Sentence examples for run up bar from inspiring English sources
He said he had watched some bar regulars, who profess to love jazz, run up bar tabs of $60 to $70, without so much as a peek into the Zebra Room.
Restaurants use high-tempo songs to make lunch-time clients eat fast, and slow tunes to persuade evening diners to linger (and run up bar bills longer than a six-year-old's letter to Santa).The demand for specialist holiday music also reflects broader social trends, says Eric Spangenberg, dean of the business school at Washington State University and a marketing expert.
The first of four series of Citizen Smith aired in 1977, with an absurdly funny Robert Lindsay playing Wolfie Smith, a poor man's Che Guevara in a black beret, and leader of the Tooting Popular Front, a small band of inept political terrorists (battle cry, "Power to the People"), running up bar bills and attracting only scorn and indifference.
In London, he and Myrtle ran up vertiginous bar tabs, fled hotels without paying and dunned friends and relatives with letters that were by turns sycophantic and abusive.
At his bachelor party at a Miami nightclub, Tindall reportedly drank a carafe of red wine in one gulp, ran up a bar tab of $18,000 and ended the night wearing one of the club dancer's tutus.
(There are occasional downsides: Several years ago in Ibiza, Bangalter says, some guy ran up exorbitant bar tabs at clubs while claiming to be him).
Accounts by former players and documents obtained through public records requests showed a man who often ran up large bar tabs while traveling on university business and left some players concerned about the extent of his alcohol use.
So tight are the margins in his particular game that his manager often leaves strict instructions that his charge is not to be allowed to run up a bar tab.
He should be more famous for an opinion he authored while visiting the 11th circuit appeals court in Florida, in which he threw out the convictions of a group of women charged with fraud for pretending to like men in order to run up their bar tabs.
Homeland security inspector General John Roth found that the agents spent about five hours at a bar during and after a retirement party for a colleague at the agency that protects the president and ran up a "significant" bar tab before driving to the White House on 4 March.
