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  • Tiring of her flirtatious husband David (Neeson) making bedroom eyes at every woman he sees, wife Catherine (Moore) decides to see how far her husband would be willing to take his self-described “harmless flirting” if given the chance.

    Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2010

  • Tiring day, and not as full of black tea as I normally like in a day.

    Daily Tea: April 25, 2010 | Tea Derivations 2010

  • * Tiring of waiting for an “iPad”, I picked up a Dell netbook for family travel.

    Matthew Yglesias » More Tablets 2010

  • Tiring of running other people's businesses, Gavin felt it was time to open his own place.

    Mara Gibbs: Everybody Eats Where? In London, England, Bellamy's Restaurant Mara Gibbs 2011

  • Tiring of his religiosity and eccentricity, in 1999 Pakistani authorities quietly relieved Mahmood of his job as the head of a facility that produced weapons-grade plutonium.

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

  • Tiring of this, he joined the army and became a well-known frequenter of all the London night clubs, where he was always surrounded with the ladies.

    Archive 2009-03-01 2009

  • Tiring of being merely an onlooker, he ran up to Nevada, where the new gold-mining boom was fairly started -- "just to try a flutter," as he phrased it to himself.

    Chapter I 2010

  • Tiring of the endless circling, Sheldon tried once more to advance directly on his foe, but the latter was too crafty, taking advantage of his boldness to fire a couple of shots at him, and slipping away on some changed and continually changing course.

    Chapter 27 2010

  • Tiring of internecine warfare, the demonstrators then threw eggs at the Italian Senate and denounced Goldman Sachs, which, as well as being the world's most dangerous investment bank, was also once the employer of Mario Monti, who now happens to be Italy's unelected prime minister.

    Does the left have a voice in the euro crisis? | Nick Cohen 2011

  • Tiring of running other people's businesses, Gavin felt it was time to open his own place.

    Mara Gibbs: Everybody Eats Where? In London, England, Bellamy's Restaurant Mara Gibbs 2011

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