1. The ghost of a smile played round her lips.

2. The ghost of Lady Margaret is supposed to haunt this chapel.

3. The pub is said to be haunted by the ghost of a former landlord.

4. The ghost of a hanged poacher is said to haunt the manor house.

5. The ghost of anti-Semitism still haunts Europe.

6. The ghost of the old dictator still lingers on.

7. He gave the ghost of a smile.

8. Her gold-medal victory laid the ghost of her shock defeat in the European Championships.

9. You haven't got the ghost of a chance of getting the job.

10. The ghost of a smile flitted across her sad features.

11. The gardens are said to be haunted by the ghost of a child who drowned in the river.

12. The ghost of Stalinism still affects life in Russia today.

13. The ghost of a twinkle in her eye?

14. The ghost of the murdered prince still haunts the castle.

15. There it is said the ghost of his departed wife pleaded with him to proceed no further.

16. The church is haunted by the ghost of a young man who was killed there on his wedding day.

17. He had vanished as completely as the ghost of Masque de Fer.

18. Certainly Ferguson has not given up the ghost of trying to land the Championship.

19. For two days nothing beyond the ghost of the walnut tree showed through the flickering screen of brownish-yellow light.

20. The ghost of Ken Noakes shrivelled and vanished from her subconscious.

21. He felt the ghost of his earlier life round him.

22. The Ghost of Banquo is more than a figment of Macbeth's imagination: it stands in some way in relation to his conscience.

23. The ghost of the tennis ball is coming to haunt the man.

24. Did the ghost of that grand passion linger in some corner of his heart?

25. Theseus: The Ghost of Sparta. Then what they say is true.

26. Only his facial twitches and the ghost of an old stammer gave the lie to his calm, avuncular image.

27. With one stunning performance, Chelsea have laid to rest the ghost of their humiliating defeat at Old Trafford last season.

28. The language which came out of me could have aroused the ghost of Lenny Bruce.

29. He held them off with his sharp weapon until he saw the ghost of Teiresias.

30. Rhoda took to table-tapping and seances and reported seeing the ghost of Wendy hovering over her bed at night.

1. The ghost of a smile played round her lips.

2. The pub is said to be haunted by the ghost of a former landlord.

3. The ghost of a hanged poacher is said to haunt the manor house.

4. You haven't got the ghost of a chance of getting the job.

31. There are many legends about the station being haunted by the ghost of an ancient Egyptian woman dressed in a loincloth and headdress.

32. Andie MacDowell portrays a woman who is tormented by the ghost of her abusive, alcoholic husband.

33. And that's something you know nothing about ! I'm the Ghost of Christmas Present.

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34. Efron dropped out of the Footloose remake to do Charlie St. Cloud, about a guy who talks to the ghost of his dead brother.

35. And I am told that it is haunted by the Ghost of Might-have-Been.

36. Folklore states that it is the ghost of Welsh folk hero, Owen Glendower.

37. College students are stranded in an abandoned town whose only law is the ghost of ruthless gunslinger Bloody Bill Anderson and his posse of vicious zombies.

38. He told me the ghost of his father appeared at his bedside.

39. Well, Hareton's aspect was the ghost of my immortal love.

40. One possible explanation, the dualist, that's the ghost of your mother, immaterial soul that she is, communicating to you while you're asleep.

41. His eyes narrowed and his mouth widened slightly with the ghost of a superior " Hm! "

42. The other is the ghost of Junius Brutus Booth, an actor who is more famous today for being the father of John Wilkes Boothe, the man who killed Abraham Lincoln.

43. The building be haunted by the ghost of a leper woman.

44. Well, restate that: the ghost of his presidency haunts the 2008 campaign.

45. Perhaps we may frighten away the ghost of so many years ago.

46. Rising out of the mist amid some of the most sublime alpine scenery in Europe, a spa hotel built on the site of Adolf Hitler's mountain eyrie hopes to exorcise the ghost of the Nazi leader.

47. The building was said to be haunted by the ghost of a leper woman.

48. The ghost of the Balkans may return to haunt the continent.