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He called in Julian; a six-inch-tall red, white and blue garden gnome! (BNC)

I had to dive in the corner and make like a garden gnome… (BNC)

Notice garden gnome with little fishing rod is missing from pond. (BNC)

velice obyčejný

Mine are your everyday garden-variety blue. (BNC)

People who want to use Pentium or write garden-variety software for it reportedly don't need it. (BNC)

It´s just a garden-variety shopping mall, large but not special in any way.(Google)

plynový krb

We could turn on the artificial gas fire! (BNC)

The old open fireplace had been boarded in and a single gas fire now burned in the hearth. (BNC)

It had minimal busted furniture, yellow walls and a gas fire. (BNC)

dokončit první krok (v nějakém procesu)

Swallow explained: they had a low-key attitude to the region and had just wanted to get a foot in the door. (BNC)

His parting advice to those interested in taking the challenge was: keep an ear to the ground, your back to the wheel and get your foot in the door. (BNC)

I'm not saying it happened on this occasion, but it is not unknown for a private company to take a loss on government contracts to get a foot in the door. (BNC)

být do něčeho zpojený od začátku

Can someone tell me how you get in on the ground floor of a money-making deal like that? (Google)

After just two days on the market, the software group has shot up from 70p to 113p; great news for the institutions who got in on the ground floor. (BNC)

You are in on the ground floor of something very, very exciting! (BNC)

vycházet s někým velice dobře

I was worried that they wouldn't like each other, but in fact they're getting on like a house on fire. (Google)

Selina and I get on like a house on fire. (BNC)

We get on like a house on fire -- now we no longer live together. (BNC)

1. Me and Tarzan, yeah we get on like a house on fire. (Google)

2. I'll introduce you to my brothers, you'd get on like a house on fire. (Google)

3. I went for a single share, where P&O matched me up with another lone traveller in a twin cabin. Luckily, we get on like a house on fire. (Google)

1. So to those who would point the finger at the IRA for the current difficulties in the peace process I say: "Get your own house in order." (Google)

2. So before you go whining about all your bad luck, it's time to get your OWN house in order first. (Google)

3. Understand what your own engineers are telling you and make sure it is the truth. Often times they will gloss over deficiencies or soft-sell benefits. Get your own house in order before you go on the road to demonstrate the product or write the press kit. (Google)

1. You must have got out of bed on the wrong side to be so cross about so small a matter. (Google)

2. It looks like someone got out of bed on the wrong side and is going to make everyone else pay for it. (Google)

3. I must have got out of bed on the wrong side this morning. I'm not normally as critical as this! (Google)

zamést si nejprve před svým vlastním prahem

You should get your own house in order before telling me what to do! (Google)

Ian has plenty of problems of his own, so he needs to get his own house in order before he starts telling other people how to live their lives. (Google)

Al Gore, get your own house in order before you lecture me. (Google)

1. I wouldn't give house room to that lamp. It's horrible! (Google)

2. Some thirty-five years on I don't have that old guitar any more. [...] It was actually, I now know, a very cheaply-made instrument with a very dull sound that I wouldn't give house room to these days, but it was good enough for me to learn on. (Google)

3. I have nets at my windows to stop people nosing into my house, but I wouldn't give house room to these horrible, fussy, frilly curtains. I like my nets to be plain and brilliant white. (Google)

1. I just want to re-start my life but I'm so afraid of being victimised now. I don't want to go home in a box. (Google)

2. The urge to drink can be powerful, but impaired drivers go home in a box. (Google)

3. Experienced expatriates in Russia shared an essential rule: Don't cross these brutal billionaires, ever, or you're likely to go home in a box. (Google)

1. As preconceived questions began to go out of the window, Gwyneth's interviews became more well-rounded. (Google)

2. If I was out, and I was taking E., everything else would go out of the window, and I would just party and have a good time, and the rest of it. (Google)

3. If I eat just one slice of pizza, my whole diet will go out of the window. (Google)

být velice naštvaný

Tarquin and Lucretia go through the roof. (BNC)

She was what had happened and went through the roof. (Google)

My father went through the roof when he saw what I did to the car. (Google)

1. College students who go to bed late are more likely to have poor quality sleep, which may affect their mental health and academic performance. (Google)

2. I go to bed late (midnight) and get up between 5 and 6 am I get up a lot during the night. (Google)

3. I want to be a morning person, but have always fought my body that wants to go to bed late and get up late, and get about 10 hrs sleep. (Google)

1. Never go to sleep angry. (Google)

2. Pam tries to keep the squirrel as a pet, which works fine for Matt because he thinks he can just squirrel into his room, go to sleep, and wake up cured. (Google)

3. I don't think there's a cure for me, cause I am a fool as you can see. My body really wants to weep, my brain is yelling: "Go to sleep!" (Google)

vysoké stojací hodiny

The muffled tick of the grandfather clock echoed in one corner. (BNC)

We would visit her on occasions and I remember she had a rather splendid grandfather clock. (BNC)

Just like that old grandfather clock the memories of those precious moments last for ever. (BNC)

1. This is the plan for the ground floor. 2 reception rooms, kitchen, dining room, utility room, study, entrance hall, double garage and a storage room. (Google)

2. Many buildings suffer from rot and insect attack in their ground floor timbers and this is mainly due to poor sub floor ventilation. (Google)

3. All of these properties have bedrooms on the ground floor. (Google)