The world is groaning to a halt, and yet the ants continue their relentless labour under sunny skies. |
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Once the initial elation of a happy event dies down, we quickly revert to type, moaning and groaning. |
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Adding to the pressure on the company, investors are groaning about measly profit margins the company has reported. |
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She had spent over an hour moaning and groaning about how stuffed a teenager's life was. |
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He had a very well paid and exclusive job millions of people would kill for and was still moaning and groaning about Matt. |
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If it had happened to me, I think I would have needed at least a week off work and there would have been plenty of moaning and groaning. |
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My mom was walking around the kitchen, groaning and complaining about the weather when I made my way downstairs. |
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The impressive tent also housed the long tables groaning from the weight of delicious French produce on display. |
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As autumn approaches, vegetable gardens throughout the state are groaning with abundant supplies of zucchini and fresh corn. |
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I remember the Sunday afternoon teas at my grandparents' house as a child, the table groaning with various cakes and biscuits. |
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These collective venues host many of the events at this year's 35th Perth Festival, in a programme groaning with international stars and talent. |
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We had a trestle table positively groaning with gifts to unload, so it wasn't a quick process. |
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There you will find whole websites, huge areas of cyberspace groaning with appalling games. |
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For a moment we gazed like children at the shelves groaning with boxes of chocolate, then we quickly, efficiently, and joyously filled our boots. |
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With so many targets presenting themselves and his coffers groaning with cash, he will be spoilt for choice on Wednesday. |
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Most people seem to be groaning under the load of spam they get these days. |
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Both countries have generous social security arrangements and both economies are groaning under the weight of all of this. |
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Much of that money was not used usefully and with almost no industrial base the country is groaning under its debt burden. |
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David Mackenzie said the courts were groaning under the strain of dealing with hundreds of minor offences over the past fortnight. |
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As people started to gradually file in, I looked around the room, groaning inwardly at the sight of Blaise and his group. |
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This is something that no one has ever explained to the groaning taxpayers! |
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Jess was quite smug that she didn't have to make stupid groaning noises with the rest of us. |
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Only last night I arrived home to be met by a moaning groaning husband, weaving his way slowly around the house like a wounded grizzly bear. |
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The groaning fans were then treated to an action replay in the 34th minute. |
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I pushed the throttle forward simultaneously releasing the groaning brakes. |
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Out over the flat, white wastes of fen and the wind-bent, groaning poplar trees went the music of the bells. |
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The shrill horns and groaning engines assume almost supernatural qualities. |
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Realising her mistake the unfortunate washerwoman employed the services of the porter to retrieve her clothes from the groaning machine. |
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Over the course of 65 miles, only two groaning trucks and an occasional courageous car pass us. |
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The boy looks over the valley, across the playing field where he and his brother pushed each other on the rusted, groaning merry go round. |
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With a grinding, groaning sound, the wrecked car upended and slid into the river. |
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I can't help noticing a small, white bowl positioned beneath the groaning contraption. |
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Men stood one each corner, leaning on bamboo poles, which supported the workings of the groaning engine. |
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Of all the offerings on the groaning vegetable stalls, sweetcorn will be the first into the pot. |
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Twelve months on they have acquired a groaning trophy cabinet and a growing American fan base. |
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He might rejoice in his groaning store cupboards, but the labour is out of his hands. |
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The caterers served scrumptious crab cakes, grilled lamb chops, scallops, sushi and a groaning board of desserts. |
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We piled in and carried off groaning bags of books as one last memento of a great Glasgow institution. |
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The ancient pubs are filled to the groaning rafters with imbibing undergraduates. |
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I expected to drag you, moaning, groaning and grousing, out of your warm bed. |
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After that, my stomach was grumbling and everyone else was groaning about their hunger. |
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I sit here, my whole body aching and groaning, as if I've been bashed and left in a gutter by the side of the road. |
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I had to flatten myself against the wall to allow fully-laden groaning shopping trolleys, with well-fed pushers, make their way for the car park. |
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David stood up straight, groaning for a moment at the strain put on his calf muscles. |
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The old man wheezed and gasped terribly, groaning out a little as the pain of his performance finally caught up with him. |
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The door holds fast for just a moment before giving, groaning its displeasure at the shabby treatment it has recently received. |
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With one last punch to Dade's stomach, Damian rightened himself up and left Dade groaning in the sand. |
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Most had died along the way, but one young lad, his arm and leg completely shattered by shrapnel, was conscious and groaning. |
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For decades, I've been groaning about the outdated Beatle haircuts worn by aging Baby Boomers. |
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If you are already groaning with boredom at the mere hint of another mention of Big Brother, I'm sorry about that. |
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Our table was groaning with plates of meze and dressed with chilled bottles of Villa Doluca. |
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Shrugging, he found more food then bent to the task of bailing out the boat, groaning as he began. |
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Are not the children now and the generations to come so much more important than moaning and groaning about change? |
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I would suggest that there is more moaning and groaning than booing, and this is not just in the stands. |
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He had a very well paid, every varying and exclusive job millions of people would kill for and was still moaning and groaning about Matt. |
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The large creatures were grunting and groaning, and their large, curved tusks flashed in the moonlight. |
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Summer is the time when local fields are groaning with fresh strawberries and visitors can munch their way around the strawberry patches. |
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He took Fernet's weapon sacks and the bag of ransom money and slung those on, too, groaning at the weight of them. |
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As usual, the food mountain expressed itself in quivering, groaning, and loud slurps. |
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The ship rocked violently, groaning and creaking with the weight and buffeting of the waves. |
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And in a mixed gym it isn't polite to mention you hate to hear men grunting, sweating and groaning next to you. |
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Carl collided headlong with the first of them and he fell groaning and clutching his groin. |
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Then my endorphin rush wore off and I hightailed it home, groaning in pain. |
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Hans felt his head thrown forward, as his ears suffered the groaning of the hull, as the massive hulk of the ship came to one stop. |
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For countless days we raged across those dark northern seas, the rigging groaning under sheets of ice. |
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There, I sat and waited, the room gently spinning, my sinuses groaning, my throat complaining, my heart beating at mousepace. |
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Most of the population seemed to be pottering around the streets and there were dozens of stalls groaning under the weight of roast pigs. |
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He began moaning and groaning once he started to regain consciousness and become aware of the pain in his head. |
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As the subject of my weblog was brought up in conversation, I found myself inwardly groaning. |
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Every year, some 3,000 of these exorbitant powder-blue stacks come cracking and groaning down the Labrador Sea. |
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The water disappeared with a mildly worrying groaning noise and the lights went out, leaving the non-windowed bathroom in total darkness. |
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He becomes one with the groaning hordes held in misery below deck on the slave ships. |
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Leaning over the groaning teen, Vincent's nimble fingers began to probe the wound as he yelled out instructions. |
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At the middle, he froze too as the pillar gave a huge groaning noise and crumbled. |
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He packed his things into his backpack and tested it on his shoulders, groaning slightly as he adjusted to the weight. |
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He removed his boots and eased his burning feet into the cool water, groaning with pleasure as the water moved up over his ankles. |
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I rubbed my head again, groaning miserably, and slowly followed her outside. |
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Grumpy old codgers such as Will Self and Bob Geldof have been moaning and groaning on prime-time TV about what really gets their goat. |
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We are not going to whinge about it, there's no good moaning or groaning about it, let's get on and get it over with. |
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Andreas stared at the groaning figure of the drunken man on the sidewalk. |
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Frankie dialed the number, groaning when she heard the busy signal. |
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It is about wanting to be the sort of person who has a cloakroom groaning with wellington boots and children's oilskins, even if you last went for a walk 10 years ago. |
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He took her bag from her, groaning slightly under the weight. |
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The local economy is groaning under the strain of this baby boom. |
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If treatment is further delayed, the health service, already groaning under the additional burden Aids creates, will grow increasingly less able to contemplate introducing it. |
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We chunter through each day, grumbling, griping and groaning. |
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I have a strong feeling that there is going to be a lot more moaning and groaning by these other strikers this season and possibly the departure of one or two of them. |
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A red rope separates about 30 of us from the groaning, pressing mass of humanity that's about to charge pell-mell into the freezing San Francisco Bay. |
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On the inductivist's view the link between wincing and groaning, on the one hand, and the inner experience of pain, on the other, is a merely contingent one. |
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Their wealth was gained through the exploitation of a groaning peasantry. |
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There's still plenty of grunting and groaning, but it sounds less like a woolly mammoth and more like a woolly mammoth chasing and catching a gazelle. |
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In the show, Sharp has Christopher rock back and forth, groaning, his hands over his ears. |
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It relieved humanity of the heavy load under which it was groaning and broke the fetters unjust rulers and ignorant lawgivers had put around its feet. |
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I can almost hear many a reverend pastor's groaning response. |
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So we're home today, lying around in bed and groaning a lot. |
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Served from early morning until 2pm, they consist of groaning sideboards piled with everything from freshly baked breads to cold meats and cheeses. |
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Shaun's grief with his girlfriend and his mom is the focal crisis of his life until it gradually dawns on him that London is overrun with groaning, flesh-eating living dead. |
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And before he went over to talk to them, he came over to my office, and he was moaning and groaning. |
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The tiny waitress is back, peeping over two groaning plates. |
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We cleaned Sainsbury's out of booze and party food, so when the guests started to arrive, they were greeted by a table groaning with nibbles and drinks. |
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It warns us in advance when starving, flyblown African children are about to be pictured in their death throes as we tuck into tea-time plates groaning with fresh food. |
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In Premier Bookshop, the groaning shelves have their own tale to tell. |
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I think they all had a bellyful of the rugby public's chiding and groaning at lack of skills and below par play that took us to rock bottom at the World Cup. |
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There's a crash and a scream, and the groaning sound of a warship. |
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Holding their hands high, groaning people were rushing to the river. |
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The sound coming from the other end of the line was such a gargle of noise that she wasn't sure if Dominic was growling or groaning in exasperation. |
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Bastian only sighed again as the taxi began to slow down and the driver's annoyed mutterings began to be heard over the groaning and death rattles of the engine. |
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At the inn, over a breakfast table groaning with pecan granola, blueberry muffins, apple cakes and steaming coffee, my landlady confirms my suspicions. |
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Jeremy followed, dropping onto the elevator as Andy sat down to slide his legs down through the open hatch, and the groaning sound became a sharp twang. |
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Tables groaning with bargain-priced DVDs and VCDs are set up out front. |
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Christmas cards often show tables groaning with such fare, along with the robins and snow, but increasingly we can see pohutakawa and pukeko alongside the traditional images. |
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I sat in the passenger seat, groaning every time we went over a bump. |
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He climbed out of the wagon gingerly, his muscles groaning in protest. |
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With a grunting groaning sound the old jeep started up again, and they began the bumpy journey south to civilisation, leaving clouds of red dust to settle behind. |
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He was groaning in agony from the gut shot, and it kept him from regaining his feet. |
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They listened with audible outrage, sighing and groaning in disbelief. |
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I watched per plunge directly into the groaning, writhing horde. |
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The groaning of creation exposes the structural sin and injustices that eternalize death and destruction in our communities. |
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And that was how long we stayed in the cabin, pressed together, pulling the future out of each other, sweating and groaning and making sure each of us remembered. |
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The sky was gray and dead. Great! he thought. Another day stuck in this boarded-up rat hole! He slammed the door viciously, then winced, groaning, at the brain-stabbing noise. |
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