(1) Hugh Bonneville, who plays Lord Grantham, recently appeared in the Paddington film and Maggie Smith was in the Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, along with Penelope Wilton .
(2) If some sadness surrounds Penelope Jardine's surrender of her own creative ambitions as well as her lack of a life partner and family, she is proud to have played a key role in one of the 20th century's great literary careers.
(3) He married Penelope Colbeck, at one time his secretary at the BBC, in 1947.
(4) Penelope Gibbs, chair of the Standing Committee for Youth Justice, said:"It's hard to believe that the government is planning to outlaw teenagers just for being annoying – unopposed by Labour.
(5) Theirs was, in fact, a remarkable marriage, although its final stages were somewhat bitterly reflected by Penelope in her novel The Home (1971).
(6) First Fillon, who had campaigned as a sleaze-free “Mr Clean”, was alleged to have paid his wife, Penelope , who is British, at least €680,000 of taxpayers’ money for a suspected fake parliamentary assistant job spanning 15 years.
(7) The Greek of myth eventually found his way back to his wife, Penelope.
(8) For all the help Jardine provided to Spark, it was Penelope's house that they lived in and her decision to move to Tuscany.
(9) A colleague of Joulaud’s told the paper: “ [I] never worked with [Penelope Fillon].
(10) I tell Lawrence that I think a song like Penelope Tree or Sunlight Bathed The Golden Glow deserved to be radio hits, when a spate of bands with far weaker tunes ended up becoming much bigger than Felt ever were.
(11) Beside Fillon stood his British-born wife, Penelope, the central figure in the “fake jobs” scandal that has created the storm around a man who only months ago appeared a sure bet for the Elysée Palace.
(12) But at the end of last week, Fillon awoke to news of the publication in Le Canard Enchaîné of highly damaging revelations that he had employed his wife Penelope, in what the newspaper implied was a well-paid parliamentary assistant role, funded with public money.
(13) In the 2007 footage for the Sunday Telegraph, she told Kim Willsher, now a correspondent for the Guardian in Paris:“I have never actually been his (Fillon’s) assistant or anything like that.” Penelopegate: my part in the François Fillon scandal Read more Penelope Fillon’s lawyer, Pierre Cornut-Gentille, told Agence France-Presse that isolated phrases should not be taken out of context and said his client have given investigators “all the details showing the existence of an actual job”.
(14) Such is the backdrop to the “ Penelope gate ” scandal, which has engulfed François Fillon , the rightwing contender under investigation for suspected misuse of parliamentary funds.
(15) Penelope Jardine was 36, an orphan since her mid-teens and a student of sculpture at the Accademia di Belli Arti.
(16) Penelope Fillon has been summoned to appear before judges next Tuesday.
(17) This was not, one feels, an attitude shared by Penelope.
(18) Peter Egan, who starred opposite Richard Briers (and Downton's Penelope Wilton) in BBC1 sitcom Ever Decreasing Circles, will also return in the new series, as Lord Flintshire.
(19) Thierry Solère, Fillon’s spokesman, said Penelope Fillon had “indeed” worked for her husband in parliament.
(20) Disciplinarian advice has alternated with liberal advice ever since: for every Gina Ford advocating controlled crying, there has been a liberal antidote – a Dr Spock or Penelope Leach – although sometimes it is hard to distinguish the liberal from the prescriptive: British psychologist John Bowlby, for instance, was liberal about children's behaviour, but less so when it came to that of mothers.
Penny
Definition:
(a.) Denoting pound weight for one thousand; -- used in combination, with respect to nails; as, tenpenny nails, nails of which one thousand weight ten pounds.
(n.) An English coin, formerly of copper, now of bronze, the twelfth part of an English shilling in account value, and equal to four farthings, or about two cents; -- usually indicated by the abbreviation d. (the initial of denarius).
(n.) Any small sum or coin; a groat; a stiver.
(n.) Money, in general; as, to turn an honest penny.
(n.) See Denarius.
(a.) Worth or costing one penny.
Example Sentences:
(1) The buses recently went up by 50p per journey, but my wages went up with national inflation which was pennies.
(2) One minister said at the tail end of last week that they had spent their final working days spending every last penny they could find in their departmental budget.
(3) Told him we'll waive VAT on #BandAid30 so every penny goes to fight Ebola November 15, 2014 Thousands of onlookers turned out to watch the arrival of artists including One Direction, Paloma Faith, Disclosure, Jessie Ware, Ellie Goulding and Clean Bandit at Sarm studios in Notting Hill, west London .
(4) The penny that has not yet dropped with most of us is that we have arrived at a make-or-break moment: if we are to have any real chance of avoiding dangerous warming, the scientists now agree, global emissions must peak within the next five to 10 years and then begin to fall.
(5) Instead, we are investing massively in our UK network, (more than £1bnthis year alone) and creating hundreds of new UK jobs as every penny of our UK profit is invested back into our UK business.
(6) Thus did the president's brother become the third biggest shareholder in the country's biggest bank without spending a penny of his own money.
(7) GMTV presenter Penny Smith has already left and Ben Shephard and Andrew Castle will be departing before the autumn relaunch.
(8) "In ocean races in sailing a handicap prize is awarded as well as a line honours prize to recognise sailing skill rather than simply the newest and most expensive boat," writes Benjamin Penny.
(9) Even Battersea's tiny 503 theatre, which gets not a penny of public money, has had a surer instinct for new plays – Katori Hall's The Mountaintop won at the Olivier awards last March – than Hampstead, which currently receives £930,000 from Arts Council England alone.
(10) Quality Street toffee penny yellow is the new pink Breaking news!
(11) The 10,000-sq ft gatehouse has a 12-seat cinema and staff quarters, and sits opposite the home of the current commerce secretary, Penny Pritzker.
(12) The exhibition will include the earliest roadside pillar box erected on the mainland – in 1853, a year after the first went up in Jersey in the Channel Isles – and unique and priceless sheets of Penny Black stamps.
(13) The favours Icac found that Macdonald bestowed on his friend included inside knowledge of the granting of the mining tenement of Mount Penny and the expression-of-interest process for mining exploration licences in the area.
(14) Labor’s Senate leader, Penny Wong, argued it was up to the Senate to act because of the failure of the prime minister, Tony Abbott, to act.
(15) Andrew Mitchell, the international development secretary, said there was a "moral imperative" to tackle world poverty which is "firmly in Britain's national interest as he pledged to spend "every penny" of overseas aid effectively (2.13pm).
(16) I only think it’s inevitable if people who support marriage between a man and a woman don’t speak up.” Labor’s Penny Wong said the “open warfare” inside the Liberal party had the potential to “damage the cause of equality that so many Australians care about”.
(17) Cinema chains in the UK and abroad fear relaxation of the window in case film lovers decide to save their pennies and see new releases at home rather than travelling to their nearest multiplex.
(18) The colour to channel for next season is, in fact, not matt buttercup yellow but the gold-foil sheen best explained as the colour of the toffee penny in a box of Quality Street.
(19) Although I sent several reminders, I never saw a penny or heard from him again.
(20) Try Penny Dreadful Read more Conleth Hill, who plays Machiavellian royal fixer Varys, kept the crowd in stitches.