How To Use Collecting In A Sentence

The residents are mostly impoverished families who survive by collecting recyclable garbage.
After a day of collecting ones and fives and nickels and quarters, it strangely looked like a lot of money.
In the days of yore when beer in pubs was served only in pints or quarts, the serving wenches had to keep mental tabs on who drank pints and who drank quarts to get it right when collecting payment.
Recollecting the day he saw Napoleon on the street, the poet imagines what must be the tumult of thoughts behind Caesar's moveless mask-the cities, the factories, the armies rising in the conqueror's dream of power.
Rather than deal with the hassle of finding tenants and collecting the rent, I had appointed an agent to do the dirty work.

This so-called "truncation" of the collection process calls for a redefinition of the duties incumbent on the holder and collecting and drawee banks and have been specifically addressed in the proposed legislation. ANC Daily News Briefing
Where the lord of the manor had a demesne farm, the court appointed a reeve to supervise the farming activities, using labour services and collecting rents.
Despite a string of victories-the judge's stinging decision enumerating Allen's "fraudulent modus operandi," occasional media coverage, and the support of real CIA agents and military heroes-he is no closer to collecting the $40,000 he says was "conned" from his family in 1993. Edgar Allen
In fact the people that were chosen for management were usually total screwups and were dangerous around such equipment and aircraft..usually their day consisted of walking around asking the mechanics, “Are you done yet?” smoking cigarettes and generally just collecting a paycheck. Think Progress » Under Fire, ABC Yanks Official Blog of 9/11 Docudrama
This easy way to avoid sales tax is one reason for the enormous popularity of mail order in the US and it means that US Internet e-tailers are used to not collecting sales tax too often.
We walked along the beach collecting small crabs in a bucket.
Mentally recollecting myself, I took a deep breath and said coolly, ‘Andrew, please leave.’
This analysis suggests that, from a practical point of view, it is not easy to draw a clear-cut distinction between a collecting bank and a discounting bank.
The school had also come to an arrangement with a local pub for parents to use its car park when dropping or collecting their youngsters.
The salon organizers have made prints a special highlight of this year's event, hoping to start a craze for print collecting in China.
It is very serious if they were collecting and disseminating cheap political dirt from a classified document labeled ‘secret.’
Ray then spent thirteen years travelling around Britain and Europe collecting specimens and studying animals.
For Daniel and his wife, Nancy, 63, retirement has meant frequent travel, with their collecting adding purpose to their trips.
After counting the each of the subbranch and collecting the results in dictionaries, the dictionaries were merged together.clojure. core/merge-with Planet Python
The nephrogram has a streaky and striated appearance reflecting stasis of contrast in the dilated collecting tubules which can be prolonged for days after the IVP.
She tells us tales of ambulances collecting women in labour to take them to the hospital delivery suites, only to be held up at a checkpoint where the women give birth.
I helped for a day in a sugarbush collecting sap and watching it boil down. Archive 2005-10-01
After feeding all the animals, milking the cows and collecting the eggs, Freya walked across fields and through forest, trying to straighten her head.
It's not like we're making more money -- we're just collecting it to pass along to the state -- but from a customer's perspective, they just have to pay more when they buy from a physical store than from an online store, which can disincline some folks to buy local. Action Items for Booksellers & Others
Coleman and his wife Linda spent thirty years collecting firsthand accounts of the event from letters and diaries, archives, and newspapers of the day.
Why, there, if a college student comes downtown with a flareback coat and heart-shaped trousers and one of those nifty little pompadour hats that are brushed back from the brow to give the brains a chance to grow, they arrest him for collecting a crowd and disturbing traffic. At Good Old Siwash
Our choices are presented in no particular order, but each covers a topic that made us think about coin collecting and/or the hobby and business of numismatics in a different way. The Best and the Worst of 2008 : Coin Collecting News
Outside in the yard was a storm water drain which was used as an urinal and a water barrel for collecting the water from the roof and the slated stone buildings, a wicket gate leading to a dry toilet at the and of the garden.
He’s even included little touches that add to a sense of atmosphere, such as Frankish women collecting arrows from the dead bodies of the foes during a break in battle. 09 « October « 2009 « The Manga Curmudgeon
He would walk along the beach collecting the flotsam and jetsam that had been washed ashore.
This was an ai or three-toed sloth. It was in the possession of a gentleman, who was collecting curiosities.
Tissue in his lower left lung was dying, and septic emboli were wearing holes in his lungs and collecting in his kidneys. SUPERBUG
He refused to comply with Henry's demand to accept a delay in payment and set about collecting his due by main force.
The household tax system of collecting articles by the nine grades families was reflected in the Wu Bamboo Slips excavated in Zhoumalou, Changsha.
If there’s nobody prescribing, the stationery is standard-issue. one friend there began collecting them to someday sell them on eBay as collectibles; not sure of the market for that, but more power to her. Matthew Yglesias » Treating the Symptoms
The financing structure is not just a bunch of charitable institutions collecting donations and dispensing funds.
The real beauty of the system is how it standardizes previously scattershot methods of collecting and storing data.
We had a visit from somebody collecting for charity.
The project naturally developed into collecting not only videos, but also original recordings and remixes into two double albums packed to the hilt with gems.
From the moment of Germany's defeat, the United States was active in apprehending war criminals, denazifying German society, and collecting and protecting archives of the Nazi regime, all of which have by now been declassified.
Instead of staying indoors, healthily watching a black and white screen – Grandstand, Hancock, Terry and June – they were out canvassing, attending ward meetings, collecting ministers' autographs, drafting position papers and generally behaving in a way unbefitting to young persons. The Ed Balls roadshow: enough to make you weep
She picked up her water and downed it before collecting her stuff and heading home.
His hobby was collecting Japanese comic books, also known as manga, and he always seemed to have oily hair.
From the"treetop"to the"stem of tree", the structures were followed: the pulmonary alveolar capillary network, the postcapillary venule, the collecting venule and the venule.
To the end of May freed prisoners were transported via Klagenfurt to collecting points in Bari and History of Stalag XVIII A
The Inland Revenue is responsible for collecting income tax.
Her interest in Chinese armorial ceramics is longstanding, and is matched by research into the collecting of Chinese art in the West in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
One unpleasant aspect of the commercial invasion of Italy by the Teuton was his liking to live there, and consequently the amount of real estate which he was collecting on the Latin peninsula -- so much that the lovely environs of Naples were fast becoming a German principality! The World Decision
This Ethiopian farmer is facing famine again and, to keep his eight children alive, has been reduced to collecting wood and grass from the bush to sell at market for two birr a bundle.
Fisherman Ray Turner hand-built the V-shaped stone overflow dam, or weir, in the East Branch of the Delaware River in New York; its walls funnel eels into a wooden collecting rack.
A few metres along, the group of young Spanish mothers are putting on clothes, shaking out sarongs, and collecting sunglasses and children.
Mr. George Constable, filled in perhaps unconsciously from the author's own life; for he, no less than his friend, delighted in collecting relics, and in studying out the lines, prætoria, and general castrametation of the English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction
It also points out the acquisition methods of radar signals in time domain of circular scan and the spectrum properties, and introduces the collecting-processing procedure for radar signals of mo...
It is a popular field of collecting, pleasant to behold and with a spice of magic about it.
The cup remains in place for up to three hours, collecting between 10 to 20 milliliters of blood, which is poured into a container in a collection kit Cryo-Cell ships out.
It was at these capitals where the chief would feast his people after collecting very beautiful and attractive sand, which he spread around the palace.
There is a farm on a neck of land belonging to this town (Marblehead, Mass.), which has peculiar advantages for collecting sea kelp and sea moss, and these manures are there used most liberally, particularly in the cultivation of cabbage, from eight to twelve cords of rotten kelp, which is stronger than barn manure, and more suitable food for cabbage, being used to the acre. Cabbages and Cauliflowers: How to Grow Them A Practical Treatise, Giving Full Details On Every Point, Including Keeping And Marketing The Crop
The collecting bug often bites early.
I have been collecting gold pocket watches for many years; hunters and half-hunters together with alberts and half-alberts and associated fobs.
These men were picked up while they were collecting mahua. Villagers say innocents were hacked, shot; cops say they were violent, Naxal ‘sympathizers’
It is true that the advantage or benefit of insurance does not consist in adding anything to the wealth of a company, but only consists in drawing from the premiums paid into its treasury by the policy holders generally, to meet each death claim which arises; or can only be called an _advantage of distribution_, or process of collecting aid from the living members, to assist the representatives or dependents of the deceased ones; but it is not the less on this account an advantage worth _same expense_ in securing. Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884
Report on the potential of a short video to demonstrate the importance of accuracy in collecting road accident information.
Instead, they are sentenced to a life of subordination: tilling fields, building homes, preparing food, collecting firewood, bearing children, and preparing any item -- from charcoal to litchi fruits for their unfaithful husbands to sell on roadsides -- money that will ultimately end up in the men's empty stomachs in the form of bootleg banana booze. Summer Rayne Oakes: Where the fire burns: Accounts from Mozambique
Those who have already spent time and money collecting themselves a full set of miniature fighting monsters may balk at the prospect of starting the lengthy process all over again.
Earnestly information collecting, sorting and submit, do not significant information, omission, material misstatement.
When he began to make money, he went over to the Church and took the plate round at collecting time, and got to be a sidesman, and a trustee, and I don't know what all. VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea
The beavers seemed quite at home, collecting snow between their forepaws and their chin and half push, half carry it along. Weatherwatch: Visit to a frozen London zoo in 1874
Stagnant water can be prevented from developing by stopping water collecting in places such as gutters and flat roofs by removing debris such as leaves and twigs.
Cyriac's detailed notes and drawings, together with his interests in collecting, made him a role model for later antiquarians.
From Tuesday, starting in Sedgley Park, Bury Council has launched its new phase of doorstep recycling which involves collecting residual waste which is not recyclable on an alternate weekly rota.
In a fit of phrensical heedlessness, I sent a letter to my beloved Miss Howe, without recollecting her private address; and it has fallen into her angry mother’s hands: and so that dear friend perhaps has anew incurred displeasure on my account. Clarissa Harlowe
If you have reversible ceiling fans, set them in the winter to circulate the heated air collecting at the ceiling down towards the floor.
The collecting itch urged Smith further and further afield, helped along by Houston's oppressive summer weather.
Website visitors might be surprised to learn that in addition to the Duke's penchant for collecting items like penknives, the queen's husband also enjoys painting landscapes in oils. Queen Elizabeth II's husband to mark birthday
He began collecting lists, brochures and catalogues, which he filed away on the top of a cabinet in his large office.
I hope that it's not redacted and that we actually get to see all of the information the commission is collecting right now.
They would ask me then to take them to what they called pickups, and I assumed what they were doing was collecting the big, but what they were really doing was robbing these places. CNN Transcript Jul 7, 2001
Popular interest in collecting silver was immortalised by Bertie Wooster's antics with cow creamers and porringers.
Writing letters to the council about collecting your rubbish is another domestic thrill. Times, Sunday Times
After collecting the award Reeves slipped it into a plastic carrier bag and shortly after dropped it.
I rose and was about to clap my hat upon my head and burst away, in wrathful indignation from the house; but recollecting — just in time to save my dignity — the folly of such a proceeding, and how it would only give my fair tormentors a merry laugh at my expense, for the sake of one I acknowledged in my own heart to be unworthy of the slightest sacrifice — though the ghost of my former reverence and love so hung about me still, that I could not bear to hear her name aspersed by others — I merely walked to the window, and having spent a few seconds in vengibly biting my lips and sternly repressing the passionate heavings of my chest, I observed to Miss The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Happily, the technology is now doing its job, collecting data methodically and with exquisite sensitivity.
There is a job to be done here, collecting and collating evidence of current practice, trying out theories, developing academic tools to take charge of a field that is more unfamiliar than many academics care to admit.
The Huffington Post Investigative Fund discovered that the EPA has been collecting data that shows people are drinking water laced with high levels of a weed killer known as atrazine but did not publish the data. Democracy Now!
She went from house to house collecting signatures for her campaign.
Major threats include: introduced species, hunting and collecting, habitat destruction and agrochemical use.
I speak of stamp collecting, more properly known as philately, and it was the American Philatelic Society (APS) that took over a fair amount of space in the Greater Richmond Convention Center and adjacent Richmond Marriott hotel in mid-August to promote the hobby's message. The Washington Times stories: Latest Headlines
The club claims that the man behaved violently towards a Union officer who was collecting entrance fees and had to be restrained by security staff on hand.
So you'd better be heatproof or just plain quick if you're collecting data from the surface of this forsaken place.
First we're going to send you on a treasure hunt, collecting information from the magazine.
Meanwhile, "gooky wet stuff" and "assorted yuck" are being hauled from Owens Hall and the annex of Bancroft, and a contractor is busy collecting computers from the buildings for repair. The Herald | HeraldOnline.com - Front
Also returning will be the local firefighters, who will be collecting money for their benevolent fund as well as their own depot.
Four intensive collecting trips conducted in 2003-04 yielded 153 species of plants in 129 genera of 61 families, including 56 species growing on the coquina walls of the fortress.
Accordingly, This Week transmitted a 10-minute roll of raw footage of paratroopers recollecting what they said happened, plus a matching roll of equally raw footage from civilians who'd been present. David Tereshchuk: Struggle Through Decades to Overturn Massacre Lies
Under the new contracts for teachers, they will be entitled to time away from pupils while support staff take on tasks such as collecting dinner money and chasing absentees.
Thus, anglophone scholars may read not only the ethnographic descriptions of the items exhibited, but also Sonia Silva's thoughtful essay about collecting and presenting basketry.
Under the Roman empire the system of collecting the revenue put extreme pressure on the poor.
Collecting and making sense of this data is an important part of oil and gas exploration.
On the 24th, the day that I was to have supposedly murdered Mrs. Stotler, the prosecutors themselves have alibied me, by collecting testimony.
We're collecting for the homeless.
The researchers described the technical evolution of the malware program as disturbing: Only rarely do we come across crimeware that has been continually stealing and collecting personal information and payment card data, and compromising bank accounts as far back as 2006. A Huge Cache of Stolen Financial Data - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
[Page 221] even with respect to the spiritual interests of beloved friends, where certainly acquiescence in disappointment is most difficult (perhaps in this world impossible) even in this case, there is great consolation in recollecting, that the Judge of all the earth will do right. Memoirs, Correspondence and Poetical Remains of Jane Taylor
His leap from collector to seller may be the surest sign yet that road-map collecting has come of age.
Mainly I'm a bibliomaniac and I do a lot of book collecting and I have some nice books, first editions and so on.
Collecting rent on a property but not paying for it is ... um ... unethical and pretty much makes Adams a "slumlord". Big buzz (Jack Bog's Blog)
The speed of economic change has been so great that the tax-collecting system has been unable to cope.
And when Father O’Táighléir chanced by one time, collecting for the Chinese missions, he said, “A word missus,” and was off explaining how the Volunteers were decent honest Catholic sons of Ireland and of the Church, whose leaders in the tradition of this sainted isle were poets as much as gentlemen. At Swim, Two Boys
She gives freely and generously of her time when it comes to fundraising whether it is bag packing, collecting flags or climbing Knocknarea.
By then the house was on its last legs, with buckets collecting the rain that poured through the roof. Times, Sunday Times
Â Or else, working in a bar and fearing my own life collecting glasses on a tuny dance floor whilst it was on. Undefined
For an average earner, that will be 16 years of collecting a monthly check worth about $ 4, 247.
He only looked up once she was gone, recollecting himself for a minute before following them up the stairs.
Collecting often runs in families - think of the Rothschilds - suggesting that it is an inheritable trait.
Rain trickled incessantly down each man's face and glistened in dusty beads upon foreheads, clothing at last gave way to complete saturation, and water, collecting in pools until over ankle deep, oozed slushily in and out of the eyelet holes. Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry
The simple fact that solar energy has a low areal density limits how low the power collecting system costs can go. Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » This Looks Very Good
The firm controlling the munition factory where the explosion occurred is collecting lists of the survivors. Times, Sunday Times
Stamp collecting was David's consuming passion," says Sotheby's philatelic consultant Richard Ashton, whose friendship with the collector began 46 years ago. Rare Stamps at Auction
Collecting classic motorcycles has taken off in recent years, with the value of many rapidly increasing.
Of course you'll also save money by collecting the hagfish yourself hence the flippers and by using low-wage Haitians to monitor mucous degradation. Archive 2009-01-25
Colonel Boucher singing the bass of "A few more years shall roll," felt his mind instinctively wandering to the cock-fight the evening before, and depressedly recollecting that a considerable number of years had rolled already. Queen Lucia
I'm in the process of collecting material for an article that I'm writing.
Were all those collecting credit cards like confetti merely trying to pay for school fees or increase their charitable donations? Times, Sunday Times
Countless casuals pick up occasional pieces, but the field of ‘serious’ glass collecting in Britain can still be largely divided into twelve narrowly delineated categories.
I tell them things my grandparents taught me: how to behave on the rocks collecting food at low tide, and how to make a kete.
We've got as far as collecting our data but we haven't analysed it yet.
We are collecting the water samples and analysing it with the atomic spectrometer.
Collecting evidence and finding witnesses is difficult in a country where police corruption and violence is endemic. Times, Sunday Times
If the drawer closes his account with the latter bank in the meantime, the cheque will be dishonoured by that bank due to the collecting bank's dilatoriness.
I had a scheme for collecting that ransom without danger of being caught by counterplots that ought to commend itself to professional kidnappers.
By the late 1800s, an Estonian identity had been established and efforts were being made to retrieve the ‘original culture’ by collecting folk poems, sayings, and songs.
Kumamoto University in Japan, who had been collecting urine from people with a disease called aplastic anemia. NYT > Home Page
For want of something to distract her mind, she had been engaged, when Maidie returned with her abigail in tow, in collecting together those of Maidie's belongings that were scattered about the bedchamber they had shared at her insistence, for she could not reconcile it with her duty to allow her charge to sleep alone in the chamber of a public inn in the heart of the capital. Gatlinburg
The amount of this colorific matter may be estimated quantitatively by noting the quantity of the chloride of lime solution required to destroy this blood-red color in different cases: or the same result may be obtained by macerating for a short period in milk of lime -- filtering -- precipitating the filtered liquor by acetic or muriatic acid -- collecting this precipitate on a weighed filter -- drying at ordinary temperatures and again weighing. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
In the western provinces of the Roman Empire, Latin was used by native and nonnative speakers alike for tax collecting, commerce, entertainment, rituals, and ceremonies, and in the all-important Roman military. The English Is Coming!
Life inside the reserve is harsh, as the Bushmen are banned from hunting, gathering and collecting firewood.
Alex Mathie claimed the two goals, in both cases intruding himself beyond the defence, collecting excellent long balls, one on his right foot and the other on his head, both nicked home in front of the arriving goalkeeper.
The taxman has abandoned hope of collecting an extra 1 billion of overpaid tax credits. Times, Sunday Times
He provided a theoretical justification for the method of collecting natural histories.
One day as he leisurely strolls through London, he bumps into Pamela, a beautiful woman who is collecting donations for some charity.
He said he pursued information about the pornography matter because it "galled me to no end" that SEC employees were spending "hours and hours over weeks and weeks" viewing porn while collecting government pay. SEC porn sting netted workers in 7 cities
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People dashed about collecting them and queued for her to sign them when she came down. Times, Sunday Times
Obedient to his master’s mandate, the falconer was collecting his discouraged followers, and whispering into their ears — “Away, away — tace is Latin for a candle — never mind the good The Abbot
The work involves storing all the collecting tins and boxes, organising the collection and ordering the poppies and wreaths to lay on Remembrance Sunday.
“Mony thanks to ye,” he said, scoffingly, “for collecting sae muckle winter eilding for us; but if ye step a foot nearer it wi’ that lunt, it’s be the dearest step ye ever made in your days.” The Black Dwarf
If so much new information can be gathered from two short field seasons of general collecting and observation on one Solomon island, the amount to be learned across the two archipelagos must be staggering.
Collecting pups after stormy weather has put the charity under strain in the past. Times, Sunday Times
That guitar's been sitting collecting dust for years now.
If the league is alive and kicking, the city will still be collecting a 7% ticket tax. New pitch for Paulson: No new stadium, no summer sports at all (Jack Bog's Blog)
While there are trained artists--perhaps inspired by Gaudí's early 20th-century mosaics or Marcel Duchamp's readymades--who sculpt and construct large-scale artworks made from repurposed cast offs, many more are dreamers with ordinary day jobs who abhor waste, have a penchant for collecting, and seize upon an unstoppable urge to create something beautiful from the flotsam and jetsam modern life. Trash Art: California's Artistic Recycling Revolution
We had a visit from somebody collecting for charity.
And, recollecting it, I am struck with the truth, that far more of our deepest thoughts and feelings pass to us through perplexed combinations of _concrete_ objects, pass to us as _involutes_ (if I may coin that word) in compound experiences incapable of being disentangled, than ever reach us _directly_, and in their own abstract shapes. Autobiographical Sketches
We're fortunate that MoMA was from the start collecting richly from this new and diverse generation, comprised as it is of imagists whom in being less dissident and cliched than their forerunners, show and explorative aptitude for the more nuanced and varied aspects of queer life. G. Roger Denson: MoMA and AA Bronson Present "Queer Cinema: Today and Yesterday"
Many of these collections, however, suffer from similar flaws: they devote too much effort to collecting case law rather than other authorities, they overemphasize recent works especially those originally created in digital form, they do not adequately hyperlink between related documents in the collection, their citator functions are haphazard and rudimentary, and they do not enable easy user authentication against official reference sources. Two Forthcoming Papers on Crowdsourcing, Open Access, Wikisource, Legal & Humanities Research « ResourceShelf
Aircraft losses forced the United States to look at other methods for collecting photo reconnaissance intelligence information.
His meticulous character suited his outside interests of coin and stamp collecting, chess, genealogy, and Scottish history.
In 1996, Rebecca Groppe told the public that Evil Eve was a double-dipper, collecting pay checks as a teacher and as the county recorder at the same time. Enquirer Anti-Mallory Bias
Surely, with the indiscriminate nature of art collecting today, there must be a market for them. MISS MELVILLE REGRETS
Canoes have played a crucial role for the Kamoro to retain their semi-nomadic lifestyle, particularly in collecting sago and catching fish - their two basic staples of their diet.
The glass of water on his endtable, with the orange vitamin pill next to it, on that month's issue of Coin & Currency Collecting. 'Full Dark, No Stars'
Gonzalez F, Canning DA, Hyun G, Casale P: Lower pole pelvi-ureteric junction obstruction in duplicated collecting systems. Publications of the Urology Division
“These are good, very good,” he said to nobody in particular as he waded back and forth between the stalactites hanging from the spectral ironworks on the walls and the measuring and collecting instruments stored in a beaten-up backpack. First Contact
This field trip featured stops at a dozen diverse collecting locales, including the famous Adelaide and Red Lead crocoite mines near Dundas.
In the name of simplicity, he should also dismantle national insurance and create a single, comprehensive and comprehensible tax-collecting apparatus. Times, Sunday Times
They have been collecting and microfilming anything they can get their hands on for over a century, and they are a tremendous resource for researchers.
Collecting these must-have items for the home has suddenly got a lot easier and cheaper. Times, Sunday Times
He's just got a job collecting tolls at the start of the motorway.
Busy collecting bees, not in front of people talk with eloquence.
Outside in the back garden, he could see Mrs Galloway, who was their cook, picking ripe fruit from the strawberry patches nearby the greenhouse, collecting them in her apron.
A scream from Theresa now told, that she knew Valancourt, whom her imperfect sight, and the duskiness of the place had prevented her from immediately recollecting; but his attention was immediately called from her to the person, whom he saw, falling from a chair near the fire; and, hastening to her assistance, — he perceived, that he was supporting Emily! The Mysteries of Udolpho
Everywhere paint was chipping, wood was cracking, piles of putrid garbage were collecting, and laundry lines were being strung anywhere it was possible to do so.
For what actually happened was that on collecting the Sheila McKechnie Foundation award at a Downing Street reception in 2008, Glass stepped forward and then moved, with partial success, to superglue his hand to that of the then prime minister Gordon Brown to highlight the iniquities of the proposed third runway at Heathrow Airport. Hugh Muir's diary
Police time will then be spent collecting together the data and providing statistics that indicate the ethnicity of those stopped.
Stamp collecting and coin collecting are parallel hobbies.
What between helping to spoil Bismarck's digestion and whiling away the golden afternoons with Caprice (for we'd abandoned our nocturnal meetings, and I was collecting her reports in the mornings) I was in pretty bobbish form, and took to promenading about the town in search of amusement. Watershed
Our small boy had already gone, presumably to join the revels and no doubt collecting other houseboys on their way down.
His skill and finesse in collecting and preparing specimens made this effort fruitful.
Collecting aging bond and share certificates is known as scripophily. Houston Chronicle
He is collecting votes for the worst turkey film of all time.
The noise suddenly awoke Helen, and her scattered faculties not immediately recollecting themselves, she felt an instant impression that all had indeed been but a dream; and starting in affright, she exclaimed, – Where am I? The Scottish Chiefs
Some possible ways of collecting data include using a video camera to film the moving object against a grid, then freeze-framing through the movie to collect data points.
And they are the people in the agency that make things happen, as far as collecting intelligence and running what we call clandestine operations. CNN Transcript Feb 17, 2007
After collecting our bags, we are greeted in twos and threes by a pack of smiling Greek landladies who, despite speaking an alien tongue, welcome us into their homes.
Massive concrete floor slabs provide thermal storage, collecting heat and giving it off again later on.
After that I started collecting pottery and porcelain and then started selling it.
In 1947, they began collecting clothes for children in postwar Europe. 'Trick-Or-Treat For UNICEF' Founder Dies At 93
Mail, keys, change, Peter's camera equipment, books, plastic bags, and all manner of other debris have a nasty habit of collecting on that coffee table.
I went limp before quickly recollecting myself.
So he was shocked to learn that the pollutants collecting inside his body sounded much like a Superfund cleanup site: pesticides, flame retardants and other nasty, man-made chemicals turned up in a recent test.
The bees spend the summer collecting nectar and turning it into honey.
But in 1828 Elias, a country doctor and folklorist, began collecting tales from the peasant class - they had a meter but no rhyme.
Owl -- the single - soldier piggyback picture collecting and transmitting equipment, also possesses the GPS orientation function.
The UK government department responsible for collecting tax.
Gun collecting has really taken off in the last few years and prices are moving up at a rapid rate.
This is an informational site devoted to cartophily, the hobby of collecting cigarette and other trade cards, a particular interest of mine.
She became a compulsive reader of plant and seed catalogues, and even spent a month in China collecting seeds and hunting for plants.
She tells us tales of ambulances collecting women in labour to take them to the hospital delivery suites, only to be held up at a checkpoint where the women give birth.
Two others were collecting, one with a small cardboard box. LOST CHILDREN
Hollywood has never been short of super-patriots, though it is worth recollecting that some of them never fought in a real war.
But to do so, field workers must be mindful of what they are collecting. Times, Sunday Times

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