Example sentences of "he have insisted on " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , he has insisted on a better system of debtor management with a proper analysis of debtor accounts and a tighter credit policy , has required full explanations of any discounted room rates or complimentaries and has introduced spot checks to compare the Housekeeper 's reports and Reception 's daily letting reports . |
| 2 | She 'd agreed with the head lad that there was no need for him to get up extra early , but he 'd insisted on leaving Shine On 's feed already made up . |
| 3 | He had insisted on living in Auckland Castle though some people said that it was absurd for the Bishop of Durham to be saddled with such a pile . |
| 4 | He had done the Royal Marines commando training , he had insisted on parachute jumping and escaping from a tank in 100 feet of water in a simulated exercise — an exercise that killed two men over the next two years . |
| 5 | Upon a sale of land the purchaser is normally entitled to have produced to him and to investigate the deeds recording previous transactions in the land going back for fifteen years ( Law of Property Act 1969 : formerly the period was thirty years ) ; and though this period is sometimes reduced by agreement , the shortening of the period throws a risk on the purchaser , who is not only bound by all legal interests in the land which actually exist whether he discovers them or not , but also by all equitable interests which he would have discovered if he had insisted on an investigation for the longer period . |
| 6 | In the early days , when they still slept together , he had insisted on taking her during a period : remaining perfectly motionless , in her , on her — sometimes for hours . |
| 7 | The Last of the Mohicans had been his favourite book at the time ; he had insisted on being Hawkeye and Tim Skerritt on being the treacherous Indian , Magua . |
| 8 | He understood , he said , that the groom had been attacked earlier , in Toronto , when he foiled the kidnapping of a horse , but he had insisted on making the journey nevertheless , having been bandaged by a Miss Richmond . |
| 9 | Yet , now that Edna had started to open up , possibly helped by the glass of wine he had insisted on her having , he suddenly became alert . |
| 10 | It was a good thing that Edward Morris had given her another order which he had insisted on paying for in advance . |
| 11 | He had insisted on accompanying Sharpe to Quatre Bras , not to fight , he said , but just for the chance of glimpsing the Emperor . |
| 12 | He had insisted on going with her but Carrie was beginning to wish he had stayed in the shop . |
| 13 | He had insisted on a referral to the clinic because his wife was not pregnant . |
| 14 | Again McNab had been summoned and again he had insisted on clearing away the mustard-plasters and compresses . |
| 15 | An associate of Gilbert , he had insisted on moving in with the team , even though his presence was not necessary , for first-hand examination . |
| 16 | That was the young man 's name , and within minutes of crossing the threshold , he had insisted on being one of the family . |
| 17 | He had insisted on the whole sequence being shown again and , indeed , it was to appear , more or less in full , that evening in every national television news bulletin . |
| 18 | At Christmas he had insisted on hanging up Robert 's stocking on the end of his bed , and had suggested the two of them visit the Cranborne School carol service . |
| 19 | She had wanted to get back to her hotel and away from him but , first , he had insisted on driving her out into the wilderness , and now he had marooned them . |
| 20 | But , wisely , he had insisted on being paid in gold , daily . |