Relieved and excited, I began to focus on writing vows, tasting cupcakes and plotting to keep my parents separated.
There are no omnipotent overlords secretly plotting to keep the little man down and control the direction of history.
It was a French plot to keep a Brit in last place!
The commission plotted to keep segregation alive through intimidation, and linked itself closely with the violence of the day.
Her supporters disagree, saying it is part of a plot to keep all vestiges of religion out of the public view.
Miserably represented and explained, and hung with so few meaningful conversations between them, the artists here might suspect a continuing plot to keep them in a similarly dystopian limbo.
But poorer, pro-American countries, notably from central and eastern Europe, sense a plot to keep them out of an inner defence group that would be dominated by France and Germany.
Here's a story so purely about love and sex that it hardly needs a plot to keep it together; it's suspended in a brew of heavy, languid music, which you could say is Wagnerian in its richness or Debussyan in its evocative dreaminess, except that it is quintessentially Italian in the shape of the melodic fragments it strews around, like falling petals.
I was, from an early age, convinced there was a plot to keep me away from my beloved London and condemn me to life in my slow-moving, easy-going hometown.
There was talk of a conspiracy on the part of Commissioner Goodell and possibly others being involved in a plot to keep the Saints out of the big game either for monetary reasons or as a way to get back at them for Bounty gate, or both.
