The domestic theatre is her strength, her writer's eye picking out the daily victories, everyday meanness, with sensitivity and sympathy. |
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I wouldn't be picking on the French if they didn't take such delight in zinging the United States. |
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Cruised the aisles picking up recipe bits and bobs, then zizzed home to tidy the flat and start cooking. |
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The process consists of reselecting the original azalea seeds, sowing them, letting them flower, picking the best and taking cuttings. |
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Small rudd can often be seen patrolling in huge shoals picking off any invertebrates in the water column. |
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I'm picking them up, much more deliberately, much more slowly, taking time to really look them over. |
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She returned back inside, sauntering into the drawing room where she resumed her position on the window seat, picking up the book. |
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And I'm the same as most out-and-out goalscorers in not being as comfortable with one-on-ones as picking up on scraps. |
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While his changeup works wonders against right-handers, lefties have an easier time picking it up. |
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Nobody's evil here, except for a few rotten Templars intent on picking a fight. |
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In the next section, we'll see how a locksmith goes about picking this sort of lock. |
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Simeon was silent for a moment, picking a loose thread on the plain white cotton sheets. |
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While most systems are automatic, DeWeerdt notes that many retrieval or picking processes still include manual elements. |
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After a lengthy break, Marino is back and is pretty much picking up where he left off. |
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Farmers have been warned about the risk of picking up the infectious disease, leptospirosis, from unvaccinated cattle. |
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What his ears were picking up last week were the first signs of a peasant's revolt against Brown. |
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It outcompetes forage grasses, and its thornlike prickles pose a threat to workers picking vegetable crops in infested areas. |
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Lock picking is an essential skill for locksmiths because it lets them get past a lock without destroying it. |
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She stepped closer to the bed where the open suitcase lay, picking up a pearl necklace. |
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They rode the school bus only for the first two or three weeks during tomato picking season. |
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For Martin, starting over means picking up where he left off, riding the momentum that propelled him into the Chase. |
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I think he would probably employ professionals, people who would have no problem picking a lock on a cell. |
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And when the fight breaks out, they're the ones picking off all the jewelry and pawning it and selling it on ebay. |
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I begin my hike next to a rushing stream, picking my way through thorny bushes in search of the trail. |
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It was eight-thirty when the telephone rang, and I knew it was Chandler, wanting to know when I was picking him up. |
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The concepts and moves are ripped off from American videos, but now she is also looking at our stuff and picking out things. |
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The fruit is ripe for the picking so long as you can be bothered to pick the fruit. |
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He rejoined the race in sixth place but fought back to finish in fifth place and had to settle for picking up championship points. |
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I tell Ray that by the time I'm finished picking one row I'll be able to start over, since more fruit will have ripened by then. |
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So when it comes to picking a rousing anthem, we're somewhat stuck for stirring subject matter. |
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The outdoor chickens are more at risk of picking up infection from wild birds, other animals and the environment. |
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I once spent a very miserable year with a maths teacher who delighted in picking on me above all others. |
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The posters pictured a person crouched down, picking a lock, and a woman making an emergency call. |
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They spend time picking up litter in the suburb, trimming pavement lawns and public gardens. |
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Last week the town council passed a motion to spend a day picking up litter around the town. |
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If you spot this in a bargain bin, you could do a lot worse than picking it up, especially if you're an avid Kirby lover. |
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Most of the striking laborers are young people from Quebec and other provinces who come for the fruit picking season. |
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I came very close to picking the thick tome up the other day, but some stubborn impulse in me resisted. |
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Such species as love birds, parrots and doves are spending more time near the water trough and less on picking for food. |
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The sight was captured by a photographer and thereafter used to scare children into not picking their noses. |
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As an added bonus, you'll be picking up a charge while you're tethered to your computer. |
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When it hatched, it grew up like other chickens, picking and scratching for food. |
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That poem is about picking blackberries, reaching on and on, with your hands all scrabbed. |
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We have tried and tried again at picking up the mantles of authority only to find them alternately too big and too small. |
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Flocks of urbanists and media enthusiasts walked the streets carrying portable radio receivers in the hope of picking up the broadcasts. |
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After an eye test and picking up some home cured bacon and fresh baked bread, it was off to the river. |
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The only alteration for decades has been to prevent the goalkeeper picking up a kicked back pass. |
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Marco, picking up the scent, tries to investigate, following Shaw around the country. |
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Young Herbert was picking up small stones and throwing them at the sparrows twittering in the hedgerows scattering them in all directions. |
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She nodded and sat down on my bed, picking up my stuffed teddy bear and hugging it. |
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Every new dusty setting calls for more energetic sharpshooting, whether picking off an angry mob or firing at targets from horseback. |
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Rachid, who trains the boxers, makes a great play of picking up the youngest lads, weighing them and poking them about before a bout begins. |
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He corrected the way I was running, the way I was picking up the ball, and the way I was throwing it to the other ball boy in the backcourt. |
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A clerk comes up to me, as I'm picking between fairly expensive vodkas, and asks me if I'd like to know where the malt liquor is. |
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Actually, everyone agrees that Thom is the worst teaser, like a big brother who revels in picking on everyone else. |
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We had long since decided that he was picking middle names that went with the first names we picked out. |
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I'm picking these sounds out from the babble of the past, a raucous market fair of a landscape that stretches out as far as the eye can see. |
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I went about picking up mounds of dirt to drop into the pit, and my hands, already dirty with muck, became benumbed under the frigid air. |
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Transmission occurs when a mosquito bites an infected human, picking up the microfilariae, which develop into larvae. |
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This involves picking your way through the rocks, which are part of one of the tors on Ben Rinnes. |
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Krane slowed to a walk and examined the injured man before picking up the sword and giving chase to the other. |
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Ace quickly slowed to a walk and turned around, picking up the trot again and she clicked a few times. |
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Laughing, Adam kissed her again, then picking her up in his arms, waltzed her around the room. |
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But I think now that he was picking up information, sizing people up, while appearing to be passing the time of day. |
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Together they roam the streets, picking up prostitutes and other willing, wanton woman to calm their near-desperate need for the female form. |
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The options for this include picking specific cities, metropolitan areas, or even a distance radius from a specific point. |
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Fans of this show should have no qualms about picking this one up because of the mostly solid transfers. |
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We often hear about the importance of picking a company by means of quantitative analysis, which evaluates balance sheets and numbers. |
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I had my first jobs when I was in kindergarten picking apples, topping onions and catching cabbage butterflies. |
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The white shirts are sure to win but the fear of picking up injuries could let the home side in for a jammy goal. |
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Serves me right for picking an easy read and not getting my teeth into something substantial. |
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What if there's sentient life elsewhere in the universe, and they locate us by picking up our satellite television broadcasts one day? |
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People would be picking bits off their washing on the line wondering what it was. |
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They made these changes of their own accord, picking up on the cultural and professional health messages of the time. |
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The picking apart of the fluid parish boundaries is methodologically innovative. |
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We spend lots of time and money and psychic energy on picking our presidents, with millions of people in one way or the other involved. |
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Adam rolled his eyes, before steering her out of the library, picking up her bag for her on the way out. |
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He took the chance and ran, picking up his bags on the way out of the door and leaving his keys behind. |
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Liberation simply travels, picking up junk and jetsam along the way, discarding it somewhere downstream, and rambling on. |
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She was picking out pieces of limestone with a golden, jeweled dagger when she heard a deep, dangerous voice. |
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I sat in it once when they were picking tomatoes, my feet dangling, the ridge of the seat hurting my thighs, making red weals. |
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Jenkins served the first four services of the third game, picking up one ace in the process of doing so. |
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If you're trying to get attention and separate yourself from the pack, picking a good name is one of the best moves you can make. |
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I remembered picking up a rubber johnny as it drifted past me and holding it up to the other volunteers, who all recoiled in horror. |
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Working on the 13.56 MHz frequency, a radio wave ricochets off the chip, picking up a code that identifies the bearer. |
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He also was very adept at picking up on people's weaknesses and teasing them, ruffling some feathers. |
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We're quite adept at picking out what it is we don't like about other human beings. |
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There is deep satisfaction to be had in spending a couple of hours picking punnets full of ripe, juicy fruit. |
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I was using the binoculars and could see it clearly and started moving in a westerly direction picking up speed as it went. |
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I'm picking up my email on the web this week and next, which has reminded me of all the mass mailing lists I'm on. |
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They have gone off the boil in recent weeks picking up just five points in their last six games. |
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After giving him a signal, Iggy ripped into a lightning-quick solo full of tremolo picking and whammy bar use. |
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Manu and Nadine meet up, and go on a road trip, picking up men, and killing at random. |
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Instead of going into city and town centres to buy cosmetics, toiletries or aspirin, shoppers are picking them up along with the bread and milk. |
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English prides itself on being the magpie language, freely picking up foreign words to incorporate into its flexible vocabulary. |
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That party thinks that money just grows on trees and is there for the picking. |
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The judges rated her only mediocre, but she placed third in her group in no small part due to Simon picking on her for her weight. |
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My mother, Mary, could often be seen walking around the outskirts of the forest, picking mushrooms and toadstools. |
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Hurriedly picking every coin, he stuffed his empty purse and headed for town, joy radiating from his toadish countenance. |
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I am an avid reader of your magazine and look forward to picking up my issue every Thursday. |
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Who'da thunk that men buying diapers after work on Fridays were also picking up six-packs of beer? |
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Motorists will be banned from picking up passengers at the kerbside until the work is completed in the autumn. |
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He hopes to jog a few memories in January by picking up where he left off five months ago. |
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I spent some time today going through some boxes in the junk room and picking out things to haul to the dump. |
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The estate staff and sundry villagers would be involved in beating the woods and picking up the game. |
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The first step in picking a lock is to insert the tension wrench into the keyhole and turn it in the same direction that you would turn the key. |
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The main criterion for picking a place to go is money, and money is tight at the moment. |
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There may be a significant tie-in here between the looming war with Iraq and the threats we're picking up in intelligence intercepts. |
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Some are just sitting picking away at their work, others standing holding up their latest creations. |
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It has been picking up good airplay on the local stations and looks set to be another popular favourite for the man from Belmullet. |
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I welcome their efforts in picking things up off the floor and tidying their rooms. |
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If you haven't finished picking your currants yet, kill two birds with one stone by pruning them first. |
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I couldn't help but display my knack of scanning a rack of women's clothes and picking out the exact, perfect combo for her to try. |
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People here live a hand-to-mouth existence, picking through the trash for something of value. |
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She sat there in the passenger seat biting her bottom lip and picking at her thumbnails. |
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Brighten it up with a new duvet cover or a smart throw, picking up the colour in light shades and curtains. |
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It also taught us, by letting us shred some business plans that succeeded, that there is no magic formula for picking a successful business. |
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He was also selective in picking objects for his paintings and was very careful in depicting them, too. |
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Before picking up a crab, we detached attached males by carefully pushing their claws off the females' terminal spines. |
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He has a real knack for picking projects that are a little off the beaten track, but guaranteed to be interesting. |
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Keith Wood joked after the match that it was nice to see someone else picking up the wooden spoon for a change. |
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But batting a thousand can mean good legal work or cherry picking opportunities. |
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Despite a 20-year record of party commitment, Deacon was knocked back by the selection panel picking candidates for the new parliament. |
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She separated a section of knotless hair from a tangled section and started picking at the ball of hair. |
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But picking the olives is hard physical work, and the rewards are far from certain. |
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Earlier last week, she saw two Welfare department kombis picking up workers at Hemingway's casino. |
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They want to study it and dissect it, picking away at its component parts like a cat worrying a mouse. |
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Good investors continually refine their stock picking method, tweaking it here and there. |
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They haven't even taken the trouble of picking up the phone and saying they're sorry for our loss. |
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In the sunlight, the steel surface comes alive with reflections, picking up the green of the surrounding grass. |
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The Sheriff went over their stories, rehashing them, picking out points for clarification for about another hour. |
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It's the season for leaf raking, pumpkin picking, cider sipping, and tailgate parties. |
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Then he would eat his favourite food by picking off choice meat off of the bone of extra rare chicken tikkas. |
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I mused over this for a few moments before picking the tactic I thought would reap the best results. |
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The elite reconnaissance Marine now relearns everyday tasks, like picking something up off the floor. |
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Other deals that are already in the public arena are also picking up steam again. |
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Now people hop, skip, and jump among religious bodies and congregations, picking and choosing, paying their money and taking their choice. |
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Fingers or brushes strip plant parts and cotton bolls from the plant, thus picking up excess trash. |
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I am having problems picking out the right type of bowling ball for heavily oiled lanes. |
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Whether buying the spiced local gingerbread or scouting for the region's best amber, it's hard to resist picking something up. |
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The stallion danced around the men, who were just picking themselves up and remounting their own horses. |
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Part of the problem lies with the players, who are making mental errors and not picking up audibles. |
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An attractively plump woman reclined beside a stream picking flowers to the strain of a lilting love song. |
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While stockmarkets yo-yo around the world, the gravy train is picking up speed in one sector of the economy. |
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The local authority is picking up the tab for practically all costs associated with the development of the estate. |
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Not a vast change from the last album, but in a picking up the pace of my favourite tracks and staying on that track kind of way. |
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I slacked off a bit on the viewing in July and August, but I've been picking up the pace lately. |
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You will, however, as a taxpayer be indirectly picking up the tab for the accident. |
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We do get a little footage of him picking flowers outside his tract house, and meandering through a graveyard. |
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She hadn't notice the pair of dark eyes gazing at her as she meandered up the aisle occasionally picking up a book and reading the blurb. |
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Besides picking the more familiar lemon balm, coltsfoot and mullein, I found myself picking honeysuckle flowers for their antibacterial and antiviral properties. |
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A straight-faced clown in severe white makeup begins picking out a tune on an accordion as more people trickle in to watch. |
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She says she herself has acne scars from picking at her face in attempt to create perfection. |
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The truth is that Judd is really just picking an arbitrary number since there is no script. |
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To forget the case, mentioned below, is to lose the art of picking up types from the boxes without looking at them. |
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Casper Van Dien was recently picking up his two daughters from school when a gang of 10-year-old boys surrounded him. |
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Most people I know did laboring or fruit picking or waitressing. |
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Ketara repeated, picking up her fork and jabbing it into her salad. |
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The fact of the matter is that what the planet probably needs now is more people picking the childless lifestyle. |
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Then I look around and realise I haven't had time to wash or clean for three weeks and resignedly start picking at the bring-and-buy sale ranged round the bed. |
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But then I apparently went too far, picking up Charlie's weapon of choice, a silver Tiffany cigarette lighter. |
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I came over the brow of a hill to find six motorbike police leaning on the garden wall and picking off their victims for passing through a radar trap. |
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Then we had to furnish the house, picking out sofas, kitchen ranges, and iceboxes, the likes of which we saw only in the houses of our city cousins. |
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This was the katabatic wind rolling down off the polar plateau, picking up speed from the slow gravitational forces that pulled it downwards over the vast expanses of ice. |
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We need to keep picking up points to stay clear of the relegation zone. |
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Kneeling down next to the door so that the keyhole was on eye level, I produced the piece of wire and file that he'd given me and proceeded to try my hand at picking the lock. |
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This method of one-sidedly and ahistorically picking and choosing facts to fit a pre-determined political conclusion is as unscientific as it is intellectually bankrupt. |
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The sowing for the kharif season is slowly but steadily picking up in this agriculturally intensive district, thanks to the reasonably good south west monsoon so far. |
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Startled, he paused for a moment before picking up the receiver. |
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Recognizing that people these days are used to picking their produce sparkling clean from supermarket aisles, Chuck and Rosie go the extra mile in presentation. |
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But the history of picking winners is not one of unadulterated success. |
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Except I saw a woman picking up some dog poo with her hand in a plastic bag today, and I thought that it'd still be warm and all, and I nearly gipped! |
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And while other housemates recoiled in horror at the thought of picking objects out of a bucket of sheep's eyes, he grabbed a handful and wolfed it down. |
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For declassification advocates, the momentum towards more public awareness about the CIA programs is picking up steam. |
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For nearly four years of my life you managed to be there tormenting me picking up on any weakness or difference and twisting the knife till it really did hurt. |
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Reports emerged over the weekend that he was now picking against Germany in its semifinal against Spain. |
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Each is taught tasks such as picking up dropped items, opening and closing doors, helping remove clothing, and even emptying laundry out of the washing machine. |
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The police are having to take positive action in a bid to stop parents dropping off or picking up their children on the zigzag lines outside three more schools. |
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For two weeks he sat on a bus that zigzagged along the eastern seaboard picking up other criminals who were being reassigned from one jail to another. |
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So picking the movie apart is one way, I think, not to face the real issue of who Jesus was and how his life and death and resurrection could affect our views of God. |
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He was rude and antagonistic to my friends, kept picking arguments and was often deliberately provocative, manipulating people into tense arguments. |
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If I were picking an Antiguan base for my boat, I'd choose Falmouth. |
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A fire that he insists is only picking up pace, according to top-secret intelligence briefings. |
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Outside in the back garden, he could see Mrs Galloway, who was their cook, picking ripe fruit from the strawberry patches nearby the greenhouse, collecting them in her apron. |
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There is a process to picking out a picture in a police photo line-up. |
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It's a good month to visit pick-your-own farms or, if you want to use your energy on cooking rather than picking, to buy raspberries by the cheap punnet. |
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There was no lunch lady to pay for my food, so, after picking out a plastic fork and spoon, I walked straight out of the narrow food room with my loaded tray. |
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Soldier harvesters aren't very good at picking up lodged cane. |
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Despite picking the widest route, the travellers found their clothes being snagged on sharp twigs, and they grazed their knees on passing tree trunks more than once. |
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He played little before this season but is the type of player who can scrape up several extra possessions by diving for loose balls and picking up stray rebounds. |
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The tannins in a wine come from skins, seeds, and stems, and when those parts are still green at picking time, the wine can be rough and astringent. |
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Again, the idea is to search downrange, picking up spent sabots. |
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Tonight after work I am picking up my aunty from the airport. |
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It is common to see white Americans and Hispanics picking their fruits, vegetables and milk at Indian grocery stores and yes, the occasional packet of samosas and spices too. |
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He is constantly picking away at the scab of his own dissatisfaction. |
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There are also drones which vacuum the wireless spectrum, picking up tweets, emails, and Skype chats. |
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For most of us, picking an investment fund is like backing a horse. |
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Rosamund Young is putting her back into her campaign by picking up litter from the hedgerows, lay-bys and verges of the Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. |
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I stroke his muscles with a soapy washcloth, picking out the embedded flecks of glass with my fingernails. |
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They met in the post office at teatime one afternoon as they were picking up their copies of the newspaper, which arrives in the village too late for morning collection. |
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This got blown out of proportion and made into headlines, and somehow I looked like I was picking on her. |
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The Rogue would put his hand to anything, picking the pockets of poor fools like Perdita's brother, turning ballad-monger or pedlar or pilferer as occasion served. |
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To add weblogs into the system, each probably started with small list of weblogs to seed the system, picking up other weblogs as each was scraped. |
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The media's finally picking up on the petty and heavy-handed restrictions in place here in Athens that I've been banging on about since I arrived. |
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After picking up his first batch of 200 euros from a bank machine on New Year's day, Schroeder tossed a two-euro coin into an accordion player's basket. |
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Suddenly he tensed, his sharp wolf ears picking out movement in the sand. |
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He unraveled the cloth, and inside was a pack of saws, picks, rakes, default master keys, and other sorts of lock making and lock picking materials. |
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It may be worth picking up from a bargain bin, should you be so fortunate. |
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In my pocket, I'm picking at one corner of the envelope, thinking twice about giving it to him, even thinking twice about taking the thing out of my pocket. |
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They have experimented with all the techniques of modern winemaking in terms of time of grape picking, fermentation times and temperatures, and maturation. |
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This will make it easier for people in industries such as meatworks, fruit and vegetable picking, and so on, so we strongly support both of those measures. |
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Physical methods such as tossing coins or throwing dice or picking numbered balls from a rotating drum as in Lottery games are always unpredictable. |
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I find myself picking this book up and thumbing through it repetitively. |
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For the first time this year I wore shorts outdoors while I wandered about the front garden and driveway, picking up sticks and fallen twigs from the oak tree. |
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I looked over and there was a squirrel picking itself up off the ground and heading for another tree, some twigs and leaves still falling above it. |
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And I think, between him, the fumes and walking around, maybe picking up pieces or something, he got...Kawasaki syndrome. |
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One thing, for sure, was picking up two American citizens, Matthew Todd Miller and Kenneth Bae, whom Pyongyang has been holding. |
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Their success in picking off merchant ships proved very useful. |
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As superhero juggernauts DC and Marvel enter the 21st century, the debate over diversity in comic books is picking up steam. |
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The selectors deserve credit for picking fourteen players on merit. |
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He started mopping up the mess and picking up pieces of glass. |
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After tacking to the right, John McCain is back to picking fights with Republican colleagues. |
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We all laughed, and picking up a tool kit, the two were off. |
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That's because they make a habit of swimming below dolphins and other toothed whales, picking off injured fish or parts of fish that the dolphins drop during feeding. |
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The headlines the next day made it seem as though Lennox was picking a fight. |
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When it came for picking teams for tours abroad they were ignored. |
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This toxidrome is characterized peripherally by tachycardia, mild hyperthermia, mydriasis, diminished bowel sounds, dry skin, urinary retention, and picking behavior. |
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She said she thought the traffic warden was picking on her because she appeared able but had parked where only disabled permit-holders were allowed. |
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Aburst of pace down the left flank took McCarthy past Sean Dillon before picking out Swailes eight yards out to rifle home in plenty of space. |
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She was trained as a locksmith and she knew about picking locks. |
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After a tour around the Dardanelles picking up troops and baggage, Agamemnon returned to England, where the crew were paid off. |
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The dredge is towed through an oyster bed by a boat, picking up the oysters in its path. |
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A river is continually picking up and dropping solid particles of rock and soil from its bed throughout its length. |
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He moved all over the States, without a cent, picking up any odd job he could get. |
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He is also well known for his ability to win scrappy frames with his tactical play and picking out shots to nothing. |
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This was Marcus, this effeminate, mincing nancyboy, picking his way fastidiously across the grass? |
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When I was working on Sandman, I felt a lot of the time that I was actually picking up a machete and heading out into the jungle. |
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Edwards had undertaken laparoscopic surgery for picking up ovum and also did not adopt the superovulation technique. |
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The first such receiver, named Metox after its French manufacturer, was capable of picking up the metric radar bands used by the early radars. |
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On July 3, 1942, one of these trawlers, HMS Le Tigre proved her worth by picking up 31 survivors from the American merchant Alexander Macomb. |
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When heavy rain or frost threatens, Craig suggests picking underripe but full-size tomatoes and storing them in a paper bag with an apple. |
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And, as always, an Indian close outside the window, a mali in this case, picking up sounds. |
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He was happily picking up cashewnuts when he felt a hot burning sensation on his leg. |
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The one who creates the illusion of picking cucumbers should not be condemned, only the one who actually picks the cucumbers through magic. |
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People who would now attempt to burglarize in top-boots, would be as mad as if they were to adopt that costume for picking pockets. |
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After not picking up a shovel for twenty years, she finally saw the beauty in flowers and declared herself a born-again gardener. |
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But as the start of the season creeps closer I'm a little bit edgy about picking up unwanted injuries, so we'll see how things go. |
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Start by picking a complementary colour palette and decide if warm or cool colours will work best in your living space. |
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It all starts in September, in a vineyard where the heavily laden vines bear round, plump, greenish-bronze scuppernong grapes ready for picking. |
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And Miller and Savin knew they had found in the Judgment of Paris a tale ripe for the picking. |
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Mathias excused Connelly from training today, while Loran was also being monitored after picking up a tight groin against Forest. |
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The clamshell phone has a built-in DVB-T tuner that's capable of picking up live Freeview signals. |
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As well as picking up a cabbage in the veg aisle shoppers are now able to buy a brassica bouquet from the flower area. |
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I just felt in the first half, Offaly seemed to be picking up a lot of breaking ball, particularly around the middle third. |
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Hanvidge isn't seeded despite picking up a sackload of points from reaching the last eight a year ago. |
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No work except for blueberrying in August, crab picking occasionally, and making pine wreaths in December. |
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He spoke almost dreamily, as if he was all by himself, out in the woods, picking johnny-jump-ups. |
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But our runner beans are so prolific, it's a job to keep up with them, even by constantly picking them young. |
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He went down to tell her to stop and could not remember picking up the shillelagh. |
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In the garden, I find myself sitting on a plastic step stool as I work my way down the rows weeding and picking at the same time. |
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Her skateboard picking up speed, she cruised down one side of the ramp and up the other, coming to a rolling stop in the grass. |
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I wandered the edge of the road, picking butterfly weed to weave into a scarlet crown. |
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Then there's the drama surrounding alleged tactical voting and the UK's seemingly impossible task of picking up any points. |
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A BEAUTY therapist is looking to expand her chain of beauty salons and hit a turnover of over pounds 1m after picking up a coveted award. |
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Yet, even here, Tory dogma is about moving the debate rightwards and picking off vulnerable groups while leaving pensioner benefits untouched. |
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It proved to be a great night for Scottish artists, with Annie Lennox picking up the highly coveted O2 Silver Clef Award, left. |
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Therefore, instead of picking one winner, two finalists and two runners-up were selected for recognition. |
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The logistical effort in procuring and distributing raw materials and picking up finished goods were also limitations of the putting out system. |
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Gladiator's haul included one of the few consolation prizes for Britain with Janty Yates picking up an award for costume design. |
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In that case, though, the C-note might become the 110-note, with the user picking up the tech tab in a service arrangement. |
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Instead of picking one of the main car hire companies with a kiosk at the airport, I opted for a local firm, Elephant Car Hire. |
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A mix-up in the home goalmouth ended with Scot Mauchline picking up possession and driving the ball past Ryan Carnie from 12 yards. |
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I HAD a very nice surprise last week, picking up the Newscaster of the Year award at the Television and Radio Industries Club awards. |
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Yet we should oftener look over the tafferel of our craft, like curious passengers, and not make the voyage like stupid sailors picking oakum. |
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The early sign-ons were already picking their way through the buffet, but the majority of the 3,500 guests had yet to arrive. |
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Have bought some farm land in Rio Grande Valley which should bring in a sizeable bundle of gelts come cotton picking time. |
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Setting down is permitted only from trains travelling from Ravenglass, and picking up is permitted only on trains to Ravenglass. |
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Initial observations have revealed diversity in several characteristics, including thorniness, ripening time, and picking ease. |
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A handloom weaver could propel the shuttle by throwing it from side to side with the aid of a picking stick. |
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At St Martin in the Fields, children were trained in spinning flax, picking hair and carding wool, before being placed as apprentices. |
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Along with 30 percent of children who are picking coffee, there are an estimated 25,000 school age children who work year round. |
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Born Chaja Rubinstein, she first made her way to Australia after picking up some business acumen from relatives in the fur business in Vienna. |
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If he heard of anyone picking the fruit he would steam off and lecture them. |
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Correct me if I'm wrong but picking the school your children will attend is a relatively important decision for parents. |
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Demetriou is an inveterate punter with a miraculous instinct for picking big quadrellas. |
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He stopped every few seconds and shuddered, picking asshair from the roof of his upper mouth. |
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It is likewise a simple matter to detect cherry picking in a radiology department. |
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Cherry picking is a metaphoric term used in many industries, including health care and health and wellness. |
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Then Medicare got rid of the cherry picking of seniors and HMOs grew to encompass more insured lives with less favorable health histories. |
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One of the reasons the locals are staying local is that the big boys have been cherry picking the international lanes. |
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Any driver caught cherry picking fares should never be allowed to drive a cab again in this city. |
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They can always move up or down in the social ladder by picking small fights. |
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Petroglyphs are images created by removing part of a rock surface by incising, picking, carving, or abrading, as a form of rock art. |
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My job picking tomatoes was fun, until I'd run into a big green tomato worm staking out its claim. |
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And when the crops are ready for picking a forage or combine harvester is used. |
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An acned teenager with his hand in a bag of nacho-flavored Doritos was whispering to another kid who was reading Lolita and picking his nose. |
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Hand picking is also widely used to harvest the fruit to avoid damage to both fruit and trees. |
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Continue picking the outer leaves of chard, collards, kale, and mustard greens. |
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When half the children were dressed again, some peasant women in their Sunday best, out picking herbs, came up to the bathing-hut and stopped shyly. |
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One year, after many attempts, he passed through his fields, picking out particular tomato plants having distinct characteristics and heavy foliage. |
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