| Be prepared for a stiff climb, but the sundial and the view of Houghton and Hillbrow is worth the huffing and puffing. |
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| I could hear the billowing of her flannelette nightie as she swooped down the hallway, huffing and puffing with determination. |
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| She slid into the seat behind me, huffing and puffing like she was breathing with one lung. |
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| With three adults on board, it was huffing and puffing up some of the steeper inclines. |
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| He was wearing his work uniform, his hair flying in his face as he skidded to a stop before them, huffing and puffing from the exertion. |
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| I don't think any amount of huffing and puffing across the political divide is going to change Greencore's calculated business decision. |
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| He was upright in an instant, huffing and puffing with such violence that his entire body seemed to quake and quiver with every breath. |
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| It's not fun, it does hurt, abominably, and I do feel like a lumbering bear, huffing and puffing like Pooh on a bad day. |
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| They're off, huffing and puffing through this grueling physical education training under a blazing sun that's far away from home. |
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| Qantas remains quietly confident that after some initial huffing and puffing, and even some limited protests, all unions will come into line. |
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| By the time Mr. Mineo had everything under control, he was huffing and puffing with the exertion. |
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| So all the huffing and puffing from Free TV Australia is just special interest hot air. |
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| He was huffing and puffing something fierce, distending his cheeks with every exhalation. |
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| Or maybe its a little pugilistic prestidigitation to avoid showing an aging action queen huffing and puffing in between roundhouses. |
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| Again despite all the huffing and puffing, despite Cork's famous facility for interpreting the rule-book to suit themselves, that was wrong too. |
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| He was huffing and puffing and saying that the Reform Party is here to speak on behalf of public servants. |
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| Even with his offending ankle numbed by a painkiller shot, he appeared uncomfortable, huffing and puffing and repeatedly tying his shoe between pitches. |
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| Daigle enters the complex and joins a procession of shoppers huffing and puffing up the stairs of a broken-down escalator. |
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| What a climb we had, many of us huffing and puffing up the steep stairs toward the top! |
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| The lungs through repetitive huffing and puffing, also get a workout and, over time, improve their capacity to oxygenate blood. |
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| There's more: Argentina is huffing and puffing about the Falklands, and Spain is huffing and puffing about Gibraltar. |
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| We have heard a lot of huffing and puffing about Kashechewan today but I have not heard the one phrase I need to hear. |
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| Mr. Speaker, I think we all know here in the House who is doing the huffing and puffing and hyperventilating and pontificating. |
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| What leads Canadians to believe, with all this huffing and puffing, that they would even sign this agreement? |
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| We have again heard the trade minister and the Prime Minister huffing and puffing that Canada won those rounds before international tribunals. |
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| If the car was overloaded and it started huffing and puffing, I'd get out and ask them to unload the excess weight. |
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| He looked like such a fool, pointing and gesturing and huffing and puffing. |
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| One wonders whether the government is huffing and puffing to cover up its own incompetence. |
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| Spain won, hallelujah, but not after much huffing and puffing to go alongside their geometric, incisive elegance on the ball. |
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| At one stage the boys were huffing and puffing a bit but when the supporters shouted from the side I knew I had to pull my socks up and give it my all. |
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| I'm sweating, huffing and puffing, smelling of lake, and trying not to swallow the bugs that keep hitting me in the face as I speed along the trail. |
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| Yes, I know that I just got through telling you that I've got my windows open, but I'm not out there huffing and puffing lots of the nasty stuff into my lungs. |
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| I could hear Milly huffing and puffing with the exertion of it. |
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| The readers who were huffing and puffing in Downer's defence, or accusing you of gutter journalism, most likely have their snouts in various troughs themselves. |
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| I'd reached a point where I could play blues harmonica reasonably competently, without just huffing and puffing and blowing anything that came into my head. |
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| The resulting solecisms have provoked noisy huffing and puffing. |
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| Except, perhaps, for some huffing and puffing. |
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| Blowin' out here would be more like wailing into the heavenly vonce, rather then huffing and puffing changes in a dark cellar. |
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| They were short of ideas, huffing and puffing their way towards a demoralising defeat. |
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| Expect much huffing and puffing, followed by an anticlimactic fudge. |
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| As Lehman, Breuler is sluggish, coarse, and lumpy, huffing and puffing his way arthritically about the stage like some 1930s crime-movie heavy. |
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| America confined itself to huffing and puffing. |
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| What mattered was how far I had come in just over a year, from huffing and puffing at a one-minute run to being able, however slowly, to complete a marathon. |
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| He stopped after 10 sets, his players huffing and puffing loudly. |
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| Where was Michael Perry's huffing and puffing then? |
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