How To Use Ki In A Sentence
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There were 42 free-kicks, two penalties, four bookings and three players sent off, two of whom had to be escorted from the pitch by police.
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When we see her, we remember that hot July day doing five knots pulling Jess and Jerry on a tube and Russ skippering his first yacht.
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Some were members of Turkey's elite military class known as "pashas," a title of respect harking back to Ottoman military commanders Monday for allegedly planning to blow up mosques in order to trigger a military takeover and overthrow the
WN.com - Photown News
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Blackpool Scorpions notched their first away win of the season against a good attacking Leigh team.
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Luckily, I have a very understanding boss.
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Laura Wade's Posh, timed to open as the Tories edged into power in May 2010, reminded us just what we were in for: overprivileged hooligans in drinking-society blazers who trash a pub as thoughtlessly as they will trash the country.
Dominic Cooke: a life in theatre
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Some of the crew went off-shift, stringing up hybrid bunks and hammocks belowdecks, the others continued working.
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Elisabeth found herself with a straggle of colonists in a mosquito-ridden, uncleared jungle where sandflies bored into the skin of the feet and the clay soil was so intractable that nothing would grow.
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When the King heard this, he bade his son be slain; but on the next day the second Wazir came forward for intercession and kissed ground in prostration.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Which is stupid, considering the drivers around here A: Don't normally stop for people and in fact have been caught trying to sneak ~around~ them and B: I've been nicked several times and almost hit three times different instances last summer attempting to obey the biking laws, none of those for mistakes on my part as I've been scared shitless at the lack of aware driving that's crept over my town.
The funny thing about Pain..... (Let's talk trauma!)
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The protests were going on about 1 kilometers away in the main street and some of the protesting crowd were running from tear gass used among them, towards Salehi St. The film is shot by my friend who was standing beside me.
Iran Election Live-Blogging (Saturday June 20 Part II)
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The main square is called “Rynek” (which basically means “central market place”), and in the middle there are two buildings: “Ratusz” or City Hall (compare with German “Rathaus”) and “Sukiennice”, a long one-level building not unlike a bazaar, filled with stores.
Matthew Yglesias » Krakow
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Demos they may be but these Hazlewood rarities are rounded, rustic country songs: lustrous and lustful, quirkily and dryly humorous, yet poignant stories from the other side of love.
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The battery-operated doll comes complete with walkie-talkie and a wardrobe choice of military fatigues or bolero jacket and gold trousers.
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Moreover, Mr Webb's point about what he calls disinterested management -- that is to say, the management of banks by officers whose remuneration bears no relation to the profit made on each piece of business transacted -- is one of the matters in which English banking seems likely at least to be modified.
War-Time Financial Problems
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The lizard's light brown skin acts as camouflage in the desert sand.
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Assuming that 15 pound breaking strain line is used, an angler using monofilament might have to use a six or eight ounce sinker and use a 20 lb class rod to carry that sinker weight.
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The Pepper Street gang, of which Jackie was the acknowledged leader, was not a gang of drug-selling hoods.
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Secondly, he makes the team too much money, raking in ticket and merchandise sales like crazy.
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I learned how to negotiate fights between adolescent girls without making it seem like parental interference.
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Our ambition is to build a prosperous, inclusive and outward-looking country.
Times, Sunday Times
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In 1850 Joy and Edward Wilson patented twin boilers working in parallel within the same casing.
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Leaked Reports Detail Iran's Aid for Iraqi Militias," blared the headline on afront page story inThe New York Times, which went on to report on several incidents recounted in WikiLeaks documents that journalist Michael Gordon called "the shadow war between the United States and Iraqi militias backed by Iran's Revolutionary Guards.
Ali Gharib: What Did WikiLeaks Really Tell Us About Iran?
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But they have an undeniable gentleness and elephantine beauty about them, with their hanging folds of skin and ponderous outlook on life.
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If there was any hope of holding on to even a shred of her dwindling self-respect, she should do exactly what she knew Margo would do—close the laptop, take her de-scrunchied, perfumed, and nearly thonged self down to the nearest club, pick up the first passably good-looking stranger who asked her to dance, and bring him back to the apartment for some safe but anonymous sex.
Goodnight Tweetheart
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Kids at one Connecticut school don't like a new rule, but you probably won't hear them expressing themselves by using profanity: the rule to keep kids from cussing.
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If you lip balm contains phenol, camphor, menthol, peppermint oil or eucalyptus, it's most likely making your lips more chapped than not.
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A lot of them were marked, or born wrong, or crooked, or scabious, looking for help from the Nazarene, for some panacea.
A ROOMFUL OF BIRDS - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES 1990
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This causes verrucas to grow back into the skin, which can be painful.
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The performance had the legislature, including the subjects of the barbs, rocking with laughter.
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The Temple to the Hebrew God YHVH, built by King David, was destroyed and much of the Jewish population (Jew comes from the word Judah, one of the 12 tribes) were deported to Babylon, known to Jews as the Babylonian captivity.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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They missed it because they are too busy bootlicking ObamaCare, on their hands and knees.
Political Instability and the Coming Defeat of ObamaCare | RedState
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Bounties were paid right across a banking sector whose incompetence threw thousands of innocents into jeopardy.
Times, Sunday Times
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Having drop-dead gorgeous, private, windowed offices makes it a lot easier to recruit the kinds of superstars that produce ten times as much as the merely brilliant software developers.
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Instead of asking the fortunate few, why doesn't Ted asked the gifted masses of state employees to do a little giveback?
We're! Number! 5! (Jack Bog's Blog)
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We love our king, we just don't love the way he abuses our money," a Swazi friend once explained to me.
How long can Swaziland resist reform?
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The lady was kissing a little lap dog.
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So it's a little more than passing strange that Mr. Brooks clucks about Mr. Obama's "über-partisan budget" when, given the last few weeks of shrieking and wailing from the Republicans about socialism and communism, he's been the voice of moderation in the room.
Moderately Shocked
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After her husband died, Mary tried to kill herself.
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So, she ran round and round the scaffold with the executioner striking at her, and her grey hair bedabbled with blood; and even when they held her down upon the block she moved her head about to the last, resolved to be no party to her own barbarous murder.
A Child's History of England
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Distrust naturally creates distrust, and by nothing is good-will and kind conduct more speedily changed than by invidious jealousies and uncandid imputations, whether expressed or implied.
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It was almost like my old dad was winking at me to help me notice him.
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Would you stop making jokes at my expense?
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Serial killer plots (or subplots) just plain annoy me.
Great Things Come to Those Who Wait : The Kick-Ass Mystic Ninjas
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At least five people were killed when an overcrowded migrant boat capsized last month which was dramatically caught on camera by Italian coastguards.
The Sun
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Toast sandwiches in a dry skillet over medium-low heat until outside is golden brown and inside is delightfully melty, about 3 minutes per side.
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And we -- it does extent all the way up toward Jacksonville, all the way down into West Palm Beach, all the way over to Fort Myers, and northward, almost kind of budging into the pan -- the Big Bend area, almost into the Panhandle, but not quite just yet.
CNN Transcript Sep 5, 2004
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It is murder trying to find a parking place for the car.
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The forecasts have been asking us to watch out for thunderclouds and thundershowers for a long while now.
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The overseer, a great strong man, cracking his "blacksnake" from time to time, to enforce authority, excited our strong indignation.
'Three Score Years and Ten' Life-Long Memories of Fort Snelling, Minnesota, and Other Parts of the West
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I blame it all on becca who called me in the middle of the night to talk to me all about how the two best friends names are Kate and Becca and that the main character lives in apartment 601 as my address and other kooky details that i have been trying to forget nightly since i saw that movie, And then every sound is that kid coming out of the television and im only writing about it now in order to expunge as i fear she will grab hold of my foot from under the desk and eat me or turn me into something decomposing or whatever it is she does.
I-claudius Diary Entry
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I had a quick kip after lunch.
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Because wheat emerges so quickly, weeds must be killed before drilling using tillage or contact herbicides.
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The film also stars Jared Leto as Alexander's special boyhood chum, Rosario Dawson as his sex-starved wife, Angelina Jolie as his nagging mother and Val Kilmer as his abusive father.
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We had 24 people that were killed outright on the bus, of the 40 patients that were on there.
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Horatia was still in mourning for her mother, and wore a black skirt, but Lucilla's was of rich deep gentianella-coloured silk, and the buttons of her white vest were of beautiful coral.
Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster
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The building is dark brick topped by pinky-coloured concrete block walls, white plastic-looking fascia board, black plastic guttering and an artificial slate roof.
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The breaking of a branch under my foot alarmed the deer.
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Mostly, however, she seems to be held in some kind of incommunicado status until they need a sound bite, and then they throw the power switch, download the text and out she spits it, with all the emotion of an automaton.
Condi a Waste of Time
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In any event, when making a case against the indivisibility of Sinitic, it is not necessary to rebut each of these "common" features individually, since they are largely or wholly extralinguistic.
Language Log
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And I think the resort is about 25% overpriced, considering the worn-down state of the place and the fact you can get a two-night package at the definitely more upmarket Avillion in Port Dickson (also not really PD, but a dozen kilometres south) from about RM800 as well.
Vacations: Tiara Beach Resort — Fusion Despatches
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One man's ‘most respected occult books around’ are another man's old hat ripe for a kicking.
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Interior spaces may also be gendered: the author explores both the activities particular to women, such as needlework or lace-making, and the objects related to female and maternal domesticity.
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I can, however tell you that AB is absolutely freaking awesome!!
What I've been doing this morning...
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The King looked at him and seeing him to be yet comelier than his daughter and goodlier than she in stature and proportion and brightness and perfection, said to him,
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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The human was definitely looking at her.
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While the alpine end of the sport needs only cold weather to produce skiable terrain, cross-country must have snow.
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Looking through the casement was the visage of the mariner, no longer stern, but moved with unutterable emotion, and tears, yes, tears trickling down his weather-beaten cheeks.
Edward Barnett; a Neglected Child of South Carolina, Who Rose to Be a Peer of Great Britain,—and the Stormy Life of His Grandfather, Captain Williams or, The Earle's Victims: with an Account of the Terrible End of the Proud Earl De Montford, the Lamen
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Beyond the stand of trees, well away from the road, the hiking trail became dark.
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He was afraid of waking up in the morning and finding that Jessie was dead.
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Cornwall, the which abbeie Henrie de la Pomerey chasing out the moonks, had fortified against the king, and hearing newes of the kings returne home, died (as it was thought) for méere gréefe and feare.
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (6 of 12) Richard the First
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Most rural stations had a staff of at least six, and perhaps up to a dozen, who them carried out the duties of stationmaster, signalman, booking clerk, ticket collector, porter, shunter, lengthman and lampman.
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The euphoria reached phenomenal levels when the kids got a chance to share the stage with their stars.
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The chapel or church claims greater antiquity than any other in that part of the kingdom; but there is no appearance of this in the external aspect of the present edifice, unless it be in the two eastern windows, which remain unmodernized, and in the lower part of the steeple.
The Life of Charlotte Bronte
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Over 20 factors were analyzed amongst the DUI attorneys sampled, including whether free consultations are offered, if a lawyer is willing to do 'outcall' (meaning they will meet with potential clients outside the office), how aggressive the defense of the client is, the degree to which each client is offered access to their lawyer, how much time is spent with each client talking by phone or over email, and other factors.
WebWire | Recent Headlines
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A 19-year-old man was killed and four other people, including a pregnant woman, were injured when their car was riddled with bullets by the soldiers.
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I do not of course mean, Heaven forbid! that people should try to converse seriously; that results in the worst kind of dreariness, in feeling, as Stevenson said, that one has the brain of a sheep and the eyes of a boiled codfish.
From a College Window
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It will take away from the classic perspective of looking at city hall dead on.
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She told the children to pipe down while she was talking on the telephone.
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Meanwhile, Mr. Christie is taking the same tact in what he described as a "passionate" relationship with Mr. Sweeney, who has the power to single-handedly block bills.
Christie, Sweeney in Standoff Over Funds
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Apparently some people have an inborn tendency to develop certain kinds of tumour.
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Mewme was an old cat not like the playful little kitten that Alison had first encountered after her mother entered her life.
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Winky luved tu drinking frum deh water fawsitt…. she liking hur wadder fresh…it wuz a sinky-drinky fur deh winky-binky.
Like the new bowl. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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There are but three ways of living: by working, by stealing, or by begging.
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I guess I'm essentially a kind of deist of some kind as well.
There Is A God
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As doctors we are all too aware of the natural causes of death, such as cancer and heart disease, the top killers.
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Thrice a day, the performers have been taking to the stage under the massive fireproof tents, which can accommodate up to 2,500 viewers.
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· The tailstock quill is brought into working position (Fig. 14) whereby special attention must be given to quill cleanliness.
3. Preparations for thread cutting by dies and taps
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He admitted killing her but denied murder on the grounds of diminished responsibility and loss of control.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her dress showed her tanned skin to great advantage.
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Acrylamide is produced during cooking, particularly high-temperature processes such as frying and roasting.
Times, Sunday Times
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We're looking at some idea that it might be a colder than normal winter in the Northeast and Midwest.
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A cosmetic change to alter the face of the offside rule Talking point.
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So I opened each pod one by one, plucking the beans inside.
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However, O'Kane's favourite pastime is hillwalking in the Wicklow hills.
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The air smells like moist potting soil, the skin of potatoes… the damp chalk of limestone.
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It was part of Rolls-Royce, one of the world's largest manufacturers of jet engines, which grew out of the original car-making company founded by Henry Rolls.
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Labor economics has become virtually a branch of applied econometrics, with the usual large data sets and headless horsemen running around looking for patterns.
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I mean, who doesn't want a product that is easier to use, has less locking contention, minimizes storage administration, makes access to administrative data easier, and so on?
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Today he is slightly less bullish about the book and his boardroom skills.
Times, Sunday Times
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It explains why some people must have a full eight hours' kip while others get away with half that.
The Sun
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Of course, this kid dreams of a place like this island, where nobody works except to keep house and pick wild blueberries and beachcomb.
Diary
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As surveyor and topographer, he took on the task of making sketches of the stockades.
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Mediterranean to look out for a French and Spanish squadron, which had been on the coast of Portugal, but returned to Ferrol --- I received all your letters by the Turkish corvette, which is arrived at Messina.
The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2
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Another group of supervisors from light manufacturing industry are undertaking a conversion course to catering supervisor.
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This wonder product keeps brows looking sleek all day.
The Sun
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Unless you're willing to bone up on the subject, you're better off to assess his technical ability by asking for references and checking them out.
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Speaking of pal Dorian, he's mentioned to me a couple times at work that somewhere on the John Byrne Forum, some industrious individual "rewrote" events in Identity Crisis so that You-Know-Who wasn't sexually assaulted and killed.
Archive 2004-07-18
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That creaking sound you hear?
Times, Sunday Times
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Locked into declining industries and a shrinking public sector, unions have become ineffective.
Times, Sunday Times
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I was talking to a mom today whose daughter's elementary teacher said she was afraid that her daughter had "selective mutism.
Canard - French Word-A-Day
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Ideas for friends to run a restaurant seem like wishful thinking but they may just work.
The Sun
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Considering my diminutiveness, the size of the pail in my lap, and my drinking out of it my breath held and my face buried to the ears in foam, it was rather difficult to estimate how much I drank.
Chapter 3
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The ordinary piki is shaped into loose rolls about 10 inches long and two inches in diameter, but the wedding piki is folded into flat pieces about 8 inches square.
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Indeed, the punsters might come over and kick your wrasse.
Making Light: Boomdeyada boomdeyada boomdeyada boomdeyada
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It's worth taking chances when you're shooting at a chance of fame and wealth.
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Sharp may have been the victim of a gangland revenge killing.
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In June 2004, the Post Exchange here was mortared, killing two Soldiers and wounding more than a dozen additional troops.
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I was totally expecting you to say that you read a section looking for the miscut part and got yourself hideously freaked out for the bike ride home.
Cooperative Blog » Blog Archive » Stephen King
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One of the earliest lullabies in English was written during the time of King Edward II of England in the 14th century.
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Making a flip book involves using the corner of a sketch pad to illustrate individual still frames of cartoon movement.
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If you defocus from the embedded Zoho Writer you pretty much kill it.
The problem with mash-ups « Squash
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Its heroes were beastly revellers or cruel and ferocious plunderers; its heroines unsexed hoidens, playing the ugliest tricks with their lovers, and repaying slights with bloody revenge, -- very dangerous and unsatisfactory companions for any other than the fire - eating Vikings and redhanded, unwashed Berserkers.
The Conflict with Slavery and Others, Complete, Volume VII, The Works of Whittier: the Conflict with Slavery, Politics and Reform, the Inner Life and Criticism
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A minute later Arsenal extended their lead after breaking with searing pace.
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Now the word "prayer" to non-Muslim readers will evoke an image of people perhaps silently clasping their hands together, leaning forward in a pew, and either silently, to themselves, or in a quiet tone, speaking heartfeltly to God.
David Horowitz Freedom Center
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And then I got there and they're like, no, you're writing sketches for other people, which I had never done and I was really kind of bummed because I had auditioned like two or three times.
Zach Galifianakis: A Comedic Actor Takes A Dark Turn
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Probably the trickiest green on the course.
The Sun
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Does smoking contribute to lung cancer?
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Ray was knocking them down one by one, unlike his tragic ancestor who only knocked himself down.
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Basically, it is a fish stew mixed with squash, sweet potatoes, okra, tamarind, and different kinds of peppers.
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They were making plans to move north, to protect their border from the Kariens.
TREASON KEEP
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Thanks to her doctor’s recommendations she finds herself feeling decafargic by noon. cardiacpopups – the messages that popup on your computer when you are in the middle of an important project and warn you that your computer is about to conk out. on 07 Sep 2007 at 5: 52 pm Kimberly defurrify – to remove pet hair/dander from a person or thing on 07 Sep 2007 at 6: 12 pm Heather
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Writer Unboxed’s CONTEST, CONTEST!
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Taking up the whole stage included three guitarists, a bass player, one on drums, and a xylophonist, but this time no microphone in sight.
FasterLouder.com.au > Your Access All Areas pass to the latest in Australian rock music! News, Reviews, Photos, Forums and more
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My husband wants to know what kind of millage it gets.
Sunday Sweets: You "Auto" Watch
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Genetic factors, scientists believe, account for 70% of cocaine addiction, making it as heritable as schizophrenia and other mental health conditions.
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Its route will pass mainly through soft rock and above deep-lying, brackish ground water.
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The social networking giant has admitted excluding views of less than three seconds from its figures.
Times, Sunday Times
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The art of writing a good chess program is thinking of efficient short cuts through the search-space.
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I thought all my relo's in America were skinny… like the one's here.
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Recruit rich white republicunts (carpetbaggers) to swoop in and scoop-up "devalued" (seized from still-exiled owners) properties and change the entire complexion (race, income, politics, everyfuckingthing) of the ENTIRE GREATER NEW ORLEANS AREA.
Your Right Hand Thief
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Kij: Nice to see Dream-Quest receive such prominence with that fantastic Gervasio Gallardo cover, inseparable from the contents thanks to childhood associations very similar to yours.
MIND MELD: Books That Hold Special Places in Our Hearts and On Our Shelves
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My monitor fills with images of two men saluting, grinning thumbs up or looking dead serious.
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With most of Bradford's other income coming from mortgage broking, estate agency and property surveying, the decent yield really is at the mercy of house prices.
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The trails should provide a skiing flow so there aren't too many long uphills or sharp turns at the bottom of steep downhills.
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Go for almonds with their skins, walnuts and hazelnuts.
Times, Sunday Times
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I don't think you're playing devil's advocate (a word every/filmer seems to want use) simply by making entirely senseless comparisons between films like Transformers and There Will Be Blood, and ranting on with points of view that even someone in defense of Transformers would never use.
Things I Noticed While Watching 20 Minutes of JJ Abrams’ Star Trek | /Film
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This seems like an unnecessary attention-seeking tactic, making sure we notice a particularly sleazy line.
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To wake up with her belly-up and demanding affection is to have your heart explode with the kind of joy that compels some people into a life of large-scale oil painting.
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It will not matter, however, whether the part-timer or the full-timer are working on fixed-term or permanent contracts.
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She had sore feet from walking on hard pavements all day.
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And the people who were subjected to hard yakka, slave labour if you want, or removal from islands because of drinking problems or fighting and they have complete hate and they've handed it down generationally.
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Seven years before US Surgeon General Luther Terry would announce a link between smoking and cancer, this information was political and business dynamite.
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Actually, I was thinking of M&P on top of the CP, as a cover for the paper, but since the water in CP would make it wet to pour on top of the paper, dunno.
Microsoft Soap - Set Up
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It is true that, even at the time of the discovery of nitrobenzol, he pointed out the striking similarity of its smell to that of the oil of bitter almonds.
The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants
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Could the hearts of kings and the counsels of cabinets be known with that literal exactness which is so desirable in politics, and yet so unattainable, we should probably find that Prussia's apparent readiness to lead Germany was owing to her determination that German armies should be led nowhere to the assistance of Austria.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861
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She's stopped talking except for monosyllables.
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They spent many hours searching in commercial databases, looking for abstracts and full-text articles.
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A second wave of emigrations of Ashkenazic Jews from Eastern Europe at the end of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries brought larger numbers of Yiddish-speaking, traditional Orthodox Jews into the Seattle community.
Weaving Women's Words: Seattle Stories
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She is good-hearted and took pity on my pathetic form whenever I was sent to the kitchens by my mistresses.
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Even I, a tolerant representative of the Middle Way, found myself blinking at this unquestionably Romish style of adornment.
ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
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This is exactly the kind of nitwittery that mikey is addicted to.
BuzzFlash.net: published
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I have found men who didn't know how to kiss. I've always found time to teach them. Mae West
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Regardless of how skilled she knew she was, the extreme risk and danger of what she was about to undertake wasn't lost on her.
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Phase I called for dewatering and rehabilitating the No.6 shaft, sinking the shaft to the 45th level, cutting seven level stations, and diamond drilling the conglomerate bed.
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Looking at Yankee Stadium (home of the world champion Yankees) it appears you can buy a ticket for one of the nosebleed seats, and then after the game starts pick any seat you want from about row 10 up.
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The fact that your name adorned a jet over the skies over Afghanistan solidifies the bond all of us in the military share with the American people.
CNN Transcript Mar 17, 2002
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Management has not succeeded in breaking the strike.
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However, this morning the number key containing the dollar sign stopped working, followed by the delete key and the return key.
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The genes for cell division did not evolve to separate different kinds of fish.
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Saint – Germain, the king accorded letters-patent; and all the rest, abbatial charter, and royal letters, was confirmed in 1654 by the Chamber of Accounts and the Parliament.
Les Miserables
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Lefebvre V, Peeters-Joris C, Vaes G. Modulation by interleukin 1 and tumor necrosis factor alpha of production of collagenase, tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinases and collagen types in differentiated and dedifferentiated articular chondrocytes.
Recently Uploaded Slideshows
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This cooperative family decision-making has much to recommend it.
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Pressure difference adhesion and a kinetic pectoral girdle thus allow the clingfish to exploit a food resource unavailable to many other predators.
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The only constant linking it all is that it qualifies as, for lack of a better term, neat.
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People can't change their gender, skin color, or hair texture.
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Everything else is kind of lumped into the "overbooked" category that people say we see far too often in TNA.
PWTorch.com
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Among these are the best specimen of the dome-skulled chalicothere Tylocephalonyx skinneri, and type specimens of several other mammals, including rodents, oreodonts and carnivores.
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They butchered the film, hacking and splicing it, grinding their heels into Sergio's soul.
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They need to pinpoint exactly what skills are necessary.
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Unemployment has hit unskilled workers in particular.
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It is not just getting used to the layout of new streets and kitchen and neighbours.
Times, Sunday Times
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They had to make do with kitchen tuffets, orange boxes, a piano stool and a rocking chair borrowed from next door.
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Already well dispersed, they probably acquired iron technology around 500 C.E. On their route eastward, the Bantu speakers skirted the northern forest edge toward the interlacustrine region of East Africa.
D. Africa, 500-1500
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They kicked out our competent people and posted nincompoops.
Times, Sunday Times
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Firefighters said a man had taken off a valve before realising gas was still leaking out.
The Sun
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Regin downshifted, tires squealing as she swerved to dodge a roadkill-bound possum.
Dreams of a Dark Warrior
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Except that in Latin a ship's prow was called a rostrum and the plural of rostrum was rostra so they called the speaking platform rostra.
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We truly are much more team oriented and friendlike to our children than parents have tended to be in the past, in large part because we too identify with many of the peer and academic pressures that kids now face.
Childhood Unbound
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It joins a host of other multinational businesses making similar pledges.
Times, Sunday Times
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Thus, transitive verbs in idiomatic expressions frequently will not passivize (the cowboy kicked the bucket, but not * the bucket was kicked by the cowboy).
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol III No 4
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This patronising voice with a whine and an awful regional accent was talking.
Times, Sunday Times
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I disagreed with something…kind of bristled at how something was characterized and was piled on.
Scott Brown Posed in Cosmo’s Center-Fold 28 Years Ago — And So What? - Dan_Perrin’s blog - RedState
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Luckily I didn't hurt myself when I fell.
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(Applause) Without boasting, without any kind of immodesty, that is how we Cuban revolutionaries understand our internationalist duty.
TRICONTINENTAL CONFERENCE
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Prissy, looking up, saw her and her mouth opened to yell.
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I felt something akin to the tender hatred one can sense when staring hard at a photograph of oneself.
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In an attempt to thwart piracy of its music, the label equipped a collection of 52 album releases with a type of software known as a rootkit.
ITnews Australia
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The 886 Professional thermostat/reactor is said to be the ideal complement to the system for any kind of derivatisation.
Laboratorytalk - laboratory industry news
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I'm glad the kid is alright and I hope Angel Rest in Peace!!!
Golden Retriever Thwarts Cougar Attack in B.C.
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I was filming a music video in Central Kingston in the middle of general elections, when gunmen shot up a group of people on the corner playing ludo (snakes and ladders) and dominoes.
