It's not easy for me to give them a ticking off either.

He held up a hand and began ticking off the reasons.

She was ticking off the benefits of having her only child away at college.

And the 15 minutes before the next plane would hit were ticking off.

She was ticking off a list when he interrupted her again.

Then he said, ticking off the items on his fingers.

He began ticking off points on his long surgeon's fingers.

"Through it I could see your mind ticking off the questions.

He lay and waited for it, ticking off the minutes.

His mind ticking off the seconds, Blade knew he had run out of time.

And he began ticking off the numbers of the boats that would stay with him.

But you're ticking off some powerful people who can end both our careers.

She straightened up and began ticking off on her fingers.

"There are a number of ways that we need to spend more money," he said, ticking off a wish list for all age groups.

It is a good thing that various European institutions are being given a serious ticking off.

We need you to keep the kids from ticking off the clients.' "

Fully a year later, though, time clocks kept ticking off teachers in all but 32 of the nearly 1,000 schools.

But he faced forward again and let the cars go ticking off behind his back, on their way down the track.

The young artillery officer began ticking off on his fingers.

He frowned a moment, and then started ticking off examples on his fingers.

He raised one finger, as if ticking off the item, then added a second.

Instead I lay back and listened, mentally ticking off each individual voice.

And I repeated the sentence, ticking off the words on my fingers.

He heard it ticking off crates on its way down to the deck.

I don't think there is any virtue in ticking off books.