Example sentences of "[noun sg] insisted [conj] [pron] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were ready to leave but the lady insisted that we keep looking , she was convinced there were more . |
| 2 | She set to work on Emily 's shoes , pride insisted that she finish the job she had begun even if she was never paid for it . |
| 3 | His colleague insisted that he leave the premises . |
| 4 | And Pedro 's continued absence insisted that she act on it at once . |
| 5 | My diary records such incidents as , ‘ Had to eat another roll at breakfast , much to my disgust ’ , or ‘ M. insisted that I eat another piece of toast , so I walked out in disgust . ’ |
| 6 | In 1985 , when Japanese chip makers last started slashing prices , America 's government insisted that they raise them in order to protect the ( virtually non-existent ) American DRAM industry . |
| 7 | The detective had told him that Alexander Atkins and his companion insisted that he meet them on Boxing Night as they would have definite instructions for him . |
| 8 | They were staying in a hotel until they could find a Hat , but his doctor insisted that they spend some days in Brighton so that he could properly recover . |
| 9 | The late autumn and winter again aggravated his emphysema and he looked tired and pale.Although he preferred to stay where he was , his doctor insisted that he travel once more to the sun for the worst of the winter , and at the end of 1960 the Eliots went to Jamaica . |
| 10 | His complete acceptance of the ‘ protest ’ in ‘ Protestant ’ did not come till a few years later when some leading members of his Mount Merrion , Belfast , congregation insisted that he object to the Church 's ‘ street corner boy ’ activities of picketing the Irish Presbyterian Church General Assembly . |
| 11 | It would have been so easy and commonplace to move into some bushes ; but my partner insisted that I light my second candle . |