Sentence examples for bit of persuading from inspiring English sources

They took a bit of persuading that I wasn't just messing about, but we went to hospital.

"It took a bit of persuading" by Allied Irish's board to convince him to stay on the job, he said.

Moss said he had agreed with the doctor's decision, after a bit of persuading by Uribe and Moss's parents.

"It took a good bit of persuading for me to try them again this summer," she says, "as I was so in mummy mode.

But if, as the exchange rate suggests, Europe's firms are using those wider and deeper capital markets to sell more euros and buy more dollars, then there is a fair bit of persuading still to be done.

I was the only person in my entire faculty who wanted to add an exchange year to my course, so it took a bit of persuading for the course director to let me go.

The aim, says Scott Smith, who helps to run the knowledge side of IBM Global Services, will be to create a "self-rewarding content-grading system", a bit like Amazon.com's way of persuading customers to review the books they buy.Divided but unitedMuch of the everyday collaboration that goes on in companies is far more humdrum stuff.

She took a lot of persuading.

He had to beg a bit to persuade the Seattle fire department to let him keep a tank of a compressed gas that has the potential for use as a biochemical weapon.

After a bit of coaxing, she persuaded her close friend and former doubles partner Martina Hingis to make her second comeback, and the two are competing together at the United States Open.

After a bit of convincing, Rosina persuaded Murr who has a long history in hip-hop sampling to start making music with her.