Example sentences of "[verb] to dissuade [pers pn] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | You tried to dissuade him from telling that particular story , in his own interests . |
| 2 | Schlesinger 's agent tried to dissuade him from taking it on , advising him rather to direct Jack Lemmon in The April Fools . |
| 3 | The weather was terrible and his friends tried to dissuade him from flying . |
| 4 | George V tried to dissuade him from this course and indeed went so far as to register a formal protest : |
| 5 | Now I was conscious of Aisha 's words when we stood together in the storeroom and she tried to dissuade me from going to London : ‘ Go alone to London without an aunt or a husband or your mother and they 'll say you 've sold your soul . |
| 6 | Frankie had seen it before and thought I would n't like it and tried to dissuade me from going in . |
| 7 | ‘ They never tried to dissuade me from marrying you . ’ |
| 8 | Is he further aware of the bribe that that council is offering to its tenants in the form of a rent freeze to try to dissuade them from opting for new landlords in Commission for New Towns and council house properties ? |
| 9 | Yes sir , I I would n't seek to dissuade you from that sir . |
| 10 | However , rather than serving to dissuade us from finding some base for the notion of students ' academic freedom , the epistemological grounding of the German universities holds some definite clues that are worth pursuing . |
| 11 | All that he could do would be to advise him strongly against resigning , and , as he had done when attempting to dissuade him from dissolving Parliament , back up his advice with a formal protest , allowing Baldwin to tell his colleagues that the King objected to the course he was taking . |
| 12 | I managed to dissuade her from that and we settled on lunch together the following day . |
| 13 | She found herself talking about her father — the way he had brought her up alone , how he had tried to dissuade her from a racing career . |
| 14 | Had I known that he intended to throw his claim to the leadership into the ring within a matter of hours , I would have tried to dissuade him from it then and there , for people never like being bounced , and least of all at a time of emotional stress . |
| 15 | So methods have been developed to dissuade you from wandering off to somebody else 's cash register . |
| 16 | Why , otherwise would the EC investigating lawyer be bombarded with phone calls all trying to dissuade him from a site visit ? |
| 17 | ‘ Once , having failed to dissuade her from going . |