Health chiefs have been rapped on the knuckles after deciding to axe services at a Bishopstoke hospital a year earlier than planned. |
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If this was an isolated incident, a rap on the knuckles might be deemed sufficient. |
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Cops always complain about how the courts let the bad guys they work so hard to catch just walk away with a rap on the knuckles. |
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A rap over the knuckles that the government can choose to dismiss if it wants. |
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The most probable scenario is a rap over the knuckles, and there is no suggestion of points being deducted or a replay ordered. |
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It might be hate speech, and then she will get a rap over the knuckles and be fined. |
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Probably someone was rapped over the knuckles for not observing the difference between the two concepts. |
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Separately, Byrne was rapped on the knuckles by the Dublin District Court for holding illegal teenage discos in the West Stand. |
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He is incensed about the November 2 announcement of a proposed antitrust settlement that he thinks barely raps them on the knuckles. |
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But the regulator also rapped her over the knuckles about inefficiencies at Dublin and Shannon airports. |
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When should the profession rap them over the knuckles, and when should they permanently show them the door? |
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Pale knuckles rasped against its worn surface, falling in gentle depressions in the wood made by countless other such actions. |
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His knuckles were white from the tight grip he had had on his sheets and pillow. |
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Tightening her grasp on the tray until her knuckles turn white, Rena suddenly nods. |
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I saw Chris's knuckles turn white from his tight grip on the steering wheel. |
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I gripped my backpack, knuckles whitening as the trepidation in my gut hardened into anger. |
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It had my audience on the edge of its seats, lips parted, knuckles whitened. |
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He has a pronounced widow's peak and the hair on his knuckles crawls over his wedding band. |
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Joe screamed out his frustration and hit the pillar profusely with his knuckles until traces of blood appeared on the surface of his knuckles. |
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The wood splintered against his knuckles as his fingers crushed through the door, his fury and anger taking hold of him. |
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It may appear any place on your body, but it is most common on the face, eyelids, neck, chest, knuckles, knees and elbows. |
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These darkening and tiny bumps are also seen on the knuckles of the fingers. |
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There are also culinary records indicating its use for pickled pigs feet, breaded veal knuckles, and sweet breads. |
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I concentrated on staring at my horse's reins, which were gripped so tightly in my hands that my knuckles turned white. |
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Dylan relit his third cigarette that night, as Allison cracked her knuckles before strolling behind Phillips. |
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It's performed with an escalating physical remorselessness that often ends in bloodied knuckles and ruptured piano strings. |
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The arm, now on display at the Museum of London, is lifelike with realistic knuckles, veins and fingernails. |
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She accepted his hand, tensing a bit when his thumb made one light stroke of her knuckles. |
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She smiled back at him, as he brought her hands to his lips and kissed her knuckles gently. |
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Callahan's knuckles were scabbed, all cracked and red and throbbing dully when she paid attention to them. |
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His knuckles were chapped and felt rough against the tender skin on his face. |
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The only hope of rapping the press's knuckles is to be sufficiently rich and thick-skinned to drag your grievance through the courts. |
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He is very angry but the only sign of this is the white knuckles gripping the chair. |
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Another brush of his lips over her knuckles, and then he turned his horse about. |
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They're coming up shortly after a federal judge thwacked the Pentagon's knuckles. |
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He clutched the flute in his tanned hand, which was slowly turning white at the knuckles because of his tight grip. |
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I placed my hand in his, expecting a shake, but he surprised me by bringing my hand to his lips and placing a butterfly kiss on my knuckles. |
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After cursing his opponent several times, the man sheathed his knife and cracked his knuckles. |
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The steel beladah was much like a sabre, but with a guard for the knuckles, while the bilbo was bore a close resemblance to a rapier. |
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You check yourself and discover you've torn a trouser leg and your knee is bleeding and your knuckles are cut up. |
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Her knuckles were full of tiny fissures and wrinkles, the backs covered with freckles, moles and scars. |
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I was gripping the steering wheel so hard that my knuckles had turned white. |
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He thought he'd found a blind spot from the turrets and cracked his knuckles together before grabbing his ship's controls and preparing to shoot. |
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Michael reared back and struck the radio dial with an anguished roar, bloodying his knuckles with the punch. |
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He screamed down the alley, jumping up and pounding his fists into the wall behind him, bloodying his knuckles. |
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Tim doesn't think he'd be able to take the doctor's expression at that, not without bloodying his knuckles against the man's nose. |
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She sounded just like Sister Mary Joseph, the hatchet-faced Mother Superior who used to whack his knuckles with a ruler. |
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Grypps' knuckles were turning white, and he could feel a blood vessel in his forehead pulsing. |
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I could actually feel my body prickle, my stomach grow knuckles and my skin start to blotch and swell. |
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Then she crackled her knuckles and darted out into the Meadow, where she was greeted with an unfamiliar sight. |
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Without a break in the smooth movement, Uke stretches his fist up and steps forward to bring the back of the knuckles on Tori's head. |
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Chase squeezed the neck of the bottle tightly, making his hands sweat and his knuckles go white. |
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It fit like brass knuckles only instead of knuckles, a sharp jagged edge protruded. |
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It was a drug dealer that punched me in the face with a pair of brass knuckles and it knocked my two front teeth right out. |
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In the hand-to-hand combat view you will also be able to pick up or steal weapons, such as brass knuckles, screwdrivers, clubs, and knives. |
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He removed his leather gloves, replacing them with brass knuckles in case a fight was looking to break out. |
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The leader commands with a baseball bat in hand as the other two put on brass knuckles to fight with. |
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The pretentiously named Bones was taller and skinnier, and he always carried brass knuckles in his pocket. |
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With tears brimming, I stop filming and rub the backs of my knuckles across my eyes. |
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He held out an arm to show how the end of the sleeve hung two handspans below his knuckles. |
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The standard set-up includes revised front suspension knuckles for additional negative camber and a strengthened twist beam rear axle. |
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The cannon crews defended their guns with everything they had, turning from guns to knives and even their bare knuckles. |
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There was some short guy standing on the right end of the line, cracking his knuckles trying hard to look intimidating. |
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Sabriel swiftly stepped forward and socked Darius soundly across the face, punching him so hard that her knuckles cracked. |
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His hands clamped together between his knees, making his knuckles turn white as thoughts tumbled through his head. |
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Now he grabs the telephone, punches in a string of numbers and clasps the receiver to his ear, knuckles white with pressure. |
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The blue-haired girl fisted her hands in her new navy Kangui gloves which had small metal studs on the knuckles. |
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The object of this is to provide clearance for the hand and knuckles when hewing the log. |
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He sipped it for a moment, his large, scarred knuckles barely fitting into the hooked handle on the side of the cup. |
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As it heated he held his hands close to the clear flame, worked his knuckles loose. |
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She began to fidget, clutching her peplos and grasping it tightly until her knuckles turned white. |
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In order to allow the soft tissues around your knuckles to heal, your entire hand will be immobilized for one to two weeks. |
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When my knuckles went white as I tried to cut the fillet steak that followed, I sighed. |
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For one to two weeks after that, you'll be able to move the top two joints on your fingers, but your knuckles must remain still. |
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He scratched at his armrest with his fingernails like they were claws, cracking his knuckles. |
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Blotter made a show of biting her knuckles and growing pale, as she was programmed to do in tense situations. |
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He wore black gloves with fingers that stopped at the knuckles on both of his hands. |
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Bert blew on his knuckles, like a gunman puffing smoke from the barrel of his revolver. |
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Using a low pulley, Arnold raised one arm out to the side, knuckles up, to shoulder height and squeezed. |
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She was still frozen in place, her knuckles turning white from gripping the cheese grater so tightly. |
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Fellow examinees shuffled spare pens, snacks, lucky gonks as I cracked my knuckles. |
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Make sure the jaws of the wrench or pliers are snug in position before you manipulate the handle, to avoid slippage or scraped knuckles. |
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She'd become so thin that her wedding ring was loose, able to wobble up and down between her knuckles. |
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I clutched the side rails with white knuckles to keep from being tossed into the air. |
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I rapped my knuckles on the splintering wood twice, paused, and knocked again once. |
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She didn't look up until he had ascended the porch steps and rapped his knuckles on the railing. |
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Mia knocked loudly on the door, rapping her knuckles hard against the steel wall that separated her from her boyfriend. |
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I pulled my hat back on my head before rapping my knuckles against the heavy wooden door for the third time that day. |
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It won't be the central government because power equations make a rap on the knuckles impossible. |
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The PNG government, however, rapidly received a rap over the knuckles from Washington. |
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He hit the floor again, this time, bloodying his knuckles from the impact. |
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Mike gripped the arms of his seat until his knuckles whitened. |
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The palms were callused and the knuckles had scabs and bruises on them. |
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Hence the use of doubles who save the actors' time and bloodied knuckles. |
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He held my hands tightly, digging his fingers into my knuckles. |
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He cracked his knuckles and his fingers became blurs over the keyboard. |
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I smiled at him sweetly, rubbing my fingers over his knuckles. |
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Her hand was soft and I ran my finger along her pale knuckles. |
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The first two knuckles of the middle finger bend and straighten. |
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Lying there, my ribs stabbing me like brass knuckles and my soul infused with sweet, sweet love, I had wakeful dreams about playing the perfect basketball game. |
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She put down her ridiculous hammer and cracked her knuckles. |
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His knuckles turned first a deep red before fading to pearly white. |
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She clenched her fists and smacked Muketsu hard with her knuckles. |
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If the Administration knuckles under now, its support will bleed away. |
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Yashi laced his fingers together, pulling hard until his knuckles cracked. |
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His cheeks burning red in response to his anger and hurt, his hold on his blankets turned to a clutch, his knuckles turning white from the strain. |
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The soldier launches into a comical strut and pretends to polish his guard box with his knuckles. |
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He lightly rapped his knuckles on the passenger window of the lone car. |
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If they were too rowdy, there were brass knuckles, chains, clubs, knives and guns readily at hand, and the less lucky soldiers might be severely beaten. |
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His hands were clamped together tightly, his knuckles white. |
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He picked up my hand gallantly, pressing a soft kiss to my knuckles. |
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Our teachers are very supportive. If by chance we start dreaming in class, we get a sharp whack on our knuckles to bring us back to the real world. |
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I screamed as someone rapped on my window with their knuckles. |
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Sitting upright, his knuckles paled as he clenched the bedcover firmly. |
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The impact hit his knuckles, making him loose his grip and slip downwards. |
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As late as the 1960s, children at school had their knuckles rapped, or even their hand tied behind their back, if they showed a preference for the left. |
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His fists tightened until his knuckles popped and the girls' eyes widened. |
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If caught using her left hand, it got a rap on the knuckles with a rule. |
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They pulled out brass knuckles and one of the guards slammed Tony in the chops, throwing him up in the air and hard down to the ground, knocking him out instantly. |
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Switzerland's not being invited looks like a rap on the knuckles. |
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Apparently he was a fighter, using brass knuckles as a weapon. |
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Her knuckles were white from the tightness of her fist around the handle. |
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The left raps your knuckles, and the right cuts off your hand and serves it to you for lunch. |
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The punishments, said to have been carried out after two internal investigations, amount to little more than a rap over the knuckles for the CIA and those singled out. |
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Maybe that was a gaffe, maybe a much-deserved rap on the Egyptian knuckles. |
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The dark-haired boy rapped on the strange panel with his knuckles. |
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All of the interior metalwork is burr-free and easy on the knuckles. |
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Because I used to work the brat stand at the Memorial Union terrace, and spent summers burning the hair off my arms and knuckles and smelling of pork and beer. |
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Competition in the ring was ferocious as fearless competitors risked their knuckles and aimed to split the conker at the end of a leather string held by their opponent. |
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As a Hollywood character actor he made his name in gangster movies, surrounded by brooding middle-aged hoodlums who cracked their knuckles and lurked sullenly at his shoulder. |
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My knuckles were white from clutching the loose-leaf paper so tightly. |
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She held out her hand and James let out a relieved sigh as he practically danced over and pulled a cornily chivalrous move by kissing her knuckles. |
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Standard Life has been rapped over the knuckles by the Financial Ombudsman for turning down claims by policyholders who got their weight wrong on application forms. |
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Knives, knuckles, grease, girls, cars, guitars, bull fiddles and leather, all the trappings of a live fast, die young desperate rock 'n' roll act. |
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He turned the page and ran his fingerless knuckles down the closely-written columns. |
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I noted this observation with a loud guffaw of laughter as Ross got Tom in a noogie, the pair both laughing hard as Ross rubbed Tom's head with his knuckles. |
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The one good thing Christie delivered was the section on bipartisanship, where he sort of rapped the knuckles of his own party. |
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Aluminum figures prominently in the front suspension design, and includes the lower arms, steering knuckles, brake calipers and brake shield, steering rack and front subframe. |
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His eyes were wide, with the whites visible so starkly against his skin, and he was pushing his other hand onto his mouth, tightly, until the knuckles turned pale. |
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This prospect is further whitening the knuckles of Vodafone shareholders. |
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Oppens used her elbows, wrists and knuckles, and sometimes her head came so near the keyboard that I suspect she nutted the poor instrument as well. |
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Jason's knuckles whitened as he tightened his hold on his gun. |
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The priests in white shammas shook their sistra, a tinkling instrument with little circular metal discs, held across the knuckles and shaken. |
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Jacob always carried a set of brass knuckles, just in case he ever got caught up in a bar fight. |
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And many readers could provide me with tales of rulers across knuckles, slaps on bare legs, heads cracked together, and mighty ear-cloutings. |
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He flew at me with his knife, and I had to grass him twice, and got a cut over the knuckles, before I had the upper hand of him. |
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It is possible to measure the activity of each variable instrumently, as has been done by Cheek for the knuckles and by Mauk for the wrist. |
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Four times he jumped the rattler, his knuckles bleeding from punching walls. |
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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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The rival, the foe, the ofay, veins stretched and bulged between white knuckles. |
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With the jeans part way down and the upper slopes of her white-pantied bottom exposed, Penny gasped as Mark's knuckles grazed her bare stomach. |
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Going further, some say Provincetown is the curled hand, or fist, with Race Point and Wood End at its knuckles, and Long Point at the fingertips. |
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A few mammals, namely the great apes, are also known to walk on their knuckles, at least for their front legs. |
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The teacher gave the wayward pupil a rap across the knuckles with her ruler. |
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Sometimes you must leave the high road and fetch your brass knuckles. |
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Using a small transducer, a sonographer recorded video images of 400 MPJs, as participants attempted to crack their knuckles. |
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So the SFA fine him a measly 500 quid and severely censure him, the equivalent of getting a rap over the knuckles with a bag of flumps. |
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Catch it on your knuckles and see how much bigger and stretchier it gets too. |
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New aluminum rear knuckles help reduce unsprung mass for improved ride and handling. |
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As soon as she heard that her father had died, she went into a rage and beat the wall with her fists until her knuckles bled. |
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From the loose sleeves of his surplice, emerge long hands whorled with loose-skinned knuckles. |
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Baracas includes an enlarged finger hole to accommodate the most swollen knuckles or gloved hands. |
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Put the dough back in a mixing bowl, press down the top with your knuckles to make a pit and add the chocolate chunks, apricots, and marzipan. |
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The cuts stolen in the raid included topside beef, silverside, knuckles, fillet, strip and rump steak as well as lamb shanks. |
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Boresome time descended. The kind of time that droops over your knuckles and impedes your fingers' function. |
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He smiled often, he could make his knuckles crack like pistol shots, and he had the courtesy to address him as Gaylord, and not by some ridiculous title of his own. |
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It was worse with French, which was taught by a very strict pedagogue of the old school who corrected the misconjugation of verbs with a rap across the knuckles. |
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Sand fleas can be problematic to find and corral, but blue crab knuckles, fresh cut clams and fresh shrimp will work nearly as well, and sometimes better. |
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Many of the terms are endearing, such as anvil zits, cloud streets, horse latitudes, knuckles, mamma clouds, steam clouds and, of course, graupel. |
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But the reason behind the waterworks wasn't that Bruce had got his moustache caught in a mandoline or Grant had grated his knuckles while preparing some gratinated scallops. |
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