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Sentence Examples Ever fancied owning a stretch of a famous salmon river, but found yourself about a million quid short of the asking price? That's not to say that I won't put a couple of quid in for red nose day, but I'll pass on the hooter for the front grill if you don't mind. I said that a customer is somebody who pays for goods or services, and if he wanted any more input from me it would cost him five quid a word. I'm lucky enough to have the freedom to live where I want because I've made a few quid. He bought a replacement for 85 quid, binned it after two rounds and then got his original delivered to him in Aberdeen. It looks like there has been a fair bit of work done and no doubt it cost a few hundred quid, if not over a thousand. In other news, my bank statement has arrived, with a startling 15 quid being my total ingoing for the month of February. For about 12 quid, one can join this boat and get pretty well bladdered as the price includes as much beer as you can drink. I wish they'd charge 60 quid for a packet of ciggies and ban them completely. Mischievously, we hatched a plan to refill our near empty glasses in the toilets, thus saving ourselves both a wait at the bar and a few quid. Not that I was hoping to get a five hundred quid bike off the insurance or anything, you understand. It's wonderful, the amount of litter they manage to accumulate in these frowsy little shops where the whole stock is worth about fifty quid. Negotiate in good faith first, and look at quid pro quos, rather than using the hammer of forcible acquisition. We could all do with a few quid, so if we do get any money, my cut will come my way. Nobody likes to be told that the exigencies of life require them to find a sudden thousand quid, but that's not the whole of it. The privilege will also cost you a quid, but that's a small price to pay to avoid a cricked neck and beer-stained chinos. You know, call me a plebeian, call me a killjoy, but two hundred quid strikes me as a bit on the steepish side for a bunch of fish and rice. Any parent stumbling across the star would invite him for Sunday lunch for a good feed and slip him 20 quid towards a new jacket. The first 5 freezers were full of stuff like party food, crab sticks and melon balls for a quid. But tonight, just for the fun of it, Des and I are going up to Wembley to see if we can get tickets for about 20 quid. Show More Sentences At over 350 quid the boss is likely to quiver his bottom lip but my mind is made up, I want one. Finally, quid pro quos and veiled threats were utilized in an attempt to persuade. It cost me fifty quid, or about seventy-five US dollars and I was happy to pay it. With a 20 quid bet at 20-1 on him polling 500 votes or more, he was quietly confident of making a killing. I was twenty four at the time, and I hadn't yet paid back a single penny of the three thousand quid he lent me to buy my first car. We want to raise a million quid, and it's an impressively strong line-up for the kick-off event. If you've ever wondered why a small tub of hummus costs around a quid you should try making it yourself. Frankly, I can't afford to go wasting fifteen quid on something as needless as this. Watch this space to see how the three hundred and fifty pound camera compares with the thirty quid webcam. Many banks will let you open a high-interest savings account with just a quid. Its spending power may have decreased, but you can still pick up bargains for a quid. I think we're talking at cross purposes here pal, that's the one I bought a few weeks ago, hence the fifteen quid well spent. Were there any concessions, quid pro quos offered to those countries in exchange for their affirmative vote? The good thing about that development was it is a great example that developers just don't come in, want to make a quick quid, and get out. Now, though, while the price of these two has dropped more than two quid, so has the quality. Behind the scenes, the tacitly understood tradeoffs amount to quid pro quos. The American government reached similar quid pro quos with France and Russia, involving oil contracts as well as telecommunications deals. The flurry of quid pro quos and dirty deals has all the dignity of mobsters divvying up the spoils. Until last year, I would have insisted public radio stations were immune from quid pro quos. Some investment bankers exacted kickbacks and other quid pro quos from clients who got shares. Show More Sentences If they get in then God help the workers or anyone who has bettered themselves, saved a quid and maybe even bought an investment property or two. Last week he ran a competition whereby you had to think of a way to blow a thousand quid so that you could win the same amount. But, given a few quid, most women will gladly pay someone else to wield that squeezy mop. And I think the question, also, that we have to look at is, what kind of quid pro quos are made to have a coalition like this? Our duty is to make Hong Kong a better place for us all, without hidden agendas or quid pro quos. It does seem, however, that the deal entails some interesting quid pro quos. The acidic pH of the stomach would favour the nitrosation of secondary and tertiary amines in the quid. You've got a smallish reading public and to make a quid you have to zero your magazine fairly precisely. I mean, who in their right mind thinks they can sell a box of tissues for ten quid? If you mean it, you're on! There's lots I could do with three hundred quid. They were brand new, under twenty quid with steel toecaps and they've served me well this last month but they do take a while to dry. Carla and I walked into the local bike dealership and bought two brand new bikes for twenty quid apiece. I went to the butchers the other day and I bet him 50 quid that he couldn't reach the meat off the top shelf. Yet just the other day I was charged a stunning 23 quid for a dreadful bottle of mousseux. It was uncomfortable and crowded because the captain or the first mate was making a quid on the side by carrying more passengers than manifested. The heavily treaded sole has a replaceable heel and forefoot, so a worn sole doesn't mean binning a three hundred quid pair of shoes. A heady mix of coconut, pineapple, vanilla and banana, and it's yours for only a quid. Paul's answer is to change his first name via deed poll for the princely sum of just a tad under thirty quid. However, the owner refused to pay me more than two quid an hour, and even I had standards. Is there anybody out there who still fancies putting a quid on a horse this morning? Show More Sentences Unable to fully reconcile the cases, Justice Scalia said that the trade dress in Two Pesos was either some form of packaging, or tertium quid. And all because the horse on which they had wagered all of two quid each-way had fallen at the first flight of hurdles, accidentally. Very seldom would anyone put themselves through all of this just for a few quid. They could get an extra few quid every time they answered a question directly, for example. The brushes I'd found were a cheap, bargain lot I picked up in Swansea for a couple of quid some time last year. Would he give any house room to a politician who asked for a few quid to grease the wheels of a project? I seem to recall she was the one who diddled me out of 10 quid some time back. If anyone is taking up a collection to buy him some new records, count me in for a quid. On a recent visit to a motorway service station, we paid 15 quid for three rotten sandwiches and undrinkable tea. Every time I can scrape a few quid together, I smack 'em straight into the premium bonds. Now my father owns the big house, as he was the only one whose finances allowed him to take it over, helped by my stepmother, who just happened to have a few quid. Almost all habitual chewers use tobacco with or without the betel quid. For just eighty-five quid, you too can celebrate Valentine's Day like Prince Charles. This album, at worst, is going to take me over the 40 million quid mark. Well done everyone, it was the best five quid I have spent in a long time. I for one would be prepared to pay up to a quid and not a penny more. Save yourself a couple of quid a week by reading them online instead. You pay forty quid a month to watch advertising you also pay for. I settled on a quiet life teaching English and history to make a quid. The miners who'll dig the stuff up will make a quid, of course. Show More Sentences The local couple, who have lived in the town for over 31 years, were subjected to a horrendous level of violence in pursuit of a few quid and the chance of a joyride. Set against all these worries, the perks of a few quid in government money and the admonition that you need kids to support you in your old age is not exactly convincing. A couple of defeats and those with a few quid on the former Dundee United striker as the first managerial casualty of the season could well be in the money. But my dinner of a 5oz rump steak was only 3 quid, hot, tender and tasty. On this makeshift stage women showed you their chuffs for a quid. People will happily fork out nearly a quid for half a litre of clear liquid in a throwaway plastic container when a tap provides a perfectly acceptable alternative. There was a sale on in the shop just after Christmas, and I bought this groovy, beautifully cut shirt, hewn from the finest poplin, for about thirty quid. Tonight we are going to a flash restaurant, there are plenty of them here alongside the cheap and cheerful, you can easily spend 30 quid on a main course. After college, he started playing in jazz and funk combos around the Manchester student pubs of Withington and Fallowfield for a few quid and some beer. I had returned to London on the Tuesday before the big match, with fifty quid in my pocket and the promise of a couch to doss on in some old friend's dingy Zone 4 dive. A two-bedroom flat in bijou Holly Walk, not far from Hampstead Heath but not exactly in view of it either, was just fifty quid shy of a million pounds. Ideally, a couple will have fallen into a pattern not so much of nickel-and-dime quid pro quo, but rather, a more natural exchange of, let's say, in-kind donations. This is an outstanding, full-bodied wine for six quid, where vibrantly rich black fruits are threaded by ripe tannins and backed by lively mouth-cleansing acidity. The Budapest document makes sense historically only as a quid pro quo agreement resting upon American credibility to act. Yes it's that time of year again, the time when Big Brother starts and Channel 4 bung God a few quid to make it sunny in order to encourage semi-nudity. He was fined seventy quid and given fifty pounds costs against him. The lodger has moved out, leaving me three hundred quid a month short. For a modest two quid you get a glass of wine or a soft drink too. I drive a taxi for a living and am stuggling to make a quid. Australia has one of the most globalised western economies in the world but have the stampede of foreign investors actually made a quid Down Under? Show More Sentences With unemployment so low and everyone working longer and harder to make a quid, it seems no-one's got any time left to show the next generation the ropes. Regulators step up punishments for firms that cross the line into illegal behavior, while long-acceptable practices now are derided as unseemly quid pro quos. As a lowly GP working in the squalid inner city you might think I would support bleeding the middle class for few extra quid to take the pressure off local hospitals. The FBI keystone cops have been aware of it for months, having made a good quid for their Christmas party by selling the information to Valerie Whatsername at the White House. Even older women who chew betel regularly make a point of how little tobacco they use within the quid, and cautioned other chewers of the strength of the tobacco. I don't think I have ever seen a film shot entirely with a hand-held camera that didn't feel as if it had been knocked up over the weekend for 300 quid. During those fabled Naughty Nineties, Leno earned pounds 230 a week at Drury lane when labourers were lucky to see half a quid. So the SFA fine him a measly 500 quid and severely censure him, the equivalent of getting a rap over the knuckles with a bag of flumps. Great idea Cathy Clapinson Oktoberfest kicks off in Coventry city centre At six quid a pint and eight-and-a-half quid for bratty and chips? I read on. It will cost two hundred and fifty quid. I felt a quell of alarm, that's quite expensive. The misunderstanding of the word or the quid pro quo is the unintentional pun, and is related to it exactly as folly is to wit. You got nasty choices like would you rather run thorough stinging nettles for 50 quid or roll in pig poo for a 100 quid? Section 170 states that quid pro quo donations, for which a taxpayer receives something in return, are not deductible. Asher's range of bakeware will be sold across more than 490 Poundland shops in the UK and Ireland, with every one a quid each. There is no such thing as free lunch and relations between countries were guided by their national interests and based on a quid pro quo. And it continues to do so despite the recent introduction of a linguistic tertium quid that is neither Latin nor the vernacular. We had five quid between us to get home and grab a Maccies or Wimpy at Lime Street on the way. Kate's necklace is by Shourouk and will set you back a few hundred quid at benna. At the very least he could have tossed them a few million quid so they could kip down in the NewYork Hilton. A thousand quid for that motor? Do me a lemon, I could get it for half that. Show More Sentences If, like most of the nation, you lost a few quid on the Grand National yesterday you'll be reflecting on the old saying that racing is a mug's game. Traditionally, once the conduct was determined to be based on gender, it then would be categorized as either quid pro quo sexual harassment or hostile work environment. A secret US military agreement to arm Saudi Arabia was the quid pro quo. However, what they propose would breach the agreed Council position of quid pro quo replacement of open space which they voted for less than 10 months ago. The fall of David Moyes has been one of the season's most enduring narratives but can we make a few quid from an educated guess at where he might resurface? Sinclair, who clearly loves money, takes us from Danegeld to the nickel and brass lump we use today, via all the glory years when the British quid dominated the world. If I were a shop owner and wanted cardboard protection, I would fork out 100 quid for a cut-out of a bouncer or someone who would really deter criminals. The quid pro quo for the Washington audience was Dominican choreographer Carlos Veitia's compelling Hispaniola, performed by Ballet Clasico's Isbell Piedra and Elvis Guzman. Considering it now costs the best part of three quid for a coffee, do you think the high street dossers who ask that famous old question have got a special deal with Groupon? In a news conference two weeks ago, Fox and Rice accused Sayles of being unethical and engaging in financial quid pro quos with Harenski, allegations Sayles denied. There is desperation in poor Graham's eyes as he tries SO hard to inject high camp drama into a cheapo show that looks like it's churned out on a budget of about 30 quid. Which is plainly daft because the first good day of summer sunshine won't send us all scurrying out for a 300 quid bathing costume and a new packet of knotted hankies. Have they not conceded on occasion without getting any redeployment as a quo pro quid, knowing that they can always offload the cost on to the home market? The wonderful La Gitana from Hidalgo is only a few quid more. An in house team at Mack-Cali previously handled leasing in the building, but a source revealed that the company may be handing off the assignment as part of a quid pro quo. Commutative justice relates to the exchange of one thing for another, and is bottomed on the principle of something for something, or as the lawyers say, quid pro quo. People typically chew betel as a quid consisting of nut pieces from an Areca catechu palm mixed with powdered lime and wrapped in the leaf of the pepper plant Piper betle. But ignorantly, and apparently uncaringly, to sacrifice this jewel of Wales' heritage for the sake of a few extra quid is an act of crass philistinism. They obviously spend all their hard earned pocket money on their flash, gas guzzlers and have nothing left to spare a few quid to buy a hands-free kit. Tertium Quid, with its projections of spiky shards, looked like a ceramic geode. Show More Sentences The company's Quid Pro Quo and Executive Link products are truly the silver bullets that sales organizations have been looking for. Follow-up album Quid Pro Quo included a new version of the band's 1986 hit In The Army Now, in support of the Help for Heroes charity campaign. Assured of his first champion trainers' title, Nicholls can land a treble with Blu Teen, Quid Pro Quo and Earl of Forestry. Other Half-Rome, and Tertium Quid, produce different images of anger. Having won the Arthur Ellis Award for Juvenile Crime Fiction, and been nominated for the Edgar Allen Poe Award, Quid Pro Quo is now in its third printing. Examples from Classical Literature And I went and put the fowls in instead of the dog, and he was waxy, so I had to knock a quid off. I'll wad the best quid in my spleuchan, ye hae been thinkin about Catherine Roberts, and o' your chance o' findin her single. It is on the legal principle of quid pro quo, a consideration for a consideration. Existence or reality therefore must be a tertium quid, apart from motion and rest, not the sum total of those two items. I did and in the parlor was the biggest kind of an ox standing there chewing his quid. Is Good identical with pleasure, or with intelligence, or is it a tertium quid, distinct from both? The tertium quid used to lean over her shoulder and laugh as she wrote the notes. The tertium quid pulled his moustache, and replied that horrid people were unworthy of the consideration of nice people. Now what is this tertium quid that is to be the medium of all synthetical judgements? I bet there's a hundred men in Sydney right now that would fork over twenty quid for the right of calling you his. Why, I even went back over my accounts and paid Sweitzer fifty quid I'd jiggered him out of in a deal in Fiji three years before. He paused, looked hard at me, and turned his quid reflectively. After 336 lines in the alcaic metre in the Roman Odes, the use of the fourth asclepiad in quid fles Asterie. When he had finished, klaus sat for a while in silence, chewing his quid. Once upon a time there was a man and his Wife and a tertium quid. What're you going to do about that tertium quid you've annexed? Obadiah Coble shrugged up his shoulders, as he took an extra quid. Why, a hundred quid all in beer 'd come pretty close to floatin' this old hooker. Then Tom was fond of a chaw, and seldom had had a quid out of his cheeks. His brimmed hat of worn felt was well pulled over his eyes, and he revolved a quid of tobacco in his left cheek. Show More Sentences She was knocked down to her for fifty-five quid by the third-assistant-resident-commissioner. There is no longer any quid pro quo for her alliance with France. But you must know that I shall have at least my quid pro quo. But the possibility of such a quid pro quo had left her undisturbed. It is a hard thing when one has shot sixty-five lions or more, as I have in the course of my life, that the sixty-sixth should chew your leg like a quid of tobacco. The captain hitched up his trousers, then shifted his quid thoughtfully. They''ve just finished spending twelve million quid Improving the ole'' girl, So you should take a leaf out of Yoko''s book And give John Lennon awhirl. Find more words! 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Words that rhyme with quid What is the past tense of quid? What is the plural of quid? What is the noun for quid? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words quicky quick-wittedness quick-witted quick update quick turnaround quick to respond quidam quidditative quidditch Quidditch quiddities quiddity 4-letter Words Starting With q qu qui