Example sentences of "propping up the bar " in BNC.
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| 1 | POOR old Jeffrey Bernard , so terrified of women , shaking in his frail , alcoholically reinforced misogynists shoes — cynical and brittle , propping up the bar and amusing his ( male ) audience by spilling his wit and intelligence in bar-room bons mots . |
| 2 | And she knew that her male colleagues would be propping up the bar of a public house , by eleven o'clock . |
| 3 | Dennis and the others were propping up the bar , Karen was supposedly selecting duty-free perfume . |
| 4 | Men propping up the bar over lunch will bewail the loss of earlier freedoms when they were footloose and fancy free . |
| 5 | Not content with propping up the bar at the Rovers , the Inspiral Carpets , who have decided to call their latest meisterwerk ‘ Revenge Of The Goldfish ’ thought it would be a spiffing idea to promote aforementioned article with a series of displays in record shops featuring a fully inhabited fish tank . |
| 6 | Inside , Keith was propping up the bar and waving a £5 note at the landlady . |
| 7 | Duncan had left Myeloski propping up the bar , drinking his customary vodka and Budweiser chaser . |
| 8 | In fact the only drawback about the Cube is that you 're more than likely to find one or two of the Sounds freelancers propping up the bar but , aside from that , there are n't many better ways to spend the approaching cold winter evenings than in the comfort of decent live music and good company . |
| 9 | In fact the only drawback about the Cube is that you 're more than likely to find one or two of the Sounds freelancers propping up the bar but , aside from that , there are n't many better ways to spend the approaching cold winter evenings than in the comfort of decent live music and good company . |