Alex drummed on the table with his thumbs, and then looked up at his troubled friend. |
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They would be exposed in the headlines of the tabloids and drummed out of office. |
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Hooves drummed against the packed earth and the horses raced as fast as their legs could carry them. |
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He drummed on the table for a long, silent moment while Brandark carved a fresh design, then glanced sideways at Tothas. |
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Chemi softly drummed her unlit pipe against her wrist, as if she were expressing a sort of forced happiness for the lemming's words. |
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Mike sat at the empty seat next to me and drummed his fingers on the table looking extremely bored. |
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I quickly dialed the number and impatiently drummed my fingers on my bedpost as the phone rang. |
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She impatiently drummed her fingers on the armrests and stared down her nose as the girl limped forward. |
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The heavy rain drummed against the windows rhythmically, making dark music that only the heartbroken could enjoy. |
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The manners we learn as kids are drummed into our heads by rote, much like multiplication tables. |
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Daniel watched all that and he learned from it and I drummed it into him not to make the mistakes I made. |
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The Labour MP could be told today whether he will be drummed out of the party over his anti-war comments. |
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She drummed her fingers impatiently against the smooth surface of the table, eyes watching the baristas as they made drink after drink. |
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Many senior leaders would've screamed at the younger captain, maybe even drummed him out of the Corps for grumbling at an order. |
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Born to a farming family in Howsham in 1800, he was drummed out of the community aged 15 for fathering an illegitimate child. |
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The Rugby League Professionals Association has now questioned the way Tilse was drummed out of the game. |
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Young Tenryu had been drummed out of the sport in the early 1930's after attempting to reform the antiquated system. |
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The frenzy that gets drummed up by some tabloids in an effort to merely sell papers is disgusting. |
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But the dancer's feet moved to the rhythms of Kathak, drummed on the tabla. |
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The woman sitting next to him humphed and drummed her blood red nails on the steering wheel. |
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I'd be branded a heartless bigot, racist and drummed out of office in about 1 day. |
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A dull aching head-ache drummed through her head like finger pads on a drum skin. |
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Ava sat on the edge of the bed, twirling her hair around her fingers, and Damien drummed his feet against the headboard. |
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The creases around his mouth deepened and he unconsciously drummed his fingers on the table. |
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From the year dot, my big sister and I had it drummed into us that money is not something one takes lightly. |
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He had been a senior chief petty officer when he was drummed out of the service for improper use of Navy resources. |
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Allie drummed slender fingers on the table's shiny surface, giving her head a shake. |
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As he read the printed words in the balloons that floated above Dagwood and Blondie he drummed his fingers on the table. |
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Paige drummed her fingers impatiently against her thighs, tapping her foot against the floor of the car. |
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That must have been drummed into the head of the elderly man's wife when she was a pickney. |
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How must it feel to know that not just one, but two of the bands you drummed for, so brightly outshine your own? |
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Some officers and other ranks may be drummed out, and the more sadistic aspects of discipline and training modified. |
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I drummed my fingers lightly on the green felt of the table, tapping out a little rhythm. |
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That can include demotion, firing or even being drummed out of the profession entirely. |
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I drummed my fingers on the throw pillow at the end of the couch, tapping my foot on the carpet. |
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Still, the sense of inferiority drummed into me from my contact with the internet may well lead me to strive to become a more fully rounded individual. |
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He drummed the fingers of his free hand against the counter impatiently. |
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More of a left social democrat than a Bolshevik, Lore was duly drummed out of the party. |
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For a long while, during the macho decades of rock and rap, it seemed as though vocal floridity had been drummed out of pop music. |
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The actor drummed his fingers between the purling British ringtones: rap tap, bring bring, rap tap, bring bring. |
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In December Sanader's HDZ was drummed out of office in Croatia as was the centre-right in Slovakia earlier this month. |
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I was an only child, and as far back as I can remember, the one message that was drummed into my head was that I had to go to university. |
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These wastes include drummed radioactive wastes, contaminated soils and decommissioning wastes. |
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But even if this message has been drummed into you several times, I'll drum it in again. |
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The company markets and distributes bulk and drummed petroleum products to a variety of industries. |
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In the process, we drummed up quite a bit of support and some great new volunteers. |
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What happens to someone who has been drummed out of the military for abusing their power? |
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We have drummed together in our belief in democracy and in peaceful elections. |
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Only one set of hooves drummed behind him, muffled somewhat by the snow. |
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Out of the silence came a low hum that started soft and grew in volume until it filled everything around it, a pulsating beat that drummed with a steady rhythm. |
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He drummed his fingers impatiently on her desk awaiting an answer. |
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Adrian drummed his fingers on his thighs, impatient and nervous. |
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Video clips of disaffected youths and single mums, drug addicts and alcoholics played on an almost continuous loop, as the message was drummed home. |
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The major must wait to discover whether he will be drummed out of the British Army, pending an internal investigation, while it's probable Whittock will lose his job as well. |
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Reinke lost his pulpit and was drummed out of the conservative Missouri Synod of the Lutheran denomination. |
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Nonetheless, FDR drummed up just enough support in the summer of 1940 to institute the first peacetime draft in American history. |
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The tabla rests on the pillow, and is drummed with the fingers and palms. |
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Fingers drummed on tabletops, teaspoons tapped impatiently on saucers. |
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Both Seward, Jr. and Bobby were drummed out of the company, leaving General Johnson in sole charge. |
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And yet he was convinced that nothing had hampered him and his schoolfellows so much as the grammatical perfectionism drummed into them by teachers. |
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I was never a fan of nouvelle cuisine, and perhaps because it was drummed into me as a child I've always believed in finishing what's put in front of me. |
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The journey from Wellington to Tauranga is one I make regularly, and I've drummed out a solid rhythm of stopping, snacking and supping along the way. |
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As the Canadians held the cross, six young Inuit from across the Canadian North sang, danced and drummed in front of the Pope and 275,000 people who attended the Passion Sunday liturgy in Saint Peter's Square. |
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As the nº 1 distributor in Belgium and major exporter of drummed chemicals, Brenntag is specialised in the storage, handling, blending and transport of hazardous and non-hazardous chemicals. |
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I learned how roll delicious cacao chocolate into treats used for a spiritual ceremony, and gazed in awe beside a fire ceremony as a group of women drummed and danced and sang songs dedicated to Mother Earth. |
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After eight months of brainstorming, an EU expert group has drummed up seven recommendations to stabilise the dairy market and ensure a fair income for producers. |
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I think he's been drummed out of that group by now, actually. |
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That is a given and we have that drummed into us. |
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Fortunately, however, there were some good contacts with a number of breweries that drummed up the starting capital via consultancy to buy the basic equipment for the lab. |
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There were 15 barrels of drummed oil on the deck aft. |
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Of 17 governments in the eurozone using the single currency, 10 have been drummed out of office in little more than a year, more often than not directly because of the crisis. |
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He is happy to have something like a regular job after a life more or less on the run, having been drummed out of his Sicilian hometown as a teenager for rumoured necrophiliac tendencies. |
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The residual volume of LLW now being produced is drummed and stored in warehouses pending the establishment of an appropriate long-term waste management facility. |
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With music blaring from the team bus, the players sang in unison and drummed on the windows in time to the beat, a tempo they managed to maintain when their match against the Swedes got under way. |
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Or when drummed his fingers on his original handles, whose concave shape, besides allowing a comfortable grip on both lines, welcomes us with its shining sinuosity. |
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As we were driving home, large spludgy balls of sleet drummed against the roof of the car. We had to wait a while before getting out. |
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Disraeli drummed up support by warnings of a supposed Russian threat to India that sank deep into the Conservative mindset. |
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She was immaculately turned out — fluorescent-blue down jacket, red boots, black tights, shoulder-length permed hair — but her thin fingers repeatedly drummed her phone, and exhaustion rimmed her eyes. |
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They have already drummed up more than pounds 3,000 for the Meningitis Trust and aim to raise thousands of pounds more by selling the calendars at pounds 4 each. |
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One kid drummed on a washboard, another plunked a broom-handle bass, a third faked chords on guitar, another blew into a gob iron, and they dubbed themselves a band. |
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It drummed tackily to gather my attention, coughed, spat, cleared its throat, and, on the eve of that portentous communication, retired up stage as a multitude whispering. |
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