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Then he prised open my mouth and delved in with a metal stick while the nurse fed a miniature sprinkler system down my gullet.
It's this kind of attitude that has prised open the floodgates for all manner of garden ornaments.
Taking a penknife from his combat belt he flicked out the knife and prised out the device.
I suspect the door to that will be prised open using standard English or Spanish.
Eventually when it was prised open, I found some yellowed and brittle sheets of paper, most of them hand-written, but illegible now.
Fire surrounds, wall panelling and window sills were all prised out and shipped along the coast.
The church brasses were embedded in the floor, and in June 2002, thieves prised up six figures and took them away.
McCulloch prised off the door panel, triggered the first device and was shot in the arm.
At about 3.15 pm a section of the steel fencing was prised apart by some revellers.
The celebrity author, 52, cannot be prised away from buffet lunches and milling admirers.
Further, she had additional income prised from the Church as well as her inheritance as queen dowager of France.
They prised the doors open when the lift began filling with water from the sprinkler system.
At the time of writing, the hospitals of Baghdad are overflowing with the wounded and dying, as the city is prised apart by American tanks.
Eventually, he prised himself out of bed, pulled on fur-lined boots, a warm hat and a thick jacket, and wandered outside.
Navy also looked to be the favourites as Air Force had almost prised the championship away from Army on the Sunday, losing by only a goal in the dying moments of the game.
The Australian Cricket Board, to their eternal shame, secretly fined the players then covered it up until the papers prised the story out of them.
By dint of not mentioning snow, I gently prised the story out of him, learning that he'd fumbled the first deal and lost two or three months in the process.
The game's biggest stars were prised from their national sides with the help of large cheques to play one-day cricket.
Lockable window handles alone do not offer adequate protection against the sash being prised out.
This has certainly given them a dynamic edge, but the drawback is that it has favoured faculties prised by the business community.
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Tremulous and half dead, I prised myself over the edge with my hands, and knelt once more on the hill beside Elsie.
I shut the outer door, prised up the trap, and dropped into the vault, which had been floored roughly with green bricks.
Vashti prised at a loose stone from the wall with the point of her sunshade.
They raked out his fire, and prised up a loose board in the floor.
With the point of nurse's scissors we prised the viands from the platters.
Directly the valves were prised apart the pearl fell into my hand.
He first scored a rapid-fire 60 in 35 balls and then prised out two wickets to defeat Pak Titans by 111 runs.
He took Pinto's knife from his hand and prised one of the discs loose.
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