Long practice had made their sparring into an art form, and I didn't know the rules.

Then she has to while away several hours (or days) sparring herself off.

The sparring was over and all our cards were on the table.

In the early sparring, the industry seems pleased with the plan.

But since you seem to think sparring is entertainment, very well.

But, as I've said before, that's not what sparring is all about.

This brings into play an area of training known as free sparring.

Once the sparring is over, both teams I feel will take risks.

Look, let's lose the verbal sparring and get down to cases.

The sparring has already created some turbulence in the economy.

He didn't want the sparring between the two women to drive Fiona from the room.

They'd finished the morning's sparring and he'd done better than usual.

Maybe on another day, under different circumstances, he would have enjoyed the sparring, but not today.

It was as if they were engaging in a sparring competition.

As the sparring comes to an end, the two stare at each other deeply.

The legal sparring began shortly after the book was published in September 1991.

"Along the way, there would have to be some sparring in the boxing class to keep me interested."

But I hadn't yet discovered the true joys of sparring.

If anything, the sparring over numbers reflects how close the two deals really are.

As their verbal sparring continued, body language told the tale.

Gideon soon became more than just a good sparring partner.

Still, several of them said privately that they had been enjoying the sparring.

But that training, Solberg said, would not include any sparring for at least three weeks.

The measure was prompted by the pain he had felt there during the previous day's sparring.

The sparring continues after she is carried away to a doctor, but the students now seem much less enthusiastic.

Now that all spars were gone, it was no easy job to get her launched.

Some of the spars may have been those left by the Fancy in 1795 (see above).

Falling spars had killed one man and wounded four others.

Then move all spars as far away from each other as possible.

"All the spars are out of storage or will be," he announced.

Wood was used for the wings, supported by three spars.

In any event the spars are supported by a number of guy wires.

There was no need to say more; one does it at the end, to get spars for the swimmers.

"Should never have lost all the spars," he said wrathfully.

On very large sailing vessels, the spars may be steel.

A subsequent accident led to a further strengthening of the spars.

Her sail area and spars were roughly the same as Lightning.

He escaped injury by clinging to one of the spars.

Here and there he could see men, random black figures, clinging to spars.

But we've lost spars and damaged two of the masts.

They must run between points on the spars just inside the outer struts.

At its edges, corner spars can hold it spread from the ship.

Hollow wooden main wing spars were used for the first time.

The last of the sails had now been fastened along the spars.

"Now stand by to swing aloft her new yards and spars."

The aircraft's spars groaned like a man on the rack.

The ship made no headway while the spars were bare.

The structure of the three spars incorporated a "T" section.

The same storm stove in two boats and carried away several spars.

The front ends of both spars are joined together.

You learned a lot about a man, sparring with him.

This is the third time the two companies have sparred.

They had sparred many times before, and would do so again in the future.

Through most of it they had sparred with small talk.

Sometimes she spars with a man because there are not enough women around.

The students line up to spar with the senior members of the class.

If she had to spar with him every step of the way, so be it.

She'd been in his company for less than a minute, and already they were sparring.

Then she has to while away several hours (or days) sparring herself off.

They do so again in Season 15 and continue to spar like an old married couple.

At this stage, both he and they are just sparring.

The world is full of angry people sparring with words.

I ought to, after so many years sparring with them.

The fellow was sparring with two of his own men.

Of course that does not bar them from sparring with each other.

The two seemed to be sparring, feeling each other out in the first round.

"You would have done me a favor by sparring with her."

It became obvious the young man had just been sparring.

It is going to be an honor to spar with him.

You'd better spar for a while in one of the training rooms.

I had lost my taste for sparring with this man.

The two of them were sparring partners from way back.

We sparred a bit, neither of us giving anything away.

He's a lawyer, not someone I want to spar with.

He tried to spar a bit, to point his dare.