Example sentences of "convince [pn reflx] of [art] " in BNC.

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1 In the interim , Alistair had convinced himself of the following : before returning his aggrieved letter , Sixsmith had steamed it open and then resealed it .
2 She had never convinced herself of the reality of her pregnancy , she had never done anything about it .
3 Speak to yourself , convince yourself of the positive reality .
4 To convince ourselves of the specificity of the bursting effect , Roger and I repeated the experiment using the electroshock amnesia approach I referred to above ; the bursting activity , like the biochemical and structural changes , occurs only in the animals which remember the task .
5 In any event , in due course a suitable solatium in the form of an apology was offered to Harold Wilson — or at lest a solatium which he regarded as suitable since he possesses the invaluable quality of being able to convince himself of the correctness of whatever he does — and the matter ended .
6 Men will say ‘ I love you ’ to get women into bed with them ; women will say ‘ I love you ’ to get men into marriage with them ; both will say ‘ I love you ’ to keep fear at bay , to convince themselves of the deed by the word , to assure themselves that the promised condition has arrived , to deceive themselves that it has n't yet gone away .
7 Many of the most committed Calvinists , who had wrestled for lengthy periods with the doctrine of predestination before finally convincing themselves of the assuredness of their salvation , reacted with fury and outrage to Arminius 's teachings , and in the United Provinces the resulting theological controversy provoked a major political crisis , culminating in the defeat of the Arminians at the Synod of Dort in 1618 .
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