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of the best man, offering a few quid for a taxi in any direction
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This girl just wants to have fun and when you're a poor student it helps if the boys have a few quid in their pocket
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"Two quid, please"
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Quid pro quo
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THAT STYLUS COST OVER TWENTY QUID
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‘Bastards! Twenty-five quid over my limit and they charge me that
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That is to say, authority is often conferred as a quid pro quo in exchange for (public) favors
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"Sold 'em to that fishing tackle shop in Oldburgh for thirty quid
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Ford's pardoning of Nixon for his crimes during the Watergate Scandal, defended by Ford as best for the country, were seen by many as a quid pro quo, a payoff, with the pardon being exchanged for being appointed Vice President and then becoming President
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That’s one hundred and fifty thousand quid a year, plus shares that will be worth tens of millions of pounds in ten years time, Ethan
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alone with only two quid and a Tube pass, beset by Jel y Babies, when…
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Kenneth had been at Chiswick House because he earned a few quid as the Victoria League’s link with the Telegraph – as long as his pieces were complimentary
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Paid fifty quid for a story 'Coming For to Carry You Home' as in Swing low, sweet chariot
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49 and bring in a quid, doubling the royalty on normal paperback, but right now people in the UK are still new to the kindle and are shopping for bargains
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“Seven hundred quid a term for this,” muttered Dad
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Of course, to make someone a quid,
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What would we have to do for 50 quid?” asked Tim, boldly
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You can have it for a thousand quid
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What a quid pro quo that is
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“Thirty thousand quid, Mr Metcalfe, you can count it but I assure you it is all there
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Jones shook his head, “With what George? You have a few quid which I gave you but you are hardly flush with cash
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�Dunno mate, that's all there was in there, minus forty quid for me Jack Daniels and bits and pieces
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A week later he had five hundred quid in his hand
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to offer that in the first place, I could probably have saved 6,000 quid
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man takes pains to note that, if presented with such a quid pro
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Still, every time I saw Melody I felt like slipping her fifty quid
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He also knew where to find a plumber and within a few hours we had a tiny, bald man running around who fixed the water heater properly and made sure it wasn't leaking carbon monoxide, exchanged the taps for brand new ones that hadn't been to the taste of people who had moved into new houses, so which were only technically second-hand, inspected the gas line and actually fixed a tiny leak there (so he checked Harry's place and the house next door too, but they were fine) and then charged me eighty quid
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But there was a quid pro quo
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her? The last straw? She bought a handbag that cost a thousand quid
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In the zoo, the wolves had just skulked around in the back of their cage, refusing to put on a show for Alfie however much he shouted at them that he had paid twenty quid to see them
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Quid pro quo, and all that
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He figured that a trip to Primark for some extra -large men’s clothes would cost him less than fifty quid if there was anything suitable in the sale section
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He would have saved himself fifty quid on clothes, too!
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“Ten quid will do, thank you,” she replied, laughing
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“If there’s a couple of million quid in her account that I can move around, that should end any question in the Swiss banks’ minds about whether or not we’re money laundering
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“They haven’t been able to trace the source of the two million quid that suddenly appeared in her account the other day, and now half of that has disappeared again!”
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“The real worry, though, is trying to explain how a million quid was taken out,” said Bergen
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Hood and whoever is playing about with two million quid, don’t you think?” asked Jan Bergen
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Anyone intent on nicking two million quid would almost certainly put it in to their own account or a phantom account specially opened for the purpose, and not use someone else’s
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If he were going to put two million quid into her account by some means so as to enhance his legacy, he’d have left it there
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“It probably wouldn’t get us any closer to tracing the source of the two million quid though, would it?”
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“He knew of my involvement over the two million quid,” replied Bergen
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“Which sounds a lot, except that her total estate, most of which said Robin Hood inherits, wasn’t far short of two million quid
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She would have been glad of a quid for every time she had rushed up and down the stairs, from her office next to his proper one, to his temporary desk downstairs
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“I wouldn’t mind a quid for every time I’ve scrambled over that stile next to the bridge when I was a kid,” he said
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‘My good doctor, to say that all religions are great is a quid pro quo,’ said Raja Rao excitedly
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Maybe the saving grace was the insertions for wife-swapping that seemed genuine for they were all about give and take; but then, wasn’t he rendered a hors de combat for he lacked the means for a quid pro quo? What about Vimala, he thought as he recalled that evening when he was led into a lounge of a mansion where he found a score of whores in awkward postures, and as he turned his back on the gaudy dames in disgust, one lissome lass in a Turkish towel walked in
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The two-nation theory by which the ancient land of Aryavarta was partitioned was an illusion of the Indian Musalmans that was not subscribed by the Hindus of India, and had they wanted a country for them only, wouldn’t they have ceded some more land to Pakistanis, if that were needed, as a quid pro quo for ridding the Islamist presence from their Indian midst
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It was as if he was wondering if she was the full quid
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‘Cost me two hundred quid, plus two years at thirty quid a month
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and it will not cost a quid from you
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The dentist was never his favourite port of call and Mark could think of better ways of spending his afternoon off and the best part of £30 quid, than having his molars prodded and drilled
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‘But the paymaster may have a few quid on his head,’ Jim
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‘Sayeed has twelve million quid on a slip of paper, so maybe
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If I had a few quid to play with I could hire them
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have a million quid
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I made that two hundred quid a throw
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China – worth about twenty billion quid
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help me make a few quid … as well as influence the Chinese
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with the news of the takeover leaked, Po now a million quid
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was already at three quid ten
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sort of city slicker with a few quid to spend
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McKinleys made a few quid
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little Chinaman was sitting on around ten million quid in
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‘Pity he didn’t copyright it, would have made a few quid
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be a few quid down on the deal, but let’s not try and sort out everybody’s problems with the one masterplan,
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To cut a long story short, a few hours and about five hundred quid later we ended up in this club in the west end
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“Two quid,” he said
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I’ll sort out your forty quid when I get to the bank
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“You can have it if you’ve got three hundred quid,” Matt said
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“If Frank Paxton is the father of Lauren Cowley’s baby, why is it that Martin Willow paid Susan Jenkins fifteen hundred quid?”
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“Detective Inspector,” Chalmers replied, “and no, I’m not threatening her, I’m giving her a piece of advice that won’t cost her three hundred quid an hour
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“They didn’t have any and they said I could have the guitar for a hundred quid; its worth much more than that
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After the putrid message of his fart had assailed our nostrils, the Prof shifted his quid in
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He turns his quid of tobacco while his eyes blurr with the manuscript; The malform'd limbs are tied to the surgeon's table,
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"I've got thirty-three quid," he said
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William's quid pro quo, in that, for his helping me
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Penelon rolled his quid in his cheek, placed his hand before his mouth, turned his head, and sent a long jet of tobacco-juice into the antechamber, advanced his foot, balanced himself, and began,—"You see, M
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Morrel," said he, again turning his quid, "as for that"—
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“Why would you deny it if I told her?” When he says nothing, I say, “Quid pro quo, Ryodan
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`Must 'ave been worth at least five quid
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and orfer to give me a quid - I'd refuse it!'
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The more he thought about it the more improbable it appeared that the amount would be less than a quid, and he made up his mind that whatever he got he would take good care that none of the other men knew anything about it
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Besides, even if he got a quid, by the time you divided that up amongst a dozen - or even amongst two or three - it would not be worth having
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Penelon, Penelon!" An old man, who was digging busily at one of the beds, stuck his spade in the earth, and approached, cap in hand, striving to conceal a quid of tobacco he had just thrust into his cheek
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He put down his name for a quid
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They could easily have big establishments whole thing quite painless out of all the taxes give every child born five quid at compound interest up to twentyone five per cent is a hundred shillings and five tiresome pounds multiply by twenty decimal system encourage people to put by money save hundred and ten and a bit twentyone years want to work it out on paper come to a tidy sum more than you think
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was telling us there was an ancient Hebrew Zaretsky or something weeping in the witnessbox with his hat on him, swearing by the holy Moses he was stuck for two quid
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Boylan plunged two quid on my tip
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So I just went round the back of the yard to pumpship and begob (hundred shillings to five) while I was letting off my (Throwaway twenty to) letting off my load gob says I to myself I knew he was uneasy in his (two pints off of Joe and one in Slattery's off) in his mind to get off the mark to (hundred shillings is five quid) and when they were in the (dark horse) pisser Burke was telling me card party and letting on the child was sick (gob, must have done about a gallon) flabbyarse of a wife speaking down the tube she's betteror she's (ow!) all a plan so he could vamoose with the pool if he won or (Jesus, full up I was) trading without a licence (ow!) Ireland my nation says he (hoik! phthook!) never be up to those bloody (there's the last of it) Jerusalem (ah!) cuckoos
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He deposited the quid in his gob and, chewing and with some slow stammers,
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I seen a crocodile bite the fluke of an anchor same as I chew that quid
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He took out of his mouth the pulpy quid and, lodging it between his teeth, bit
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—There was a fellow sailed with me in the Rover, the old seadog, himself a rover, proceeded, went ashore and took up a soft job as gentleman's valet at six quid a month
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going about with some of them Sinner Fein lately or whatever they call themselves talking his usual trash and nonsense he says that little man he showed me without the neck is very intelligent the coming man Griffiths is he well he doesnt look it thats all I can say still it must have been him he knew there was a boycott I hate the mention of their politics after the war that Pretoria and Ladysmith and Bloemfontein where Gardner lieut Stanley G 8th Bn 2nd East Lancs Rgt of enteric fever he was a lovely fellow in khaki and just the right height over me Im sure he was brave too he said I was lovely the evening we kissed goodbye at the canal lock my Irish beauty he was pale with excitement about going away or wed be seen from the road he couldnt stand properly and I so hot as I never felt they could have made their peace in the beginning or old oom Paul and the rest of the other old Krugers go and fight it out between them instead of dragging on for years killing any finelooking men there were with their fever if he was even decently shot it wouldnt have been so bad I love to see a regiment pass in review the first time I saw the Spanish cavalry at La Roque it was lovely after looking across the bay from Algeciras all the lights of the rock like fireflies or those sham battles on the 15 acres the Black Watch with their kilts in time at the march past the 10th hussars the prince of Wales own or the lancers O the lancers theyre grand or the Dublins that won Tugela his father made his money over selling the horses for the cavalry well he could buy me a nice present up in Belfast after what I gave him theyve lovely linen up there or one of those nice kimono things I must buy a mothball like I had before to keep in the drawer with them it would be exciting going round with him shopping buying those things in a new city better leave this ring behind want to keep turning and turning to get it over the knuckle there or they might bell it round the town in their papers or tell the police on me but theyd think were married O let them all go and smother themselves for the fat lot I care he has plenty of money and hes not a marrying man so somebody better get it out of him if I could find out whether he likes me I looked a bit washy of course when I looked close in the handglass powdering a mirror never gives you the expression besides scrooching down on me like that all the time with his big hipbones hes heavy too with his hairy chest for this heat always having to lie down for them better for him put it into me from behind the way Mrs Mastiansky told me her husband made her like the dogs do it and stick out her tongue as far as ever she could and he so quiet and mild with his tingating cither can you ever be up to men the way it takes them lovely stuff in that blue suit he had on and stylish tie and socks with the skyblue silk things on them hes certainly well off I know by the cut his clothes have and his heavy watch but he was like a perfect devil for a few minutes after he came back with the stoppress tearing up the tickets and swearing blazes because he lost 20 quid he said he lost over that outsider that won and half he put on for me on account of Lenehans tip cursing him to the lowest pits that sponger he was making free with me after the Glencree dinner coming back that long joult over the featherbed mountain after the lord Mayor looking at me with his dirty eyes Val Dillon that big heathen I first noticed him at dessert when I was cracking the nuts with my teeth I wished I could have picked every morsel of that chicken out of my fingers it was so tasty and browned and as tender as anything only for I didnt want to eat everything on my plate those forks and fishslicers were hallmarked silver too I wish I had some I could easily have
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10 It should be recognized as a principle, however, that the waiving of any important right by the bondholders entitles them to some quid pro quo from the stockholders—in the form either of a contribution of cash to the enterprise or of a transfer of some part of their claim on future earnings to the bondholders
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No substantial quid pro quo was offered for these concessions