Sentence examples for A polly from inspiring English sources
Here at the readers' room, we know firsthand what it's like to be a boy in the throes of a Polly Pocket phase.
People often go on about how dinky Ellen Page is - she is "completely adorable in a Polly Pocket kind of way" cooed a recent (male) interviewer - but when you meet her, it really is noticeable how tall she isn't.
A Times reporter in Chicago found a Polly Pocket LimoScene toy on the shelves of a Wal-Mart there, but when she tried to buy it, the cash register blocked the purchase.
Polly Peck administrators and Nadir's trustee in bankruptcy have long held that donations to the Conservative party – equivalent to about £700,000 today – amounted to illegal transfers from a NatWest bank account in Jersey held in the name of a Polly Peck subsidiary.
"What I cannot stomach at any price is the argument – I have a dim feeling that I once came across it in a Polly Toynbee column – that the point of universal benefits is to knit society together; that I and other members of the affluent bourgeoisie will be more inclined to support the welfare state if we are the beneficiaries of welfare.
There are different communities for different parts of the site – for instance, the commenters you find on a Polly Toynbee article will tend to be quite different to those on one by Mike Selvey (and a doff of the hat here to the below the line community on the cricket section, an ever-engaging and amusing bunch who've been on excellent form this summer. And that includes our Australian cousins!).
And his parrot – a death's-head on a stick – is an unpretty Polly indeed.
And Dave the spider man, who, with help from a hypnotist and a tarantula called Polly, runs a course for arachnophobes.
It was a calling Polly apparently abandoned.
It didn't do either faction much good, as a repentant Polly Toynbee admitted here.
