(1) Unscrupulous companies will instead pester you with annoying phone calls or unannounced visits.

(2) Emily split up from Rushton but he pestered her with constant text messages and phone calls.

(3) He irritates me because each time I pass, he blocks my way and pesters me to give money, and wastes my time.

(4) 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.

(5) Poor Sarah Jane must have been wearing something that they liked as she was pestered from the moment we arrived.

(6) If your children are pestering you for super-trendy labelled gear, this is the place to visit.

(7) Thank you to everyone who tolerated my pestering emails (I'm a good pesterer ).

(8) I don't want a situation that we had in the past where people were pestering players for tickets ahead of big games.

(9) Most of the popular girls from my school constantly pestered me for a picture of him, but I never gave them anything.

(10) He later bombarded the 43-year-old woman with calls on her mobile phone, pestering her for a date.

(11) In 1975 she pestered her parents to go to see The Osmonds perform live at Earls Court in London.

(12) While on the hunt for a new job, she becomes fascinated with the middle-aged manager of a middle-aged clothing store and pesters him into hiring her.

(13) If he keeps pestering you, talk to a school guidance counselor or other adult you trust to intervene.

(14) He pestered his mother for a piano, and soon was trying to replicate the sound on a tiny Casio keyboard.

(15) The more she pesters him with emotional calls, the more irritated he becomes.

(16) No waiters pestered us to buy more drinks or ask us to vacate the table, even though there were probably hungry diners waiting upstairs.

(17) She pestered her parents for years to let her go to Germany, with which she had developed a fascination.

(18) Hayley apologises to Lisa for sticking her nose in the other day and pestering her about her husband, Alan.

(19) My wife had been pestering me to take her shopping for the boys' presents, and I had been putting her off.

(20) The idea of running around pestering my friends for votes is quite distasteful.