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Example sentences for "private business"

  • What have any of you critters got to say about my private business?

  • When the time comes right I'll show you that it's my private business.

  • Sir," replied the stranger, "the motive of my coming is on no private business.

  • Only recently has it been recognized that no large corporation can now be a private business in the old sense.

  • So, it is said, the railroad is still merely a private business.

  • Public industry is weakened by the absence of certain motives to excellence that are present in private business.

  • It will be remembered that Sydenham had been detained on some of Mr. Sandford's private business, and it was perfectly feasible to reconstruct its details.

  • But he was tempted to go a little further and run up the price on his adversary, thus punishing him for interfering in a man's private business.

  • Private business called me to Washington the next day, and I had to take the night train back, arriving in New York at the uncomfortably early hour of seven.

  • The cost of doing Government business should be regulated with the same rigid scrutiny as the cost of doing a private business.

  • Five out of six jobs in this country are in private business and in industry.

  • The collection of moneys not needed for public uses imposes an unnecessary burden upon our people, and the presence of so large a surplus in the public vaults is a disturbing element in the conduct of private business.

  • Efficiency has been greatly promoted through good management and the constantly increasing cooperation of the wage earners throughout the whole realm of private business.

  • The British Empire had its beginning in the initiative of private business men, not in any conscious policy of state.

  • A new self-confidence became the dominant note alike of private business and of public policy.

  • I don't care to reveal my private business, Richard.

  • Be careful how you take liberties with my private business," she warned him, sharply.

  • Look here, my fellow, now that I have you where I don't need to consider the presence of ladies, I want to ask you how you dared to mess into my private business?

  • The assertion is often made by railroad managers that railroad transportation is a private business as much as any other branch of commerce.

  • On one occasion Mrs. Surratt sent Mr. Wiechmann to Booth with a message that she wanted to see him on private business, to which Booth responded.

  • Now, in view of all these facts, can any one see how her private business was in any way subserved by her trip to Surrattsville on that afternoon?

  • Wiechmann also stated that Mrs. Surratt sent him to Booth with a message that she wanted to see him on private business, and that Booth replied that he would come that evening or as soon as he could, and that he did come that evening.

  • Private business, that is, bills relating to private or local matters.

  • In a public office, therefore, more writing is done, more things are preserved and recorded, than in a private business, and there are more steps in a single transaction.

  • All this entails a complicated machinery that is less needed in private business, where a man can say that if he makes a mistake the loss falls upon himself and is no other person's affair.

  • Sir, I call on business,--private business.

  • After some talk on general subjects, Losely said that he had occasion to go to London next morning for a few days on private business of his own.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    drew her; fine black; intuitive knowledge; nearly half; private bill; private business; private cabinet; private charity; private company; private conversation; private detective; private dining; private gentleman; private houses; private inquiry; private judgment; private letters; private residence; private rights; private sitting; sometimes omitted; spiritual character; taken possession; vast quantities; when attacked; would frequently