| A matchmaker would take note and alert the single men about her availability. |
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| A woman with a smile as ready as it is warm, Ann has all the motherly charms of a village matchmaker. |
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| Traditionally, marriages were arranged by the couple's parents through a matchmaker. |
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| She dubbed herself an official matchmaker and dispensed all sorts of advice to her brother. |
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| Traditionally, marriages are arranged, generally through the mediation of a matchmaker. |
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| All his opponents in his sensational contender days had been arranged by a sleazy matchmaker. |
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| The marriage of her own parents were arranged through a matchmaker and they were married without even meeting each other first. |
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| Marriages often are brokered by a matchmaker since the economic aspects of marriage require experienced calculation. |
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| Dolly is a professional matchmaker who specialises in pairing up rich businessmen with beautiful wives. |
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| I should have known better than to let that honey-tongued matchmaker trap me into marrying my precious child to the likes of you. |
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| It has acted exclusively as a coordinator and matchmaker between the fishing industry and the research community. |
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| The highlight of the mission was the business meetings organized by a matchmaker. |
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| Deals will be worked out directly between projects and donors, with the commission playing the role of matchmaker. |
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| On this theme of parenting and giving birth, really the OERP thinks of itself as the matchmaker. |
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| In this time of tribulation for these two gorgeous, devastated stars, I would like to offer my services, not as transcontinental gossip provider, but as celebrity matchmaker! |
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| The couple were set up by the matchmaker and their marriage agreed upon by their parents and they didn't even have to know one another before the wedding ceremony. |
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| Marriages are often arranged by the families through the services of a matchmaker or go-between, and commence with a ritual celebration, or wedding. |
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| This type of lover may profit from working with a matchmaker or a computer dating service, in which inappropriate relationship candidates will be screened out. |
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| The minister of Justice is supposed to be the watchdog of the law, not a matchmaker for the yakuza. |
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| Anyway, being a professional matchmaker really appeals to me. |
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| As a result, it is now acting as matchmaker in encouraging mergers and alliances that will slim the civil aviation sector down to more competitive proportions. |
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| By complete serendipity, I spotted a job advertisement for a matchmaker – I had no idea matchmaking was a real job. |
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| It is essentially a matchmaker, bringing together consumers, charities and retailers. |
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| As many a matchmaker has found, when a couple hits it off, they end up more loyal to each other than to the soul, however helpful, who introduced them. |
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| This year, try mixing groups, playing BFF matchmaker and expanding your circle beyond the usuals. |
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| The Regional Preparatory Meetings have also re-emphasized BDT's role as a catalyst and matchmaker for potential partners and a tool for sustainable telecommunication development. |
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| Attendance is by invitation, and the department has invited guests to be bestowed with the blessings of Yue Lao, Taiwan's matchmaker God. |
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| If the date is successful and the pair, later as a couple, spar, it is advisable at that point that the matchmaker interplead. |
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| In this comedy, a matchmaker has a matchless daughter. Try as he might, he cannot seem to find anyone for her. |
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| Lured to Taiwan by a matchmaker, Dieu-Hien found that her Taiwanese husband was a violent alcoholic who abused her and forced her to work day and night. |
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| The matchmaker, Liebman, remembers that Gitta was not easy to match — not just because of her hirsuteness, but because she had always been different. |
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| We came home from the 2007 trip to Boston with the Grow Group agreement and were also able to recruit a U. S. service distributor that we met in a matchmaker meeting. |
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| Triumph ABC coach and matchmaker Dinesh Darbar has requested that all the Midlands rounds of championships should be held at the Tile Hill venue next season. |
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| Crystal matchmaker Nonperiodic structures called quasicrystals acted as interfaces between crystal structures that ordinarily would not stick to each other. |
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| I think it's a tragedy,'' Top Rank matchmaker Bruce Trampler said. |
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| Yenta the Matchmaker has nothing on Stephanie Plum, who in this short novel trades in her bounty hunting skills for making four couples a great Valentine's Day. |
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| On Friday night, I did my best Yenta the Matchmaker impression by setting up my friend with a boy she'd seen smouldering at her across the dance floor. |
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