Now, sometimes, I feel a bit embarrassed when I say I work in advertising.

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"Those guys are a bit embarrassed probably and know that they have overstepped the mark, " said Ponting.

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Johnson is not, by now, more than a bit embarrassed by his article.

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Understandably, those analysts feel a bit embarrassed by this turn of events.

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Evidently a bit embarrassed, he has pushed through a law to reserve 20% of the seats for the opposition, whatever their proportion of the popular vote.

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Rather than panic and scream, she politely asked him to refrain, and the young man, a soldier in the Sri Lankan army, looked a bit embarrassed and apologised.

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He may have been a bit embarrassed by the amount I was entitled to receive under the plan, but he was a member of the Compensation Committee that unanimously approved the bonus plan.

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After a moment of stunned silence or embarrassed laughter, most managers confess that perhaps, occasionally, they create a little bit of complexity.

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Our feeling about it was that if we had the right song then we wouldn't be embarrassed in giving it to them, and this felt a bit Eurovision-y.

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