| These ranged from the traditional knockabout with a conker on a string, to a conkernut shy, a play on the coconut version, and wingseed throwing. |
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| There are arch literary allusions, plenty of knockabout energy, and two complementary personae on show. |
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| It is a fairy tale with links at various points to The Magic Flute, though there is less knockabout and more gentle humour in Henze's comedy. |
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| Even the squatter has a great deal of trouble to get hold of a good man as a shepherd or knockabout hand. |
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| He is a jolly soul, smiling at every opportunity and applauding his opponents' shots as if having a knockabout in the park. |
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| It takes something close to idiocy to think that Shaw's comedy Arms and the Man can be played as knockabout farce. |
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| If this sounds like an unlikely subject for knockabout comedy, it is, but Booker prize winner DBC Pierre almost pulls it off. |
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| It may have gone down well with his party activists, but most members of the public will see it at best as political knockabout. |
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| Behind the day's knockabout lay serious politicking over both policy and personalities. |
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| That's where the plot begins and ends, but this is 20 minutes of hilarious knockabout, culminating in everyone getting drunk. |
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| David Wenham plays a knockabout, bumbling political adviser whose life is falling apart. |
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| The shape is sophisticated, but still quite knockabout, and the divinely soft calfskin creases in a pleasing way. |
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| This ending is typical of the series in its combination of crudity, cruelty, and revenge, and in the physical knockabout character of its comedy. |
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| Now, at one level this is all harmless political knockabout. |
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| She kept the jeans on for her knockabout, but changed her heels for sneakers and slipped into a grey team GB fleece. |
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| Having written the song for her, Almond also performs guest vocals with Sally Timms on this single, in a rare show of light-hearted knockabout jollity. |
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| This knockabout stuff seems to gee up the team for today's show. |
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| In 1913 he was signed by the Biograph Company, where under the supervision of D. W. Griffith he was featured in a series of knockabout comedies. |
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| I loved this show for its near constant laughs but for all its knockabout, bitty appearance, it hangs together in surprising ways. |
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| This mix of ancient and modern stories lets him vary his theatrical styles from knockabout comedy and storm effects to touching monologues and ethnic songs. |
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| Students started a knockabout game which, because it was played in a confined area, required a softer ball than the hard one used for rackets. |
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| In 1917 Arbuckle took creative control of producer Joseph M. Schenck's Comique Film Corporation, for which he directed and starred in a series of knockabout two-reelers. |
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| The Lip Service Company has taken the play and turned it into knockabout farce. |
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| One of the discoveries that has come with the ability to detect planets around other stars is that planetary systems are knockabout places in their early years. |
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| In the afternoon, in the House of Commons, the leaders of the main political parties engage in knockabout debate. On November 24th, this year's pageant was acted out. |
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| It is easily one of the biggest stories in India this year much more entertaining, the game's cognoscenti agree, than the IPL's knockabout sort of cricket. |
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| Helen Sherman's zestful Cherubino combines knockabout humour with beautiful singing, notably in the physical contortions and undisturbed vocal line of Voi che sapete. |
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