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  • In one particularly revealing email, a bank employee trying to move the ill-fated deal wrote, We are soooo pregnant with this deal, we need a wheel-barrow to move around...

    Dimon's 'Pregnant' Problem David Weidner 2011

  • As the $1.1 billion deal started to crumble, an unidentified J.P. Morgan employee in charge of selling the deal wrote in an email to the sales team: "We are soooo pregnant with this deal, we need a wheel-barrow to move around…Let's schedule the Caesarean please!"

    Bank Fine Hints at Feds' Playbook Jean Eaglesham 2011

  • She took the left-hand fork and came almost immediately into a small open space, with a potting shed in one corner with a wheel-barrow outside it.

    Politics 101 2010

  • You will need a fabled wheel-barrow filled with money to buy a loaf of bread..

    I'm back. Ann Althouse 2006

  • So speaking, honest Andrew collected his dibbles, spades, and hoes, and threw them into a wheel-barrow, — leisurely, however, and allowing me full time to put any further questions which might occur to me before he trundled them off to the tool-house, there to repose during the ensuing day.

    Rob Roy 2005

  • One of Mazzoni's students here, scarily good at what she does, has published a book, and is ready to publish another in addition to a wheel-barrow of articles.

    Armani, Prada, Gucci, Dolce & Gabbana Miglior acque 2005

  • One of Mazzoni's students here, scarily good at what she does, has published a book, and is ready to publish another in addition to a wheel-barrow of articles.

    Archive 2005-06-01 Miglior acque 2005

  • He was in the habit of spending the greater part of his time in the public-house, from which he was generally trundled home in a wheel-barrow in a state of utter insensibility.

    Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

  • I rarely see even a fellow with a wheel-barrow who has not a shirt on, and that, too, such a one as shows it has been washed; nor even a beggar without both a shirt and shoes and stockings.

    Travels in England in 1782 2004

  • Chelsea; where I met a man with a wheel-barrow, who not only very civilly showed me the right road, but also conversed with me the whole of the distance which we walked together.

    Travels in England in 1782 2004

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