Example sentences of "have convinced [pers pn] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everything that 's happened since MacQuillan came has convinced me I was right . ’ |
| 2 | But , he said yesterday , the love and understanding of a 26-year-old woman he met less than a month ago has convinced him he should remain living life as a man . |
| 3 | My boots were three sizes too big for me , since the man in the shop had convinced me it was necessary . |
| 4 | Rex Cunningham had told her that he had seen Clare in possession of a photograph of me which had convinced him we were intimate friends . |
| 5 | The coldness of his manner had convinced her they would n't speak again , but in the middle of a clearing he had reined in his horse and turned to wait for her . |
| 6 | It was only later , when I was lying in my bed , with the neon lights of a bar across the road flickering on the curtains and music blaring , that I remembered Ward standing in the saloon of the Cutty Sark and asking Iris Sunderby who she had in mind as navigator , who the man was who had convinced her he had also seen a ship locked in the ice of the Weddell Sea . |
| 7 | Zaria , a relatively new old friend , had been persuaded to stay over that Sunday night as I had convinced her I was missing my faithful feline companion Springsteen , who was back in Hackney guarding the flat we shared . |
| 8 | The trouble is my theory 's looking shakier all the time because McDunn 's convinced me it really was all just a smoke-screen : there is no Ares project , never was any Ares project , and Smout in his prison in Baghdad is n't connected to the guys that died ; it was just somebody coming up with a clever conspiracy theory , just a way of getting me to go to remote places and wait for phone calls and deprive me of an alibi while gorilla man did something horrible to somebody else somewhere else . |