Demetriou is an inveterate punter with a miraculous instinct for picking big quadrellas.

He would also have been exposed to the coughings and shufflings, comings and goings, questions and answers, wailings and slammings, snivellings and sneezings, etc., which figured so prominently in the reference room […]

If you or your family or your loved ones are in trouble, your life is not in order. Right? You're plan will still be there waiting for you to finish it. It's not going anywhere.

The house adjacent to the school was demolished.