Sentence examples for big allowance from inspiring English sources

A rich, beer-drunk yahoo with a big allowance who passes out in your bathtub".

"I was a working girl, and my parents did not give me a big allowance".

Vincent said he hoped to work this fall "to have my own money," saying his parents did not give him a big allowance.

More than 30 politicians are implicated in the scandal referred to as the center of the trial, the "mensalão" or "big allowance"; the nickname refers to the monthly payments said to have been made to legislators during Mr. da Silva's presidency.

By the end of the decade, Blass was doing ingratiating and handsome but derivative clothes influenced by Norell, Mainbocher, Saint Laurent, and, even more so, by a small coterie of muses — American beauties with big allowances and blue blood who had "the confidence to mix things up," and who embodied the "lean, agile, racy" style that he aspired to.

So Mr Osborne is likely to be caricatured as helping the posh pay for their nannies even though those on lower incomes will also receive big allowances for child care if they work, and the better-off have already forfeited their entitlement to child benefit.By the time of the election, Mr Osborne hopes that working families will be grateful for the boost.

Although less productive so far in this tournament Robben probably has the biggest allowance to be selfish on the team.

Paula Gibbons, a 50-year-old health and safety officer from Manchester, is set to make use of the bigger allowance.

Pretty young things with a bigger allowance pop into the Diana Kane lingerie shop, which the owner, Diana English, has stocked with lacy underpinnings by Only Hearts and Cosabella.

Note: Your son may say, "Just tell me why I can't see the movie/ have a bigger allowance," tempting you to offer yet another round of explanations.

But times are tough in the kingdom, and Albert's back-channel approaches to the government for a bigger allowance have been spurned, the newspapers Le Soir and De Standaard reported Thursday.