Sentence examples for had been importuning from inspiring English sources

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In July 1964 two backbench Conservative MPs reported to their Chief Whip that Driberg and Lord Boothby (a well-known Conservative peer) had been importuning males at a dog track, and were involved with gangs of thugs.

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Even before his first record was released he had been arrested for importuning.

Friends, former colleagues, politicians, journalists and strangers offered support and advice; there were "tragic letters" from men who had been imprisoned for importuning in Hyde Park, and luminaries including Chris Patten, Norman Foster and Lord Puttnam wrote a public letter of support to the Financial Times.

Oh, she said with a bemused shrug, they came regularly from a director who was importuning her to take a part.

The partners have been beta-testing for more than a year, posting advertisements on hacker Web boards, and importuning friends, classmates, and acquaintances.

On Twitter, Mr Grillo called Mr Bersani "a political stalker" who was "importuning the M5S with indecent proposals".

By a celebrant called Crystal Healing, whose sister Crystal Meth was importuning clubbers at the entrance.. "How very appropriate," Healing told her own, swilling congregation.

Her husband was apparently aware that his brother-in-law was importuning on behalf of mercy for a swindler and a cocaine dealer with whom, in the ordinary course of events, he would not be acquainted.

p51 Intent upon his sacrifices, he was importuning the gods of an empire which was already another's, when a report was brought to him that some senator or other was being hurried to the camp.

After his long journey home from the Trojan Wars Ulisse, king of Ithaca, finally returns to his kingdom where he finds that a trio of villainous suitors are importuning his faithful queen, Penelope.

There are states where governors have resigned (New York again) or are being importuned to resign (South Carolina) on account of carnal or romantic embarrassments.

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