Example sentences of "convince [pron] that he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once a patient has convinced himself that he has still got NSU , it is very difficult to persuade him that all the symptoms he complains of are in fact perfectly normal . |
| 2 | Her talk with Eddie had convinced her that he was telling the truth about his relationship with Angy and that Rodney Shergold was the ‘ poor sap ’ who had fallen an eager and tiresome victim to her charms . |
| 3 | Fran stopped , forcing the angry hysteria from her voice , realising it would do nothing to help convince him that he was wrong . |
| 4 | But I think there 's a very strong argument Chinese revolution And , to a certain extent you can understand that people have to identify with something and the easiest thing to identify with is a king and a queen erm Chinese communist leaders of various sorts , Stalin even Karl Marx , you know , you can convince yourself that he had all the answers when of course , really , you must see these things as developing . |
| 5 | Thickened his voice in the wrong places to try and convince us that he was under the influence . |
| 6 | To make matters worse , because he always does fail in his attempts to improve the situation , the sufferer convinces himself that he has nothing to look forward to but a lifetime of misery . |
| 7 | Roosevelt sent a note to Ambassador Winant two days later saying : ‘ please take the following message personally to Winston and convince him that he has got to come through . |
| 8 | He manipulates our feelings and views towards characters throughout the book , successfully , which also shows and convinces us that he is a very competent writer and very real . |
| 9 | If they hesitated , he could show them his revolver and his stick to convince them that he was in earnest . |
| 10 | Martin Bayfield has yet to convince me that he is answer to the no.2 jumping position , although his work in the rucks was good . |
| 11 | Alexander had to argue with the authorities before they would let him compete , but he convinced them that he was descended from the royal house of Argos . |
| 12 | In the event I ca n't say that each of these five composers convinced me that he was a natural for the medium , and the Mozartian connections struck me as sometimes effective , occasionally arch and in one case strained beyond breaking point . |
| 13 | However , it soon became obvious that Inez was not to be found , and everything I learned about Matthew Glynn convinced me that he was an honest man . ’ |
| 14 | And he leapt to the other side of the road pretending to be terribly frightened , to such an extent that he thoroughly convinced himself that he was ! |
| 15 | Kant , approaching morals with the same demand for certainty , was radically sceptical about not the reality but the value of spontaneous inclination , and convinced himself that he could start from a Categorical Imperative wholly detached from it . |
| 16 | Having at first pictured João as tall , dark and handsome , she had by now convinced herself that he was unlikely to be any taller than herself , and probably plump and talkative . |
| 17 | His mother says that he talked to her about it and she tried to convince him that he was misinterpreting what he had seen and heard , but as far as I can learn John never mentioned it to anyone else until late in life , when telling Dr Schäfer about the thoughts which led him to make his ballet Spuren . |
| 18 | He had to wine and dine Michael Crawford to convince him that he was capable of delivering a virtuoso performance as The Phantom Of The Opera . |
| 19 | Certainly the picture of him during this period is of a man haunted by guilt and remorse ; it seems that he felt he had no right to happiness , and the death of his wife had only served to convince him that he had done some irreparable harm to another human being , for which he must undergo a period of punishment . |
| 20 | Yet to say anything at all would only serve to convince him that he was right and she wrong . |
| 21 | I was that busy trying to convince him that he had to er go to doctors cos I says what did they actually do ? |
| 22 | Either he was dead straight , or else he was the sharpest operator-bar none , including the guy she 'd met on a singles ' holiday who 'd almost managed to convince her that he was on his final fling with only ninety days left to live — that she had ever encountered . |
| 23 | She might feel compelled to attack him physically at any moment and he was alarming enough to convince her that he would lift her in the air , shake her like a rag doll and toss her over a crag . |
| 24 | His encounters with the eagles he met convinced him that he was not yet experienced or powerful enough to seek territory of his own , or to head for the far north-west where golden eagles are notoriously fierce and strong . |
| 25 | The results were favourable and there began a series of trials which ‘ convinced him that he had made some valuable discoveries ’ . |
| 26 | The knowledge of his own ingratitude convinced him that he was wicked and worthless . |
| 27 | In any event , the new Democrats took him to their hearts , and convinced themselves that he really was — as he said — a ‘ different kind of Democrat ’ . |
| 28 | There was an interesting comment in the Guardian this morning , suggesting that Leslie Silver is only professing an interest in Gazza as a kind of public relations exercise , to try to convince us that he is still ambitious for the club after the Batty business . |
| 29 | His son and heir , Charles II , managed to win the support of the Scots by convincing them that he was a true Protestant and that he favoured their presbyterian form of church government . |
| 30 | The real problem lay in convincing her that he could be trusted with her secrets . |