The man notices that the man behind the desk is no longer chewing on his lip.
"She finally decided to come out from behind the desk, " Ms. Williams said.
"This looks like wood paneling, but it's wallpaper, " he smiles, tapping the hollow wall behind the desk in his office.
It's not an isolated, 28-room roadside mom-and-pop on an off-ramp: you can't just open the doors, sit behind the desk, and expect people to show up.
One Indian got so irate that he stormed behind the ticketing desk and shoved a computer to the floor.
Roz parked the shuttle, walked inside the building, and took her position behind the front desk.
Ms. Cowie also contributed the abstract, spider-web-like sculpture and the wall of 999 stylized copper dragons behind the reception desk.
Until the professional behind the concierge desk stepped in.
If you cut the time you spend parked behind your desk daily, on the other hand, you mayextend your life up to three years.
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Prosecutor Giuliano Mignini, a staunch traditional Catholic, kept her image hanging on the wall behind his desk and spoke of how she had helped his uncle escape from certain death at the hands of the Russians in the 1940s.
Generally the true number-crunching baseball intellectual can be found toiling away at a spreadsheet behind the scenes, not manning the anchor desk.
And by putting the two candidates behind a desk, and in effect hiding their lower bodies, it put all the focus on their facial expressions and a few gestures.
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Paris time, he slides behind his desk in the chief executive suite at Renault to begin another long day.
On the wall behind his desk was a photograph of President Mubarak.
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Down the road, as you sit there behind your desk, you may find yourself reminiscing about the days spent with a hoe in your hand and sweat on your brow and fresh air blowing across you face.
When I dropped by during a visit to Beijing last September, I found Chinese security guards manning the reception desk behind a set of locked glass doors.
All access points, including the headphone and HDMI ports are within easy reach so there is no searching around under the desk or behind large PC towers.
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The average adult in the U.S. and U.K. watches three to four hours of TV daily, Stamatakis says, and many of us also spend our working lives sitting at a desk and commuting behind the wheel of a car.
He told me that he hated to see a person like me stuck behind a desk and instead gave me the marketing role.
That's right: I said "unleash the sizzle, " like you are holding a dove and a top hat, and I'm sitting behind a desk with a cigar in the Brill Building.
You simply can't compare what they do from behind a desk with what others do on the battlefield.
Its waistcoated patriarch, Hal Lainson, presides at the age of 85 from behind his splendid antique desk.
Young Lopez, a Pan-American playboy in the classic mold, spends little time behind a desk (he's titular head of marketing for Jumex).
Behind his desk, there is a large photomontage of the Second Temple, which was destroyed by the Romans in 70 A.D.
So for Sally, the toughest part of this job will probably be sitting behind a desk.
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Carson sat behind "Tonight's" desk for 30 years before passing the torch to Leno, and "Johnny" is still the model against whom all are measured.
Some time later, squeezed behind his desk, in his small parliamentary office, Romario explained how the date of his conversion from sporting tyro to public servant could be traced to a precise event.
This time he bypassed the desk where the emergency room nurses sat and pushed through the doors behind them.
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