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  • EEO: I have it on good authority, Steve, that Dame Judi Tench is dying to get to know you better, yet you've not returned her many e-mails.

    December 2006 2006

  • Watkin Tench, officer in the marines, commented not long after the arrival of the First Fleet, on the fact that the convicts were marked by their use ‘of what is called the flash, or kiddy language’, an ‘unnatural jargon’ that needed to be abolished in order to achieve reformation.

    Boing Boing: July 9, 2006 - July 15, 2006 Archives 2006

  • EEO: I have it on good authority, Steve, that Dame Judi Tench is dying to get to know you better, yet you've not returned her many e-mails.

    ON THE BUBBLE WITH CERTAIN PERSONS OF INTEREST 2006

  • Tench's murder, though deeply regrettable, had been destined as soon as Rachel called Tench and made accusations of fraud.

    Deception Point Brown, Dan, 1964- 2001

  • But I'll not meddle with them, any farther than to wish them wiser; and shall tell you next, for I hope I may be so bold, that the Tench is the physician of fishes, for the Pike especially, and that the Pike, being either sick or hurt, is cured by the touch of the Tench.

    The Compleat Angler : or, The Contemplative Man`s Recreation 1653

  • They made sure their client was kept in Pentonville Prison, once known, years ago, as the 'Tench'.

    Final Resting Place of The Pen 2010

  • Tench’s murder, though deeply regrettable, had been destined as soon as Rachel called Tench and made accusations of fraud.

    Deception Point Dan Brown 2001

  • Beck Tench, one of the most interesting people she met at the conference - practice and work go together very closely.

    Museum pecha kucha night Mia 2009

  • Before Petty, Mike Campbell, and Tench formed the Heartbreakers, they were in an unfortunately-named band called Mudcrutch.

    Mudcrutch by Mudcrutch « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog 2009

  • The album features vocals by Norah Jones and, more prominently, the lyrical piano work of Benmont Tench of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.

    Checking Back Into the Fray John Jurgensen 2011

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