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Sentence Examples Other telly programmes celebrated the unerring fidelity of Top of the Pops and back then it seemed completely unbudgeable. Flopped before the telly, we slowly expand to fill out the elasticated waist of our new training pants. I then had a little something to eat and watched a little telly, although I still had the mother of all headaches. I'd like my son to round out his education on all things trailer trash before you turn off the telly. I had planned to spend my first Saturday-night in the megacity up in my almost double bed watching something interesting in the telly. Or was it the annoying chinless gang who occupied the seats in front of the telly, bringing their toddler children to run about the pub? Anyway, when I got back home I turned on the telly to see lots of pictures of a train station and aerial views of a shinkansen bullet train. It's not just silly old beardy blokes who make drunken fools of themselves on telly. If I'm not around a telly on Wednesday afternoons, I make sure the video timer's set. And the pop culture reference is just tiresome, just another bout of nostalgia for childhood telly. There's never been a telly in this house, you see, Tim is very down on the telly. But her home is now the small screen, better put a lock on that recording studio and get her back on the telly double quick. I guess that was so they didn't disturb the scrum of journalist crowded round a wide-screen telly watching the football. By hokey, you run an ad on telly with a mother not recognising her own son and wait for the jobbies to hit the fan. Britain is full of telly addicts who spend little time curled up with a good book, a new survey confirms. I know you've been watching this, you shameful, shallow little telly addicts. It was really strange, because one moment she was just cooking and doing the chores at home, and the next moment she was on telly. I duly located my telly stand and then nearly herniated myself in the process of dragging it off a shelf and hauling it to the car. Bermuda's telly addicts have much to look forward to in the months to come. I'm happily watching England footle around against Liechtenstein, in a Euro 2004 qualifier on the telly. Show More Sentences That nice Adam whatsisname off the telly reckons I could do my accounts online anyhow. At Ibrox, there is a telly in the ref's room, and I'll maybe watch that for a while. It's a modern-day fairy tale, folks, because, you see, they did get on the telly after all. I switched off the telly and settled down to what I thought would be half an hour of savage nature in the raw! The repeated photos in the papers would be more bearable and we could turn the sound down when they speak on telly and still feel a warm glow. Channel Five's reality television extravaganza is back on our telly screens. Christmas lunch is over, the Queen's on the telly and great-grandma's in the corner sipping gin and Dubonnet. Not so long ago he was watching telly with his eldest daughter, Lois, who has ambitions to be an actor. They're a great excuse to snuggle up in front of the telly wrapped in a fleecy blanket with a hot water bottle and a hot toddy. But now, all you'll ever be is that plonker who appears in adverts on the telly. I must have seen it either on video or as a repeat, but I was pretty blown away by it because there was just nothing like that on the telly. With one hand he zapped through the channels on the telly while expertly opening a bottle of ale with the other. We live in the only house in the west of Scotland that doesn't have a zapper for the telly, for heaven's sake. And this from the administration that has conniptions at the sight of a bare nipple on the telly. Our friends politely take their leave and we spend the rest of the night zombifying in front of the telly. I was an insomniac kid watching telly until 3am, catching every late-night comedy show. For 18 months they lived with mattresses on the bedroom floors, a telly, inflatable armchairs and their games consoles. And then he gets home from work and parks his backside in front of the telly and I don't get a cheep out of him all night. As long as I didn't have to share a room with another alkie and the telly was in English. I don't mind if my OH plays sport, watches it on telly, or if he goes off with his pals on sporting holidays. Show More Sentences He says he enjoys telly immensely, but would draw the line at other suggestions, such as panto or a chat show. People are going to know who I am because I'm on telly and in magazines and have my big mush plastered about everywhere. If we had drugs tests in telly, of course the industry would collapse overnight. Having seen Chris's friend Shazzie on telly last night, I'd just like to link once more to Bratman's seminal article on orthorexia. Sunday arvo was spent with the boys watching a few cracking games of footy on the telly. What rubbish would you have to tune into on another channel to avoid the sight of us lot in action on the telly next June? He's been up all night cavorting with models and now he's watching telly while I'm working. As I was serving the buffet the midfield hard man asked me to put Ceefax on the telly so he could see what the Scotland score was. Juan Pablo helped him escape to the States and was unaware of his whereabouts until he saw the Fusion commercial on the telly. I was watching Predator on telly last night, and burst out laughing about halfway through. Poor old Rod's telly was on the blink, and he understandably felt there was nothing for it but to scamper up for a fiddle around with the aerial. This year I am going to spend Christmas Day slumped in front of the telly in an atrocious velour tracksuit. Everyone else had houses with carpets and front rooms where you watched telly. I went home, watched the telly and had a few drinks, then a couple of nightcaps. And so, warm bellied, we repaired to our room to watch telly, read, write and have a vodka nightcap before sleep. As an American who loves Britcoms, I try to watch and rent all that I can find on telly and in vid shops. Their breadhead accountants maintain that if it's not on the telly it doesn't exist yet as budget outlay is calculated only after transmission. Did I see you on the telly, singing your socks off in front of Simon, Sharon and Louis? So it would have come as a terrible shock to the system if the telly bosses had organised a fantastic line-up of must-see TV for the autumn. The critic's attacks on him as being famous for being himself on the telly and not for his food are pure hype. Show More Sentences Since I was off yesterday and there was nothing on the telly I watched the self-congratulatory backslapping gathering in Trafalgar Square. It's a response to the bloated inertia of the Christmas holiday period, a time when slobbing out in front of the telly becomes a national sport. Now clothes are on the telly, in broadsheet newspapers and all over the internet. Obviously, it would also highlight the times I spent idling on the sofa in front of the telly. A weekday evening in front of the telly wouldn't be complete without a property show. My mum moved the armchairs and the telly and the bookcase out of the sitting room and into the dining room. Next time you watch gymnastics on the telly, just have a look at how the athletes hold their bodies. We collapsed in laughter and exhaustion onto the sofa and switched the telly on. The others, he knew, would all be sitting around the telly watching the family film. I overheard one woman complaining that she was sick of seeing it all over the telly, all day long. Images of supermodels were sometimes on the telly but I didn't take much notice of them. He is just like he is on the telly, very articulate, full of energy and highly entertaining. Paul came around for dinner and we flicked through holiday brochures in front of the telly. There really would be nothing on the telly, but no one could complain about it. It seems that being merely nice and inoffensive gets you nowhere on the telly. The telly, the wireless, even the theatre do not evoke the same sense of a communal occasion. We tried to get a look, but there were so many people gathered around such a small telly that we hardly saw a thing. We had the telly on in the corner of the studio watching the mens diving at the Commonwealth Games. They just keep turning towards the telly if it is on, rather than talking to you. We went back to Paul's for some food and flopped around in front of the telly. Show More Sentences We eat while driving in our cars, sitting behind our desks and slumped in front of the telly. Paul came around and we ate lunch on our laps in front of repeats on the telly. I'm trying to stay calm but every time I see the adverts on the telly, I can't stop smiling or giggling. I guess that was so they didn't disturb the scrum of journalists crowded round a wide-screen telly watching the football. The problem was that I was a bit boofy, you know. I'm sort of blokey and I like to spend the weekends in front of the telly watching the footy. They spend their nights not in front of fire and telly, but walking the rainswept streets canvassing votes, or in draughty committee rooms hammering out policy. That way, when the car breaks down, the washing machine floods the kitchen floor or the telly goes ping you don't need to make a drama out of a crisis. If you want a quiet drink, avoid times when the footie is on the telly. I'm currently on leave, so I should obviously be using all this spare time renewing my acquaintance with children's telly, particularly if it's getting this risque. It was the most boring period of my life and I have become a telly addict. The Elvis impersonator and telly addict is back on the box tomorrow. That husband of hers, still doing the cooking? Saw him on telly the other day. He had an apron on. Seems a rum sort of go. In my day we left cooking to the women. We are on the telly again tomorrow night when we face Nottingham Forest and that might be a taster for a match that will be played at the end of the season. Having spent far too much time in front of the telly barracking for Australia and its allies in Iraq, the Professor missed Geoffrey Blainey's review in the New Criterion. Which newsreader was fired by her network telly bosses after security video managed to catch her orally pleasuring a lucky pilot on the station's roof top helicopter pad? Obviously, former pols with less to lose are going to be freer to mix it up on the telly. It's fair to say that Cowell makes great telly, and a day on the LA set of his show offers ample first-hand evidence of what a brilliant showman he is. Some referees would have instinctively pointed to the penalty spot but Mr Rennie remained unbowed and, after seeing it again on telly, I have to agree with him. You know you've reached a new nadir in cable news when a station invites actors who play investigators on telly to comment on the sniper's tactics. She looked really rather peed off but it made for a nugget of great telly. Show More Sentences The Horseshoe is best avoided if there's a Celtic v Rangers match on telly, because it occasionally attracts numbskulls who can't handle their booze. I remember it was on telly 10 years ago, but I stupidly taped over it. As it turns out, Jamie's friends don't head for the nearest chippy when they hear that they are to be on telly, for they are all big fat show-offs. No one listened as telly pundits Lineker, Hanson and O'Neill droned on, and then, as the teams lined up, mine host killed the volume and put on Three Lions. Question 5 will be a cinch if you are a bit of a telly watcher. Sometimes it seems TV has decided that women all have to fit a stereotype of thin, fair-skinned, regular-featured etc, to be allowed on the telly. If you think you're being creative by using these effects, just watch telly for a few hours and see how often the professional creatives use them. And the best of luck to all those that have left home recently to a life of afternoon telly, late night clubbing, early morning pubbing and the odd shower. Apart from that the day was a complete non-event and as soon as I got home I crashed in front of the telly with a cup of tea and a packet of chocolate digestives. Otherwise, don't bother with it, basically 10 OUR COVER STARS GAME OF THRONES It's back, the goriest, most epic fantasy thriller on telly. They spoke for the first time in an exclusive interview yesterday as they prepare to wow their lovers and loathers on the biggest show on telly. Because there are one or two little stories which the stuffed shirt and the pathetic royal circus have pushed back towards the telly pages. The titchy twosome have apparently contributed more to telly than Tommy Cooper and Morecambe and Wise. Andrew, who spent seven years pounding the telly beat on The Bill as DI Neil Manson, says he's no longer quite as star-struck as he first was. So, onesies on and just heat-and-eat as you snuggle down on the sofa for moneysaving evenings watching top telly shows with your loved ones. We watch the telly for an hour or so,and then it's beddy-byes to be ready for an early start. Sadly, only clipboard-carrying telly tosspots would ever find this remotely exciting. I can hardly turn on the telly without being confronted by your antipatico manner. I love the cheesiness and novelty factor of it all, just sitting around at home getting fat, drunk and watching old telly. And when she saw the detector van outside, she assumed they had sabotaged her telly because she didn't have a licence. Show More Sentences His family don't have a telly and he is the chattiest wee scone have ever met. You can lemonise your lights, And grapefruitise your telly, You can run your hi-fi set on orange mousse. You'll need to give your telly a wash after letting this sleazoid gunk it up for an hour. They have been delving through the telly archives to uncover classic gems from Crossroads, The Rag Trade and The Liver Birds. The telly goes on the minute we get in, even though we're mostly only half-watching it. A SCOTS hatmaker upstaged telly favourite Bruce Forsyth and his missus at Royal Ascot yesterday. When I stuck my finger in the back of another patient's telly the picture improved right away. On the first day of Christmas the telly gave to me, a kids' show with Cat Deeley. Late nights on the town, are now spent by the telly, What was once a fine physique, is now a round pot belly. We are constantly bombarded with images of size zero models on the telly and in newspapers and magazines. People on the telly, they try to do a a Birmingham accent and it ends up like a bit of a Yam Yam accent and a drone that nobody's heard of. On telly people were watching Beavis and Butthead, the X Files and Mr Blobby, and the must-have gadget was a wind-up radio. He has already pushed himself into the telly spotlight and record companies love a natural show-off. After last year's cheap plasma telly punch-ups he really should have suggested kneepads and a gum shield. And all for the chance to win a six-month contract to get my bubbies out on telly and no doubt launch a multimillion-pound glamour model career. They are more professional and telly bubbies producers have messed me around too much over the years. Except when manservant Prentice flips on the telly and hears a news report concerning mass murder. This drama is proving frillier than a petticoat but sometimes inoffensive telly is just what's needed. I THOUGHT Phil Mitchell's snot was the mankiest thing on telly this week until I saw this. Scouser Jen will be glued to the telly with boyfriend Tony Richardson to keep abreast of the match. Show More Sentences The monitored heart-rate on a small screen, like a hesitant green version of the telly tennis he'd played in pubs or railway stations. Hooked on telly tennis, or football? We've been carrying out some in-depth testing of a TV games unit for you to build. He finds them sitting at a small table holding a horizontal video tube and stands watching them play telly tennis. It ran from 1970 to 1984 and was an introduction to the world of the cinema for countless children born in the era of black and white telly and the Test Card. People will admit anything on telly for a free carriage clock. Eric Bristow's Cockney sage-like charm has made for very watchable telly, especially when he had to muck about on giant lily pads to win stars for their evening dinner. It makes me feel queasy looking at wrinkled-up funbags on daytime telly. In the lead-up to next week's telly extravaganza, The One Show host will cycle a rickshaw 484 miles from Edinburgh to arrive saddlesore at BBC TV Centre in London next Friday. It's a boring life being a cave man. No telly, no video and not even a Spectrum! Blee! All you can do is eat, but Brontosaurus steaks can be very tough. Most of this telly is pure car-crash but I just can't help rubbernecking. More from the nation's most opinionated telly watchers, including crimpers Stephen and Christopher, hilarious pals Sandy and Sandra, plus posh Kent pair Stephanie and Dominic. Instead of just sitting in front of the telly I'll sit in front of a sketch pad and whenever I do it I tend to look up and four hours have gone by. Think it's an ingrained hangover from home days, and school days, with you watching Glenroe on the telly, and me at the kitchen table, doing my ecker, with Bowsie at my feet. True, I have neglected my telly but True, I have neglected my telly but I'm back for the catch-up of all I'm back for the catch-up of all catch-ups. Secondly a telly spat is not a sackable offence, even if it is misplaced. Examples from Classical Literature Joe, of course, was fully aware of the value of telly and was glad to co-operate. He called to the telly reporter who was getting as much of this as he could. He reentered in time to run into a telly team which was doing a live broadcast. Could you tell the telly fans what this is all about, Marshal Cogswell? He was seldom seen at church, though his wife and telly usually were. But, unbowed by years of unbridled failure, idiotic telly types carry on churning out these brain-dead minor-star travelogues. But on top of all this is the vitriolic abuse which comes their way every time they appear on the telly. The finishing school might have peaked in the 1950s but it has come back in fashion since the telly reality show Ladette to Lady. It was burbling away on the telly in the corner while I was doing my Tax Return on the kitchen table. So time to get out the carpet slippers and put the feet up in front of the telly during the cold weather to watch the golf on the telly? Sunday for me meant a day in front of the telly watching the football like many other Aberdonians. Since then, the programme has purveyed a relentless diet of tabloid telly, with one of its shabbiest offerings yet shown this week. 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