What is "banks"

Usage examples of "banks".

Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks paused over his holdall, wondering whether he should take the leather jacket or the Windcheater.

They were going to take the Eurostar, which Banks had managed to book practically for free through a special newspaper offer.

Since there had been so much rain lately, Banks could also hear the rushing of Gratly Falls outside his cottage.

But the music changed constantly and proved a great delight to Banks, especially when he was lying in bed having trouble getting to sleep.

Chief Constable Riddle, who had hated Banks from the start, was even more pissed off at him than ever now.

Loath as Banks was to leave Yorkshire, especially after so recently buying the cottage, he was fast coming to admit that his days there seemed numbered.

As a DCI, Banks would hardly be involved in undercover work, but he would be in a position to run operations and enjoy the adrenaline high when a big catch finally landed.

Riddle, the very reason Banks had gone so far as to contemplate selling his cottage and leaving the county.

As Banks drove up the short gravel drive and pulled up, he noticed that there were lights showing in two of the downstairs windows, while the rest of the place was in darkness.

It was very much the kind of house Banks would associate with someone pulling in a hundred grand a year or more, but for all its rusticity, and for all the heat the fire threw out, it was a curiously cold, bleak and impersonal kind of room.

Which, come to think of it, was exactly what Banks would have expected from Riddle.

Her expression revealed nothing, but Banks could tell from her brusque body language that she was distraught.

She reminded Banks of the kind of elegant, remote blondes that Alfred Hitchcock had cast in so many of his films.

Otherwise, Banks felt he could easily have been looking at a photograph of Rosalind taken maybe twenty-five years ago, and that embarrassed him.

Her new surname was certainly apt, Banks thought, as there was definitely something of the gamine about her, a young girl with mischievous charm.