| Their peace of mind has been shattered by young hooligans who use the derelict estate as their playground. |
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| Speaking about his sacking today, Mr Hughes said he was shattered by the decision. |
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| The boys were shattered by the manner of the defeat, and it was made even worse by the knowledge that we had basically blown a great opportunity. |
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| She made a phenomenal contribution to the development of the centre and staff are shattered by her loss. |
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| At a book signing in Edinburgh, I saw him in the flesh, and I was shattered by the experience. |
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| Flight testing his aircraft the following morning and flying over York he was shattered to see the smoking devastation rising from the city. |
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| On the other side of the mountains there were, no doubt, journalists in Indian villages too, also trying to calm small shattered children. |
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| Then he was shattered by the loss of his wife, who had worked closely with him. |
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| A week later he was shattered when he informed us that the pupil had already beaten the master. |
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| Thomas's senseless, sudden death during a night out with friends shocked York and shattered a family. |
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| The tragic death has shocked and saddened the local community and shattered his family. |
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| I'm shattered that the Borders expedition didn't happen, but I guess there has to be some reason to return one day. |
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| Anyway, nothing happening, France attacking but everyone's shattered apart from Ribery. |
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| My inertia in not pushing it backwards into a safe zone is as guilty for the shattered glass as the treacherous wind. |
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| Quiz bowl competitions can be extremely tense affairs, with down to the line finishes and shattered dreams. |
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| A bike-mad youngster who was geared up to compete against adults in motorcycle trials has had his dreams shattered by thieves. |
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| A shattered Bradford side lost the penalty shoot-out and had to settle for the runners-up trophy. |
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| A two-inch nut shattered the window and showered glass into the vehicle as it pulled up outside the school, narrowly missing pupils. |
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| Most cities had been leveled, economies were shattered, resources completely depleted, and societies torn to shreds. |
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| And if not for numerous strange goals he allowed this season, the shutout record may have been long shattered. |
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| It hit their little boat so hard that the wooden tub shattered on contact and blew all four friends onto the shore. |
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| Their hope, in the very bleakness of their existence, is ultimately shattered, and we realize they are back to square one at best. |
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| I did sleep more or less properly last night for the first time, but I am still shattered. |
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| When they didn't, she felt utterly shattered and unappreciated, to the point where she is now talking of resigning. |
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| During the action Hamilton's left wrist was shattered, an injury which left the fingers in his hand shrivelled and unbendable. |
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| Disdainful of this so-called unbreakable barrier, Popov has shattered it a dozen times, leading the way for others. |
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| My undauntedness was just then shattered by the sound of very large plates landing on our table. |
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| A major skyway nearby had been shattered completely, the ruined cars forming a junkyard at the bottom of the long drop. |
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| They removed damaged tissue and inserted bolts and pins, trying to piece together his shattered bones and tendons. |
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| Unsteady on his feet, Matt fell on his back, sliding along the shattered glass once more before coming to a halt. |
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| Staff escaped unhurt but the shots shattered the windscreens of their vehicles, leaving workers badly shaken. |
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| Hailey quickly dropped to the floor and picked up the shattered pieces, ignoring the thin slivers of glass which wedged in her fingers. |
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| Those uninterpretable tablets, those tablets for which no hermeneutic was necessary, were shattered. |
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| The mirror shattered instantly, smashing to the ground with a thunderous crash. |
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| Surgeons had to rebuild his shattered leg and smashed face and he was told he would never walk without crutches. |
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| She watched as the gray mantled gull swooped down and greedily ate the smashed contents of the shattered clamshell. |
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| Ensure good drainage by inserting a good layer, three to four inches deep, of gravel or shattered clay pots at the bottom of your container. |
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| Assumptions of the world as fair and manageable are shattered by an unsolvable mystery that can go on for a lifetime. |
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| The mirror had been broken, its shattered pieces falling onto the wooden chest and green carpeting. |
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| You've stolen his dignity, shattered his emotions and broken his spirit, how much more do you want? |
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| The glass she had been holding shattered on the ground, falling from her nerveless fingers. |
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| Before he even landed, an invisible force slammed into his stomach and several pieces of metal shattered from his breastplate! |
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| The material wedged into a solid cradle at its base, ballast to prevent its tipping, must have been shattered by the force of its fall. |
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| Turning to Dimitri, her once stoic expression was shattered as a brief smirk lightened her face. |
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| But I go nightclubbing, I dance, I really enjoy it and I try not to worry, although I know the next day I'm going to be absolutely shattered. |
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| In addition, new boards loose considerable resale value after they are dinged or shattered a few times. |
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| His voice once bouncy and vibrant was shattered and only left as melancholic gutterals that could barely be deciphered as speech. |
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| Had that canopy shattered, the incident would have cost a bundle, and we would have had to wait a long time for a new canopy. |
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| Luckily they woke up when the window shattered, so the burglars got away empty handed. |
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| The attack, inside a government-run religious school, shattered windows and pockmarked the walls with shrapnel and splattered blood. |
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| I looked up to the light streaming across the sky, and then down to the darkness with its shattered calmness. |
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| He hammered the remnants of his blade into the chest of the one who shattered it, and jumped to avoid a swipe that would have hamstrung him. |
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| When World War I and the Russian revolution shattered the Habsburg and Russian empires, Ukrainians declared independent statehood. |
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| The broken glass symbolises the broken faith, broken trust and shattered justice, our axe symbolises the steadfastness of our determination. |
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| Before his eyes, it cracked down the middle and shattered into a thousand pieces. |
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| Tariq was flung to the ground amid shattered glass and looked up to see his front door had been blown off its hinges. |
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| He hit the ground incredibly hard and shattered both his legs but was otherwise unharmed aside from some bruising. |
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| Every time you uncover a little bit of bone, you pour hardener over it to help protect it from being scratched or shattered. |
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| Moments later, a car bomb strews shattered bodies and vehicles around the plaza. |
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| She was later shattered to learn from a casual remark at a lunch party of his death at Gallipoli. |
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| Do you know how hard it is to walk through the shattered streets of my city and see how hard it fell? |
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| Small asteroids like 1998 SF36 are expected to be shattered objects, but not necessarily rubble piles and not necessarily strengthless. |
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| Before he could look up, a strong, clear, voice shattered the silence of the room. |
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| For two to three hours they stumbled over the shattered remains of the city in silence. |
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| Elsewhere the remnants are more mundane and ambiguous, like a shattered stump of bone which may point to the giant moa. |
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| But another attack, which took place on Easter Sunday, saw a second window shattered, outraging local people and parishioners. |
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| The coffin shattered into a million pieces while the hind legs and the wings of the hippogriff vaporized. |
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| As they enter the dense pack ice, their heads start sprouting up through the shattered ice like giant black-and-white tulips. |
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| The 13-year-old son of Ahonoora shattered his left front pastern on October 2, and underwent surgery the next day, Racing Post reported. |
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| I'd sustained a concussion, hyperextended my back and hip, yanked a ligament in my knee, and had my ego shattered. |
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| It was not evil, but cunning and cold, and Jaro new, with ice-cold certainty, that if he saw it in the eye, his soul would be shattered. |
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| The City Council had a self-imposed one-year deadline for rebuilding the shattered cloverleaf. |
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| What happens next is probably not untypical for many clubland acts who have their dreams shattered. |
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| He walked to the window, and suddenly, it shattered and produced a million facets of light. |
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| Last Thursday, a high-profile military booster in Congress suddenly shattered the conventional wisdom that immediate withdrawal is unthinkable. |
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| A carefully structured and deliberated response can be shattered into pieces in a few seconds by an incautious word over the telephone. |
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| The sharp, piercing wail of the alarm shattered her dream and woke her abruptly from her sleep. |
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| Despite this, he was sentenced for causing death by careless driving, a piffling little charge when you consider how many lives he has shattered. |
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| Geraldine remembers being completely shattered by the experience and finding solace only in books. |
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| Of course, as a consequence of all that activity, I'm shattered this morning. |
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| Still the dominant phonetic presence is of light vowels and soft consonants, a bright but increasingly fragile idyll asking to be shattered. |
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| No injuries were reported, although the auto received considerable damage and Decorum's plate glass showroom window was shattered. |
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| The 46-year-old was lucky to be alive after the explosion last Friday, which blew away the back door and shattered internal walls. |
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| Though shattered and disillusioned, he held onto his dream of getting away from ordinary life in order to pursue prayer and contemplation. |
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| Constance walked over to the shattered window which was now covered with a sheet of plywood. |
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| Long convoys still travel though the shattered rock and sand of the deserts and the hills. |
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| A shattered window contains thousands of incredibly sharp edges and dagger-like points. |
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| Personal leadership must still be exercised on these most ferocious of battlefields as we face shattered remnants and irregulars. |
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| Under my feet the flinty soil shattered into a thousand arrows pointing a hundred different ways. |
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| Boisterous crowds dispelled the darkness of night with fireworks as crackers shattered the stillness of the night. |
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| The teacup went flying, it was shattered, and one of the pieces cut Lindsay in her shin. |
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| Only the soft crests of waves slapping at the shore and the crunch of sand beneath her foot shattered the silence around her. |
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| I kicked and the water fractured, shattered into hundreds of ripples that milled out and scattered over the lake's surface. |
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| While riding another horse, he fell and shattered his collarbone, broke his shoulder, and fractured his ribs. |
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| The girl broke shattered her pelvis in two places, fractured her left arm and broke her thumb. |
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| However, those hopes were undermined and then ultimately shattered by a combination of injuries and growing defensive frailty. |
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| It is quite different from the shattered fragments found in the analytic cubism of his contemporaries Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso. |
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| The production possibility frontier has been all but shattered with innovation and continuous improvement. |
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| An ear-splitting crash resounded through the room as the glass shattered and flew everywhere. |
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| I take in shattered breaths, gathering all the strength I need, uttering a silent prayer to God. |
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| At once the preconception was shattered, and once the mental image was lost, it could not be easily restored. |
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| The peace of her early childhood was shattered by the entirely predictable arrival of awkward and gawkish hormones. |
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| His worst fears were realized when he recognized the helmet with the shattered faceplate and the silver material of the pressure suit. |
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| It shattered windows in nearby buildings and sent debris flying for half a mile. |
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| Two friends have their fragile relationship shattered when one of them comes up with a get-rich-quick scheme that actually succeeds. |
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| That probably doesn't mean shattered windows and office occupations, but more likely petitions and free food giveaways like one held last March. |
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| A glazier was just finishing off replacing the shattered window so at least I could see what I was doing. |
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| He was frightened to move unless he disturbed the stillness, unless he shattered its delicate fragility. |
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| During Monday's protests, some demonstrators broke into the legislature and shattered windows. |
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| That was completely demoralising, it shattered my confidence, and I was depressed for a year. |
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| On Friday a rail shattered, causing a derailment near Hammersmith, west London. |
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| He circled the shattered derelict once more and finally settled his craft down in an open spot. |
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| But along with my innocent childhood belief in the resurrection of rock music and the essential goodness of mankind, this myth was shattered too. |
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| We sat in silence for a few minutes until our peace was shattered as a messenger ran up to us, puffing and panting. |
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| The couple married in 2002 after their original wedding plans were shattered because of the devastating blow to Louise's health. |
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| The Mercedes swept past its curiously rounded tower and shattered, graffitied windows at 100 mph. |
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| Leading from the front, as he stepped ashore and in the act of drawing his sword, grapeshot shattered his right elbow. |
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| Here the statues so emblematic of Greek identity are phantoms of a shattered and shattering present. |
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| Their holidays were shattered daily with embarrassing, and potentially fatal, headlines and disclosures. |
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| Mr Bowell revealed that the panels that shattered were on the old roof, above the gutter. |
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| The trust of the disinherited was further shattered and disowned by the disingenuous attitude of the state. |
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| Michelle and her children's deaths have shattered their families and left them distraught. |
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| Every window in the ship shattered into a fine dust, and all the humans felt like they were vibrating severely. |
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| He grimaced as he noted the shattered glass by the mantelpiece, and moved to the kitchen to find a dustpan and brush. |
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| The sound of thunder ripped me from my slumber, not one, not two but three enormous explosions shattered the still morning air. |
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| That explosion shattered windows and caused heavy damage in one of the city's busiest areas. |
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| The peace in the town was shattered by the explosion, which blew out doors and windows and sprayed glass across the street. |
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| A passerby was wounded, several cars were damaged and windows in nearby building were shattered by the explosion. |
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| I don't mean the crazy shattered glass style tattooage plastered across her back, drooping over her shoulders. |
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| Once we get to dinner time, the peace and quiet is shattered by three ravening teenagers all demanding food and demanding it now. |
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| With reports of shattered guitars, groupie mayhem, and determined substance abuse, this new offering comes as something of a surprise. |
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| So the good-natured banter and dressing room style bonhomie had been shattered by a traitor in our midst. |
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| The neglected garden in the back yard was, in a moment, transformed into a junkyard of shattered masonry. |
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| He says that after he failed to get through in his first attempt, he was shattered. |
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| Heaps of coal from the shattered freight wagons lay scattered across the line, spilling right up to the very doors of the nearest homes. |
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| The sudden, abrupt death from a heart attack of the 14-year-old from Strensall shattered all those who knew and loved him. |
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| When a stone is quarried using dynamite, the molecular structure is shattered, making the stone weak and destroying its life and sound. |
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| Hardly heard of previously, there have been more than 10 accidents involving shattered bathroom washbasins reported this year. |
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| They had to spend at least 18 months living in rented accommodation while their shattered homes were rebuilt. |
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| He almost died, and had to crawl his way to help despite broken bones and a shattered jaw. |
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| This is the second year in a row that the quiet period between Christmas Day and New Year's Day has been shattered by a disaster. |
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| Feeling absolutely shattered we returned to our messy, near empty house lamenting the lack of soft furnishings to comfort our aching posteriors. |
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| The scattered devices lay across the floor like shattered pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. |
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| All that was left on the street was the shattered remains of a small trophy cup, broken silver shards twinkling in the evening light. |
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| Gaping holes puncture the walls, leaving glimpses of lifeless interiors through jagged brickwork and shattered windows. |
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| All of a sudden I heard a big kaboom and everything around me just shattered and collapsed in on me. |
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| The wheel well all but disintegrated and the already broken front axle shattered to pieces that fell at odd angles. |
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| This creates an illusion that is shattered whenever adverse effects however rare are brought to light. |
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| I was absolutely shattered, wearing a cagoule and a pair of sunglasses to hide the bags under my eyes. |
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| I finally broke the silence with the sound of a shattered dream, saying that I couldn't afford to take a risk with my young family and all. |
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| The world was created in a broken state, and the human being was placed within it to gather the shattered pieces and repair its wholeness. |
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| Its two back seat occupants clambered out through the car's shattered rear window and ran off. |
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| Random shots fired by an air gun shattered glass at the TV office building in Neihu and its surrounding area yesterday. |
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| The windshields of NASA vehicles parked outside the building were shattered by the panels, which Kennedy described as flying shrapnel. |
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| I point the nose of my shattered plane towards Hendon, my new wingman close behind me. |
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| A sudden blast of discordant horns shattered the stillness that had settled over the killing fields. |
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| It showed the twisted remains of a wrecked car, a shattered windshield, and a small body face down, arms and legs wildly akimbo. |
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| Mrs Church's death has shattered the local community, who knew her as a loving and kind-hearted person. |
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| It was here that his dream was shattered as he was counted out by the referee. |
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| We venerate the cross because it has broken down our pride, shattered our envy, redeemed our sin, and atoned for our punishment. |
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| The tranquillity was shattered as Dr Sentamu finally knocked on the West Door with a wooden staff. |
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| Witnesses said the wreckage of a Mercedes car lay in the road, its glass shattered. |
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| A burning car exploded and shattered the front room window of a house in Rawcliffe Avenue, Breightmet, after being set alight early today. |
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| All of a sudden, the normal drone of the training room was shattered by peals of laughter! |
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| I chuckled at his cheeky outburst and put on a pot of coffee so we could sit down by the shattered window and reminisce of fond memories past. |
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| He now watched the repairmen move a new sheet of glass into position over the shattered remains of the first. |
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| The gym hall was strewn with sobbing lassies, their lives ruined, their confidence shattered by human error. |
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| I'm shattered as I write this little tribute to a lovely lad, a true friend. |
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| The seemingly harmonious life of the family is shattered and the two women decide to go away to a distant place and begin life anew on their own. |
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| Ring your eyes with wet leaf green or rusty colours, create unruly brows and stick shattered sequins onto the cheeks. |
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| Thus out of the shattered remains of his previous life, Westlake is reborn, an anti-hero for the ages. |
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| She wanted to kill herself, right then and there, to be rid of all the pain that shattered her insides. |
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| One of the riders took a swipe at him with a light stick, and the globe at the end shattered, but he felt the wall crumble a bit. |
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| The life of two brothers is shattered by the sudden appearance of their father, who they know only from a 10-year-old photograph. |
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| On July 9, 1984, York Minster was hit by a devastating fire, leaving its famous rose window in shattered fragments. |
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| She was lost in the swelling crowd around her, shattered into a million pieces and so cold. |
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| Standing up, he threw his weight into a roundhouse kick that shattered the mirror, raining deadly crystals over his room. |
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| They fear the change will be too stressful and that long-standing relationships with staff will be shattered. |
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| When Debbie entered the tiny white room, the sharp click of her too-high heels shattered the almost-silence. |
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| Her words were sharp and I felt them cut into each piece of my shattered heart. |
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| The confidence of its 40 million shareholders, mostly middle-class professionals and pensioners, has been rudely shattered. |
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| The wreck and ruin of the old forest was put in order, shattered trees made whole, tender grasses covering the tortured land. |
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| The faction of Moscow loyalists essentially waited and picked up the pieces of the shattered organization. |
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| Between them, the three bombs have shattered the lull in violence that followed the poll. |
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| The young doctor was crouching in the middle of the floor staring at the shattered remains of a glass vial, her lupine tail lashing. |
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| Most had died along the way, but one young lad, his arm and leg completely shattered by shrapnel, was conscious and groaning. |
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| The gun went off, taking out a glass table top that shattered into four-carat chunks of safety glass. |
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| At times, however, music of great austerity and purity is shattered by painful, pounding discords. |
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| The strings had snapped, the fingerboard was half off, the ornate bridge had shattered and the tailpiece had fallen off. |
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| Any chance of the Hungarians bouncing back from that loss was shattered by events which went far beyond the disappointment of sporting defeat. |
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| The stillness was abruptly shattered by a loud alarm call from a sambar deer. |
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| The device was sandbagged, the area cleared and then the tranquillity shattered briefly as a sympathetic charge disposed of the shell. |
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| A pair of shattered aviator glasses were found at the site of a 1968 helicopter crash in Laos. |
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| Many of our soldiers, sailors and airmen will be lost or severely wounded many lives will be shattered as a very grave period awaits us. |
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| Small vessels had been sunk outright, huge slabs of stone breaking their backs, while larger ships had been cratered and shattered by the rocks. |
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| A white teacup slipped from coffee-coloured fingers and shattered on the hardwood floor. |
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| And if you have the temerity to do so your reputation will be shattered and your dignity will be shredded. |
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| I was absolutely shattered, wearing a Burberry cagoule and a pair of sunglasses to hide the bags under my eyes. |
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| The dragon shattered into the shadows as the scintillation of explosive elemental forces raced out and away from the impact. |
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| He plucked James from the ground swiftly, then turned and marched quickly over to the shattered window. |
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| The nearby street was littered with shattered vehicles, pieces of glass, bricks, mangled steel and scraps of clothing. |
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| The following week, I almost dropped a large metal ball bearing onto it, which would have shattered it. |
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| Alain cupped his ears as the creature's high pitched scream shattered every window pane in the room. |
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| Surgeons rebuilt his shattered legs using metal plates held together by 27 screws. |
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| Try as we might to pretend otherwise, the mask of polite discourse had been shattered. |
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| An x-ray, taken at a vet's surgery, showed that a pellet fired from a high-powered rifle had shattered her thigh bone. |
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| The wounds inflicted often include shattered limbs, third-degree burns and ruptured organs. |
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| The stores that faced out into the streets did so with wide, gaping maws created by the shattered state of their glass windows. |
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| Plants were covered with perforated bags after seed set to prevent loss of seed when ears shattered at maturity. |
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| But his dreams were shattered when the organisers threw him out unceremoniously. |
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| Their names had been etched into the glass but the pane was shattered by hooligans who climbed onto scaffolding and kicked in the windows. |
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| Heroic neighbours risked their lives to rescue an injured pensioner from the shattered remains of her home after a massive gas blast. |
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| Linking our fingers, we brought our mugs against theirs with such force that their beakers shattered. |
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| Fans will be bemused and bealing that it was their own gaffer who shattered their dream of a clean sweep. |
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| Time stops, serenity is shattered and the aftermath is a bruising period of shock and guilt. |
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| A little over 300 years ago, shrieking war cries and flying tomahawks shattered the summer calm in a frontier town of the Massachusetts Province. |
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| There was an expensive shriek of metal being crushed and the steam roller rose almost a full eight inches before the engine block shattered. |
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| I was ready to toss it in when a terrified scream shattered the night's quiet. |
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| I remember the hours before surgery, my leg in traction and feeling the shattered pieces shifting in my leg. |
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| Then he passed out, dropping the piece of glass, which shattered into a thousand pieces. |
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| The glass top shattered in a million pieces flying across the room like shrapnel. |
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| It shattered suddenly, cracking into thousands of millions of small pieces. |
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| The damage was so extensive the front door was shattered and has had to be replaced. |
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| The blow shattered yet another piece in the fencing as the human went flying backwards into it. |
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| The whole ordeal has just shattered my confidence and I'm always left worrying what people think of me when they see the scars. |
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| My aunt together with the other elderly and frail residents have had their feelings of security and confidence shattered by these proposals. |
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| Others are probably wondering why I'm going on about my life being shattered and ruined. |
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| We are not discussing social options, but trying to build a country that has been destroyed and a state that has been shattered. |
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| But the damage was permanent and his military career was shattered, along with his spinal column. |
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| He admitted, however, that the latest blast shattered the peace enjoyed by the local people since the December peace deal. |
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| Their lives have been shattered by the devastating effects of the recent cyclones. |
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| But the sombre peace is shattered when a bomb blast is heard shuddering in the distance and the spooks must answer the call of duty. |
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| Poor fisher folk were the worst hit, their boats damaged, their houses destroyed and their lives shattered. |
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| Thousands of working class people had their confidence and hopes shattered by the despised old grammar school system. |
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| Stevie joins us live to perform his brand new single and his gift for the people shattered by the storm. |
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| Their gazes met, held, and the defensive expression in her eyes shattered. |
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| Two missiles flew out from Nymph's hull and crashed into the oncoming Wraiths, the first had been shattered into pieces while the other had merely been winged. |
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| Sixty years ago, American industrial and financial power fueled the rebuilding of a world capitalist order that had been shattered by depression and war. |
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| A gust of wind blew against the lace curtains which was all that protected the room from the torrential rain beating against the shattered uPVC double-glazing. |
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| The love triangle became the subject of local gossip and he was shattered. |
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| When it ended, the British empire did indeed appear to have been shattered, France was revenged, and her international prestige stood gloriously restored. |
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| There, especially after his voice broke and shattered his hopes of a singing career, he knocked on every door he could find in a bid to get powerful patrons. |
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| A huge hole gaped in the roof, and a conservatory was shattered. |
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| The police were criticised for not breaking it up and dozens of complaints were made by residents whose sleep was shattered by the music from the rave. |
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| Under this banner breakbeat shattered into myriad of sub-genres which were difficult for any but the cognoscenti to tell apart, which was probably all part of the plan. |
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| Windows were shattered and shards of glass littered the scorched pavement. |
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| Pallasites were once thought to originate at the core-mantle boundary of differentiated asteroids that were subsequently shattered through impacts. |
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| When they are finished, my crockery and glassware are shattered, my kitchen shelves and cupboards are broken, the food in my pantry is poisoned, and even my house is wrecked. |
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| The windscreen of the van cracked and the side window shattered. |
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| A scale replica of the Church of St. Margaret, for example, was built near Mapledurham for scenes of windows being blown out and masonry shattered in the battle sequences. |
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| A woman who claimed that her confidence was shattered while working as a dental practice manager has had her case thrown out by an employment tribunal. |
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| This shattered the public's confidence in the railway system. |
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| His lebkuchen slipped from his fingers and shattered on the floor. |
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| Depending on the severity of a collision you will end up with crumpled doors, shattered glass or even bumpers and skirts dragging in a trail of sparks behind you. |
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| Like her, other parents who have lost their children are shattered. |
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| Suddenly the tension broke and loud guffaws shattered the silence. |
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| Furniture had been torn apart, and shattered glass covered the floor. |
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| Yesterday the scene was cordoned off with police tape as fire investigators picked through the wreckage of the fire which left windows shattered and blackened. |
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| The booming roll of thunder shattered the tranquility of the forest. |
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| The quiet of Shrewsbury Abbey is shattered when Brother Oswin, sent on an errand to deliver medicines, is discovered in a nearby forest, beaten within an inch of his life. |
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| The shattered remnants of other vessels dotted the walls and floor of the tunnel, but she figured the gunrunners had scavenged the majority of the wreckage. |
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| We only had to row 500m on a rowing machine as fast as possible but I got a bit overenthusiastic on the warm up and was shattered before I'd even started the test. |
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| The window in the study shattered as a piece of cobble flew into to it. |
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| Mr Blackman, a former railway signalman, said his son was shattered. |
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| The victims were indoors and were hit by debris from shattered windows. |
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| Enron turned out to be the first of a wave of similar accounting fraud cases which shattered investor confidence and sent stock markets nosediving downwards last year. |
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| The operation's international impact was immense as aerial photographs of the shattered dams haemorrhaging millions of tons of water were flashed around the world. |
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| I was shattered to see how the disease had extended its deathly grip. |
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| For hundreds of years, he was left shattered after falling off a wall but Humpty Dumpty has been put back together in a politically correct version of the nursery rhyme. |
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| Solid timbers and struts took on the grotesque softness of a shelled oyster, as glass shattered, cloth rippled, and counters spewed their contents. |
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| Luckily the back window of the car is safety glass and just shattered. |
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| The nearest vertical post shattered in a cloud of steam, and the tower tilted at a crazy angle, before ponderously toppling on those poor souls beneath it. |
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| Although the tomb was shattered and empty, leaders of the team said they will dig on in the hope of finding jewelry, other artifacts, or even the biblical monarch's remains. |
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| Another barrier surgeons had to overcome was immobilizing a shattered limb while ensuring they had access to the open wound so they could treat infection. |
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| Into the dark and unfriendly ocean of forsakenness my spirit sank in despair as my shattered life lay before my eyes like a horror too incomprehensible to understand. |
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| Many saw the advent of civilian rule as an opportunity to restore hope to Nigeria's 120 million people and repair an economy shattered by years of misrule. |
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| As a nation painfully picks up the pieces of its shattered character, its people know they have a while to go before they eventually heal from years of pain and abuse. |
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| This shattered the glass pane that showered and cut the two women. |
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| Headlights shattered and windshields cracked, the place was a disaster. |
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| Not just the desecrated bodies of the dead, but the shattered lives of those who knew and loved them are thrust into the merciless gaze of the public eye. |
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| Any belief New Zealand had in repeating the victory they secured against Australia 12 months ago was shattered by the decisiveness of the Kangaroos' start to the second half. |
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| The strike threat could further fray the shattered nerves of dozens of bleary-eyed wives, mothers and sisters who remained camped outside Carandiru. |
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| My innocent pleasure in those evenings shattered when a local gossip spread the word that I was on the prowl for other women's husbands, one in particular. |
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| Suddenly the atmosphere is shattered by blood-curdling screams. |
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| In the portrait, Picasso has broken his subject into angular elemental forms and then reassembled them from various perspectives, like a shattered mirror. |
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| I wanted to know more about meteorites and the clues to the deeper layers of our own planet offered by the bits that they carry from the core of shattered planetoids. |
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| He leaves the carny in order to reach the big time, but his dreams are shattered by a careless performance in front of his first high-level audience. |
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| With a pang and a ping and a scrunch not unlike the sensation you get when a tooth is pulled, the glass shattered the moment the tensioning springs were released. |
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| The bomb craters were so deep we couldn't walk down into them, so we struggled around their rims like ants, fighting for a purchase in dirt, muck and shattered roots. |
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| The sun was making its way into the sky and was falling though the shattered windows giving light to the matted dust on the floor and the covered furniture. |
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| As Radcliffe shattered a world record in each one it appeared that she became more and more strangled by her own expectations and those of others. |
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| I never went in, but sat a way up the road on a bench near the tiny Council garden, the one normally claimed by the weekend drunks, but I was too shattered to care. |
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| Creeping up the ruins of the shattered wall, he kept himself in the shadows of the tumbled blocks, heedful of the men searching in the courtyard below. |
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| The waking dream shattered as I started to muzzy consciousness. |
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| She poured the water and turned to put it back in the fridge but as she opened the door the jug slipped from her grasp and shattered on the floor with a loud smash. |
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| This completely shattered my pride and punctured my ego and self-respect. |
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| It was feared that he may have brain damage and his injuries included broken ribs, a broken jaw, a punctured lung and shattered nerves in his right arm and right leg. |
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| Besides, her feelings could just be a product of her shattered identity. |
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| Although billed as the ultimate exercise in sleep deprivation, shattered competitors have been allowed occasional catnaps agreed by the producers. |
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| It clanged on the concrete and the bulb shattered with a tinkle. |
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