| Hauling himself up on his walker, he edged painfully out of the living room into the hallway, dragging his legs behind him. |
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| They almost succeeded in dragging that country into the war actively, which would have changed the whole character of the war. |
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| She simply had no words to describe the depths of confusion that the situation was dragging her into. |
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| You only need to flick open any celeb mag or national newspaper to see celebrities dragging on a cigarette. |
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| It is not unusual to see smokers dragging on cigarettes between mouthfuls at meals. |
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| A sob caught in her throat and she masked it, hastily dragging on the cigarette in quick, short puffs. |
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| I figured you had woken up at first until you started dragging on that cigarette without lighting it. |
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| I dreamed I had been dragging up for work since I started, and they were all convinced I was a girl. |
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| The current bad guys are dragging it up again to justify contemporary viciousness. |
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| Like the good retriever he is, Baxter pulls at the woman's clothing, dragging her into Frank's view. |
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| At the start of our third year here, Elsa and I were dragging ourselves out of bed as the waking bell rang out cold and clear. |
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| The beast roars up at you and grabs your neck, dragging you into the swamp with it. |
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| As the film opens, Bob is dragging his sorry carcass through Nice, just a few inches away from rock bottom. |
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| A Berber in scarlet livery brought in a yearling bear on a chain, dragging its paws on the floor and growling. |
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| The local plod was dragging the chain when it came to enforcing the 2.00 a.m. closing time. |
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| She watched as loggers felled trees with chain saws, dragging the logs to a nearby river and then floating them to market. |
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| The temptation to spend idyllic long weekends in the British countryside is enough to get most of us dragging suitcases out of the loft. |
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| The rot spreads, mould covering the sheen of life, dragging it down with cloying, asphyxiating stealth. |
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| A couple of loud-mouthed women arrived and began dragging armchairs from around the cafe into a nearby corner. |
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| Kathryn jumped and the gelding spooked as well, shying a few paces to the left and dragging Kathryn with him. |
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| With its orchestral arrangements, dragging tempos and saccharine delivery, it seems less like pop music than easy listening. |
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| They can take the two seats if they overcome the risk of dragging each other down. |
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| The line may be also translated by dragging it anywhere away from the points. |
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| Morgan shuffled along, as if a cripple, his feet dragging piteously on the floor. |
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| Will, dragging Raven behind him, who was also nearly falling asleep after being awake all night, left and shut the door quietly behind him. |
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| She stopped her excited babble and grabbed my wrist, dragging me off to math class. |
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| And he's designed a special grapple to lift log butts off the ground to snake them out instead of tearing up the forest floor by dragging them. |
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| His long-nailed, perfectly manicured white hands clutched at her, dragging the mantle off her face. |
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| He of course, ventured out there everyday, occasionally dragging Amina along. |
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| Something in the water had wrapped its arms or tentacles around his legs and was dragging him down despite his efforts. |
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| She blinked balefully down her long, greasy nose at me and then grabbed his arm, wordlessly dragging him off to the dance floor. |
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| Into this churning social dynamo steps a group of idealistic immigrants, dragging a ball and chain of old-world sorrows. |
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| The branches were scratching the two men's arms as they went through the woods, one dragging the other. |
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| As he stood scratching his belly, dragging long sharp nails through the thin fur there, he decided that a simple favor was needed. |
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| Yes, a dark-haired, humanly-dressed faerie was dragging the pen back and forth, scratching out words onto the paper. |
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| I yelled while dragging him out of the house and stuffing my screwed beanie into my pocket. |
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| As in paintings by Malevich and Mondrian, one can detect irregularities of surface texture that come from dragging a brush across the canvas. |
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| He totally rammed that down his partner's throat, dragging him against his very clearly stated wishes into scuzzy, illegal activity. |
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| Everything seems so far away, and if feels as though I'm dragging myself through thick liquid. |
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| Bosses say that the firefighters are dragging their heels over their side of the bargain, an agreement to adopt more modern working practices. |
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| He came out dragging his bag of maize along the ground and this guy appeared to help carry it for him. |
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| Success depended on dragging the seine close to the bottom and banks and closing it before fish escaped. |
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| The pavements were thronged with people, all hurrying along dragging their Christmasses home in carrier bags. |
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| He used his hands constantly, poking the air, dragging a thumb across his eyebrow, brushing a fly from his cheek. |
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| Faith looked up to see a man striding towards them with a thunderous expression, dragging a little girl with him. |
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| I heard him again, running around the tree and dragging twigs along behind him. |
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| We have to contrast its dragging the chain on conservation with its pushing ahead on economic growth. |
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| Most car makers are dragging the chain in using the new technology, despite their low cost. |
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| It would have assisted employers to know when someone was not just dragging the chain but also taking ruthless advantage. |
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| Then the topgallant masts and sail fell onto the forecastle, dragging in the water until cut free. |
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| A woman in a red skirt is caught in a shaft of white light and appears to be dragging a heavy shadow behind her. |
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| Anyone with an ounce of sanity left will want to avoid dragging them into town for last-minute shopping. |
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| They can be there for a few days without the nagging spouse dragging them inexorably back to Monday morning. |
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| Maybe it was for the best that they went their separate ways then, instead of dragging it out and getting more hurt. |
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| Jonathon Milne then lists all the sad chooks, dragging their tails as they sleep walk their way to defeat. |
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| Despite all the resistance and foot dragging, Vatican II betokened change, sometimes very colorfully. |
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| He came into the bar looking no better than before, dragging his wrapped up sword with him. |
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| However, to date, the provincial government is dragging its travois, so to speak. |
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| We heard the tables being broken down, then the dragging and scraping of the trestles against the stone floor. |
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| Pulling and dragging was too commonplace, passes were misdirected and inaccuracy reared its head frequently. |
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| Over just a few months they could actually detect the orbit of the binary system precessing, slowly dragging around. |
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| The old man grabbed hold of it and tugged it from its confinement, dragging it out into the driveway. |
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| Our sick society and stupid economics are dragging the planet to the edge of apocalypse. |
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| Sleeping with an animal for comfort is not like sucking your thumb or dragging a blankie around. |
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| And every year they wake up at 6.00 am and pretty soon they're dragging me blearily down onto the sofa to open presents. |
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| No more tatty trouser hems dragging through mud and sucking up puddle water like blotting paper. |
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| He grinned and clasped her hand on his shoulder before running and dragging her along to the helm of the ship. |
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| For a man who seems to genuinely care about constitutional proprietry, he's dragging our system through the mud in high style. |
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| Before I knew it she was dragging me into a dressing room with the dress as well as various undergarments and a pair of shoes. |
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| The horse slipped and fell with Shmulik under him, dragging him as he slid on rocky ground. |
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| They must face capitalist reality or sink in a slough of socialist delusion, dragging Scotland down with them. |
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| Another man then appeared and smashed him across his left arm with an iron cosh, before dragging him out and throwing him to the ground. |
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| Would the knuckle dragging, brain dead, Neanderthal who removed the hanging basket from the exterior of Rock House please return it. |
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| I was dragging a 20 ton snigging chain around to the back of the truck to hook up and tow another road train. |
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| After all the man had done for him, how could he whine and snivel and ask for more, dragging him down with demands? |
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| Some of them stumbled back the way they had come, dragging frozen tanks and trucks out of ice and snowdrifts. |
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| Dyer, with his electric pace, scurried up and down the right flank, often dragging three players in his wake. |
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| The white water rushing over her skin, her sodden clothes dragging her down towards the rocks. |
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| Life appears to vanquish the hope and ideals of all men, dragging in its train even the greatest, like Plato, Alexander, or Napoleon. |
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| Which I did, but he smiled at me and said that he didn't take no for an answer, literally dragging me out onto the dance floor. |
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| To reveal the offense would mean dragging his family into an obligatory vendetta. |
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| A coin may only be placed by dragging the cursor along an edge from one vertex to another. |
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| I jumped up and high tailed it out of there faster than a speeding bullet, grabbing Melanie's hand and dragging her away with me. |
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| Practically speaking, all the stops that require dragging the wheels will put a bigger dent in your wallet since wheels cost a bundle. |
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| Combine viruses with the scourge of spam and you have two heavy anchors dragging down Irish productivity. |
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| Yet our Government seems to be dragging its feet in demanding their right to a fair and non-military trial. |
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| Outside, power lines were dragging in pools of rainwater and in the hotel corridors solid wood doors lay in splinters. |
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| After just a couple of days, Ashdown notes wearily, the whole business feels as if it has been dragging on for weeks. |
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| The prime minister had a bald head at the end of a vulture's neck, and a dragging lid over one eye. |
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| At one point I was hooking fish and dragging them over the back of an alligator. |
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| A number of men were working on the road and it is believed the steamroller rolled back dragging Mr Brown underneath. |
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| The guards crossed the room to her and one jerked her arms, dragging her off the bed. |
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| The spin axes of the on-board gyroscopes should drift minutely if the dragging effect occurs. |
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| Though he stoops over as if gravity is dragging down his meaty shoulders, Rod standing tall is six feet six inches and 270 pounds. |
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| A high wind is dragging a blanket of dust across the flat openness of these fields. |
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| After dragging him down the stairs, several cops picked him up and rammed him head first through the glass pane of a storm door. |
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| When he came to patches of open water, he donned a special swimsuit over his winter clothes and then swam across, dragging the sled behind him. |
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| Some firms are dragging their heels hiding behind the excuse that more guidance is due from the FSA in the next few weeks. |
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| They affect to take the moral high ground while dragging the debate down into the sewers. |
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| Mark stepped off of the train, his eyes slightly drooping, and his black high-tops dragging behind him on the floor. |
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| That film was downright Hitchcockian in its dragging of an ordinary woman into extraordinary circumstances. |
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| He swung a punch at her face causing her to fall and then grabbed her by the coat, dragging her along and spitting at her. |
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| But he insisted the Government was not dragging its feet and blamed legal complexities for hold-ups. |
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| Dima smiled and grabbed Coral by his shirt collar, dragging so close to her that he almost choked on her rancid breath. |
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| I jarred him awake and made my apologies to her before dragging the very intoxicated churl into his room. |
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| They got off the bus and were led, leg chains clanking and dragging on the cobbles as they shuffled along, following the warder. |
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| He clapped his hands once and two beefy dragons came in, dragging Beylaan in, tied and gagged. |
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| The sundial was surrounded by seven figures, all wearing the same, dreary, corroded cloaks, faces hidden under dragging hoods. |
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| He hobbled over to her dragging his rags stumbling sometimes on his peg leg. |
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| Whereas it seems everyone else carries the cute, stylish phones, she seems to be dragging along with clunky looking models. |
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| I couldn't be fagged doing it tonight, as I am recovering from the horror of dragging two toddlers around the Royal Melbourne Show all day. |
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| The burden of life and impending death is dragging me back down to the luxury of loneliness. |
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| Everything ached all of a sudden, muscle fatigue setting in at last from dragging Rob halfway around the city. |
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| Is the idea that this may become a breakthrough for Indian film in America, dragging India's Bollywood film culture into modern day? |
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| These compliments and encouraging expressions keep students positive and help them get through the class without dragging. |
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| To top it all off, the disgraced former councillor accused his inquisitors of dragging his family into the process. |
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| Children ran down the streets, throwing confetti and screaming at the top of their lungs, dragging toy trains and teddy bears behind them. |
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| This is very convenient as forms can be filled in by dragging the information and of course the password feature will auto fill. |
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| This means that when some hounds are dragging or have found, the rest either never get to them or run in straggled batches. |
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| In fact, she plodded along, dragging what was left of her backpack on the ground, too weak to actually carry it. |
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| I got up, dragging the base of the corded phone across my floor so I could reach my closet, and began rifling through the shirts on the shelf. |
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| I did a ten-week course last year, dragging myself to each session, and my posture improved and I learned some useful stuff. |
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| I put my arms on a choice piece of rock and heaved, dragging my body up while my feet unsuccessfully tried to locate footholds. |
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| In the iron industry, hard manual labour was still crucial for charging furnaces or dragging ingots around the forge. |
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| On the role Baxter has played in dragging British skiing in a forward direction, he is characteristically modest. |
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| And he came home next day dragging one foot after another, with a wizened face and as cross as two sticks. |
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| A small, ratty man in a white smock and hair net was dragging an overly-stuffed bag of trash toward one of the dumpsters. |
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| Now the management is avoiding fulfilment of its duties toward the workers and unfairly dragging out the negotiations, he claimed. |
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| The fish took the bait and began to swim furiously out to sea, dragging the boat behind him. |
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| Their girlfriends keep dragging them out to buy potpourri bowls or faux-Chinese curtains or whatever, and the guys are starting to freak out. |
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| The dawn chorus roused me very early again today, dragging me from snug warm covers to the desk after a slight detour to get coffee. |
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| A tall woman with a long, gauntly face marched up to us, taking both Terry and me by the sleeves and dragging us inside. |
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| One hand pressed across my mouth while the other snapped like a vice around my waist dragging me back into the shadowy denseness of the forest. |
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| Two pairs of hands grabbed me roughly by the arms and started dragging me up the steps. |
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| One of the best aspects of grasscycling is that it takes less time and energy than bagging and dragging grass clippings to the curb. |
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| Wouldn't it be interesting if the organisation and the referees get really tough on the pulling, dragging and elbowing that passes for football. |
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| The interior, which is reflected across the adjacent bandstand as it grows dark, is all scumbling and dragging and poison-blue electroliers. |
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| Hesitantly, the blue-feathered bird emerged from under the bushes, dragging behind it a long, shimmering emerald tail. |
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| He seeks the best and wisest expert to repair them, dragging him away from the clutches of the evil rock and roll empire. |
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| I duly located my telly stand and then nearly herniated myself in the process of dragging it off a shelf and hauling it to the car. |
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| Sad days when our only sign of pleasure is the hope of dragging Sligo down with us. |
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| Give us something joyful to sing, because at the moment you really are dragging us down! |
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| In no time I was dragging my suitcase outside, joining my family on our journey back home. |
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| He got the armor and also an old jade of a horse, which limped on three legs, dragging the fourth after it. |
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| I wonder if there are lots of other conflicts dragging on in other regions below the media radar. |
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| Here he expanded his skills to include marbling, dragging and ragging techniques. |
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| Allegra bounded out of her hiding place, dragging her rag doll Ellie after her. |
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| A man crept up behind the girl, putting his hand across her face and dragging her into the undergrowth. |
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| The student jumped in to save him and managed to reach the man, dragging him to muddy ground. |
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| The helicopter wheeled away, dragging a Kendal mountain rescuer, who was still dangling from its cable, with it. |
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| Felix had already been introduced to the whippletree dragging on the ground and his lesson today started with the chainsaw. |
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| The school accused the Council of dragging its heels over a replacement for a flat roof which was constantly being patched up because of leaks. |
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| The workers had begun to remove the supports about her hull in order to free the cradle that held her and begin dragging her onto the tide flats. |
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| I would have questioned him further, but he walked off, dragging a whorish brunette with him. |
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| She put him in his kennel behind the house and filled his food and water dishes, then went inside, dragging out her luggage. |
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| For example, a bass line generated from a kick drum ends up sounding like it's really dragging behind the beat. |
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| He was wearing a long robe with a hood that was bunched up around his chest to keep it from dragging on the ground. |
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| So I crawled, dragging myself over the ground, clawing my way forward because I couldn't bring myself to give up. |
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| And as suddenly as it had started, it broke away as Claire slipped out of bed, dragging the top sheet with her as a loose wrap. |
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| The crew made a distress call after their 47 foot yacht started dragging its anchor and was in danger of going ashore onto the rocks. |
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| At first, he considered yanking her up and dragging her out, but that was too easy. |
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| As he reached the ground his pony started to run and was dragging the body which was evidently attached by a lariat to the pommel of his saddle. |
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| She disappeared from a moment, then returned dragging a heavy amplifier, with a full-scale bass tucked under her arm. |
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| It includes such functions as dragging icons between folders, resizing windows inside the browser, sorting data easily and the like. |
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| As the sun came up, the other single-anchored vessel was sighted at the far side of the bay dragging anchor towards the lee shore. |
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| He slapped his palms down on the floor and pulled, dragging his body towards the bathroom's exit. |
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| I wasn't close enough to see much detail, but he just seemed to wander out of the way, dragging his bike along with him. |
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| Travel agency staff in Bradford have helped the Lord Mayor's appeal for an outdoors activity charity take-off by dragging a plane along a runway. |
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| From 230,000 miles away, the moon's gravity pulls the Earth, dragging the ocean outwards in a bulge of water that creates a tide. |
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| However, the prospect of dragging a reluctant teenager around may put off most parents before you've even left the house. |
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| His excuses included that he was tired, his girlfriend was dragging him to meet with the caterer or he didn't want to go outside in the rain. |
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| Wearily, the others followed him, practically dragging themselves up the wooden steps. |
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| The door swung open and Kata walked in, dragging herself across the room to flop down on the couch, exhaling loudly. |
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| The church is dragging itself, however reluctantly in some quarters, into the 21st century. |
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| The company also announces it will create an operating system based on dragging and clicking on computer screen icons. |
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| Internet Radio stations are added by browsing to the website, and dragging the icon of the desired station into the drop window. |
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| That was the last thing that she needed, her coat dragging along outside and getting even more abused than it already was. |
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| I followed him silently, my dress dragging slightly on the carpet behind me. |
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| She moved, instead, past her mother's room and to her own, the hem of her fine red dress dragging, wet and dirty, on the clean floor behind her. |
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| As it slunk back off into the forest, another shadow crawled down from a tree, its long arms dragging along the ground behind it as it went. |
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| One last stop is required, right about the time my feet begin to hurt and my shopping bag is dragging along the ground. |
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| Taidra quickly moved to her closet door, her servant dress dragging along the ground. |
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| They swarmed up the levelled rock blockage, pushed through the gap that Tiffany had blasted, dragging at rock that crumbled at their touch. |
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| An arm wriggled under one of his knees, and after a bit of work, she shoved it free and raised it to grab a hunk of hair, dragging at his head. |
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| Numair stood inside with fatigue visibly dragging at him, the circles under his eyes more pronounced and a constant tremor in his hands. |
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| Exhaustion was dragging at her as the grate of the panel sounded, but she clung to that thought, stumbling forward. |
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| Three people were rescued in hurricane force winds today, after a yacht from London began dragging its anchor east of Hunda Sound, off Burray. |
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| I don't know about you, but somehow this week seems to be dragging along slowly to me. |
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| But I must tell you frankly one of the reasons why this investigation was dragging for so long is that we lacked sufficient evidence. |
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| There will be no sequel since it would unnecessarily be dragging the whole thing out and I don't have any ideas. |
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| Ben was quiet, he continued with his pizza slowly, dragging the process out just to watch her squirm. |
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| Angela spotted Elizabeth across the store, her son dragging his feet slowly behind him. |
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| A loud bell rang and the children took their time stopping their play and slowly, dragging their feet, trudging back inside. |
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| Jake gave a little groan and slowly walked over, dragging his feet like a man condemned to death. |
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| I sighed as I began to walk down the hallway dragging my feet and counting the number of steps I took. |
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| Trudging slowly through the darkness dragging my feet so as not to step on anything. |
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| As people left wearily after midnight, dragging their feet and looking stunned, the cliche of the previous week seemed suddenly full-bodied. |
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| Tom, almost as if he were responding to a dog whistle, jumped off the sofa, dragging his feet as he walked to the Kitchen. |
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| The UK parliament has not done that and the question is are they dragging their heels? |
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| They deny they are dragging their heels on the investigation into the scandal. |
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| Often castigated for dragging their heels, they have for once acted with startling haste. |
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| The owner of a low-budget holiday camp, is dragging the club down to his level. |
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| Last year one child did not achieve level four in English, dragging the mark down by four percentage points. |
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| The Institute of Directors sees the cut as a way of preventing the global downturn from dragging the demostic economy down with it. |
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| As they approached, looping a rope around its neck, the camel took off, dragging the pair with it. |
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| She walked with great difficulty, dragging her left leg behind her. |
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| Handling children roughly by dragging them along by their arms was totally inappropriate behaviour and potentially dangerous to the child or children concerned. |
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| Verek was walking with difficulty, dragging a body along side him. |
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| I climbed around under the tree, dragging the rake along with me. |
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| In many ways, dragging is to gravity what magnetism is to electricity. |
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| The dispute between management and doctors has been dragging on for a number of years, since a review of medical services within the State's prisons. |
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| I swam towards Evans, but the hippo struck again, dragging me back under the surface. |
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| One possible tactic could involve shooting a fox before the hunt sets out and dragging its corpse round the countryside for hounds to follow the scent. |
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| Depending on the severity of a collision you will end up with crumpled doors, shattered glass or even bumpers and skirts dragging in a trail of sparks behind you. |
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| His scaled tail dragging behind me, I carried him awkwardly to his mother. |
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| I pushed my way inside the crowd moving on the dance floor and halted two or three people in, blowing my cheeks out and dragging my hands back through my hair. |
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| Custer reasoned that dragging the guns and ammunition over mountain trails would have decreased his speed and ruined his chances of finding the elusive Sioux. |
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| Cherry strolled slowly, her dark red skirt dragging along the ground. |
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| A fin down its back ends in another larger tail dragging behind it. |
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| Angela had only agreed to meet with Deidre to politely tell her she wouldn't be a part of dragging her brother through the mud as a cheap publicity stunt. |
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| Wrinkles were starting at the corner of her eyes and around the edges of her mouth, showing the effect of hundreds of years of gravity dragging at skin and bone. |
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| With the considerable football hype that is pulling and dragging at his sporting consciousness, it is vital that the senior hurlers are not overlooked. |
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| Before I could say anything I felt myself being dragged, somehow I managed to grab Tori's shirt haling him to his feet, and dragging him along behind me. |
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| Improvised fibre rope leashes were around their necks and the owner, who was sitting on his haunches, dragging at a beedi with great determination, held the other ends. |
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| I struggled through on belly and elbows, cobwebs dragging at my hair. |
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| Quickly, he slid his face against his left arm, dragging at the velvet. |
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| And he walked off, dragging his feet in the muddy puddles of rain. |
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| How can I get her to stop dragging these skeevy guys in to my apartment? |
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| Anchoring in Bressay Sound to the south of Lerwick, they have a habit of dragging anchor in heavy storms and failing to get their engines started due to sloppy maintenance. |
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| My favorite fishing spot is a 12-minute drive away, alongside a commercial gravel pit whose chain-link fence the river is always undercutting and dragging away. |
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| Her propeller shaft was fouled and she was dragging her anchor, so Endurance, some 25 miles away when the call went out, closed in at top speed to act as on-scene commander. |
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| He took the commuter to a distance and watched as tide, now fully rushing into the gap, carried the pilot-less craft along until her dragging anchor snagged a rock. |
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| This involves the male of the species puffing his chest up, spreading his tail feathers widely and dragging it on the ground as he chases young females round. |
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| Obie's gut was so massive that he had sores on it, from dragging his belly across the ground as he walked. |
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| First came a short, stout black woman dressed like a hooker, shirt buttons undone, hair wild and dishevelled, dragging a scuffed duffel bag by its long loop. |
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| The animal threw up its forelegs and plunged ahead in a frantic lopsided gallop, kicking like a donkey, dragging the carriage from one side of the highway to the other. |
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| Chris began dragging his feet as we walked briskly to the main doors. |
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| But, in the meantime, he was dragging Greenock up from a slough of despondency and defiantly offering no apologies for snapping up the best available talent. |
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| It's not impossible for them to start off with a barrelhouse boogie and, by the end, be dragging through a New Orleans funeral dirge with a singing saw leading the charge. |
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| Slowly, dragging his feet, he walked toward the front entrance. |
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| The company blamed widespread illegal mining in Bangka Belitung province for oversupplying the tin market and dragging the price of the commodity down. |
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| I fail to see why the association are dragging their heels on this. |
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| The centre of the ring, which is 12 billion miles wide, is offset slightly from the star, suggesting that gravity of unseen planets is dragging it askew. |
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| In speaking with his publicity department, it seemed like the station is still interested in a new show from him, but they're dragging their heels. |
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| They appear to be dragging their heels over appointing a new chief executive, but whoever lands the job will have a mounting pile of problems to sort out. |
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| It's now clear to me that the Alpha Male is a dinosaur, dragging his hopeless old carcass across a desolate desert and finding no water, no sustenance and is almost history. |
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| While they appear to be well organised, those charged with running the professional game in the west have been dragging their heels on the commercial and marketing front. |
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| This is a bloke who has achieved every dream he ever had, and he's done it by dragging the country down to his level, rather than urging us on to greater heights. |
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| The fact that Naik still gives it primacy is appropriate, since we have persisted in dragging this rotting carcass of a social structure with us into the new century. |
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| Great popular music is far more than that, and if we knew what was good for us we'd be aspiring to its genius rather than dragging it down to our humdrum level. |
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| In frame 2 he pops an ollie, dragging his front foot up to the nose. |
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| When the rigmarole of having a bath was over, the bath had to be emptied, dragging the bath to the back door and tipping the contents out into the yard. |
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| It has four legs, it has a tail, and it is braying, its hoofs are sounding like donkey hooves but it cannot be a donkey for it is dragging a chain. |
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| The author stumbles a touch in the third act, dragging his ending out too long, and giving us a finale that's either falsely uplifting or cruelly imagined by a dying boy. |
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| At an upholstery shop, a couple was dragging out a newly-upholstered sofa. |
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| The film ends with Julien, at his new school, coolly dragging on a cigarette, bragging crassly to his new friends about his relationship with her. |
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| Smoking a cigar is altogether different from dragging on a cigarette. |
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| We are sitting in the standard Beverly Hills hotel room provided for such meetings, and he is alternately scratching his wispy beard or dragging on a hand-rolled cigarette. |
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| I felt weak for doing so, and as I cried I thought about the blast, dragging the memory up and thinking about it repeatedly until I remembered the smell. |
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| But, when in the cacophony of sirens and horns, just past Ludhiana, a donkey dragging a heavy cartload, just froze, there was nothing to do but wait. |
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| There was a loud splash as the anchor fell into the shallow waters, dragging a large rope tethered behind it and slowing the boat as it bobbed upon the waves like a toy. |
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| Some retail therapy may be extremely pleasurable, but dragging home the week's groceries or trudging around city-centres to the bank or building society can be no fun at all. |
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| As mentioned on Friday, I've been a wee bit tired of late, something that's been dragging on and off since before Xmas and it's getting a bit annoying all told. |
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| I stood in the mirror, dragging the comb through my neatly trimmed hair. |
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| At 33, Saujani began dragging home to a solitary New York apartment and curling up in the fetal position. |
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| Homesongs, the solo debut from ex-Fridge bassist Adem Ilhan, gives his lonely heart its own club band, but unfortunately, these dragging, faceless roots-tinged dirges fail. |
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| The sudden appearance of a foot in front of my face pulled a scream from my throat and the raiders wasted no time in grabbing me and dragging me into the open. |
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| We skirt around men dragging boxes of green plastic dinosaurs across the floor, bales of bubble wrap, a jumble of king-sized golden picture frames. |
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| He wheeled around, dragging Gabrielle with him down the hall. |
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| Even the waiters, prim and proper and offering excellent service during the day, turn into veritable fleet-footed dancers in the evening, even dragging guests on to the floor. |
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| The market took a pounding in almost all sectors, with the momentum of a month-long decline in high-tech stocks dragging the market down yet further. |
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| Despite the law, because of foot dragging by teachers and their unions which resist change, sixty percent of school systems continue to teach whole language. |
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| Some have a couple of shipping container loads dragging at their heels. |
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| We'd slam each other in turn, sometimes dragging the other down to the mat to grapple in laughter, cut off suddenly by a choke or a tap-out from a lock. |
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| Cameron continued to walk, inescapably dragging her along with him. |
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| She took a deep breath and wandered through the downpour like an injured soldier dragging himself through the inevitable killing fields which battle conspired to create. |
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| He made no apologies for dragging out the counts and recounts. |
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| He makes his body's tortured movements perversely vigorous, strenuously dragging his twisted leg, glaring fiercely, and speaking fast with a hard edge. |
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| On Monday, Wall Street reopened for business in defiant tone but more prosaic realities quickly took over, dragging the Dow to its largest ever one-day points fall. |
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| But aging stars, a dismal season, and dissension in the front office are dragging the franchise down. |
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| It does seem almost like a rugby tackle getting out of the tube in the rush hour and you feel as though you've left something of yourself behind dragging yourself out. |
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| Through the half-open door, she heard the unmistakable tread of Justus the steward, dragging one lame foot on the stone path through the kitchen garden. |
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| They say The Guardian has been dragging its feet on the pursuit of NSA-related stories while keeping the Times on a short leash. |
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| The EU needs another Greece or Portugal dragging down the euro like the EU needs another bureaucrat in Brussels. |
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| The driver responded by hitting Singh with his truck and dragging him for 30 feet. |
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| They beat the activists, dragging bloodied bodies through the snow and herding women and children into armored vans. |
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| Some future job, perhaps, where decisions must be made superfast, in mid-air, with a finger dragging across a screen. |
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| She began her trudge back, dragging her feet toward the castle. |
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| He starts dragging out wires and leads, trying to fix the patching. |
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| He was bounding towards us dragging a long box, still shrink-wrapped. |
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| Then as the rut nears, the tips get ivoried from dragging through sandy scrapes while the bases get darker from pine pitch during rubbing and mock fighting. |
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| It's a lot of pushing and pulling and dragging players along with you. |
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| He dug back in, dragging his knuckles across the keys, and then he held out both arms straight, like a condor in midglide. |
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| If there wasn't a dragging brake beam to rip me down the back, I was go'n make it! Boy howdy, I did some fancy praying. |
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| It works by blowing air into the pipe, and that air, being lighter than water, rises inside the pipe, dragging water with it. |
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| They navigate their riverine habitats traveling just off the bottom with their barbels dragging along gravel, or murky substrate. |
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| They move very slowly and laboriously, dragging themselves forwards with their flippers. |
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| Ropes have tensile strength and so can be used for dragging and lifting, but are too flexible to provide compressive strength. |
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| While the peace negotiations had been dragging on, events elsewhere in Europe of course had not stood still. |
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| In sorrow, its voice is tardigrade but loud, dragging time at a snail's pace before our eyes. |
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