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.