Sentence examples for before insisting from inspiring English sources

"He had bothered my girl three or four times before, insisting 'you will marry me'," Mr Kaya said.

"People don't even touch the eggs," he said, before insisting that he, too, not be identified.

He would pause before insisting that their newborn daughter be left to die far from their home in Sicilia.

So last month he urged Vladimir Putin to hack Clinton's emails, before insisting that he was just kidding.

Tommy stood and watched, a wry smile on his face, for a while, before insisting that we left.

At the close, Finney took his curtain call before insisting on standing aside for the real star.

Another was brought to the court in restraints and later took off his shirt, before insisting that the full charges be read aloud, which lasted into the night.

Depicting his actions as the work of a rogue "requires putting a lot of dots together," Mr. Milner said enigmatically Sunday before insisting again he had no comment.

(Jeb Bush, before insisting that he misheard the question, said that he would still vote to authorize the war in Iraq, even knowing how that turned out).

And if the situation isn't widely known — if I've never heard the story before — insisting that it's famous just makes me feel clueless.

"Il faut pas dormir!" he yells in faux seriousness at a group of tired-looking players before insisting on a game of soccer golf.