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He had gambled away most of his money before he came to his senses and decided to stop gambling.

Warren Harding, 29th U. S. president, played poker at least twice a week, and once gambled away an entire set of White House china.

And British voters will punish him, severely, if it turns out that he's gambled away the prospects for a strong economic recovery.

We took a cruise, gambled, stayed in a Nice hotel for a night, and all that.

However, not for a week, her son, trying to shift the car secured 6 million, gambled the night, off the phone, missing.

He would have gambled away his last horses and weapons if I had not made him come away .

His eldest son was caught trying to enter Japan in 2001 on his way to Tokyo Disneyland; he subsequently lived and gambled in Macau.

Something else Celia had gambled on today was that whatever the reaction to her speech, she would be allowed to finish.

She was an opium addict who had numerous affairs and gambled away a lot of her family fortune.

Fred gambled all his money away while Jane saved every penny for her son's schooling.

They gambled to drive the car to the garage for repair before their gasoline had been used up.

Let me get this straight! You gambled with all the money you were saving to buy the house.

German team gambled on an easterly route but only managed 465 miles before setting down in Sardinia.

He had squandered a substantial fortune, he had been deplorably convivial, he was known to have gambled freely.

A bank official, Joseph Grant misappropriated and gambled funds from the bank that he worked at.

Eg. Jack gambled with a group of strangers, and didn't realize till too late that they had been carving him up all the time.

Education is not free, and some of those who gambled on a diploma as a ticket overseas will regret their decision.

The goose was proud of her share in the adventure. "I'm delighted that the egg never hatched, " she gambled.

Even the most devote of his warriors are pawns to be used, maneuvered, gambled with, and if need be, sacrificed.

I had never bought or sold anything in my life, and I never gambled with the other boys.

In the service of other staff and a smaller amount gambled other people involved were criticized.

They gambled on the result of a competition.

You'd think people would want to invest on the tables: it's the only way you can see exactly how and where your money is being gambled away.

But he gambled and he lost. . . A rather vain man in many ways.

He gambled all his winnings on the last race.

He had never gambled before the casino sent him a coupon for $20 worth of gambling.

" He had to say so: " gambled away the dice.

They gambled with borrowed money, without enough oversight or regard for the consequences.

Tom and Bob gambled on the result of the contest.

And many companies that have gambled on the wrong technological standards.

The company gambled all on the new product.

Our ancestors gambled around camp-fires on the savannahs thousands of years ago.

how pirates gambled with a djinn and lost the thing more dear than gold.

He's gambled away all his money, and now has nothing left.

A reckless young man gambled his fortune on a turn of cards in one night.

They laughed and gambled for tiny tanks of compressed organics and audio crystals.

gambled their lives in a dangerous rescue mission.

Killing a player: "You will not prevail. " "You gambled. . . and lost. "

Millions of middle-class Chinese have gambled on buying new apartments.

Perhaps Mr Dudley gambled that getting into bed with Rosneft would silence TNK-BP.

He's gambled away all his father's savings.

He gambled away most of his savings.

The young man has gambled everything away.

He gambled away all his fortune.

Hollywood producers certainly gambled on that when they released the 2006 summer blockbuster " Snakes on a Plane. "

The lad gambled and was soon flat broke.

The man gambled and was soon flat broke. . .

In the western countries. many a family fortune has been gambled away on the Stock Exchange.

He was known to have gambled freely.

He gambled away the fortune his grandmother left him.

He gambled away all his money.

Those who gambled on the "carry trade" may decide to cut their losses.

Before long, he had gambled away all of the property he had left.

He's gambled away all his money.

That war seemed lost at the end of 2006, but George Bush gambled one last time.

He gambled all his poverty on the real estate.

You shouldn't gambled with your future.

He gambled away all his pay.

"They gambled that they could keep adding to their risky positions and still sell them out before the deluge, " he wrote.

He gambled his savings to start a small store.

In Italy he gambled --- and won --- on a simple concept: it is more important to show art than to write about it.

When they played cards they always gambled.

John gambled heavily on the horses.

He gambled his savings on the horse race.

I shouldn't have gambled all of this month's rent money.

But Apple's CEO Steve Jobs has not gambled as many chips in China as did Galvin and Motorola.

He gambled heavily on the horses.

The old man gambled with his life.

Penrose gambled heavily and, as a result, lost a lot of money.

He has gambled away half his fortune .

How could that be my fault when she gambled and lost?

I gambled away my wages.

I was so mad when I found out my husband had gambled our entire savings.

Partly because of Chinese betting, and partly because the world now wagers online, the sums gambled on European games have soared.

In 2010 more than 100 million people throughout Asia gambled in some form online so our target of 1500 members is very conservative.

Have you ever gambled away one of your children's college funds?

"They basically gambled the whole company on that one step. "

Because, three days ago, I went to Macao, and gambled.

you gambled away 75 , 000 on dogs ? - a little more than that.

he was vexed to hear that she had gambled again

Have you ever gambled to escape worry, trouble, boredom or loneliness?

But I know that his dad was a drunk and he gambled away the rent

A: I gambled away my wages. B: That's your funeral. A

I ain't never been to Vegas but I gambled up my life