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prevail on |
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prevail on someone (to do something) to persuade someone to do something. My father prevailed on some friends to let us stay with them for a few days. The TV network prevailed upon the organizers of the track and field championships to schedule the 100-meter final for Sunday afternoon. |
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He is, if possible, to prevail on Miss Summers to let Frederica continue with her; and if he cannot succeed, to bring her to Churchhill for the present, till some other situation can be found for her. The scene that followed was so painful that I cannot prevail on myself to return to it in these pages. And this, as I could not prevail on any of my actors to speak, I myself was obliged to declare. |
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