| Worth would have fallen but for the strong hand that upheld him, and dragged him resistlessly forward. |
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| When Sun-hwa is dragged into her life of prostitution, she is also brought into a world that operates under completely different rules. |
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| Meanwhile, nine volunteers dragged a seven-ton truck along two miles of road to raise money for the appeal. |
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| They pulled on their long johns, dragged out their lawn chairs, and hunkered down against the federal building's brown walls. |
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| And with that, Kel dragged her twin forcefully out of their front door before their mother could say anything else. |
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| He pulled her up and dragged her along to where the doctor was standing, and continued holding her hand. |
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| After Alexander conquered the city, he had Batis tied to a chariot and dragged round the city's walls until he died an excruciating death. |
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| They dragged the cart along the sidewalk, up two flights of stairs, across the hallway and into our dorm room. |
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| A few nights later, he is dragged reluctantly to the theatre, where Clara has the lead, and he is captivated by her. |
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| It also meant that, as her best friend, I was usually dragged to whatever event that gossip may lead her too. |
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| You have just discover that this is only useful in the classes that your girlfriend dragged you to! |
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| As soon as he arrived home from the University, I dragged him to look at the tunnel, despite Pride's objections. |
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| She dragged him onto the floor despite his protests and silenced him with an explanation. |
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| Despite having so many professors of hindsight we are still dragged through review after review. |
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| It is also a sober commentary on an event that has dragged the town once again into the limelight. |
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| She tensed as strong arms dragged her roughly from the vehicle, and deposited her on the freezing floor. |
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| To the boy it sounded like a bag of dirty clothes was being dragged across a rough area of cement. |
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| Two years ago, I was dragged, somewhat reluctantly, to my first meeting by a very enthusiastic friend. |
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| If you only knew how many lousy meals and rotten movies he has dragged Diana to throughout the years. |
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| A whole spate of lockouts followed, as employers dug in their heels and either dragged out negotiations or terminated them. |
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| The man who dragged her from the house wore the shining, metal armor of a knight. |
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| Reluctantly, she dragged herself out of bed and shuffled into the bathroom. |
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| He dragged himself up the walk, dimly noticing that the front window was covered with condensation. |
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| This had, however, fallen forward onto the deck, possibly dragged down by the snagged lobster pot that had led to the wreck being found. |
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| Reluctantly we dragged ourselves away from bashing rock solid flowers frozen to minus 196 degrees Celsius. |
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| Wearily, I got up and dragged myself into the hall, taking my can of beer with me. |
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| It was with the greatest reluctance that I dragged myself into consciousness after my nap this afternoon to go pay a visit to Graham's parents. |
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| An example of improved user-friendliness is that live images can now be dragged, zoomed, and centered. |
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| This window cannot be dragged out of the screen unless you disable a corresponding check. |
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| We fought all the time, I never saw you, and when I did see you, you dragged me out as your arm candy! |
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| Her comrades were much broader in size, both carrying enormous cannon weapons that dragged along the ground behind them as they marched on. |
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| It was far too big for her, and the sleeves dragged, as it had belonged to her grandmother as a girl. |
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| Her wolfish tail dragged across the ground like a meek puppy, even though her colorless eyes sparkled with strength. |
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| The skirt of her dark blue gown dragged along the floor, collecting a little dust, but Lilatte hardly noticed. |
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| Jacqui promptly dragged me out, in nothing but a pair of argyle socks, and conferred with Rusco for a few minutes. |
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| His tail almost dragged upon the gleaming floor, black and braided as well. |
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| As she paced, passing random strangers on the 17th Avenue sidewalk, the wind slapped at her and the pack dragged at her shoulder muscles. |
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| So he fought them, until they dragged him away to a room covered in padded walls and floors. |
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| Ben yanked him up by the back of his collar and half dragged him to the livery, depositing him in a pile of hay. |
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| The rain had fallen hard and fast and then moved out of the area quickly, leaving behind a heavy sultriness that pulled and dragged at them. |
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| But by the end of 2002 the stream of good news began to dry up as the economic downturn dragged on. |
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| Firefighters wearing breathing apparatus dragged a man from the inferno before using hose reels to douse the flames in a 70-minute operation. |
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| The US sent troops to occupy Haiti in 1915 after a mob dragged President Guillaume Sam from his palace and tore him limb from limb. |
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| The rain teemed down as the summer monsoon dragged on and the locals claimed they hadn't seen the like for years. |
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| The shoring was removed, so that the tunnel started to collapse, and protesters were dragged out by ropes attached to handcuffs. |
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| The increasingly opaque Williams, dragged into the church's interminable conflicts, needs a right-hand man to keep an eye on the bigger picture. |
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| In New Jersey, they learned how to ride out a thunderstorm and what to do when the anchor dragged, besides pray. |
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| He, Seven, squirmed under Eight's grip, teeth bared furiously, and dragged the knife through Eight's long coat, tearing the fabric to ribbons. |
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| Men convicted of incest are dragged across the village in a shaming procession. |
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| Her bleached blonde hair is dragged up into neat golden coils of plaiting, like a sleeping snake on her head. |
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| Or will it revolt against being dragged down into economic and climatic chaos? |
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| Experts think the leopard seal mistook marine biologist Kirsty Brown for another seal and dragged her down beneath the icy waters. |
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| The fusillade to protect his retreat began and as he went, keeping low, he dragged with him the spool of wire to be connected to the detonator. |
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| But part of me thinks Geoff and I would have been better off if we had been dragged up together. |
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| Each grows more suspicious of the others as possible motives are revealed and skeletons are dragged out of the closet. |
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| She may have some woman's nature in her, but she still had a warrior's heart and gave no excuses unless they were dragged out of her. |
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| The letters that dragged him into the situation were written during this period. |
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| Many thought he had dragged the country into an unnecessary war on pretenses of a threat that did not exist. |
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| It should be remembered that the army had a first strike doctrine, which dragged Europe into an unnecessary and highly destructive maelstrom. |
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| It bothers me most that I was dragged into the situation I tried to get out of. |
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| I woke to the rain pouring onto my body from where I slept and I was dragged into a situation by which there was no shelter around me. |
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| Mr Speaker needs to make very sure that he is not dragged into these matters. |
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| He has dragged us into two wars on the basis of his own psychological shortcomings. |
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| It could be anything about that family, or the business they were involved in that could have dragged her into something volatile. |
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| There are places that give their dead a spirited send-off, where even ghoulish tourists will be dragged in for a dance. |
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| A bunch of usually reliable comedians are dragged down to the film's level. |
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| I'm concerned that this school will be dragged down to the level of the other two. |
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| This, in turn, has led to a slump in consumer spending, which has further dragged the economy down. |
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| There has already been a good deal of frustration over the project, including accusations that city staff dragged their heels. |
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| We have dragged our heels on this subject for long enough and now it's time to come out of investigation mode and in to destination mode. |
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| Slowly she dragged her feet walking into the bathroom and splashed water on her face to wake her up. |
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| It would have been crueller to people to have dragged this process out by giving false hope, he said. |
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| Fortunately, as the hours of live coverage dragged on through the weekend, this was a crisis with few casualties. |
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| He believes one of the reasons the move ended up dead in the water was that negotiations dragged on too long. |
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| This process dragged on for over a year, while at the same time in the city, the gas and heating were cut off. |
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| Hasani said the drafting process of the statute dragged on for over a year because it did not suit the interests of the Rectorate. |
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| In fact, so laborious was the process that it dragged on for months and went way over budget. |
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| A young mother was dragged to her knees by a would-be thief who tried to steal her handbag. |
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| Last week's defeat against Pompey dragged the club back into the thick of a relegation battle. |
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| Privatization of state firms has dragged on due to resistance from bureaucrats, unions and populist politicians. |
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| The saga has dragged on for years since the wool processing plant closed its doors for the last time. |
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| We consider that the science is clear but, regrettably, the whole process has dragged on too long. |
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| The suit dragged on for years during which the tribes and government did not distinguish themselves by their behavior. |
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| The process to getting a second operator has dragged on for three years now. |
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| However, the malice and hatred Enrico and I had for each other continued and the battle dragged on. |
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| I resisted as best I could, but I was no match for the three of them, who dragged me to the water and threw me into the surf. |
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| There was a scraping noise, as of something massive and heavy being dragged. |
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| As she walked along outside the office, her Mary Janes scuffed along the ground as she dragged them beneath her. |
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| Meanwhile, security forces dragged screaming residents out of homes, and settlers elsewhere burned houses and fields in protest. |
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| As talks dragged on through the day, special forces continued preparing for an onslaught. |
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| It was the most perfect place he could imagine, and the days before he left dragged more slowly then any had ever before. |
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| Both of them, dead, and yet for him his own painful, bloodstained existence dragged slowly on. |
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| To reduce this effect I tend to use large bodied wagglers, which are more stable in the water and are not dragged out of position so easily. |
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| We finally drifted into waist-deep water and dragged the boat onto the beach. |
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| The acoustic guitar sounds a strangled folk tune and the scrape of the strings is sourced and dragged through the track. |
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| To make his point, last summer he attached a heavy steel ball and chain to his ankle and dragged it up and down Lake Street. |
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| She grabbed both of Mazing's wrists and held her still while Kat dragged the ball and chain and used that to tie Mazing's wrists together. |
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| That is why it has these ideas dragged up from last century and from two centuries ago. |
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| The only thing I noticed was the engine braking which dragged the car slower when I took my foot off the accelerator. |
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| She picked up the two sheets and dragged them over to the washtub before angrily throwing them in. |
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| I am dragged through the wastelands of unknown territory for hours until the people that captured me stop. |
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| The scorebook still has plenty of room for new games, so I dragged it back to New York City. |
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| Astronomers speculate that some then migrate inwards, dragged by the remaining material in the accretion disk around the star. |
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| At Chios, water nymphs entranced by Hylas's beauty dragged him into a spring, and he was never found. |
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| Alito was treading carefully to avoid the same quicksand that dragged Miers down. |
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| Clearly these three companies have dragged down our overall return by a factor of two, which is quite significant. |
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| But as the polio campaign has dragged on, the sceptic voices have grown louder. |
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| It must have been the fine breakfast that dragged us out or the free lift from Tim. |
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| This club has already been dragged through the courts more than enough and needs another tribunal like a hole in the head. |
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| As time dragged on, they realised that they weren't going to find their dream home. |
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| In winter, teams of horses dragged sledges loaded with cut logs across frozen lakes. |
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| Logs were dragged to the shore and dumped to wait to be towed to a sawmill. |
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| A team of 2, 3 or 4 wet flies dragged through a wave on a cloudy day usually gets a response from the trout feeding near the surface. |
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| Time dragged slowly but somehow the hour passed, and the time came to go on through to the hall where the gig was being held. |
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| He miscalculated the tides and the whirlpool dragged the outboard engine off his boat and capsized it. |
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| The father becomes enraged at the son and has to be dragged away himself by men in white coats. |
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| The next few classes dragged by slowly and after the day was over she felt physically drained. |
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| Many old inhabitants of the kasbah still remember watching their neighbours dragged out and beheaded on the whim of a French general. |
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| Then Falkner bound him hand and foot with the babiche thongs, and dragged him to the bunk. |
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| Anderson dragged her into his office for a keelhauling and everyone went back to regular blowing. |
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| Willie Walsh was the new whiz-kid who dragged Aer Lingus into the modern age. |
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| Alex, who'd dragged me up here to see what he was so excited about seeing himself, was taken aback. |
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| The alleged victim also claims he was dragged backstage where the savage attack continued. |
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| The man took hold of the woman's handbag and dragged her to the floor before making off on foot. |
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| Grandma dragged out the old tin bath, sat each kid in it, and treated the outbreak with kero. |
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| One day as she was bathing a taniwha seized her and dragged her down into his lair below the lake. |
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| But within minutes the wily beetle has dragged the spider across a hillock of red earth and crammed it into its small hole. |
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| A helical scan tape will gradually be wound around a rotating drum causing dust to be dragged in between the tape and the head. |
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| My younger sister holds to that tradition, but my older sister's boys are too old to be dragged anywhere by a women who is their mom. |
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| A policeman caught hold of him and dragged him over the fence to safety, leaving him with nothing more serious than bruises. |
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| They kicked down the door, dragged the women outside and went into the house. |
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| Prudence kicked as hard as she could as the men dragged her out of the vehicle and to the side of the road. |
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| An air hostess who dragged passengers to safety from a blazing aircraft is to return to Manchester to raise money for cancer sufferers. |
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| Top marks to poor Frances, streaming with flu, who dragged herself through the exam. |
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| Mr Wilson claimed the dog, believed to be a Japanese Akita, grabbed his right hand with its teeth and dragged him to the ground. |
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| Paul eventually dragged me away from the dark spiral of regret and recollection plying me with heavy doses of bourbon. |
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| He nodded and dragged an ancient record player out from under his uncle's bed along with some records. |
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| The recruits they train are all volunteers who, unlike draftees dragged kicking and screaming into camp, willingly seek military service. |
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| Witnesses said Yuwono was dragged from his house by a number of people brandishing machetes and other sharp weapons, who later stabbed him. |
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| There he was, completely out of his tree, looking like he'd been dragged through a sewer. |
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| So, whilst my friends get dragged off to work every Saturday morning, I'm free to lie in and then explore the wonders of Kiwibox. |
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| Apparently he had to be dragged out of his hotel room to join the knees-up. |
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| He was about to say something to her when the others realized it and knocked him on the head and dragged him away. |
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| She dragged the brush through her daughter's long hair, untangling knots as she went. |
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| As they dragged her away, Sye's roar echoed and re-echoed in the school hallway. |
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| I dragged my suitcase through the spotless, empty street, which reeked of bleach. |
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| The next two days dragged along slowly as the jeep ate up the miles to the chuck wagon. |
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| The deer is gutted where it lies, its innards checked for any sign of disease, before it is dragged back down the hill to the pick-up. |
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| The police officers who followed dragged him from the wrecked car, fearing it might explode. |
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| It had some random ghouls in it, so we swept the isles and took out maybe 5, dragged them out and used Lysol to disinfect the place. |
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| Time had dragged obscenely slowly since he woke up almost a week earlier in the French army hospital. |
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| In April, people in Ilave burst into a town council meeting, grabbed their mayor, dragged him through the streets and lynched him. |
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| Zatoichi's a reformed yakuza forever finding himself dragged into conflicts between the corrupt ruling classes and their exploited peasantry. |
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| A sudden yank, and she flew out of the water like a bird, being dragged up, and pulled over the railing. |
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| The days dragged by slowly and every day she missed her parents more and more. |
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| Such overhead logging methods were paired with cable yarding systems that dragged the logs to their loading sites. |
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| I was on edge, waiting for the sound of that lame foot being dragged on the floor. |
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| Milligan dragged himself through sagebrush, cactus and rocks, tearing what little skin he had left on his right arm and backside. |
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| The time dragged so slowly that afternoon, I stared at the clock several times, and at one point it seemed like time had stopped altogether. |
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| She dragged them both back to the den to the shock and amazement of all three of them. |
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| She dragged herself into the lounge room and collapsed longways onto the sofa. |
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| That matter has itself gotten a hearing from the board, which has dragged its feet on the question and tabled it for now. |
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| By being dragged from cell to cell like a sack of potatoes, the prisoner realizes that he is just an object, a nobody. |
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| He was also dragged into a public controversy over the carcinogenic effects of low-level radiation. |
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| Shrieking yowls rang through the cold trees behind me, unearthly and terrifying, and that fear was all that dragged me to my feet again. |
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| But local Fire Brigade members rode to the rescue, lassoed the animal and dragged him to safety. |
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| Although old drawings of Tyrannosaurus rex give the beast an almost erect stance and a long reptilian tail, which dragged on the ground. |
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| Us lot will be dragged off into an underground lab somewhere and we'll never be seen again. |
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| Once you get lawyers and solicitors involved things tend to get dragged out. |
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| A TEENAGER'S boyfriend came to her rescue when she was dragged to the ground by another youngster on Thursday. |
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| Not only did it not pull its weight, but it was like an anchor that had to be dragged around by the rest of the team. |
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| More and more children retired to playing indoors as September dragged on. |
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| At one point he fell down a crevasse and was left dangling in the abyss from a rope, up which he dragged his disintegrating body. |
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| But the ache got worse and worse and the next time I fell I couldn't pick him up again, so I dragged him home by the leg. |
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| Not until a second officer was summoned was she dragged from the train as a crowd of apathetic spectators looked on. |
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| And most appallingly of all, how in the world is Social Security getting dragged into this? |
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| The men are then dragged away at gunpoint from their wives and children, never to be seen again. |
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| Sometimes, they had a backup aim if their main goal fell through as the night dragged on. |
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| After several abortive attempts at spelling the name of the street correctly in his notebook, the officer co-opted some bystanders and dragged the poor horse into Hoe Street. |
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| But the strangest moment in the show was when Cruise dragged Holmes out to the cheering crowd. |
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| In fact, I'm probably pretty close to how old Jessel was back then, when he'd be dragged out of mothballs to warble outmoded old songs in that peculiar nasal delivery of his. |
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| His churlish attack created a media storm that the Republican Party got dragged into and which has hurt the image of the party. |
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| The index was dragged lower by weak financial and industrial stocks. |
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| Eight minutes later things went from bad to worse as a Town player was adjudged to have dragged down Neil Tolson as he was about to receive the ball. |
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| The administration of justice is being dragged into disrepute. |
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| Occasionally they captured a demonstrator and dragged him back into their ranks. |
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| The thieves had scaled two fences and dragged the pup out of her locked kennel and lifted her over the walls, leaving two less valuable dogs behind. |
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| Perhaps they were dragged into the middle of the street from curbside. |
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| Before he knew it, he and his wife were dragged out to the street. |
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| A handful of hapless punters are dragged up and the whole thing descends into a sort of free-form hoedown, complete with catcalls and wolf whistles. |
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| Wraparound can handle even the most abnormal of screen layout configurations, and even allow windows and other objects to be dragged though screen edges. |
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| Garrett also dragged his feet about whether he would support the sandy aid bill, which he ultimately did. |
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| They slapped and punched him, and when he fell, dragged him through the dirt. |
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| As the summer dragged on, the Foleys began to seek out their own ways to get their son back. |
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| In other instances, naked detainees were hooded and dragged up and down corridors while subject to physical abuse. |
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| We met on the third floor of a shabby building in Asadabad in an impossibly spare room that we dragged cushions into. |
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| In the poem, Hector's body, attached to Achilles' chariot and dragged around Troy, cannot be mutilated because Aphrodite has anointed it with ambrosia. |
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| Retail giant Wal-Mart has been dragged into the vote on whether California law should require firms with more than 20 employers to provide health insurance to its staff. |
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| One man survived the blast and dragged himself into the hopper barge. |
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| I dragged my heavy feet along the floor as I went to switch it off. |
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| She pulled herself to her feet and dragged her sword along with her. |
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| Kapera dragged the gray-eyed agent away despite his protests. |
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| Yeah, my girlfriend dragged me to exercise this morning, actually. |
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| When your friend dragged you away, I reluctantly watched you leave. |
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| Jesse dragged herself inside with visible reluctance at the last second before our teacher entered and shuffled her way over to our table, glaring at me the whole while. |
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| Reluctantly he dragged himself to his feet and staggered into the kitchen. |
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| Getting up reluctantly, I dragged myself to the door and opened it. |
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| Her ghoulish black clothing dragged tragically along the ground. |
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| She wore a beautiful red and white gown that dragged across the ground. |
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| I grew tired, the heavy weight of the sword dragged at my waning strength. |
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| Max and the black Doberman made eye contact, but the dog did not give him away rather it was spooked by the eyes it looked into and dragged at its lead away from Max. |
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| Many a boat has dragged anchor and been smashed to pieces there. |
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| She felt herself nodding off to sleep as the minutes dragged slowly by. |
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| The rest of the day dragged by, and eventually came to the bus ride home. |
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| His brother told the newspaper last night that he hoped the discovery would help bring to an end the family's nightmare which has dragged on for more than two years. |
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| Negotiations dragged on for months, from fall into the following spring. |
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| The process dragged on for a few weeks, and the information dribbled in. |
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| Nothing was too little trouble for me and I dragged my heels reluctantly, putting off necessary chores until the last possible moment and even deferring some for another day. |
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| I'll leave that to the gang of pie-in-the-sky crusaders who crawled out of the woodwork in force this week claiming the game has been dragged down to irreparable levels. |
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| That discipline has to be applied across all categories otherwise the economy will be dragged down by the burden of funding a highly inefficient public sector, she said. |
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| High debt levels, aggressive accounting policies and a challenging operating environment this year dragged the shares down to their lowest levels in seven years. |
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| If we start thinking about relegation we will be dragged down there. |
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| One can imagine that if she is dragged into further legal troubles with her unfortunately timely sale of the stock, another book could be forthcoming. |
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| Evidently, he didn't like the situation Theorton had dragged him into. |
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| The MP successfully dragged concessions out of the Education Secretary. |
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| It's complicated, because actually sometimes I like wearing skirts and being femme, and visually I don't pass as a man at all unless I'm dragged up to the nines. |
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| In Huang's letter, he recounted how he was dragged into this matter. |
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| Grace found herself being dragged into depression by her own thoughts. |
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| I am continually surprised as more useless government departments are dragged out into the light of day to be displayed to the ever more annoyed populace. |
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| At the auctions it was fiefdom against fiefdom and the spoils were dragged back to Japan. |
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| After Monique rented the rollerskates, she dragged me unto the rink. |
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| The dancefloor duly cleared, and I was dragged into the centre of the clapping masses to arhythmically twitch and prance for what seemed like ten minutes. |
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| He felt as if he'd been doused in a bucket of cold water suddenly, so profound was the shock of being dragged forcibly out of the memory he had lost himself in. |
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| I dragged myself up off the floor and ran a hand down my face. |
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| On luckless occasions my protestations that dancing might aggravate an old shrapnel wound have been overruled, and I have been dragged out onto the dance floor. |
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| In that same year in Texas, James Byrd Jr. was sadistically chained by his ankles to a pick-up truck and dragged to his death down 3 miles of county road because he was black. |
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| You haven't dragged some poor sap along all this way, have you? |
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| When Ron is dragged into a shack by a large black dog, Harry and Hermione follow as the true identities are revealed. |
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| He dragged her from the bedroom and, after she fled downstairs, the attack continued until he eventually pushed her out of the house bare foot and with her clothes in tatters. |
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| O'Reilly, who was on holidays from teachers college in Sydney, had just been dragged from the train to open the bowling for Wingello, his home town. |
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| Chickens destined for the oven are intentionally kept alive while their throats are slit and they're dragged through a scalding tank to make plucking easier. |
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| Frank turns in his badge to protest his being dragged into a political scandal involving the police commissioner and the commissioner's gay lover. |
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| They don't understand how hurtful it is to see my father dragged out of the wreckage...No one should see my father this way. |
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| Pivot forward and you can see the hypocrisies that will be dragged out in the coming days. |
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| We have had seats from the ground dragged right up Rawdon Billing, the wicket covers have been damaged, and doors and locks on the scorebox and garages have been vandalised. |
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| Instead, he heard the scrape of a feed bag being dragged across the floor. |
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| She dragged her luggage off the plane, sat down on the floor of Dulles airport in her stocking feet, and started making calls. |
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| Putting aside all those who must have been dragged there because Orwell's novel was one of their English set texts, that's still an impressive set of statistics. |
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| As I dragged my bedding into the unit, the deputy handed me a plastic bag. |
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| Yet they have dragged their feet in terms of refurbishing the tattiest of venues in this country. |
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| The country's media dragged them into a doping scandal after world champion runer Marta Dominguez, 36, was arrested with 13 others last week. |
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| Nah then, Sithee, Hi, 'Ow do, Aye up, Evening, and Look what cat's dragged in. |
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| Isaac Nash, of Highburton, lost his life last August during a family holiday to Aberffraw, Anglesey, when a rip tide dragged him out to sea. |
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| In 2003, marine biologist Kirsty Brown, 28, was dragged to her death by a leopard seal as she snorkeled off Antarctica. |
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| Jake lassoed the beast with a rope and dragged it Back over the side of the Buckie trawler Conquest and into the sea off the Banffshire coast. |
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| In one case a detainee was dragged naked along the dirt floor. |
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| For example, the scientists dragged a steel ball across each disk like a needle across a record player. |
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| Humming electric winches dragged ammunition out of cargo holds far below the Belinda's waterline and lifted it to her weather deck. |
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| It had rained for three days straight, and the dreary weather dragged the townspeople's spirits down. |
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| When dragged through a field the coulter cuts down into the soil and the share cuts horizontally from the previous furrow to the vertical cut. |
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| The hour while I waited for the pain medication to take effect dragged on agonisingly. |
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| They threw off his bedclothes and dragged him into the yard. |
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| She slipped and her left foot was caught up in the moving chainwork, which caused her to fall over and be dragged by it. |
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| The projecting portion of tumour must be seized with a strong volsella, and dragged and slightly twisted until removed. |
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| He dragged his tin uniform case from under the bed and took out five ten-rupee notes. |
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| Once they dragged the man to the open metal casket, two of the underpriests stepped in to help secure him. |
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| The meeting dragged on interminably as topics were divided into subtopics which were divided in to sub-sub-topics, ad infinitum. |
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| If he be strong-handed, he has the trees felled, about one foot from the earth, dragged into heaps, and made into an immense bonfire. |
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| The floating toolbar will snap to the edge of the screen when dragged towards it. |
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| In 1436 the vicar, the Rev John Hay, was dragged out of the church and murdered while officiating at divine service. |
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| Fittingly, then, it was his armor, the very symbol of the tsar, that dragged him down to his fate. |
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| However, the general negotiations between the main parties dragged on, because France kept formulating new demands. |
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| It also dragged in the English and the French at times and expanded into the German Rhineland with the Cologne War. |
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| The war dragged on for another three years and ended with a Castilian victory on land and a Portuguese victory on the sea. |
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| The metal boxes rasped as they were dragged across the floor. |
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| When the Giganto dragged him off the tree, he lay on the ground looking up at the monstrous ape as it roared. |
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| I splashed flailingly around in the pool until the lifeguard dragged me out. |
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| The occupation drained economic resources and dragged on without achieving meaningful political results. |
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| I climbed through, and, standing on a pile of stones, lifted and dragged Cleopatra after me. |
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| The negotiations were inconclusive and the fighting dragged on until Christmas, when Henry returned to England. |
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| As soon as she graduated, Anwar Sadat dragged her and the classmate said to be responsible to a penghulu, who could officiate at the wedding. |
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| An investigation revealed that she had dragged her moorings and gone to sea. |
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| I will neither see my native city demolished and burnt, nor the matrons, virgins, and free-born youths of Campania dragged to constupration. |
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| An object that is moving without being dragged along with this rotation travels in a straight motion over the turning Earth. |
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| The dredges consisted of metal nets attached to a wooden plank and dragged across the sea floor. |
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| The victims are repeatedly bitten on the head and face, and are then dragged off and consumed, unless the wolves are driven off. |
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| She dragged out her old Spanish textbooks in an attempt to prepare for her trip. |
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| Kenneth Mure QC, a Scot who works as a barrister in England, chaired the trio's meetings, which dragged on for 25 months. |
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| He counted down from ten, dragged himself inside, shed his winter clothes in the mudroom, tossed Shale a biscuit, and collapsed on the couch. |
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| Some scholars have suggested that Tsar Nicholas II dragged Japan into war intentionally, in hopes of reviving Russian nationalism. |
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| Debate on the Kellogg Mar renunciation treaty dragged on in the senate today with no immediate prospect of final action. |
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| Sometimes there was a false outer keel to take the wear while being dragged up a beach. |
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| The Protestant Reformation dragged the kingdom ever more deeply into the mire of religiously charged wars. |
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| We pulled over to the shore, dragged the boat up ontop the sandbar, stretched our legs and ate some sandwiches. |
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| The interview dragged on and on, long after I was sure I wouldn't get the job. |
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| Individual teeth are subjected to shear stresses as the tooth is dragged along the rock. |
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| A 56-year-old Croatian man has been rescued from his sinking boat, seconds before it was dragged under the waters of River Sava in Zagreb. |
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| They are formed by abrasion when boulders in the glacier are repeatedly caught and released as they are dragged along the bedrock. |
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| Vessels have dragged up remains of mammoth, lion and other animals, as well as a few prehistoric tools and weapons. |
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| They speculated in their articles, dragged everybody through the mud. |
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