Sentence examples for if i insisted from inspiring English sources

I knew that, if I insisted now, I could get her morphine and a private room.

(Both agreed to eat kalbi — grilled short ribs — if I insisted. Since you'll ask, yes, I did).

The receptionist said if I insisted on seeing her, there would be a three-week wait.

If I insisted on going to the airport, the officer told me, they would make me disappear, just like Ai Weiwei.

But if I insisted on seeing the living monkeys, he would fix me up with a local boatman who knew where to look.

If I insisted on having the baby and heading home, I feared he would resent me, or worse, resent our baby.

Gail Collins: Is it O.K. with you if I insist that there could very well be an upturn?

And yes, if I insist, it all got personal and foolish.

She may balk at seeing a nutritionist, or having a full medical exam, and be annoyed if I insist.

Alain Platel, interview with Sarah Frater, Evening Standard, 2004 "I seek everything that unites people rather than what divides them, even if I insist that everyone keeps his own personality".

If I insist on there being a moral to films such as Whore and Crimes Of Passion, he has to say they are about domination, power and money.