Sentence examples for a shopkeeper with from inspiring English sources

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The son of a violent, alcoholic father, King drank too much from a young age and had been jailed for threatening a shopkeeper with an iron bar.

But whenever I greeted a shopkeeper with a cheery Hej do, they would assume I was Swedish and reply at length in their mother tongue.

During her adventures in "Through the Looking-Glass," Alice met a sheep who was a shopkeeper with a strange pricing structure for eggs: "Then two are cheaper than one?" Alice said in a surprised tone.

She's a cleaner, a cook and a shopkeeper, with several jobs needed just to get by.

The charity's senior health policy advisor, Dr Mohga Kamal Yanni, said: "It is dangerous to put the lives of sick children in the hands of a shopkeeper with no medical training, and to pursue a scheme that doesn't help those people who need it the most.

A shopkeeper with medical or health-related qualifications was found in 93% of the drug stores and 2% of the general shops (P < 0.001).

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The fallout of this event is told from multiple characters' perspectives — a Lebanese shopkeeper with a nose for news; a Broadway has-been turned alcoholic music teacher; a talented, rootless graffiti artist; a well-meaning kid from the projects living in the grim shadow of his father's murder.

This happened to Lt. Col. Abraham after he was asked to take part in a tribunal, when he and his fellow officers refused to conclude that Abdul Hamid al-Ghizzawi, a Libyan shopkeeper with an Afghan wife and a small child, was an "enemy combatant".

A local shopkeeper with a storefront in the town's small bazaar agreed to let them sleep in his store on woven cots for a couple of nights.

I tell you solemnly, there is nothing so beautiful as the sight of a sweet hooligan doing irreparable damage to the knees of an ageing shopkeeper with a homemade cosh, fashioned rudely from spare lead piping found in the back of Darren's transit van.

A shopkeeper pleads with robbers to take everything he has but spare his life; they shoot him anyway.

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