Half way across the inlet, in the black silence of the night we discovered that the boat had sprung a leak. |
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Milo has no idea who sprung him, or why, which is the first puzzler in this dizzying web of intrigue. |
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We sprung for expensive couchette seats, and ended up with our own little cabin on the boat. |
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He had snuck out of class for a crafty drag and a teacher, Jase, had sprung him. |
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John was recently in New Zealand visiting from England and he got sprung for drunk driving. |
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Like the first Prohibition in the 1920s, an underground industry in alcohol had sprung up, and organized crime grew more powerful. |
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The long journey took its toll on the intrepid traveller as her petrol tank sprung a leak and her aerial fell off. |
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Once the impact is over and the panel has sprung back to its original shape, the damage can hardly be seen. |
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The new model rides well and handles assuredly on long sweeping corners, but seems a mite too softly sprung on sharper bends. |
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Their weird, unpredictable nature makes them appear to have sprung from a perpetually opened Pandora's box. |
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Our monosyllabic waiter briefly sprung into life when it came to choosing from the wine list. |
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Before too long one of the doors sprung open and a page asked them to enter. |
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A signboard proclaiming Question Papers Unlimited has sprung up on top of a non-descript building in a blind alley. |
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And with this revelation she felt a new feeling come over her, a surprising tenderness that sprung from old memories unforgotten. |
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The front suspension is a double wishbone coil spring with damper and a five-link coil sprung solid axle in the rear. |
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The tank's engine rose and pitch, and gave a sudden lurch as the treads sprung to life. |
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A citizen's movement has sprung up in Leipzig to protest against the city's strategy for urban renewal. |
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We came into work one morning, and found that the tank had sprung a leak during the night and all the water had drained out. |
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Dozens of private gyms and health clubs have since sprung up for those who can afford it. |
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Desert spaceports and dusty workshops cluttered with rocket nozzles and airframes have sprung up across California and Canada. |
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All was right in the Harriet house until the culprits were sprung from jail by their eighteen-year-old son. |
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Colourful wild flowers sprung up by the roadside, purple violets and white daisies dotted among the grass. |
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Even his bucket hands appeared to have sprung a leak as he put down a waist-high dolly at second slip. |
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The post isn't actually about the TV show, but the analogy sprung to mind and I haven't been able to fully exorcise it. |
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McCoy excels when she describes the growing number of oenological consultants who have sprung up. |
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A number of shops have sprung up in the city to cater to the demand for traditional ornamental furniture. |
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Suddenly tears sprung from her eyes, slowly sliding off her soft cheeks and landing onto the cement, each tear bringing out more sorrow. |
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It resembles any number of similar units to have sprung up in out-of-town business parks in the past decade. |
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We were coming up to the square where Victoria Fountain sprung from the hot springs underground. |
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He sprung into action, grabbing the lab's fire blanket and dousing the flames that were playing across the workbench. |
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We got sprung from the strictures of the nuclear family, parish church, small town by our aberrant sexualities. |
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The branches greened, leaves sprouted, and blossoms sprung and turned into ripe apples. |
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Spring is sprung and the tourist season is well and truly under way in the North York Moors National Park. |
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This dance hall has one of the last remaining sprung floors in the US and was built at a time when the Tango was illegal in Portland. |
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This is life in a swamp, a primeval wet forest from which the great diversity of Australia's modern fauna sprung. |
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The children sprung out of the car as if I had ejection seats, and were soon playing giant chess on an adjacent lawn. |
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Neighbourhood parks have sprung up in every locality making the area greener. |
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A forty-metre-high mountain has sprung up and enveloped the building, the corners of which occasionally protrude from the artificial rock face. |
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Fox has sprung for a couple of extras that should have them roaring with thunderous applause. |
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Spontaneous carbonation or bubbles that sprung from natural mineral springs were believed to relieve common ailments with their tonic properties. |
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Once again, it could have sprung from a different era, far removed from the niche that he helped to create. |
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Ever since then, linguists have found all sorts of evidence that these far-flung languages must have sprung from some common source. |
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The source of the oil is unknown and is thought to have possibly sprung from an old wreck lying on the seabed which has rusted away. |
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Instantly, a three-dimensional image sprung up from the page and started to revolve slowly on the spot. |
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His protectors had sprung the 14-year-old Tyson from borstal on the promise of giving him a stable home and schooling. |
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Concerned that Hill may have just beaten him to win the meat tray for goal of the day, Michael sprung back into action. |
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Chickens, turkeys, pigs, rabbits and ducks are also being sprung from their cages and sent out to pasture. |
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He's confident he's made it as an actor, because a club devoted to hating him has sprung up at his cousin's school. |
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Icy mornings, hail, sleet and snow have had everyone dusting off their winter woollies even though spring has officially sprung. |
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Then he is sprung from prison by close associate Mike Carter so that Bannion can lead a daring racetrack heist. |
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A string of high-priced flat developments has sprung up across the centre, and selling agents are reporting huge demand. |
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As a result, Indian tandoori restaurants have sprung up all around the world. |
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There sprung up in a new generation of film critics a desire to analyze films stylistically rather than thematically. |
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The profile of the penthouse buyer is as diverse as the number of developments that have sprung up in recent years. |
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Like a greyhound out of a trap at Harold's Cross on a Friday night John Bee sprung into action. |
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The needle of the dial had shot up to fifty-five. The sweat had sprung out all over Winston's body. |
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A veritable forest of knock-off Awards have sprung up around and about I see. |
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Nosal then redeemed himself for his earlier miscue with a 41-yard catch and run as he sprung loose from his defender along the left sidelines. |
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Many theories and approaches to development have sprung up in the past fifty years, including the post-modernism anti-development. |
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Wood processing facilities have sprung up in many areas of the United States in recent years, particularly in areas with high landfill costs. |
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Highly democratic workers' councils, known as soviets, sprung up in workplaces and the army. |
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Peasant risings had erupted in the south and east of Russia, for centuries the regions from which jacqueries had sprung. |
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But as quick as he had lashed his tail out he sprung it forward toward Victor. |
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After our mutual greetings, he sprung something on me that I wasn't expecting. |
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Spring is sprung, hormones are jumping, hearts are thumping and the seasonal cycle of attraction's in full swing once more. |
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In static weight, the reduction of every ounce of the wheels weight is equal to four ounces on the sprung part. |
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Whole towns have sprung up along the border within sight of Thailand's army and authorities. |
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Immediately, the young man sprung into action, quickly running to the home in a dash of mercy. |
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The lamps screw onto the stands with a sprung depressed lever making them very secure and quick and easy to setup and pack away. |
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The brunette winced, knowing that Mack had no idea how many times Charlie had bitten his lip to stop the questions that sprung up in his mind. |
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Plus, the film offers a surprise or two, although the plot twists are gradually revealed rather than sprung upon us. |
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An army of teleworkers has sprung up, equipped with computers, modems and ISDN lines, and ready to do business. |
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His face was still shrouded in darkness, covered by the hood of a cloak, but from his back sprung a pair of wings. |
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Around the time of Epicurus, a number of offshoot sects of Cyrenaicism sprung up. |
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The large cat had sprung on her in her trace-like state and sunk its fangs deep into her leg. |
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On the off chance that my jokes are so old that a whole new virgin generation has sprung up unawares, here are a couple of sillier ones. |
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It had a sprung floor and when mum and dad bought me a pogo stick for Christmas I went straight through it. |
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Small schools have sprung up all over the country, laying accent on the quality of the relationship between teacher and student. |
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A slight, bluish light sprung down upon a darkened figure seated thirty feet from me. |
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So imagine Nadia Comaneci doing her pirouettes and tumbles, not on a nice sprung floor, but on a skidpan. |
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Barely had they settled in their seats when on stage sprung Christy Bannon splendiferously decked out as Joe Dolan. |
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By then the water main may have sprung a leak which needs fixing in the middle of the night. |
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In Basra, satellite dishes have sprung up on many homes, there are luxury cars on the roads and ordinary people now carry mobile phones. |
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From this dynamic leader's audacious vision has sprung a city that is breathtaking in scale and vision. |
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Sails were blown away, the mainmast was sprung, and the mast was carried away and lost, with everything attached to it. |
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She shook away the questions that had sprung unbidden to her mind and focused on the present. |
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My waders, which had been perfectly alright the previous week now sprung a leak. |
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It's no mistake that slam-dancing, moshing, and crowd-surfing sprung from punk rock since the point is this sense of bodily danger. |
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Dark hair sprung from his once bald scalp and the wrinkles on his face smoothed out. |
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Afterwards, we sipped chai in one of the tea stalls which had sprung up in the outer cloisters of the temple. |
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Darren Huckerby sprung the offside trap in the 10th minute before ballooning over. |
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I think the main problem was the glut of musicals that had sprung up at the box office. |
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Shopping plazas have sprung up in every imaginable location of this sleepy town. |
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He sprung to prominence last season when he scored the winner at Rochdale on his full debut. |
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The fact that today was July 24 slipped his mind as a new thought suddenly sprung up in his mind. |
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The development will see the coach house turned into an education room with a lightly sprung floor for the provision of performance arts. |
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He introduced ambulances volantes, light, two-wheeled, sprung vehicles, drawn by two horses, for the rapid evacuation of the wounded. |
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They feature strong serrated jaws which clamp together when the trap is sprung. |
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Any flaws in the plans should be exposed by the exercises that will be sprung on countries without prior warning over the next two months. |
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Wine bars have sprung up all over the cities and the suburbs, many with cafe dining. |
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These outlets have sprung up at virtually every vantage point in the city and suburbs. |
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From the line, new housing estates have sprung up, housing families keen to own a piece of the new suburbia. |
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He grovelled for a while, asking me how I was and such, and then he sprung the question. |
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A huge literature has sprung up arguing that economic growth has to be checked in some way. |
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Gatza points out that a few specialty distributors, handling just craft beer, have sprung up. |
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My fingers sprung into life, hitting the keys quickly four times at different letters. |
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So many have sprung up that one can only tend to a narrow selection or a digest of highlights. |
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Combined with sundeck, swimming pool and sprung sitting room flooring for dancing, these touches might have pushed opulence towards showiness. |
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The liveliest restaurant scene is in the city centre, where many chic eateries have sprung up in recent years. |
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Since the recruitment drive sprung into operation last month, a staggering 248 new members have signed up. |
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Also, the NSX felt skittish at high speed along poor surfaces, but that's not unusual for such a firmly sprung car. |
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She pressed down on a button and the ship shuddered as the main engine sprung to life. |
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The drawing room includes a sprung German oak floor, as well as wood-panelled walls and an eye-catching fireplace in white marble. |
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In smaller towns, theaters may not have sprung floors or the manpower to cater to dancers' requests. |
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Last night I actually dropped him on a nice sprung wood floor during a dance rehearsal. |
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This is a softly sprung car, which makes it roll at the slightest hint of a corner. |
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The building also boasts one of the first sprung dance floors with a balcony, dining room with chandeliers and stained glass windows. |
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I was disturbed that 2 office blocks and a block of flats have sprung up on what were empty spaces in a nearby town since I last went past a month ago. |
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The race sprung to life at the second flight when leader Westender refused to jump the hurdle and also knocked the favourite Rule Supreme out of contention. |
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This week the plumbing seemed to spontaneously combust, first the kitchen tap sprung a leak and then last night the waste pipe under the bath gave up! |
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The horse just sprung into the air and came backwards right down on her. |
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Jimmy then sprung up, opened the door, and saw his four best buddies. |
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Suddenly one of the men sprung forward in an attempt to grab Rachel. |
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You've just sprung this on me and you expect me to react well? |
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I think I might have sprung the idea on him a little too soon. |
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The trust's decision to close Sandra House was sprung on the residents without consultation, and with no real attempt to explain the reasoning that led to it. |
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Whenever something bad happens or is just sprung upon you, you always try to see that positive silver lining lurking beneath the surface somewhere. |
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The ballroom floor was sprung but at times I feared for our lives. |
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Chase sprung out of his air mattress and ran to his brother's room. |
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The mattress, he discovered, was too thin to be sprung and slightly lumpy. |
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Like a Jack in the Box just sprung from coiled captivity, he begins rambling excitedly. |
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In fact, the fury she unleashed upon the itinerant priest who administered her last rites had sprung from the failure of his holy water to shrink the tumor in her gut. |
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Hot tears sprung into her eyes and her throat began to constrict. |
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Hoffa was sprung early by President Richard Nixon on the condition he not reclaim his position. |
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The next year, I was again at Glastonbury, this time reporting for a dance music magazine on the all-night raves that had sprung up around the event. |
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Adam withdrew his hand and stepped back and clenched his fist and as Joe sprung at him he threw a punch that sent Joe staggering backwards and falling back into the dirt. |
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A citizens group, Kansans for Justice, has sprung up as well to oppose retention of Justices Lee Johnson and Eric Rosen. |
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And in the U.K., dozens of small and large companies have sprung up to serve the market. |
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Various pain management initiatives have sprung up around the country, whether related to cancer or other causes. |
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Plants and trees have sprung back to life, and rare species, such as lynx, Przewalski's horses, and eagle owls, are thriving where most humans fear to tread. |
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The Brooklyn building, with its three studios, complete with sprung floors and walls of mirrors, is his pride and joy, and he's about to add another two studios. |
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In the panic that followed the flooding, disorganized camps consisting mainly of tarps and plastic sheets had sprung up anywhere dry land was left among the rising waters. |
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In the image the distance remains vague and unformed, in contrast to the foreground where a new town has sprung into existence, impelled into life by the railroad. |
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Dad sprung from his chair like greased lightning, copped hold of the impudent young whippersnapper and bent him over his knee for a ceremonial thrashing. |
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Labor accuses him of one of the quickest cave-ins in political history but Queensland Opposition leader Lawrence Springborg has sprung to the new senator's defence. |
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Local mechanics pitched in to help mend the craft, but weeks into setting off the repairs wore thin and the vessel sprung a leak. |
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To accommodate this appetite for a real home from home, numerous web sites have sprung up on the internet offering privately owned Florida villas for rent. |
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When the alarm went off, the vibrations had sprung the trap every time. |
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By the fourteenth century, trade routes to the wealthy salt, gold, ivory, and slave markets in North Africa, Europe, and the Middle East had sprung up across the territory. |
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This crisis well drilling has sprung up over night with little thought given to the relationships and potential conflicts between groundwater and surface water. |
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A surprise was sprung on a retiring vicar at a school assembly last week. |
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He mastered treeware, moved on to the analog technologies that the preceding generation created and then to the digital ones that sprung up in his lifetime. |
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Beside roaring factories and in sequestered nooks on which deer and bear peer shyly from nearby leafy coverts, there have sprung up innumerable gardens. |
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Flavored malts, ciders, coolers, hard lemonades, teas, root beers and so on, a whole gamut of beer-strength potions, have sprung up, tasting like anything but beer. |
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Such is the prevalence of workplace violence that an entire industry has sprung up dedicated to predicting violent incidents and attempting to prevent them. |
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A new year has sprung with all the vigor and freshness of youth. |
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The nave but essentially well-meaning Peter's interaction with his flawed clients formed the centre of the piece and much of the comedy sprung from the dynamic duologues. |
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The lyrics are tightly coiled tongue twisters, sprung with internal rhymes, questions and answers, parallels and comparisons that all add up, and rhyme. |
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I sprung for the corridor thankfully and hastily when the doors hissed open, my head still fizzing with the annoying sound of their girlish chatter. |
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Some collectors, for example, look for stamps with rare postmarks, such as those from Yukon post offices that sprung up during the Gold Rush and closed down soon after. |
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Griffith loosened the reins and the quivering horse beneath him sprung into a flat-out gallop, nearly unseating him as they rode towards the fallen figure. |
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In the women's game, an even greater revolution of sorts was sprung. |
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Only one of them, Mormonism, has taken root and flourished as a true religion sprung from our own native ground. |
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What if a footpad started sinking into the moondust, or the Eagle sprung a leak? |
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The majority of the population continues to live off subsistence agriculture, in villages or the slums that have sprung up around major urban centres. |
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I glanced down, noted I was dressed in cotton breeches and a silk shirt along with my corset and drawers, and sprung out from between the silk sheets. |
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The two brothers aren't larger than life myths sprung to life, but ordinary hunters attempting to provide for themselves and their families in a forbidding and hostile world. |
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Although he wasn't on duty, Phil sprung into action when he was flagged down by motorists after a driver careered off the road and landed upside-down in a river. |
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Yet at least those crammed into the astrodome and the other makeshift evacuation centers that have sprung up are alive. |
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In dealing with Payton, and with other brush fires that have sprung up around the Sonics, McMillan has been a master of rapprochement without even knowing it. |
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Kim and I were creaming him on the fact that Indian girls have better clothes than the guys, hands down, when his dad suddenly sprung the infamous line. |
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No sooner was she out of hearing, And not expos'd to take alarm, Than from my restless couch I sprung, As if by swarming wasps bestung. |
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This is attributed to Hopkins, who taught himself Welsh and who used sprung verse, bringing some features of Welsh poetic metre into his work. |
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Several religious brotherhoods which have sprung up in and around Milan at various times since the 14th century have been called Ambrosians. |
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Shayegan has asked for piggybacks, attempted to pay for piggybacks and just sprung them on unsuspecting players. |
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Since then, hubs of innovation have sprung up globally with similar metonyms, including Silicon Alley encompassing New York City. |
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The evil, soon driven back, redounded as a flood on those from whom it sprung. |
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By 1859, gas lighting was to be found all over Britain and about a thousand gas works had sprung up to meet the demand for the new fuel. |
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Glass, steel and coal industries, which had already sprung up a century earlier, could now flourish. |
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Rare bee orchids have sprung up in a lawn in the middle of an office development in Dingle. |
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He would have sprung upon Captain Blood, who stood aloof, alert, tight-lipped, and watchful. |
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The Kailash Mains pipeline sprung a water fountain near the Nizamuddin Bridge and flooded the road. |
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Professional dance floors typically involve a sprung subfloor that protects the body from injuries. |
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In contrast, a network of monasteries had sprung up as monks sought separation from the world. |
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Although privy to courtship behaviour of these familiar harbingers, we weren't lulled into thinking that spring had irrefutably sprung. |
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In Moss Side they called the police Dibble, after Officer Dibble in the cartoon Top Cat, so the name had sprung from that. |
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Her art appears sprung fully formed from that mythic vat of stuff whence both giant Sequoias and really cool-looking automobiles come. |
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The infinite varieties of avant-dance might never sell, and the mainspring of alt-rock is nearly all sprung out. |
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Illegally constructed fortifications, called adulterine castles, had sprung up across much of the country. |
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Subsequently, it was rebranded as a marina, and a number of attractions including cafes, restaurants and retail outlets sprung up. |
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He says his original interest in islands sprung from seeing Inchcape out in the distance, as a teenager. |
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That city-state rocked in the '90s, and banks sprung up like palm trees. |
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So he built the guillotine using a hand axe and a sprung hinge, waited until his wife and son went out, and used it to sever his hand. |
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A cottage industry has sprung up where coloured gems, plastic beads and magnets are added to dummies and bottles. |
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Nevertheless, large subgenres of the field of fantasy have sprung from the romance genre, but indirectly, through their writers' imitation of William Morris. |
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The death toll from Congo's air tragedy, when a cargo plane's doors sprung open in mid-air, will probably rise above the 14 deaths announced so far. |
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Starting with the Naga insurgency since India's independence in 1947, several insurgency movements have sprung up in most of the constituent states of the region. |
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Soon, these patented tracts of land sprung up along the rivers. |
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I didn't feel like writing very much though, and instead just read the various headlines about Weinbergia and checked out some of the hatesites that have sprung up about it. |
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A demand has sprung up, principally in Japan for the trochus shell, which is to be found in considerable quantities on the reefs that spread everywhere in these waters. |
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In the late 18th century and beginning of the 19th, independence movements that sprung up across the continent, led to the creation of the modern countries in the area. |
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From this mixture sprung a great flowering of literary production. |
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Both eyes sprung open like determined little Mexican jumping beans. |
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Through this provision many schools that are commercial in nature and have been established just to exploit the demand for higher education have sprung up. |
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With enemies closing in fast, our hero's mind sprung into hyperdrive. |
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In later tests, a fan was used to create a breeze similar to the one reported to have suddenly sprung up on the day of the sinking as the real Mary Rose went to make the turn. |
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By the time you pay the board and the various cottage industries that have sprung up to help get through this, you have spent an incredible amount of money. |
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The staves are positioned into the holes and then sprung into the grooves. |
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