| I do love a bit of gardening, though, and a raised border is much easier for me to get to than grovelling at ground level. |
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| We resolved to show him and everyone else that the days for grovelling were over. |
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| Ed tried to wriggle and in the end started grovelling to Neil, that he was probably the best informed political journalist on the economy. |
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| Humility has nothing to do with grovelling, or apologizing for one's existence. |
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| My approach is to rarely ask him for anything if I can at all help it, since his granting of a favour requires about 3-5 years of effusive gratitude and grovelling. |
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| Resilient than rubber, more sensitive than the world's best radar system and forever grovelling at the boss' feet, these modern Neros fiddle while the office burns. |
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| Channel Nine's apology for unwittingly dobbing Clarke in it has bordered on the grovelling. |
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| Still, after grovelling to Mr Putin, Mr Luzhkov retrieved enough favour to accompany the president on a trip to Italy last week. |
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| He would never have believed that I was grovelling around for money when my shows were doing so well. |
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| It was met, of course, with a predictable grovelling response by the majority in this House. |
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| Three times we were pinned, grovelling in the mud, before we reached the river and struggled through its icy waters. |
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| This week, she is spending most of her time explaining, begging forgiveness, and grovelling. |
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| There was no strength left for crawling or grovelling, let alone swimming. |
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| I knocked over the bowl with all the beads in it and spent fifteen minutes grovelling on my hands and knees on the living room carpet painstakingly picking them up again. |
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| Once he'd got the grovelling out of the way he was transformed. |
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| The shamefulness of my impotent, grovelling anxiety attached to the book that allayed it. |
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| Reforming does not mean grovelling and letting ourselves be deprived of our identity. |
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| What really is troubling is the grovelling of the two ministers from Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean. |
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| Their lives consist in grovelling before a leader who tells them each morning that the entire world wants to overrun them. |
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| The Hollyoaks star found the grovelling apology from hunk Sylvain Longchambon, 32, at their Liverpool love nest last Sunday. |
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| After the inevitable storm of outrage, Fabricant duly deleted his Tweet and offered a grovelling apology. |
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| Politics is the art of the possible, not tricky-dick Nixon necrosis, Assad asininity, Gaddafi grave grovelling or Saddam spite. |
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| However, adapting does not mean grovelling and giving up on who we are. |
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| The most it will be able to do, then, is to make the smallest European powers comply with a few rules, whilst grovelling before the larger ones as it has always done. |
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| It is equally shameful how today again, in a grovelling and cowardly fashion, the most carefully chosen words of solidarity are immediately followed by all kinds of caveats so as not to offend the Islamofanatics. |
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| Others like the flattery and grovelling but forget who did it. |
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| Shame on The Economist for grovelling at the sphincter of politically correct left-wing shibboleths. Fred BirnbaumBoise, IdahoSIR – The shaming of America's government would have been a more appropriate title. |
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| The immigration system leaves 11m people in the shadows and condemns many of the brightest graduates of American universities to years of grovelling before bureaucrats if they want to stay in America. |
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