Example sentences of "persuade him [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said : ‘ Try and persuade him to come home for a special tea . |
| 2 | In particular , will your erstwhile political columnist , R W Johnson , apologise for the appalling piece of sexism that appeared in NSS ( under a previous editor ) on 7 December 1990 , when he suggested that the only way for Labour to win the next election would be for Glenys Kinnock to ‘ have a word ’ with Neil and persuade him to stand down ? |
| 3 | He did n't understand what had persuaded him to speak so openly about his childhood . |
| 4 | When William Marshal was dying a clerk tried to persuade him to sell about eighty fine robes in order to spend the money for the salvation of his soul . |
| 5 | Sister Marcus has finally been able to persuade him to go back to his club for a short rest . ’ |
| 6 | I knew he wanted to get out , but your father always managed to persuade him to do just one more race . |
| 7 | If your lecturer has not given you a book list , get one of your larger colleagues to persuade him to do so . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | GRAHAM Taylor had to promise Paul Ince his England debut to persuade him to get off his sick-bed and fly to Spain . |
| 10 | Could he use his influence with the Secretary of State for Defence to persuade him to hand over the Ministry of Defence buildings so that the money that the Scottish Office has allocated is not used to pay for them ? |
| 11 | Mozart 's friends in Prague tried to persuade him to stay on to write another opera , but he declined . |
| 12 | He returned for his father 's funeral , the first time he 'd been back to Zimbala in seventeen years , and Jamel was able to persuade him to stay on as the new editor of the country 's leading daily newspaper , La Voix . |
| 13 | The club 's chairman says he 's doing all in his power to persuade him to stay on . |
| 14 | I want to persuade him to come back to France . ’ |
| 15 | He then left the pub , but police went to the house where he was staying and tried to persuade him to come out . |
| 16 | Robinson painted slogans on a roof at Gartree Prison , Leicestershire , as prison officers tried to persuade him to come down . |
| 17 | No record of medical or psychiatric treatment appears in Gert 's file , though there were persistent efforts to persuade him to pay off his debts from his earnings as a packer on an assembly line . |
| 18 | X and Y , discovering that Z intended to commit a burglary in A's house , arranged together to persuade him to steal therefrom certain articles for them . |
| 19 | It took girlfriend Alicia Plaistow several minutes to persuade him to climb out of the tub at his Florida holiday home to take a call from the Prime Minister 's office . |
| 20 | Sali Berisha was elected chairman by 449 votes to 98 , despite an attempt by his opponents to persuade him to step down as leader . |
| 21 | In the tenth step of the Smith family intervention , the Smiths were beginning to generalise the skills they had learned in the process of getting Keith to bed and persuading him to stay there . |
| 22 | Persuading him to come down proved very difficult , until someone had the idea of placing at the foot of his tree an enormous parrot-cage . |
| 23 | I nearly ended up persuading him to come along ! ) . |
| 24 | After his father 's death in 1885 the cable companies persuaded him to set up his own manufacturing business , Muirhead & Company , which was so successful that in 1894 he was able to take over his father 's old firm when it was finally wound up . |
| 25 | According to his contemporary biographer , Richard Sibbes [ q.v. ] , the dominant influence on his early years was his uncle , Sir Henry Yelverton [ q.v. ] , who persuaded him to set aside his early inclination to become a divine and pursue his studies in the law . |
| 26 | Wednesday could tell Endill was upset and eventually persuaded him to explain why . |
| 27 | So she hid all his Persian textbooks and persuaded him to take up badminton instead . |
| 28 | It does not have to be the only thing which persuaded him to do so but it does have to have been a factor in influencing him . |
| 29 | The realization of this fact quickly persuaded him to get out of the game before he lost whatever remained of his symbolic stature . |
| 30 | The industrialist MP Samuel Morley and others persuaded him to stand down on the grounds that ministers should not directly enter the political arena and Morley paid all his expenses when he gave up the contest . |