The heater coughed and spluttered loudly and we both laughed nervously, trying to ease the tension. |
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She was constantly tuning her guitar between songs, smiling nervously as she filled the time with self-deprecating jokes. |
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Her long, slender fingers toyed nervously with the two rings she had on her right hand. |
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A final thought made him drop the chair back onto four legs, stand up and toy nervously with the inkwell. |
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But turn I did, rolling over slowly to face the girl standing in the doorway, toying nervously with her sleeve. |
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Michael and Jessica were shifting uncomfortably and nervously, unsure of what to do. |
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The visa applicants hover nervously in their best clothes as shoe shine boys run eagerly around. |
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He could stand only half of it, nervously snapped off the switch, went to bed all of a tremble. |
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How they all seem so cool and brave, but each of them is nervously shredding the labels on their beer. |
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When I met the other guys for the first time I nervously shredded two beer coasters. |
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The sailors cluster together nervously, casting frightened glances towards the nearby dark trees. |
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As they rode, Miri's horse sidled sideways nervously away from Amniteri, and Miri tried vainly to rein him in. |
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She nervously twiddled her fingers together, looking completely uncomfortable. |
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The General looked around quite nervously, twiddling his thumbs behind his back. |
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Clarissa twined a strand of her newly cut black hair around her finger nervously. |
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She twisted one of those auburn hairs around her finger, looking nervously up at him. |
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His ears twitched nervously as he noticed the growing changes in her demeanor. |
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McGuinness sinks another beer, draws nervously on his cigarette and lets his attention wonder from his bag for one, maybe two minutes. |
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Sandler approaches nervously, Nicholson cheers him on, and Graham sits by oblivious. |
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Lord, please keep him safe, Sara prayed, nervously clasping and unclasping her hands. |
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Fiera fidgeted nervously as she walked towards the local skating rink, skates in hand. |
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It did not appear that such an inquiry had been tactful of her, the waitress noticed, nervously biting her underlip. |
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Becky was sitting in one of the pews nervously folding and unfolding a piece of paper, which was her speech. |
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Eric laughed nervously, glancing at the dangerously slopping pot of hot coffee. |
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A young waiter walked nervously to her table and motioned to her untouched plate. |
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I looked into his eyes as he sat there, fidgeting nervously, and I decided what I was going to do. |
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The international community has nervously watched the spike in tensions in the country. |
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Political parties are nervously awaiting the outcome of a court case which threatens to throw the general election into chaos. |
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We courted traditionally and nervously over four hot days, as we bronzed away our Englishness on the beach. |
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The orchestra leader looks around nervously, and the camera finally settles on Rick, who gives him the nod. |
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The other officers at the Battalion staff meeting whispered to each other nervously. |
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I just sighed heavily and bit my lower lip nervously trying not to burst out my emotions in front of him. |
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Helen grasped the young cat tightly in her arms, where it began to squirm nervously. |
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I could see the group standing nervously on the river bank, their nostrils flaring wildly. |
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The battle hotted up from halfway as spectators in the stadium watched nervously on the giant screens. |
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I remember nervously calling the meeting to order, wondering what our full day of dialogue would bring. |
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He noticed the grim, tight set of the older man's mouth, the hangdog cant of the younger's head, and Black fidgeting nervously beside. |
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I took the information from him, nervously listening to his voice crack, and called an editor. |
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Between the offbeat strum, subterranean bass and rock-steady drumming, they leave gaps that other bands would nervously clutter with ephemera. |
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As Michael packed tins of beans, soup and spaghetti into cardboard boxes he nervously looked around. |
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In my eight months away she'd become careworn, picking nervously at her fingers as she spoke, palpably lacking the confidence she once had. |
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It made contact with the eight ball and I bit my lip nervously as the ball ever so slowly rolled towards the center pocket. |
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His daughter, Theresa, has just sat her political history finals at a university in Scotland and is nervously awaiting her results. |
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So Jake pulled a piece of paper from his pocket, placed it in front of him on the lectern, straightened his tie and coughed nervously. |
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She hadn't seen Kenta much, but when she had in the last week he had been smiling nervously and in a strained manner. |
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She nervously giggled but gave him a strained look craving an answer to her question. |
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So those who are attached to the cautious approach will hold back nervously rather than boldly promote growth. |
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Her eyes moved about in worry and she began to chew her bottom lip nervously. |
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She chewed her lip nervously as she realized this was the scene where Romeo and Juliet kissed. |
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The scene was still and quiet, but all the same I had surfaced from my dreams nervously, with heavy breathing. |
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She yelled, descending down the steps of the caravan, grabbing the reins of Yew, the palomino horse, who was snorting and stamping nervously. |
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On Confirmation Day, the teenage candidates waited nervously for the questions the bishop would ask before anointing them with chrism. |
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Michelle swallowed hard at Grace's abrupt departure and glanced around nervously. |
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Bryan tittered nervously, and the two men sat in a very uncomfortable hot silence. |
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Her hands nervously adjusted the folds of her gown and the circlet against her hair. |
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Michael glanced almost nervously at James, who smiled and clapped him on the shoulder. |
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Camilla could be seen somewhat nervously holding her clutch bag as she prepared to step from the car and make her grand entrance. |
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At this instant, reaching nervously for his pepper spray, he told me I was going to jail for being dangerously drunk. |
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He climbed into the cockboat and sat silently waiting, making the coxswain fiddle around nervously. |
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There are also the businessmen with briefcases who look nervously at my camera, imagining that I am a paid spy. |
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Richard stayed silent, nothing stirred and he could hear his heart beating nervously and the faint crackle of the flames. |
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Before she knew it, Stephanie was sitting in a taxi cab, picking at her long fingernails nervously. |
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As Egewe watched, she pinched her lips with her thumb and forefinger, nervously stroking the thin skin of her lips. |
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His eyes darted nervously back and forth between the protesters and the tense-looking Marines inside the cordon of concertina wire. |
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He was sat at the end of the first row, his head down as he nervously fiddled with the straps on his back pack. |
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Feeling strangely out of place, DJ fiddled with her fingers in her lap and looked around nervously. |
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No one spoke for a moment as Delaney nervously fiddled with the strings of Keaton's sweatshirt again. |
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Baret sat down on the bed beside Marta, who kept her face downcast and fiddled with the sheets nervously. |
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People began to greet the two of them, and Cally fiddled with her hands nervously. |
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Jack looked away from the man, unsettled by his strange green eyes, and fiddled with his papers nervously. |
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He grabbed his wet hair and began to fidget, running his hands over it nervously. |
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The Laughing Death begins to stop laughing, and begins to fidget nervously. |
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He soon began to fidget nervously, partly because his body kept staring at him, and partly because of the deathly silence. |
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They were barely fifteen feet away, and the terrorists had begun to fidget nervously. |
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A hundred fieldfares were nervously shifting from the fields to trees then back to the fields. |
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Like other football managers sitting nervously on the pitchside, Ferguson likes chewing. |
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Coughing a little as her coffee caught in her throat, she lowered the mug and fingered its handle nervously. |
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He cocked his head quizzically and his tongue nervously lapped at his flews. |
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Patricia, his assistant, had flittered across the room nervously to greet him. |
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Tony fingered the script nervously, aware of every bend and fold in the paper. |
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While his wife wearily cleaned countertops, Patrick nervously sat erect in the back seat of the limousine besides Tiffany Thomsby. |
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Ty looked over in her direction nervously, admiring her curvy figure and lush lips. |
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After nervously futzing with wood and various implements of joinery for more than a morning, I produced a wriggly, trapezoidal sort of thing. |
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She rushed the hair out of her face with a shaky hand, glancing around nervously in the pale gray light of dawn. |
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The girls look nervously at the decks, the mixing desk, the CD control panel. |
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Saturday night, Kara was primping in front of the mirror and nervously fussing with her hair. |
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The girls were giggling nervously and the boys were introducing themselves. |
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He takes an armchair, orders a gin and tonic, leans back and laughs nervously. |
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Her violet colored eyes blinked rapidly and she nervously glanced down at the clipboard. |
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I glanced at a kid that looked about my age who was glancing around nervously until he saw me looking at him and gave me a hard look. |
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They were a cheery lot, especially the roly poly Glaswegian lady who giggled nervously as the ferry humped across the choppy waves. |
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He also performs some prosaic poetry of more recent vintage, before nervously taking to the mic to croon. |
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A short, demure girl stepped away from the teacher, her hands nervously clasped in front of her. |
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He puffed on a cigarette and tapped nervously to country music coming from the radio. |
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One of the remaining models pulled out a cigarette and puffed on it nervously in an attempt to relieve the stress. |
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In our electorate office's shared bathroom, a guy nervously smokes a cigarette. |
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As he removes the surprisingly large lump of gristle from his sausage, he coughs and shifts nervously in his seat. |
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I gulped nervously as Andrea, Ariel and Mindy began to tiptoe closer to the security house, which was almost twenty feet away from them. |
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His little hand clutched the edge of his seat as he looked nervously around, gulping at the weird glow on the other people's faces. |
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I felt his arm encircle my waist and I looked up and he was looking down on me, smiling nervously. |
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They didn't seem to notice the wind started to howl through the town, making their torches gutter and their horses rear nervously. |
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It was distorted in a horrible shape, because she had wrung her hands nervously. |
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Jasmine watched nervously as she talked for several moments with the duty nurse. |
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A yellow shawl to match her dress was draped over her forearms, and she chuckled nervously at Allen's reaction. |
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I was there a minute or two, just tapped my feet nervously and drumming my fingers on the steering wheel to some unknown beat. |
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The audience titters nervously, not laughing with the melodrama, but at it. |
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It's usually at least another hour before anyone nervously pushes open the door, setting the bell jangling. |
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They were jittery now and reacted nervously to any movement around their dugouts. |
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Her father Seamus helped fix her train as they waited nervously for the organ to begin the wedding march. |
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I had to sit in the clubhouse and nervously watch as Michael holed about a 40-foot putt on No.17 for par to stay within one shot of me. |
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The gelding whickered nervously at his approach, drawing back several paces, stomping the grasses with his hooves. |
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She gasped and the horse whickered, stamping its hooves against the earth nervously. |
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But some of his fellow passengers looked around nervously under the glow of red cabin lights. |
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With a quiet glow of satisfaction, she smiled at the bride nervously waiting. |
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He played with a tassel in each hand, sometimes nervously chewing the toggles. |
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Julia stared nervously at the thin cord as it shifted under Asha's weight, fearing the tiny anchor would not hold. |
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She wrung her hands together while she nervously scanned the room for Devin. |
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We alighted from the train and I stood nervously as my mother and her one-time true love embraced awkwardly. |
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The landlubbers gathered at Gunwharf Quay and stepped aboard, nervously scanning the bright sky. |
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An aroused Norman nervously replaces the picture, glances up to the house with his jaw slightly twitching, and then resolvedly walks out. |
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Some individuals rested or slept in the back of the enclosure, while others appeared to wait nervously for us to leave. |
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He bowed slightly, nervously biting his bottom lip, and Tanaki felt the colour rising in his face. |
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Ian put the bag down and watched Justin lying there, nervously checking the rise and fall of his chest. |
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The Comtesse de la Fayette twitched nervously, her pointed nose turned aristocratically upward, her displeasure evident in her glance. |
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Charlie shifted in her seat and rapped her fingers nervously on the armrest of her chair. |
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Instead she walked around at ground level following me as I walked nervously around the top level. |
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I glance around nervously but the car park is round the back of the warehouse and everything seems fairly deserted. |
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I looked nervously around to see if anyone was looking at me, then back up the path toward her. |
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Each took a cracker and then proceeded to chew loudly, excruciatingly slowly, while the audience laughed somewhat nervously. |
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Residents searching for missing loved ones filed nervously past rows of wet garments laid out by rescuers on the grass. |
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My mother was reaching out and nervously taking Zachary's hand after my father had released grip of it. |
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Still awash in relief at leaving behind the murky realm of differing ideologies, Anne giggled nervously. |
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Every morning, I nervously check the mail, every morning, my heart misses a beat. |
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I sat somewhat nervously on a hard and threadbare seat in a tatty compartment, watching the last of the commuters run towards it and jump on. |
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As I walk the halls, I nervously await one of the rattling tchotchkes to come crashing down onto the quaintly undulating creaky floorboards. |
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Some of his serving yesterday was so furious, and flew by with such force, it had his opponent looking nervously behind him for the backdraft. |
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Nelly is a startled-looking woman in a business suit who nervously takes the microphone and begins scatting. |
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They bob and teeter while feeding, and move nervously and quickly over rocks, probing for active prey on the surface. |
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He is unceremoniously carted around in a plastic urn inside a carrier bag which nervously changes hands between them. |
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I stood nervously in the wings, backstage, watching the present act on stage. |
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She wrung her hands nervously behind her back, shoulders tensing and untensing. |
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He looked down to the town below them, nervously scouting the streets for a sign of the men they had seen last night. |
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She backed away from him nervously, tripping over a stick, then quickly scrambling to her feet. |
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His perfect amber-colored eyes widened nervously, hopefully, like a frightened animal begging for scraps. |
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Tamara nervously fidgeted as he approached her holding a scroll in his left hand. |
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Lena stepped nervously into the classroom, smoothing her jeans the best she could, and brushing the long brown hairs from her black top. |
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I was about to lecture him about the evil of self-conceit and the importance of modesty, when a servant ran into the library crying nervously. |
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Alice was nervously patting down her hair, and glancing about. |
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Amanda nervously walked up the front steps of the twins' large house. |
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Women tittered nervously at the implications of age and sexual boundaries. |
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Some people in the audience tittered nervously during an awkward pause in the speech. |
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We were all joking and giggling nervously as we waited for the ceremony to begin. |
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She looked up nervously as hooves thudded on the dirt track. |
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Meg took it and drank slowly, careful not to spill any on her dress, while Mrs. Carroll fretted around the pair, nervously fidgeting with the bottom tier of the gown. |
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Silverwing looked away, her hooves pawing nervously at the ground. |
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A generation ago, Beijing watched nervously as the Soviet Union loosened its grip only to fall, and split apart. |
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The tiny animal darted away nervously, no doubt totally discombobulated by the sight of two bubble-blowing monsters disturbing it's quiet lifestyle. |
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Nervous PR folk and man wielding a hair brush flutter around her nervously as the stunning actress is seated and rapidly surrounded by her voluble fans. |
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For a writer, being panned by a critic can be the last straw, as you nervously bring your inky pride and joy into public view after umpteen years of sweat and sacrifice. |
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I nervously said something about her shirt being off, and she laughed, and we switched the game to tic Tac Toe. |
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Titanic sat in the rear of the room, twisting his fingers nervously, till he was called. |
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Asked what the manifestation of that rage will be, the former Iranian diplomat laughed nervously. |
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Giggling nervously, one girl lit a match and set a twig on fire. |
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She gulped nervously and her stomach felt like it would explode. |
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Jim gulped nervously, before dropping the lighter on the fluids. |
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Owen, who was suffering from trench fever, edited the hospital magazine The Hydra and nervously approached Sassoon to ask him to sign several copies of The Old Huntsman. |
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I laughed nervously and fiddled with the loops on my sweatshirt. |
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His heart fluttered nervously, but he kept his eyes on the road. |
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Now Baronova sits in the coffee shop and nervously fiddles with an unlit cigarette. |
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George took his acoustic guitar and began showing me the chord changes, which I nervously wrote out on a chord chart. |
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Arran Bardige smoothes over his T-shirt and baggy jeans, glancing nervously at his phone. |
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The portly, balding Sabah, a father of two, glances nervously at the television. |
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She looked down at her podium and nervously twiddled her fingers. |
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My ears were met with the noise of Bam nervously jangling his car keys. |
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She was nervously folding the fabric of her shirt into accordion folds. |
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Sandra shifted her feet nervously and displayed a weak, but timid, smile. |
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She gave a weak smile and ran a hand through her hair nervously. |
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Melody had surprised herself with how calm she had acted and appeared even though inside a swarm of butterflies flitted nervously and a shiver ran down her spine. |
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The mage was jittering nervously as Lushya simply stood there dumbfounded. |
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Rycluse jittered nervously as he watched the onslaught of an attack. |
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Melanie dropped her bags and twiddled her fingers nervously. |
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The short and jittery teacher was always twiddling his hands annoyingly, stuttering when he spoke and nervously rocking back and forth, as he stood. |
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Hope's stomach clenched nervously against the butterflies flitting about. |
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She sat at the bench in the bedchamber, pulling the ecru lace pelisse around her shoulders nervously, listening to the rain slap at the closed shutters by the armoire. |
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We both laughed nervously and he told me that he had heard that some Asian youths in Leeds had been stirring things up by deliberately leaving rucksacks on buses. |
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I gave him a great big Yorkshire grin and looked around nervously. |
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Suki's tail twitched nervously, her ears bent flat against her head. |
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I stood with my hands clasped in front of my stomach nervously. |
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They stood nervously at attention while Miri drained the entire glass. |
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As she approached the wide set of doors that led to the hall she could see Erik nervously fidgeting with his uniform in a mirror, adjusting and readjusting his tunic. |
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Two years ago Nadine Wahab was sitting at home in Washington, D.C., and staring nervously at her computer screen. |
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He shot a glance at Katherine and she nervously raised her wine glass to her lips, pretending to drink, but secretly gauging the reaction of each man to the other. |
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Mary Torres, of Ratcliffe Street, York, nervously watched the game with her Argentine husband Pablo and four-year-old son Nico, who worships the South American side. |
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Her hands, which had formerly been clasped in her lap, were now being wrung nervously, her fingers gripping and squeezing those of the other hand and vice-versa. |
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Bernie wrung his hands together nervously as he sat at Duncan's desk. |
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Alia nervously giggled because her eyes were covered with a blindfold. |
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Her arms are wrapped around her legs as she nervously rocks back and forth. |
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He alternated between standing still and pacing nervously for about 20 minutes, until an employee of the bar said he would show the Red Sox game in the back room. |
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The footsore pilgrim of old, the wayfarer half frozen from the storm, the tongue-tied lover dropping nervously by, might or might not be glad to hear it. |
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They both sat down, and Abigail nervously waited for him to begin. |
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She began to fiddle with it nervously, turning it over and over in her hands, the cigarette bobbing up and down with smoke curling across her hands. |
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A short time later, we were riding the elevator up to the top floor, high above downtown Pittsburgh, as Esther nervously retied her neck scarf and checked her makeup. |
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Upstairs, reporters jammed into a tiny antechamber, the shaggy cameramen and newspaper photographers chain-smoking and the lady reporters chattering nervously. |
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James fidgeted in his chair, nervously clasping and unclasping his hands. |
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He was folding and unfolding, clasping and unclasping them nervously. |
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Theo came over to Lydia, whose hands had begun to fidget nervously. |
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Colin, recently bereaved, has been invited to tea by his friends, who whilst they nervously await his arrival, are determined to give him some comfort in his grief. |
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His Adam's apple bobbed nervously in his short, thick throat. |
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He felt himself go dizzy, and had to put his head against a pillow slowly, closing his eyes and gulping nervously, not daring to move, in case he woke her up. |
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The man looked nervously in either direction, then down at his shirt. |
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An overanxious public relations person assigned to promoting Office 2003 among reviewers has been e-mailing me regularly, nervously asking what my reviews are going to say. |
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Hannah's gaze falls to her hands, which rub against each other nervously. |
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Mesa cringed, as the strong creature pawed the water and rocks nervously. |
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She pulled nervously at her necklace, the charm swinging back and forth. |
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The soldiers had only just dismounted and stopped the runaway horse by the time he arrived on the scene, and the animal was still shuffling nervously. |
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Mother laments dramatically this morning in between slurps of her chamomile tea, while glaring at my head, and nervously fingering the choker of pearls around her neck. |
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His smile is shy, almost gentle, and his eyes dart nervously around him. |
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He looked around nervously and grabbed her arm, hissing lowly. |
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Vinny brought the plastic cup of beer to his mouth and tipped his head back, gulping nervously, chugging the entire beverage in just a few slurps. |
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Refreshed and regowned, again in dark colors unrelieved by any bright embroidery, Aene paced nervously along a subtly lit path towards the Castrea residence. |
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James nervously straightened his untidy cravat and smoothed his hair. |
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The hippos snorted, the rhinos dozed and the giraffes nervously darted about as the hammer fell yesterday at Africa's largest wild animal auction. |
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For decades after the end of that war, Democrats peered nervously over their shoulders at a public that considered them soft. |
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When he laughed a bit nervously, she took it as an insult and with a piercing glare asked if he was the reason her daddy wasn't allowed to live here. |
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He laughs nervously, then moves the conversation on to a different topic. |
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She gulped nervously as they disappeared and the creature tucked its membranous wings to itself and rocketed toward the group of the others that had broken out. |
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We shook hands, both nervously excited about what might transpire. |
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I waited up in my room, nervously pacing in my beautiful gown. |
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I sat nervously nibbling a biscuit and waiting for her response. |
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She nibbled nervously on her lower lip, continuing to jog mindlessly. |
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Less than a month on the road, on a hot day in late February, the grungy banditos nervously approached the inspection station at the Arizona border. |
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Rebecca glanced nervously behind them, listening to the honks of the car. |
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One of the tiny bat-creatures chittered nervously from the darkness. |
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As the markets nervously await tomorrow's opening, the bulls fear the bears have seized control and will force equity markets into a further decline. |
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He nervously eyes his cue cards, just below the camera, as he welcomes viewers to what apparently is his bachelor pad. |
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Some of the patients waiting in the dentist's office were wringing their hands nervously. |
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Button, who later posed nervously with two gyrfalcons from Abu Dhabi Falconers' Club, went on to praise the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. |
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Too close, I thought, as I nervously tried to snap a picture with my silly little lime-green plastic disposable underwater camera. |
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Redstarts are closely related to the Robin and behave in a similar way by flicking their wings and tail nervously. |
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Inside the hangar, Kristine Shaw giggled nervously as she worked a hang glider through a computer-simulated flight. |
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She ran down the stairs which she had come up so nervously that morning and cannoned into Edmund at the bottom. |
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She made no answer, but her fingers nervously nestled the leaves of a book. |
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Quindt, the office quidnunc, nervously hovered near the door of the men's room. |
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It was alone, nervously alighting and flying short distances along the surf. |
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She swallowed nervously then, appearing near sick with what she had to say. |
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She clutched her purse tightly and walked nervously into the building. |
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He had rehearsed his own counter-password over and over again throughout that time, as he nervously looked at his watch and wondered what could have gone wrong. |
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The child walked nervously down the dark, foreboding street. |
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He paced nervously as he waited for the important phone call. |
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Checking behind him nervously, the dealer was trying to concentrate on showing Bouck some small art-glass pieces in a vitrine in the middle of the booth. |
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The snooker player rechalked his cue nervously between shots. |
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