Sentence examples similar to basket- from inspiring English sources

Back in Georgetown, waiting for a taxi to the airport, we do a last-minute dash around the street stalls: all I salvage are an oil painting of the Kaieteur Falls (a rather Surrealist interpretation), a shell necklace, a woven basket and as much El Dorado rum as possible, before the plane carries us to a connecting flight at Barbados, and the waters change from brown to a shock of bright blue.

BrewDog has ridden the wave of enthusiasm for craft ales, which have taken off to the extent that the Office for National Statistics added them to the basket of goods it uses to calculate inflation.

Pop it in a basket or gift bag.

When police raided homes in June of that year after a surveillance operation they also found a pink shoe in a washing basket at Roberts' home containing 13 bullets.

Dan Dan noodles – her favourite – "were originally made by Chengdu street vendors who carried their gear around in a basket or barrel slung from either end of a bamboo shoulder pole, or 'dan' in Mandarin.

Don't think grandma with her wicker shopping basket on the hunt for potato salad and Wiener schnitzel.

Items that make it into the basket have to achieve significant volume in sales, and prove they are not a flash-in-the-pan product (which is why pop tarts or micro chips have never made it in).

He spends much of the day pretending to have an important telephone conversation with Barack Obama. 1 May: Cameron dresses up in a suit made of £50 notes and charges through a crowd of potential voters at a Bromley shopping centre, while George Osborne runs around behind him with a basket of puppies.

The index is based on the theory of purchasing-power parity (PPP), that over the long run, currencies should adjust so that a basket of identical goods costs the same everywhere.

It is hard to believe we will never see her again, with her basket, shy smile and bright, watching eye.

Few would describe his tenure as anything other than successful, considering the basket-case he inherited, and profits are expected to be up from £756m to around £780m.