As I finished each of the major rooms I took the vacuum out to empty straight into the trash and gave the dusters a jolly good shake downwind. |
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Evoking the jolly spirit of regattas the rowing centre has a festive functionalism that sits lightly on the earth. |
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They jolly the groups around the sets, answering questions from kids and ensuring no one gets lost. |
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Just bear in mind the distinction between assertiveness and aggression if you have to jolly them along. |
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The third character is Awly, the friend who tries to jolly Leo out of his lovesickness. |
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He doesn't even try to jolly her along and make her feel important, because he ultimately sees she's not going to be with him any way. |
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The befuddled hosts at first tried to jolly Stewart into being the good-natured guest they'd expected. |
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Graham will be home for a couple of days tomorrow and that'll serve to jolly me out of it. |
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To jolly things up Blighty made the joke about it being a shame more of the voters weren't undead, then Howard might have a chance. |
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Well, we've been married thirty years now, and even after thirty years, it's still jolly nice to know that we love one another. |
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And when you tire of the cultural onslaught, the gardens are jolly nice, too. |
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It's still very much inanimate objects and a television screen and jolly old books and things like that. |
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The floodlights are an eyesore, for sure, but since I understand that it's jolly hard to play football in the dark I have not complained. |
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In fact, I'll have a word with my bosses and see if we can all go out to Hawaii on a jolly and do a bit of filming. |
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Next week we've got the rabble that is the Tory fascists party gathering for their annual jolly. |
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It got off to an uncertain start this year with Bristol's Essential Festival, a three-day May bank holiday jolly. |
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I found its seafood a little drier than I would like, but still think it's a jolly good idea and would try it again. |
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The really annoying thing about trying to interview him is that he can be jolly good company. |
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He's having a jolly good time in his little universe, completely oblivious of the world around him. |
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After several weeks they are still giving their pencils a jolly good sharpening while they ponder that one. |
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To start with, Jude decided to get so drunk that he let his own children catch him giving their nanny a jolly good seeing to. |
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Then the crew, minus the few who were to stand watch, piled into the jolly boats to go ashore. |
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The boyfriend and I had a day off yesterday and went on a jolly round the Thames like tourists. |
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Redwing ordered them to lower the anchor, and they got into the jolly boats and went ashore. |
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About the time I first noted reports of the Medas Isles in Diver in the late 1980s, I was on a corporate jolly to Marbella on the Costa del Sol. |
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I wanted to ask Mr. Scott since he's always so jolly and happy that if people see him with his jolliness. |
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Toodle pip and jolly hockey sticks to you, don't forget lashings of ginger beer. |
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She is often accused of sounding like a headmistress of a girls' public school, part bossy, part jolly hockey sticks. |
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She is not quite jolly hockey sticks but she is definitely on the same playing field. |
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It makes me nervous going to sessions not feeling all jolly hockey sticks about the work. |
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Its all a bit organized and safe and jolly hockey sticks, but the glacier walk is pretty interesting. |
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I knew some kids, usually of the jolly hockey sticks variety, who couldn't wait to tumble back into the classroom to see their pals. |
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He is a jolly well-met fellow, like clubmen generally are, but perfectly honorable and straightforward. |
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Although I am serious when the situation demands it, I try to be jolly to give people a bit of a lift. |
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He had a real homely and jolly down to earth manner that endeared him to all. |
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He is a jolly Aussie, halfway through a five-year term and missing sun-kissed Sydney Bay where he used to run the magnificent Opera House. |
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That's what someone over here said a few centuries ago and everyone thought it to be a jolly wizard idea. |
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I was savouring a cocktail in a busy bar last night when I overheard a group of men saying some jolly unpleasant things about ladyboys. |
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He is no longer responsible for the day-to-day running of the chain, but he still makes time for jolly banter with the staff. |
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I was a very jolly and entertaining drunk until I was carted off to hospital with pancreatitis three years ago. |
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They should be jolly occasions, a chance to let your hair down and enjoy yourself, but there's always the nightmare of what to wear. |
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She is the mother of three roly-poly, jolly children, and the wife of a roly-poly, not-so-jolly butcher. |
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She was round, round-bellied, round-shouldered, round-hipped, and always smiling, always jolly. |
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It's at times like this that I'm jolly glad that we are still royalists in this country. |
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It is laid back, ambling on its jolly way, and just when it should be gathering momentum it runs out of steam. |
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Unbelievable, though, there is a restaurant here, set in the woods, rustic and jolly, with a view and a children's plastic slide. |
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Perhaps to children, Santa is still a jolly old man who bestows gifts upon them and performs magic that can make reindeer fly. |
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You could, of course, try and land your own dinner with a jolly crew on board one of the hire craft that dance across the azure blue seas. |
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There's plenty of instrumental colour, jolly balafon playing, flute and vocal chorus. |
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He's clearly convinced we're all headed for a nasty apocalyptic end but he manages to be terribly jolly about the whole thing. |
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Action Man was a jolly sight easier to dress on account of having ball-and-socket joints somewhat resembling one of Larry Niven's Protectors. |
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Ten minutes a day, while drinking the bedtime cocoa, would be a jolly good start. |
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He was a jolly, pleasant and good natured gentleman whose calm and serene demeanour endeared him to many. |
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And let's make sure the ordinary regular punter is not sidelined by jolly boy once-a-year penguins in their toppers! |
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We can't help but respond to the spectacle of a bearded iris, the blowsiness of a rose or a sunflower's jolly petal face. |
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It may be the season to be jolly, but most of us are just up to our eyes in debt, run off our feet and completely partied out. |
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Still I jolly well expect a girl as pretty as you must have an awful lot of boyfriends, mustn't you? |
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It's not exactly ill-humored, but you can't really call it jolly fun, either. |
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There are the jolly good ideas born out of late-night-by-the-Aga desperation. |
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At this point the music changes to a jolly bouncy tune, sung absolutely smashingly by Oliver Reed. |
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Hector said it was a jolly good idea and very brave of her and he would be lurking in the corridor in case there was any trouble. |
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Large, jolly and boisterous, Carol is regarded as something of a brick, and there are sound reasons for the affection she commands. |
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Never one to approach life at half-cock, she has indulged herself in jaunts here and there and the occasional spectacular jolly. |
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He has been in quite a good mood lately actually, jolly and carefree, just the way I like him. |
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It was a jolly good plan, Vernon decided, as he cartwheeled down the road to post his letter. |
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I could say more but, it being the season to be jolly, I will refrain from further castigating my friends in the legal profession. |
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There are groups with jolly ladies-in-waiting in colorful crinolines attended by adoring cavaliers, as well as court jesters. |
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It's a jolly documentary that follows a couple of tornado chasers around Oklahoma and Texas, in search of the perfect adrenaline rush. |
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I shall draw a discreet veil over the rest of that day but suffice it to say that a jolly time was had by all. |
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A radical change of attitudes to ageing finds many of us determined to cling to childish things for as long as we jolly well like. |
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Getting back to the jolly spirit of Chrimbo though, this issue is packed with happy things to get you in the mood. |
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Fewer and fewer people living in this country feel any cultural connection with jolly swagmen, billabongs and coolibah trees. |
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Anyway, however it comes about, a big grin and a warm glow are jolly good things! |
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A jolly, easy-go-lucky fellow who hides all his sorrow within and portrays a comical figure, laughing at himself and about his hunchback. |
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It was jolly clever of Spalding Gray to be able to sit down like that for hours. |
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Jess fished a pack of Happy Families playing cards out of her pocket, and began making up stories with the jolly smiling faces on the cards. |
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At the moment, this may be the season to be jolly, but countless Americans will be braving the cold overnight for want of cold cash. |
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The songs are simply wholesome and innocently jolly, which perfectly match America's number-one flaky housewife. |
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Just 50 yards from the sea, the place has a jolly atmosphere, with lots of families tucking into enormous seafood platters. |
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We have a most jolly fellow for a postman and here of late I've been confounding and delighting him. |
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It attempts to formularise the story of Presley into a jolly singalong with some vague lookalikes and leave the audience with a weep at the end. |
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The daffs are at their peak at the moment, and it's a jolly sight after a dreary winter. |
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The film looks like jolly fun, but includes images that will scare the daylights out of little kids. |
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Elves are that way though, jolly one moment and deadly serious when the situation needs it. |
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It could come in handy on those regular occasions when we get offered fish at the door by jolly Geordies. |
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So, today, a stop-at-home day, was topped off by a jolly good evening of prime quality entertainment. |
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The petit fours are little globs of chocolatey butter and jolly fine for all that. |
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A god-daughter told me of how jolly he made her girlhood, although her father worried about his fellow barrister's habit of fast driving. |
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He wasn't an effusive, jolly person, more a sort of seriously fine, caring man, reliable as the day was long. |
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He had a weekend off and GMD was away with the Guides or Brownies or something similarly jolly hockey stickey. |
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Then there is the rather jolly, leafy foliage that sprouts so distractingly from the top of the tubes. |
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A very jolly extrovert personality, Eileen enjoys the social aspect of the game and she is hugely popular with her sporting friends. |
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Without a studio audience to warm things up, Vaughan's attempts to jolly things along fall flat to the sounds of nervous giggles from the crew. |
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If by this point you are not already delirious, fear not, even more jolly japes and lunacy are to follow. |
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There is no doubt that away from the microphone and jolly japes there was a complex and serious man. |
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Well I'm sure they will be laughing if we pick him, but not because of his jolly japes. |
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I particularly enjoyed the jolly japes and larks of Ping the Elastic Man, Tin-Can Tommy and Whoopee Hank the slapdash sheriff. |
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It is hard to believe that this man captained an Essex side renowned for their humour and jolly japery. |
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It's jobs for the boys, and jolly lucrative defense contracts for your mother's second cousin once removed. |
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It wasn't like it was a big walk in the park, everybody was happy and jolly all the time and talking about their next project. |
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He is a jolly soul, smiling at every opportunity and applauding his opponents' shots as if having a knockabout in the park. |
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He's laughing down the phone and it's a pity I can't see him smile, because on his dust-jackets he looks such a jolly fellow. |
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I try to always send him out the door happy and looking forward to his day and encourage him to be cheerful and jolly. |
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He invited himself and the rest of the staff crew to come and wreck my life in a weekend of jolly good fun. |
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Tis the season to be jolly, yet somehow this is also the season to be socially responsible. |
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Arian was getting up to leave when a jolly looking, red headed giant of a man with sparkling gray eyes entered the room. |
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He presented each child with a certificate of achievement and his jolly and good humoured manner went down a treat with all. |
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His family described Michael this week as a jolly, happy little lad, who had just turned two years old on May 3 last. |
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It's almost sad that Mad Mel is on holiday, her reactions to such a jolly entertainment would be a treat. |
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Bizarrely the poster shows a jolly, alfresco party, possibly by an unseen pool. |
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And she knows just how tough it will be not being able to join in the jolly banter on a busy evening. |
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Sing-alongs, puppets and a pinch of magic all make for a jolly time at the theatre and a happy ending of course. |
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Oh, it's been a jolly time, all those years laughing and talking and partying with Steve. |
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So it is a bit odd that the nations choose to come here for a jolly festival of running, jumping and splashing about. |
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On-board entertainment including the relentlessly jolly children's club and the cabaret kept us busy until bedtime. |
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And as for the hunters, you can still have a jolly good day out on a drag hunt and I and many more like-minded people look forward to joining you. |
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However, don't think Queen Mary 2 is another clone for the lumbering, simpering, overblown jolly boats wallowing and waddling around the world's sunshine destinations. |
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His roast chicken is fantastic, a juicy corn-fed bird with an immaculately crisped, golden skin whose flavour suggested it had led a jolly decent life. |
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There are also Antony, the pleasant young English painter who owns the castle, and Costanza, the jolly Italian housekeeper, old but wonderfully spry and saucy. |
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You'll probably be jolly angry this morning to find I'm wasting your time. |
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She was a very jolly and contented person with a hearty laugh. |
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You see what an expense you've jolly well gone and caused there? |
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I'm jolly glad to know we haven't had any of those in our national life. |
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The extra income was jolly nice, spread out over a few years. |
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I rustled up a stunning little meal, and I have to say I was jolly proud. |
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If the little people want to keep up with what goes in Parliament they can jolly well pull themselves up by their bootstraps and get themselves elected, like our Peter did. |
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The next few days are all very exciting though, today it's the wedding of my cousin Amanda to which I'm wearing the exciting and jolly expensive new suit. |
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If you buy a picture book of that poem, the illustrations are usually of the full-size, jolly, red and white Santa Claus. |
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Falstaff was big and fantastically blustery, and in that context, we somehow managed to avoid discussing the politics of the day, enjoying a jolly frivolous evening in all. |
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They are an excellent live band and jolly nice chaps as well. |
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This may have been a non-event of Olympic proportions, but at least it all looked jolly impressive for 15 seconds on local TV news later in the evening. |
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I was really looking forward, for example, to having a jolly good read of an evening when the newest winner of England's Orange Prize was announced. |
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All was jolly and genial between the king of late night and the pretender to the throne. |
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Alfie will be off on a bit of a jolly for the next few days. |
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Before it was a happy, jolly place and now it is like Fort Knox. |
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They have gone running like overgrown school sissies squealing to teacher about the boy they don't like in the hope that teacher will give him a jolly good thrashing. |
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Her English accent passes the jolly hockey sticks, Ascot-educated test. |
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But for all the jolly quips and witty asides public relations and advertising are tough, unforgiving industries, teaming with showmanship and bravado. |
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She pointed at the jolly dancing figure, who jigged halfway up the stairs. |
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Undeterred he ploughs on, and all are soon engaged in jolly banter. |
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Unlike in the Disney version, she and the other creatures are all in jolly, absurdist communion. |
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Beaton would receive the speech, jolly it up and send it back. |
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She was all very jolly and laughing and joking with us and over a quarter of an hour we learned quite a bit about her and that she was waiting to see a doctor there. |
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They were jolly nice, and they've got this lilting kind of accent. |
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He had a jolly laugh and his belly shook when he was really amused by something, and his wise old eyes lit up with mischief right before he'd ask you a riddle. |
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Mykela was remembered as a jolly little angel, full of life and mischief. |
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Like jolly, most of the women raced other motorized vehicles before making it into Monster Jam. |
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He has a jolly, ready laugh and mannerisms like an absentminded professor. |
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The fact is that he sounds so, well, jolly contented, and perhaps a bit of lonely yearning would have made the material a little more challenging and rewarding. |
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She seems terribly English in a jolly hockey sticks sort of way. |
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He clapped with a jolly laugh as he emerged from the darkness. |
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The cowardly cyber-stalkers and other anonymous yellow-bellied hatemongers who lurk on the Internet, preying on decent folks, can jolly well lump it. |
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He was a jolly young fellow and always seemed to be happy and smiling. |
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Even now we occasionally pull out the tapes we made at that time and have a jolly good chuckle to remind ourselves of how far she has actually come! |
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Back at base, Alec arrives looking his usual jolly self, full of anticipation and excitement about the coming evening as he chats with the rest of the crew. |
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There are stern mother superiors, innocent novitiates, jolly sisters. |
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A few years before, Ash, Chaz and I went to New York for a bit of a jolly. |
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The programme relied almost exclusively on picturesque images from the long-gone era of horse-drawn wagons, roadside tinsmithery and jolly beggarmen singing for their supper. |
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Another book signing and talk with hundreds of cheerful, jolly people. |
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At least, it offered a jolly background for the family gathering. |
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But, he remembers, there was that place in Wales where, as a student, he and his friends had that jolly time, and where the landlady was so accommodating. |
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Announcing that he must have a word with the man in front, our jolly farmer prized himself out of the driver's seat and ambled up to the lead car. |
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During a jolly visit to the island, Johnson and Boswell danced a reel on the flat top of Dun Caan and discovered a prehistoric souterrain near Raasay House. |
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This Santa is as fat and jolly as he needs to be, and really is a good guy, but he also has a regiment of armed-to-the-teeth elves to defend his high-tech Polar home. |
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The players made their way up the dirt road to the prison in a jolly convoy of dusty Jeeps and Land Cruisers. |
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This made Michael so angry that he took time off from installing telephone lines to urge Dunkers to jolly well speak up for himself, or he would have to do it for him. |
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The cowardly cyber-stalkers and other anonymous yellow-bellied hate-mongers who lurk on the Internet, preying on decent folks, can jolly well lump it. |
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Mr. Duffy, it happened, was Big Bill Duffy, a jolly henchman of Owney Madden, the racketeer. |
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It all sounds jolly odd to me, but as you're always saying, I'm just an old buffer, half plastered most of the time, but that's neither here nor there. |
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The music chosen as the station signature tune and used for the first twelve years of daily start-up routines was almost jolly, but retained a strong regional flavour. |
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We get no sense of the Western society in which they live, apart from a ham-fistedly jolly counterplot about Ziad's friend running a pizza restaurant. |
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Don't try to cheer them up, or jolly them out of their pain. |
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Before these famous cartoons went viral, Santa was depicted either as a tall, thin, and less than jolly fellow or an elfin man. |
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Despite the well-worn plot it has some jolly slapstick and energetically makes the most of 3D with objects constantly flying at the screen. |
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If Wilton croaked the criminal he did a jolly good day's work, and there's an end of it. |
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But that jolly crowd, composed mostly of athletes and footballists, had little mind for the serious affairs of life, and nothing was done. |
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The other passengers were three Norwegians, three fossil Englishmen, two snobbish do., and some jolly, good-natured, free-and-easy youths. |
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But it is like the jolly world about us will scoff at the paradox of these practices. |
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In addition to the launch, examples include the jolly boat, captain's gig, pinnace, and cutter. |
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No matter how jolly and zestful he may appear to be, the fact remains that he possesses an unusually sharp sense of evil. |
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Well you know, sir, it's very difficult to have a favourite when it's all such jolly, rumpty-tumpty stuff. |
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Drink always rubbed him the right way, and he would reach his rooms as jolly as a sandboy. |
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Slept, tiffined, and read in heat of the day. At 4 p.m. hunted again, and finished the evening with a jolly good dinner. |
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Snow transformed a dreary urban street and I stared with wonder like a child for behind a gate, as if prison bars, a jolly snowman smiled. |
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He's a lusty, jolly fellow, that lives well, at least three yards in the girth. |
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Anchor The Z-elebs then pootled around on their boats on yet another ITV-funded jolly. |
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Indeed, throughout the 40-minute presser, Frank seemed almost jolly. |
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It was cornier than a warehouse full of jolly green giants and served only to link, in a very lazy way, some of Rod's classics. |
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Tonight's opening two-parter takes Sandra, Steve and Gerry on a well-deserved jolly to Gibralter. |
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We're not there for a jolly but we are going out there to work, to train and it will be a change of scenary. |
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I WATCHED Kieren Fallon's winning comeback ride and had to admire his supreme skills in getting the odds-on jolly The Bogberry up on the line. |
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Today at Sheffield Elaine Parker's jolly Slaneyside Dudsy and Russ Warren's Glam Rock are flying the flag. |
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The finale using Guarani Indian music was invigoratingly jolly but the clumsy ending left the audience bemused. |
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Milord will be generous to his retainers, and they will thank him for being such a jolly good chap. |
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Hard edges in the first Menuetto were a disappointment, but a jolly theme and variation movement somehow took us to the country with lovely summer sounds. |
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Among them are contortionists The Acrobattys, dog on a scooter Millie, jolly old-skool rapper Tubby Boy, dance troupe Entity and musical tribute act Fantasia. |
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Again, jolly decent of you, I'd have been a bit narked if you where trousering my Council Tax, and then using it go and cut the grass in Nottingham or Surrey. |
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However, don't think Queen Mary 2 is another clone of the lumbering, simpering, overblown jolly boats wallowing and waddling around the world's sunshine destinations. |
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Still with a bit to do approaching the business end, the Notnowcato filly picked up most takingly to cut down odds-on jolly Cotton Trader, with a subsequent winner in third. |
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Sunderland's Frankie and The Heartstrings jolly jaunt across the UK came to a fitting funtime finale at the Westgarth Social Club topping a blindingly good bill. |
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I reflect on how easily the building could fall victim to squatters and, in a moment of bolshiness, think it would serve the negligent owners jolly well right. |
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I suppose a German market conjures images of forests, snow, reindeer and jolly drinking sessions in a bierkeller clad in lederhosen while blowing an Alpenhorn. |
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Alright you chaps! Let's go and give Harry Hun a jolly good bashing! |
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If he happened to doze a little, the jolly cobbler waked him. |
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A reliably oddball beast, the Bear starts off with a strange and hectic storm and ends up by delivering the almost jolly seabound carousing of Acid Wash. |
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Even the British Prime Minister, traditionally the country's role model for the jolly old stuffed shirt, has railed against 'tyranny' of the traditional suit. |
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