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1. grandstand on Freddy’s side, but stopped when she heard the cracking of the
2. shouted to the man in the grandstand across the arena
3. The troops were drawn up in ranks on three sides of the square, and Major Vincent, with the Bürgermeister, members of the town council and their spouses sitting on the grandstand behind him, made a speech about the deep sense of patriotism that he was experiencing on the holiday
4. A roar rose from the crowd, eighty-thousand strong, seated in the mile-long main grandstand fronting the pit areas
5. All the way around the top of the gigantic grandstand Kleti-style Revealings thirty meters high showed other people celebrating at other huge gatherings all over Kellaran
6. All the way around the top of the gigantic grandstand Kleti-style Revealings a hundred feet high showed other people celebrating at other huge gatherings all over Kellaran
7. The Grandstand had been built when the school‘s population was seven hundred, so even with about fifty parents occupying the front rows, there was plenty of space for the hundred and twenty-five students to spread out and make a picnic of the afternoon
8. Instead of shaking hands and sitting quietly when she arrived in the grandstand, Desolé had grasped his arm and asked if he recognised her
9. Suddenly he couldn’t face schoolwork, so walked to the grandstand where he slumped on a bench overlooking the playing fields
10. I have said this a thousand times about horse players: when they get to the entrance of the race track, they leave their brains outside when they walk into the grandstand area
11. You’ll need to grandstand that ring
12. Opening on the 19th of April, the entire grandstand was completely covered by anxious spectators who could barely wait to place their wagers, drink beer, and buy pretzels from the peanut venders
13. What has sports turned into today? What is something called a sport? A chance to grandstand
14. The viceregal houseparty which included many wellknown ladies was chaperoned by Their Excellencies to the most favourable positions on the grandstand while the picturesque foreign delegation known as the Friends of the Emerald Isle was accommodated on a tribune directly opposite
15. For the occasion of the 1935 European Rowing Championships, engineers had recently completed a large covered grandstand with a seating capacity of seventy-five hundred
16. An expansive grassy area had been laid out along the water to the east of the grandstand to accommodate another ten thousand standing spectators
17. As they made their way into the grounds, spectators with pricier tickets headed for the permanent, covered grandstand on the near side of the water; those with less expensive tickets trundled across a pontoon bridge to the massive wooden bleachers on the far side, where the national flags of the various nations entered in the rowing events fluttered along the broad back side of the structure
18. Three thousand of the luckiest took refuge under the cover of the massive permanent grandstand, right in front of the finish line
19. By the time we got to the Dominion, The Attractions and I were wound up so tight that it was inevitable that such a grandstand gesture would backfire
20. There was a great thunder and shouting and rising up in our grandstand
21. ‘Ah,’ sighed the grandstand
22. The grandstand stared at him
1. His second run was a perfectly done simple vault with a grandstanding one-handed pat on the bull’s rump as he sailed over that drew more catcalls and hoisted flaggons from his buddies
2. Why not simply enforce existing gun laws (already) on the books rather than proposing newer ones whose questionable impact on reducing gun related crimes are likely to produce diminishing results? Such political grandstanding, I suppose, plays well among certain audiences given to theoretical assumptions to critical questions that otherwise require practical solutions
3. She would make empty protests to the caller and her friends about there being ‘no piece for the wicked’ but it was all grandstanding
4. Nancy had not been very tender about her opinion of Douglas MacArthur, describing him as a grandstanding egomaniac who rarely listened to the opinions from others around him
5. Dempster knew instantly that the man was only grandstanding, probably in order to impress his men and look tough
6. “Their God is trying to win over the world’s population by grandstanding
7. If you’re genuinely interested in negotiating a good outcome, rather than grandstanding to your base, (admittedly, that’s a big “if”), try to minimize the variables that you claim are non-negotiable
8. not the stagnation we have today from ‘experienced political grandstanding
9. Nobody will ever know how many millions of better athletes could have beaten the pants off the few professional athletes who love strutting around and grandstanding in front of fat lazy spectators as the only way to make a living
10. Top dog at a crime scene, he does a first-class job without grandstanding or getting in our way
1. Gantries, platforms and temporary grandstands surrounded the gallows where television crews were setting up and radio presenters were practicing their lines
2. Freddy as we walked the length of the grandstands and passed the sick appetites of
3. happy thought in my head disappeared as I saw the grandstands on the other side
4. in front of the grandstands, grabbing anything that could be used as a weapon and
5. It was dark in the grandstands, but I could hear John Smith
6. Families of the girls are in the grandstands, Jane Bangs mother present, the only surviving member of the family
7. They listened to the timer controller’s voice as it echoed across the grandstands
8. As though they are noblemen in grandstands viewing fortress warfare in the years of the Crusaders
9. Now with the Olympics approaching, officials were planning to add a massive set of wooden grandstands built out over the water on the other side of the lake
10. Meanwhile masons and carpenters were at work building a large and stately new boathouse, Haus West, just east of the permanent grandstands, supplementing two large existing boathouses, Haus Mitte and Haus Ost
11. As they entered the final five hundred meters, though, it was Cal that brought the fans in the grandstands to their feet
12. The grandstands at the finish line slowly filled with people fanning themselves with their programs—men in fedoras and Panama hats, women in flat-brimmed hats perched on their heads at jaunty angles
13. On August 11 they sat in the Grünau grandstands and watched the preliminaries in all the rowing events except their own eight-oared contest, scheduled for the following day
14. That left the Americans and the Brits right where they had expected to be, alone with each other at the front of the pack as the grandstands and the boathouses began to come into view down the course
15. Both coxswains could see the grandstands and the large black-and-white sign, “Ziel,” demarking the finish line up ahead, but neither was ready to make his move yet
16. The wind was worse than it had been down in front of the grandstands, pushing relentlessly now at their bow, slapping small, choppy waves against the port side
17. When they were sure that they had won, the boys rowed slowly past the grandstands to polite applause
18. Bree and I went wild, or at least as wild as two bruised and injured people can, cheering and whooping it up along with hundreds of Jannie’s schoolmates who were stomping their approval on the metal grandstands and clapping wildly
19. There was the sun in the sky, the lake and the boats on it, the grandstands, the pitcher on his mound standing with his hand out and down after tossing the ball; there was Big Poe with the ball in his mighty black hand; there was the infield staring, crouching in at the scene, and there was Jimmie Cosner running, kicking up dirt, the only moving thing in the entire summer world