Example sentences of "convince [pers pn] that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if , if , if that beginning , you know , i if you 're going to go for a rich peasant economy , you 've got ta convince them that it 's , it 's their advantage and it 's gon na last . |
| 2 | Once you have accepted the offer and the position has been suitably documented , you will hardly ever be able to persuade a court or tribunal to upset it unless you can convince them that you were forced to agree as a result of economic duress . |
| 3 | ‘ If you can convince me that you can make Kirsty happy , believe me , I wo n't stand in your way . ’ |
| 4 | Even the fact that disappointed old toss-pots — unable to grapple with the idea that people once enjoyed themselves without getting drunk , vomiting and hitting one another — still react to the Sixties , as a notion , with comical indignation has never convinced me that there was anything special about that time . |
| 5 | WE hear that there was a big attendance at the first meeting of the new Basingstoke branch of the League Against Cruel Sports , when the League 's information officer , Kevin Flack , told them : ‘ I believe that most people are opposed to hunting but it has been recent antics of the Quorn Hunt and publicity from the MacNamara Bill that has convinced them that something has to be done to put an end to their activities . ’ |
| 6 | In their book , Leytonstone would therefore be real bandit country and Romford , once you 'd convinced them that it was n't actually off the edge of the map , was probably the Twilight Zone . |
| 7 | Can your client live without an income , they 've just convinced you that they ca n't , they now want to know about this Health Master . |
| 8 | To take the initiative yourself , however is often too difficult : your mind may have convinced you that your confusion is so much greater than other people 's , your backlog of work so much longer , your reputation so much lower , that to open yourself to the social confirmation of these frightful facts would be a pointless and self-sacrificing thing to do . |
| 9 | If the test has convinced you that you are weak on spelling , a useful reference book is Cassell 's New Spelling Dictionary ( £1.95 ) . |
| 10 | ‘ In any case , a glance through the lens will convince you that I am right . |
| 11 | Maybe I can never convince you that I am other than a spirit , for what I have to tell you is this : that I have come from two hundred years in the future to speak to you — to sit here by this window and talk as we talk now ! ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Will nothing convince you that it is I and not he who is trying to escape ? ’ |
| 13 | Dynamic Susie Dinan , fitness expert from London Central YMCA , will convince you that you 're never too young or old to start exercising — and never too busy to fit it into your life — before guiding you through simple revitalising exercises . |
| 14 | Do n't let your Ego convince you that your mistakes are so ‘ special ’ that they are unforgivable . |
| 15 | Formal education was shelved , which was a relief , because the unctuous kind of diligence expected of her at school had convinced her that she was both stupid and sinful . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | We must convince him that we are doing everything we can to trace the ship and the people running Spidex . ’ |
| 18 | His abiding concern is his farm and if you can convince him that you can efficiently dispose of the rabbits on his property he may be more than pleased to welcome you . |
| 19 | Fran stopped , forcing the angry hysteria from her voice , realising it would do nothing to help convince him that he was wrong . |
| 20 | The hon. Member for Bradford , South ( Mr. Cryer ) knows me well enough , and I hope that I can convince him that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State and I will seek to meet any genuine needs . |
| 21 | If he could convince her that nothing she could say or do would make him change his mind about Carrie , the way would be open for him to prove to Carrie he had enough love for the two of them . |
| 22 | I could n't convince her that it would never happen , although God knows I tried — with both of them . ’ |
| 23 | His ride against her when beaten half a length on Bachelor 's Button in the previous season 's Jockey Club Cup had convinced him that her stamina was flawed . |
| 24 | Although IBM and DEC withdrew their products from Technology following its acquisition by ICL , Coon says that Technology has convinced him that it will not cross sell or give away DG 's secrets to its competitors . |
| 25 | The fact that nobody wrote and said that he was brilliant and was a genius convinced him that it was n't Robert Bolt who was at fault or the director Noel Willman , but himself as an actor . |
| 26 | The news of the fall of Le Mans had convinced him that his father 's ship was sinking . |
| 27 | She is alleged to have convinced him that she was his mother and then forced him to have sex with her . |
| 28 | If Philip Leapor had earlier been hostile to his daughter 's poetry fearing it was unprofitable but then left her at liberty , it was probably because she had convinced him that she could earn money with her pen . |
| 29 | Her flight would have convinced him that she was on her way to betray him and who knew what it would enter his confused mind to do to her ? |
| 30 | But PC Danby 's success has convinced him that our way is best . |