Sentence examples for for a bookie from inspiring English sources

At first, he decided to forgo college, running for a bookie at a local racetrack.

You were rarely more than a minute away from a plug for a bookie.

Harry, who worked for Stern's and Max, who performed odd jobs for a bookie, had known each other in Wheeling, West Virginia.

In the so-called old days, the general business setup for a bookie was a split partnership, in which the operator would work in the office taking bets and the money guy was on the streets, handling the finances.

Jean Stapleton is a sweetheart as the head of Susanswerphone, which, unbeknown to its owner and employees, is being used as a front for a bookie operation -- Thursday at 5 30 p.m. on TCM.

The New Yorker, October 23, 1937 P. 49 Harry, who worked for Stern's and Max, who performed odd jobs for a bookie, had known each other in Wheeling, West Virginia.

Sent to Borstal for the violent robbery of a bookie, he escaped by attacking and stealing the Borstal doctor's car and embarked briefly on a boxing career.

Recently, I spoke to Grime MC Crazy Titch, better known as Durrty Doogz' harder half-brother, who recently completed a two and a half year bid for robbing a bookies with a screwdriver when he was 16.

Such commercials typically offer customers free money in return for registering online with a bookie.

In the book, Donaghy describes how he worked with a bookie for years and got tangled up with increasingly dubious characters.

She has changed her name (it's really Abigail) and is married to a notorious convicted and imprisoned murderer, Robert Manette, played by Gene Kelly, who killed a bookie for a roll of cash.