Example sentences of "convinced that [pers pn] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were convinced that we had located , by accident , the last resting place of HMS Impregnable . |
| 2 | The Iranians , concerned by what Reagan seemed to have done with their wish-list of missiles , wanted to be convinced that they had ‘ something in hand ’ . |
| 3 | Many , he said , were convinced that they had had no managerial experience , yet they had successfully brought up children , run a home , and far more . |
| 4 | After sitting in the stalls and watching the summer show , the other two were convinced that they had good reason enough to want him . |
| 5 | Although Anne Boleyn gave birth to Princess Elizabeth at Greenwich , in September 1533 , there was no son forthcoming and Henry VIII became convinced that she had another lover , so he had her beheaded on 19th . |
| 6 | Although convinced that she had been drugged before the race at York , she had little chance of persuading three Jockey Club stewards that she had not been drunk , out of her depth , hysterical , and she did n't want Nick to know either . |
| 7 | She became convinced that she had read the letters of the Chevalier de Boufflers to the Comtesse de Sabran in another life , and that she might be a reincarnation . |
| 8 | When Liz 's twin baby girls were born Laura was convinced that she had done the right thing in keeping the full extent of her father 's illness and the subsequent disastrous financial mess from her cousin . |
| 9 | By the end of his life Blencowe 's faculties had decayed and he was convinced that he had invented longitude [ DNB , 2 , 673 ] . |
| 10 | Burrows became more and more convinced that he had the right man . |
| 11 | Twenty years later Craig was still convinced that he had been right . |
| 12 | Like Gauss he would publish only when he was convinced that he had not only mastered the subject but had thoroughly understood all its ramifications . |
| 13 | It was obvious that the sight of him had been a shock to Tamar 's brother , but Davis was convinced that he had never encountered George before . |
| 14 | He was convinced that he had no need of human advice because he was instructed directly from within by God himself , who made his presence felt in strange but delightful experiences . |
| 15 | Some clearly shared David Stockman 's notoriously low estimate of Reagan 's intellect and were not convinced that he had an adequate understanding of the intricacies of economic policy-making . |
| 16 | Among them were those who were convinced that he had secretly been in league with the employers . |
| 17 | She became convinced that he had found another woman and concentrated on trying to find out who she was . |
| 18 | He took such a long time to answer that she became convinced that he had n't . |
| 19 | He was convinced that he had been on target . |
| 20 | By now he was convinced that it had merely acquiesced in the frame-up after his arrest . |
| 21 | Cabinet members were tight-lipped and unsmiling as they emerged from Downing Street , but MPs were convinced that it had been a stormy session , with ministers bitterly fighting their corners in what has been described as the most stringent public spending round for years . |