapproval of the church authorities . |
| 7 | And he is convinced his side , leading 4-2 from the first leg , can hit Liverpool on the break to claim a vital away goal . |
| 8 | He 's convinced everyone makes sex videos . |
| 9 | yes , but you talked , listened to a parson on telly , he 's convinced what he 's saying true , yet it 's only what he 's been told in it ? |
| 10 | More likely , though , is my mates shopping me — I 'd end up in the back pages of 90 Minutes ( ‘ my mate 's sad cos he 's convinced he looks like Eric Cantona when in fact he 's got a face like an orangutan 's bum ’ ) or become the subject of an earnest letter in When Saturday Comes ( ‘ As a Whites fan since before my birth , I am appalled by the recent upsurge of so-called Canto lookalikes , I can no longer walk the streets without being overrun by people with sideburns and spurious French accents ’ , etc etc . ) |
| 11 | He says he 's convinced he saw Mrs Maxwell going out in a small car . |
| 12 | He 's convinced he can get back into first class cricket before the end of the season . |
| 13 | And he 's convinced he 'll win the seat again whoever the candidate is . |
| 14 | Adam was raised in the jungle , where he 's convinced he received a baboon 's heart as a replacement for his own . |
| 15 | He was convinced they 'd inspired his interest in history , those fairground animals , those famous scenes his grandad painted . |
| 16 | Sandison told him the whole story , the one he had told to Mrs Wilson : that he was Elsie 's brother , that he was convinced she was still alive even though she had disappeared so many years before . |
| 17 | She said : ‘ He was convinced I was going to do something terrible to him . |
| 18 | ‘ He was convinced you 'd only gone home to England to break the news to your family , then you were coming back to marry him . |
| 19 | He was convinced he 'd take the helmet . |
| 20 | He was convinced he was being both watched and listened to ; by the Russians , if by no-one else . |
| 21 | He was convinced he had probably cost Orrell the chance in the next 12 days of becoming England 's champion club for the first time . |
| 22 | According to a posthumous account of Mozart 's last months , he and Constanze drove out to the Prater one fine day at the end of October , during which Mozart told his wife that he was convinced he was writing his own Requiem . |
| 23 | ‘ When he was stopped by the police at the roadside and given the breath test he was convinced he was going to fail and lose his licence . |
| 24 | He was convinced he had been tricked . |
| 25 | He was convinced he was holding what they sought in his hand . |
| 26 | By the time morning came he was convinced he had been wide awake the whole night , though by that time he had remembered with the utmost clarity that the whole performance had taken place not in a television studio at all but in an enormous public lavatory , with Sir William and Lady Paice among the large crowd around the coffee table , and that his final humiliation was to discover at the end of the programme that he had been sitting on one of the lavatory seats throughout , with his trousers down around his ankles . |
| 27 | P C Hall , a former Royal Engineer , who served in the Falklands war before joining the police , said he was convinced he was going to die . |
| 28 | Although he had helped to set up British Aerospace as a nationalised company , he was convinced it could not take on the huge rival plane-makers in the United States unless it was unfettered from government control . |
| 29 | " I asked you a question , " Lee — if it was Lee , and he was convinced it was — said softy . |
| 30 | Following a meeting with Energy Minister Tim Eggar , Clwyd North West MP Rod Richards said he was convinced it was now up to the colliery management to present a strong enough case for the pit to be taken off the Government hit-list . |