So after much weeping moaning and gnashing of teeth I was finally forced to suffer the indignity of sitting on Santa's lap or rather knee. |
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They're all getting drunk in a bar somewhere, moaning about how slack Cape Town business people are. |
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Business leaders and financial markets were moaning about unfocused policies and the mounting budget deficit. |
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But now the perennial moaning about diving has mutated into a full-blown campaign to stamp out this malevolent practice. |
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She had spent over an hour moaning and groaning about how stuffed a teenager's life was. |
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Things go from bad to worse as Nick returns to the stall moaning about being reprimanded by a security guard for handing out flyers. |
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The Storm boss pleaded with supporters to stop moaning and get out and support the team in their hour of need. |
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They were criticising a Frenchman for being French, which is like moaning that a beach is too sandy. |
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But hey, it's Comic Relief, I should just fork out the cash and shut up moaning. |
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Where so long I have heard only the brattling and moaning of the wind, what means this tenser, far-piercing sound? |
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The opposition are sounding off, but I guess by now they are in the habit of moaning about anything the government does. |
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Come next year the electorate will be browned off with both Kenny and Rabbitte moaning and will vote for the old reliables again. |
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I sit here up in the hills and the sea and the air are voiceful, a seething and moaning of the wind and weather, cruel to listen to. |
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Jackson once hinted he favored major changes, moaning about his small power forwards and zinging Rice publicly. |
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Only last night I arrived home to be met by a moaning groaning husband, weaving his way slowly around the house like a wounded grizzly bear. |
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And you dare not write off people who pen moaning letters to parish newsletters or local papers as cantankerous curmudgeons. |
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Every thirty seconds or so a violent convulsion would shake her and she would tense then lie backwards, wheezing and moaning. |
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By the end of the act, he is lurking perpetually onstage, moaning and berating by degrees. |
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The room was stuffy and hot, despite the chilly wind howling and moaning outside. |
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She knew she shouldn't be lying in her bed, moaning and complaining of her troubled mind and restless heart. |
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Males need to stop moaning about being disadvantaged by the system, there is nothing stopping us except our own lack of application and effort. |
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Or, if you really can't get down from your high tables and your high horses, the least you could do is to stop moaning through the mouthfuls. |
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If it had happened to me, I think I would have needed at least a week off work and there would have been plenty of moaning and groaning. |
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He had a very well paid and exclusive job millions of people would kill for and was still moaning and groaning about Matt. |
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The builders, who are due to complete in October, have been moaning about the demands made by their clerk of works. |
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There's an angry man sitting behind her, scowling, moaning, clutching his can of special brew and dispensing his own brand of cod philosophy. |
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He would not creep about the country with moaning voice and melancholy eyes, with draggled dress and outward signs of wretchedness. |
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The next minute you'll be crawling back under the covers and moaning piteously. |
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There was really no need to fling the freezer door shut and throw myself theatrically across the linoleum floor, moaning pitifully. |
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He began moaning and groaning once he started to regain consciousness and become aware of the pain in his head. |
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Lurching and moaning like the undead, their final EP is scabrous and abhorrent listening. |
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Once the initial elation of a happy event dies down, we quickly revert to type, moaning and groaning. |
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We are not going to whinge about it, there's no good moaning or groaning about it, let's get on and get it over with. |
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Grumpy old codgers such as Will Self and Bob Geldof have been moaning and groaning on prime-time TV about what really gets their goat. |
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If the bombing had happened in Liverpool the inhabitants would be out in the street, moaning and wailing and making a fuss. |
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So I'm moaning about it, and F asks me what I think of this guy at the end of the bar. |
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I'm bemused by the continual croaking and moaning that goes on about budgets. |
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In the eyes of the townie taxpayer, the image of the moaning farmer has long flourished. |
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The instrument is, in effect, played by the breeze, making sounds akin to an oboe-like moaning and the dulcifying strum of a harp. |
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She'd trapped a mouse behind it and was moaning in frustration at not being able to go in for the kill. |
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I peeked open my eyes, moaning at the bright light my room was filled with. |
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Khanor was only watching, devoid of emotion, and Brooke could distantly hear Katsi moaning and sputtering in the front seat. |
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Hundreds of Shiite worshippers, weeping and moaning in grief, beat their chests in mourning. |
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Joking apart, my husband has been moaning at me for weeks to fly to the UK where I would be safe. |
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I expected to drag you, moaning, groaning and grousing, out of your warm bed. |
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They are not whingeing and moaning like that member, who wants to make a political point. |
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Even more slowly than before the doors began to open, moaning all the while. |
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And again there was weeping and moaning throughout the land for the hero was saddened by his friend's illness. |
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I spent this August moaning and complaining because I felt my life was not as fulfilling as I would like it to be, but why? |
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Don't sit there moaning and complaining about all the work you've got to do. |
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Are not the children now and the generations to come so much more important than moaning and groaning about change? |
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Ok, time to stop whingeing, moaning and complaining about my life, cause its not that bad. |
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Grandpa is still talking about the 30's and Husband is still moaning about his knees. |
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I would suggest that there is more moaning and groaning than booing, and this is not just in the stands. |
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We talked about school, friends, family and browsed among all these various topics, usually complaining or moaning about them in some way. |
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Kelly was moaning and complaining about what was going on at her home, and Cat was joking around as usual. |
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He had a very well paid, every varying and exclusive job millions of people would kill for and was still moaning and groaning about Matt. |
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Of course, when that happens, we see the members opposite whingeing and moaning, as they are now. |
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He asked why students were moaning and whingeing about the loans, and said they should just forget about them. |
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Haley's friend apologised but Bradley kept on about it so Haley told him to stop moaning and get on with his game. |
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She wrapped her fingers hard around her sister's thin wrists so that Talitha's sleepy moaning turned into a frightened whimpering. |
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What is it about the ageing process that turns us into moaning curmudgeons who think everything is going to pot? |
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I found myself writhing in my bed and moaning until my flatmate came to check up on me and brought me a hot lemon and honey drink. |
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The new fangled metal contraption left their animal wheezing, moaning, and screeching as only a horse does. |
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Walking past a chalet on the way home, I heard the moaning of people humping. |
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At the edge of the wallow, a young brown and white steer was standing knee deep in the muck, calling to his mother, and she was moaning back at him. |
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Yesterday, I was whingeing on about the window in my room being hidden behind the king post roof support and moaning that we should have changed it for a smaller queen post. |
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It struck me this week, as I watched news footage of weary London rail commuters moaning about fares going up, what quite incredible value a railcard is compared to a car. |
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He is anguished to see that it is his mother who is moaning. |
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A few minutes earlier, Marylou, running a temperature of 103, was wilting, moaning that she'd die if made to pose in the humidity of the pastel-hued pool house. |
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There were plenty of herberts moaning about Annika Sorenstam. |
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And before he went over to talk to them, he came over to my office, and he was moaning and groaning. |
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Scots may want to come over all Runrig bestriding mighty crags, but they are really Arab Straps, moaning about damp and impotence in provincial housing schemes. |
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She's staggering under the weight, moaning and weeping and acting scared. |
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I headed out to the grocery store to buy a crate of limes while the crew was laid out on infirmary cots in the garage, moaning over their painful open sores. |
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The dam was moaning, opening, unlocking a furtive, unknown world beneath. |
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She lay frozen on the bed for a moment, straining to hear, above the moaning of the wind, the human sounds that she knew must be present in the room. |
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I am tired of my husband moaning that every bed he sleeps in is too small. |
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Malika turned back to Hossein, who was folded up in his chair and moaning softly. |
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For all my moaning, I take pride in my pristinely ironed shirts. |
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I suggest that she goes out and speaks to some of the 750 local residents who signed the petition or wrote letters to the council, rather than moaning from the sidelines. |
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If we did invade, these bleaters would start moaning about imperialism. |
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Be sincere and careful not to make it sound as if you are moaning. |
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Signs to look out for in babies or infants include a high-pitched moaning or whimpering cry, a blank, staring expression and pale, blotchy complexion. |
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The moment he's sitting in his smalls centre stage, rocking backwards and forwards, moaning to himself, a suggestion is made that perhaps it's time to get out of Dodge. |
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It's hard to find any comments section that doesnt have at least one sexist neckbeard moaning on about some sort of inequality in the gaming community and industry. |
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I wet the cloth and sponged his forehead with it, and his moaning ceased. |
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But I'm not moaning or nuffin, because I know it'll get better. |
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In my case it was Barnacarroll and there was no moaning about the walk just a sturdy determination to get on with it and be there for the great occasion. |
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Dammit, I need to stop whining and moaning and overanalysing everything. |
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Rachel is becoming a rebel who increasingly sounds like a voice from the slush pile of chick lit, moaning about the passing of her childbearing years. |
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The danger is people listening to the moaning of disillusioned hacks and venerating a chocolate-box version of the past instead of seeking out new music. |
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That did not go down well with the young woman and in spite of her persistent protests, her moaning and screaming, she was released only after the feasters had their fill. |
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The opening music, a moaning sax and male voice intoning a sound that resembles the word mamma, sets a tone that would make the spectator think otherwise. |
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The postbags of personal finance sections are often stuffed with letters from folk moaning on about what a mouldy old swizz they think Premium Bonds are. |
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If my feet are comfortable, then I don't get crotchety and start moaning. |
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The activists could hear women moaning and crying out in pain. |
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Just give over, stop moaning and if it's that bad don't go back. |
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I have a strong feeling that there is going to be a lot more moaning and groaning by these other strikers this season and possibly the departure of one or two of them. |
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And there she remained, moaning quietly, until late the following morning when her dozy brood managed to stagger out of bed to ask what was for breakfast. |
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Stan is a martyr to arthritis, Chris a martyr to Stan's endless moaning about it. |
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Tory Mr Herbert suggested chief constables should stop moaning on the TV and get on with the job of making savings. |
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I let out another moaning mewl, biting my lip as I awaited whatever he planned. |
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AoMust Be SantaAo ramps up the insanity to even dizzier levels, with accordions moaning and cymbals crashing away at the speed of polka. |
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A HEARTLESS hotel boss reduced brides to tears by doubling wedding bills at the last minute then called them CHAVS for moaning. |
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Patients and employees were dazed, crying, and moaning, he said. |
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Aston Villa lost on a much worse surface some weeks earlier with no moaning and Southampton took a point on a mudbath without complaint. |
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Then I could spend another few years listening to you idiots moaning and whingeing, and mithering on about something you know nothing about. |
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It seems that viewing the past with rose-tinted glasses is almost as stereotypically British a pastime as queuing and moaning about the weather. |
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You have two very simple options, stop moaning or GO BACK HOME and whinge there. |
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Lytle was already moaning in shame, fallen back in bed with his hand across his face like he'd just washed up somewhere, a piece of wrack. |
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Shortly after his appointment was announced, fans took to Twitter and various fansites moaning about the decision by writer, Stephen Moffat. |
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Cetaceans produce a number of vocalizations, notably the clicks and whistles of dolphins and the moaning songs of the humpback whale. |
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I can hear the wise old do-gooding sages moaning about long-term development already. |
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They let the hog loose, and the squeal subsided into a grunty moaning as it wandered erratically, the red draining pink into the snow around the yard. |
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It is horrific to hear moaning, sighs and whimpers from under the rubble when we can do so little to reach victims quickly,'' Red Cross spokeswoman Nina Galbe said. |
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