| Mr Sykes, 52, an epileptic, was nearly hit by the missiles and later suffered a minor fit he blames on the attack. |
| Sykes has a nose for the ball and the talent to be a playmaker, but he sometimes gets caught out of position or lost in traffic. |
| He was working with trembling fingers at the phone where sykes had pointed. |
| For the study, Sykes appealed to cryptozoologists the world over to send him hair samples that might belong to a yeti. |
| Fagin, Sykes and Dodger use much more Dickensian language and pepper their sentences with thieves' cant. |
| In previous film versions of the novel, Robert Newton and Oliver Reed made Sykes a truly fearsome villain. |
