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Sentence Examples
| The truth, I suspect, is that Havers simply can't be bothered to go there, and doesn't want the inevitable follow-on question about Polly. |
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| Here he makes a conquest of Lucy, and there ensues a spirited conflict between Lucy and Polly, the rival claimants of his heart. |
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| Mike has written his last Stone Column but he plans to write a book, and I doubt Polly will be putting down her dibber for good either. |
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| David is appalled that Polly could so wantonly cut herself loose from her baby to continue this swinging lifestyle. |
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| Polly Toynbee lets something slip as she pursues her campaign for the nationalisation of children. |
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| So if Polly wants Phil to remain her friend she needs to respect his feelings. |
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| By 1993 he was back in Britain, where he became romantically involved with the singer Polly Harvey, who duetted on his 1995 album Murder Ballads. |
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| Here I might be in trouble with the law again, for my dear little Jack Russell terrier Polly has had her tail docked. |
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| The Fisher's daughter, who has long blonde hair in pink ribbons, comes in and calls for Polly. |
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| After splitting from his producer wife, Polly Platt, after The Last Picture Show, he took up with its star, Cybill Shepherd. |
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| Polly is recognized by her peers for her extensive knowledge and competency in the areas of hematology and oncology. |
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| The next day, Aunt Polly punishes him for playing hookey by making him whitewash their entire fence. |
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| Sid speaks up and points out that Aunt Polly used white thread to sew Tom's shirt, but now the thread is black. |
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| At church that morning, Aunt Polly realizes that Tom and Becky are missing, and the town begins to search the maze-like cave to find them. |
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| Mike and Polly travel extensively, especially to the USA, bringing back small quantities of seed from which they grow stock plants. |
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| I spent this evening with Polly, Jo and mostly with Sarah, chewing the cud. |
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| It's a hit and miss film, which will appeal to those who liked Along Came Polly. |
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| Polly also made some tiny chocolate tarts and truffles which had a subtle, unusual flavour. |
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| So why has Polly come up with what is, even by her notoriously moronic standards, an outstandingly hopeless argument? |
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| Much of the public support grew out of sympathy for Polly Klaas, a young girl who was kidnapped and murdered in California by a recidivist criminal. |
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| She is love-interest Polly Perkins, a very Lois Lane-like reporter with a nose for trouble, a nice set of gams, and a rocky history with the dashing Captain. |
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| Polly makes a point of educating us on native plants as well, like the kukui nut, whose oil was used by Hawaiians as lubricant and fuel, the noni, and the ti leaf. |
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| Tom, a lively and adventurous lad, lives with his priggish brother Sid and his good-hearted Aunt Polly in the quiet town of St Petersburg, Missouri. |
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| Rather than wrap herself up in the mystique of the antipathic artist, Polly admits she's trapped in a self-defeating cycle of suffering followed by songwriting purgation. |
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| Polly Morgan, 29, is a trained taxidermist and has made her name fashioning art out of dead animals that have met accidental or unpreventable death. |
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| Polly Walker, who plays the glamorous and gritty Frannie, is back with Pippa Haywood as mousy Harriet, mum of even mousier inmate Gavin. |
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| Another songwriter credited on the album was Gilmour's future wife, Polly Samson. |
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| Using a stock company that included established performers like Michael Gambon, Polly Adams and Simon Cadell. |
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| A year later Polly and Molly were cloned, both sheep contained a human gene. |
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| Also in 1988, Tyler played the voice of Polly Garter in George Martin's production of Under Milk Wood, a radio drama by Dylan Thomas. |
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| Following this, Polly and Molly were the first mammals to be simultaneously cloned and transgenic. |
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| According to Polly Ha, the Reformed Church Government refuted this claiming that the bishops had been enforcing canon law for 1500 years. |
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| First Impressions was a 1959 Broadway musical version starring Polly Bergen, Farley Granger, and Hermione Gingold. |
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| He met casually with this Polly once in company, and taking a liking to her, makes it worth her while to keep entirely to him. |
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| She put on a white wrapper of Susy's, and, looking like a wimpled nun, followed Polly down stairs. |
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| Terms of endearment got made because Polly Platt was so persistent. |
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| The Pretty Polly lycra could now become as common as the hard hat in the trade after the two stunners proved it was up to the job. |
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| When Elsie's mother Polly went to a meeting of the Theosophical Society in Bradford she told the speaker of the photographs. |
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| Polly had a spice of girlish malice, and rather liked to see domineering Tom eat humble-pie, just enough to do him good, you know. |
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| Polly Walker, who plays the glamorous and gritty Frannie, is back along with Pippa Haywood as mousy Harriet, mum of even mousier inmate Gavin. |
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| Polly Findlay's funny modern revival of this anonymous Jacobean black comedy is filled with slapstick, chavs, visual gags and lots of blood. |
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| Springer spaniels Jack, Henry and Polly, along withblack labrador Jinx, are now the toast of Customs and Excise in Dover, Kent. |
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| The Aussie pop princess, 41, saw Polly Rae rehearse her racy Hurly Burly act before it premiered in London's Leicester Square Theatre. |
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| In late November 2006, the Conservative Party garnered headlines across the press when a senior member spoke out on poverty, invoking the name of Polly Toynbee. |
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| Two pipeline pigging companies, Pipeline Engineering of Richmond, North Yorkshire, UK, and Knapp Polly Pigs of Houston, have joined forces in a new alliance. |
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| In 2004 Polly Wiessner had initiated a new research project on tribal fighting with modern weapons together with Nitze Pupu and Akii Tumu and Village Court magistrates. |
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| I thrilled to the paragon Pretty Polly, successful in 22 of her 24 starts, winner of three Classics and regular trouncer of the 2,000 Guineas and Derby winner St Amant. |
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| Pretty Polly claim the lingerie line is comfortable and seamless and is designed to disappear under the clingiest black skirt or tightest pair of trousers. |
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| The results of the experiment could create new discoveries in the realm of particle physics, said Chris Polly, manager of the Muon g-2 project at Fermilab. |
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| Polly the parrot, Fribbet the frog, Linus the lion, and Mongo the monkey each offer trusted help and advice to Captain No Beard in his daring search for the Aurora Borealis. |
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| Polly kept on the go by signing up for the Cateran Yomp, a 22, 36 or 54-mile cross country walk in Perthshire, which she completed when Jamie was just four months old. |
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| In October 1, 1993, Richard Allen Davis broke into the suburban Petaluma, California home where 12-year-old Polly Klaas was having a slumber party with two of her friends. |
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| The promotions are Polly Saltmarsh to vice president of member service, Tina Cabana to vice president of lending, and Katherine McFarland to vice president of compliance. |
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| Polly Garter scrubs floors and sings about her past paramours. |
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| It is the social commentator Polly Toynbee who supplies imagery that is more appropriate for Conservative social policy in the twenty first century. |
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| The big-screen favourites play pilot Joe Sullivan and reporter Polly Perkins in comic book hommage Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow, which has its UK premiere on Monday. |
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Examples from Classical Literature
| Polly asked Davidge to retrieve her husband from the sloe-eyed ambassadress who was hypnotizing him. |
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| Polly lingered near, affright in her heart, Oh, if her father were only there! |
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| Inside in her smoke-filled room Polly O'Neill could not possibly have heard her. |
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| Then Mr. Polly took to evading him, and Hinks ceased to conceal his opinion that Mr. Polly was in reality a softish sort of flat. |
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| You see, this is a factory farm from fence to fence, except this forty which Polly bosses, and the utilitarian idea is on top. |
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| If reckless riding and a smart habit make a horsewoman, Polly Preece was a very Amazon. |
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| Polly took an armload of things away from her and put them back in the highboy. |
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| In the midst of them, Polly saw the face of the doctor who had just fixed alexia's arm. |
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| Such a contriving and racking of brains as Polly and Ben set up after this! |
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| And Polly ran into her own room, to prink also, fearing that her friend might be ashamed of her plain costume. |
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| His aunt Polly stood surprised a moment, and then broke into a gentle laugh. |
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| Button-Bright was wonderfully attracted by the straw man, and so was Polly. |
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| The boy at her side Polly had never spoken with, but now she turned to him inquiringly. |
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| Roy loved and obeyed Polly almost as readily as Peggy, and cavorted off beside her as gay as a grig. |
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| If Polly Perkins developed a chin and rushed off, what might Kent have done with an overdevelopment of chin already there? |
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| Polly herself, sceptical as she was, should be brought to admit that he had kept his word. |
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| Mrs. Polly watched them with beseeming awe and deference, but it was a great trial to her, and she grew very nervous over it. |
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| Just then Polly turned over in her sleep and whiffet scampered up the limb and back home as fast as she could run. |
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| She was no taller than Polly, but slender and with golden red hair caught under the sunhat in a swimmer's chignon. |
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| And Polly did, imitating the organ grinder's words and gestures, till her listeners were shaking with laughter. |
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| And it was sticking in her shirtwaist frill, just where she had put it when Polly gave it to her. |
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| Polly squeezed it sympathetically, and told him how sorry she was for his accident. |
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| And presently Polly found herself in a little stuffy box of a room, with a tableful of greasy dishes before her. |
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| And Polly declares there was never a year when the tailoring cost so little. |
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| But Polly sobbed on, nor could she be induced to eat the piece of shortcake she had wanted. |
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| Jack and Polly look sadly at one another, and then at the little green man. |
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| A speed boat from one of the yachts kept circling the Polly, carrying a creaming smother of water under its upcocked bow. |
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| And at that signal Polly and Eleanor focussed their cameras, and began the time exposure of the pictures. |
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| I think thats what is so comfortable in you, Aunt Polly, that youre not obstreperously good. |
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| A tricksome thing is life, Miss Polly, especially for a andsome female, and no young fellow to be trusted with it. |
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| Miss Polly Harrington entered her kitchen a little hurriedly this June morning. |
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| The Colonel would have given her his heartstrings if Polly had required them. |
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| He knew, as well as did Mr. Waddle or Polly, that he was misbehaving himself. |
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| He ate his bread pudding without tasting it and tried to talk to Polly about the proposed living room in the Long Island cottage. |
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| Glad with eager eyes on him handed the child to Polly and sat down without a moment's hesitance, avid of what was to come. |
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| So Mike spurred his broncho along the trail, while Polly and Anne rode after him. |
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| But tears and bewailings were not a natural resource with Polly, whose forte was action. |
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| Little Polly was the smallest, the neatest, and the dearest of the sprawling band. |
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| And Polly gave alexia's love all round, as she had been commissioned to do. |
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| Polly felt out of tune herself, and all the pianos seemed to need a tuner as much as she did. |
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| I regret to say that Polly never could talk with or be near Trix without feeling irritated and combative. |
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| With the tips of her fingers Miss Polly turned over the conglomerate garments, so obviously made for anybody but Pollyanna. |
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| With an old flame reappearing for Polly, a blossoming new career for Clare and a long-buried family secret in the mix, sparks are sure to fly. |
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| There was good stuff in Polly, unspoiled as yet, and Miss Mills was only acting out her principle of women helping each other. |
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| FoS ur years on, Polly, now 52, is still in a permanent vegetative state at a care home in England. |
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| Poor Polly Perkins was a sad example of the unproductive consumer. |
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| And Fan looked up with wet eyes, and a wistful face at Polly, who was putting little dabs of cologne all over her head. |
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| Don't make faces at Mrs. vite, nor growl at your darling Polly. |
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| It's not deed poll official yet or anything, but from now on please refer to me as Polly Iscariot at all times. |
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| But my wife Polly, says she, 'What on airth are you thinkin' of, Deacon? |
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| Polly had her arms around alexia and was hugging her tightly. |
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| Polly swallowed hard, and held alexia's hand tighter than ever. |
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| That the tea on board the ship Polly, Capt. ayres, shall not be landed. |
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| Aunt Polly was tender far beyond her wont, in her good-night to Sid and Mary. |
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| Polly shoved off the catboat and proceeded to get under way again. |
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| He had gotten Polly in a corner and was chinning the ear off of her. |
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| Polly found her giving a plaid ribbon and a corsage nosegay to Sary. |
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| Gathering Polly tenderly in his arms, he crooned over her like a mother. |
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| He's made Polly sit up, and Gray's been nearly off his crumpet. |
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| Honest, Polly, I never saw a garden any prettier and cuter than this is. |
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| I'm almost as badly off as poor Polly Davis who was in the Heavenly Waltz Company with me when she married that man, Lord Wetherby. |
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| And the loving attentions Aunt Polly lavished upon him were the one thing capable of making him more uncomfortable than he was before. |
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| Polly glanced at her diaphanous pajamas and nodded cheerfully. |
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| This exulting announcement greeted Polly as she entered the schoolroom. |
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| These girls are Cuttenclips, to be sure, but their names are Emily and Polly and Sue and Betty and such things. |
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| Is there any need of envying Polly in the great drawing-room? |
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| Polly was a temperate dancer, all gaiety, estheticism plus athleticism. |
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| So Polly told, with much reluctance and much questioning, all she knew of the walks, the lunches, the meetings, and the notes. |
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| So the honest, brown cookies crumbled away in obscurity, while Polly tried to satisfy her hearty appetite on one ice and three macaroons. |
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| It was a painful journey downstairs, but Polly did not flinch. |
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| I never seen anybody but lied one time or another, without it was Aunt Polly, or the widow, or maybe Mary. |
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| Mead, a little oddly, his eyes resting on Miss Polly, who, with a vivid blush, had turned hastily away. |
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| Young though she was, Polly was no sentimentalist in religion. |
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| Polly and Penny beside her, plump as pigeons and hardily browned. |
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| You can't think what a shortcake that was, Polly, if you try ever so hard. |
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| They looked at each other, and then saw Polly sidling back to the soldier. |
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| The slavey told me Aunt Polly was out, but that you were here. |
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| Miss Polly read the telegram, frowned, then climbed the stairs to the attic room. |
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| Being politely supplied with caramels, Polly sat looking and listening, feeling very young and countrified among these elegant young ladies. |
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| But Polly and Clive were in the solarium together all the time! |
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| Now and then she dipped and the spume flew high, drenching Polly. |
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| Aunt Polly, it SEEMED mortified, and it hurt so I never minded my tooth at all. |
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| Aunt Polly was, indeed, that inborn abhorrence of mine, a snuff-taker! |
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| If she saw him she would run off at full speed and soon come back with something in a tin or basket, some hot soup or pudding Polly had ready. |
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| Polly sat still in her chair, dazed by the suddenness and injustice of it. |
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| Then the Polly was turned toward the shore and the jib was lowered. |
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| Aunt Polly was vexed to think she had overlooked that bit of circumstantial evidence, and missed a trick. |
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| Well, Aunt Polly and Mrs. woodchuck didn't know what to say. |
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| Polly was prattling like a parrot, but Glory was silent and almost sad. |
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| Polly laughed, and did the same, feeling sorry she had been so pettish. |
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| Personally, I'd be just as worried about the lethal hatpin worn by the gang's matriarch Aunt Polly. |
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| And pouncing upon Polly, Maud dragged her away like a captured ship towed by a noisy little steam-tug. |
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| Polly shivered in her damp clothing and went over to the radiator. |
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| Puss appeared to endorse the sentiment by a loud purr and a graceful wave of her tail, and Polly returned to the subject from which these little vanities had beguiled her. |
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| Down-stairs in Miss Polly's room next the sun parlor, Miss Polly herself was hurrying into dressing gown and slippers, her face white and frightened. |
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| Polly had been remarkable chiefly for a fund of humorous anecdote and a gift, amounting almost to genius, for doing battle with militant landladies. |
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| At half-past one o'clock Timothy drove Miss Polly and her niece to the four or five principal dry goods stores, which were about half a mile from the homestead. |
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| Aunt Polly paused, perplexed, and Tom looked for healing pity. |
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| Eat away, Polly, and my men will be back with supplies in a jiffy. |
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| The last adieu was a trifle husky, and Tom vanished as it was uttered, leaving Polly to laugh over his parting souvenir till the tears ran down her cheeks. |
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| Its best known brands are Kexchoklad, Center, Plopp, Polly, Tarragona, Guldnougat, Bridge, Juleskum, Sportlunch, Utvalda Favoriter, Mums Mums and Extra Starka. |
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| The Thatchers were there, the Harpers, the Rogerses, Aunt Polly, Sid, Mary, the minister, the editor, and a great many more, and all dressed in their best. |
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| Polly threw the warm garment over her arm, feeling a thrill of gratitude that it was to wrap a living girl in, and not to hide away a young heart that had grown cold too soon. |
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| Something in his face made Polly feel a little guilty, so she fell to grating nutmeg, with a vigor which made red cheeks the most natural thing in life. |
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| Button-Bright was wonderfully attracted by the strawman, and so was Polly. |
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| A sort of shivering gentility had kept her aloof from the rest of her fellow-workers, but it took more than a shivering gentility to stave off Polly. |
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| Nadir is currently serving a 10-year sentence in Belmarsh Prison in southeast London for fraud and the theft of more than 30 million pounds from his former Polly Peck empire. |
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| When, in less than a week, however, Pollyanna brought home a small, ragged boy, and confidently claimed the same protection for him, Miss Polly did have something to say. |
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| Polly Davis, now married for better or for worse to that curious invertebrate person, Algie Wetherby, was the only real friend Claire had made on the stage. |
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