Sentence examples for At my behest from inspiring English sources

At my behest, they reluctantly stripped their command to a few reminders of the rules, and eventually stopped their exhausting attempts to continuously intervene.

At my behest, my son polled his friends and asked them what they would pay for an annual subscription to Facebook.

I was given a prescription for 60 20 milligram pills at my behest for $250.

It was a covert action that was taken at my behest.

They are there at my behest, and I have not authorised anyone to switch them off.' Yes, sir!

The investigation has established that many of the reported activities did occur and that these were inevitably initiated at my behest.

At my haranguelike behest, my mother set herself to learning how to cook exotic American dishes.

Only a couple of weeks ago, in the course of a conversation about the desirable length of a woman's skirts – and no, we weren't being dirty old men, we were simply discussing a dress my wife had brought in for him to lengthen – and no, not at my prim behest – he talked about his own wife's instinctive modesty.

Dorothy Handelman Photographer, Sleepy Hollow When I was growing up my father took only one vacation a year, at my mother's behest.

Before then, I had written poems, and I even wrote a play — at my mother's behest — which I had no guts to stage, when I was seventeen or so.

At my Dad's behest, we would tune in to Sing Something Simple and Pick of the Pops and, to please my mother, permit her to play at least one side of the Keith Richards album Talk Is Cheap.