1001 Nights Cast

Over at the English Language and Linguistics Department at the University of Liège in Belgium, some industrious souls have been busy extracting and indexing all references to ‘budge’ in their English language catalogue. Here are some fine examples of their work with that word.

The door did not budge.

Thatcher refuses to budge on unity.

Dennis had been abandoned and, having wandered about long enough, he climbed into a passing car and wouldn’t budge.

Most of the outstanding men who first made their name in the amateur game, turned professional—Tilden, Perry, Budge, Gonzales, Sedgman, Trabert, and then Rosewall, Hoad, and finally Rod Laver.

If Martin Pipe has a Gold Cup horse in his yard this season it is probably Rusch de Farges and there will be plenty of interest in this exciting young horse when he reappears in tomorrow’s A.F. Budge Gold Cup at Cheltenham.

Since August 12th Mr Hussein has repeated like a gramophone the refrain that he will not budge from Kuwait until Israel gives up the West Bank and Gaza.

I dunno, but I just don’t want to budge.

Measured by the government’s official poverty line—which counts as poor a family of four with an income below $12,675, in 1989 dollars—the proportion of blacks stuck at the bottom has refused to budge from around a third for the past 20 years, compared with a tenth of all whites.

They sit tight, are unlikely to budge unless really disturbed and can be easily shot with a .22 rifle or even a high-powered air rifle.

The dog refused to budge, so, instructing the two older girls to hold tight to the younger, I heaved up the 196 pounds of stubborn fur and staggered to the railing. I went down to extricate my struggling son and carried him upwards followed by shrieking pleas of, ‘Daddy, don’t leave us’ and ‘I want a carry’, from the frantic tadpole in charge of two red-faced little girls who were now starting to show signs of strain and filling tear-ducts.

The success of Budge, 52, allowed him to indulge his passion for horses and collecting military hardware, including a Scud missile.

Francis, who is delighted to have tied his Swedish star to a new three-and-a-half-year contract, added: ‘No amount of money would budge Roland from Hillsborough.’

The local VAT man’s refusal to budge clashed directly with the work of Baroness Denton, the government’s small firms minister at the Board of of Trade.

Although when riled you dig in your heels and refuse to budge, on the whole you prefer a strife-free life and usually manage to maintain the status quo.

As Saturday passed Boswell talked of leaving Dunvegan on the Monday; Johnson said he would not budge until the Wednesday.

USL is apparently unwilling to budge on standard pricing, knowing full well that SCO is trying to pull together an agreement for SVR4 by the time of its showpiece SCO Forum in Santa Cruz this week.

Without comment she dropped them on the desk, standing directly in front of Preston to make it clear that she would not budge until she had her answer.

RJB is run by Richard Budge and its main asset is not coal but its Big Cats huge Caterpillar machines with shovels that can pick up tonnes of coal at a time.

Out shopping with his mother one day, a small boy stopped at the bottom of an escalator and refused to budge.

‘I don’t feel like cheering up,’ I said grumpily, though I didn’t budge off Mum’s lap.

But he would not budge.

She wouldn’t budge.

I have tried to dismantle an old chair using conventional methods but the glued joints won’t budge.

While one of his ewes is in trouble he will not budge.

Because they, probably they won’t budge.

The Pilmore Bridge didn’t budge.

The doors wouldn’t budge.

He wouldn’t budge.