| I have no idea why I was suddenly badgered by the smell of those biscuits in particular, rather than, say, Garibaldi or custard creams. |
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| She didn't want to do it but he pressured her and badgered her until she finally gave in. |
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| Every Friday, the Boy tried to start his homework right when he got back, since the Twin always badgered him to, but it never worked. |
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| McGowan says she is badgered by voters to say if she's aligned to the left or right, but she refuses to be placed on the political spectrum. |
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| Paul was more than a little depressed with his shrewish wife Zilla, who constantly badgered him, embarrassed him in public, and treated him like a little boy. |
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| Emanuel badgered and bothered the home player-manager sufficiently on the edge of his own box to win possession before striding confidently downfield. |
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| Having been badgered into appearing on the same stage as Mr Miliband, he survived the experience, apparently undamaged. |
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| Shareholders and boards badgered managers to build up their new-media divisions or buy into Internet start-ups. |
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| We are getting badgered by the press, wondering how long we are prepared to wait. |
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| In the Eastern Townships, landowners, merchants and farmers badgered politicians with petitions to improve communications to their area. |
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| People are always being badgered for money and all the causes are worthwhile? |
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| Respondents will not be badgered or harassed to answer questions and no comments will be made by interviewers about any response. |
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| I do not like being rude, but I like even less being badgered and harried. |
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| But we saw the same philosophy on North Korea, where he badgered the Bush administration to be tougher. |
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| Elgar's old friend George Bernard Shaw had often badgered the composer about producing a third symphony, and early in 1932 he renewed his attack, suggesting that the BBC might be persuaded to commission it. |
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| The producer, Jonathan Koch, doggedly badgered her into taking the part. |
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| The hearings conducted by the Létourneau commission revealed that some members of the military had been threatened and badgered for their part in the commission's work. |
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| Celebrities are badgered, they get too much attention. |
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| Ernie constantly badgered me to get her to talk to him but I suspected she would throttle him if he merely glanced in the direction of her norks. |
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| He badgered, bulldozed, hectored and harassed. |
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| Now, however, he and the two Western governments that have come closest to tackling Mr Assad head on, France's and Britain's, may be badgered into thinking again. |
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| While Victoria was ill, Conroy and the Duchess unsuccessfully badgered her to make Conroy her private secretary. |
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| Throughout the 1970s Carter badgered the NATO allies to rearm. |
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| And so he badgered me and said, 'Oh, you better go and see him. |
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| Aborted women tell stories of being badgered, harassed and coerced into getting their abortion by boyfriends, partners, parents, employers, or other unsupportive circumstances. |
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| They want help but they also want when they are ill not to be badgered to go back to the job centre for reassessment. |
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