| I tried to prise it apart with a ruler, then I tried using a pair of scissors to try and lever the infernal plastic spindle apart. |
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| To clean the scallops, prise the shells open with a knife, scraping and loosening from the flat shell. |
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| Today's results extinguished their faint hopes that they could prise back control of the Senate. |
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| To begin, use the chisel to gently prise the stop beads from the window frame. |
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| Culture can prise open minds and penetrate perceptions in a way that politics has long since failed to do. |
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| Her job is to gee the women up, tell them about the best bargains and help prise the dollars from their wallets. |
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| For example, if Player A leaves a queen en prise, the opponent will quickly grab it and wreck A's game. |
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| Instead of capturing a Rook, Black puts a Bishop en prise, with check, on an unguarded square. |
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| I think they were cleaned out of balls, gloves and any little trinket that the kids could prise out of them. |
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| Lift the clumps carefully and prise the bulbs apart causing as little damage to the roots as possible. |
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| Miss Watson left her queen en prise against Miss Gooding, who failed to notice and eventually lost. |
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| My weight knocked him off his feet and I wrestled with him in the mud of the street, swearing and cuffing at his head, until I managed to prise my wallet out of his hand. |
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| I wormed the knife between tiny slivers of green plastic to prise free the ring pull and used pliers to grasp the toggle on that pesky foil circle. |
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| It appears that a thief, described as a drunk male wearing a combat jacket, used a crowbar to prise open the security shutter before smashing the window. |
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| The luckiest male mounts the female and remains in position for many hours, unless another male manages to prise him off by biting and clawing at him. |
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| It's cruel, but effective: only the high court could eventually prise out the basic factual detail of what's happening. |
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| The final threat to be faced by Tottenham this Chrimbo is one young talent that Frank Arnesen has been trying to prise away from Palace's right wing. |
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| But colleagues wonder whether he has the single-mindedness, still less the ruthlessness, to prise power from one of Asia's toughest leaders. |
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| It has its party machines, but groups that organise hard can use the primaries to prise them open. |
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| In attempting to prise control away from the previous power brokers for four years, the owner of the chain of convenience stores used up his allowance of good publicity. |
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| Rescue workers managed to prise it open but no one was found inside. |
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| We need therefore to prise them off the world, to hold them apart from and against it, so that we can realize their inadequacies and can relook at the world without blinkers. |
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| Pearson was playing political hardball, using a pragmatic strategy designed to prise extra resources out of a conservative electorate and its government. |
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| Some mornings when the tide was right out we went onto the reef with screwdrivers to prise off abalone, which we called muttonfish. |
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| Most people used pliers, scissors, rubber gloves and knives to try to prise open products. |
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| Those wishing to prise the coveted guestbook from the hotel's grasp will have to make do with trying to decipher the autographs scrawled on the piano which sits in the 24-hour private bar. |
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| The thieves used secateurs to prise open the back door of the semi-detached house on Myers Road East, Crosby. |
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| With her pocket knife, she starts to prise the spikes from his wings. Fergawdsake, she says. Somebody shut Tracker up. |
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| The VOC began immediately to prise away the string of coastal fortresses that, at the time, comprised the Portuguese Empire. |
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| Williams' failed attempt to prise Jenson Button out of his BAR contract may also have been an issue with Theissen. |
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| I think he must have been trying to prise open that box yonder when he was attacked. |
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| Someone produced a challenging idea and placed it en prise like a chess move, tempting argument. |
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| Qxd6 and there are two pieces en prise and the Q is amongst the pawns. |
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| As well as having both Rooks en prise he cannot play 24 Qxc3 because of. |
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| Now were there any one of so tender or cheverell a conscience, to whome no cure might seeme worthy of so extreame a remedy, I should prise or regard him no whit the lesse. |
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| Now Chelsea's board must prise away Tottenham's Dimitar Berbatov, their second sulky strike target of the transfer window, to complete a potent Glum and Glummer attacking duo. |
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