Sentences with phrase «head over a desk»

I could never read these huge classic books without getting bored, or tired from holding it / fighting pages / leaning my head over a desk.

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I remember glancing over at my co-founder Levi, coding away at a desk and bobbing his head to some tunes.

A bill headed to the governor's desk would name the Ballard Road bridge over the Northway in honor of State Trooper Timothy Pratt, a 55 - year - old from South Glens Falls who was killed while helping a truck driver last fall.

Cue a crashing of heads onto desks over the road at the Treasury.

A bipartisan effort to give New York additional say over large - vessel anchorage locations on the Hudson River has won final approval in the state Legislature and is heading to the governor's desk.

Young Philippe spent much of his childhood with his head in scientific magazines or playing under his father's drawing desk, poring over the blueprints that had fallen to the floor.

Sitting at a desk every day, you tend to stoop over with your head forward and shoulders slumped.

We all know a typical day for me is more like sitting at my desk banging my head against the table and crying over the fact that I still never manage to start any of my assignments more than a week before they're due.

I still remember air raid drills, practicing duck and cover when we hid under our desks with our hand over our heads to protect us from nuclear bombs.

The State Board of Education will be able to disentangle competing math standards that have been creating confusion over what should be taught in eighth grade, under a bill headed to Gov. Jerry Brown's desk.

I could be standing behind the glass - front counter at my retail comic shop job, or behind the formica circulation desk the library where I serve as assistant manager, young adult services coordinator, and overseer of graphic novel collection development, but the parent will always be the same: looking at their phone, occasionally glancing over the top of their child's head.

On the day I was to leave, my mother was sitting at her desk as usual, the light through the stained glass colouring the smoke that hung over her head.

Now Evan moves into the room, heads over to the desk, the chair pushed back so hard against the wall by the paramedics that it left a dent in the plaster just under the window.

But, that long wait in - between - with Carmel getting more and more agitated, with no contact with any of the women behind the desk, with work back at the office looming over my head, left me feeling ignored, annoyed, and unimportant.

This week I've been head - desking over one of the latest self - justifications of decorative dog - fanciers, their claim that they are «preservation breeders.»

However, a few of our friends such as Frequent Miler and The Free - quent Flyer have suggested a workaround to this restriction — simply head over to a real Marriott and use your synced American Express to buy a $ 200 gift card at the registration desk.

Suite with King bed, high ceilings, separate living room, flat - screen TV, iPod docking station, working desk, marble clad bathroom and glass shower with over sized shower head.

Room with King bed, flat - screen TV, BOSE Wave Studio, working desk with built in data ports and a marble - clad bathroom with a glass shower and over sized shower heads.

You're sitting at your desk, hair dishevelled, suit jacket flung on the floor, papers and files scattered all over the place, and you're scratching around in your head for the right words to put an end to the memorandum that a senior lawyer threw on your desk hours ago and expects before morning.

The meeting is over and everyone heads back to their desk.

In my haste and natural expectancy of instant compliance, I sat with my head bent over the original on my desk, and my right hand sideways, and somewhat nervously extended with the copy, so that immediately upon emerging from his retreat, Bartleby might snatch it and proceed to business without the least delay.

Plus I've got ideas galore in my head and all over my desk just waiting to get on my blog!