Example sentences of "insisted that [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Michael Mills insisted that we had two safety wires on Michael , whereas stuntmen would normally work with just one . |
| 2 | But I did argue when she insisted that we remain separated while on the planet . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The former wartime brigadier , who is accused of being a war criminal ‘ with the blood of 70,000 Cossacks and Yugoslavs on his hands ’ , insisted that he left V Corps on May 22 . |
| 5 | Mr Kaufman insisted that he opposed statutory regulation , and that the report amounted to a request for self-regulation . |
| 6 | Hopper insisted that he wanted these lads in the film , not the one the production people had selected . |
| 7 | My informants stood in great awe of the Sultan , known as the Amoita , who ruled Aussa , and insisted that he hated all Europeans . |
| 8 | Not only were we going through the timid rituals of conventional courtship after a six-month diet of take-away sex , but I was the one who insisted that it stay that way until we were legally united . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | The Principal , a frightful piece of lava from a volcano long extinct , actually insisted that I relinquish domestic tuition , simperingly permitted the murky phrase sexual harassment to hover in the air between us , and indicated that in the course of the aestival recess he might be reconsidering the terms and conditions of my employment . |