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  • Jamie makes the whole thing look so simple, I wonder how I took double the time to make it – I only got the pie in the oven at 28 minutes (he banged on to the dessert at 11 and boshed out all four parts in 28).

    Bish, bash, bosh: putting Jamie's 30 Minute Meals to the test Tim Hayward 2010

  • It might mean that we can tap into it to do that multi agncy/department drugs operation which was boshed this year as too expensive.

    Police Pay Award (Lose the smiles) « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2007

  • The recent posts about spending all our time on 'silly' jobs that should be 'boshed' is true.

    The Policeman's Blog 2006

  • Sometimes the Governor ordered her to breakfast with him, and “never left off chaffing her” till his newspaper came, and “sometimes he said such thing she made her cry,” and then he only “boshed her more,” and packed her away to her room; but she was by chalks nicer than him, talk as he might.

    Uncle Silas 2003

  • Bromfield Cory was poohed and boshed quite out of consideration as a "loafer," a "dilletanty," but Lapham had all his sympathy.

    The Pit: A Story of Chicago 1903

  • One thing made the cow-punch ready for gun practice right off, Mr. Troy was a slippery cuss, and he had rather ki-boshed Jack Hunter's girl.

    Red Saunders' Pets and Other Critters Henry Wallace Phillips 1899

  • Bromfield Cory was poohed and boshed quite out of consideration as a

    The Pit Frank Norris 1886

  • Sometimes the Governor ordered her to breakfast with him, and 'never left off chaffing her' till his newspaper came, and 'sometimes he said such things he made her cry,' and then he only 'boshed her more,' and packed her away to her room; but she was by chalks nicer than him, talk as he might.

    Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 1843

  • Another four and a ludicrously-boshed shot over the covers that stopped a couple of yards short of the boundary.

    The Guardian World News Rob Smyth 2011

  • His second ball, a slow one, is too full and distainfully boshed through deep cover by Smith, but his good times swifly ended.

    The Guardian World News Simon Burnton 2011

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