| Marie had insisted on tidying up Dylan's room, she said that it was worse than a pigsty. |
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| It's back, therefore, to doing some odd jobs such as emailing people, tidying my pinboard and creating the bibliography for my thesis. |
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| I'll return to the tidying and cataloguing when the weather cools down a bit. |
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| In tidying up or polishing the former the roughness and irregularity of the latter is discarded like so much adventitious dross. |
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| The retired freezing worker and lifetime painter is tidying his garage when I visit. |
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| We took our time tidying up the cutting-room, in the forlorn hope Jerry might relent. |
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| In the late morning and all afternoon we worked outside, R clearing and tidying flower beds, pruning shrubs and potting up some flowers. |
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| There's loads of washing up to be done, general tidying around the house, and a whole bunch of shopping to get in. |
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| If the weather stays reasonable I'll be tidying the garden but that won't take too much effort. |
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| He emptied the compartments duteously, packed the unsold goods in large canvas sacks, tidying them away behind the two bottom doors of his cart. |
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| Windy Hill Park on the estate is also set to be revamped with a new play area and extensive tidying in the coming months. |
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| Today, Boxing Day, I spent lazing around, tidying up and doing a bit of admin. |
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| Among Mike's duties yesterday were serving customers, tidying up and putting security tags on items of clothing. |
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| Today will mostly be spent tidying my flat, which is an utterly disgraceful mess. |
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| Then we could see all the chefs tidying stuff away and we realised that it wasn't going to be. |
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| The good thing about spending all weekend tidying my bedroom is that I have a tidy bedroom. |
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| You wouldn't believe what I found under the rug when I was tidying this place up. |
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| Used needles, rubbish and even a caravan had been left on the site, creating a danger to those tidying it up. |
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| Surely it's impossible to simply pick up a pile of papers and staple them without tidying them? |
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| I decided to make a start on tidying things in readiness for the move to a new family house. |
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| He'd apparently spent all day at home tidying his property and had even had flower-arrangers in to do work. |
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| I welcome their efforts in picking things up off the floor and tidying their rooms. |
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| Thus far, you have an FTP client and a shell busily tidying up your home directory. |
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| Sunday, 20 May 2007 I worked in the cargohold tidying up, shifting cargo, and pulling out the old staysail to use as a jib. |
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| So just now, while waiting for the dirty stop-outs, I was tidying up the kitchen so figured I'd listen to a podcast. |
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| While he was tidying up his desk one day, he came across a promotional leaflet about a broadband connection provider. |
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| The waiter was hovering constantly at my elbow, wheeking away breadcrumbs or tidying up around me. |
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| Yesterday I got up gloriously late, lounged about in the garden refusing to talk much while I read in the sun and planned some garden tidying. |
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| The time is rapidly approaching when we will be ready to line the hole with polythene before backfilling and tidying the area prior to planting. |
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| This doesn't stop me waking up early and running round tidying the flat, polishing and cleaning. |
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| Suddenly there is nothing to worry about other than tidying my room and sending emails. |
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| In theory I was supposed to be paying bills and tidying paperwork too, but that never happened. |
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| Thinking they were arguing, she continued vacuum cleaning and tidying the rest of the house. |
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| After tidying the stuff away I popped up to see P and she seemed really well. |
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| There were men, all with their faces covered, tidying the shards of glass from the hall. |
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| Not too long after the horsemen depart, the cook has reluctantly left the fire, and has washed up, and is tidying the tucker box. |
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| She had the impudence to get impatient, tapping her fingers on the desk, and tidying empty bags as she waited. |
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| I had great plans for today, getting up early, rattling through writing chores, tidying the house and then going out for some air and, possibly, half a cream tea. |
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| It's true that Kondo, just thirty years old, is a petite prodigy of tidying, possessed of a winsomely deferential and yet authoritative air. |
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| Children, their parents and other residents spent yesterday morning tidying up the embankment, which will bloom with crocuses and daffodils next spring. |
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| Businesses and brands are increasingly seeking the services of companies that specialise in tidying up search engine results. |
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| Whether she was writing a speech or tidying a drawer, it had her total concentration. |
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| She has always been a very neat person, so she would always spend a little time tidying her wardrobes and cleaning her shoes. |
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| Since I am at home I have been catching up with household chores – cleaning, tidying up, yard work, etc. |
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| The film captures the spirit of Boreman's later books, but it could be accused of tidying things up. |
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| As I was tidying up the draft and compiling all my blocked plotlines for her, something unexpected happened. |
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| It is no good governments tidying up exports if we allow private individuals to act in they way they are doing. |
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| Perhaps we could start a new policy of tidying up past projects that have ceased, such as professionally reinstating the grass where the skateboard park once existed? |
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| In the process of tidying up today, though, I found this wonderful picture of me aged nine, providing proof positive that I was a juvenile activist. |
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| Mr BRUNNER explained that the changes all were of a minor or tidying nature. |
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| Items could include central heating, double glazing, security improvements, tidying of garden areas, improving fences and electrical and gas upgrading. |
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| Major work is in hand with regard to the tidying up of the sandspit. |
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| She clambered onto her feet, tidying up the bathroom as fast as she could. |
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| Background All the pieces of the legislative jigsaw are now in place, even if some tidying up remains to be done. |
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| The various codes therefore need some tidying up in order to harmonize national legislation on the definition of the minor. |
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| After tidying up, take a look at the system used in purchasing and distributing forms. |
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| From tidying up ropes to cleaning the kitchen, I force myself to keep at it all the time. |
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| It is about adding things, colours, scent, plants, moving the furniture and tidying the mess, creating new space in your environment. |
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| The usual chores for jankers were tidying up the armoury, cleaning the.303 Lee Enfield rifles, and any other tasks that Sergeant Major Maynard could come up with. |
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| Assign a task to guests who are not cooking, ask them to participate in serving, tidying up or doing the dishes. |
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| For starters, all controls and mechanical read-outs are now read off a single, large display, tidying up the cab interior and making the operator's job easier. |
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| I spent the morning tidying away the bits and bobs he'd left behind, but I'll do the real clean tomorrow when Oscar and his litter tray have gone, too. |
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| Extension of work for a maximum of 30 minutes after closing to customers in retail and service providers' premises to allow time for sorting out, tidying up and preparations for the following work period. |
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| In the case of comprehensively demolished buildings it may be a case of tidying up and maintaining the site and securing it to prevent unauthorised removal of materials from it. |
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| Commissions reassured themselves that tidying up such matters was a central element of law reform, since if they didn't do so, nobody else ever would. |
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| There are also difficulties tidying up after the 5.00 pm classes, since the rooms are far away from the main buildings and this late-afternoon cleaning up has not been not scheduled. |
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| The volunteers were thanked for their conservational efforts in tidying up the park. |
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| The truth is different: governments with the most problematic internal controls bend over backwards to hide the fact from KP review teams, tidying up problems temporarily for the few days a team is in town. |
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| It's so subtle and so modern, and so brilliantly implies that the person wearing it is actually already in shape, and that the shapewear is just tidying up — a little pencil edit, nothing drastic. |
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| If you have neither the time nor the urge to do it, I will attend to what has to be done: tidying, optimizing space and light, accessorizing and dressing up each room utilizing the maximum of what is already there. |
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| She is the kid who can be a pain the neck at a play date, insisting on the rigors of turn-taking, of fair-sharing, of tidying up before the guests vamoose and leave her with an afternoon of mess to deal with. |
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| Jessica Tarry worked hard doing chores, including tidying her room, to save pounds 5 to buy two toy dogs. |
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| It seems to me that we may have been doing some of the Council's homework for it, and tidying up some of those aspects which will contribute to a sensible regulatory framework. |
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| Although the laws were struck down in 1996, the State of South Carolina introduced a proposition to remove the old laws from its books, which was simply a way of tidying up the statutes. |
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| The NDP views the bill as far more significant than simply a matter of housekeeping and tidying up on the part of the government, and I want to point out some concerns right at the outset. |
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| This was very time-consuming, and tidying the drawing took even longer. |
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| One of my half-starved poddy calves was very ill, and I went out to doctor it previous to bathing and tidying myself for my finishing household duties. |
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| This wind-borne refuse adds to the work of tidying up after storms, but gardeners should do more than just sweep up the mess after the winter gales. |
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