How To Use To-do In A Sentence

  • Commonly the groom or his family gave the infare, but often enough some generous and well-to-do friend, or kinsman, pre-empted the privilege. Dishes & Beverages of the Old South
  • Abraham Granish, Winehouse's great-great grandfather, was a Russian immigrant described as a "hawker", selling goods door-to-door, who lived in the Spitalfields area of the capital. News24
  • Looking back at my to-do list (previous post) it occurs to me that the whole point of getting the dratted deadline for Chill moved (it looks now as if it will be published for Fall 2009, so never fear; it is not being pushed back a full year) was so I could take some time off from novels and let my brain regrow. Re: Book sale paypal payments...
  • What I want in a reviewer is an enthusastic reader who can write those difficult-to-do 700-word readable reviews. If anyone doubts ...
  • The story was that of a little girl who was born in a well-to-do family and was a top performer in her studies.
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  • Including a lot in the price - from door-to-door travel to visas and porterage of luggage - has guaranteed much repeat business. Times, Sunday Times
  • They wore the standard uniform of the well-to-do American out of office hours.
  • A future presidential candidate might have participated in harrowing door-to-door sweeps during the bloody fight for Fallujah last month. December 2004
  • Your To-Do List Is Not a Dumping Ground: You should not be using your to-do list as your brain storming/thought capturing zone. Clean Out Your To-Do List For Guilt-Free Productivity | Lifehacker Australia
  • He does not make to-do lists or scrawl reminders to himself on Post-its.
  • Those keen to strike include door-to-door delivery staff and drivers. Times, Sunday Times
  • The door-to-door service is very important for the prosperity of many businesses and charities across the UK. Times, Sunday Times
  • He looked more and more like a well-to-do old English sparrow, and chippered faster and faster. Deephaven and Selected Stories & Sketches
  • Much to-do has been made about whether dreaming arguments are self-refuting.
  • This is a crisis wrapped in an emergency and most likely concealed inside a right to-do. Times, Sunday Times
  • In contrast, the lives of girls in well-to-do families were often very sheltered.
  • There are a ton of exciting and fun projects on the to-do list; most are for new user-facing features or 3rd party extensions, but there are also some geeky-cool middle-tier applications that will help the site scale and munge data. BillMonk is hiring « Notes from the BillMonk
  • Just to tease the boss, the drovers made a big to-do about who would sit next to Laurie but, in the end, Gil ended up at her side.
  • St. Thomas's Day, 21st December, is still at Otterbourne held as the day for "gooding," when each poor house-mother can demand sixpence from the well-to-do towards her Christmas dinner. John Keble's Parishes
  • But instead of staying to shake hands, to move from table to table, to take names and phone numbers, to marshal some of this excitement for that "door-to-door" movement he had envisioned, Sharpton abruptly strode from the ballroom and the hotel. Pompadour With a Monkey Wrench
  • Gareth Holmes and electrician James Asherton had a bit of a to-do over James' craftsmanship on Gareth's home.
  • The 1999 figures showed well-to-do areas got four times as much in grants as their residents spent on tickets. The Sun
  • Many of the pieces contain that strange instrument, the harmonium - so unfashionable now, but an item in many well-to-do 19 th-century homes.
  • Ethel Mellor was the daughter of a well-to-do check-weighman. The Prussian Officer and Other Stories
  • He is a tobacco seller door-to-door and his wife, Mrs. Lai Heng Lort, is a brown 'sapote' (fruit) seller and besides this, she is a pig breeder as well. Kiva Loans
  • Most of us lead busy lives and a manicure doesn't make the top of our ‘to-do’ lists.
  • Anne went door-to-door, sharing her brainstorm.
  • He serves as the amateur therapist of choice to his well-to-do clients, hearing all about their blowouts in the course of their blowouts, and I want to find out why.
  • Forensic teams sealed off the area with tape and scoured the street for clues as uniformed officers carried out door-to-door inquiries.
  • This can range from going door-to-door to staging massive demonstrations. Sociology
  • He grew up in Brooklyn, the son of a well-to-do family, a letterman in three sports and the most popular boy in the senior class at Erasmus High.
  • That slippery little scut is as slick as a door-to-door Bible salesman.
  • The radicals attacked not freedom but liberalism, which they interpreted as concern for the privileges of the well-to-do masquer - ading as concern for freedom. LIBERALISM
  • They have been conducting door-to-door inquiries and canvassing people in the area of the river and canal network.
  • ‘There is no room even for a mouse,’ shrilled the wife of a well-to-do cultivator — a Hindu Jat from the rich Jullundur, district. Kim
  • What future might door-to-door postal services have in an independent Scotland? Times, Sunday Times
  • But the arrival of a high-risk offender warrants door-to-door notification of the entire neighborhood.
  • I associate this brand of feminism with a certain variety of white, coastal-city dwelling, fairly well-to-do heterosexual cisgendered woman, a woman with a comfortable white-collar job that is so very comfortable and so very white-collar that she is free to spend her spare time yearning for, and semi-believing that she could attain, something with more “meaning.” Already Thursday! How? « Gerry Canavan
  • Oh, heavens to Betsy, what a furor, what a to-do, what a downright brouhaha.
  • Most of these people are well-to-do, have money to spend and more importantly time in which to spend it.
  • He was born in 1679, of well-to-do parents, but started his working life as a drover, that is to say a person who drove great herds of cattle from the countryside to the great cities like London, for consumption there. John Deane of Nottingham Historic Adventures by Land and Sea
  • It's still on my to-do list, though I suspect that I might have a bash at the guitar next.
  • The transmission's a beauty - a four mode manual auto with superfast 100ms shifting and auto-double declutching on downshifts. Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine
  • In the early 1960s Tio Andrés moved to La Jolla, Calif., where he developed a "ruta," or route, maintaining the landscaping for several well-to-do residents. The United States Is Still the Land of Opportunity
  • ‘You can call the agents tomorrow,’ said Graham, poring over his to-do list, all ticks and crossings out.
  • She probably is not willing to build her own mud and tin hovel out by the dump and slap together tamales to sell door-to-door in order to make ends meet. Your low income/FM3 experiences
  • This was once a luxurious holiday pad that likely belonged to a well-to-do Spanish family. Times, Sunday Times
  • Anything else on your to-do list? The Sun
  • The door-to-door salesman was made obsolete by the telephone. Times, Sunday Times
  • And, last night, that to gain Iraqis 'trust, we would go door-to-door in Baghdad. Sound Politics: Pressure on Democrats Building
  • This is not the time to make a big to-do about our report for a few weeks, and then put it into the deep freeze.
  • carbonadoes", normal multifarious flesh fare for the well-to-do dinner table. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • A fantasia of knurled aluminum, polished brightwork, a door-to-door waistrail of walnut marquetry and piano-black fascia. Massive, but Not for the Masses
  • He had been a doctor from a well-to-do family, but found he was unable to practise in Britain because he had no certificates to prove his qualifications.
  • Bentley The workspace from the driver's seat is exemplary: A fantasia of knurled aluminum, polished brightwork, a door-to-door waistrail of walnut marquetry and piano-black fascia. Hand-Made Hyper-Luxury
  • Sounds like another thing to add to your to-do list? The Sun
  • The church visitors were intensely embarrassed shortly after we had agreed to have door-to-door visitation for a forthcoming town mission.
  • She camped it up about her "marvy-poo" beads and dress, and I sat transfixed, destined to join legions who enjoy following the foibles of the well-to-do. Michael Henry Adams: Book Review: Admiring Rich Peoples Houses?
  • Born in London, he was raised in a well-to-do family, and given an undergraduate education.
  • Another firm, assertive phone call heads my to-do list for tomorrow.
  • It turned out my husband's and my to-do lists were not so different after all. Times, Sunday Times
  • Door-to-door sales methods are used for a variety of products, from vacuum cleaners and household goods to cosmetics or double glazing.
  • According to reports, he was fulminating before a ‘small, but appreciative ‘crowd of well-to-do people in Amritsar.’
  • The builder of Temple Heights, Richard Thomas Brownrigg, a well-to-do planter and businessman, was a native of the colonial tidewater city of Edenton, on North Carolina's Albemarle Sound.
  • Cold-hearted door-to-door salesmen are preying on the elderly and conning them into buying over-priced funerals.
  • It was a big to-do in San Francisco's opera house back then, with Sam Donaldson and Alan Cumming as emcees… but it was also the dying days of the dotcom exuberance.
  • I remember one in particular prepared by a graduate student who came from a well-to-do family.
  • Police have also been carrying out door-to-door inquiries to establish a motive for the murder.
  • Demand for warehouse space has boomed as retailers expand their door-to-door delivery services on the back of the surge in online shopping. The Sun
  • Her Austrian family had been well-to-do leather merchants in Vienna until her father died.
  • Budget shortfalls and slipping numbers for the upcoming show in Atlanta have added to the organization's growing to-do list.
  • Emma Watson, who has been brought up by a well-to-do aunt, returns to her family, who live unfashionably in genteel poverty in a Surrey village.
  • Just a few hundred yards away, however, Bob and Roseanne, a middle-aged couple who declined to give their surnames, were about to start a door-to-door canvass for the president.
  • This reminds me of the to-do a few years back (late 20th-early 21st century) when someone Chinese decided that the suffix '-ese' had a derogatory meaning in English (as in 'journalese'). Languagehat.com: CHINESE 'JEW.'
  • These well-to-do, often politically connected professionals—including the increasingly intertwined wealthy of Wall Street, Hollywood, and Silicon Valley—espoused what might be called gentry liberalism, a creed according to which the middle classes had to be punished for their racism, sexism, and excess consumption. Who Lost the Middle Class?
  • Cold calling and door-to-door selling appear to be a big problem at the moment. Times, Sunday Times
  • But only truckers can offer door-to-door service. Getting There: The Epic Struggle between Road and Rail in the American Century
  • I have an affinity for British pastries and sentimental connections with "Banbury" so I'm putting them on my to-do list. cheers! Banbury Cakes Revisited
  • In the seat in front of him a well-to-do matron and her paunchy husband were busy adjusting an expensive camcorder. YELLOW BIRD
  • Bentley The workspace from the driver's seat is exemplary: A fantasia of knurled aluminum, polished brightwork, a door-to-door waistrail of walnut marquetry and piano-black fascia. Hand-Made Hyper-Luxury
  • The door-to-door donation box now has a tag adults can scan with a smartphone to donate $10. USATODAY.com News
  • Door-to-door has traditionally been seen as the poor relation of the main advertising media, but has seen a resurgence in recent years.
  • The concept is that the timeout habituates the child to being separated when he misbehaves or loses control so that he can eventually learn to separate himself from the compelling-but-clearly-not-the-right-thing-to-do or from a tough situation in which he may react emotionally. You Raising Your Child
  • He could have been a hero or a villain on the lam, the displaced son of well-to-do folk or just a boy from any one of a thousand dirt farms all over Texas.
  • Around 30 officers scoured the murder scene for clues and carried out door-to-door enquiries in the area.
  • So having secured the barrico (and with no small to-do) I hove it ashore and got myself after it, and so came mighty despondent where sat Sir Richard as one deep in thought, his gaze on the sea, his shrivelled hand upon the head of the dog Pluto crouched beside him. Martin Conisby's Vengeance
  • He made a great to-do about being left off the guest list.
  • Salesmen warning DOOR-TO-DOOR salesmen are posing as Fire Brigade representatives to sell potentially lethal fire extinguishers, it has been disclosed.
  • Besides march-pain or pain-main, and pain-puff, two sorts baked on special occasions, and rather entering into the class of confectionery, our better-to-do ancestors usually employed three descriptions of bread: manchete for the master’s table, made of fine boulted flour; chete, of unboulted flour, but not mixed with any coarser ingredient; and brown-bread, composed of flour and rye meal, and known as maslin (mystelon). Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine
  • A well-to-do suburban couple are bickering over dinner preparations. Times, Sunday Times
  • Abraham Granish, Winehouse's great-great grandfather, was a Russian immigrant described as a "hawker," selling goods door-to-door, who lived in the Spitalfields area of the capital. Northernstar.com.au: The Northern Star
  • Some events provide door-to-door service, courtesy cars and the like.
  • While letter delivery in the UK is a lucrative market, the profitability of door-to-door services is not uniform throughout the country.
  • Well-to-do travelers prized manners because they are the best available evidence of the breeding and character of new acquaintances.
  • He started door-to-door canvass on April 28 and as happened him on previous occasions, his car conked out just then.
  • Besides march-pain or pain-main, and pain-puff, two sorts baked on special occasions, and rather entering into the class of confectionery, our better-to-do ancestors usually employed three descriptions of bread: manchete for the master’s table, made of fine boulted flour; chete, of unboulted flour, but not mixed with any coarser ingredient; and brown-bread, composed of flour and rye meal, and known as maslin (mystelon). Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine
  • She has a healthy distrust of door-to-door salesmen.
  • Things like always having a notebook and pen on hand to capture to-do items as they came up, daily and weekly action items, and the next actionable item for any task.
  • The sambo is a curiously shaped little table on which offer-ings are made to the Shinto gods; and almost every well-to-do household in hzumo has its own sambo -- such a family sambo being smaller, however, than sambo used in the temples. Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series
  • They know too, that an overly complicated life, one that keeps a person endlessly busy, always plugged-in, available and aimed at ticking off one more entry on their to-do list, can also be a life full of addiction, avoidance and disquiet. Arthur Rosenfeld: The Simple Life
  • It has been described unkindly by its critics as 'plinky plun-ky', 'fiddly twiddly' and 'an aural dot-to-dot'. Times, Sunday Times
  • A pair of bust-length portraits in silver, mounted on turned wooden socles, represent a well-to-do Dutch couple and seem - on the evidence of the costume - to have been made around 1645.
  • Truro Group secured local radio coverage and raised £475 from door-to-door collections.
  • Graham's to-do list is now a mess of ticks and crossings-out, with only one job left to do.
  • Any further to-do will be met with my husband coming round to the surgery to give you a good hiding.
  • And which items can you move from your daily to-do list to a to-do list for a week from today? Times, Sunday Times
  • One of our well-to-do families volunteered the use of a mountain home for our family vacations. Christianity Today
  • Well-to-do patricians were the usual patrons on the exclusive courses in England and America, partly because equipment was so expensive, but also due to the rigid caste system.
  • Central Birmingham Group held a barn dance which raised £200; door-to-door the group collected £1,300.
  • Is your daily to-do list as long as your arm? Times, Sunday Times
  • A fantasia of knurled aluminum, polished brightwork, a door-to-door waistrail of walnut marquetry and piano-black fascia. Massive, but Not for the Masses
  • I think he goes door-to-door selling it. The Sun
  • Of the tea and coffee it might be said, as once it was said of two bad roads — "whichever one you take, you will wish you had taken the other;" the beefsteak was a problem of impracticability; and the chickens — Fleda could not help thinking, that a well - to-do rooster which she saw flapping his wings in the yard, must, in all probability, be at that very moment endeavouring to account for a sudden breach in his social circle; and if the oysters had been some very fine ladies, they could hardly have retained less recollection of their original circumstances. Queechy, Volume II
  • We had known it would be outside the town proper because Ben had come from a well-to-do family until banditos murdered his parents.
  • '[W] atch borderline personality decompensate over course of two hours' isn't on my to-do list anywhere, but I can't un-know what it looks like now. GreenCine Daily: Shorts and fests, 10/30.
  • So buckra is really, well-to-do, upstanding, well-padded white people. Oral History Interview with Modjeska Simkins, May 11, 1990. Interview A-0356. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
  • These scholars had the unenviable task of explaining why their patrons eventually sieged, overran, and sacked Carthage in a door-to-door killing spree that left only fifty thousand survivors out of an estimated population of seven hundred thousand. David Durham explains his interest in Hannibal and refutes the historical concept of him as a brutish barbarian.
  • It's a relatively elaborate system that will appeal most to those whose idea of a pleasant Sundayafternoon involves colour-coding their to-do lists with felt-tip pens. The 10 best self-help gurus
  • A fantasia of knurled aluminum, polished brightwork, a door-to-door waistrail of walnut marquetry and piano-black fascia. Massive, but Not for the Masses
  • The value of funds raised by an average chugger is 96 on the street and 120 from door-to-door work. Times, Sunday Times
  • This back and forth happens once or twice more, and then there's a little to-do because the tyke has wet the little pants she is wearing.
  • It had been a right to-do from the outset. Times, Sunday Times
  • But as before, the device has a calendar, contacts and to-do list, and it lets you dispatch e-mail and multimedia messages.
  • In my youth it was the wretched door-to-door salesman. Times, Sunday Times
  • Ms Chisela said the on-line billing would also make it possible for Zesco to forecast expected cash flow, which was difficult through the door-to-door delivery system.
  • At the top of his to-do list is stabilizing the Philadelphia school district's chronically unstable finances, which he describes as the essential precondition for all other reforms.
  • Oh, heavens to Betsy, what a furor, what a to-do, what a downright brouhaha.
  • When you go door-to-door to score free candy, also ask your treater for any old eyeglasses.
  • Those insurance salesmen who worked door-to-door were driven out of business by changes in financial regulation, which also played a part in the decline of annuities. Times, Sunday Times
  • Ann Street started life as an out-of-the-way address for well-to-do widows and spinsters.
  • Make him a to-do list of household chores and outside interests. The Sun
  • Much to-do has been made of the relationship as depicted between Hephaistion and Alexander.
  • Originally serving to shelter the gharries of the well-to-do, it was later converted for pedestrians with steps added to it.
  • The most popular dance hall in the neighborhood was owned by Pete Williams, described as a “well-to-do, coal-black Negro, who has made an immense amount of money from the profits of his dance-house.” A Renegade History of the United States
  • Julia, John's mother, was the fourth of five sisters born into a well-to-do Liverpool family.
  • QUOTE ABOVE: This reminds me of the to-do a few years back (late 20th-early 21st century) when someone Chinese decided that the suffix '-ese' had a derogatory meaning in English (as in 'journalese'). Languagehat.com: CHINESE 'JEW.'
  • It is obvious that this tendency cannot be reversed, no matter how rapidly the people's income is increased, unless it rises _more rapidly_ than that of the well-to-do. Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement
  • Most were fee-paying and came from well-to-do backgrounds.
  • He was a door-to-door salesman before he became an actor.
  • They don't happen very often, and I always assume the worst: a door-to-door salesperson who will undoubtedly provoke my empathy and empty my wallet, a lost geriatric fearing stalkers,intent on my inadept help, a bottle picker counting on a rampage in my house. Blog: Poop keeps on landing on my lawn
  • Poor and sick with tuberculosis, Mansfield had neither money nor time to buy the two-storey house in the well-to-do Garavan quartier.
  • It's essentially a minibus with wings, stopping at every tiny town, because Nunavik is like a dot-to-dot nobody's bothered to join up, a region of 15 villages unconnected by road or rail.
  • Bentley The workspace from the driver's seat is exemplary: A fantasia of knurled aluminum, polished brightwork, a door-to-door waistrail of walnut marquetry and piano-black fascia. Hand-Made Hyper-Luxury
  • An American charity has launched the world's first slum theme park, complete with around 30 ramshackle hovels, a communal outdoor toilet and door-to-door detritus.
  • This back and forth happens once or twice more, and then there's a little to-do because the tyke has wet the little pants she is wearing.
  • The products of well-to-do middle-class Argentine upbringings, both wanted to fulfill a restless urge to see the rest of South America before settling down to their medical careers.
  • the limousine offers door-to-door service
  • Sewing, shopping, and beautifying themselves were the only activities that gave well-to-do women any outlet for personal expression.
  • They wore the standard uniform of the well-to-do American out of office hours.
  • Considering how popular shellwork was in Britain, it is not surprising that this form of ornamentation appealed to some well-to-do colonial Americans.
  • Police are beginning door-to-door inquiries in an increasingly intense search for clues to the identity of a mystery body.
  • It is the usual "gros bourg" of Alsace, with comfortable old houses in espaliered gardens: dull, well-to-do, contented; not in the least the kind of setting demanded by the patriotism which has to be fed on pictures of little girls singing the Marseillaise in Alsatian head-dresses and old men with operatic waistcoats tottering forward to kiss the flag. Fighting France
  • We make a big to-do about men's infidelity, but what about unfaithfulness among women?
  • Most artists, however, either hold full-time jobs or come from well-to-do families.
  • Her valetudinarian but masterful father, son of a wool merchant, became sufficiently well-to-do to retire from business. Ada Leverson.
  • As well as detailed, door-to-door instructions, it provides users with a range of additional services.
  • The door-to-door salesman was made obsolete by the telephone. Times, Sunday Times
  • You can further organize your to-do tasks with priority levels, locations, and tags.
  • Some of these purchases were financed by funds extorted from the well-to-do elite hacienda owners. Pancho Villa, re-evaluated
  • Really, this whole to-do might well have been just another volley in the site's regular stream of tattle, only it spun way out of control.
  • Houses were doorknocked door-to-door, but nothing came out of that.
  • Outer action is actually going out to do the action – whether it's networking with people, going door-to-door to make a sale, or just writing at home.
  • Some of the inmates are from well-to-do families and they pay for their stay, while others benefit from sponsorship by philanthropists.
  • For listlessness and boredness and nothing-to-do-ness are the best of soils for the breeding of the worms that never stop gnawing. Mary Marston
  • I've been meaning to write about Trappings for a while now, and then of course I "tidied" my office and an enormous number of things got put in one of those dread piles from which only now are the bravest and most stalwart to-dos escaping. January 2008
  • The omnifarious assembly included pale, prim-whiskered young clerks; shabby, lonely, sallow young women, whose sallowness and shabbiness stamped them with the mark of integrity; other females whose specious splendor was not nearly so reassuring; old men, broken-down men, middle-aged men of every description, except the well-to-do. Short Story Classics (American) Vol. 2
  • The Touhys, a well-to-do white family, can't ignore the needs of a homeless African-American boy.
  • From saying Emeka Okafor needs to go from "getting an A in stretching to getting an A in basketball" to needing to "deprogram" Vladimir Radmanovic and offering that DeSagana Diop was in poor condition, Brown offered his players a long offseason to-do list. Rocky Mount Telegram - Business
  • well-to-do members of the community
  • During the wretched interwar years, Europeans — and Americans as well — had tended to regard refugees either as well-to-do speculators living high on the hog from illegal gain or as a subproletariat ready to snatch jobs from native workers. Who Saved Jews? An Exchange
  • The well-to-do stared through their lorgnettes in delight at quaintly dressed fisherfolk and their families. Times, Sunday Times
  • The neighbours' cars came and went, but with Garda door-to-door inquiries and the chronology of the previous hours slowly coming to light, it was anything but quotidian.
  • They are not allowed to sell door-to-door, or on the telephone. Times, Sunday Times
  • When I looked out of the window, there were three or four blokes going from door-to-door whilst an unmarked transit van crawled along behind them.
  • Her family are very well-to-do. The Sun
  • This was especially the case among the well-to-do, who had ample space for guests and the means to travel.
  • Hotels and the more well-to-do families on the hillsides would set off fireworks.
  • The large well-to-do families those great houses were built for left long ago.
  • And while we like mass transit, door-to-door school bus service is a frill they should cut.
  • He's a door-to-door salesman who went from obscurity to being one of the biggest names in New York adland. The last of the Madison Avenue mavericks of Mad Men
  • Coming later this week on Horticultural: my scary to-do list, the art of chitting, how to make hanging baskets super-green, and a post that'll probably be entitled ‘what the hell grows in Kansas?’
  • Yes, there is the "porny" vibe in this pic, and porn-types are usually disqualified for living a life of auto-douchery and constant "exposure" in every sense of the word. Hot Chicks with Douchebags
  • New ordinances banned boys from throwing rocks, female hucksters from selling food door-to-door, and people of color from assembling after curfew.
  • The Roman Catholic Religion was a pwerful force through much of Venice's history, so during carnival's the well-to-do Venitians would don masks so that if the behavior became "uncatholic" the bishops would not now who they were. TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
  • In addition to the standard Smartphone features of phone, text, email, web, camera and calendar, the Palm Pre Plus: acts as an MP3 player, lets you watch videos - with amazing quality too, has a cool "corkboard" for writing yourself memos, has a great to-do list (my favorite), can give you directions to anywhere in a flash using Google Maps (no GPS unless you want to subscribe to the Verizon Navigator service for $9.99 a month) and through the App store you can find free and low cost apps for just about anything you want to add to your phone. Essential Keystrokes
  • My to-do list is basically au courant for the first time in a while. Beware the Ides of ZZzzzz… : Bev Vincent
  • In my youth it was the wretched door-to-door salesman. Times, Sunday Times
  • My journey from Cambridge to Paris takes five hours door-to-door.
  • But then I woke up at 7am and whoosh, the tidal wave that is my to-do list flooded my thoughts and blind panic swept over me once again.
  • Security becomes one more task in the overflowing to-do list. Times, Sunday Times
  • Of the tea and coffee it might be said, as once it was said of two bad roads – "whichever one you take, you will wish you had taken the other;" the beefsteak was a problem of impracticability; and the chickens – Fleda could not help thinking, that a well-to-do rooster which she saw flapping his wings in the yard, must, in all probability, be at that very moment endeavouring to account for a sudden breach in his social circle; and if the oysters had been some very fine ladies, they could hardly have retained less recollection of their original circumstances. Queechy
  • Mopping up extra 124% Liz Dolan DOOR-to-door brooms and buckets seller Betterware is cleaning up in the recession.
  • You should be happy that your daughters have married into this well-to-do and respectable family.
  • Instead, they only serve to ease the consciences of the well-to-do while keeping the poor out of sight.
  • Those insurance salesmen who worked door-to-door were driven out of business by changes in financial regulation, which also played a part in the decline of annuities. Times, Sunday Times
  • Many well-to-do households have VCRs, and rented videos are available in the bazaars (markets).
  • I have borrowed a lot of money from a door-to-door collector, about £400.
  • He made a great to-do about being left off the guest list.
  • If you're often kept awake by racing thoughts and worries and you tend to make to-do lists in your head, keep a pen or pencil and a small pad of paper handy and write them down.
  • In the weeks ahead, they'll be going door-to-door at dorms and fraternity and sorority houses.

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