They took notes diligently, scribbling in their notebooks or typing on their laptop computers or Palms.
Her answer was diligently noted down.
As the problems persisted, Fowler wrote, and she was prevented from moving teams and from being promoted, she reported every infraction to H.R. This later led an H.R. representative to ask whether Fowler had considered that she herself might be the issue — a comment that Fowler also diligently noted.
The City Council's resolution noted that Scialabba had "diligently fulfilled the room scheduling needs of overpaid professors for 35 years" and asked Cambridge residents "who still practice the habit of reading to place their collective tongues in their collective cheeks" and celebrate his marvelous deeds.
There, he flipped on a computer and studied the snippets of film of the nation's best college football players, diligently noting the skills of the defensive linemen he watched.
In an introduction to a 1920s Atlantic edition of the novel he explained how much he enjoyed cycling around the settings for the novel, diligently noting the outstanding architectural features in each place – and jotting down ideas for how he would wipe them from the map.
She diligently notes the time and light conditions of owl fly-outs (the moment the birds leave for night hunting); she analyzes the contents of long-eared owl pellets (a regurgitated bolus of indigestible animal parts, including fur, feathers, bones and teeth); and she laboriously keys out the names of moths.
To Roosevelt, safari meant big-game hunting, and he set out to shoot almost every species in East Africa, diligently noting their sizes and weights, speculating on their relative abilities to kill humans and occasionally remarking on how tasty they were to eat.
We especially don't care about the differences you have so diligently (read: obsessively) noted between the books and the screen adaptation.
They diligently checked it and noted damage to the front bumper which, they say, looked as though it had been caused by a minor accident.
