But the one thing the kids insisted on getting was a star for the top of the tree.
"Because daddy is better at math, wight?" he asked one day, when my daughter insisted on getting her dad to help with a problem involving subtraction.
Throughout his career, Busby Berkeley insisted on getting the chance to direct non-musicals, and one of the rarest of them, "Blonde Inspiration," from 1941, will be on TCM at 5 A.M. Eastern time, midway between Saturday night and Sunday morning.
I insisted on getting his opinion.
During a weekend retreat, she said, Father O'Connell insisted on getting her a drink.
Mr. Porzio told detectives he insisted on getting Mr. Viscome to the hospital.
I refused and insisted on getting a fatwa that guaranteed I would not be lashed.
Rochefort, though now in serious pain, insisted on getting back in the saddle.
"I insisted on getting a proper camera bag to put my gear in before handing everything over.
And as for a pint after the match, he insisted on getting his message across to me.
All 3,000 members of his former textile workers' association insisted on getting their shoes straight from him.
