Collins Cobuild Corpus Concordance Sampler
Edith Senne (14 November 2002)
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marital problems), Lynn Kellogg (apron strings and ambition), Patel (
Helmut Lang in the shape of dangling apron strings, while Complice took the
he asked while she hastily tied the apron strings in a bow. What did you say
not going to be tied to my mother's apron strings. I am going out into the
Other curators are tied to the apron-strings of the art market and the
Derek, when you cut your mother's apron strings, talk to me again. Till
Meanwhile, with The Boo Radleys barking up the wrong tree completely, the
pages, hasn't he? Or are we just barking up the wrong tree? [p] [c] PHOTO
Elizabeth is serious. [p] [h] Barking up the wrong tree;New Movies;
their predictions come true. You're barking up the wrong tree." Sure," he
HOOVER [tref] [h] How to have your cake and eat it [/h] [c] photo with
cakes [/h] [p] Now you can have your cake and eat it! [p] Nutricia introduces
him, to put it bluntly, to have his cake and eat it. Perhaps you've now
Royal in their name is to have one's cake and eat it. [p] If one goes, both
Lockerbie - they can't have their cake and eat it. [p] B Hughes, N
be less than the utopian, have-your-cake-and-eat-it- too vision it seems to
fail on different diets is that they jump in at the deep end, making a
dirt. Watching too many of my friends jump in at the deep end and never come
the day" was simple enough. It cut no ice with the coal owners. They had only
this symbol of new South Africa cut no ice with Atherton. Nor did he look
reading of the treaty will cut no ice with the hard men of the hard core.
100,000 first prize, but that cut no ice with the promising 23-year-old
But Spurs fighting qualities cut no ice with City fans, who made their
to have many wives. [p] That cut no ice with the Johor judge, who said state
[p] [h] EVERYTHING BUT THE KITCHEN SINK [/h] For 20 per cent off ex-display
Everything in here but the kitchen sink, I always say." She bent over the
bearing everything but the kitchen sink, is a decided advantage, as are bass
the latter surely on his last legs for England, just as in his last 50
and that the enemy was on his last legs. Haig neglected to explain how these
on his (certainly not her) last legs. Intellectuals with great causes,
that the Government is on its last legs," Mr Prescott said. `The Tories have
are terminally ill and on your last legs, or hunch-shouldered with a bad case
just sent it staggering on its last legs out. [p] Snipes: Mm-hmm. Yeah.
corridor just as you're on your last legs, so I eventually made it, though
the peace process was on its last legs, thanks to John Major's performance
this is not a company on its last legs. The real news last week was
for the car and it's on its last legs. The refrigerator consumes belts
There is no example for "to make a mountain out of a mole-hill" in the Collins corpus
has she got those `family quotes" off-pat for interviews? [p] So many
at least, they have got it off-pat, right down to the bugle calls in
in order to throw the police off the scent. [p] The trauma and guilt of his
better calculated to put me off the scent? Although fundamentally pro-
place to throw his pursuers off the scent and here Kawaguchi seems to have
tried to put the Israelis off the scent by daubing wall posters claiming Mr
favourite for putting hounds off the scent by dragging the fish across the
s a decoy to try and throw us off the scent. It's exactly the sort of thing
used by saboteurs to put them off the scent. The huntsman, the whipper-in, my
STEWART and multi-millionaire big-cheese at IRS Records to boot. [p] Also
sweet centre favoured by City X big cheese Imran. You'll often catch him in
and therefore a pretty big cheese in orchestral life), believes that
sort of `gotcha" for Tory Party Big Cheese Jeremy Hanley. [p] He was seen in
count of three we give him the big cheese. One? Two? Three!" And they all
into a number of former Lloyd's big cheese's accounts. [p] It's not illegal
themselves to me. I'm really a big cheese when they see my mashi. [p] Edward:
Now that's not everybody's cup of tea. [p] Tetley's, we hear, is lining
right. It ain't everybody's cup of tea, and that's--that's OK, you know.
enjoyed it but it wasn't my cup of tea at all. I think it's probably a
Clothes on. Oh, he was just my cup of tea, from the very beginning. You know,
Rod Stewart proved not her cup of tea. And one lover she did fall for
Rab Butler wasn't her cup of tea. When she got the advice to call
s book but `it wasn't my cup of tea [p] The winner insisted that only
hours on motorways is not my cup of tea, but I do like visiting new places
who doesn't think you're their cup of tea. Don't concentrate too much on the
insist our policemen go back to grass roots to restore our faith in them. [p]
from getting together at the grass roots to carry out what is essentially
give Bill Clinton a powerful grass-roots tool to use as he tries to turn a
attacks from the rostrum. [p] Grass roots Tories are demanding lower taxes
and contempt for the grass-roots vulgarity of Johnson - in effect, a
that many Labour activists at the grassroots across the country would be
crystallized into the form that grassroots activists would later claim as a
Conservatives talked like grassroots activists but were able to behave
That debacle opened up space for grassroots activists who knew quite clearly
to the enveloping crisis. But grassroots activists who stuck to the hard
in fiction became known as a red herring. [p] [h] Stories about the state
programme their argument is a `red herring [p] And an optical manufacturer
Luckies, and thus drag a small red herring across the trail. Perhaps it was
you'll be happy to swallow one red herring after another. [p] All three
predicted, but was it a `red herring" all along. David Thomas spoke to
song. But it's a bit of a red herring because, although Lida and her
but maybe reference points are a red herring, cos these songs have a life force
proportion." A skilled debater's red herring. I brought him back to the point: `
from one life to another is a `red herring". It is certain that our duty is
allegation is preposterous and a red herring. Japan also argues that U.S.
point of view, it is a complete red herring. Never mind the back-room process:
Oh my fur and whiskers, I smell red herring;Television Review [/h] [b] Matthew
David Irving called this `a red herring". `The Court of Inquiry
[p] Elvira made a convincing red herring. There was her name for starters
[p] This may, of course, be a red herring. Under the regime of Lord King, BA'
debate is in one sense a red herring. What is more worrying is that,
rape and being paid large sums of hush money (he did not fancy her is
Graf, 53, out of £ 280,000 hush money over the baby. [p] Her
offered and describes the handout as `hush money [p] The couple first met in
the world shoots by beneath you may be pie in the sky but, in delightful
Isn't that perhaps a case of Beeton pie in the sky? `Well, not entirely," he
Round the World Race seemed like pie in the sky. But, last May, race
interest. Granted the plot is just pie in the sky but who gives a magic
fluffed an interview with a couple of Pie in the Sky actresses whom they
s hope the idea is not simply Scotch pie in the sky. [p] [h] Swotting up on
implausible but far more enjoyable Pie in the Sky. [p] Hetty Wainthropp,
such as propane and isobutane as `pie in the sky" and added: `Can we all
season ends. Right now, it's just pie in the sky as I'm under contract to
home - while his hair grows. [p] [h] Pie in the sky;Bob Smith's mince pie
be free of unnecessary levels of red tape for smaller audit firms. Most
in 20 days. But bad weather and red tape forced him to finish just 180 miles
refugees are angry that Bosnian red tape has held up the rescue. [p] [h]
enterprise or bind companies in red tape. However, he avoided any reference
due to nightmarish bureaucratic red tape in Vietnam. Thai investors, a
complaining about bureaucracy and red tape in the Soviet Union. Negotiations
types of loans such as: [p] NO RED TAPE LOANS 100 PURCHASE LOANS for JUMBO
of the world. It is the home of red tape. Many of these criticisms are
the very same day. There's no red tape, no papers to fill out, no waiting
The right to buy left hogtied by red tape;Property [/h] [b] Mary Wilson [/b]
by a friend as `not exactly a shrinking violet." they play mostly house
s teasing Rolling Stone chat and a shrinking violet MTV talk spot in '86 he
push me that way; call me Violet. Shrinking Violet. Slaver me and slobber me,
certainly not cast by nature as a shrinking violet. [p] The first time he
find it difficult to recognise this shrinking violet. [p] So too will TV
been in danger of creating a white elephant [p] The Kempton committee, chaired
to be remembered only as a white elephant. [p] No band has set foot in the
convention in San Diego on a white elephant. But nobody alas, fits that bill.
toys, games, craft items, white elephant goods (but no clothes), if you no
twenty miles from that other white elephant, Kandahar International
London's £ 3 billion `white elephant" office block Canary Wharf. [p]
left with an extremely large white elephant on its hands if it goes ahead with
headquarters, a monstrous white elephant rising seventeen storeys high in
be left holding an expensive white elephant." The York Economics Consortium
the group from being a white elephant to a viable asset from which the
everyone by disdaining to tell a white lie about his past, and instead pleading
the interpretation of this white lie and ensuing questions would keep the
Derby, always ready with a white lie, assured Haig that there was no lack
flak doesn't hurt is telling a white lie", he said. [p] The writing was on
and Luke Perry. [p] [h] Tiny white lie helped Orla cross the thin blue line;
sh-sh-sh. Hello, Russ. I told a white lie." I said nothing but walked outside
she caught you in a lie, even a white lie, she was capable of weeping over it.
ORLA Brady had to tell a little white lie to clinch the plum part of a lone
him it had been found. That white lie was a diversion he could do without.
Lydia figured that a little white lie wouldn't hurt. Especially if it made
five chosen numbers. So you'll see in black and white exactly how much you're
the answer would be jotted in black and white on the chore bulletin
There is no example for "that's the way the cookie crumbles" in the Collins corpus
said, a little green around the gills. I'll be frank with you, Mr Stein.
out to catch villains - by Hook or by crook. [p] Husband and wife Kim and Ian
to get their way, by hook or by crook. [p] However, if the costs were not
to strike rich by hook or by crook, and one weapon such missionaries
capitalist world market by hook or by crook contributed essentially to the
where `beating the casino by hook or crook has been raised to an art form
blow with the crowbar, by hook or by crook we got it out. Taking the rocks
had to bring the fish in virtually inch by inch as the 2 oz of lead buried
to my great relief I realized that, inch by inch, Cliff was beginning to move
great black, iron cannon in the surf. Inch by inch it was dragged like a
ourselves forward on our stomachs inch by inch through the narrow passage.
yourself away from your behaviour, inch by inch, hour by hour, day by day,
experts yesterday worked their way `inch by inch" through a minefield and
as more than 100 officers made an inch-by-inch countryside search. [p]
Russian town four days earlier. [p] Inch by inch, she was eased from the
hunting for clues carried out an inch-by-inch search of the house in
The shadow of the cliff moved inch by inch across the sandy space.
Church. You only come once in a blue moon. [o] And then suddenly - poof and
village. Only once in a blue moon do properties of this quality, style
and often, rather than once in a blue moon." His ambition? `To form a harmony
Show, I was offered a once-in-a-blue-moon opportunity. I was introduced to a
but they only call you once in a blue moon. That's for middle-class students
Blue Moon". You are a `once in a blue moon" type who only thinks about tidying
/h] [p] SCORE 8 -- 14 Once in a Blue Moon". You are a `once in a blue moon"
Bruno Munari; World, 1960) Easy as Pie (Marcia and Michael Folsom, Clarion,
[p] I [f] could [f] have. Easy as pie. She knew about you and didn't mind &
a sense of loss: a feeling that the rough-and-ready appeal of the old has
admits Flo's growing reputation as a rough-and-ready target man could work
MACPHEROSN : And it's not just rough and ready stuff. On your stand here
in the Bristol Channel. At first the rough and ready sailors did not know what
There is too much law" and not enough rough and ready justice in this land."
services rose phenomenally, and the rough-and-ready apprentice system that
This treatment was preferable to the rough-and-ready one of kneeling on the
all the above crops and provides some rough and ready information about them
of this size. I do practise a sort of rough and ready rotation for onion crops (
the passenger's security `profile" a rough-and-ready assessment of each
help realism. [p] [h] Killers on the run;Anthony Coughtrey and Gary Johns
smiling. [p] Battered, bruised, on the run from his own colleagues, driving
a host of other chaps - had her on the run from the Fleet Street jackals. [p]
and handling stolen goods went on the run from the Surrey prison after failing
on some clothes; now he was on the run. He'd already told Spider he was
him, living like some criminal on the run, I'll never know," she said. [p] In
third appearance as an IRA man on the run in the New York-based thriller A
verdict and call for a replay on the run out of Graham Thorpe. [p] The
robber. [p] After nine months on the run, Sam Meffire, 25, was arrested last
[p] The real Anderson has been on the run since 28-year-old Mark Garrett was
what you need to get things back on track. 7. Be a considerate sex partner.
[p] SUBSCRIBE NOW? AND GET ON TRACK. [p] Wouldn't you like to make sure
swing changes he made to get back on track. [p] [h] Wind Cheater [/h] Christy
we can feel confident things are on track [p] The shares show how coolly
turn vigilante to ensure they stay on track. [p] Saturday night links between
genuine about wanting to keep Emu on track (a difficult task), this looks to
merchandising group Storm is back on track after its boardroom bustup. [p]
0. [p] THE Blaydon Races are back on track again. Newcastle United, coming
it is not. We have got to get back on track and it starts again for us at
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