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She looked up at him idly, lost in the music.
The most important of issues is who made them stand idly by?
Now we have to stand by idly and watch the whole thing go wrong.
We can no longer stand by idly and let things happen.
Idly, he considered getting her phone number on the way out.
Then he just moved a hand, idly enough, and said something.
Do you really think they're going to sit idly by and let us run the show?
He'd been thinking idly that they should have a name for the group.
He read it idly, without interest, and tried to remember what had happened the night before.
We cannot stand idly by and let this practice continue.
Have you ever had your hair long?' he asked idly.
Then, together, they idly wait out the end of practice.
But China could not be expected to sit idly by.
We cannot stand idly by in the face of such events.
She idly wondered what he did during his free time.
She watched them idly; they were in a different world.
He spoke almost idly, as if the matter was of no great moment.
He was not a man to wait idly to be caught.
Idly, she thought how nice it was the day would be a clear one.
She went on sitting idly, long after the others came to bed.
I can not sit idly by and let that happen.
He wondered rather idly what she had wanted to say.
I sometimes idly wonder how people live with what they do.
I wonder what he used to look like, she thought, idly.
Of course, Europe cannot stand idly by, just as it could not in the past.