| It's fun to use Things you've made yourself, and puttering in the garage sure beats loafing in front of the television. |
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| She could hear her mother puttering around in the kitchen, preparing dinner. |
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| I think it is likely to be all about exploration first, puttering around Lincolnshire in the little blue Ford. |
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| Here he comes, puttering up in his little soapbox derby car with its duck horn. |
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| There was no familiar puttering sound of a car, which held a boy that couldn't help but hold a spell over me. |
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| I've had a grand week off, puttering about here and there, catching up on some sleep, and some reading. |
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| The sisters spend their days doing little more than puttering in the garden and bickering over dinner. |
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| In the background, a little boy was puttering around, curious but embarrassed. |
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| Entering the house, I passed the kitchen where I could hear my mum puttering around. |
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| There is a long road ahead to be sure, but the Carly Fiorina engine which many expected to backfire seems to be puttering along okay. |
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| She was puttering around in the kitchen when she heard the faint rumble of the fan kicking on. |
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| I like the idea of Linux, and I love puttering around with it, writing little scripts, hacking around with CGI and perl. |
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| So the gang started puttering around with a car recovery system. |
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| I had a great time in San Francisco puttering around with Jish. |
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| After years of puttering along as the tiger economies in the region roared, the Philippines is finally showing some growl of its own. |
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| So, after I peered into the vent for awhile with the flashlight, and after finding nothing, I went back to my packing and puttering around the house. |
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| Stop puttering around, sit down at your desk, and write out the speech or practice the sonata 100 times. |
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| While I'm puttering around playing with words, other people are investing and accumulating and feathering their nests and compounding their interest. |
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| Deficits were out of control, public debt was accumulating at an unsustainable rate, interest rates were high, jobs were disappearing and the engine of economic growth was puttering or stalled. |
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| This might be good music, puttering in the garden, reading a good book, having lunch with a close friend, taking a walk by the ocean, sitting in a park, or getting your hair done. |
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| Rather, I feel nauseous from the diesel exhaust puttering out hiccups of black smoke, as the Bhavna Putra's chipped orange and white hull soars and dips like a cistern ball-cock, on the alum-coloured waves. |
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| He spends his last night puttering around Tokyo in a robe and geta, reciting Fernando Pessoa to a rubber ducky, and hollering at construction cranes. |
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| Back in the present, I'm safe for awhile in my puttering house care, my junk pile, and trips to the cloudwashed countryside. |
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| Weeks of idleness, of puttering around his motorcycle shop and futzing with lobster boats, of books and dogs and meals, were about to give way to a microburst of work. |
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| It has plans to enter Europe and America soon with a cheap, hybrid-power scooter, driven by a battery, which is charged by an engine. Hero is puttering down a path beaten by others. |
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| With a presidential election next year, it would be easier to keep puttering along in the shadow of Brazil, an economy which in some ways Mexico outclasses. |
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| This week on TV, Panorama had the American statistician Nate Silver puttering around the British Isles in a shiny caravan, replete with Union Jack scatter cushions, in order to make sense our political playing field. |
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