With that, they turn, confer for a moment and then do me the "favour" of shooting me in the kneecap.
I used to be entirely snobbish about personalised books, chalking them up not as "proper stories", but vehicles for custom-tailored self-centredness; shouldering out the crucial development of empathy in favour of a narrowly-focused me, me, me.
I used to say three 109s, but the situation develops and changes.. Galland succeeded in temporarily persuading Milch to support cancelling the Messerschmitt Me 209 program in favour of producing 100 Me 262s by the end of 1943.
His emphatic rejection of pibroch in favour of broadband helped me to understand why, although a passionate supporter of Irish independence, I don't feel the same about Scotland.
"Everyone knows that I'm all in favour of apprenticeships, but let me tell you this is no time for a novice.
Then we had a visit at home, some remote relative who was a bit older than me and mostly ignored me in favour of his Walkman.
"I'm about to pass my sell-by date, and you've neglected me in favour of emulsifiers and lard!
No, the series moves and convinces us through the repetition of the same phrase at the beginning of the clauses, something that you will all, from now on, do me the favour of calling anaphora.
Finally, I must address the particular point made to me in favour of the People by several of its staff (plus Ms Ridge) – its recent campaign against the so-called bedroom tax.
Would you do me the favour of doing the rough, and I can tidy it up later?'" The older poet would then correct Reid's pages, "not looking at the Latin, but scribbling on my English, moving things around.
