A smelly torrent of water flooded over him, and he let go, spluttering bad temperedly. |
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Before I get to the part where I start gibbering and spluttering, I should begin by doing what I can manage coherently. |
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Coughing and spluttering, I reached up to unseal the airtight locks on the compartment. |
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When I stopped coughing and spluttering, we sat down, had a think and decided to let her have one. |
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We emerge, spluttering and gasping from a genuine cold salt-water bath, such as the hydropathists have no idea of. |
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Dimitri hopped off the spluttering bus and watched it drive, or rather screech away. |
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He raps with a slippery undulating velocity that few can match without descending into jibber-jabber or spluttering. |
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Witnesses told police they heard the plane in trouble with its engine spluttering and cutting out moments before the impact with the ground. |
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After that the abuse rained down continually upon the hapless Mr O'Brien, like rocks and pumice from a spluttering volcano. |
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But happily that doesn't mean that it or the hotel is full of spluttering Keatsian consumptives nor that the spa is especially clinical in feel. |
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The engine is coughing and spluttering and nobody knows quite how to keep the thing going. |
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It was sitting there in its pyjamas, coughing and spluttering like an emphysemic pensioner climbing stairs. |
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I began massaging his chest, and give him mouth-to-mouth, Mr Dance then came to help and the little boy began spluttering. |
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You've never been more awake as you pop your head and shoulders up out of the swimming hole, spluttering, gasping for air. |
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I smiled to myself as I watched her start spluttering and yelling after the car and giving him the bird. |
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I was just looking for the entry form in the paper when the plane's engine started missing and spluttering. |
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They won't take up too much room on the table, I can pick chips up easily and I can eat them without too much coughing and spluttering. |
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At the first spluttering sounds of the water ration's arrival through the pipes in the predawn dark, bodies spring from beds to fill buckets and pots. |
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It wants to be a rebel yell, but ends up spluttering silently into the void. |
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In reality the former Yugoslavs and Albania are more like old cars, juddering forward, breaking down and sometimes spluttering backwards. |
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First of all, no spluttering. Cough gently into your handkerchief before you start to speak. |
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He reaches successfully for the line with his last reserves of energy and is finally pulled out spluttering water from his lungs. |
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This village has barely changed except for the main street with its big paving stones, which is now invaded with spluttering motorbikes. |
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It is the only strategy in town, but you can almost hear the spluttering indignation from the many Tories who remain unreconciled five years after the party's U-turn. |
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He is given to spluttering fits of moral outrage that lead him to contradict himself. |
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It sounded like a riot was going to start when the record ended with a spluttering hiss. |
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The resident cats of the time didn't much like the hissing and spluttering and clattering the device made as it brewed a new jugful, but they came round in the end. |
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One minute you're in a sharp, spluttering, stony riffle, and then you're in a swift, frictionless, swirling run, or in a deep slow pool of long vowels and slow consonants. |
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It's true, too, for there's been a deal of coughing and spluttering. |
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Despite her scepticism, she has nonetheless banished me to the camp-cot in the study so that my nocturnal hacking and spluttering won't interfere with her slumbers. |
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Experts probed the origin of the sulphurous smell which appeared at the beginning of February after calls from worried Benfleet and Canvey residents who were left spluttering. |
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For some reason, I picture him spluttering those words through gales of laughter, with one arm hooked around the shoulders of a bemused refugee and the latest issue of Variety folded open on his lap. |
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With Brel, I understood the power of performance and that being on stage meant sweating and spluttering and not waiting to be clapped before moving on to the next song. |
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Their vocal techniques range from operatic purity to spluttering glossolalia and on to pop inflections, but they have in common a tendency to use their own voices not merely as lead instruments but as structuring principles. |
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A government plan to deploy social workers to help troubled pregnant mums has them spluttering into their pink gins. |
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Colonel Blimp will be spluttering in to his pink gin. |
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He sings as well as he can, murmuring, growling and spluttering over melancholic or mad off-beats, peppered with electric and acoustic guitars and found sounds. |
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Outfoxing one's opponents is enjoyable at any time: all the more so if an offensive that David Cameron and Co somehow failed to anticipate leaves them spluttering with indignation too. |
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After coughing and spluttering her way through her semi-final, Williams had been too ill to practise on Friday and was even doubled-over at times when she had a gentle hit a couple of hours before the final. |
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They'd be spluttering over their pink gins and cucumber sandwiches for months. |
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Listen to Mark Horton spluttering with enthusiasm tonight about the birth of the Ordnance Survey map and tell me this couldn't be mistaken for a sketch on The Fast Show. |
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When I demanded an explanation, he just stood there spluttering. |
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