Example sentences of "to convince [pos pn] [noun] that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A : I was trying to convince my friend that he could fly |
| 2 | My headmaster and a teacher , after a long struggle , managed to convince my Papa that it was in my best interest to pursue such a training . |
| 3 | It took me all day to convince my mother that there had been a change , but by the next afternoon I found myself flat on my back in the hospital again with injunctions not to move . |
| 4 | With humility she managed to convince her husband that she was obedient to his every wish . |
| 5 | Of all the animals that sham dead it is the snakes that are the star performers , some of them going to amazing lengths to convince their assailants that they are truly deceased . |
| 6 | By the time of the abolition measures of 1806 and 1807 abolitionists had failed to convince their opponents that they were not also looking forward to emancipation . |
| 7 | On this page , Nick Roe visits a plant which , despite strenuous public relations efforts , has failed to convince its neighbours that it has come clean . |
| 8 | Some of his anecdotes from his student days were hilariously funny , featuring enough females in them to convince his listener that he 'd been the object of female adulation all his life until very recently . |
| 9 | At one point , Walter tries to convince his wife that he has had a story accepted by BBC Radio . |
| 10 | Back again at the parsonage at Etten , he must have pleaded with sufficient eloquence to convince his father that he should be allowed to try . |
| 11 | It 's a business that is increasingly professional in its approach , because we are also in a business where we have to convince our clients that we know as much about what we do in our companies as they know about theirs . |
| 12 | The younger you were in a family , it seemed to her , the harder it was to convince your parents that you were growing up . |
| 13 | You may have to convince your client that it is worth bearing part of the cost of an expensive expert if their input into the case is going significantly to increase your chances of success or the amount of the award . |