Sentences with phrase «who blagged»

We spent a relaxing two days exploring, drinking coffee and chatting to Paolo, who blagged his boss at the economics journal he works for to get him press passes for the recent Metallica show in Sao Paulo which included access to the Snake Pit and the band's press conference.

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Clearly as a prostitute who likes to blag about her occupation as well as those she sleeps with, one would imagine that business will take a serious dip as it is unlikely people will want to end up having their interactions with the hooker plastered all over the back pages.
The suppliers of the information are generally private investigators, the report finds, who obtain their information by «blagging» - pretending to be someone they are not - or through contacts with corrupt employees in companies.
John Prescott used parliamentary privilege to directly accuse the Times editor John Witherow of lying to the Leveson inquiry, following the revelations from the whistleblower John Ford, who claimed he was employed during Witherow's tenure on the Sunday Times to blag bank records.
The trial of Tommy Sheridan cast new light on the News of the World's use of private detectives who have been convicted of illegal phone hacking and «blagging» confidential data.
He told Sue Akers — the Met's Deputy Assistant Commissioner who is leading the phone - hacking and email - hacking investigations — that three senior Sunday Times journalists, whom he named, were aware of the «blagging» techniques used to access his personal details.
The jump was greatest in those who had fewer than 30 mobile convos a day, with researchers guessing that phone junkies were less likely to be stressed by mobile blagging.
If you're thinking all this is fine for «those people» (you know, the ones whose minds won't blag on from the moment they sit on the cushion; the ones who aren't as busy or outgoing as you; the ones who...), stop selling yourself excuses.
The article by Milo Yannopolous takes a look at the «social media gurus, a rag - tag crew of blood - sucking hucksters who are infesting companies of all sizes, on both sides of the Atlantic, blagging their way into consultancy roles and siphoning off valuable recession - era marketing spend to feed their comic book addictions.»
There's nothing more off putting to an hiring manager or interviewer than a candidate who has not prepared well and blags their way through the interview
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