"So sitting around dreaming one night I realized that I could either sell the Jeep or stretch it to fix all the issues.
So sitting around a conference table, Ms. Nedrow, the leader of the company's reading and language arts group, is debating with two members of her staff about whether "Water Hole Rescue" can be included in one of those tests.
You can watch a live webcast of the announcement here (and I strongly advise you to do so: sitting around watching a webcast of a pair of gilt doors constitutes my favourite moment of the literary year. The excitement when the doors finally open is quite out of proportion).
But when you have a dozen or so friends sitting around drinking beer (or glasses of rosé, as the case may be) and picking together, it takes on a certain festive air.
"I don't believe it was destroyed, and I don't know how you can break something so big or how so many French bureaucrats sitting around calling their friends for so many hours can be so incompetent," said Ms. Saint Phalle, who was long married to the Swiss sculptor Jean Tinguely and whose joint work with him, the Stravinsky fountain, stands outside the Paris museum.
"So, we were sitting around, and someone asked, 'What are we doing for the next box,' " said Hugh Brown, Rhino's creative director, referring to "Can You Dig It?".
In fact, you only really get prosperous if productivity is increasing, and that can't happen when you have so many people sitting around doing nothing, or working in jobs that don't take advantage of the skills they have.
So, I was sitting around worrying about something inconsequential the other day, as I'm wont to do.
For example, certain metro areas may be more likely to pick up some new piece of technology like Sense than others, so the company needs to figure out the right number of units to ship and where so they aren't sitting around on a shelf unsold.
So they were just sitting around doing nothing, and it was costing us money".
But I wanted to do a little extra, and I had this damned cilantro and ginger sitting around, so while the steak was searing I sizzled a load of garlic and ginger in a little oil.
