Fox tore his clothes from his body with shaking hands and, clad only in boxer shorts, staggered the short distance to the truck. |
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The world spun as he staggered to his feet, braced himself on a post, and tried his utmost to shake off his daze. |
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Although strictly a two-storey property, the ground floor is staggered on three levels. |
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Bastian staggered to his feet, favoring his left leg as Dakota put her arm around his waist to help him walk. |
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She staggered out onto the balcony, dizzy, and searching for breathable air. |
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I am staggered that our hard-earned council tax money goes towards paying their wages. |
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I got home before him and I was sitting in the kitchen, eating peanut brownies, when William staggered in with the baby. |
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I staggered to my feet, and making excuses I rushed out the door, feeling very silly, because I was excusing myself to nobodies. |
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Working hours can be purposefully staggered to meet the needs of the organisation and the individual. |
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Jean, the gas fumes in his head quite dissipated, staggered away, more dead than alive. |
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Then with an irritated grunt of recognition he staggered over to the coffee pot and poured a cup into his own travel mug. |
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The man staggered back to his home leaving a trail of blood and from there one of his housemates rang an ambulance. |
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For instance, I used lots of daylilies which I staggered in a sweeping curve. |
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And then staggered and swaggered along with Flint, Carl and TJ our way to Emma's for dinner and to meet Gina's brother Aubrey. |
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Once again the snow began to fall as he staggered onward, his future unknown, his past tortured, and his present uncertain. |
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When he halted he appeared unsteady on his feet and staggered away from his car. |
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Forcing herself to move, she staggered out of bed, stumbled and almost fell. |
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The facade is divided into a set of nine slightly staggered panels, framed in relief and decorated in a checkerboard missing-brick pattern. |
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Theorton rolled back over and staggered to his feet, much to the protest of his injuries. |
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Fangs flashing, the cat leaped at Jim, who staggered back, falling into Banks' arms. |
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Lexa staggered unsteadily for a moment before falling to one knee, eyes tightly closed in pain, biting her lip to keep from crying out again. |
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Kanyanta could have knocked out his opponent but Hara stood his ground even after being decked by hard blows to the head that only staggered him. |
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As soon as she was well enough to walk, she dyed her clothes black and staggered out onto the street. |
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These rather horrified thoughts flew into my head at just about the moment that his own uppercut staggered me back and into the wall. |
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I got off her as best as I could and staggered as my head was still spinning from that last hit. |
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Giles staggered to the sofa and sank down on it, looking like a man who'd been sucker-punched. |
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Along the way, even those of us well versed in some of the more astonishing feats of animal cognition will be staggered. |
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If the group is staggered or further spread out so you can't outflank them to the side, you have to become especially evasive. |
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The rear suspension is revised to allow the formerly staggered rear dampers to be mounted further outboard and nearly vertical. |
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While I staggered on, the children streaked ahead, striking up conversations left, right and centre. |
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The 40 student volunteers staggered through the stifling heat to the Lampert building over the course of two weeks. |
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I staggered around in my kitchen for a few minutes holding my gut while I laughed because I could hardly sit on my chair! |
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He staggered back, startled, and then brushing the curtain away, he stepped into the great room of the Captain's house. |
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The ground angled suddenly upward, and he staggered as the abrupt slope surprised him. |
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Such strange visions appeared during my delirium, beach demons with claws, odd quadrupeds, wings that staggered through dusk. |
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I noticed a slight quiver in the man's lips, and to my surprise, he dropped his gun, staggered away, and collapsed to his knees. |
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The bearded gentleman pictured right staggered off the line just as I approached. |
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He staggered over to Cecil's form, and seized him up by the back of his gorget. |
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From the brittle rattle of applause that staggered around the room, it was obvious that not too many of the audience were from the North Island. |
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They drank of the wineskins and staggered down the main street of the town weaving toward the disciplined line of approaching soldiers. |
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As the train pulled out of Winchester, he staggered to his feet and zig-zagged down the carriage to the toilet. |
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He struck her in the chest with the heel of his palm and Liz staggered backwards. |
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The eye is staggered by the range of it, the boldness of it, the proclamation of Nature's passionate excess. |
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A bloodied Harrison clawed his way out of his overhead escape hatch and staggered from the plane. |
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He burst across the line and staggered to a halt, eyesight blurry, reeling as people surrounded him. |
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The Royalists set to and the Scots reeled and staggered but they held out and were joined by the Scots' second line and the Royalists fell back. |
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Marrissa staggered down the dark empty hallway, clutching a dagger in her left hand and her journal in the other. |
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An explosion of pain blinded me as I reeled and staggered, trying vainly to catch my balance. |
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The shot caught me low at the side of my back and I staggered with the impact, reeling into the wall as pain almost immobilized me. |
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He analysed accidents at urban priority crossroads and staggered intersections. |
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There is also an extensive use of mutes, including staggered transitions from muted to unmuted and vice versa, like a cross-fade in recording. |
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Start with helms staggered on the beach by skill factor from windward to leeward. |
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Sirka staggered around, trying to make her way out of the hallway and into the family room, when she suddenly lost her footing. |
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I am staggered by the insensitivity of this anonymous writer in raising this issue in a public forum where it was read by Tara's parents. |
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I phoned Chris, my best friend when I was ten and now a Dublin journalist, and we staggered into an anonymous grey building. |
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Under the scheme, merged banks are allowed to revalue their assets and implement a staggered booking of valuation reserves. |
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I let the swing come to a stop and sat there transfixed by the rightness of the idea, but a little staggered at what it might entail. |
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Realization hit her like a ton of bricks and she staggered under the weight of it. |
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For the present 2002-2003 school year, stepwise or staggered increases will average out to about 1 percent. |
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He staggered to his feet, limping towards the entrance of the cave, his body searing with pain each time he moved. |
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The rear shocks have been staggered, one fixed forward from the axle, the other one tilting back. |
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This could include flexitime, home working, job sharing and staggered hours. |
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The birds become lethargic, with a staggered gait, their feathers are ruffled, and the comb and wattles turn dark red or blackish. |
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The speed with which the 76-year-old tycoon has moved has staggered most observers. |
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Rocketing to his feet, then swaying as his head lurched, Kaerin staggered over to the long full size mirror. |
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Aethris then staggered out, clothes half-on and half-off, hair hanging down in lustrous waves. |
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Jean had pushed her pile of clothes into an innocent salesgirl's arms, who staggered greatly under the weight and walked up beside me. |
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All three companies argue that staggered board elections protect shareholders in a takeover attempt. |
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He got to his feet as quickly as he could, staggered then made his way to the console and tried to turn off the autopilot. |
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If you can't get as much time as you'd like, try to negotiate a staggered return, telecommuting, or working part time temporarily. |
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She then staggered a few feet, trying to get back to her seat and fell down onto her backside. |
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He staggered, arms flailing wildly, and fell backward into the young pine tree. |
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The plane staggered and started to climb, slowly, sluggishly, wobbling terrifyingly. |
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He might have obtained better results simply by taking the differences in the lanes' staggered starting marks for an appropriate track event. |
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Franchised dealers have been staggered by some of the old cars they have taken in under the scrappage scheme. |
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This meant the switch-on had to be staggered as the load would have been too heavy for a simultaneous switch-on. |
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The curator, Anthony Gross, has staggered the screenings in order to show as many films as possible in two weeks. |
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Voting hours are staggered across the country, meaning the impact will vary by region. |
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Elections are staggered so the Board never is composed completely of new members. |
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Under this scheme there would be staggered T-junctions to Cononley Lane and Farnhill. |
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There will be staggered starts, about five minutes apart, for each of the different classes. |
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Mr Wahid said pension payments were staggered across the whole week, so not all pensioners were affected. |
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He didn't knock back a pitcher of lemonade before he staggered onto the stage. |
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He also suggested staggered opening hours of entertainment venues was useful in controlling crowds. |
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Just as the girl shut the door Yuki pulled herself upright and staggered to the bed. |
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I am really staggered by the high concentrative levels possessed by young performers. |
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I was absolutely staggered at his filing system, at its comprehensiveness and thoroughness. |
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Though the costs paid to those in the network are exorbitant, it guarantees safety and allows payment to be staggered over time. |
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O'Grady opened the door and threw Carl bodily out into the night where he staggered a few paces before falling headfirst into a patch of mud. |
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One by one, they staggered to the podium, like footballers with groin strains. |
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No sooner had I settled in than some drunken munter staggered up next to me. |
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I staggered across the tiles in ungraceful fashion, handbag swinging as I swore. |
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Bowl followed bowl until his stomach inflated like a beach balloon and he staggered from the table on the verge of collapse. |
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As he staggered up Victoria Road, Charles stopped to answer a call of nature. |
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The couple ahead of him staggered as his weight fell on their backs. |
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Kitty staggered around the corner to the rear of her building, trying to make it home. |
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His success later in the afternoon has staggered a nation and sent two families reeling from heartache that never diminishes. |
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He spent 13 days in hospital, then staggered out on a walking frame. |
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Sweet chestnut and a small group of whitebeam will be planted at staggered intervals over a 10-year period, to preserve the cathedral feel of the walkway. |
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At 6.15 am he staggered bound and gagged into the reception of the hotel, smashing the fire alarm as he entered, which prompted the evacuation of the hotel guests. |
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He staggered to his feet and wobbled to the back of the bar. |
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The little animal then staggered, wobbled and limped around for a few seconds before turning for the last time to his rescuers and wandering off back into nature. |
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He was reeling from a heavy blow and staggered back holding his face. |
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They staggered up the road and when clear of the town they both needed to relieve themselves and stood in the middle of the road urinating into the dust. |
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Their terms are staggered, and the vice president does not automatically become president following the death or removal from office of the president. |
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Reluctantly he dragged himself to his feet and staggered into the kitchen. |
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Miles suddenly staggered forward, his foot caught on a root. |
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I was not prepared for the staggered, ruthless falling apart of one of the people I love most in the world. |
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Diving with his camera gear, assistants and lighting equipment, Francis was staggered by the number of bass, bibs, conger eels, red mullet and other fish that abound. |
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Jodi staggered backwards from her sister's bed after tucking Hannah in. |
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The misshapen monoliths were assembled down the side of a slight hill in the countryside beyond the town, not in a circle like Stonehenge, but staggered. |
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Well, I won't elaborate, but my wife was not best pleased when I staggered back to England after the booze cruise and resumed my place in the kitchen. |
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The atmosphere filled with pepper spray, people staggered, their faces red and swollen. |
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His speech is staggered and halting, hers an energetic staccato. |
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He grunted and staggered back before falling to the ground, dead. |
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He staggered to his home where his family bound up the wound with rags. |
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He staggered into Church Walk, collapsed, and was found by passers-by. |
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I staggered to my feet only to fall down again because of a strong wave. |
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Babaev was on the canvas twice in the third before a big right to the side of the head staggered him and prompted referee Richie Davies to call a halt. |
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I am quite staggered at the way in which this bill is proceeding. |
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Peter Francis, welfare rights manager at Barnsley Council, said the couple were staggered when they found out their weekly income had nearly doubled. |
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An old hag of a witch was approaching, her walk was staggered and she had enough warts on her nose so that you didn't know there was even a nose there. |
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Out staggered this rather little but unmistakably scarlet-blobbed critter who had obvs been affected by the spraying and had crawled into the bag for protection. |
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To eliminate the inside post-position advantage in harness racing, all races would begin with a staggered start, the outside horse first, the inside horse last. |
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As I staggered onto the airstrip, clutching the stitch in my side and breathing hard, I tried to recall where I had seen that design of red and white. |
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I'm staggered by Arndt's apparent argument that education should be about preparing young people to be pliable media fodder in sporting and entertainment fields. |
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They watched the rain plop and splash into already-formed puddles, and smiled at people grimacing and holding magazines over their heads as they staggered about in the rain. |
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A left hook caught him flush on the jaw and he staggered across the ring. |
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She staggered to the door and eased it open, blinking irritably. |
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As shown in Figure 2, the thermocouples are staggered radially and placed along four azimuthal positions. |
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While Von Zehner staggered to the street to summon help, the 20-year-old robber, Demetrius Bolden, died of his wounds. |
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If the lanifice of Mende at least staggered into the closing years of the ancien regime, it only did so in a purely nominal sense. |
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Jeff staggered reelingly out of the pub and tried to remember which way was home. |
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Instead of inserting a straight vertical gap all the way up, he has staggered it so it looks like old-fashioned quoining. |
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Unlike a typical fuchuan warship, the treasure ships had nine staggered masts and twelve square sails, increasing its speed. |
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The staggered effect of random building resulted in a crazyquilt of dead ends and narrow, jagged alleyways. |
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Many organs that are paired, such as kidneys or reproductive organs, are staggered within the body, with one located ahead of the other. |
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Elections are staggered, with five judges elected every three years to ensure continuity within the court. |
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A bluefaced shock troop leader staggered over to see what it might command. |
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From 9 in the morning until 9 at night, hardy fans cheered and moshed and staggered through a stifling but often exciting day. |
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The algorithm performs a staggered execution of the hash table build in order to load in stream tuples more steadily. |
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Local residents gawped at the lad as he staggered around with the machinery with a gang of workers. |
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As a result, the condo market's recovery, however fast, is likely to be staggered. |
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The staggered stripe carpet is Striata in Ventura from the Salcombe collection and is pounds 49 a metre. |
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So I was staggered last week to hear one in three kids has had special training for their sports days. |
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I staggered into a room full of acned teenagers, all waiting with a ticket in hand, and joined the queue. |
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At approximately forty yards, their advance was staggered by a volley of Roman pila, the Roman javelin. |
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The aboveground building masses are divided into dre 6 floors with a recessed staggered storeys. |
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The heavyweight delivered a few powerful hooks that staggered his opponent. |
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The attacker's movement will again put him in a staggered stance with his penetration leg forward and his weight on the back foot. |
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It was about this time that the rest of the French Navy staggered in with the jauntiest of Moorea's wenchhood upon its arm. |
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And Thane nodded and staggered blindly upward, only to sag again in a heap upon the veldt. |
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Then, as quickly as was possible given our shared temulency, we staggered into the living room. |
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The U.S. Senate holds staggered elections, with only one third of the seats being filled every two years. |
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Whosoever will read the story of this war will find himself much staggered. |
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My father looked mournfully at me, before turning to whisper something to Elpinoy as he staggered into the kitchen, sleep-drunk. |
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A staggered crossroads at the section provides access to Wigton and also the B5305 towards Penrith. |
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Seemingly staggered by the unanimous hostility of all Members, he left. |
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A best-guess time schedule, if individual blowdowns are staggered. |
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The powerful blow of his opponent's fist staggered the boxer. |
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The first round of staggered polling for the unicameral legislative chamber will take place 17 and 18 October, a day before the polls in Egypt on the 18 and 19 October. |
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She was a girl of imposing appearance and winning manners. But this staggered him. If she were such a slave to fashion and observance, she was not the woman for his wife. |
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And because of the staggered openings, one of the three stairwells will get new pieces every four months, giving visitors a regular change of literary scenery. |
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And when the stowaway's owner was traced, she was staggered to find Nacho lived next door to her in Bristol and caught a lift for 180 miles to Liverpool. |
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Standard features include hardened cutting chambers, staggered rotors, soundproofed tilt-back hoppers, D2 steel knives, low rpm rotors and low-infeed heights. |
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Senators are elected by popular vote to staggered terms of six years. |
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The riggers in sculling apply the forces symmetrically to each side of the boat, whereas in sweep oared racing these forces are staggered alternately along the boat. |
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He staggered to his feet after being knocked down, only for Haye to immediately pounce right back on him, hitting him with another flurry of punches. |
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After being constantly stunned and staggered from round 3 onwards, Johnson was finally dropped by a huge uppercut, then saved from further punishment by the referee. |
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Goban rose unsteadily to his feet with Cullan's help, and staggered unsteadily across the hall to a pedestal on which was mounted a nest of coencentric crystal globes. |
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