Sentences with phrase «scampering at»

It sounds like science fiction, for one thing, even though the monkey — a cute little critter named Belle — is completely real and scampering at Duke University.

Not exact matches

Partly that's down to Iceland being Iceland: with their Errea kits, their clever, scampering, whole - hearted football and their clear unbridled delight at being in the tournament, the Icelanders are precisely the kind of team that decent - minded folk end up cheering for.

In front of 12,000 fans at Sac City College in early September, the speedy tailback registered an 85 - yard scamper against Christian Brothers to propel his team to its first victory of the season, 43 - 14.

Jimmerson did a great job cutting back at the 20 - yard line to ensure he scored on this 78 yard scamper.

One rising shot in the first half tested Heurelho Gomes and his scampering runs past players reminds me of Mark Davies at times.

can't blame a man, when united come calling, albeit through the intervention of your previous manager and not through you looking like you really belong at that level then you go scampering off and that's what fellaini did.

Madrid were rampant and straight from the kick - off they regained possession, allowing Ronaldo to scamper free from the halfway line and drill a low shot past Alves at his near post.

Its silky brown was plain to see against the white and it stood up to get a better look at us before scampering quickly to the waters edge and sliding sleekly into the slow current.

Enjoying the outdoors and going for a long walk in a majestic forest setting with birds chirping, squirrels running, water lapping at the creeks edge and happy children scampering and enjoying it all is a perfect picture... -LSB-...]

At the same time, rank - and - file Republican and Independent Democratic Conference lawmakers scampered for political cover, with one Republican now saying she won't take the money, another refusing to comment, and still others saying that the state comptroller has allowed the payments so they must be OK.

The rat, which is going down a flight of stairs at the First Avenue L train station, nearly drags the pizza down to the bottom before giving up and scampering off.

The accident which occurred between Fefele - Okene Abuja Road at about 1:30 pm Friday saw residents of the area scampering for safety.

The videos of the birds scampering up steep inclines are remarkable and have «blown the field wide open,» says Kevin Padian, an evolutionary biologist at the University of California, Berkeley.

That's what you'd expect to see in a transition from moseying along on four legs to scampering on two, says Yuong - Nam Lee, a paleontologist at Seoul National University who first came across the slab back in 2004.

For those perhaps not familiar with the jargon of the Martian astronaut community, crew selection protocols are what you use before a trip to Mars to determine what kind of person is going to make a staunch and reliable crew member, as opposed to the kind liable to — as we say in astropsychology — fall victim to Space Madness, sell his soul to the onboard master computer, disembowel his crewmates somewhere deep in the black, unaccountable void, eventually landing on Mars only to scamper briefly across its surface, forgetting his helmet in a self - made diaper of hydraulic cabling, and finally collapsing with a mouthful of red dirt, advancing human understanding of the Red Planet millimetrically, if at all.

While the moment mammals first scampered onto the evolutionary scene is still a point of contention, paleontologists agree that the wee beasties were around by 175 million years ago at the latest.

If it's hard to understand exactly what Godard is trying to say in this brief scrapbook scamper — it clocks in at one hour, 25 minutes — just watching it is a strange, melancholy pleasure, and an open window into the world of things that worry its creator.

At regular intervals the film stops short for similiarly nifty Chan choreography, letting the star flip, swivel, scamper up walls and hurl large objects with his feet.

The action takes place almost entirely jumping between tanks at the institute (subbed in by Pixar for an originally planned SeaWorld - like location) and in a number of less exotic (and less creative) scampers on land.

Ferguson's vocals has been very conspicuously overdubbed by another singer's, which gives these supposedly triumphant sequences the unfortunate air of Lina Lamont's public shaming at the end of Singin» in the Rain: you half - expect the curtain to lift up to reveal Debbie Reynolds at the microphone, while Ferguson scampers from the stage.

The Best Picture winner of that year — one that heralded for many the ascendance of the «indie» and predicted, if one were cynical enough to predict such a gloriously retarded thing at the time, the major studios scampering to erect boutique «major - minis» and hence create their very own independent movies — was of course Sam Mendes's grimoire of suburban gothic archetypes, American Beauty.

The story scampers to the moment when the great Sally Hawkins, as Miss Lucy the renegade teacher, reveals to the young children in her class at the Hailsham boarding school that they are, in fact, clones.

Especially considering the film is often fueled by the energy of scampering, screaming children, the harnessing of unwieldy elements represents a high level of cinematic achievement — the camera always manages to be in the right place at the right time, while also showing us things in a distinct, askew manner, conveying a compelling heightened reality.

At 2:30 on weekday afternoons, more than one in three of the students at Chicora Elementary School, in North Charleston, South Carolina, scampers into the cafeteriAt 2:30 on weekday afternoons, more than one in three of the students at Chicora Elementary School, in North Charleston, South Carolina, scampers into the cafeteriat Chicora Elementary School, in North Charleston, South Carolina, scampers into the cafeteria.

We scamper down the mountain and rejoin Arkansas Scenic Byway 7 at Ola.

With a 4,840 - lb weight on our scales, the G90 3.3 T AWD scampers to 60 mph in just 5.4 seconds, running the quarter mile in 13.9 seconds at 100.3 mph.

of torque, ample numbers for a car that tips the scales at 1,596 kilograms; it scampers to 100 km / h in 7.3 seconds.

This car can scamper down the quarter mile in less than 14 - seconds at 100 mph on factory tires, despite being built like a tank.

I was well surprised when the RAV4 scampered up a steep hill at Hollister Hills off - road park in California, behaving more like a 4Runner than a RAV4.

The felines play in cat habitats, scamper across cushions, and grab at toys all the while enjoying the private concert.

The puppy room is large at 15 x 15 feet, with plenty of room for the puppies to scamper about and play.

At the end of that first day of Westminster 2012, I scampered back to my hotel for some rest before the second day of competition, which included the prestigious Best in Show.

In one moment, they were scampering up and down the gentleman's pants legs, in the next, batting wildly at each other and wrestling.

Cats in the wild hunt at night, and inside cats who scamper about instead of sleeping haven't been sufficiently «played out» during the day.

But retailers should inform pet owners that a habitat should be at least three to four times the body length of an average adult to provide room for scampering and exercise toys.

At low tide you can avoid the long paddle out if you scamper round under the cliffs and rock off.

I managed to get a bell and sprinted around as Cat Luigi, and it was fun to scamper up walls and the flagpole at the end.

It's unclear as to whether she shows people visions of possible futures or just purely nightmare scenarios created by their own minds, especially since Thor's vision seems to be a potential portent which sends him scampering back to Asgard at the end of the film, but its her powers that results in the creation of Ultron, and Iron - Man going head - to - head with the Hulk.

At times, the screen can be full of ninjas, scampering along like a West End chorus line.

With the ability to scamper up vertical walls and rapidly unleash her claws at enemies, the jade - colored kitty also offers a good balance of navigational finesse and offensive might.

One is to simply say «it's Frogger, combined with Flight Control after a heavy session of drinking in the Hot Tub Time Machine» and just leave it at that... I'll even pat you on the bottom as you scamper away to your room to enjoy it.

It is, in some ways, an expansion of Dan Kennedy's notion of looking at something and trying to figure out how you can use it in another context; the scamper technique just gives you a blueprint for doing that.

To send out assassins you can just open a menu at any time, while fort commanders don't run screaming and force you to return again and again until you can kill them before the scamper.

You can even bring up all the sliders on screen at once, giving one - click access to all adjustments without having to scamper around the interface for them.

The chip finds its way into the mid-range DAVINCI Professional model, kicking off at $ 4,995 (with a $ 350 discount if you scamper over and buy one straight away) complete with 12 GB of DDR3 memory and NVIDIA PNY Quadro FX 1800 768 MB graphics.

Or if they had, I was too busy scampering home to the Sprogs to drink at them.