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    Usa "quid" in una frase

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    quid


    1. of the best man, offering a few quid for a taxi in any direction


    2. 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


    3. "Two quid, please"


    4. Quid pro quo


    5. THAT STYLUS COST OVER TWENTY QUID


    6. ‘Bastards! Twenty-five quid over my limit and they charge me that


    7. That is to say, authority is often conferred as a quid pro quo in exchange for (public) favors


    8. "Sold 'em to that fishing tackle shop in Oldburgh for thirty quid


    9. 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


    10. 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

    11. alone with only two quid and a Tube pass, beset by Jel y Babies, when…


    12. 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


    13. Paid fifty quid for a story 'Coming For to Carry You Home' as in Swing low, sweet chariot


    14. 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


    15. “Seven hundred quid a term for this,” muttered Dad


    16. Of course, to make someone a quid,


    17. What would we have to do for 50 quid?” asked Tim, boldly


    18. You can have it for a thousand quid


    19. What a quid pro quo that is


    20. “Thirty thousand quid, Mr Metcalfe, you can count it but I assure you it is all there

    21. Jones shook his head, “With what George? You have a few quid which I gave you but you are hardly flush with cash


    22. �Dunno mate, that's all there was in there, minus forty quid for me Jack Daniels and bits and pieces


    23. A week later he had five hundred quid in his hand


    24. to offer that in the first place, I could probably have saved 6,000 quid


    25. man takes pains to note that, if presented with such a quid pro


    26. Still, every time I saw Melody I felt like slipping her fifty quid


    27. 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


    28. But there was a quid pro quo


    29. her? The last straw? She bought a handbag that cost a thousand quid


    30. 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

    31. Quid pro quo, and all that


    32. 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


    33. He would have saved himself fifty quid on clothes, too!


    34. “Ten quid will do, thank you,” she replied, laughing


    35. “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


    36. “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!”


    37. “The real worry, though, is trying to explain how a million quid was taken out,” said Bergen


    38. Hood and whoever is playing about with two million quid, don’t you think?” asked Jan Bergen


    39. 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


    40. 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

    41. “It probably wouldn’t get us any closer to tracing the source of the two million quid though, would it?”


    42. “He knew of my involvement over the two million quid,” replied Bergen


    43. “Which sounds a lot, except that her total estate, most of which said Robin Hood inherits, wasn’t far short of two million quid


    44. 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


    45. “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


    46. ‘My good doctor, to say that all religions are great is a quid pro quo,’ said Raja Rao excitedly


    47. 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


    48. 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


    49. It was as if he was wondering if she was the full quid


    50. ‘Cost me two hundred quid, plus two years at thirty quid a month












































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