The sound behind him of the horses champing and snorting and the carriage creaking propelled him reluctantly up the stairs. |
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Anyone lucky enough to have witnessed last year's live spectacle in Scotland will be champing at the bit to get another taster. |
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Everybody is champing at the bit to get involved and I am very confident we will raise the funds required. |
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I know if I was a striker at the moment, I'd be champing at the bit to play, because you could make yourself a regular for the next 10 years. |
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We are champing at the bit, we want to go ahead and build a better railway. |
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The cartons arrived and then came he, champing to get it all organized and to immerse himself in this academic world. |
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There was a loud champing sound outside, and occasionally growls or grumbling. |
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No kicking under the table or champing on food during silent grace. No skipping or running in the hallways. |
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Troops of cowgirls in red, white and blue-fringed chaps astride champing horses followed the young men down the parade route. |
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They are not the only ones champing at the bit to give their tuppence-worth. |
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By now, I realise that you're probably all champing at the bit to find out my considered opinions on the various cultural phenomena of the moment. |
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Their red jaws, with champing teeth, and their blunt-clawed feet as they leaped, came in through the opening door I knew than that to struggle at the moment against the Count was useless. |
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He was mad, reeling about and gesticulating at the rushing train, and champing and gurgling like a lunatic. |
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Pittsburgh supercomputer is complete, and scientists are champing at the bit to use it. |
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Such a barren run made some players appreciate the bye last weekend, while others have been champing at the bit for a chance at righting the ship. |
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Just as easily detected was the collective disappointment, following the Lord's choice of his successor, on the part of these militants who, since then, have been painfully champing at the bit. |
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Since slumping to defeat in front of their own fans at the inaugural FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup in May, the Brazilians have been champing at the bit to get back in action and set the record straight. |
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Five miles behind, his good friend from Port-la-ForĂȘt Jean Le Cam, who had never given up hope despite the 120-mile lead opened up by Bilou five days ago, was champing at the bit. |
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Canadians were relieved to see that decision made, even though the former finance minister was out there champing at the bit while his provisional government waited to get in there. |
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We must not delude ourselves that Canada's refusal to participate will have much effect on President Bush's decision to go to war, a war he is champing at the bit to declare. |
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I know he is champing at the bit to get at me on a question. |
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It is understandable why some are champing at the bit. |
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That a civilization was champing at the bit. |
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But until that happens, and as long as American armoured vehicles roam through Baghdad, sceptics will call Iraq's government an American puppet. Some Iraqis are champing at the bit. |
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