How To Use Reckon In A Sentence
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I ` d like to see it minus bodywork to see if it ` s got smaller wheels than the big old hoops normal for the period, cos i reckon even tho the bodywork is quite wide, full lock would find large dia. wheels causing a few problems.
1930 Art Deco Henderson
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Rob also reckons that the south-west coast of Ireland has some of the best sailing grounds in the world - particularly around Roaring Water Bay in West Cork.
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It has since reassessed the situation and reckons that 0.25 per cent is possible.
Times, Sunday Times
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This thrust, though, is generally reckoned to grant sufficient dynamic counterplay.
Times, Sunday Times
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How many alcohol-free days do we reckon they have?
Times, Sunday Times
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Hence it became necessary to distinguish one from the other _by name_, and thus the notation from midnight gave rise, as I have remarked in one of my papers on Chaucer, to the English idiomatic phrase "of the clock;" or the reckoning of the clock, commencing at midnight, as distinguished from Roman equinoctial hours, commencing at six o'clock A.M. This was what Ben Jonson was meaning by attainment of majority at _six o'clock_, and not, as PROFESSOR DE M.RGAN supposes, "probably a certain sunrise.
Notes and Queries, Number 214, December 3, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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Officials concerned with environmental policy predict that a day of reckoning will come.
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I reckon we're in danger of raising a whole generation of undiscriminating couch potatoes afflicted by TV-induced Attention Deficit Disorder.
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The Kensington High Street rag reckons chuggers—paid workers who stop you in the street and persuade you to give over your bank details for charity—are well on their way out.
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People across the country might reckon we all go about with cloth caps and whippets but Yorkshire is a very beautiful county and perhaps we should be shouting about how wonderful the natural landscape is.
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At its deepest I reckoned the water might be waist high.
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I reckon he will arrive in Shanghai at noon.
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Her poetry is reckoned among the best-known this century.
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In some ways, the self-taught writer could be called the Southern godmother of feminism, an autodidactic intellectual who carved out her singular role as a woman to be reckoned with on her on terms, in her own idiosyncratic ways, in the most hallowed and male-dominated coven in the country--the Halls of Congress--a generation before Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton emerged on the national stage.
Jeff Biggers: "Office Holders Are Desperate": 180 Years Before HuffPo, Anne Royall's Wicked Blogs Held DC Accountable
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The analysts reckon consumer demand for laptops and notepads was behind the modest upturn.
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A fool always comes short of his reckoning.
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In the interests of finding a solution to the equation of how debt might be alleviated we offer this reckoning: less money to be spent on G8 junketing and more - much more - to be found for aid budgets.
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British Aerospace reckon that the plane will be commercially viable if 400 can be sold.
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He says he's going to complain to the manager, but I reckon he's all mouth.
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I reckon good old St Swithin is chuckling in his beard at the sight.
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They that reckon without their host are to reckon twice.
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They hope to add to their nest egg from the 100 that they reckon they can save each month.
Times, Sunday Times
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This has been going on for a week or so now, growing in intensity, and I reckon it'll reach a peak tomorrow or the day after.
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He had a knee injury, which put him out of the reckoning.
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Other than releasing small amounts of oil from the Reserve for very limited short term climatic or pipeline disruptions, extortionist high oil prices that were risking a national economic calamity were never adequate cause to tap the SPR in this administration's reckoning.
Raymond J. Learsy: Stop The Energy Department From Hiking Oil Prices By Reinstituting Purchases For The Strategic Petroleum Reserve
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These three writers can be viewed along a continuum of historical reckoning and self-identification, from complete self-negation and self-hatred, to a more holistic historical reckoning and ancestral identification.
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What I didn't reckon on was that this hormonal upheaval was also going to result in my voice breaking.
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And whereas some have attributed the Dominion to the Man onely, as being of the more excellent Sex; they misreckon in it.
Leviathan
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And the Aussies, the world's sledging experts, reckon he is a soft touch in that department.
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I reckon this happens a lot more than most people believe.
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If Khouri is as mentally unstable as the article implies then that's a bit harsh, don't you reckon?
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The family home was sold for £75,000, and with the little equity from that and Andy's redundancy money, they reckoned on having enough to tide them through 12 months of their new life.
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He reckons it will take 18 months to get the 4,000 programs in the software library built, and has taken the CD off the market.
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Then again, there are those who reckon that's a load of old tosh and who would love nothing more than to be a fly on the wall next time BT's chiefs get together.
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Justice permits the doer of evil to be held accountable for every iota of harm that ensues as a result of the evil act, and that reckoning can be terrible indeed.
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Inspired by prohibition in the US, his campaign soon gathered momentum and the Alliance became a political force to be reckoned with.
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Something I'd not reckoned on is the rather fine view of the old ranch house, snuggled down on the ridge of its unremarkable and unnamed hill and looking really rather attractive.
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Jejune pygmy. theirs decivilize bodily an unreckoned aquamarine amid than despite Credit card beyond providing seeing till beside bribe.
ON THE BUBBLE WITH ALEXANDRA SOKOLOFF
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I reckon winning the little urn in Australia was down to that dance.
The Sun
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He reckoned he should make a better fist at farming than educating.
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I reckon that gobby bitch who got slapped got all that she deserved (and look at her lapping up the publicity, even that leech Clifford is on it now).
Policeman killed - NO STORY. Woman slapped - BIG STORY. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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You can look at countless examples of that, of books that have lasted that you wouldn't have reckoned on lasting.
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There are reckoned to be about 400 billion stars in our galaxy, the Milky Way.
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After all the suffering that you have had to reckon with in the past, your present struggle will seem easy.
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And the new Boro chief reckons if bosses cannot take the heat they should go FISHING instead!
The Sun
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Hire charges are reckoned from the date of delivery.
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But there are far too many sassy waitresses, far too much Jim Beam in clinking glasses, far too many people reckoning instead of thinking – far too much caricature instead of character, in other words.
The OLM Blog
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Did she agree with his financial reckoning?
Times, Sunday Times
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Full back Marcus Bignot could come back into the reckoning after recovering from a knee ligament injury that has ruled him out since the second game of the season, but will more than likely start on the bench.
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They scratched this on a slab of slatelike rock, with a sharp iron awl; and, reckoning the present day as about October first, agreed that every waking-time they would cross off one square.
Darkness and Dawn
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Even our first parents ate themselves out of paradise; and Job's children junketed and feasted together often, but the reckoning cost them dear at last.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. II.
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How much do members reckon that had grown to by last year, the 2004 calendar year?
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Do you reckon I'm stupid enough to waste money on a no-account like you?
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He then proceeds to reckon up five others, not in our canon, which he calls in one place spurious, in another controverted, meaning, as appears to me, nearly the same thing by these two words.
Evidence of Christianity
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If Feely had a grudge he might well reckon it would be credible to put it round she'd harboured a well-known Shinner.
DARE CALL IT TREASON
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And since the party starts at 7pm, I reckon I can scarper shortly after 10 to get to the pub for last orders.
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But turning labour into a political force to be reckoned with in Alberta is a tall order, which McGowan clearly outlined in his paper.
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But there was always Leam in the background with whom he had to reckon -- Leam, who wandered through the house in her straight-cut, plain black gown, made in the deepest fashion of mourning devisable, pale, silent, feverish, like an avenging spirit on his track; undoing what he had done if he had profaned an embodied memory of her mother, and as impervious to his anger as he was to her despair.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876
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And they reckoned he may have been wreaking more havoc in Austria.
The Sun
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I was fed up with all those portents of doom and reckon the series could benefit from a brutal change of direction.
The Sun
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Toronto-based broker Brockhouse Cooper reckons a spike in oil prices to $130 a barrel would lower U.S. industrial-production growth from roughly 5% annually to about 4%.
Dollar's Haven Allure Slips on the Oil Patch
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He reckons they're too soft on mass murderers and says they ought to be strung up.
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By the time the number of examples of myths, false assertions and cases of deliberate disinformation had reached 40 I reckoned it was time to publish them.
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If the critics have ways of bringing about this changed pattern of cropping, why don't they simply do it, and stop wasting their time attacking a system that by their reckoning is a failure?
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When the financial reckoning comes, a lot of debts will go unpaid.
Times, Sunday Times
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Now I know not whether Shoaib is the fastest ever (and this is not a forum for that chestnut) although I reckon that when on the rampage, before he let the ball go, he would have overtaken in his run-up anything bowled by Paul Collingwood, and know that the fastest single delivery I ever saw castled the New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming in the semi-final of the 1999 World Cup.
Shaun Tait is certainly very fast, but 100mph?
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Arthur reckoned with some justification that he had had ‘a charmed life.’
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We did do the maths and we both reckoned we were going to lose quite a lot just because of the way the membership renewal works.
Times, Sunday Times
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Reckon up all your money and see if you have enough.
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I reckon," he continued, solemnly, peering at the other from under his rusty hat-brim, "I reckon when you see him, maybe you'll want to put a kind of codicil to that deed to the 'Herald.'
The Gentleman from Indiana
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We reckon that he's the "gasoline-powered" out of the two - has more varoom in the motor but can't go far.
Rubber Slippers In Italy
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Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age. John Dryden
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She reckons you can get away with virtually anything, particularly acid colours.
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He also reckoned he needed his motor to go to band rehearsals.
The Sun
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She was widely reckoned the best actress of her generation.
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Don't know what it is that's making me so clucky lately, but I reckon it's the new addition to my now trio of adored and spoilt nephews way back in the motherland.
Lily-white Diary Entry
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Upon a wilderness of ocean the human psyche makes a reckoning with its own essential loneliness.
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She reckoned he just wanted to doss off early because it was opening night for a Pinter play.
JUST BETWEEN US
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We reckon it will probably be keeping more than wild animals at bay.
The Sun
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I reckon I must be the owner of the biggest slipper in the world.
Times, Sunday Times
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Reckon yo 'hain't gwine ter fergit I paid five fer de table," murmured this meek son of Africa.
The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives
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I suppose it's the day of reckoning for him as it his first run over fences.
The Sun
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One suggestion I would make is that the sense of ouai doesn't seem judgmental, as "reckoning" would imply that there will be a reckoning upon you (and there's no indication that the interjection is present progressive or gerundial), but purely interjectory along the lines of "poor you.
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With Darren Gough, Matthew Hoggard and Kirby all out of the reckoning, Yorkshire will be preparing a pitch which is receptive to spin rather than pace and both Richard Dawson and Andy Gray are expected to play.
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The reckoning must be that that payment will be made.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then she took reckoning of the dead and found that he had slain fourscore of the Knights, and other twenty had taken to flight. 202 When she saw what work he had made with them she said to him, Allah bless thee, O Sharrkan!
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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They reckon complex charges and poor or misleading information mean we pay too much.
The Sun
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Don't listen to him - he reckons that every city is a hellish cesspit of hatred and evil.
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If bond prices rise, it could imply that experts reckon economic conditions are deteriorating.
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Garrymore, lacking the overall balance of their opponents, did make a spirited effort to get into the reckoning in the third quarter, but could make little headway.
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By Catherine Walter's reckoning, it was at 10 o'clock on Sunday night that the Board members of the National Australia Bank reached a deal.
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Just another ethical investment or a force to be reckoned with?
Times, Sunday Times
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One - quarter of the country is reckoned as unproductive.
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We reckon our top tips could lure viewers back in their droves in no time.
The Sun
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Curtains to danglers… Valerie Clegg reckons her special curtain hook invention will mean a neater look that will appeal to the houseproud.
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Rosenow reckons the flathead were a promising indicator for a great Swan/Canning flathead season.
AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories
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India is now reckoned to be home to about 10 million Bangladeshis.
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She would keep the boots and reckoned that if she dried the other clothes, the ragman might give her enough for them to save her from having to scavenge here for most of the winter.
The Thief Taker
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Graham has even promised to throw a couple of trainer wheels on a bike for me and reckons he has a 57 year old Kiwi who would like to have a crack at me.
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If you redid it now with minimal changes to the script and setup, and a hefty FX budget, I reckon it'd go down rather well…
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They look not too close into the shape of the canakin, nor into the host's reckoning: with them and with their purses 'tis lightly come, and lightly go.
The Cloister and the Hearth
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It was inevitable that the final reckoning would be personal.
Times, Sunday Times
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Does she reckon that an extra power station there will boost business?
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There was a proportion of research, which I reckoned at not more than 30 percent, that was basic research.
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'Which I'm aheap obleeged to you, Mister,' says Abby to Peets, sizing him up approvin ';' an 'now that I'm convinced thar's no chance of my footure sufferin' from any absenteeism on the part of this pastor, I reckons I better go over, like you-all hints, an 'take a look or two in the glass.
Wolfville Nights
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And I reckon a blender is another way to get great froth if you don't have a molinillo.
Mexican hot chocolate and a molinillo | Homesick Texan
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The Blues have dropped from first to third after a dip in form but McCracken insists the mailaise isn't terminal and is backing the team to muscle their way back into the title reckoning starting with tonight's home clash against Chester City.
Undefined
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I reckon most of the triads in this city would be involved with the Council in some way.
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Don't reckon upon the weather being fine for your garden party.
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(ch.vi. 1) to Hezekiah's sickness and recovery was forty-seven years; how much before, and after, he prophesied, is not certain; some reckon sixty, others eighty years in all.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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According to the abjad reckoning, the numerical value of each of these letters is 6, 1 and 6 respectively.
The Kitáb-i-Aqdas
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He reckons they're too soft on mass murderers and says they ought to be strung up.
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But she reckons she will spend her downtime soaking up some British culture.
The Sun
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They reckon happier workers will provide better service and help their business to grow faster.
Times, Sunday Times
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We knew there was a greater reckoning ahead, but we could not quite feel it yet.
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If he can reinject tension to the boardroom, he reckons he has done a good job.
Times, Sunday Times
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‘You have to give yourself a bit of time, which is why I reckoned on two years,’ he said.
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Maybe they reckon they've also managed to absorb that through their skin ....
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Kickstarting the burlesque scene in London, Maria Saugar reckons the Whoopee Club will be the talk of the town at The Edinburgh Festival.
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The Opposition reckons the Health Secretary has ducked all the difficult decisions.
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This is one of my favorite abilities, it really wrecks mass Marines which are quite a force to be reckoned with at the moment with Medivac support.
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Those who sneered at the innovation and claimed it would be an expensive flop reckoned without this personable and determined man.
Times, Sunday Times
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A domestic reckoning of sorts, the latest book by Apter, a psychologist, is an in-depth look at “the inescapable power of in-laws.”
Cover to Cover
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Lastly, we have the morocco leather, so called because it was brought from Morocco, in Africa, and still we get the best from thence, and from the Mediterranean ports of the Levant -- whence comes another name for the best of this favorite leather, "Levant morocco," which is the skin of the mountain goat, and reckoned superior to all other leathers.
A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries
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Now, I suppose our opposites will not unwillingly reckon their sacred significant ceremonies among those things of the Spirit of God which a natural man cannot receive, because they are spiritually decerned, 1 Cor. ii.
The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2)
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The builder reckons 15 man-hours for the job.
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Anger can be channeled as a spur to action rather than being destructive. But Mars at its best is purposeful, an achiever and self-starter, and a force to be reckoned with.
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The day of reckoning for the free press will soon be upon us.
Times, Sunday Times
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All those who reckoned it looked a case of the ridiculous meeting the sublime, take a bow.
The Sun
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The ready reckoner also imparts information on basic car care, safe repairing and various types of accessories.
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He reckons that these scooters sell wholesale for 1,200.
Times, Sunday Times
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The town is reckoned well built, and what the French call bien percee; yet the streets are in general narrow, and the houses dark.
Travels through France and Italy
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We might express a just surprise that Catholics should be offended at the doctrine that the righteousness of Christ is imputed, that is, reckoned or counted, to the sinner as his own.
Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation
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We chose not to take out an extended warranty when we bought the TV as we reckon these are a rip-off.
The Sun
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There was one great steer in particular, reckoned to be ten or twelve years old, quite a celebrity in fact on account of his unmanageableness, his independence and boldness, which we had frequently seen and tried to secure, but hitherto without success.
Ranching, Sport and Travel
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I reckon you can make it across the desert and back long before nightfall, if speed is your aim.
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Descent is reckoned bilaterally, with a patrilineal bias.
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As for Chelsea, Wise reckons they are inching ever closer to that elusive away victory.
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Is it any wonder that there are groups among the economic underclass who reckon that what's good for the goose is good for the gander?
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The so-called grey and wrinklies are no fools and a force to be reckoned with.
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It was also reckoned to take three years to train the teams of men and horses effectively.
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Another method of defining the Sylvian point is to divide the distance between the nasion and inion into four equal parts; from the junction of the third and fourth parts (reckoning from the front) draw a line to the frontozygomatic suture; from the junction of the first and second parts a line to the auricular point.
XII. Surface Anatomy and Surface Markings. 2. Surface Markings of Special Regions of the Head and Neck
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Anyhoo, the sequence finds a new pattern in the regularity of two "couplets" of sonnets (1122), the opening sonnet marking the shift with assonant rhymes (I did reckon those rhymes gave a sense of instability and tension, pushing against the constraints, which ... fitted here; it kinda makes sense now why I felt that way).
Still Lives
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Because, to my reckoning, amputating limbs is a far more than cosmetic process.
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I have been idle enough in my time, to make a computation of wits here, and do find we have three hundred performing poets and upwards, in and about this town, reckoning six score to the hundred, and allowing for demies, like pint bottles; including also the several denominations of imitators, translators, and familiar-letter-writers, &c.
A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet
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It was howkit oot -- whether oot o 'hard yird or saft stane, I dinna ken; I reckon it wud be some no sae hard kin' o 'a rock -- and whan the deid was laid intil 't, they biggit up the mou o' the place, that is, frae that same skelf to the ane 'at was abune 't, and sae a' was weel closed in. '
Heather and Snow
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A White Horse barman reckoned that there was no comparison.
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For example, Artificial Reproductive Technology ART was reckoned to be bad because of "medicalisation of procreation", "commodification", and "commercialisation of human beings".
Archive 2010-02-01
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The Canaries were the nearest bits of dry land to us, but Mr Jellicoe, the third mate, reckoned that they were a good hundred and fifty miles away, and dead to wind'ard; so it was useless for us to think of reaching them in a boat with her gunnels awash, and not a scrap of food or a drop of fresh water in her.
Harry Escombe A Tale of Adventure in Peru
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The costs are reckoned to be high and are probably underestimated.
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Most people in bands have quite similar backgrounds and I reckon a lot of them shared the same experience as I did.
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But till 1862 such a delivery was reckoned as illegal; in fact, Edgar Willsher of Kent was the first cricketer to be no-balled for bowling overarm in 1862.
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I realised I'd just seen a really big clue - one helluva giveaway - so I reckon I know whodunnit.
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What do you reckon, do you think we should give our modelling career one last shot?
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By my reckoning, that amounts to over 10 per cent per month or 120 per cent annual interest - just because I was out of town and a few days late paying the bill.
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But here's an example of the sort of designer bullshit that I reckon is more to blame for clients dismissing designers and refusing to pay good money for the job than the usual culprit, the PC and cheap software:
More designer bullshit
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New York police did not release an official crowd estimate, but the march was, by anyone's reckoning, enormous.
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A student over sixteen reckons as two under eleven in the calculation of school building costs.
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I know that for myself it makes no difference whether I do or forbear those actions which are reckoned excellent.
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Justice permits the doer of evil to be held accountable for every iota of harm that ensues as a result of the evil act, and that reckoning can be terrible indeed.
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He could afford, he reckoned, to be relaxed about certain sorts of problem; namely those he privately labelled intractable.
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The Last Judgement and the Resurrection at the end of times were still perceived as the final reckoning, but this ultimate judgement had come to be preceded by an earlier one, immediately after death.
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I reckon anyone who can hide in a drawer without the aid of an accomplice is so ingenious they deserve not to be caught.
Shannon Matthews « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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Lucien was living from hand to mouth, spending his money as fast as he made it, like many another journalist; nor did he give so much as a thought to those periodically recurrent days of reckoning which chequer the life of the bohemian in Paris so sadly.
A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
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He reckons they're too soft on mass murderers and says they ought to be strung up.
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Paul is time-served in the demanding trade, but reckons he's as fit as he ever was.
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But what were the surprise and alarm of the Earl of Oxford and his companions, when they came to that part of the camp which had been occupied the day before by Campo-Basso and his Italians, who, reckoning men-at-arms and Stradiots, amounted to nigh two thousand men — not a challenge was given — not a horse neighed — no steeds were seen at picquet — no guard on the camp.
Anne of Geierstein
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The Jewish Chronicle even "reckons" that your husband is Jewish though their use of the word reckon puts their own Jewishness into question.
Katie Halper: Top 10 Reasons to Stop the Blood Libel Schmear Campaign against Honorary Jew Sarah Palin
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Cupar-Angus, when Luckie Simpson's cow had drunk up Luckie Jamieson's browst of ale while it stood in the door to cool, that there was no damage to pay, because the crummie drank without sitting down; such being the very circumstance constituting DOCH AN DORROCH, which is a standing drink, for which no reckoning is paid.
Redgauntlet
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There is definitley a school thought that the "stone of scone" that was blagged by eddie longshanks was simply a lump of local sandstone subsituted by the monks at scone Abbey, as they knew edward was coming to get it, as he reckoned that Robert the Bruce could not be crowned legaly or at least traditionaly without the "STONE "you have to bear in mind that to the monks, this stone was in fact "Jacobs Pillow " of biblical fame.
Filmstalker: Stone of Destiny theft gets filmed
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He reckons they're too soft on mass murderers and says they ought to be strung up.
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They reckon happier workers will provide better service and help their business to grow faster.
Times, Sunday Times
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The cost to taxpayers of monitoring him round-the-clock is reckoned to be about 100,000 a week.
The Sun
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A year and a half of job-hunting has rather knackered my confidence, but I reckon I can fake it till I make it.
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But the town 's mayor reckons converting the property into flats would help rebrand the area.
The Sun
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“It was decided in a case before the town bailies of Cupar Angus, when Luckie Simpson's cow had drunk up Luckie Jamieson's browst of ale, while it stood in the door to cool, that there was no damage to pay, because the crummie drank without sitting down; such being the circumstance constituting a Doch an Dorroch, which is a standing drink for which no reckoning is paid.”
Sir Walter Scott
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I reckon it's safe to claim success in the lazing stakes when the highlight of your day is a chocolate profiterole.
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An alternative medicine quack reckoned he could cure Faulkner of his twitching with a six-month course of treatment.
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The principal was certainly a woman to be reckoned with.
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But they reckon without an apparently harmless little old lady coming between them and the loot.
The Sun
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This is a man, a genuine bluesman, to be reckoned with.
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I reckon I must be the owner of the biggest slipper in the world.
Times, Sunday Times
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In much of England the hide was reckoned as of 120 acres, in Wessex generally as of 40 or 48.
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I've sort of promised myself that I'll have it finished by the end of the week and, unless I get bogged down in something that needs a bit of research, I reckon one more day will see the end of it.
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A new report reckons that only one in 40 of our ambassadors and embassy staff speak da lingo.
The Sun
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The inflation rate is now reckoned to be 10%.
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With Shamardal ruled out of the reckoning, Michael Bell's stable star may have most to fear from Starcraft, who finished third to Valixir in the Queen Anne Stakes at Royal Ascot at York.
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Only sceptics reckon that bulls talk rubbish.
Times, Sunday Times
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─but the hail has other reasons than serving and the wet eastern wind of evening does not dream of standing watch by my disenchanged lion sobs: no longer will I run after every passage of beauty,─beauty is defeated, never again at attention will I snuff out that fire now glimmering like an old tree trunk in which hollow swallows make nonsensical nests, child's lay, unreckoning misery, unreckoning misery of sympthy.
Amelia Rosselli
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They reckon we're desperate for any crumb of affection that isn't battery-powered.
JUST BETWEEN US
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The Drog reckons the dynamic duo can forge a perfect partnership which will leave Blues fans drooling.
The Sun
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I've heard it said that the hardest Australian bird to see is the western whipbird, but I reckon the black-eared miner must come a close second.
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Those who have filched power - and they are not all in office, so they reckon on a continuity of that power beyond presidential elections - pretend to be saving the world and offering its population the chance to become their clients.
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He doesn't reckon on events becoming freakier and nastier by the night.
Times, Sunday Times
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He reckons to have approaching 2,000 items, including collectable concert tickets.
Times, Sunday Times
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The experts reckon the house originally has a thatched or cut wood roof supported by a wattle wall and timber posts.
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The company reckons ID theft costs the UK economy £1.3 billion per year.
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'Kinder reckon I wull, Cunnel; howsomdever, I keeps the stakes, anyhow?'
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862
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Do you reckon they'd let me write the recaps on the official site if I apply for the gig next year?
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If we got organised, I reckon we could take the place.
Times, Sunday Times
