Sentence examples for virgin handed from inspiring English sources
Mandarins had been urging staff to face facts and fix the problems in the wake of a crisis that saw the west coast service run by Virgin handed to FirstGroup before the competition was scrapped, leaving the future of Britain's railways in chaos.
/ Barenaked as two virgins hand in / Hand and and / And hand in glove", referring to the couple's famous Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins cover.
The size of the collection was disconcerting; it was as if the 40-Year-Old Virgin had been handed a three-million-dollar decorating budget.
The competition authorities ruled that BA was too dominant at Heathrow airport so handed Virgin Atlantic some of its prized slots as well as lucrative services to Tokyo.
Three train operators – Virgin, Northern Rail and Transpennine – handed almost £100m to shareholders after receiving more than £1bn in government subsidies, including their portion of the grant to Network Rail.
The exchequer got £600m out of it and instead it is now being handed over to Virgin and we have got overcrowding of mega proportions on the trains and we are not getting the same amount of money back.
Taxpayers are being handed an extra £538m from Virgin Money after Sir Richard Branson's money empire bought up another tranche of Northern Rock mortgages.
When a lustful mob demands they be handed over, Lot offers his two virgin daughters instead.
I was a cold-press virgin until the moment a pretty girl in an apron handed me a tall glass of green liquid.
On the other hand, Virgin Galactic has already banked $14m of deposits towards the $200,000 fare from people who want to travel on SpaceShipTwo, even though it has yet to be built, let alone flown.All this suggests that spaceflight, if not exactly entering the age of the common man, is at least entering the age of the moderately prosperous enthusiast.
(Sharing a meal of fresh brains with a communist zombie? Preparing to bite the neck of a Kansas virgin while holding hands with a gay Mexican Dracula? – none sounds quite as bad to the conservative ear as sharing a platform with Pelosi on climate change).
