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  • This after years of wholesale abuse of the system in which lords and ladies of all persuasions have claimed distant holiday homes to enable them to get the accompanying unreceipted travel expenses.

    Unnecessary respite from reform 2009

  • This after years of wholesale abuse of the system in which lords and ladies of all persuasions have claimed distant holiday homes to enable them to get the accompanying unreceipted travel expenses.

    Unnecessary respite from reform 2009

  • This after years of wholesale abuse of the system in which lords and ladies of all persuasions have claimed distant holiday homes to enable them to get the accompanying unreceipted travel expenses.

    Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2009

  • Curiously enough I've taken a ghoulish interest in the £40.00 PER DAY unreceipted 'refreshment' allowance for MPs.

    Are Welsh children being properly fed ? Glyn Davies 2008

  • Inspectorate, Chikowore said senior managers and workers were suspected of "playing a major part" in the accumulation of 23 million dollars in uncollected debts and of 5.9 million dollars in deliveries of unreceipted products to clients.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

  • I had been appointed ex-officio by the British Consul to take charge of her after a man who had died suddenly, leaving for the guidance of his successor some suspiciously unreceipted bills, a few dry-dock estimates hinting at bribery, and a quantity of vouchers for three years 'extravagant expenditure; all these mixed up together in a dusty old violin-case lined with ruby velvet.

    Falk; Amy Foster; To-Morrow 1922

  • He was thinking about Stringer and his own position, with less than ten pounds in his pocket, an hotel bill unreceipted, and three thousand miles of deep water between himself and Philadelphia.

    The Man Who Lost Himself 1907

  • I had been appointed ex-officio by the British Consul to take charge of her after a man who had died suddenly, leaving for the guidance of his successor some suspiciously unreceipted bills, a few dry-dock estimates hinting at bribery, and a quantity of vouchers for three years 'extravagant expenditure; all these mixed up together in a dusty old violin-case lined with ruby velvet.

    Falk; Amy Foster; To-Morrow 1903

  • Lord Loudwater seemed to have kept but few letters, and the papers consisted chiefly of receipted and unreceipted bills.

    The Loudwater Mystery Edgar Jepson 1900

  • The old gentleman had purchased in his wife's name a nearly life-size Venus of Milo in bronze, and ordered it sent to the house, with the bill unreceipted, just before the dinner; so the entire family had used their efforts to the persuading old Mrs. Bowdoin that she had acquired the article herself, while shopping, and then forgotten all about it.

    Pirate Gold Frederic Jesup Stimson 1899

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