(1) Stanley stood up, summoned his secretary and said: "Call my bookie."
(2) 2.41am BST Spurs 25-27 Heat - end of the 1st quarter Email from Roger Kirkby: And here we are, game six, TV happy, bookies happy, game on.
(3) That’s not a prediction, just the price that was available at my local bookies this morning.
(4) The 44-year-old performer was the bookies' favourite to claim the Oscar, despite a recent repeat of accusations that director Allen had abused his infant daughter, Dylan.
(5) He even put money on a Tory victory at the bookies.
(6) She tore up the old controls and you can see the result around you: Sky and Talksport peppered with urgent appeals to give your money to the gambling conglomerates; bookies, stuffed with fixed-odds machines, clogging the high street.
(7) Another Tour win, and hopefully people will see him differently, but mine and the bookies' money are not on our Kenyan-born Brit.
(8) Lincoln is currently the bookies' favourite to win the best picture nomination.
(9) Miliband said a number of councils had passed motions to ban bookies from the high street.
(10) Odds 20-1 Social media’s favourite, and the bookies’ outsider.
(11) It is just a week into the Labour leadership contest and Andy Burnham , the frontrunner according to the bookies, admits that it already seems to have “lasted for ever”.
(12) The bookies have not waited for the announcement of the results of the ballot and have already paid out.
(13) Kennedy described the new role, which hasn’t yet been cast, as “probably in the high teens, low 20s” , which should have the bookies scrambling to lower the odds on Breaking Bad’s 34-year-old Aaron Paul getting the role.
(14) Presenters kept shouting that Ed was now the bookies' favourite.
(15) With minor parties, from Greens to the BNP, doing their disruptive best, the bookies too are hedging their odds.
(16) A victory for AV would be a boost and the more so for now being regarded by bookies and pollsters as a remote possibility.
(17) Despite losing in the final, Boyle has been tipped to make millions from a singing career and bookies are already predicting a number one chart hit in America.
(18) With its lack of big names and its potential contenders that have yet to be published, the longlist has elicited wildly divergent assessments from bookies, with three different favourites – O'Neill for William Hill, Mukherjee for Ladbrokes and Flanagan for Paddy Power – and agreement only that Mitchell (expertly described in Paddy Power's press release as "the comedian David Mitchell") will be among the front-runners and Ali Smith and Jacobson not far behind.
(19) They’re tied for the third-best record in all of baseball and even though their pitching has been lights out in the second half bookies ain’t believin’ in the Birds.
(20) The club are apparently considering the credentials of the 60-year-old Yilmaz Vural, who has managed at 20 clubs in his native Turkey, while the bookies' favourite is Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.
Boozy
Definition:
(a.) A little intoxicated; fuddled; stupid with liquor; bousy.
Example Sentences:
(1) But how and when would the boozy, workshy, adorable slob who had spent 30 years twice a week in millions of British living rooms go?
(2) The assumption goes that it's a boozy, thrilling free-for-all, where brilliant ideas pour continuously out of the mouths of equally brilliant people.
(3) For a light lunch or boozy dinner there is the Agni Taverna, the outdoor restaurant where "pure poison" dripped when Mandelson, Osborne and Rothschild dined together.
(4) But to quote Hamlet, "the play's the thing" in Michael Grandage's cracking production, which makes an entertainingly boozy brew of humor both sweet and savage, melancholy sentimentality, lacerating sorrow and wicked cruelty."
(5) The promise of post-feminism after all was some Manolo Blahniks, a Mr Big or Darcy, some cracking sex toys, boozy nights out with the girls.
(6) First aired in the 1960s with Dean Martin as host, television roasts (Frank Sinatra and Ed Sullivan were among those roasted) were neutered versions of their boozy progenitors, but they were still barbed and borderline offensive – the "homage" to Sammy Davis Jr came very close to the bone on his race and chosen faith.
(7) I disagree: Baldwin is taking sides and backing Luke – the boozy, jazzy, truthful husband.
(8) The action ranges from set-piece speeches to packed fringe meetings and boozy parties.
(9) I enjoy listening to live music in the evenings or meeting with friends at our (rather boozy!)
(10) He outlined alleged purchases of more than $2,000 for interior furnishings, a boozy group dinner at the Press Club restaurant in Melbourne totalling about $2,200, videos and PlayStation games.
(11) It overran by hours and it was boozy and hilarious and it was the first time since I moved to New York that I had seen stand-ups trying stuff so obviously bespoke.
(12) A secret telegram sent by the US embassy in Azerbaijan revealed how Russia's defence minister, Anatoly Serdyukov, gave his own views after a boozy evening in February 2009 with his Azerbaijani counterpart, Safar Abiyev.
(13) What an irony if Nigel Farage MEP, a boozy metal trader from the under-regulated City of London, proved to be Britain's last, toxic contribution to the project.
(14) They followed this by a boozy session of rollerskating and organ music before we next saw Peggy swaggering into McCann looking like a rock star with her Wayfarers, Burt’s picture (see culture watch) and a cigarette dangling at a perfectly Richardsian angle.
(15) There was this awful voice.” John Gorton According to veteran journalist Laurie Oakes, former prime minister John Gorton once boarded a VIP jet in Melbourne after a boozy official dinner, and: He fell asleep, was woken a while later by the noise of the engines, and vomited.
(16) He learned to write plays by performing in taverns and inn yards; his speeches had to silence boozy peasants and heckling gentry.
(17) With hits like Stay With Me, I'd Rather Go Blind and Had Me a Real Good Time they were one of the most successful bands of the early 1970s and particularly successful live where, with their brand of boozy, good-time camaraderie, they bonded with the predominantly male audiences.
(18) The boozy lunches that were a hallmark of City life before deregulation in the 1980s are long gone.
(19) "), but even his friends have talked of a self-destructive streak, and by all accounts the 80s were a pretty boozy, promiscuous time.
(20) Shang, who has also played the leader in television dramas, is hired not for boozy weddings but staid official events.