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He looked at his watch long enough to give her a broad hint.

I also made a couple of broad hints about looking for a job.

But he gave only a broad hint of how that office might work.

And had a broader hint been needed, there was the case of his old friend.

Today, two of the bank's top officials issued broad hints in the same direction.

Carlos was giving out broad hints, trying to lead Forward to his own conclusion.

In any event, more than one woman guest had given him some pretty broad hints, and he'd let them slide right on past.

That was what you call your basic broad hint.

Only this morning, I tried what a broad hint would do toward suggesting that her visits had better come to an end.

Is this not a rather broad hint to forget about independence?"

He even dropped broad hints that he might need the money for a political race.

If the child has difficulty getting a letter, the coach will offer broad hints and say "good job" anyway.

Hence this broad hint that was given me across the harpsichord.

He must give broad hints of the hidden structures that shape the electorate.

But the doctor has been dropping some pretty broad hints about more protein."

The three or four men he was haranguing turned their backs to him by way of a broad hint.

Despite this broad hint, the Professor did not break into an enlightening lecture.

He had evaded her broadest hints, but boys were like that.

He rocked back and forth, glaring at me with the same broad hint of significance.

"My apologies for interrupting you all," Miles added, by way of a broad hint.

That it should be taken by the whole outfit as a broad hint to ask no questions seemed to him rather farfetched.

And a very broad hint along with it.

There were broad hints that they might be putting business to whatever firm he worked for.'

Speaking privately, many legislators offer broad hints about which deals have been cut by whom.

And if that wasn't a broad hint, Octavia would have liked to know what was.

There was a strong hint that they will be back together.

This was a strong hint, but the doctor failed to see it.

He dug up strong hints of things as they should not be.

There have also been strong hints of interest in reducing the American military presence.

The Devils got two strong hints tonight that this would not be their night.

The wind carried with it a strong hint of rain.

There's also a strong hint of subversion in this work.

But there were certainly strong hints of a deal, or at least an accommodation, on this morning's television talk shows.

"That sounded like a strong hint to me," I said.

However, there were strong hints that she would win a reprieve.

But he ended a late afternoon news conference here with a strong hint that final decisions had been made.

I'd had a strong hint he wouldn't find a man making a pass at me unbelievable.

"Prison it will be, if any strong hint of the facts ever comes out.

There was a strong hint of danger in Calhoun's tone.

The last one still sounds a bit uninteresting, but it's actually a strong hint about how the whole system works.

It is too early to tell for sure, but there are strong hints that little has changed on the opt-out front.

He added, "It's a trend, a strong hint that something is happening and we need to follow these patients longer."

As it happens, the Supreme Court just gave a strong hint of its thinking.

Lon could see the sky beginning to show a strong hint of dawn.

They gave me some fairly strong hints of what it's going to be like to grow old.'

Since the quiz debacle, the producers had been making strong hints that she should go.

"I've noticed," he said with a strong hint of his old sarcasm.

She resisted the strong hint that the best help she could offer him at this moment would be to get out of his way.

But there was also a strong hint in yesterday's report that the jobs boom may be moderating.

"He said he'd been trying to sell his car by telephone which was a pretty heavy hint."

He took the heavy hint, put it around his neck, and left with a hanging head.

His voice was starched as well, but showed heavy hints of irony.

Should I drop some heavy hints between now and Christmas?

Last year, there were heavy hints by Ewing that he could see himself ending his career in another location.

Despite my misgivings, I dropped heavy hints at home.

Heavy hints are scattered about dark deeds Joss may have committed.

The Second Revelation presents heavy hints of no gender science fiction.

In fact, I've been given a heavy hint to lay off, for reasons which I believe to be political.'

"You've got to admit that going around with 'wizzard' written on it is a bit of a heavy hint."

Miss Tutwiler dropped a heavy hint to the rebels.

At first, Tess is annoying and hostile toward him, but the two soon become friends, with a heavy hinting of an attraction between the two.

"What's with all the heavy hinting, then?

'This time, Claudine was handing out heavy hints that I have kept her waiting too long.

OK, obvious heavy hint there.

He then delivered a heavy hint of the need for reform: 'We know the Germans, we've known them for a long time.

Cases, then, might not come to court - and there were heavy hints that some (particularly Sienna Miller) might settle.

It was revealed that he had been entertained by stock exchange speculators and had dropped heavy hints as to tax changes planned in the budget.

Renko, perpetually in hot water with his superiors, is assigned to the case with heavy hints to quash it.

Realizing that the king may toss Anne aside for her, Jane refuses to become the King's mistress and instead drops heavy hints of marriage.

During a meeting with analysts a few weeks before, Chairman Roger Smith had dropped a heavy hint that the company's earnings would be stronger than they believed.

Might do apple cruble for after because I have a huge bag of apples to use up & OH has been dropping heavy hints.

You drop heavy hints to them about harnessing the power of the sun, the wind and the lightning and they go and invent the vacuum cleaner.

Miles had been dropping heavy hints about how difficult it was to get petrol and how he intended to use the Cortina 'for emergency uses only'.

Let Aelia commence by dropping the girl some heavy hints that you are changing your mind about the marriage, that you are thinking of looking elsewhere.