Sentence examples for guide insisted from inspiring English sources

On our drive back to Cameroon's coast, my guide insisted that some of the local Fang people, well known for cannibalism in the 19th century, still dug up bodies to eat.

For another, before our midday meal, John Lewis, our guide, insisted we turn our boats around, form a line and hook our kayaks together, an exercise that sounded simple but took our novice crowd at least 20 minutes to execute.

For lunch, my guide insisted we go to the Steigenberger Hotel.

Terrified, I looked at the tree that my junior guide insisted I scramble up.

Our guide insisted that if we were to shift all the wood to get over the top, we'd be able to get all the way to Tiananmen Square, where the tunnels are apparently large enough to accommodate rolling tank processions.

One night when we left a Rio restaurant in a high-rent neighborhood and suggested that we walk the few blocks to the hotel, our guide insisted that we take a car.

"Nothing more," Charles Cassey, 50, Mr. Boysen's frequent guide, insists.

Lonely Planet and Rough Guide insist not, arguing that the 'reassurance' and detail of a book cannot be beaten.

I've been to the Orinoco and remember my guide insisting that I keep my hands inside the dugout canoe at all times, so I know about piranhas.

But my guide insists that nothing bad will happen to the man if he takes, say, 45 minutes to finish his round.

(Marja Goevaers, our English-speaking guide, insists it's 90percentt of all the paintings, but experts say it isn't so).