Example sentences of "insist on [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | To be fair to myself , ’ she added with a faint smile , ‘ if you will insist on looking like the original swinging teenager it 's small wonder that the thought of trusting you with a really ill man put the fear of God up me . ’ |
| 2 | She 'll insist on going to the toilet , despite the fact that it 's too late . |
| 3 | A man who wished to resist such turning could insist on keeping to the subject ; and forceful men who had the character of genial good nature could get away with open rebuttal of this kind ; but not all people who interrupted with open rebuttals acquired or maintained that character . |
| 4 | Comrade Preobrazhensky , however , contrives to perform such a conjuring trick : he categorically insists on the ‘ plan ’ and other good things , and at the same time even more categorically insists on abstracting from the functions of state power in the sphere of the economy . |
| 5 | Mr Akashi insists on looking on the bright side : Khmer Rouge artillery was known to be inaccurate and their shells often failed to explode , he said . |
| 6 | She insists on looking after the hens herself . |
| 7 | ‘ And as you insist on leaving at the end of the month , ’ he added blandly , ‘ I 'd like everything — but everything — bang up to date . ’ |
| 8 | Or , if you insist on hanging around the office , they will set you to work on the accounts of charities . |
| 9 | After that he was a changed man , keeping everyone away from him and insisting on moving to the North Bastion Tower . ’ |
| 10 | The Baptists of Amersham were only doing what the universal Church had done for centuries in insisting on partaking in the Communion as a sign of being ‘ in communion ’ with the church . |
| 11 | A statute of 1388 attempted to reinforce the Statute of Labourers , the measure enacted to control wages after the Black Death of 1348–49 , but attempts in 1389 to put it into practice showed that men were trying to shake off the stigma of villein tenure , even at the cost of taking a cash wage worth less in real terms than the combination of cash and food which they had been paid previously , insisting on working by the day rather than contracting for a yearly wage , and exploiting the possibility of alternative employment ( 65 , pp.92–5 ) . |
| 12 | He insisted on staying in the class with me and the others . |
| 13 | She should have refused to go with him last night and insisted on staying in the car park . |
| 14 | While everyone waited irritatedly behind her , Phyllis insisted on calling for the supervisor . |
| 15 | They reflected as to whether division at the top of the Korean peninsula might not be preferable but believed that the 38th parallel could be accepted if the Russians insisted on moving into the northern part of the peninsula . |
| 16 | And yet again , Charles insisted on flying on the same plane as his sons William and Harry . |
| 17 | It is true that Sir Thomas Dugdale insisted on resigning over the Crichel Down case in 1954 but he was not pressed to go . |
| 18 | Johnson then insisted on descending to the shore and boating into the basin itself , which was entered by means of vigorous rowing to the very entrance , then , oars shipped , by Gliding the rest of the way , as the extended oars would not squeeze through the opening — although they might today , after two centuries of further erosion . |
| 19 | She lifted a bottle of Champagne from among the photographs cluttering the occasional table beside her and passed it to Charity with an instruction to fill the glasses and hold the chatter , because she insisted on listening to the nine o'clock news on the wireless . |
| 20 | The novel insisted on reverting to the ampler great-sinner pattern ; hence Stavrogin 's emergence as ‘ chief character ’ , ‘ tragic villain ’ and so forth during this period , and Peter Verkhovensky 's withdrawal to the second rank : Verkhovensky the mere wrecker , the nihilist , the man of the 1860s , the deeper realist 's answer to Turgenev . |
| 21 | Farmers argued that as their day already began at sunrise , they would gain nothing and would also lose an hour for their workers insisted on finishing at the same time as town dwellers . |
| 22 | I managed to persuade Catherine to come in , but she insisted on sleeping in the kitchen , in case Heathcliff returned during the night . |
| 23 | Or would have been had Gemma not insisted on remaining in the very centre of so much decay and corruption and " horridness ' , in Frizingley . |
| 24 | He told us unsettling stories of Chinese merchants who had insisted on travelling aboard the prahus to keep an eye on their cargo , and had somehow been lost overboard while their merchandise appeared for sale in harbours far from their intended destination . |
| 25 | Before her conversion , she would doubtless have insisted on waiting for the results of a number of studies being conducted by an international panel on climatic change set up by the World Meteorological Organisation and the United Nations Environmental Programme . |
| 26 | There was even a story , not necessarily apocryphal , that when a message arrived to tell one of the teachers that his father had died , Clive had insisted on waiting until the lunch break before passing it on . |