frantically

In Rochdale, the sniffer dog shakes with excitement, her tail wagging frantically, above a hole concealing dozens of boxes of illegally imported tobacco products in one shop.

Irate, the woman shrieked, shoved something in the holding cell toilet and started frantically flushing to flood the cell.

In the ICU of a major hospital, I saw the head doctor pace up and down, making one phone call after another frantically searching for supplies of oxygen.

As she frantically called an ambulance, neighbours and a private security guard heard the cries and rushed to render first aid.

In the village of Qabatiya, just south of Jenin, we found a driver frantically trying to reverse out of a muddy pothole left by Israeli bulldozers that had dug up the street.