| It was this matey mentality that he, obsessed with his specialness, found maddening. |
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| I hated myself for doing this, for being so completely suckered by the matey corporate chef. |
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| It seemed a harmless, matey gesture towards Wimbledon's decent, docile supporters. |
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| Of course it doesn't hurt that it's one of the songs where his matey big brother persona grates least. |
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| The pub's sole other occupant, a middle aged man, addressed me in a posh, matey voice. |
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| Though pleasantly matey, he has the fatigued, abstracted air of someone who has been summarising his CV in dressing rooms for three decades. |
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| Yes, and we'll carry on being in denial until you sort your statistics out, matey. |
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| Her most memorable roles are stamped with her trademark characteristics, by turns wry, matey and spikily defiant. |
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| Mel has become quite matey with the woman opposite, Sybille, who writes self help books and whose house smells strongly of incense. |
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| The matey management style has been replaced by the good cop, bad cop double act. |
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| I know Dean's lurked here at least a little, so on the off chance he's reading this, take care matey. |
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| He, matey thoroughgoing professional that he is, suffers from nothing of the sort. |
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| By an amazing twist of fate, matey, you're talking to the bloke with an honours degree in Spanish and Portuguese. |
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| Most everyone at Parliament, even Winston, is quite matey with Rodney. |
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| There was just always that matey assumption that you had to support someone. |
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| Imagine my surprise when he failed to succumb to my charms and rather politely put me in a cab and sent me home without so much as a matey punch on the arm. |
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| Even the matey chattiness wore through my cynical armour after a while. |
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| They defended each other against any accusation and began to walk to and from training together, forming little clusters of matey conspiracy between them. |
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| Here I say pull the other one matey, who are you trying to kid? |
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| He has a lazy, matey sort of north London accent, longingly smokes each cigarette, as if it is his last, and has an acerbic wit, usually directed against himself. |
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| You'll need more than that, matey, going by your opinion polls. |
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| Both matey and knowledgeable, she attracts two million listeners a day. |
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| Often it hijacks hours allotted for air-conditioned summitry. Indeed, the matey humour of the links, where competition breeds friendship rather than rivalry, is seen as part of ASEAN's consensual approach. |
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| She asked in what sort of accident I had broken my back, and when I told her that I had been shot down she became much more matey. |
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| Adolphus Egerton Ryerson was his full name, but he insisted on being called Egerton Ryerson, under the mistaken conviction that this was much more matey than Adolphus. |
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