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It was not long before those who had been so rudely awakened by Tebbit's demarche were once again safe in the arms of Morpheus.

It seemed an hour, was perhaps only five minutes - and he left, saying only, I must to the arms of Morpheus It’s late. Good night - frère Robert.

Sleeping while her ugly sisters go to the sex maniacs’ ball. On paper, it’s a perfect equation. Prom Queen meets matinee idol and the earth moves. On terra firma, they fall straight into the arms of Morpheus on their wedding night just like Cindy and Dick.

chladnokrevně, chladnokrevný

It is clear that Professor Wybran has been assassinated in cold blood because he was a Jew, it said. Fifty years after the Holocaust, a Jewish leader is killed in the heart of the capital of Europe .

Finally, he sighed heavily and continued speaking. Your parents' death was no accident, Mikhail. They were shot down in cold blood with their friends, by the KGB.

Four generations of Glynns, and the fourth of the dynasty had got himself murdered in his own office; no heat-of-the-moment crime either, but a carefully planned murder executed in cold blood out of hatred, or fear, or obsessive greed.

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v době, kdy je to aktuální, právě, aktuálně

We have had early notification from Sam Morley of Aedificamus Press that plans are in hand to publish this excellent book, the autobiography of Perla Seidle Gibson, as a Talking Book.

As such, they involve a high degree of trust, good will, confidence and faith in all parties ability to do the job in hand. Musicians must seek legal advice if they are offered any of these agreements, and their legal adviser should be a specialist in the music business.

Maloney said. Lewis certainly possesses the physical attributes for the task in hand. He turned 23 last month, and his 6ft 5in, 16st 11lb frame carries no excess weight.

v představách

I see her in my mind’s eye always in a Fair Isle jersey.

Occasionally she made rolled-up pancakes, and stuffed omelettes, and steak pies with lovely gravy: I have in my mind’s eye a picture of her, sitting in a corner with some child on her lap, and the usual dreamy expression on her face.

As he spoke, the teacher saw Prince Richard in his mind’s eye and recalled the authority in the imperious carriage of the boy's small head on his narrow but habitually braced shoulders.

podobně, podobným způsobem

A more extreme tactic is to start addressing them in similar vein - using my dear or something worse back.

A few years earlier, Alessandro Conti wrote in similar vein of Fra Angelico’s frescoes at San Marco in Florence, saying that they had been permanently disfigured.

The same dialogue continues in similar vein for shepherd and herdsman.

v mžiku

The advantage of the Helblaster is that it can fire several shots at once in a devastating volley. A full volley will rip through the toughest regiment causing immense casualties in the blink of an eye.

No-one wanted personal computers until an American called Dan Bricklin invented a piece of software that would do lots of boring calculations in the blink of an eye.

ve středu zájmu veřejnosti

The mass media, and the television in particular, places the Prime Minister in the public eye as the government, and general elections have increasingly become personalised contests between rival party leaders.

Ahead you’ll find a series of lucrative events which may well put you in the public eye, and carry you to further success and acclaim.

He was said to have been well received by only a few people’s comrades and naturally the old loyal fighters. Hardly ever has a Goebbels article stood so much in the public eye as this one, added the report, but his articles have probably never been so criticized.

navzdory čemu

The British electorate regularly disprove this by electing governments in the teeth of the hostility and mispresentation of virtually the whole of the press.

Even if Mr. Kaifu can deliver a package, he will probably be doing so in the teeth of public opinion (especially if a tax increase is involved).

je to kradené (zboží)

They need frequent renovation, says Brian Miller, Barrow & Hepburn's managing director. They sometimes look as if they've fallen off the back of a lorry.

He was only 18 years old, but was making quite a market on the side in watches and jewellery that he would jokingly claim had fallen off the back of a lorry.

They clearly distinguished between stealing from shops and stealing from houses. A number might buy a personal hi-fi they suspected came off the back of a lorry, but would never purchase goods burgled from a family.

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