We used to do things that way and British Airways made a thumping loss as a result.

The group's operations after the sale show a thumping loss of Pounds 4.4m.

Puga turned around and his feet did a little thumping dance on the wagon bed.

'From this trading account, you would expect the business as a whole to have made a thumping loss for the year.

She pressed her hand to her thumping heart.

Not even Hesperan thumping cough, which most of the crew had contracted at one time or another.

The boards overhead buckled and dropped little clouds of dust as great thumping steps wandered around the office.

Their mouths hung agape as they stared at the spectacular light shows and listened to the distant thumping music.

My thumping heart measured the silence.

She also revealed that it would include "a more thumping, technofied version" of her hit "Milkshake."

Keith Cauldfield from Billboard called it a "thumping dance single."

The song is built around a "thumping bass line", and features a "distorted wordless vocal hook" as its instrumentation.

But it was Stojko, skating to the thumping score from "Braveheart," who stole the thunder.

The teen-ager solved the problem by climbing to higher branches and jumping gently up and down until apples fell in a thumping rain.

Although Shakespeare's words weren't altered, everything else was made youth-friendly, from the thumping score to the rock-videolike camerawork to the contemporary Florida location.

Over a buffet lunch of baked aubergine and rice in the communal dining room we acknowledged the thumping carbon footprints we had made in getting here.

The most thumping whacks at trendiness fall to Corine, Leonide's maidservant, who calls herself an "executive assistant" and an "intellectually challenged" one at that.

Becky Bain of Idolator wrote that "It's basically Lost In Translation with a more thumping soundtrack."

A CBBC Newsround review praised the "thumping dance track" and said "the X Factor judge has a major hit on her hands."

And they grabbed a thumping score which involved centres Tom Isaacs and Beck to set Irish wing Tommy Bowe in at the corner.

My thumping heart was prepared for the impact of the unusual, the unique, for the miraculous in visual art, but instead of wine and fish I didn't find even bread and water.

"SonicVision," which is to open on Oct.3, is 35 minutes of soaring, churning and immersive visualizations set to a thumping score of techno-electronica and contemporary rock mixed by the recording artist Moby.

In the earlier films Mr. Williams certainly adopted the Wagnerian technique of using identifying themes (leitmotifs) to mark the appearances of specific characters, symbols and plot lines, though in the most thumping and heavy-handed way.

Music critic Johnny Rogan comments on the "thumping bass drum" which, along with Lennon's guitar playing makes "Well Well Well" the "heaviest and loudest" song on Plastic Ono Band.

"Oh, my God, I won, oh my God," the jubilant Williams mouthed, clasping both hands to her thumping heart, after Hingis motored a double-handed backhand out of bounds on Williams's third match point.

And ending up with a thumping great lie.

Oh, yes, indeed, I need her, now they have that thumping great Minerva.

Two escaped convicts without a penny on their heads are not a thumping great prize.'

If you look at all the nationalized industries that have been privatized, they're all making thumping great profits now.

That fellow is sure to shorten sail for the night: he is not cracking on hot-foot after some thumping great prize.

Its ability to trickle along at three-figure revs is legendary, and it has that thumping great reserve of power if you need it.

"I can't even tell if you were bitten by the fleas; if not, that would be another thumping great peculiarity.

'If they want something manufactured to their own spec, OK, but we insist on a thumping great order or a high price.'

Except that of the thumping great Ducal Palace, whose 18th-century makeover replaced nobility with world-class bombast.

This decorative arts museum in a thumping great 1890s chateau-style building near Castle Barnard gets you in the mood to buy stuff.

AT the end, especially in an afterword called "Comments," Esterhazy compensates for the discontinuities of his narrative with a thumping great list of acknowledgments.

I sold a thumping great emerald the Nizam gave mc, and I have booked the only decent cabin in the Lushington.

The novel is based around the theme of pedophilia and it won the WH Smith Thumping Great Read Award in 2002.

After the thumping great red brick-and-stone creations that roar of the importance of late 16th and 17th-century Denmark, the architectural styles were to be well watered by European influences.

Jack dined that day, and dined well, off Stephen's fish, last year's lamb, and a thumping great spotted dog, his guests being Stephen himself of course, Pullings, Martin and Reade.

Barrington-Coupe himself claimed to have sold 3051 Hatto CDs in 2005 and 2006, and 5500 from 2007 up to February 2009, and that he had made a "thumping great loss" on them.

A thumping great estate up where we crossed the mountains - merino sheep -, 'Merino sheep,' said Mrs Williams, nodding, for she knew the beasts existed - what else could yield merino wool? '

I turned to tell him to be quiet, and there he was lying on the ground, with blood all over his head, and a Scot just dropping the thumping great rock he'd hit Meadows with, and bending down to snatch his gun.

But most important of all, if the floor succeeds in earlier than otherwise decommissioning of already struggling coal generation, as might well be the case with some of the more marginal producers, then Britain is going to be left with a thumping great energy gap and nothing other than a renewed "dash for gas" to fill it.

In a 10-year venture, involving teams of researchers and translators from the Dutch, Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith have assembled what amounts to a companion volume to their thumping great 1989 Jackson Pollock: An American Saga - the same length (900 pages plus) and equally cumbersome in ambition.