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  • A tree outside the pub was planted during the reign of Henry VIII.Al Walker, from Clives Fruit Farm of Upton upon Severn clivesfruitfarm.co.ukA longer walkWalk to the folly on the top of beautiful Bredon Hill with a blanket and a flask of tea or a bottle of wine.

    B&B review: Ivydene House 2011

  • Every time a fresh victim spurted plumes of bright red blood, I thought HOT FUZZ was really going to take off and the movie does come close to realizing its promise of anarchic absurdity in a climactic gunfight between Pegg and Frost and the local agents of evil... tweedy, Burberry-clad Clives and Ednas whose mania to maintain Sanford's status as "Best Village" has pushed them towards serial murder.

    Don't make me laugh Arbogast 2007

  • Clives boss is still strategically impaired, and he still cant quite believe that such a person should be running the strategic planning department.

    Go Put Your Strengths to Work Marcus Buckingham 2007

  • Another group within the company was having trouble deciding among various possible product mixes for the Asian market, and it had turned to Clives group for help.

    Go Put Your Strengths to Work Marcus Buckingham 2007

  • And you didn't tell me the Clives had tried to kill Mr Teller. '

    Blood Sports Francis, Dick 1967

  • And the something 'goddam stupid' which had somewhere or other upset the Clives 'original plans might be that I'd been there to fish Dave out of the river, or might be something else quite different; something which had made the removal of Dave necessary in the first place.

    Blood Sports Francis, Dick 1967

  • 'By letting Offen know and through him the Clives, that we could prove the Clives were in England and beside the Thames on the day of Dave's accident.

    Blood Sports Francis, Dick 1967

  • 'Not much. 1 was horrified at Lynnie having shown Offen that picture of the Clives, and when Mrs Teller said you'd planned it I said you must be mad, they'd tried to kill you once already.'

    Blood Sports Francis, Dick 1967

  • The Clives had made casual breaking-in by vagrants nearly impossible.

    Blood Sports Francis, Dick 1967

  • If I tried to obliterate the sardine horse's hoof prints, I obliterated also any chance of the Clives believing he had wandered off by accident.

    Blood Sports Francis, Dick 1967

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