This wasn't a real football drill, where the banging of heads can make one's teeth chatter or develop headaches in those merely watching. |
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So he started the second half intent on spraying line drives all over the park and relying on his speed by banging balls into the ground. |
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McBride singled in a run in the second, banging a ball off the glove of diving third baseman Ken Boyer to score Leon Wagner. |
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I was going on twenty-one years of age and just banging the balls around trying to cut in hard shots. |
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He floored it and we sped off with the engine roaring, banging and clattering like a class of five year olds in the school music room. |
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I heard shutters banging and people wailing and babies crying and dog barking. |
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A window lay open, revealing a steel-grey sky beyond the wooden shutters, banging as the wind whistled furiously outside. |
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We suffered a similar situation for six years during which time we had to put up with loud music, doors banging at all hours and verbal abuse. |
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They also don't stay up all night playing rather loud music, and banging all the house doors. |
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She said she heard doors banging and loud music on the night of the attack. |
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He started banging around in the kitchen, then he picked up his keys and went storming out. |
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But told the jury the noise problems had been real with loud music being played at night, doors being slammed and people banging around. |
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As I walk downstairs, I can hear the sound of my mother banging around in the kitchen, muffled by something. |
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It's like a whirlwind version of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, but with more characters banging about and fewer insights into them. |
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I could hear Kathy banging around in the house and a moment later she came back into the lounge where I was standing, waiting. |
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I could hear Mom banging around downstairs, probably making something else. |
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Could it be related to the fact that I heard Jackson banging away at the piano in G11, as I passed? |
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We do need to keep banging away at the healthy eating message, and hope that it begins to get through. |
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We were banging away at the council for eight months before they finally agreed it was a new-build. |
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From National Review to the Wall Street Journal, the usual suspects have been banging away at the expedient scandal. |
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If we in the industry hadn't kept banging away at these drugs, we wouldn't have ever known that better ones could be found. |
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They were banging the beat out on the dashboard so hard that the music stopped. |
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He auditioned it before Stalin's musically illiterate arts committee by banging it out on a piano and singing in his own, unreliable voice. |
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Who am I to tell you one way or the other, given that I am banging these words out on a keyboard in my Hong Kong home? |
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He's working on the plane as he travels around the country on his laptop computer banging it out. |
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Huge drum calls, banging beats and thrilling jump-up energy herald his arrival. |
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Lightly chucking verse, big banging chorus, periodically insert lead guitar hook and presto! |
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After departing ways with DJ Darren Emerson, many fans thought Underworld would cease to produce the same banging sets. |
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I once went out to the dim lights of the banging disco music in the heart of Melbourne's finest hours, Saturday night. |
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Still even this amount will help alleviate the banging techno on the temples and the overpowering, unfightable, desire to die. |
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He hugged me, introduced me to some of The Fine Arts Militia, and they did a banging performance knocking us all down with the funk. |
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It's taken Jamie Oliver just four TV programmes to bring home the message Vivienne has been banging on about for 20 years. |
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She's got this Westlife fixation and she's forever banging on about how great they are and how much she loves them. |
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It's something I have been banging on about for years, and is now built into Typepad but hasn't taken off. |
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Cut to Donald, his face a picture of bafflement, who clearly hadn't a clue what Nasty Alex was banging on about. |
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I DO wish Michael Wills would stop banging on about how much extra money his lords and masters have supposedly ploughed into Swindon. |
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If you ever happen to meet Brian Walsh, there's no point in banging on about that great documentary you saw on RTE last night. |
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Indeed, he was much more savvy, allowing his music to soundtrack car adverts while still banging on about how evil cars are. |
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Car alarms are the most detested noise, followed by folks arguing, dogs barking, loud music, and banging doors. |
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Above the bassy boom of the television there was a banging repetition of sounds. |
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I froze when I heard loud, thunderous footsteps racing up the stairs and soon banging fists were pounding against my door. |
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Reporters spend most of their time reporting and then as the clock ticks, start banging away at the keys. |
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The cars are semi-permanently connected by drawbars instead of couplers, so the noise of banging buffer plates and diaphragms is eliminated. |
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He injured his knee after banging it against his own handlebars during the team time trial in the first week of his first Tour. |
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He reeled up and toppled over backwards, banging his head on the edge of a chair. |
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I was in two minds whether to go banging on doors to ask people why they were opposed to the location. |
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But apparently this comes as such a shock to the bien pensant minority who are eternally banging on about the joys of careers. |
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Just reading the names together in one sentence made my head start banging furiously and caused me to shotgun a beer. |
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Kimberly and I remain at Junior Consultant level, banging our heads against the glass ceiling at every turn. |
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I heard a loud frustrated sigh on the other end of the door and a loud banging sound. |
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I swear I saw this bloke banging one of the wheels of the undercarriage, with a massive adjustable spanner. |
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The whole of the Stadium is banging its collective head, like 55,000 bobbleheads bobbing in unison. |
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One keeps banging his head against the seat, the other keeps making repetitive noises and a few more are laughing at something hideously unfunny. |
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When I became involved they weren't very open, but kept banging on rather boringly about the same old stuff. |
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Their followers, chanting calypsos, strumming guitars and banging dustbin lids, swarmed on the field and began triumphant tribal dances. |
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I tapped in to a lot of good things when I came here and I have never felt like I have been banging my head against a brick wall. |
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Playing these games hours on end is akin to banging your head on the wall, or listening to pop on headphones day and night. |
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I woke up to the sounds of rolling thunder banging on my eardrums like some heavy metal band. |
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Within about 15 minutes neighbours heard voices and banging on the walls sounding like a violent struggle was taking place. |
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He could hear voices from the kitchen and his name being shouted out and then he heard a loud banging on the toilet door. |
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The reason I'm banging on about Kant, is that this test exposes the moral cesspit of international relations. |
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Dozens walked out, banging doors behind them, but the great majority stayed, and gave the performance an enthusiastic ovation. |
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There was some smarmy Chardonnay socialist banging on about how we should be buying hybrids. |
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Usually drink my own home brew, but bottles don't take to all that banging around. |
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Sorry to keep banging on about the same old subject, but is there any stopping chuffing Chelsea? |
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They found him out back, banging on a butter churn, watched by unimpressed cows. |
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Nocturnal head banging, sleep talking and nocturnal leg cramps are other rare forms of parasomnia. |
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The water level had risen three of four metres and we could hear people running and shouting and banging and clattering. |
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Tomorrow the banging and clattering overhead will resume as the last of the slate tiles are laid, followed by the ridge tiles. |
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In an interview held within hours of the incident Richardson told officers how there was a loud commotion and banging on his door. |
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Johnson and a cohort of industry representatives have been busy banging the drum for London's fintech scene. |
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Then there was a revolution in my building, with all these fishwives banging on my door because I'd insulted them. |
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I could almost hear the coopers banging, smell the blubber cauldrons boiling. |
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We are actively banging on the door for anything that's collectively, cooperatively, or currently Crown-owned. |
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The words were covered by the heavy sounds of cheers and the banging of the bass drum. |
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He sort of crawled face first down the channel, banging against rocks, cussing louder by the moment. |
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But pushy Michael somehow convinces them to turn off the sound and starts banging on an old upright piano. |
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We're developing a visual presentation that isn't simply the standard four faceless dullards banging through their barely discernible repertoire. |
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She fell pretty hard, dropping a plate, and banging her head on the ground. |
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The Korean fans are banging drums and urging their team on with even more vigour. |
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As the clock strikes eight an enormous din breaks out, with prisoners banging, shouting and drumming on doors. |
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Tom Wilson will keep banging the drum for Prestwick regardless of what happens this week. |
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What we have here, not unexpectedly, is a publisher banging the drum for his book. |
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Eyre certainly suffers his share of trials, however, and is often exhausted by the constant pressure of banging the drum for subsidised theatre. |
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I begin banging my head against the table top, rattling the plates and cutlery. |
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Sam growled into the speaker and vented all his inner frustration by banging his poor fist onto the oak tabletop. |
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The film's abounding action sequences are banging, but they're not enough to overlook its plot holes and confusing story. |
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Liza stepped back from the lanky man leaning over her, banging into the brick wall of the building. |
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First he let fly from 25 metres out, his ambitious drive banging off the outside of the upright. |
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Niall was clearing the remaining jagged edges of glass from the windows and banging on the side of the wreck in the hope of some response. |
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The truck jounced frequently, banging his head against the doorframe and it was hard to get comfortable. |
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A raggle-taggle clamour of children curls by, banging homemade drums and startling an old man who has been praying into his wrinkled brown hands. |
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I worm around on my carpeted floor, banging my head into my Play Station Two. |
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He made a lot of noise by banging his rattle against his little table, and generally had a good time pretending to be all grown up. |
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On the opposite side of the circle, a man and a woman dressed in white are banging out frantic beats on African drums and tambourines. |
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Neighbours then heard an argument, the sounds of somebody being pushed against a wall and banging doors. |
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Ten, even five years ago, women were still banging on about women's lib and power suits were the main ingredient in the wardrobe. |
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Someone started to ring the doorbell while someone else was banging the knocker. |
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There are her two young sons, three and five, banging on the piano and slopping juice on the recently refinished coffee table. |
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I still feel lousy, but at least my head's stopped banging and the all-over body aching and shivers have subsided a bit. |
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I find the waves banging over the prom have a similar effect on me as a lava lamp. |
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Alexander shouted impatiently, banging his crystal glass of whisky down on the desk and spilling it slightly. |
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There are 230 drummers, mostly banging on riempie drums, with a core unit of 15 bigger djembe drums carrying the sound. |
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A brief murmur rippled through the assembly of firefighters only to be silenced by a gavel banging. |
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It was nice to pause, watch, and listen to the bird banging away and the wood chips falling to the ground. |
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Trunk banging displays of the Asian elephant produce a booming sound heard for a great distance. |
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In the end it was a relief when I got the sack, because I was banging my head against a brick wall every day. |
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He had stuffed his mother's old dishtowels into the satchels to keep the cans from banging together. |
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You should have seen the tantrum I threw, banging the floor with my fist and saying bad words. |
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I think he was intentionally banging the ball into the net to get the pretty ballgirl to run out. |
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She began banging things around as she cooked the fish, and in the process of being spiteful and noisy, splashed herself with hot grease. |
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Chris walked lightly to my closet doorway and began banging his head on the frame lightly. |
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He looked around quickly and desperately began banging his head against the nearest wall. |
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The neighbors downstairs banged on the ceiling and so then I began banging my head against the wall. |
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The fork shivered angrily and then slid across the table, banging Sven's glass. |
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He promptly stood in front of it and began banging his head upon the curved surface. |
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He could hear Chela talking in the other room and began loudly banging the book on the table beside the laptop. |
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And in the front, a group of students are having a rap contest as they make their beats by banging on the table. |
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At this point I began banging my head on the table, so I turned the TV off. |
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Simon started cracking up again, banging his hand dramatically on the table as he held his stomach. |
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Crystal pleaded as the cat darted down the alleyway banging into trash cans and making all kinds of noise as it went. |
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On a regular basis, she would slam him into a wall or table, often banging his head into the wall. |
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The worst part of that crash was likely the people banging into each other. |
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He seemed to return her bitterness as he sharply walked past, banging into my shoulder on his way. |
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When you started your career as a first class cricketer in India, you were a lively fast medium bowler who loved banging the ball in short. |
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What Taylor-Wood is banging on about in her unspontaneous, artless, emotional way is that the tears may well be controlled, ambiguous or dishonest. |
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The other two burst out laughing, banging the table top with their paws. |
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She turned around and began banging her forehead against the wall. |
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Off he toddles in his kilt to the British Day he's been banging on about. |
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A buxom woman sat at the piano banging out popular music hall tunes. |
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Apologies to those who don't know what I'm banging on about. |
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I had to clear a two-foot area around her high chair so that she wouldn't knock the table over with her banging, and that's when the public squawking started. |
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Jas got bored and began banging his heels against the chair legs. |
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There was banging in the background and angry voices calling out her name. |
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They were banging into elbows and not apologizing or anything. |
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Mum walks over to the larder and there is much clanking and banging, I hear tins being pushed along the shelves, even the Christmas puddings being moved. |
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One youth lay on the road in front of the vehicle obstructing its path, while the remainder of the group attacked the vehicle, banging on its sides, windows and doors. |
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And your ideological compatriots in the media might not be able to get up much of a head of steam banging the table for a bunch of hot dog magnates. |
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The media's finally picking up on the petty and heavy-handed restrictions in place here in Athens that I've been banging on about since I arrived. |
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He showed his excitement and joy through idiotic dancing and head banging. |
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It began at around noon when a group of about 100 colourfully dressed people set off from Princes Street towards the financial district, banging drums and waving black flags. |
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Further down the street was the kiddie doof, featuring walls of speakers and stalls where 13-year-old girls offered free glitter makeovers to a banging electronic soundtrack. |
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Vertebral discs cushion the spine, like spongy coasters between each vertebra that protect bones from banging against each other while one is running or jumping. |
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That's what Ranieri the player was like, constantly banging away at something until he succeeded, without caring whether more talented people succeeded on the first attempt. |
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Love him or loathe him, he kept that dream he keeps banging on about alive this week when he motored off to Canberra in one from his collection of automobiles. |
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I jumped, startled by the sound of someone banging on the door. |
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I fully intend to spend my time reading, not banging away at a keyboard. |
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It would do us well to ponder these words as we sit daily banging away at our computers, talking on our cell phones, and whizzing our faxes to the four corners of earth. |
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She was repeatedly banging the mouse on the foam wrist-rest of the mouse pad, causing the pointer on the screen to stop half way down the monitor. |
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In fact, the possibility of being savaged seemed so low on her sense of possibilities that she was almost instantly distracted by a bluebottle banging against the window. |
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Upset and shouting, Buck took to his heels and dashed out of the room, the wooden door banging on its hinges behind him as his cowboy boots clattered on the timber porch. |
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They were greeted by staff playing all manner of musical instruments from tambourines to recorders and the less musically gifted banging pots and pans. |
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Now and again, you could hear the unmistakable metallic sound of snow shovels banging into concrete sidewalks, along with the deep rumble of a passing plow. |
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The unexpected closing surge from the Scots continued, and they had been banging away at the Newport line once again in injury-time when the referee blew for no-side. |
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To summon up some pre-broadcast interest, Starkey's been banging his tambourine for England at the expense of the Scots, which shows the desperate dullness of his subject. |
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Later that week, Jill the Very, Very Good Tester is banging away at the code, rolling her forehead back and forth on the keyboard or some equally cruel test. |
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A number of commentators, including letter writers to this newspaper, have made the point, banging on about the general rottenness of modern life. |
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I believe there is a vast and unseen military effort banging away at the very foundations of the Baathists, and we have yet to really see it unfold. |
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The president is basically banging on the Democrats and saying they were leading this filibuster of the Patriot Act, and it's true that mostly it was Democrats filibustering. |
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The game does offer wheel-to-wheel, fender banging fun, especially when there are real people in the room to bark at when you've just left them eating your dust. |
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I know because I saw him sit down at the typewriter and begin banging it out in his inimitable style, which included forced nicknames and chatty familiarity. |
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The side of his car was dented and destroyed, three bullet holes already in it and a loose back tire, the rim about to pop off from the constant banging. |
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The chickenhawks, the cabal of right-wingers who never saw the far side of a military training ground, are the men now banging the drums for war in the White House. |
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Often he felt as if he was banging his head against a brick wall. |
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Ken Loach keeps banging them out, but this is the one I'd pick. |
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I was interrupted yet again by the stupid door banging against the wall. |
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The first guy landed about halfway down the mat and went sailing out into the boondocks tearing off his gear and banging up his airplane rather badly. |
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There was a loud banging at the door, it sounded like the cops. |
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What is the point of banging him up in prison or a lunatic asylum? |
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As they started to leave, they heard a tremendous roar and clattering, banging, and thundering of doors and windows being thrown open by the wind. |
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It rang like a huge gong banging relentlessly into the silence. |
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Even prisoners going in and out of Strangeways have been banging on the van windows as they've passed by and we've had police cars and fire engines hooting us too. |
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Two days after the flood, I heard loud banging noises once again, went to the kitchen and found the stabiliser burning like a torch and emitting heavy, tarry smoke. |
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Ian heard Linda banging around in the bedroom, and walked to the doorway. |
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I had enough of pebbles being kicked up at my car, of balls purposely thrown at my windshield, of gargantuan sized twelve year olds banging on my trunk. |
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The whole time I felt like I was banging my head against a brick wall. |
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In one short conversation, Pc Lee Bowdell described how Mr Hinde was flailing about on the motorway hard shoulder and deliberately banging his head on the floor. |
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The couple claimed they had suffered relentless noise and disturbance from loud music late at night, shouting and screaming, abusive language and banging on the walls. |
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Soon enough, there was a loud banging on the door, then it burst open. |
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From the very first scene, when those little orphan girls begin banging their buckets on the ground in unison singing It's a Hard Knock Life, they had me. |
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Most of the nicks, scuffs and gouges that currently mar the work are a result of human carelessness, such as carts and chairs banging into the walls. |
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I'm so sick of country girl Jessica banging on about her failed marriage, her flab and how she was never happy thin. |
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The band were banging out a vaguely recognisable version of the Star Spangled Banner. |
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Loud drumming and blaring And strident fanfaring, Big banging and booming were rife in the air. |
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The Bank Job is also the first proper Jason Statham movie since his days banging about in Guy Ritchie's early heists. |
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It's the clanging of cash registers, the banging of beads, hawking, hondelling and the hooting of horns. |
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Hodges wanted to feel his balls banging against Walker's body as his love pump worked her hole. |
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This is my backyard and l don't necessarily want a whole bunch of moegoes banging along a mountain l've known since my barefoot boerseun days. |
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I looked up and there was a big pop and banging sound and then a whoosh of air. |
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Jordan Pedelty and Dee Kimmings were awoken every morning by drilling and banging at the Columbus Aparthotel, Playa de las Americas, Tenerife. |
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Michelle Law, aged 48, from Franche, in Kidderminter, was banned from screaming, shouting or repetitious banging to the annoyance of neighbours. |
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Don't fall for that old trick, if they are banging on then bog off somewhere else and let them talk to an empty room. |
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So you look like you do nothing but spend all day every day banging on about the good old days, in a senilely demential style. |
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Thomas Pringle's excursions into the backveld had him banging off through the animal alphabet from Antelope all the way down to Zebra. |
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Not forgetting, of course, rictus grinner Dr Dawn Harper banging on about her favourite subject. |
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We suffer constant banging, frequent floodings, barking dogs and washing machines early and late in the day. |
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The protest tomorrow isn't just a bunch of dreadlocked kale-eating Trustafarians banging homemade organic drums. |
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If a stag do just has you thinking booze, bars and a banging headache the next morning, then you need to get your brain and your stag event into gear, literally. |
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As well as banging in goals on match days, the strike ace will also get his hands dirty helping the club's groundsman knock the playing surface into shape. |
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They intend to honour the occasion with a festival of colour and sound, wearing traditional costumes and banging oblong drums, tablas, in honour of his visit. |
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The X Factor winners say they idolised the likes of the Spice Girls in the 1990s and can't understand why there aren't more people banging the drum for mainstream girl bands. |
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Banging the journalistic drum loudest for these buttinsky interventions is modern progressivism's hometown newspaper, The New York Times. |
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So you know when you're off your box and you're dancing to this tune and the tune is one of your favourites, yeah? But because you're off your box, it's better than banging. |
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I fiddle and scrape and poke for a while, banging out the dottle from my previous pipeful into an ashtray and puffing down the stem like a horn player warming up his trumpet. |
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The banging of the hammers could be heard from several streets away. |
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I've been banging away at the essay for ages, but it still isn't finished. |
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But there are plenty of other bigger and stronger guys than Barry Bonds who could spend a lifetime at home plate without ever banging a home run into San Francisco Bay. |
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It would have been easy enough for the Labour-led city council to play to the gallery by banging fists on the table of the new coalition government and condemning the cuts. |
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