Sentences with phrase «upon hours trying»

As a big fan of Dead or Alive 4, I spent hours upon hours trying to progress through each and every story mode throughout unforgiving difficulty.

I spend HOURS UPON HOURS trying to think of ways to make it easier to set up your author platform to make it easier for you to promote yourself and your work.

This is not about sending you a long list of singles in Macclesfield and expecting you to spend hours upon hours trying to find those who are compatible.

During my first pregnancy I felt like I spent hours upon hours trying to research all of the information that is summed up beautifully in Real Food for Pregnancy.

Not exact matches

Why is it that companies can spend hours upon hours investing in content creation, only to have their efforts fall flat with the audiences they're trying to reach?

The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

She innocently slipped a quarter into the Pac - Man slot, curled her fingers around the controls, held the bright red ball of the joy stick firmly against her palm, and there she remained — hour upon hour, quarter after quarter, desperately trying to keep her Pac - Man out of the voracious jaws of four different - colored and deceptively cute - looking monsters; trying to make him eat up the dots on the «table» and down the bunches of fruit which occasionally appeared; and sporadically trying to make him turn the monsters into frightened blue turn - tails by eating «energizing dots» — all of this in an attempt to build up points for the owner of the increasingly blistered hand.

I had spent hours on the internet trying to find a good challah recipe to use, when I finally chanced upon yours.

In other news, our team seems to be rounding nicely into form, with a productive off - season and several new additions already settling in, there seems to be a renewed sense of confidence in the air... our well - oiled machine has conducted business again early this year, so we can just sit back, kick our feet up and watch all those other suckers scramble to make panic moves in the 11th hour... of course, we need to tie up a few loose ends but our team of savvy negotiators, under the tutelage of our faithful leader, will perform their usual magic with ample time to spare... I have to laugh when I look around the soccer world and see all those teams look upon us with envy and scorn as they struggle to mimic our seemingly infallible business model... thank goodness the powers that be had the foresight and fortitude to resist the temptations of the modern football era... instead of listening to all the experts and simply taking the easy way out by making the necessary improvements on the field and in the front office, we chose the path never traveled... we are truly pioneers in our field... sometimes you just have to have faith in the people that have always conducted themselves in a respectful and honest fashion... most fans aren't so fortunate, they will never know what it's like to follow a team that treats everyone in and around the club as if they were an extended member of the family... all for one I say... so when you wake up this morning, please try not to gloat when you see rival fans pacing back and forth waiting for their respective teams to pull the usual panic buys, just say nothing and be thankful that it isn't you... like I've always said, this is why you stay the course... this is when the real benefits of having someone in charge for over 2 decades really pays off... have a great day fellow Gunners

We have tried to take a more AP approach and attend to him immediately upon his cries (which is usually immediately upon laying him in his crib)... and can continue for hours.

I've spent hours upon hours reading about baby sleep, nap techniques, bedtime routines, age - appropriate wake times, and I've tried it all.

So don't be one of those guys who spend hours upon hours in the gym trying to build their backs only to show some mediocre results.

They spend hours upon hours reading about different routines, trying out the routine, and dismissing the routine.

But, there are many female bikers who are intent upon finding some prime and exotic manhood and they have spent many hours trying to fend off the attentions of the less exotic manhood.

I still sank hours upon hours into Lara Croft GO, seeking out hidden treasures and trying to solve its very clever puzzles, and I have no hesitation in saying that if you have a Vita, you should pick it up, too.

Metroid was quite a solitary experience, spending hours upon hours in a series of labyrinths trying to hunt down the likes of Kraid, Ridley & Mother brain whilst taking out countless jellyfish - like beings known as Metroids.

It involves a colossal amount of research time, hour upon hour of note taking, link saving, referring back to info you've already read at least once, collecting all of your data and trying to analyze it on paper in a way that your readers can easily follow.

I am Mr Priscilla Gomez by name, i am a citizen of Texas USA, i have been looking forward for a genuine loan company for the past 5 months and all i got was group of scams who made me to trust them and at the end of the day, they duped me of $ 7000 without giving anything in return, all my hope was lost, i got confused and frustrated, i find it very difficult to feed my family, i never wanted to have anything to do with loan companies on net again, because i never trusted any loan company since i was scammed, so i went to borrow some money from a friend, i told him all that happened and he said he can help me, that he knows a loan company that can help me, that he just got a loan from them, he directed me on how to apply for the loan, i did as he told me, i applied, though i never believed but i tried and to my greatest surprise my loan was granted to me within 48 hours, i could not believe, i am happy and rich again and i am thanking God that upon this scams all over the places a genuine company like this still exist, please i advise everyone out there who are in need of loan and can be reliable, trusted and capable of paying back at the due time of funds to contact ([email protected]) and be free from scams on the internet.

They have never stopped trying to improve upon the design either, and nowadays some services reach speeds of up to 320 kilometres an hour (200 miles per hour), transporting passengers in safety and comfort to their destination in a fraction of the time it would take on British Pendolino (which has a top speed of 140 miles per hour but is restricted to 125 miles per hour due to the lack of foresight when it came to installing - or not as the case may be - in cab signalling).

The Flame in the Flood provides hours upon hours of entertainment as you try to keep Scout alive.

A word of caution: upon trying to bring the open packet home, I found that it had gone stale after an hour of being opened.

Metroid was quite a solitary experience, spending hours upon hours in a series of labyrinths trying to hunt down the likes of Kraid, Ridley & Mother brain whilst taking out countless jellyfish - like beings known as Metroids.

I still sank hours upon hours into Lara Croft GO, seeking out hidden treasures and trying to solve its very clever puzzles, and I have no hesitation in saying that if you have a Vita, you should pick it up, too.

I breezed through a world in less than half an hour, but upon reviewing my progress, I found that I was awarded only one of three stars for each level, giving plenty of incentive to go back and try again.

What I'm trying to say, is that players should be rewarded for investing hours upon hours of their lives with, at least, a fitting end to their own tales.

Currently he's trying to destroy every monster nest in the game's world, something he's never done across a single save file, even after hours upon hours of blowing up monster nests.

Now, I didn't pour as many hours into Skyrim as most did, primarily due to having to juggle multiple titles at any given time, so after around twenty or so hours I became distracted and moved on to whatever else was vying for my attention; with that said, one of my fondest gaming memories of recent times involve questing with my homeboy Sven until we somehow became separated, arriving at Whiterun to be confronted with a letter informing me of his death (Which I tried fruitlessly to avoid by spamming previous saves to no avail) and then venturing back out into the bitter wilds alone in order to retrieve his corpse and place it upon a shrine behind my abode in Riverwood.

A combination of a smart three - plane system enhanced by deployable barriers and obstacles, deep party customisation options and some stunning art direction make for a pretty addictive experience, and one you can still try for hours upon hours — for free — through that aforementioned demo available on the PSN store.

I let him rattle on for a while, trying to convince me (and probably himself) that yes, Sony went out of their way to have their consoles lock up so that the masses will not spend hours upon hours basking in all its glory.

Hours upon hours spent sifting through multiple different performance reports, in multiple different formats, trying to identify which visits turned into clients, which were duplicates, and which were just passinHours upon hours spent sifting through multiple different performance reports, in multiple different formats, trying to identify which visits turned into clients, which were duplicates, and which were just passinhours spent sifting through multiple different performance reports, in multiple different formats, trying to identify which visits turned into clients, which were duplicates, and which were just passing by.

Students and parents alike have spent hours upon hours learning the mechanics of parking as they try to park our driving school car into several different tight parking spaces.

use the 48 hours of a weekend to try and sneak the beginnings of a beard past loving spouses, who repeatedly indicate that they (me) will be able to keep said beard «only upon unicorns holding elected office».

Instead of spending hours trying to come up with topics, be on the lookout for holidays each month that you can expand upon.

The minute a Realtor starts calculating hours / days invested in a client in conjunction with dollars per hour / day to be gained via that client on a per - diem basis, then one has immediately descended down to the level of a crass used - care salesperson, trying to sell the mark every car that the mark casts his / her eyes upon.

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