tajně

Over at the manse the Reverend William McIvor, in a drab overcoat, let himself out by the back door and rode off to the north-east by a back path through the woods near Taymouth Castle, keeping his grey garron on a tight rein and stepping slowly so that the hoof-beats were nearly soundless.

One young representative, Colin Mason, a computer systems manager from Streatham, who branded environmental controls as socialism by the back door, was gently advised by the Secretary of State to read the Tory philosopher Edmund Burke.

The similarities are made more comprehensible in the 1930 essay, Baudelaire, where he sees Baudelaire's Satanism as an attempt to get into Christianity by the back door.

It would impute to Parliament an intention to import the convention into domestic law by the back door.

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přelétnout očima co

Haverford, his head cocked on one side, was casting an eye over blonde girls from Sweden, Guildford or Saskatoon, quite undiscouraged when they didn’t return his smile but merely quickened their pace towards the souvenir stalls.

The professor shrugged, casting an eye over Davide’s good jacket, to inform him that his information was unnecessary.

In these circumstances investors are continuing to cast an eye over convertibles - the yield can be considerably higher than on the underlying equity and yet the premium on the conversion price need not be too large.

upoutat něčí pozornost

Prime Minister is normally here a couple of times a week to answer questions maybe the honorable gentleman will catch my eye one time very soon, he can put that to the Prime Minister himself.

Small monkeys catch your eye with spooky recognition.

She poured tea. Passing Peter to take a cup to Daniel, she tried to catch his eye, to give him a little loving glance, but his expression was withdrawn.

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změnit majitele

Accordingly, most of these companies will change hands by way of private contract between the shareholders and the buyer.

The contracts are the written agreements between you and the seller - setting the price, terms and date for the property to change hands (completion date).

Paintings and old prints of Madeira are always sought after and sometimes change hands for high prices. (BNC-B)

zatnout pěsti

Stand with the feet shoulder-width apart and clench your fists, holding your arms by your sides.

Clench your fists and bring them up to shoulder height, knuckles upward, elbows at your sides. Open your fists.

Time it so the breath runs out as the arms reach full stretch, then breathe in through your nose and at the same time, start to clench your fists and bend your elbows so that they are again near your shoulders, elbows down.

přijít pod ruku

You’re trying for something that’s funky, something that sounds good, and you just grab whatever comes to hand.

The property is completed some time before completion of the sale, have received the standard notice of insurance cover to hand over, in which case you will give an undertaking to do so as soon as it comes to hand.

Research shows that as many as a third of all break-ins happen after entry has been gained through glass - often simply smashed with the nearest thing that comes to hand. GE Plastics has introduced a strong new alternative to glass for home use.

snažit se uškodit jinému a přitom ublížit sám sobě

For his part, Bernard is firm that he has already quit. However, he seems aware (Maybe I’m cutting off my nose to spite my face) that the market for idiosyncratic columns combining aspects of the upbeat worldviews of Samuel Beckett, Serge Gainsbourg and Victor Meldrew could not be described as bullish.

A social charter for the world may sound a good idea but it would have the opposite effect to what is intended, one British government source said yesterday. We would be cutting off our nose to spite our face.

Wimbledon were outclassed and, more surprisingly, outfought. Not even a typically robust return from Squadron Leader Jones whose three - match suspension was a case of trying to bite off a nose to spite your face, could inspire Joe Kinnear’s desperately depleted ranks. Having four centre-halves out injured doesn't help.

podříznout komu krk

How would you feel about imprisonment? I’d rather cut my throat than go into an institution.

And in sickness, say - and wounded, as he was - how if a prisoner hampered their movements too much? They might be forced to discard him - and a stray company working at large would not scruple to cut his throat, though Owen would.

The moneylenders then looked to Sim for the cash and threatened him and his family. On one occasion heavies approached him in the street and cut his throat, near to the jugular vein.

vzít komu vítr z plachet

What is everyone going to start thinking when they see how you've cut the ground from under my feet like this? What are my students going to think for goodness' sake?

In the process, soul has been installed as something that bolsters your life, rather than knocks the ground from under your feet. The extremism I once heard in soul has been evened out.

When delegates from various provincial committees came to St Petersburg for consultations in August 1859, Nikolai Miliutin cut the ground from under their feet by presenting them with an outline of the Commission's views which went far beyond what they had in mind.

bezohledný, vražedný

That is the chief reason that the search for native talent has become so cut -throat a competition and why transfer fees have soared way over the goalpost.

Getting Diana on the masthead of her magazine would be the ultimate coup for Tilberis in the cut -throat world of fashion journalism.

Yesterday’s mortgage price promise contained all the hallmarks of Mr. Longhurst’s undoubted marketing ability. But the C&G has always been a price leader in the highly cut-throat mortgage market.

zapřít se, zašprajcovat se

In the end, all the Arab states dug their heels in and demanded refugee repatriation as an essential element to peace, thereby joining Israel in linking the refugee issue to an overall peace.

But despite the biggest backbench revolt that this Parliament has seen, the Government has dug its heels in a refuses to acknowledge the public call for action.

For a salesperson to disregard the emotional aspects of dealing with objections is to court disaster. The situation to be avoided is where the buyer digs his heels in on principle, because of the attitude of the salesperson.

dělat něco hravě, levou rukou

She said they did everything in teams, for the honour, and what was the good of that, when she could leave them all standing with one arm tied behind her back?

As the accompanying article by a Yugoslav investigative journalist suggests, however, it may well be that for political reasons the Yugoslavs have been fighting the case with at least one hand tied behind their back.

She was so used to this sort of conversation that she could, as it were, verbally handle it with one hand tied behind her back.

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sešlý, opotřebovaný, omšelý

She’ll be scrawny and down at heel, I bet. A poor relation.

He said he’d noticed that our Mini was getting a bit down at heel, and in the light of Ken’s injuries he thought the least he could do was to give me a better means of transport.

There was an oily cap on the top shelf of the wardrobe and a pair of much worn and down at heel working boots under the bed.

chodit kolem horké kaše

While it was clear that as long as unanimity or qualified majorities were required, it was possible, as several of the member states were to do, for states to drag their heels and delay a programme.

No doubt the rest of Europe will say yes to that, but the British Government will, as usual, drag their heels on such a development.

I am very sad that the Government - for the next few months, anyway - are trying to drag their heels and opt out of so many important aspects of what the Community is doing.

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ušní lalůček

Aunt Fosters had always seen, in the lack of ear lobes, a lack of character, a trait of unreliability and of deceitfulness.

Now gently pinch the edges of each ear, working from the top down to the ear lobes.

Repeat once or twice, finishing by pulling the ear lobes gently downwards two or three times.