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`` Not a bit '', I said, `` but she's keeping her figure in hand ''.
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Of course, males play a role there, but believe me when I say you wouldn't enjoy yourself one bit on Eromonga.
`` Well, I was a little bit confused.
After scouring around a bit in the open area, I came across what proved to be tar-soaked logs which crackled and burned brightly, giving off vast rolls of smoke into the ashen sky.
Once or twice my father asked me if I wasn't overdoing a bit in my churchgoing.
Beneath the dome I saw the spot where the Byzantine Emperors were crowned, a bit of floor protected now by a wooden fence.
`` I fear explanations explanatory of things explained '', he said, leaving the biter bit -- and bitter.
`` This time '', Arlene said, and she even kept on wiggling a little bit while she was just talking, `` you're going to tell me what I am and what I'm doing.
There had been some coconut in it, for I remember my mother's taking a quick glance at a stringy bit of this nut on the cheek of one of them and then putting down her radish with a shiver.
I have found, time and again, that some bit of particularly annoying and intractable behavior on the part of a patient rests, in the final analysis, on this basis ; ;
I was held up a bit trying to make a left turn.
The killer, if in our present group, would certainly be interested in knowing that much, and even though with the fingerprint evidence what it was I could see no way he could use this bit of information to improve on his situation, there might always be some way.
But I'm not one damned bit sorry I went out to question the people I know in the places they hang around, and '' --
-- and said it sharply, not as in the Patchen bit, but as an order -- so I stopped my hand and looked at him.
I didn't smell a drop of liquor, and we didn't have a bit of trouble ''.
`` I have enjoyed it and will feel a bit lost at least for a while '', she said wistfully Friday.
'' Performed in New York by the original cast and I think this company is every bit as good, and perhaps better.
I didn't like it one bit.
`` Maybe I am padding it a bit, Anne '', he said.
In later years I came into contact with the Emperor on several occasions, and I felt not the slightest bit timid.
" In the same interview Frances said: " I never even thought of it as being a fraud – it was just Elsie and I having a bit of fun and I can't understand to this day why they were taken in – they wanted to be taken in.
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`` We could put up cribs on the second floor sleeping porch and turn the front bedroom into a playroom where it's nice and sunny, but of course it would entail quite a bit of running up and down stairs and Chris said you were to be careful about that ''.
Not having said `` hell '' before, he stumbled a bit before gathering momentum.
`` He wasn't the least bit disturbed by my watching him '', said Charlotte.
`` Your alternative is breathtaking '', he said, `` and, I'm frank in saying, a bit mad.
When the mouse turned around, bit the hand of its captor and escaped, he pointed this out to those present and said, " When the tiniest creature defends itself like this against aggressors, what ought men to do, do you reckon?
" Whilst I agree that it can take a bit of time to see it through carefully, it nevertheless, demonstrates to our regional friends that we are principled in our approach to international relations and diplomacy ," Mataitoga said.
Clarisse initially bothers Montag with her incessant questions ( and Clarisse is a bit bothered by Montag's uncalled-for reactions, such as laughing when she hasn't said anything funny ), but Montag chooses to tolerate her as she tells him of how she loves nature and walking around and observing how crazy the world has become.
He did not think that what he said was " that derogatory or sensational " and conceded his comments may have been " perhaps a bit too generalizing ".
When Graham Dilley joined him at the crease, Botham reportedly said, " Right then, let's have a bit of fun ...".
Dewsnap writes about Orton's agent Peggy Ramsay: "... At the scattering of Joe's and Kenneth's ashes, his sister took a handful from both urns and said, ' A little bit of Joe, and a little bit of Kenneth.
Idle himself was said to have been uncomfortable with the character ; " It's essentially a pretty savage attack on rabid Zionism, suggesting it's rather akin to Nazism, which is a bit strong to take, but certainly a point of view ".
In a 2002 interview with Michael Parkinson, John Cleese said that when he and Palin were performing the sketch on Drury Lane, Palin made him laugh by saying, when asked if his slug could talk, " It mutters a bit " instead of " Not really.
He said that he wanted " a monosyllable that sounds a bit like ' gene '".
That may have aided us a little bit in our thinking ," said Redskins ' defensive coach Richie Petitibon.
At the end of the ceremony, everyone in the park held hands and sang " Auld Lang Syne " to Williams, a moment which he later said " moved me quite a bit ".
The most prominent of these was in March 2012, when on Swiss TV after talking of a new movie in which he would play disgraced Monetary fund chief Dominique Strauss Kahn, he said “ I think he is a bit like all French people, a bit arrogant.
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Variety was a bit more charitable in remarking, " It doesn't matter what degree of talent she possesses ... nobody ever starved possessing what she's got.
Dede is reluctant, though, preferring that Fred have a normal upbringing ; and she's a bit put off by Jane's manner.
She looks a bit like Drix except she's green, has hair, and a right hand and left cannon, while Drix is red, has no hair, and his arm positions are the other way.
I think I deserve a bit more respect than to have my daughter telling me she's just heard it on the radio.
Elizabeth is probably quite a bit older than Ellie because she's the only one who is married with a 12-year-old daughter in the pilot.
She is a bit of a ditz and a bit psychotic and is constantly at odds with Junpei, but she is just as determined to get him and his friends back to their own world as they are-even despite her own feelings for Junpei ( who she's actually in love with but publicly butts heads with ).
I find it all about Judy Chicago's ego rather than the poor women she's supposed to be elevating – we're all reduced to vaginas, which is a bit depressing.
... We don't think she's a bad person, she's probably nice to try to do this, but cut down on the Twinkies a little bit before going on the air.
" Langley describes Adam as " a bit nerdy " and states of his character's attraction to Rose that " she's a very pretty girl and Adam hasn't seen any girls for a long time.
Whether she's an over-protective mother or a bit of a landmine, she probably knows you better than yourself in some ways.
If she didn't come back a little bit older and wiser, then she wouldn't have learnt and grown from what's gone on in the year that she's been missing.
She goes there under a new identity: with the help of her best friend Lúcia ( Mariana Richaudeau ), she's now an adorable, a little bit crazy and funny woman, the sweet Lili.
The girl asks about liking a boy who picks on her and seeks Buffy's advice, but Buffy gets a bit distracted with her own similar situation with Spike and rambles about how she's not going to let that problem happen again.
They talk a bit and Anya fills Willow in on everyone's activities since she's been gone.
Likewise she's brought him up a bit.
She added, " She has also got a lot of her morals wrong and she's a bit back to front.
She's got two kids, she's been around the block a bit.
He has a good relationship with Kathy, emotionally and sexually ( Maybe he's a little concerned that she's keeping her good looks a bit longer than he is?
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