Sentence examples for bribed to go from inspiring English sources

She is particularly adept at capturing the myriad facial expressions of the kindergarten set — the furious intransigence of a boy who must be bribed to go to class, the grim acceptance of a doctor's stitches, the dread boredom of childhood insomnia.

Not only do they not care about things banks used to deem as important, like playing a role in their community, now they can't even be bribed to go along with pretending that they care.

He was offered a large bribe to go home; he refused it; the railroad lost and paid up.

Often, scam artists appear after deals close to contest ownership and demand a bribe to go away, the official said.

It was only when I started working on this article that a particular memory came back to me, its attendant guilt still intact: we'd bribed him to go to that last practice with the promise of ice cream.

But I'm working on some projects on segregation, so I bribed her to go see it with me.

It is never a good sign when a play bribes people to go.

At the end of his first year in the sport, his mother tried to bribe him to go back to hockey.

She sees a frightened, elegant woman with a head injury, but she is more impressed by the handsome, patrician, beautifully groomed man who bribes her to go away.

In the end, kindhearted Theo basically had to bribe Gauguin to go to Arles and live with his brother, advancing him money on sales that had not yet happened.

The boxer Eupolus, for example, had bribed three opponents to go in the tank.