Without a word, she floated past me and tiptoed to the door that communicated with her room, opened it a crack, listened. |
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He tiptoed to the door, smooth and silent considering his age and bulk, jerked the door open, and stuck his head out. |
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They tiptoed along the wooden corridor past the closed door of the baby's room. |
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He saw her stirring the embers of the dying campfire and tiptoed stealthily up behind her. |
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The revolving door that moved quite slowly contained a very impatient female, as she humorously tiptoed along with the door. |
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He tiptoed around it, trying not to get any of the putrid matter slop onto his fluffy bunny slippers. |
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She slipped on a thin robe over her nightgown silently and tiptoed her way to the door. |
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Once finally convinced the coast was clear, Gabby nonetheless tiptoed her way down the hall and slipped into the room. |
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The actors were all in a circle, warming up as we quietly tiptoed into the room. |
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Models tiptoed along in wedge heels and stilettos, and posed in front of giant propeller fans. |
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The carpet felt scratchy beneath my blistered feet, so I tiptoed all the way to the door. |
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Then I opened it wide enough for us to slide out and tiptoed across the hall to the storage closet. |
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She pulled her hair back and slowly, as quietly as possible, tiptoed down the stairs. |
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With extreme carefulness, Sam tiptoed to the lowest kitchen cupboard and opened it. |
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She spoke with an accent, ate her rice with a spoon, and tiptoed carefully over puddles. |
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She tiptoed carefully to the mass of captured men, praying that none of them would wake. |
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Her feet tiptoed on the wooden floor, and her eyes concentrated on the window in front of her. |
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Careful not to awaken John, she quietly got out of bed and tiptoed to the kitchen. |
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She got up and carefully tiptoed to her dresser, where the present rested on top. |
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She threw back her bedcovers and tiptoed over to her desk, making sure she avoided the creaky floorboard under the ragged rug. |
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The next morning, I tiptoed up to the tank, only to discover a strange and curious sight. |
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He slipped away from my mother's side, tiptoed across the room and made himself a cup of tea. |
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Arthur tiptoed over to one of the motorbikes and ran his hand over the chassis. |
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Opening the door, Serenity tiptoed across the hall and opened the door to Haley's room. |
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I tiptoed up behind him, planning to scare him and snap him out of the stupor he was currently in. |
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I want increased liberty, equality and fraternity, not a diminution of democracy as we are tiptoed into totalitarianism and authoritarianism. |
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It was interesting to see how Hollywood coped with this theme, and how director Sydney Pollack tiptoed towards reality but funked it in the end. |
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As we tiptoed around those final two holes, the thought occurred that, truly, golf is a great game. |
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Arm outstretched upon the table, Briar watched as his wrist bubbled with gooseflesh and a shiver tiptoed along his spine. |
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He went out like a light a few minutes later, and Mia tiptoed out of the room. |
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She nodded, and tiptoed to pull a length of thick rope from the back of the cart. |
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They tiptoed back to financing industry after 1898, but on the basis of current-account credit and bills of exchange rather than the purchase of share capital. |
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Private-sector investors tiptoed back in and the government's cost of borrowing plummeted. |
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The employees tiptoed around in continual terror of setting off the next outburst from this Merchant of Fear. |
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She tiptoed toward the front door and reached for the rope she would use to end her life. |
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At the stroke of midnight, Santa Clause tiptoed into this house and laid his gifts under the Christmas tree. |
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The Cuban boy pulled on his cotton pants, tiptoed up the steep steps of the Discovery, and saw his friend sitting quietly on the deck. |
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He tiptoed over to a trapdoor in the roof and pulled it slowly. |
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He quietly unlatched the door and tiptoed out of the bathroom. |
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Before walking in I'd removed my shoes so as to make even less noise and now I held them in the crook of my elbow as I tiptoed across the entryway to the stairs. |
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In the past, Leo tiptoed around the law to help Veronica solve her crimes and their brief fling ended with the bust of a dognapping ring. |
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Everyone tiptoed around and spoke in hushed and reverent tones. |
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Finally the window closed and after latching it she tiptoed back into bed. |
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She then tiptoed to the transporter room, to see that Himeko wasn't there. |
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I had got up early, rejuvenated at last from the sleep deprivation of Greece, and tiptoed downstairs to make a cup of coffee. |
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Although you gave us some good reflections on what those causes are, there are, however, other issues that you tiptoed around. |
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At one point I began to suffer from a tickly cough and tiptoed out. |
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But having decided to walk through this minefield, Costas tiptoed by offering not his own assessment but that of someone else. |
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The survivors have closed plants, sold property and, after protracted deliberation, barely tiptoed into developing markets. |
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Thulani Serero had impishly tiptoed his way through the Celtic defence without Efe Ambrose even noticing and was one on one with the keeper. |
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We tiptoed into the house, up the stairs and along the hall into the room where the Professor had been spending so much of his time. |
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No one wants to imagine the kind of situation we would be facing in the world today if the United States had shirked its military responsibilities the way we have tiptoed around ours. |
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She got up, dragged the doona around her shoulders and tiptoed into the spare room. |
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Cinema somehow tiptoed into my life, I never thought I would act in films. |
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Sprawling sores like the meltdown in Somalia or the conflict in Rwanda were to be scrupulously avoided, and Bosnia tiptoed round for months with pettifogging excuses. |
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