sit-up-and-beg

But it is the director Joe Hill-Gibbins who makes the evening fly, orchestrating sometimes heavily nudge-wink dialogue so that it has a light naturalness, weaving action across the stage and, in one fine moment, sending the heroine wheeling away on the bike it's a "sit-up-and-beg" model, which itself comes to seem fairly smutty in front of a video of verdant countryside: she's most free when surrounded by a virtual world.

That Day We Sang; The Crash of the Elysium; The Village Bike – review 2011

Each rises at intervals to adopt the peculiar sit-up-and-beg stance.

Country diary: Bedfordshire 2011

The fact that he hadn't the pelotas to do this while in the USA, while Bush was POTUS, while Cheney still had a say with the CIA, while it would have been a courageous act rather than just a sit-up-and-beg response to his master's whistle, all this will tell you what Baltasar Monzon can do with his toilet-paper indictment ....!

John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009

The fact that he hadn't the pelotas to do this while in the USA, while Bush was POTUS, while Cheney still had a say with the CIA, while it would have been a courageous act rather than just a sit-up-and-beg response to his master's whistle, all this will tell you what Baltasar Monzon can do with his toilet-paper indictment ....!

John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009

The ancient Ford 8 was long gone and we had upgraded to another sit-up-and-beg economy car, the Popular.

Fathers & Sons Richard Madeley 2008

The ancient Ford 8 was long gone and we had upgraded to another sit-up-and-beg economy car, the Popular.

Fathers & Sons Richard Madeley 2008

* A real traditional style sit-up-and-beg boneshaker but with modern touches: the Pashley Princess Sovereign which comes with 5 gears, dynamo lights (the standlight would be a little extra but not much), hub brakes, leather saddle (wtf), wicker basket (for extra studentystudentness) and it looks like I could get it in Regency Green.

Snippets and bike musings jinty 2006

Saturday started with a trip to a nearby bike shop that recycles bikes, and I said a possibly slightly premature farewell to my old bike, in the expectation of shortly getting my new sit-up-and-beg classic bike.

V&A - Modernism jackfirecat 2006

Too early for the hunting-shooting-fishing season, the hotel had a slumbering look about it, an impression reinforced by an ancient sit-up-and-beg bicycle with a straw pannier at the front, propped against the steps.

Civvies La Plante, Lynda 1992

The irresistible title of Penelope Skinner's The Village Bike, refers both to young newly-married Becky as well the sit-up-and-beg bicycle she uses to explore the countryside surrounding the cottage she and her husband have moved into.

Evening Standard - Home 2011