That did not deter the drunken banter which at times bordered on abuse as 38-year-old Jim Penn, a film researcher from west London who was on at 11pm, found out after calls from the floor for him to account for the whereabouts of his wife.
A lot of the time, bordering on the 99th percentile, I'll just throw swag in this one corner of my lavishly decorated apartment.
His plays are distinguished by a deep sense of melancholy and pessimism and are threaded through with a fervent religious strain which, faced with the transitoriness of earthly things and the fight for survival in the ravaged Germany of the time, borders on despair.
Diana's death interrupts Elizabeth's sleep in more ways than one: a gentle hand comes knocking, and in time so does the rest of the world, which takes to the abbreviated life of Our Lady of Televised Confession with passion that in time borders on the religious, the hysterical, the mad.
But there's something that naturally happens with women when we reach our 30s -- the need to defy time, bordering on a state of rebellion.
Having been raised at the altar of productivity, I saw this activity as a colossal waste of time, bordering on sinful.
Festivals often include not only feasting but also dramatic dancing and athletic events, as well as revelries and carnivals that at times border on the licentious.
On the flip side, this single-mindedness gave Mr. O'Neill a reputation for not suffering fools easily and for displaying a doggedness that could, at times, border on the inflexible and made it hard to build consensus.
She was frequently subjected to harsh questioning that at times bordered on the disrespectful.
Democrats had a different reaction to the rush of advertisements, at times bordering on panic.
