(1) More than 250 borrowers contacted the Guardian to tell us how and why they borrowed and how their debts racked up.
(2) When the two sides played here 77 days earlier Stoke had racked up a 5-0 lead by half-time, the first time that had happened to Liverpool since 1976, but this time Hughes’s attackers had no delicacy around the penalty area.
(3) In one clothes shop, with racks of discounted Calvin Klein and DKNY, the manager, Sav, explains what's happened: "In this crisis, the middle classes have been hollowed out."
(4) But Nel said that for Steenkamp to have fallen on to the rack, given she was found with her head slumped over the toilet, she would have had to have got up.
(5) Around 50 suburban Chicago police departments and sheriff’s offices assisted, racking up more than $300,000 in overtime and other costs, according to an analysis that the Daily Herald newspaper published in early October.
(6) Against small diurnal fluctuations, stable vertical gradients (about 1 degree C between tops and bottoms of racks) were observed among one hour averages of room air temperatures.
(7) TfL has tried to minimise congestion by issuing permits for roadworks but said it had encountered a “repeat offender” in BT, which has racked up thousands of pounds in fines.
(8) The prospect of further demonstrations and strikes has raised fears of social unrest in a country that has been racked by street violence for the past 18 months.
(9) The second biggest YouTube channel in July 2014 was DisneyCollector, with its collection of toy-unboxing videos racking up 268m views in the month, putting it ahead of musician Shakira’s 226.6m views.
(10) Contact time (in seconds) to a circular metal rack positioned in the center of the animal activity monitor was also recorded as goal-directed exploratory activity.
(11) The spark for the longest-running protest in modern Tunisian history was lit on 17 December in the town of Sidi Bouzid, in the rural interior of Tunisia, a region of olive groves and agriculture which is racked by vast unemployment, repression and poverty a world away from the riches of the Tunisian tourist coast and the propaganda of Tunisia's "economic miracle".
(12) Removal of a cage from the rack and getting out a rat caused increase in plasma concentrations of corticosterone in its remaining cage mates.
(13) For example, the Pacers lost 107-97 , at home on Tuesday, in a game where their starting center Roy Hibbert's disappearing act reached nearly-comical levels as he racked up 0 points, 0 rebounds, 1 meager assist and four personal fouls in 12 minutes of playing time.
(14) Adoboli racked up the giant losses undetected through three means, Wass said.
(15) Certain smears, such as from semen or from serous fluids where malignancy is suspected or known, must be stained on separate racks.
(16) That enthusiasm for elegant, understated clothing and bags has paid off, as Prada has bucked the downturn to open stores around the world – 63 in the year to last September – and rack up €409m (£352m) in profit in the first three quarters of 2012, a huge rise of 50% year on year, boosted by an increase of 41% in Asian sales.
(17) At any other moment, Chilcot would have been the all-consuming subject of national debate for days or even weeks, with Blair on the rack.
(18) Over the next few years, he racked up a series of successful expeditions to peaks in the Himalayas and elsewhere, including in 1983 the first ascent of the south face of Annapurna II, just shy of 8,000m.
(19) Utensil drying racks were found in 56.0% of the households.
(20) A film based on a smutty book that now litters the racks of every last charity shop.
Raking
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rake
(n.) The act or process of using a rake; the going over a space with a rake.
(n.) A space gone over with a rake; also, the work done, or the quantity of hay, grain, etc., collected, by going once over a space with a rake.
Example Sentences:
(1) While they're raking in the money, he is broke and out of work.'
(2) Since his arrest, a French taboo has been broken and Strauss-Kahn's behaviour towards women, deemed "libertine" by his friends, has been raked over.
(3) Adam Lallana, Rickie Lambert and Dejan Lovren have all moved to Liverpool while Luke Shaw has signed for Manchester United and Arsenal have taken Calum Chambers to the Emirates Stadium, with Southampton raking in more than £88m for the combined deals.
(4) Sir Michael Rake, the chairman of easyJet, said: "Following a thorough process involving a number of high calibre candidates we have unanimously chosen a strong chief executive with the strategic ability, operational capability and passion to drive easyJet through the next stage of its development and we look forward to working with Carolyn."
(5) Anyone could be said to have made mistakes in hindsight and there was nothing to be gained in raking up the past.
(6) Milliken, author of a report on rhino-horn consumption in Vietnam , also expressed concerns about the end-user market: "One wonders if unscrupulous dealers in these markets will not simply employ some means to 'bleach' them to back to a 'normal' appearance and continue raking in high profits."
(7) 4 min: Another raking pass to Di Maria, who wins a penalty after smashing the ball against the hand of David Alaba.
(8) The muck-raking website Lifenews.ru, which has close links to the FSB, Putin’s former spy agency, has pointed the finger at Nemtsov’s colourful love life.
(9) Round K-wires with either a diamond point or a high rake-angle trocar point were compared with each other and with C-wires, which have a rounded square cross section and a short diamond point.
(10) I also present a method for teaching this system to residents that makes use of a piece of cotton or nylon rope, a cotton mop refill, and the end of a garden rake.
(11) Sturridge's wonderful change of pace saw him accelerating on to Gerrard's raking long pass down the right and, with the defence left standing, the on-rushing Uruguayan met Sturridge's ball across the six-yard box.
(12) The panel Tim Kelsey , national director for patients and information, NHS England Dr Chaand Nagpaul , GP and chair of the British Medical Association 's GP committee Gary Walker , former United Lincolnshire hospitals trust chief and whistleblower Ben Pathe , business development officer, Patient Opinion Roger Kline , director, Patients First Jo Bibby , director of strategy, Health Foundation Nick Chinn , co-founder of #WeNurses Dr Nicola Williams , deputy director of research, North Bristol NHS trust Katherine Rake , chief executive, Healthwatch England Dr Tom Kennedy , consultant physician and rheumatologist, Royal Liverpool University hospital
(13) From our investigations and research from elsewhere it appeared that the National Board of Health defines negligence as considerable error of judgement, or where examination or history raking, had been insufficient.
(14) Among an all-star cast, including Gary Oldman, Tom Hardy and Shia LaBoeuf, Pearce still manages to stand out as Charlie Rakes, the special deputy from Chicago sent to Virginia to close down the sale of illegal liquor for good.
(15) As well as raking in the cash, Google is responsible for much of the infrastructure that delivers digital advertising.
(16) The British sent non-essential staff on the same route as the Americans but, lacking air cover, saw their Jeeps raked with gunfire and forced back.
(17) Haji-Ioannou and his easyGroup had instigated a series of "increasingly personalised attacks", Rake declared , "involving a number of inaccurate and misleading statements, including inappropriate and defamatory assertions and innuendo".
(18) While he gets his beard trimmed – a painstaking process that takes 45 minutes and involves an Afro comb the size of a garden rake – Rick dishes out a little parable about how to deal with paparazzi in light of Alec Baldwin's recent decision to quit public life (and New York) after one too many run-ins.
(19) Rake, married with four sons, keeps horses at his Oxfordshire home and has formed a polo team.
(20) When disaster duly strikes, and Lydia runs off with a notable rake to live in sin somewhere in London, he is powerless.