Sentence examples for mind the shop from inspiring English sources

Raine, by then poetry editor at Faber, took a short break to finish a book and asked Reid to "mind the shop".

So getting out of poverty seems to require a quantum leap vastly more food, a modern machine, or an employee to mind the shop.

But if they had expected quietly to mind the shop until handing over to an elected successor in July, they are quickly being disabused.One pressing matter left by the sudden downfall last month of President Alberto Fujimori is the economy.

About Mr. Armstrong himself, the warning raised an even more pointed concern: if he cannot mind the shop in AT&T's core businesses, how can he be expected to succeed in the new ones?

And in the dusk of his career he might be happy to mind the shop until the next election, after which the party would have time and space (most likely in opposition) to make a longer-term choice.Alan Johnson, the 58-year-old health secretary, shares many of these virtues and may offer others.

Although the titular upgrade was duly granted, and McGuinness was allowed to clear out some of the veterans, after another poor start and a dreadful run up to Christmas he was gone, forced to watch from the sidelines as Busby returned to mind the shop.

"Who is minding the shop?

Bloomberg minds the shop without much fuss and things seem to work out O.K.

For Nadir, now 61, minding the shop is too much of a buzz to turn off.

For us in the UK it feels as if no one was minding the shop.

As he does so Ramiro reappears, charged by Concepcion with minding the shop.