With a broad wooden scraper, he coaxed the paint back and forward before lifting the screen to survey his handiwork. |
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Maybe he too had regrets, perhaps he wished he'd talked to him more often, coaxed him to spill out his memories and secrets. |
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The actors were somehow coaxed into performances that matched their gigantic surroundings. |
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I trapped it behind a curtain, whipped the window open and then coaxed it out with gentle wafts and encouraging noises. |
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They're yachts, mainly, and very beautiful, and it wasn't long before my wife was coaxed into taking lessons. |
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Carefully, and ever so gently, Tristan coaxed my weight upwards to more of a sitting position. |
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She placed the lantern in the boat and coaxed the pig aboard as it had crossed the river many times with her before. |
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Though the manager had coaxed us more than once to stay back, we decided to retrace our steps and proceed to Binsar by late forenoon. |
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Process cheese can be coaxed into shapes or spreads and also is a featured ingredient in many other food products. |
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He was coaxed into a reading and soon found himself studying with an acting coach, having his long hair cut to marine length for the part. |
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Like people, leeches do not always draw blood first time, and some have to be coaxed into biting. |
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At dinner, he was the focus of everyone's attention, and they coaxed some information from him. |
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Obree didn't medal, and had to be coaxed from a fifth-floor window sill by a teammate. |
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The betel vine grows well in marshy lands, with good rainfall but can be coaxed into growing in drier climes with profuse watering. |
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Her natural buoyancy eventually coaxed us into conversation, and saved the day. |
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The pang in my belly coaxed me inside to see what their table had to offer. |
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His assistant is a former Everton player whom he coaxed into returning to the club in the close season. |
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Today, on his third visit, Jason coaxed her to stand upright unaided from her wheelchair. |
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Railway workers prayed silently before their meagre meal, coaxed from the heat of a charcoal brazier. |
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As she coaxed out my tale of hypochondria and patiently explained the phenomenon of growing pains, my mother rocked me in her arms. |
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Berndon shouted when he finally coaxed the small spark into a flaming fire. |
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I tied the reins of his horse to the saddle rings of my mare, and then took her bridle at the cheekpiece and coaxed her in. |
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From a short corner, Totti coaxed in a lovely ball to the far post and Toni, six yards out and free of his marker, nutted it into the corner. |
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In the past, stone presses inefficiently coaxed oil from thick olive paste. |
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Physicists have coaxed a few atoms into exotic states that fit the bill, but they didn't make much of a computer. |
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She has coaxed excellent performances from the girls and uses animation and dream sequencey stuff extremely well. |
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He had deliberately provoked her, coaxed her into giving him the painful death he had coveted. |
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He waved at me as if he knew me already and coaxed me to come over and talk to him for while. |
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She was the only attendee, watching intently as he coaxed snakes from one basket to another with the mouth of his oboe. |
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It was espaliered carefully back onto its old trellis and coaxed into bloom. |
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Once he was finally coaxed into a room with some of the city's finest musicians last year, he was hooked. |
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After the fighting ended, he hid in the jungle for two years before he was coaxed into surrendering. |
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We weren't exactly abducted either, we were coaxed into coming into their house. |
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It seemed incredible to me that she showed enormous powers of rehabilitation when tutored and coaxed. |
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She remembers that many a boy, once he was coaxed out of his shell, would be hard to keep under control. |
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At all levels, students are encouraged, cajoled, and coaxed by teachers and parents to excel in their studies so that they can proceed to the next educational level. |
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A glass-blowing demonstration at the Science Festival showed how, with skill and steady hands, glass can be coaxed into a vast array of different pieces. |
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He's gently coaxed for five with minimum effort and maximum understatement. |
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She rehearsed, coaxed and harried speakers until they found a mode of speech that worked. |
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Many had been conscripted into fighting with brutal militias and have to be coaxed back into civilian life. |
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Walker, who took the stage jacketless, with shirtsleeves rolled up, coaxed perhaps the most vocal enthusiasm from the crowd. |
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During this time, governments across the developing world were being coaxed and forced by donor governments to improve governance. |
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The following systems are unsupported, but may eventually be coaxed to life. |
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He has also admitted to U. S. police that he coaxed at least five different people to commit suicide using the Internet. |
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Parents should guard against being coaxed or coerced by their children's tastes into providing meals largely composed of carbohydrates and fats. |
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More importantly still, lasting change has to be coaxed from within the communities themselves. |
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The Raven coaxed them to leave the shell to join him in his wonderful world. |
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He'd coaxed the perfect template for his light cage, a synthetic opal of silica, from Spanish colleagues. |
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She coaxed from them suggestions to resolve the problem and established the blockages. |
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Here the eye, coaxed by the mighty pillars, ascends upwards towards the heavens. |
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He is reluctant to play, has to be coaxed, and follows her around all the time. |
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The Hindustani POWs in Turkey were coaxed to join this army. |
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In other instances, contact with NPCs is unavoidable, as there are some who hold vital information, such as door codes, which can be coaxed out of them by interrogative means. |
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The two strapping marshals behind him looked plenty strong enough to have coaxed him to his feet if he had decided otherwise. |
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It would be great if Republicans could be coaxed to sign on to one or more of these efforts. |
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He even set the mic down before his time was up, he only finished after being coaxed back onto the stage by Sway. |
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Dean was not happy with the lie, but he was coaxed into letting it ride. |
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This year I was coaxed into starting my holiday baking early. |
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I propped this glorious child on my shoulder and coaxed a burp from her. |
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He coaxed the mouse onto his hand and put it into a tiny wicker basket. |
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You could try printing it on color transparency plastic and then heating it with a hair dryer whilst it is gently coaxed on to the surface of the mask. |
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For your benefit I've roasted a chicken, plated up a Ploughman's and coaxed a crispy topping onto a cottage pie. |
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When Collins coaxed him back, the folk audience loved him even more. |
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The brakeman had to help the fireman shovel coal into the firebox as the engineer coaxed his locomotive up grade. |
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To make his own study of the grooves, Rico-Guevara with ethologist Kristiina Hurme coaxed 18 hummingbird species in the wild to sip on camera. |
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If staple crops, such as maize, could be coaxed into apomixis, this would be a boon to poor farmers who save seed to plant year after year, and watch its vigour dwindle. |
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When the Charest government coaxed him out of retirement to lead a task force on health care reform, it undoubtedly counted on his unique moral authority, but could not have imagined how radical his recommendations might be. |
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Millions of miners have come to dig gold from the mines which burrow deep into the earth, and many other migrants have tilled and coaxed fruit from the soil in South Africa's northern provinces. |
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He hid behind a bush until grandmother coaxed him out. |
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Also we are finding that skin cells not only produce skin but they can be coaxed into forming other tissues, as Dr. Miller found, such as neurons or muscle cells. |
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If indeed Mr. Omar Khadr was coaxed or manipulated into becoming a jihadist, those responsible should be brought to justice in Canada as soon as possible. |
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Wenger could not even name a full list of substitutes because of a mix-up with Ryo Miyaichi, and Fabianski's penalty save, after Arjen Robben had coaxed a foul from Koscielny, was inconsequential. |
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And if they can be coaxed or cajoled into work they may sue if they feel their employer hasn't taken their ailment seriously enough. In Britain, stress has attracted the attention of the government. |
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He has coaxed decent performances from his cast, and the design a sparse set, with a jumble of interconnecting lights hanging overhead, like the connections in a brain works well. |
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We should know better, for we saw, when Nice was being discussed, how the party leaders coaxed and cajoled the supposedly free Members of Parliament. |
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By taming his once infamous fiery temper, he has coaxed the best out of the world famous orchestra and earned the reputation as the elder statesman of his profession. |
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Using a chemical stimulant, his team coaxed the prophages to mutate into a new form that destroyed the bacteria. |
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The twisted thieves coaxed Staffie Dozer outside then distracted him with Roger the bunny so his barks would not wake his owners upstairs. |
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Videogame lovers are being coaxed off couches as the industry sprints ahead with a trend toward fitness titles and motion-sensing controllers. |
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He coaxed her into the garage to discuss the break-up and when she tried to get out of the chair, he hit her over the head with a rubber cosh, Preston Crown Court heard. |
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