Sentence examples for untoward on from inspiring English sources

Even if no-one's doing anything untoward on purpose, this is all a bit old-boys-network, isn't it?

Unless American investigators are able to unearth anything untoward on the specific issue of Fifa's relationship with Adidas, the marriage will continue.

She reports anything untoward on Twitter, where she has 200,000 followers (mainly abroad), and on SMS messages within Cuba.Raúl's decision to let Cubans buy mobile phones and computers has probably had more impact than he or anyone else expected.

The first hint of anything untoward on the Flannan Isles came on 15 December 1900.

Under questioning she confirmed that she had seldom played baccarat before; although she had seen nothing untoward on the first night, she accepted her husband's second-hand version of events as the truth, but did not agree that as a result she had been watching Gordon-Cumming.

"It's a pastiche of an Elizabethan sonnet … It's fun, it's fairly innocent, not signifying anything untoward going on," said Cathy Marsden of auction house Lyon & Turnbull in Edinburgh, which sold the letter and poem on Wednesday.

In a private room, there was something untoward going on around the table, but we would never find out, since they slammed the door on my face when I tried to stick my nose in.

Alfred White, the park keeper, has patrolled his patch of Eden for an epic half-century, guarding against stray footballs and untoward goings-on in the gents'; a man as anachronistic as his job title, he loves his bookish wife, May, with a mute devotion, but has driven away two of their children and stunted a third with his violent temper and knee-jerk bigotry.

There is at present a well-developed and compelling literature on IPV's untoward effects on child mental health [ 7, 8], and there are suggestions in a much more limited literature that IPV affects physical health.

An E2 suppression target >20 pg/ml with an upper range near 40 pg/ml was expected to provide an ESSS improvement whereas limiting untoward effects on 6-month BMD, on average, to <2% decline.

"So any evidence that anything untoward was going on would be disastrous to our business".