| My wife had been pestering me to take her shopping for the boys' presents, and I had been putting her off. |
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| Young boys carrying bedrolls start pestering passengers to hire a roll for a good night's sleep. |
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| Her contribution included compiling a cookery book after pestering celebrity chefs for recipes. |
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| A pensioner who was harassed by aggressive beggars in Swindon town centre has backed a campaign to stop vagrants pestering shoppers for cash. |
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| He has had a high profile with the media, and on top of that some supporters keep pestering Brian for tickets. |
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| Still, if it wasn't for the team, we would only be pestering our partners or getting on with the decorating and housekeeping! |
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| If your children are pestering you for super-trendy labelled gear, this is the place to visit. |
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| Hayley apologises to Lisa for sticking her nose in the other day and pestering her about her husband, Alan. |
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| I don't want a situation that we had in the past where people were pestering players for tickets ahead of big games. |
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| Poor Nina, as a student at the University, was required to suffer the idiots pestering her with puns as witless and unintelligent as themselves. |
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| I feel somewhat like a measly ant pestering a magnificent tiger who has chosen to sleep on an anthill. |
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| Her 10-year-old son kept pestering every crew member he encountered, begging for a chance to drive the massive ocean liner. |
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| The idea of running around pestering my friends for votes is quite distasteful. |
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| He later bombarded the 43-year-old woman with calls on her mobile phone, pestering her for a date. |
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| We were joshing each other and she just entered naturally into the discussion, and was pestering Hanzel to buy some. |
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| The excited squeals of hungry piglets and the bleats of insistent lambs seem better designed for pestering reluctant mothers than for conveying a simple message of need. |
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| After a few months of her pestering him by text, I told him to tell her to back off. |
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| I have been pestering Jayson, Leighton, Lorne, and Todd Peters all summer about how one goes about tenting and we finally made up our mind that we would get a tent. |
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| She is really pestering me for the information, and so far I have been able to stall her, but not for long, so a quick answer to my problem, please. |
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| Hundreds of youngsters got their first taste of a day at the races in the Rails Enclosure, with many pestering their parents to place bets for them. |
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| Still very dependent on their parents, children of this age still rely heavily on pestering as a weapon. |
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| Mr President, do not imagine that I am so old, I am going to carry on working and pestering people for a few more years. |
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| Well, it's true that when I first started out in the music business I kept pestering Mohamed to be my manager. |
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| As a mother gentoo penguin flees downhill from her frantically pestering offspring, the whole train trips over itself, squawking and skidding uncontrollably. |
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| One waited nine years, and despite pestering the Federal government, they could not even get an acknowledgment of receipt. |
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| Although that is a well-known fact, it was still difficult to make others see that this is not about pestering lorries. |
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| He was directing at least part of that quote to reporters pestering him about same-sex marriage. |
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| At this age, children usually have a limited amount of pocket money. The pestering weapon is now carefully aimed and employed tactically. |
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| Such pestering, however, appears to occur whether there is advertising or not. |
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| Never act toward others in a way that could be considered as harassing, humiliating, bullying or pestering. |
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| They run about making mischief and stealing beads, pestering you while you're trying to eat your breakfast, and so on. |
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| Yearlong they assisted with hunting by sniffing out seals' holes and pestering polar bears. |
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| But his ex keeps pestering him about getting back together. |
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| There are two sorts of detailed planning: the nervous, fussy and pestering kind, and the planning that, with a definite end in view, takes the necessary pains to attain it. |
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| His hour after hour kicking around in Buduburan must have paid off for the youngster, when, after pestering his father to find information on local football teams, he got a try-out with Portland FC's youth side. |
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| There are some marketing trends that one uses. Things like pester power which relates to the child pestering their parents to purchase the product. |
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| They're the ones to blame, for terrifying the vulnerable and pestering a billion people a year, including me, with their pesky calls about PPI or home improvements or double glazing or all those accidents I didn't have. |
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| But as the political pressure rises, the financial calculus changes. There are other forces at work besides pestering from greens and governments. |
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| They could be right: one candidate reports that a lady who liked his picture has been pestering him to take her on as a second wife. Whatever the case, change is certainly in the air in Riyadh, a city of walls and veils. |
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| The other day I asked if it was all right if I shot some crows. I asked if you are allowed to shoot crows or ravens if they are pestering your calves during calving time. |
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| It can be abused by anyone who wants to make money by pestering fellow citizens with advertising for things that the people involved do not want at all. |
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| Azar gets irritated because she had been pestering him to leave. |
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| They have asked us to stop pestering them with questions. Meanwhile, individuals and families are in need, and this government is completely ignoring them. |
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| Well, Rodrigue kept pestering us about seeing Pétronille again. |
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| But somehow the word got around in pigeon circles that Benchley was antipigeon. They began pestering me. |
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| She was sick and tired of her daughter pestering her to help her with her homework. |
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| His nonvolatile demeanor was tested by the constant pestering. |
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| Those fusspots in the New Testament worryin' their wee heads off about meat that had been within smelling distance of an idol and pestering Paul about it. |
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