(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.
Reserve
Definition:
(v. t.) To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose.
(v. t.) Hence, to keep in store for future or special use; to withhold from present use for another purpose or time; to keep; to retain.
(v. t.) To make an exception of; to except.
(n.) The act of reserving, or keeping back; reservation.
(n.) That which is reserved, or kept back, as for future use.
(n.) That which is excepted; exception.
(n.) Restraint of freedom in words or actions; backwardness; caution in personal behavior.
(n.) A tract of land reserved, or set apart, for a particular purpose; as, the Connecticut Reserve in Ohio, originally set apart for the school fund of Connecticut; the Clergy Reserves in Canada, for the support of the clergy.
(n.) A body of troops in the rear of an army drawn up for battle, reserved to support the other lines as occasion may require; a force or body of troops kept for an exigency.
(n.) Funds kept on hand to meet liabilities.
Example Sentences:
(1) Surgical repair of the rheumatologic should however, is performed rarely, and should be reserved for the infrequent cases that do not respond to medical therapy.
(2) It is suggested that the normal cyclical release of LH is inhibited in PCO disease by a negative feedback by androgens to the hypothalamus or the pituitary, and that wedge resection should be reserved for patients in whom other forms of treatment have failed.
(3) The use of functional test with the ACTH administration demonstrated organic affection of the CNS to sharply aggravate the weakening and even the exhaustion of the functional reserves of the glomerular and the reticular zones of the adrenal cortex developing during thyrotoxicosis, and also the reserve possibilities of the sympathico-adrenal system.
(4) Then, the delta Fract (coronary flow reserve index) map was obtained for each subject.
(5) Administration of one of the precursors of noradrenaline l-DOPA not only prevented the decrease in tissue noradrenaline content in myocardium, but restored completely its reserves, exhausted by electrostimulation of the aortic arch.
(6) We conclude that, whereas an identical protocol of acute ND had no significant effects on diaphragm muscle structure and function in adult rats, adolescent animals exhibit significantly less nutritional reserve.
(7) Further analysis of these changes according to smoking history, age, preoperative weight, dissection of IMA, and aortic cross-clamp time showed that only IMA dissection affected the postextubation changes in peak expiratory flow rate (p less than 0.0001), whereas the decreases in functional residual capacity and expiratory reserve volume at discharge were affected by IMA dissection (p less than 0.05) and age (p = 0.01).
(8) A golden toad (Bufo periglenes) in Monteverde Cloud forest reserve in Puntarenas province of Costa Rica.
(9) Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps, Army Reserve.
(10) That, however, is reserved for the most serious cases and the indications are that a fine is the likely outcome.
(11) Overall, the differences in skeletal muscle energy state during rest and the corresponding changes in concentration of high-energy phosphates during mild exercise suggest a very limited energy reserve in the hypotonic muscle of VLBW infants.
(12) Parenteral cyclophosphamide or corticosteroid pulses should be reserved for cases with vasculitis or refractoriness to conventional drugs.
(13) Calcium supplementation should be reserved for patients with clear clinical signs of hypocalcemia and dialysate calcium should be adjusted to prevent excessive positive calcium balance.
(14) In June, a notorious elephant poacher led a gang of bandits in an attack on the Okapi wildlife reserve in DRC, killing seven people.
(15) Spiramycin, though not constantly effective, is reserved for immunosuppressed patients.
(16) It suggested that the decrease of pituitary reserve might probably be the pathogenesis of Kidney deficiency.
(17) A monoclonal antibody specific for columnar epithelium (RGE 53) gave a positive reaction in endocervical columnar cells and in some immature metaplastic cells but was negative in subcolumnar reserve cells, squamous (metaplastic) cells, dysplastic cells, and most cases of carcinoma in situ.
(18) But the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), in a submission to a parliamentary inquiry into housing that was established by Hockey, backed the need to review negative gearing.
(19) Chronic ingestion of alcohol is associated with a diminished marrow granulocyte reserve and may lead to neutrocytopenia.
(20) The loss of coronary reserve was less than that previously observed after a 15-min occlusion, suggesting that the magnitude of the postischemic vascular abnormalities increases with the duration of the ischemic insult.