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LORD RENFREW, the Master of Jesus College, Cambridge , has had a change of heart. He is talking of reviewing his position as a member of the Oxford and Cambridge Club.

She had already been offered a place at the University of Georgia , but recently she has had a change of heart, and it is now a toss - up between Moray House College in Edinburgh or Stirling University , two establishments which offer golf scholarships.

At the start of it, Pleasence had declared himself to be a conscientious objector and was sent to the Lake District to work as a forester. He had a change of heart six months later and joined the RAF in 1942.

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mít komplex méněcennosti

Charmless Mark developed a chip on his shoulder because so many of the other boys were much richer than him. He always wanted to be a tycoon.

His background might have given him something of a chip on his shoulder; he was a Sephardi, an Israeli descended from Jews who came from Arab lands, rather than an Ashkenazi, the elite of Israel .

He had a bit of a chip on his shoulder because he felt that other people who were not so good but who had the right background and connections had gotten ahead of him.

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mít prsty ve všem, do všeho se plést

He’s a developer in those parts and he’s trying to get his finger in the pie.

Recognizing that, when several agencies have a finger in the pie of, say, biotechnology, it is prudent that there should be a committee to coordinate their spending.

I said well what I’m feeling about doing I said is er just sort of keeping a finger in the pie I said.

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mít se o co opřít, mít oporu

Mr. Habsburg may not have a throne to sit on; he does have a leg to stand on.

If you're cohabiting and the man leaves you, you haven't got a leg to stand on. He has no financial obligation towards you, unless you go to a lot of trouble to prove otherwise, and that could take years.

When it comes to complaining about EC centralism the UK Government hasn't a leg to stand on. We in Wales know it is the most centralist government in Europe . (BNC-B)

mít knedlík v krku

She had a lump in her throat and an enormous yearning to say something beautiful to her father.

Adrian walked towards his classroom with a lump in his throat that might have been anger, or regret, or sorrow.

There were tears in my eyes and a lump in my throat, she said later. I was very moved by it. (BNC-B)

mít vlastní vůli

But it quickly became apparent she was wasting her time. The trolley also had a mind of its own and a tendency to advance crablike, sideways.

This too is a real 3D object with moving limbs and a mind of its own.

Of course the horse named Bess, which I was given, had a mind of its own, since it would always be eating and when it was not it only plodded along.

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mít mlsný jazýček, být na sladké

I have a terrible sweet tooth. How much are those doughnut things?

She found this very difficult to keep to, as she had a sweet tooth and loved cakes.

I've got a sweet tooth when it comes to like chocolates.

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mít cit pro co

I hope you never take it into your head to commit a murder, sir, said the Inspector. You do seem to have an eye for essentials. And how much of this horticultural poison does it take to kill a human being? asked Henry, ignoring this last. Not a lot, said the inspector quietly.

On the other hand, Stanley Morison, responsible for the typographical identity of The Times in the 1930s, was not an adroit penman - he simply had an unerring eye for good typefaces and strong composition.

Balcon was the sort of producer the British film industry had needed for a long time. He had the eye for detail and concern for quality lacking in Stoll or Samuelson, as well as the sort of business acumen that neither Hepworth nor Pearson had ever displayed.

být dobrý zahradník

He had more or less green fingers, my grandfather. He could grow anything.

Often this type of environment is ideal for a person with green fingers who enjoys growing exotic, subtropical flowering plants.

mít plné ruce práce

My mother had her hands full with housework and caring for four elderly people.

Especially when you’ve already got your hands full running this tidy little ship.

They hardly exchanged a word. Ivy had her hands full with the driving. (BNC-B)

držet koho za krk

Ain’t we going to wait for him? What do you think? Todger practically had him by the throat.

I knew he was all right, he were screaming but I couldn’t - they were both screaming, Cathy and Gary both, and he got me by the throat. He was shaking me calling me a slut and a whore and saying they weren’t his kids - everything, I don’t know, I couldn’t breathe.

He said the English fielders began to chat to him in the last session and he knew then he had us by the throat. I can’t abide that and I have set out to make us more aggressive, but I have not entirely succeeded because we are still not being hard enough on the field.

mít v hlavě co

There are readers whom, as Zuckerman is the first (or second) to acknowledge, he can drive to the complaint that he has sex, and family matters, and Jewish matters, on the brain: I want him to take his manuscript and mail it to his mother, as I have heard them cry.

You've got marriage on the brain tonight, darling. Must be this wedding you're going to tomorrow. What time do you want the car?

The latter sounds like a logical slot the top players are all in Europe , there is no major tournament to prepare for immediately after and the watching public in Britain has tennis on the brain.

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dát na slova koho

As noted above, Pan American Airways and its chairman, Juan Trippe, had the ear of Congress and president Roosevelt, and fed fears of British dominance in the air.

What and who was behind the new Ali, the wily Washington lobbyist who had the ear of everyone from Strom Thurmond to Orrin Hatch? The wife of Senator Arlen Specter even baked Ali a double chocolate-mousse pie.

It was little things which often had a quite disproportionate impact upon burgh councillors, for such a move would give tangible proof that the party which could arrange it had the ear of government and could thus effect other, and perhaps more far-reaching, changes.

být přístupný jiným názorům

In this respect the press are often one step ahead of the police in making explicit some possible connections: Although police are keeping an open mind, it seems likely the anonymous phone caller and the darkly-clothed assailant are the same man.

Police have recovered a hammer at one of the murder scenes. They're keeping an open mind on why the women were killed.

Det Supt Ron Coutts, depute head of Grampian CID, is leading the investigation. He said police were keeping an open mind as to who was responsible.

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pečlivě dohlédnout

Keep your lines straight and taut and your dogs will go faster. Keep one eye on them at all times to avoid problems.

One of the few senior front-benchers with experience of government, he has been keeping one eye on the national campaign, chairing almost all the party 's London campaign press conferences, and another on his marginal Copeland constituency, traveling by hired plane to Cumbria every weekend.

There were a hundred questions still to be asked and answered, but at this speed and in this noise speech was impossible. I hung on, keeping one eye on Neil in case I could help him, and the other on Stormy Petrel.

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