vzít si co k srdci

But don't take it to heart if I don't follow your advice.

Diana took the criticism to heart, avidly read what was being said about her and became depressed and despondent.

So it is also the diet to choose if you have sensibly taken to heart the well-established benefits of reducing fat intake.                         

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do sytosti, podle libosti

Windsor and I think Jack will go with the players who have done the job for him before, and once this trial is over and we have qualified he will experiment and experiment and experiment to his hearts content.

Now it was an established custom that we very often used to go out to a strip in the desert away from the camp where we could indulge in circuits and landings to our hearts content without being related to the hour by hour flying that went on at the Base camp.

Yes, I just want to have a look at, yes you can crawl under there to your hearts content! You can unplug that for the moment. I'm not really worried about it.

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zatoužit po čem

So if you have got your heart set on a big wedding for the kids or a fast car when you retire, it is worth putting some money away.

Now there was once a Queen, who might have been thought to have everything she could desire in the world, but had set her heart on a strange silent bird a traveler had told of, which lived in the snowy mountains.

dát do toho všechno, celé své srdce

It is very difficult, he said. You are imploring your team to put heart and soul into it, so it’s unrealistic not to expect some minor scare, however unattractive it might be.

It makes you feel weird about meaning what you do. You may put your heart and soul into something, but it doesn't matter because those people can't hear it.

He looked impatiently at Woolley, but Woolley was putting his heart and soul into the music.

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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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umět/naučit se něco nazpaměť

But he had written his book - the people in Glasgow and Paisley knew it by heart, nearly -- now it was up to themselves.

I once knew by heart a poem by the Russian, Fyodor Tyuchev entitled Vyesna (Spring). It began: Already in the fields.................

As presentation day grew closer with Mark racing against time to complete the plan and finalise the slide illustrations, so Klepner read and re-read it until he had almost learnt it off by heart.

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odchod inteligence za lepším výdělkem, odliv mozků

Professor John Ashworth, director of the London School of Economics, agreed with most of the letter's points, but disagreed with the assertion that there had been a brain drain as a result of Government mismanagement.

Both newspapers claim they acted legitimately. Top Oxford scientists join brain drain to US By Roger Highfield, Science Editor

A LEADING British team of chemists has joined the brain drain to the United States . The main problem that Ash foresees is among the younger academic staff. He could not argue, looking at Imperial, that there has been a major brain drain of senior staff.

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tahat rozumy z koho

Unsurprisingly, it was a subject that frequently cropped up at the dinner table, especially when visitors were present and Sir Gregory was able to pick their brains on the latest news from Rome , Paris or Madrid .

That's one thing Ben said though, which was quite useful, he said get some people down pick their brains.

A prosthetist who had a lower limb amputation himself stated: They [patients] want to pick your brain for every bit of knowledge they can get. They're very interested to find out how you coped.

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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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spadnout kámen ze srdce komu

I will of course let my client know that Mr. Makaroupides takes full responsibility for this and that will take a weight off his mind.

And Clarke admitted: It's a weight off my mind. I've been waiting for four or five games, so it's a bit of a relief.

You said nothing to offend me, Mr. Cunningham. You mean it? That's a load off my mind, believe me.

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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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rozhodnout se

Hello, Sergeant. I am just trying to make up my mind whether to stay overnight with my cousin Katy McKay or walk to Achnacarry. Well, Piper, if you can not make up your mind, you are welcome to spend the night at the Police Station.

I still can't make up my mind what exactly to do about trying to get a university place or something like it, and I would feel better, I think, if we could talk about what you said when I visited you.

They hadn't come in yet so I started getting some food ready and tried to make up my mind what to tell Rick.

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v podvědomí

My parents are not educated, they won't understand. At the back of their minds many girls feel that perhaps, even if they told their parents, they would fail to understand, or take in a situation so different from their own educational experiences.

And always, at the back of his mind, there was the business with the Police.

Whenever he sat up, the preserve on his chest was intense. His stomach seemed to be floating on a rising tide that compressed it against his sternum. At the back of his mind was the fear that he had been given too much air, that his lungs could not sustain the pressure that they would collapse.

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uklidnit koho

He was terrified that she might drop it in the corridor, and so, to put his mind at rest, she told him she was only three months on, whereas in fact she was six, but carried her offspring high, so that it didn't show too much.

Don't be bashful about telling folk how you feel for a loved one's advice and experience will soon put your mind at rest. It's business as normal Sunday.

Well, at least now you can put your mind at rest and leave the rest to us. Sister will be in shortly to get you ready.

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krvavý, násilný

The election in Northern Ireland isn't about a penny off income tax or hospital beds. It's about blood and guts and death.

Yeovil became the most successful non-League club in FA Cup history in this blood and guts seven-goal thriller. They were 4-0 up with seven minutes left when the game boiled over with two sendings off, three more goals and the referee escorted from the pitch by police and security guards.

Moving away from the mainly blood and guts stuff, this is a more involved horror thriller which should help expand his market.

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