"take" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- At the start, the girl meets a bawd, a woman who persuades her to take up prostitution.
- He persuaded George to take up boxing again, with him as his trainer.
- Typical of immigrants, her parents were anxious that she should do better than they and persuaded her to take up teaching as a profession.
- Marketing materials are designed to persuade customers to take up the company's offer rather than offering a personal best solution for reducing debt.
- He is intrigued by her conviction and her determination to persuade others to take up social causes.
- So she hid all his Persian textbooks and persuaded him to take up badminton instead.
- Paul's former principal persuades him to take up a temporary relief position at the local high school teaching English.
- Instead, his widowed mother persuaded him to take up banking, which he reputedly hated.
- Should I try to persuade her to take up my offer, or has she got a point?
- The hardest two hours of my life were spent trying to persuade David Nelson to take up his appeals.
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