Example sentences of "[adv] insisted on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Keith stubbornly insisted on wearing her old cap at the back of her head with a ribbon under her chin . |
| 2 | One local authority in tackling the problem of odour nuisance from maggot farms in their area not only insisted on the installation of catalytic incineration equipment but on disposal of the sawdust waste , which still contained some maggots after sieving , by bagging and subsequent incineration in the municipal incinerator , instead of burying the waste as had been done previously . |
| 3 | In all I think I only insisted on one cut to anything he did , and that was the fight between the two cavemen in the first story which ended with one of them smashing a rock down on the other 's head . |
| 4 | With great skill , determination and unparalleled cheek , Jo Spence not only insisted on putting the unacceptable face of both our public and private lives onto the art agenda , but into the art institution . |
| 5 | She had deliberately not revealed what she was looking for , and so insisted on evacuating every office before she began work . |
| 6 | Thomas Jackson may have found that his own baptism had not been recorded and so insisted on having it written in the margin twenty-two years later . |
| 7 | Grumbling under his breath at the lateness of the hour , and the fact that he was missing an important baseball game on TV , the super — who appeared to be of Polish extraction — nevertheless insisted on taking them up in an antiquated , dangerously shaky lift . |
| 8 | It is not at all incongruous that Wilson , who thus insisted on Eliot 's Americanness , should a few years later , in his pioneering classic Axel 's Castle ( 1931 ) , insist on Eliot 's Frenchness , thus giving substance and weight to Untermeyer 's too glib acknowledgement of ‘ the Laforgue mechanism ’ . |
| 9 | Vadim 's Et Dieu Créa La Femme ( 1956 ) was the watershed film which liberalized the cinema , but only after it had run into censorship trouble everywhere , especially in the United States where the Hollywood decency code still insisted on separate beds for married couples . |
| 10 | Although many people suspected them to be lovers , Adam still insisted on secrecy . |
| 11 | But D'Oyly 's informant still insisted on a difference in kind as between transactions within the caste , that is with kin , and transactions with members of another caste , that is with non-kin . |
| 12 | Even now , of course , her mother would deny that she 'd been driven by physical needs — she still insisted on living the lie that hers had been a love-story doomed to disaster . |
| 13 | Plod could herd them all together into a group , march them to and from their destinations , depriving them along the way of all alcohol ( not to mention all civil rights ) and beat the living daylights out of any who still insisted on stepping out of line . |
| 14 | Replaced by a stagestruck girl of fourteen , recruited locally , she would be superficially trained in a matter of hours by the Head Girl then , absolutely terrified out of her wits , be put on stage the same night to pacify the Producer , for having paid for eight costumes for a number , he usually insisted on eight bodies filling them , whether or not they knew the routine . |
| 15 | Gina always insisted on one a year , somewhere in Europe — wherever her obnoxious family was performing . |
| 16 | In 1937 she also did another season of variety , for which she always insisted on having her material specially written . |
| 17 | Scion of an ancient family of Scottish gentry , the Stirlings of Keir , he was the founder of what was to become the Special Air Service Regiment as we know it today , although with typical modesty he always insisted on sharing the credit with others . |
| 18 | Several subsequent accounts have referred to Cooper as ‘ David Stirling 's driver ’ , but in fact Stirling always insisted on doing the driving himself . |
| 19 | Your father always insisted on everything being just so . |
| 20 | To this end , he often smoked his pipe during the game and always insisted on playing in his slippers . |
| 21 | j He always insisted on fresh fish . |
| 22 | She always insisted on the active and determining role of the child , rejecting absolutely any analogy between the growth of a child and the growth of plants because of the power of the gardener to prune a plant . |
| 23 | But she always insisted on taking her turn when hounds moved on to the most unlikely draw of the day . |
| 24 | She always insisted on doing it herself and that made it easy for you . |
| 25 | Men like that always insisted on the last word . |
| 26 | He always insisted on saying grace before meals , but he was a very bad tempered man , a ‘ clever sort ’ who drank himself to death . |
| 27 | After all , Teddy once insisted on taking a dip in Southend to prove there was nothing in the European Commission 's condemnation of the beach . |
| 28 | Although Gould might have increased his funds through sponsorship , he wisely insisted on remaining independent of any institution , reserving the rewards of his labours for no one but himself . |
| 29 | She was calm and sweet and later insisted on taking Phoebe out to dinner at some fancy little pseudo-Bohemian bistro . |
| 30 | He also insisted on the re-use of bar fittings discovered during demolition , and these now grace the offices of the Housing Association which occupy part of the site . |