(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.
Kooky
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) If your little daughter does a kooky dance to a Prince song don’t bother putting it on YouTube for her grandparents to see or a purple dwarf in assless chaps will put an injunction on you.
(2) The truth: This is clever and kooky music, but obviously miles from the Kooks .
(3) They all followed a similar template: remember the kooky, pudding-bowl kid from About a Boy ?
(4) Instead, let’s focus on the Republican argument that this is a kooky misunderstanding.
(5) That aversion to cruelty has stayed with him; the worst you could say about his work is that it's whimsical or excessively kooky at times, but it never wants for compassion.
(6) It's similarly disingenuous to pretend that this is a matter of a few, kooky individuals (albeit ones at the top of the Ukip hierarchy).
(7) Giannini's first since becoming a mother, it demonstrated two things: how she is a perfect fit for this most Italian of brands, and the move of fashion's focus from the warehouses and kooky references of London fashion week to the high-class hotels and all-out glamour of Milan.
(8) Of these, Dusty Springfield was the most technically proficient and the most temperamental; Lulu had the most powerful vocal cords but weaker songs; Sandie Shaw had a trendy, kooky image and songs to match; and Black benefited hugely from her association with the Beatles – John Lennon and Paul McCartney composed several of her hits – and their manager Brian Epstein.
(9) All of us can point to the kooky one, the dumb one, the OCD one in our own friendship groups.
(10) Perfection is out and kooky is in, say observers, and to stand out on the catwalk now you need more than a conventionally pretty face and a stick-thin physique.
(11) more words from the Guardian's chief pop critic Alexis Petridis Laura Mvula – Sing to the Moon All its idiosyncracies of songwriting and arrangement and delivery feel meant: unlike some of the artists to whom she's been compared, you're never struck by the sensation Mvula is killing herself to appear kooky that man Alexis Petridis yet again Rudimental – Home There are impressive contributions, including one from the reliably fearsome Angel Haze, but the band's roving sensibilities – garage, house, R&B – don't always come together.
(12) Far less so than is normal even in the kooky looking-glass world of film.
(13) Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948) and The Grass Harp (1951) were carefully wrought examples of swamp gothic – unashamedly ornate, lush and impressionistic, and for all its metropolitan sass, Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958), Capote's third novel, in which he gave us the kooky, amoral Holly Golightly, also had its roots in the deep south.
(14) "That makes me sound disrespectful," he says, "but I just think of these people as my kooky distant relatives," he says.
(15) There is an outside chance, in a film, that the heroine might be kooky or her best friend might make funny faces.
(16) And Jerry Brown, who led the state before the crisis, was remembered, if at all, as "Governor Moonbeam", a kooky, distant predecessor to the baroque Arnold Schwarzenegger.
(17) Displaying other talents, or having a unique selling point – whether that means being kooky and cute, showing a rare openness on social media like Delevingne, or taking on a different persona outside of modelling, such as Jourdan Dunn and her baking – helps audiences around the globe to connect, encouraging brands and designers to seek out and employ these women.
(18) Yet despite her own version of the hat and the waistcoat – the dyed fringe, the occultish homemade tattoos – Claire insists that Grimes is not a kooky persona that she slips on and off with her rings.
(19) It seemed so obvious, but everybody else seemed to think I was kooky."
(20) Kooky play, Pagan is on second, and the inning continues!