Sentences with phrase «friends coming by»

Do you have family & friends coming by over the holidays?

One of my oldest friends came by, having just returned from a few - week trip to Bali via Hong Kong, and the smaller number of dinner guests meant I had more time to live vicariously through her travels.

Friends came by.

Luckily an experienced friend came by, saw the problem, and helped me solve it.

But then come Christmas Eve some friends came by and dropped off literally dozens of presents all beautifully wrapped for each of us, my mum broke down crying with tears of happiness.

Then his friends came by, and I had a hallway filled with a half - dozen youngsters sending sketches through the Triby app and watching the little flag pop up, over and over again.

Around lunchtime, my partner in dog cleaning, Rick, had some friends come by and see if he wanted to get lunch (provided by HSUS).

But friends came by and salvaged quite a bit.

I didn't know what to do, then I had a friend come by and he checked the hardware in the toilet tanks and guess what, it was a broken flapper.

it is like a great friend coming by for a visit... and last year's advertisement makes me smile.

Not exact matches

The rest of the tale is hearsay: that a heavily indebted Heywood, a former family friend and fixer who had helped get Bo junior into Harrow (Heywood's prestigious alma mater in England) had demanded a bigger cut of a business deal; that he threatened to expose underhanded dealings by Gu if he didn't get it; that Bo's police chief, Wang Lijun, had confronted him over the alleged murder (the death was originally put down to alcohol poisoning), after which Wang sought asylum at an American consulate; that Gu had shown up at a police station in a People's Liberation Army major - general's uniform to announce that she was under special orders from Beijing to «protect» Comrade Wang; that the couple had plotted to assassinate Wang and came up with three separate storylines to avoid being implicated.

But a poll conducted by Abacus Data on behalf of Maclean's for the Canada Project shows the country's citizens are getting more and more comfortable carrying large amounts of debt — with more of that money coming from family and friends.

We've come to accept distractions, as the number of ways we can be distracted by friends or co-workers have proliferated.

She sketched out a logo — a blot of nail polish — came up with a few regular features, and spent $ 700 on a camera and a website built by a friend of a friend.

Whether online or off, when you get introduced to someone new by a mutual friend you are coming with a built - in background check.

I am proud to be part of this amazing organization and am always humbled and moved by the wonderful care my family, friends, and I receive when we come to NYPH as patients.»

But another of his whiteboard sayings comes to mind, this one courtesy of his friend and former U.S. Special Operations commander Admiral Eric Olson: Nobody ever won a horserace by yelling «Whoa!»

Pretty much everyone will come with sheets, a shower caddy, shower flip flops, and snacks that will help them make friends with the strangers they're now being left with by their parents.

As she goes on adventures with her friends, she comes across problems that she must solve by building simple machines.

And most CEOs didn't look too far when it came to starting their companies: 35 percent of survey respondents said partners and co-founders had been work colleagues, followed by 33 percent who said they started up with a close friend.

This Halloween, you can come «face - to - face» with the digital ghost of Roman Mazurenko, thanks to an artificial intelligence chatbot built by his close friend, entrepreneur Eugenia Kuyda.

The reversal came as something of a surprise for the 900 - employee firm, which had been founded in 1994 by three friends — Ronnen Harary, Anton Rabie and Ben Varadi.

Not long ago, Gaddis told the audience, one of her employees came to her and said, «I've been friended on Facebook by one of our clients.

While you might be able to get by with a light leather jacket during the summer months for an evening out, the Moya is going to be your best friend during the fall and winter, and won't be in rotation during the summer months, which shouldn't come as a surprise but should also be stated.

Costa believes her success comes from creating products people appreciate, but ask anyone who's attended a direct sales party hosted by a friend or co-worker, and they'll also tell you it's difficult to go home without buying something.

This week a book called «The Amazon Expansion Plan» comes out on Thursday November 10th, 2016 by my friend Kiri Masters.

Later in the session another odd moment came when he was being asked about his relationship with Saint Petersburg University in Russia — where he confirmed he had given talks and workshops, after traveling to the country with friends and proactively getting in touch with the university «to say hi» — and specifically about some Russian government - funded research being conducted by researchers there into cyberbullying.

The deadline to nominate a business for NaVOBA's Women's Veteran's Business Enterprise ® of the Year sponsored by our friends at JP Morgan Chase is coming soon.

When it comes to starting a business most people will start by trying to fund it on their own; tapping their personal saving or hitting up friends and family.

I started out my wedding day by having a Barre - ty with all of my bridesmaids and friends who had come into town.

- Job creators will have a friend and a reliable partner if Albertans decide the time has come for a change, Rachel Notley said today, replying to a press conference held today by a group of Jim Prentice's donors.

When asked by friends in the U.S. to describe it, only one word comes to mind...

(For instance I'm fairly confident that promiscuity is sinful, especially when it comes from a place of lust, but I'm less convinced that my committed same - sex friends are sinning by expressing their love physically any more than I am sinning when my wife and I express our love physically — even though I think we can be if we are acting out of lust or as a means of asserting power over one another, but that is another story).

Unless this is a conversation between friends who are used to sparring with one another sarcastically, you're not likely to come off as very funny (or indeed, very helpful) by dispensing wisecracks.

Like me now I live alone in the woods with squirrels and rabbits and deer and foxes and a huge owl that comes down by my cabin and makes a spooky noise in the night, but we are friends and it is all ok.

And because you're surrounded by other people, you have to come to terms with the sheer unfairness of being given your orange, while your friends share, laugh about and celebrate theirs.

The Scholls and their friends clearly saw that their humanness came from another source, that it could not be destroyed even by the death sentence of a Nazi court.

What Comes Next By James P. Pinkerton Hyperion, 404 pages, $ 24.95 Full Disclosure: I have known Jim Pinkerton as friend and colleague for eight years.

«All the time not having a clue that they were being whispered against, campaigned against by both Catholics & Anglicans who made it palpably clear that this initiative was detrimental to the «dialogue towards unity» and temporarily compromised their positions as oecumenical ambassadors - that this was a counter-productive «wacked - out» scheme by an ailing Pope who merely needed to be placated until he died - hence delaying tactics, obfuscations, procedurality, red tape and making everything as difficult and administratively untenable as possible; with patronising sympathy and hand - wringing at their lot while sneering, dismissing and chuckling to themselves that the whole thing will eventually come to naught... that the administration will crumble via crises and power politics andpersonality clashes and outright frustration at the situation... and ultimately the Ordinariate will be re-integrated into the Conference system and those not happy about it will crawl back to their friends in the C of E.

Others came to the United States, where many were absorbed by the Presbyterian Church, and to South America, where one Waldensian pastor became «good friends» with Jorge Bergoglio before his election as pope.

Jesus coming back as he does, acting as he does after he's been murdered by the faithless and the faithful and betrayed by his friends, somehow makes it clear that the saving story can't be about God and the good people versus the bad people.

So, my first real and extended experience with American evangelicalism came by way of this unexpected friend who shared the gospel with me.

Certainly, Pope Leo XIII's great encyclical, Rerum novarum, was pretty clear, at one point arguing that the government should come to the aid of families only as a last resort: «True, if a family finds itself in exceeding distress, utterly deprived of the counsel of friends, and without any prospect of extricating itself, it is right that extreme necessity be met by public aid...».

We can say such things, for example, as that he was born in Palestine during the reign of Herod the Great; that he was brought up in Nazareth; that he lived the normal life of a Jew of his period and locale; that he was baptized by John, a proclaimer of the early coming of God's judgment; that he spent a year or more in teaching, somewhat in the manner of contemporary rabbis, groups of his fellow countrymen in various parts of Palestine, mostly in Galilee, and in more intimate association with some chosen friends and disciples; that he incurred the hostility of some of his compatriots and the suspicion of the Roman authorities; that he was put to death in Jerusalem by these same authorities during the procuratorship of Pilate.

after losing friends and all our safety personnel and the consideration of the families i see no good coming from this and only animousity and ill feelings and betrayal by our public officials in asllowing this to happen... it is deplorable and an insult to the 3,000 dead and the thousands affected by this horrible act and time must pass to heal the wounds before the issue is even discussed.

This growth, however, can not come by compelling the friend simply to become more like oneself.

The height of absurdity came when Hitchens assailed Mother Teresa for allegedly giving her heart to greater Albania, «a cause that was once smiled upon by Pope Pius IX and his friend Benito Mussolini.»

My friend, you took Algebra in school but what you might know is that Algebra came together by a MUSLIM.

His friends, when they came to see him, were so devastated by the depth of his suffering that they remained quiet for a week.

Those who wear humanity's badge of shame are, by definition, some of these people, my friend said — some of those Christ came for.