The Bradshaws suggests an extraordinary civilisation that existed long before modern man reached the British Isles.


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BILL FLANAGAN
They're not in Pittsburgh; they're not in southwest Pennsylvania. They're working for the competitio...
BILL FLANAGAN
Ah, Signor Halt,' he said uncertainly, 'you are making a joke, yes?'
'He is making a joke, no,'...
JOHN FLANAGAN
At this point we're deeply into contract negotiations. It is going well. I think it's going to be so...
MIKE FLANAGAN
I think he's still figuring out what he's going to do. He kind of inherited somebody else's team.
MIKE FLANAGAN
I think you're seeing an enthusiastic response by the bond market because there appears to be a slig...
KEVIN FLANAGAN
They are totally opposite. The arm motions are completely different. Mentally though, you've got to ...
JOHN FLANAGAN
The sentiment is not as enthusiastic as it was early this week. Investors are starting to realize th...
KEVIN FLANAGAN
Anyone can make a mistake.... It's how they learn from it and recover from it that shows their true ...
JOHN FLANAGAN
Several of them were discussing this in low tones as they waited for Halt to arrive - until they rea...
JOHN FLANAGAN
If everything is done for me... how will I ever learn?
JOHN FLANAGAN
Will raised both eyebrows. 'Well, you learn a new thing everyday,' he said reflectively.

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JOHN FLANAGAN
We're smart enough and a veteran enough team to know we wouldn't get it all back in the second quart...
BRIAN FLANAGAN
It's a little bit of a gamble starting this early, but from what we've heard everyone is so excited....
BRIAN FLANAGAN
It was probably a good thing for me to see that we weren't executing from bench to floor.
DON FLANAGAN
We have to be able to play the full game. We have to get over being a one-half team. I was really di...
DON FLANAGAN
The good thing about being a basketball team is that you play a lot of games. We have a game against...
DON FLANAGAN
That was a tough game for us.
DON FLANAGAN
Nobody that I talked to wanted to be part of this program.
DON FLANAGAN
They'll go right in there and run something completely different. But they're going to get over that...
DON FLANAGAN
That was a great defensive effort, because Wyoming is a very good team. They set so many screens and...
DON FLANAGAN
This was a tough game for us. I saw so many things I didn't like. They weren't carrying out some thi...
DON FLANAGAN
They believed they were going to be successful and for some reason we didn't believe we were going t...
DON FLANAGAN
They are a very well-coached team with a lot of movement on offense. They drive and dish a lot. They...
DON FLANAGAN
I've taken him to Chicago for the Cubs.
DENNIS FLANAGAN
She's got a really soft touch and is very accurate at getting the ball around the rim, so she gets s...
DON FLANAGAN
I think there is going to be a strong sentiment to run from this.
MIKE FLANAGAN
In an age of specialization people are proud to be able to do one thing well, but if that is all the...
DENNIS FLANAGAN
What we opposed was that federal aid should go to these virtual universities that disguise themselve...
SARAH FLANAGAN
I re-traced your footsteps to that miserable little Tibetan monastery. It was hard to get the monks ...
ANNE FLANAGAN
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize that a handful of insurance companies with a strangleh...
JERRY FLANAGAN
Remember no one expects you to be Halt. He's a legend, after all. Haven't you heard? He's eight feet...
JOHN FLANAGAN
These girls have played a lot of basketball, so they knew they could come back and win.
GLEN FLANAGAN
It was enough to get it done tonight. I wish we had played better, but we're going (to state) and th...
GLEN FLANAGAN
Our pressure got to them in the second quarter.
GLEN FLANAGAN
We've been waiting to play like this for a long time. Good time to do it.
GLEN FLANAGAN
We played basketball like it is supposed to be played. We moved the ball, we played good defense, we...
GLEN FLANAGAN
We'd keep pulling away and they'd reel us back in.
GLEN FLANAGAN
It was a physical game. The refs let a lot go, the teams were banging on each other.
GLEN FLANAGAN
Someone put a lid on the bucket. We missed all 17 of our 3-pointers. We were 17-of-74 from the field...
GLEN FLANAGAN
We were really flat and had no energy in the first quarter. They (the Hawks) jumped on us hard and t...
GLEN FLANAGAN
We were balanced; it was a fun game. It was a packed house. Any time we tried to pull away, they wou...
GLEN FLANAGAN
That's for another time,
FIONNULA FLANAGAN
We had a wild night out with them in Wilmington (North Carolina, where filming took place).
FIONNULA FLANAGAN
There are plenty of roles for older women. They just don't happen to be the roles that normally carr...
FIONNULA FLANAGAN
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.
FIONNULA FLANAGAN
After more than 30 years ... sometimes the only thing that you have is the remaining teeth or very f...
GARY FLANAGAN
You're an apprentice, you're not ready to think yet.
-Ranger's Apprentice
JOHN FLANAGAN
What the devil is Chocho?' Will whispered.
Horace's grin broadened. 'You are. It's what the men...
JOHN FLANAGAN
The two girls disappeared into the stern cabin once more. Will watched them go, then asked Halt, 'An...
JOHN FLANAGAN
Gundar isn't so much a ship's captain as a reformed pirate and a heathen." [Evanlyn] looked apologet...
JOHN FLANAGAN