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  • By an amazing twist of fate, matey, you're talking to the bloke with an honours degree in Spanish and Portuguese.
  • Frost had displayed his usual matey charm as the pair sipped orange juice on national TV.
  • Her most memorable roles are stamped with her trademark characteristics, by turns wry, matey and spikily defiant.
  • The next flurry was caused by Matey herself and passed into the school's annals. ADRIENNE AND THE CHALET SCHOOL
  • Why would a hacker break company rules and commit a sackable offence simply to write a matey-matey email to Marwood? From Partridge to Brent – why the jokes have stopped for Garry Cook
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  • No wonder you have to take it out on children, matey.
  • 'Okay, so one pirate says to the other," Hey, matey, how'd you get that wooden leg? OFF THE CHART
  • She's been very matey with the boss lately.
  • He has a lazy, matey sort of north London accent, longingly smokes each cigarette, as if it is his last, and has an acerbic wit, usually directed against himself.
  • He rolled his swag out and he said, ‘Rolled out your swag for you, matey, you can camp here’, or something like that.
  • The matey management style has been replaced by the good cop, bad cop double act.
  • Which was where she fled and Matey was left to inveigh against the idea to the empty air. ADRIENNE AND THE CHALET SCHOOL
  • If you are hopeless, matey, you're certainly not alone…
  • Hardly surprising, given the carve-up job matey had done on her in the kitchen. RIOT
  • Go and meet some real workers some day and support an under dog for once instead of the managerial ‘over dog’, matey.
  • As Snaithe reached the end of his speech, he turned half in the direction of Sue, and his voice became lower, even matey. POLITICAL SUICIDE
  • From being a little bitter it had become increasingly affectionate, as Matey had shrewdly noted.
  • Evelyn also grinned, but that matey `Evie" helped to relieve her of some of her trouble. CHALLENGE FOR THE CHALET SCHOOL
  • Most everyone at Parliament, even Winston, is quite matey with Rodney.
  • Even the matey chattiness wore through my cynical armour after a while.
  • It was the greater cause of joy to everyone in that Matey was seldom or never caught napping. ADRIENNE AND THE CHALET SCHOOL
  • He could drink as much as the next man, but there was still something about him that seemed to hold back as the evening developed into the usual matey banter about football rivalries.
  • I'll give you a hint - if you need to advertise (and if you're going to use that photo) you're beyond help, matey
  • To which Reginald riposted: ‘Oh yes you do, if you live in the South Hams, matey.’
  • The pub's sole other occupant, a middle aged man, addressed me in a posh, matey voice.
  • Well, he said it… anyway, who cares, the news bulletins were chocker with matey golfing pictures that night, as was every paper next morning.
  • Is that a good idea to explore the conversation or would it stifle it? tenuto not really sure what that is, actually thoughtfarmer After looking at six or eight products last summer, [Hicks Morley] settled on ThoughtFarmer (www. thoughtfarmer.com), server-based wayneyeager - Ctrl+v = automateyourbusiness wfreds external link to eDM case topics zackgonzales Franchise Development 78 Product Engineering 77 Paste to Win! (A Twitter Contest) - Anil Dash
  • Imagine my surprise when he failed to succumb to my charms and rather politely put me in a cab and sent me home without so much as a matey punch on the arm.
  • Yes, and we'll carry on being in denial until you sort your statistics out, matey.
  • No one does matey bonhomie better than him.
  • To which they replied: ‘Clearly not you, matey.’
  • Three penn'orth o 'whiting's good enough for me, matey," said Captain More Cargoes 1897
  • He has a lazy, matey sort of north London accent, longingly smokes each cigarette, as if it is his last, and has an acerbic wit, usually directed against himself.
  • I know Dean's lurked here at least a little, so on the off chance he's reading this, take care matey.
  • He lacked the friendly demeanour and matey style.
  • Lesley, you'd better scram to your own dormy or Matey will ask questions. CHALLENGE FOR THE CHALET SCHOOL
  • A Tory frontbencher, waiting to enter the Chamber while the Speaker's chaplain said prayers on the other side of the swing doors, was subjected to prolonged and matey chatter by the entire team of Treasury ministers.
  • The fans imagined they knew Lennon through his posturing, sincere or not; McCartney through his matey charm; Starr through his scouser-comic bit.
  • Lesley, you'd better scram to your own dormy or Matey will ask questions. CHALLENGE FOR THE CHALET SCHOOL
  • I hated myself for doing this, for being so completely suckered by the matey corporate chef.
  • Mel has become quite matey with the woman opposite, Sybille, who writes self help books and whose house smells strongly of incense.
  • Matey Weyburn's object of worship rode superior to a morality puffing its phrasy trumpet. Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Complete
  • Well it's not going to be because of me, matey, is it?
  • OK, so let's grant them a special closeness, a real soul-matey whoop-de-doop sorority. THE CALLIGRAPHER
  • Besides - I haven't heard from YOU in a while either matey!
  • You'll need more than that, matey, going by your opinion polls.
  • But don't be lulled by this snug, matey pedigree.
  • Lesley, you'd better scram to your own dormy or Matey will ask questions. CHALLENGE FOR THE CHALET SCHOOL
  • Which was where she fled and Matey was left to inveigh against the idea to the empty air. ADRIENNE AND THE CHALET SCHOOL
  • Pieces-of-Eight and shouting out "yarr, matey!" may have gone the way of the Dodo, but piracy is still a real threat on the world's seas. Archive 2008-03-01
  • Then you'll have all the answer you need, matey.
  • Of course it doesn't hurt that it's one of the songs where his matey big brother persona grates least.
  • And I thought, ‘Just you DARE say something rude, matey, and I'll be onto you!’
  • They defended each other against any accusation and began to walk to and from training together, forming little clusters of matey conspiracy between them.
  • It was this matey mentality that he, obsessed with his specialness, found maddening.
  • He is not a matey deity who shines a flashlight into some dark corner of his recalcitrant universe on demand.
  • Sorry, no treatment for you, matey!
  • It seemed a harmless, matey gesture towards Wimbledon's decent, docile supporters.
  • Though pleasantly matey, he has the fatigued, abstracted air of someone who has been summarising his CV in dressing rooms for three decades.
  • It was sufficiently bizarre to see men and women in their late sixties and seventies tottering around the decks wearing eye patches, death's head do-rags, and plastic hooks while muttering, ‘Avast, matey!’
  • Hardly surprising, given the carve-up job matey had done on her in the kitchen. RIOT
  • But whichever way he tilted his head, the bottom line still read: ‘Looks like you're going to lose, matey.’
  • It's selling the Big Issue from now on, matey, I reckon.
  • Set aside for the moment the friendly relationship with Respect that preceded the courtroom farce of Labour's candidate selection process, put temporarily from your mind some of his business connections, banish momentarily concerns that he's too matey by half with the Tower Hamlets religious right, and subject him to the basic whelk stall test. Tower Hamlets: ineptitude and nastiness marr Lutfur Rahman campaign
  • She doesn't realise she has; it's a matey thing.
  • He, matey thoroughgoing professional that he is, suffers from nothing of the sort.

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