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Britain's best-known ticket tout once boasted that he could get you tickets for anything.
He's always boasting. He's such a big-head!
After boasting that his company could outperform the industry's best, he's been forced to eat humble pie.
He was a naturally shy man, who never boasted about his achievements.
Here the boasting, usually a confrontational speech act, has the effect of creating homosociality and is thus socially indirect.
Not all readers found it necessary to distinguish between a work of history and a work boasting the narrative power of an entertaining novel.
The plural system, in contrast, is vastly over-represented by regular forms, boasting only a handful of irregular alternatives to the ' add a regular suffix ' pattern.
In family interaction, for example, the case study is about nagging; in the workplace domain, about male banter and boasting in a stockbroker's office.
While boasting of 'human kindness', our species treats nonhumans with extreme injustice and cruelty.
In summary, there is much to recommend this book as boasting an ambitious, well-defended and important account of the production of slips of the tongue in second language speech.
Social indirectness will also be shown below in the boasting and "cool" stances the men take.
Who is he to take them to task when he is positively boasting of what he calls his sententious asides?
Despite all the hype and boasting, there has not in practice been an increase—quite the reverse.
In this country we are very fond of boasting that we do not place great power in one pair of hands.
Certain nations are boasting of their prosperity and how well they are doing, while this country has suffered a series of cutbacks.
It was an occasion for decent humility, not for boasting.
A great many are revelling in and boasting of their neutrality.
The resort or attraction boasting the highest number of visitors is considered to be the best.
I see that in the circular they have sent to us manufacturers are boasting of having achieved a triumph.
