Sentence examples for press me on from inspiring English sources

Eventually, people in my group got tired of those excuses and started to press me on the issue.

You can press me on it if you like, but there are good legal, contractual and ethical reasons for me not talking about my previous work".

There's going to be a figure, presumably, discussed?PR: You don't need to press me on the issue because we have already published what we described as the Northern Ireland plan which is our agenda for any discussions for after the election that might be required.

The way my mother always recounted it, I'd squirm, pout, mewl, bawl or indicate my displeasure in some comparably articulate way, and before she could press me on what I wanted and perhaps coax actual language from me, Mark would rush in to solve the riddle.

"If you pressed me on Project Electron, I wouldn't understand the ins and outs; no one, I think, does".

"He pressed me on this a number of times," Mr. Goldberg said.

He pressed me on my plans for the weekend, and eventually I admitted I had a date scheduled for Friday.

Ever eager to learn something new, she pressed me on "the latest research" and asked what doctors around the country were doing for her condition.

A few days later, in an e-mail conversation, Brendan de Caires, of PEN Canada, pressed me on why it's so hard to rein in those interests.

After a conversation on the phone where he pressed me on my academic credentials – a recent PhD from LSE – we arranged to meet outside his favourite lunch haunt in Kensington.

I will let you cogitate on the links between these great scientists, and I could have gone on and perhaps explored all of the Notes connection after connection, but time pressed me on to Darwin himself.