Sentence examples for bet accepting from inspiring English sources

Ten years later, when he declined to join the literary fifth column of the New Left, he renewed the bet, accepting what looked like very long odds.

Gascoigne, who was sporting a bizarre, luminous hairstyle which looked like the result of a bet accepted during a stag weekend, collected the ball some way outside the Scotland penalty area before unleashing one of the moments of genius which made him famous in the first place.

Winning punters had become frustrated with traditional bookmakers, finding it ever harder to have their bets accepted.

On a bet, he accepted a mnemonic challenge from a group of friendly patrons.

But most high-school students, I'll bet, will accept the inspections as thoughtlessly as I did, and that's what troubles me.

He could take the safe bet and accept the $30 million that Google was offering him for Friendster, the social networking Web start-up he began only a year earlier, in 2002.

Swart laughs off the longstanding rumour that Vanilla signed to EMI as the result of someone losing a bet, but accepts that Vanilla were launched with what was unmistakably a novelty single.

PUNTERS betting on accepted wisdom took a bath on May 2nd when Canada's Conservative government named Stephen Poloz as the successor to Mark Carney as governor of the central bank.

For instance, exchanges the gambling equivalent of online auction sites have lowered the costs of betting by cutting out bookmakers through matching gamblers offering and accepting bets on just about anything.So why ban it?

"Even the bookmakers are accepting bets on whether Arsenal can finish a game with 11 men," noted the Telegraph.

Mossie becomes a leader of her peer group at school, showing friend her insect collection, kissing boys, accepting bets on races between her two younger brothers.