(1) It’s no longer a big ticket item – it’s cheaper than Uber,” says Nigel McMinn, manager director of Lookers, which runs 153 car dealerships across the UK.
(2) Inverdale provoked outrage when he said that women's champion Marion Bartoli was "never going to be a looker, you'll never be a Sharapova so you have to be scrappy and fight?
(3) Lookers, which sells nearly 120,000 new and used vehicles a year, said pre-tax profits surged 38% to £38m in the six months to June, with sales up 29% to £1.6bn.
(4) The BBC’s John Inverdale took a long time to recover from his clumsy observation during Wimbledon in 2013 that Marion Bartoli, who eventually won the title, was “no looker”.
(5) For right and left lookers, the phenomenon of shorter latency of retrieval on a verbal task when looking toward the right was found when encoding and retrieval points were different, [F(1,35) = 15 16, p less than .001], but not when they were the same [F(1,35) = .36, N.S.].
(6) The BBC has received almost 700 complaints in the hours after the veteran Inverdale said Bartoli "was never going to be a looker" on Radio 5 Live ahead of the game.
(7) The acquaintance of subject and looker as well as the depth of gaze affected male subjects' judgments of a female assistant's looking behavior.
(8) The global task was easier than the featural task, but as the amount of time allotted for infants to solve either type of task was decreased, short lookers' performance was superior to that of long lookers.
(9) "She's not a looker," says Ruby rather sweetly about her effort.
(10) The BBC was forced to apologise after Inverdale, speaking before Bartoli's match against Sabine Lisicki, told listeners of Radio 5 Live: "Do you think Bartoli's dad told her when she was little: 'You're never going to be a looker, you'll never be a Sharapova, so you have to be scrappy and fight'?"
(11) 4 experiments tested the possibility of whether short lookers' superiority on perceptual-cognitive tasks is attributable to attention to the featural details of visual stimuli, or simply to differences in the speed or efficiency of visual processing.
(12) The details described characterize a medical care system which still nowadays demands the respect of the modern lookers-on.
(13) Logan's comments come at a sensitive time for the corporation in the wake of presenter John Inverdale's remarks about Wimbledon champion Marion Bartoli, saying she was "never going to be a looker" .
(14) Inverdale told listeners: "Do you think Bartoli's dad told her when she was little: 'You're never going to be a looker, you'll never be a Sharapova, so you have to be scrappy and fight'?
(15) Illustration: Davies review The companies in the FTSE 350 with all-male boards were named as Allied Minds, Centamin, Deajan Holdings, HellermannTyton Group, Nostrum Oil and Gas, Perpetual Income and Growth Investment Trust, Telecom Plus, Wizz Air Holdings, Al Noor Hospitals Group, Clarkson, Genus, Lookers, P2P Global Investments, Scottish Investment Trust, and Tritax Big Box Reit.
(16) "Do you think," he mused moronically, "Bartoli's dad told her when she was little, 'You're never going to be a looker, you'll never be a [Maria] Sharapova, so you have to be scrappy and fight'?"
(17) This might be an awkward moment for John Inverdale as Simon Burnton pointed out in his blog: Sports Personality of the Year: time to applaud the antiheroes of 2013 One thing that's absolutely certain is that the BBC 's John Inverdale , who controversially announced in July that the Wimbledon champion Marion Bartoli was "never going to be a looker" , isn't going to be invited to the cool parties.
(18) If that should give any woman reluctant to describe herself as a feminist pause for thought, the naff exchanges between Gray and the reporter Andy Burton about whether the "lino" was "a looker" suggests discrimination in Sky's football department may have spread way beyond two middle-aged dinosaurs.
(19) I mean, she's not much of a looker, but she didn't need to stoop that low.
(20) However, a spokesman said: “We did launch the Range Rover Td6 and Range Rover Sport Td6 in late September as planned and while it is too early to tell what, if any, long-term impact there will be on the US market, we are pleased with the early sales.” In the UK, one major car dealership, Lookers, reported continuing profit growth on Friday, leading the City analysts at Peel Hunt to conclude: “While some suggested that the VW crisis would have a major impact on the motor trade, [this] suggests that its progress remains strong ... the VW nerves are now soothed.” The shareholders VW shares lost around one-third of their value in the first two days of trading after news of the scandal broke, and remain at roughly the same level now.
Watch
Definition:
(v. i.) The act of watching; forbearance of sleep; vigil; wakeful, vigilant, or constantly observant attention; close observation; guard; preservative or preventive vigilance; formerly, a watching or guarding by night.
(v. i.) One who watches, or those who watch; a watchman, or a body of watchmen; a sentry; a guard.
(v. i.) The post or office of a watchman; also, the place where a watchman is posted, or where a guard is kept.
(v. i.) The period of the night during which a person does duty as a sentinel, or guard; the time from the placing of a sentinel till his relief; hence, a division of the night.
(v. i.) A small timepiece, or chronometer, to be carried about the person, the machinery of which is moved by a spring.
(n.) An allotted portion of time, usually four hour for standing watch, or being on deck ready for duty. Cf. Dogwatch.
(n.) That part, usually one half, of the officers and crew, who together attend to the working of a vessel for an allotted time, usually four hours. The watches are designated as the port watch, and the starboard watch.
(v. i.) To be awake; to be or continue without sleep; to wake; to keep vigil.
(v. i.) To be attentive or vigilant; to give heed; to be on the lookout; to keep guard; to act as sentinel.
(v. i.) To be expectant; to look with expectation; to wait; to seek opportunity.
(v. i.) To remain awake with any one as nurse or attendant; to attend on the sick during the night; as, to watch with a man in a fever.
(v. i.) To serve the purpose of a watchman by floating properly in its place; -- said of a buoy.
(v. t.) To give heed to; to observe the actions or motions of, for any purpose; to keep in view; not to lose from sight and observation; as, to watch the progress of a bill in the legislature.
(v. t.) To tend; to guard; to have in keeping.
Example Sentences:
(1) They had watched him celebrate mass with three million pilgrims on the packed-out shores of Copacabana beach .
(2) It was like watching somebody pouring a blue liquid into a glass, it just began filling up.
(3) Facial expression, EEG, and self-report of subjective emotional experience were recorded while subjects individually watched both pleasant and unpleasant films.
(4) The government has been counting on the fact that their attacks on the NHS are too complicated to be widely understood: after all, their Health and Social Care Act was much longer than the legislation that created the NHS under Aneurin Bevan’s watch in the first place.
(5) "We purposely watched it that way - to magnify the experience," Kidman says.
(6) Milan’s 4-0 win over Steaua in the European Cup final in 1989 was a great display so I’ve made my players watch the video.
(7) I liked watching Morecambe & Wise, I liked the Queen's speech because it was on and everyone listened to it.
(8) Yet Malema's influence continues to grow and his travails are watched with interest.
(9) Four million viewers tune in to the show every week and two million more watch online the next day.
(10) Lessons have been learned from previous Games, not least London 2012, in how to best frame the sporting action for maximum impact – not only for those watching on television but those attending in person.
(11) I could walk around more freely than in North Korea, but it was very apparent I was being watched.” The country consistently sits at the bottom of global freedom rankings, in the company of North Korea and Eritrea.
(12) The UK is a country we are watching closely on these issues.
(13) Russia's most widely watched television station, state-controlled Channel One, followed a bulletin about his death with a summary of the crimes he is accused of committing, including the siphoning of millions of dollars from national airline Aeroflot.
(14) But despite gendarmes keeping watch at entrances to the village, one local police officer said there were five times more journalists than security forces.
(15) I watch three hours of Smiley, then I have lunch, then I write for a couple of minutes. '
(16) I watched as she made the briefest eye contact with me on their way back, the flicker of hurt and sadness in her eyes reflecting mine, before the shutters came down.
(17) He said: “Henri is someone the club has been watching for a while and he has developed into an excellent player at Bordeaux.
(18) KNOWLEDGE ARCHIVE "Having watched 42-year-old Kevin Poole turn out for Derby recently, I wondered 'have any grandfathers ever played league football?'
(19) When you score a hat trick in the first 16 minutes of a World Cup Final with tens of millions of people watching across the world, essentially ending the match and clinching the tournament before most players worked up a sweat or Japan had a chance to throw in the towel, your status as a sports legend is forever secure – and any favorable comparisons thrown your way are deserved.
(20) They watch the Premier League everywhere in Africa."