| In the past NY women might have dallied with a man in uniform, but wouldn't have pursued one. |
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| When I was 12, I dallied before basketball practice until it was late enough that I needed to ask my mother for a ride. |
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| Catz dallied on the ball in the left-back slot and the alert Woodcock stole the ball, but he was stopped from finishing at the last gasp. |
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| She'd promised the Dean that she would be at his office as soon as she got up, and she had already dallied enough as it was. |
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| From the corner, the Colombian international seized on the ball unmarked at the far post but dallied enough to allow Edmondson a smart block. |
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| They starved together, Minna helped his career, they separated, he dallied with other women, they tried again, they gave up. |
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| Even those who merely dallied with the legend found themselves strangely affected. |
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| He had dallied for weeks before pursuing the defeated Confederate army into Virginia, even resisting direct orders to advance. |
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| While other sporting associations and organisations vacillated and dithered and dallied, the GAA got on with it. |
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| She meant something more to him than any of the strumpets he'd dallied with before. |
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| A pair of bluebirds and a phoebe dallied across the street, and a hummingbird zipped across the western sky. |
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| Mr Bush had signed a bill in 2007 that will require much more abstemious cars by 2020, but then dallied over its implementation. |
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| Volvo has since dallied with Volkswagen, but only over trucks—so far. Now Fiat has its eyes on another partner, just across the Alps. |
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| Mr Schröder dallied with China and now works for Gazprom, Russia's energy giant. |
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| But by then Livingston should have killed the game when Fernandez dispossessed Murdock again in 67 and cut inside to Lilley who dallied before striking a tame shot wide. |
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| In truth, his passing was wasteful and he dallied on the ball when presented with one shooting opportunity on the 82nd minute. |
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| At the end block I turned and dallied in some side streets, expecting the Yukon to come blasting through a snowdrift and T-bone me into a body cast. |
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| When his horse cast two shoes, he stopped at a farm to have them replaced and dallied there afterward for several minutes to avoid going out in a heavy shower. |
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| I have dallied with the dark side but like Luke, I will never turn. |
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| Twenty years he dallied there between conjugal love and its chaste delights and scortatory love and its foul pleasures. |
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| In seeming defiance of the laws of physics, he leaped on and off fast-moving cars and motorcycles, dallied with speeding trains, capered on hot-air balloons, braved waterfalls, and let a house collapse on him. |
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| There is a legend of the rock according to which a village peasant dallied too long at Bouillon market after selling his cattle and spent all the money he had received. |
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| Yet when it comes to PPPs, getting from the press release to the tarmac seems to take an age. Brazil, for example, dallied for years over PPPs for road maintenance and improvement. |
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| I'd take more comfort from this if the world economy hadn't previously dallied with increased efficiency during a period of high prices, only to drop the idea and resume petrol guzzling when prices later crashed. |
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| Frantically flitting from himbo to bozo, busy Jess also dallied with Jordan, Josh and Luis. |
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| He never dallied with the image, beloved of the Renaissance, of the lean and shrunk-shanked scholar, possessed of infinite Sitzfleisch and inured to pain. |
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| The end of the top rope he dallied around the gooseneck trailer hitch. |
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