jeden za druhým, těsně za sebou

If you are just beginning to ride, I would strongly recommend at least half a dozen lessons on the lunge before you join the crocodile of horses marching nose to tail around a school.

They were proceeding north on the A5 when Mr Woodward’s attention was suddenly drawn to what he first thought were three buses stood nose to tail.

That said, those winter mornings found our Russian cars nose to tail in true Politburo style, and us half asleep, boxed in their cabins, yawning like a pair of pre‑packed orchids.

A closed van was coming fast from the other direction, and the Montego was nose to tail with the car in front of it. He kicked down the accelerator - he was in automatic - and against all his better instincts overtook a Vauxhall and slewed.

nezkřivit ani vlas, ani se nedotknout

You needn’t worry any more, because you arouse nothing in me and haven’t done for many a year. I wouldn’t want to lay a finger on you.

She was not deterred. Crew indeed! He wouldn’t dare lay a finger on any of us.

My dad always brought me up saying you never lay a finger on a woman, never ever.

She turned, eyes flashing. I detest you. Don’t you ever lay a finger on me again, or, so help me, I’ll see you live to regret it!

nehnout ani prstem

But Mum didn’t lift a finger to help and gave as good as she got.

But once the women returned, the men weren’t prepared to lift a finger to help.

She didn’t need to work; she didn’t in fact even have to lift a finger because the man or her servants would do all this for her. (BNC-B)

ani nemrknout

The pictures shook and one fell, just missing Frankie’s head, but he didn’t bat an eyelid and just kept on reading his comic.

Duchamp did not bat an eyelid at the destruction of his Large Glass.

nevěřit svým uším

Paul says: I was listening to the Chancellor and couldn't believe my ears for a moment when he announced the exemption.

He jumped off his cart which was nearby and ran after the runaway. He soon had it back with Granny's belongings intact, and I could hardly believe my ears and eyes when I heard her thank him and allow him to lift her back onto the driver's seat.

nezvednout ani malíček, nehnout prstem

But it was mostly the other thing, that he’d had to sweat all his life and she’d never done a hand’s turn. She rose up in the world without lifting a finger when she married into the gentry.

Useless, she had jeered, like all spoiled rich girls. Never done a hand’s turn in her life, and wouldn’t know how!

That would be wicked! I mean, she’s never done a hand’s turn for her father or her grandfather.

nehnout ani brvou

Some said his wife didn't turn a hair any more when Sammy was carried in like a drowned rat.

I moved corpses minus their heads, legs and arms, and didn't turn a hair. But when you lift a corpse that looks anything but a corpse, it's terrifying.

So Herbie didn't try and jump in the car before I could lift him and trying to get Audrey in with her stiff leg. And then get the rug across her. She didn't turn a hair when she said two hundred and ninety three pounds.

(BNC-B)

bez přípravy, bez rozmyšlení

And he proceeded to do so, off the top of his head at considerable length, to the admiration of all present.

I attach a proposal drafted somewhat off the top of my head, which you may like to use to open discussions with the Navarra Ministry.

I decided, off the top of my head, to start playing a song that I had started writing earlier in the week. And so I just started playing it and the other guys started improvising.

(BNC-B)

po ruce, k dispozici

That packet of cherries was the only decoration I had on hand. I haven’t been doing much baking lately.

Events are being organised at venues throughout London and the south-east aimed at beginners of all ages and levels of fitness. Members of orienteering clubs in the region will be on hand to help you get started.

They’ll also be on hand to arrange car hire, and give any other advice you need.

na první pohled

On the face of it, the Friend 3 seems the model least likely to benefit from flexibility - the thick stem interferes little with the working of the cams, both designs have the same strength rating

She spent her time shopping, reading women’s magazines, listening to pop music and watching television. On the face of it, she and Prince Charles had very little in common when they re-met in 1979. Quite apart from the intellectual and educational differences, they did not even share the same hobbies.

The significance of these comparatively simple provisions on open enrolment should not be overlooked. On the face of it they may appear to do little more than give effect to the government’s consistent promise to maximize the opportunities for parental choice in the education system.

(BNC-B)

najednou

By the end of the ten years he would have paid the firm £9,946.80. Not paying on the nail could be extremely expensive.

I’m really glad that Jeff Beck and Joe Satriani found the Nigel Tufnel article so brilliant; I bet they paid their £1.80 on the nail when they got the magazine.

I was perhaps the only one who knew he was doing it for Duke. He brought the dog in every two or three days and paid on the nail.

na jazyku

Gray is talking in his trademark way (as if he's just remembered a name that's been on the tip of his tongue for months) about his debut novel Lanark.

The words and phrases they need for meetings, negotiating, and presentations will no longer be on the tip of their tongues but at their fingertips.

I don't mean Carole Lombard, do I?, said Jannie. No, no. The name's on the tip of my tongue.

(BNC-B)

musí škytat – hodně se o něm mluví

Court, neither of them known as clumsy organisers? The Break of Day is running at the Royal Court on its own, except for two Three Sisters matinees on January 6 and 13. A missed opportunity: I hope ears are burning in Sloane Square .

I hope even more ears are burning in North Wales at the board of the Theatr Clwyd in Mold which did not renew the contract of its artistic director, Helena Kaut - Howson.

My mother’s ears are burning and she squirms in her seat. I begin to pronounce the sequence of words and numbers that will prevent her from giving him a piece of her mind.

(BNC-B)

svěřit se

Because this is what he always felt after his father died - that if he could just speak to him now, he could really open his heart and say everything, without feeling that strange mute on his vocal chords.

He speculated whether he should speak to the friar, open his heart, tell him his secrets, get rid of the sea of misery he felt bathing his body, drowning his mind.

For her part, she felt that he was someone to whom she could open her heart and who would understand.

(BNC-B)

otevřít oči

It is through patient persuasive reasoning together with voluntary suffering that they must seek to melt the heart of his opponent and open his eyes to the truth.

Daughter of the Queen Igrayne and half-sister to King Arthur, she revealed to him the intrigue between Lancelot and Guinevere by giving him a magic draught which opened his eyes to the perfidy.

Oh, you’ve repaid him: you’ve opened his eyes to things that’ve been under his nose, and he couldn’t see the wood for the trees.