Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been trying to persuade " in BNC.
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| 1 | I feel badly let down by Penguin because this was more or less what I had been trying to persuade them all along would happen . |
| 2 | Ever since the happy visit of the year before , I had been trying to persuade him to pay a second and , if possible , longer visit . |
| 3 | I 've been trying to persuade them — ’ |
| 4 | Her angry look vanished , and quickly pulling herself together , she smiled at Giles and said , ‘ I 've been trying to persuade Robert to dance with me but without success . |
| 5 | In his Chicago lectures , for example , he described how certain passages of Notes toward the Definition of Culture had been exposed as a " mass of contradictions " and , at the end , he also made a rueful disclaimer — " I am quite aware that I have been trying to persuade , although I may not be quite sure of what " . |
| 6 | Those who understood this might leave a swatch of fabric lying around so that Laura could pick it up and believe she had discovered it herself , even if they had been trying to persuade her to use it for months . |