Whatevers: the first episode in a Spooks series is invariably a corker but this one was especially good: heaving with the usual über-baddies, moral ambiguities and mini mid-episode cliff-hangers, it was also, dare I say, rather anti-American.
Tons of perfectly good materials, worth millions of dollars — fabrics, wood, ropes — are just heaved into Dumpsters at the end of shows and events.
I got very good at heaving her wheelchair into the back of the car and slamming the rear door down quickly before the chair could slip back out.
His little tummy just heaved and heaved until he stopped.
Like good capitalists, we heave and we ho ourselves into each workday, trading our brains and brawn for a wee bit of bacon.
Novels overburdened in this way make good projectiles for heaving at the wall.
Like any good bosom, it can heave on cue.
Here the heave of good will was palpable from both sides.
While the work clearly gets done to everyone's satisfaction, there's also an element of good-natured larking about ("Heave!" one guy urges me gleefully as I lean fruitlessly into a long train of cages, only to find someone else is pushing it back from the other end).
A solid bargain on a good Bordeaux that still heaves a hefty profit for the house is just good customer relations.
