Exempel på poking

• Sometimes only partial materialization was achieved, with grimacing faces, flapping hands, and so on poking out from the cabinet.

• Specula- tors are already poking their noses here and there, trying to smell out what profits are in it for them.

• Is it not a fact that these old folk, like everybody else, do not like people poking about in their houses?

• There is a clear role for the media, which need to stop using stereotypical images and stop poking fun.

• A very odd thing about politicians is that we love poking into other people's business.

• We have our wives and families in them, but we do not want anybody else poking around.

• It is no use poking fun at management and saying that that is not what is needed.

• I wonder how much of that is due to people poking their fingers in the wrong holes.

• I believe that is an invitation to empire building and poking of noses.

• I claim to represent the public interest, which is always a good alibi when you are poking your nose into other people's business.

• Some of us have been told we were poking sticks into the machinery of local government.

• They always walk in and start poking around by themselves.

• I recall being upbraided some years ago by an older councillor who accused me of poking my nose into matter which should not worry me.

• Members find it hard to resist poking fun at my continued idealism in raising the game of politics.

• Yet we hear speeches criticising and poking fun at the fact that we are building 300,000 houses and solving the housing problem.