| My husband had been badgering me for months to tie up some savings in the bonds. |
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| The friend that's always badgering you about why you're upset, the brother that wants an account of every boy his sister hangs out with. |
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| After much badgering and a spectacular case of the sulks, Mum admitted defeat, unlocked the safe and sent us to a proper barber shop. |
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| On the night of the shooting, Jaw had been badgering her about her past relationships and insisted on seeing copies of recent e-mails. |
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| You can almost see the foam dripping from their mouths as they behave like lawyers badgering a witness. |
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| This is merely badgering the witness and editorialising, so you know, Senator, on both grounds your propositions are out of order. |
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| He says he was only cajoled into being a public figure by his wife and son badgering him to avoid the silent comforts of the library. |
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| But I have, for a long time, called him Badger, for his propensity of badgering and harassing young women with whom he fancies himself in love. |
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| She had hoped her brief explosion in words would have ceased his badgering. |
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| I could easily imagine Aaron Spelling bumping into Hackman at the Playboy Club and badgering him into a quick walk-on. |
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| The larger of the two, Arlen, comes across as an insecure bully, flaunting his juvenile snake tattoo and badgering Muldrow with idle threats. |
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| But not even the badgering from the rational side of her mind was helping to shake her feeling of contentedness. |
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| My guess is, that clerk didn't feel stupid about it at all, until the Times reporter started badgering him. |
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| He hated his mother for physically and mentally badgering him to fulfil her wishes. |
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| Not long after Thompson scored, O'Neill started badgering his team from the sideline, a process that never really relented until the end. |
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| By badgering and buying ten PPP members, PML-Q formed a coalition government. |
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| I made all the offices badgering the police officers and waiting ten minutes in ten minutes to have my passport. |
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| I have been badgering the government for years to plug that outrageous tax loophole. |
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| I will go through the blues for tonight to see how much time we spent on badgering on data rather than on ideas on how we should move forward. |
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| To those press people and television reporters badgering me, it was easy for them to talk about George in the past tense even as he lay on a hospital bed. |
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| Right in the middle of the track under a badgering sand wind, suddenly emerges behind a dune, a water fraiche oasis and fountain! |
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| When the fire truck and several jeep-loads of police began arriving at 10.05 am, spectators crowded the media and began badgering officials for news. |
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| Ranking ecclesiastics took up the time of U.S. decision makers, badgering them about whether they had thought of this possible consequence or that. |
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| Is the News of the World suggesting that the BBC should have released his name sooner so that other journalists could start badgering him earlier over the affair? |
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| At that time Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee were badgering her about legislating from the bench. |
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| There is no mind-jarring pop music to shred your thoughts and, more importantly, no irksome rash of timeshare touts badgering you to buy a dream in the sun. |
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| Emma campaigned for years, raising a petition and badgering councillors. |
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| One thing he has been badgering the firm's founders to do is use their technology to create a universal, self-directed invention machine. |
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| Mr. Benoit, I hate to use this term, but I think you're bordering on badgering Colonel Scott on this. |
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| They kept on badgering me about the project over the next three or four years. |
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| My roommates kept on badgering me about the rent and the monthly expenses. |
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| One BBC source said they expected Labour leader Ed Miliband would be badgering the corporation to come on to Radio 2 to read out listener text messages next week. |
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| It is surprising that it has taken the ECB so long to think about cutting rates. European politicians have been badgering the independent bank to ease policy for a while. |
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| Mr Murakami is badgering local asset managers, who hold many of the remaining shares and have been sitting on the fence, to shake off their complacency and vote with their wallets. |
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| Meanwhile the government has been badgering disabled people. |
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| However, in terms of the collection practices, even on ordinary consumer debt, we have seen badgering, threatening and all kinds of terrible things. |
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| I think these questions can be answered without getting very aggressive, and I think referring to people being duped or not, we're getting close to the badgering thing. |
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| I've been badgering the CRTC about this for nearly twenty years. |
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| Following the 1908 general election, and after much badgering, the prime minister, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, finally agreed to create the new department. |
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| I really had no opinion on the matter before you started badgering me. |
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| This is the kind of information we garner when we actually listen to witnesses with an open mind, as opposed to badgering them with ideological rhetoric, as has been the case with the NDP when witnesses appear. |
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| However your wife is badgering you about the wedding list. |
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| As Tom writes, they will be badgering for an increase in their own old age pension eventually. |
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| I think he probably did rather a lot of badgering and chivvying. |
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