Sentence examples for checks told from inspiring English sources

"Within two weeks of the tsunami, they put out bids to venders, got the bids, cut the checks, told them where to deliver, collected the goods, flew them to Singapore, loaded them onto ships, figured out where we'd be, and met us out here in the middle of the ocean".

They wrote big checks, told big lies and intimidated anyone foolish enough to get in their way, aided and abetted by a servile local newspaper, The Cape Cod Times, and the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound, depicted as a thoroughly unscrupulous advocacy group financed by local residents.

Ms. Doucett, who evidence shows was the subject of several illegal database checks, told of getting a menacing phone call in November 2003, not long after she had been interviewed for the first time by Stanley Ornellas, the F.B.I. agent leading the Pellicano investigation.

A spokesman for the National Rifle Association, which opposes expanding background checks, told HuffPost it couldn't comment on Everytown's study without more information about how and where the data was collected.

Neither my guidebooks nor the newspaper I had checked told me that no guided tours were being offered that day; take a brochure and lead yourself around was the only way to go about it.

I have learned I am a horrific speller and sometimes even spell check tells me to get lost.

An old newspaper story, probably apocryphal but falling under the heading Too Good to Check, tells of a foreign correspondent who was headed to a cold-weather assignment and bought a new coat.

Because she did not have health insurance, she did not get the lump checked, telling herself that she did not need to worry because she did not have a family history of breast cancer.

When his young daughter requests a bunk bed for her room, a "quick fact check" tells him that "about thirty-six thousand kids per year are taken to an emergency room following a bunk bed injury".

Sometimes Sina Weibo suspends posts until they can be manually checked, telling the user that the delay is because of "server data synchronisation".

A gut check tells me this one is coming.