| How else to explain why discerning, well-heeled travellers are attracted to a tiny, scrubby island stuck in a 1970s time warp? |
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| He even volunteered to walk down the middle of the alleyway when a ball became stuck in the gutter. |
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| In order to find out, he stuck 18 volunteers in a mock prison, arbitrarily making them either lags or screws. |
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| And why are we stuck with two discrete inquiries which will not take place in public nor take evidence from lay people or racism experts? |
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| Nell walked over to a group of guys so I was stuck listening to Curley Sue yap away. |
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| The French of my age were stuck in knee-length kilts and lambswool turtlenecks. |
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| Now as then, the opposition party finds itself stuck in a seemingly endless cycle of lamely reacting to the President's initiatives. |
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| For two years the album had been stuck in limbo, until someone introduced him into the right circles. |
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| I was stuck behind a removal van for far too long the other day, adding literally seconds to my journey. |
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| He also had a drumstick stuck into the laces of his shoe so he could hit the cymbal on the floor. |
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| Uncle Rico lives in a trailer and is stuck in the past, reliving his glory days as a football also-ran by videoing himself throwing balls. |
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| The groom, a genuine nice guy, has stuck around for three years, a bit puzzled by his love's reluctance. |
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| It's easy to switch to a language you do know well if you get stuck and it isn't all that complicated. |
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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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| Presently I saw a man leaning on a two-strand barbed-wire fence, the wires fixed not to posts but to crooked tree limbs stuck in the ground. |
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| How dare he leave me to deal with everything, including his death, while I have to stay stuck in this body? |
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| It's impossible to know how they would act if they were stuck with living with these blokes in real life. |
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| I wrote the number of the license plate down, and stuck it in my back pocket. |
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| His hair was pointing in ten different directions, and he had a lima bean stuck to his bulgy cheek. |
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| I remember the day our local hamburger bar was blown up with a limpet mine stuck under one of the tables. |
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| It stuck around even through Margaret Thatcher's reign because nobody dared tinker with it. |
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| The boat was a lightship, essentially a lighthouse on a ship, a ship with a lighthouse stuck in the middle of it. |
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| Oh, to relive all those golden memories of nights spent with our eyes dazzled by flickering light, our shoes stuck to the floor. |
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| The van was well and truly stuck, and even tried and tested methods of removal including letting the tyres down failed. |
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| I stuck out the free rod for Belinda, and I carried on changing the leaders on the other two rods. |
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| Soon I won't be able to pay for these lessons, then I'll be stuck rotting away at home. |
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| As soloist, leader Alan Smale stuck the perfect sweet tone without verging on the trite. |
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| Well, I verbally let fly, causing Daddy to come in and, thankfully, and fairly, he stuck up for me. |
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| Diageo stuck to its guns for a while but climbed down after being overwhelmed by the strength of opposition. |
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| If there's a problem or an issue needs tackling, she just can't help rolling up her sleeves and getting stuck in. |
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| After a quick rinse in the sink, he stuck the dirty dishes in the dishwasher. |
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| I can only assume that it had been found stuck in a lobster pot or something, but why behead it? |
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| One of the film's funniest jokes is a running gag involving a car radio stuck on a 1980s soft rock revival station. |
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| Lilly is a Siamese cat who survived a two-week cross-country move while stuck in a drawer. |
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| This line was not bordered by any physical crash barrier, but by what looked like a length of cable stuck to the pavement in front of them. |
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| Paying no mind to his father, Chris stuck a frozen waffle into the toaster and pulled the rubber band off of the morning newspaper. |
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| Sara, having no pockets, stuck the paper into the waist of her sweat pants. |
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| At a quarry in Lancashire a 13-year old girl became stuck waist-deep in a muddy pool. |
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| Every time I lifted my foot to walk, my other foot stuck to the ground and caused me to fall forward. |
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| But he never wallowed in self pity, and rather spent every available moment with his nose stuck deep in his books. |
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| They stuck to the best traditions and gathered together into naval societies, organizations and wardrooms. |
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| Everything will work fine, but unfortunately your phone will be stuck in restore mode until you jailbreak it, which is what we're doing next. |
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| Faults can include paper jams or coins getting stuck, or a machine running out of paper. |
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| Drivers could find themselves stuck in rush hour jams due to new rules for moving abnormal loads, warns the AA Motoring Trust. |
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| The carcass of the 27 ft mammal was washed-up and became stuck on rocks at Oxwich Bay in the Gower peninsula. |
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| It can wheel through thick mud and washouts without getting stuck and without leaving behind big ruts. |
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| Plus, Sam, the queen bee, went out with one of the guys who used to sit with us, and has stuck around since he left. |
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| True, I was stuck, wet, worn out and thirsty, but I'd done hypothermia and dehydration before, and I didn't want anyone put out on my account. |
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| The lilt of her voice stuck a question mark on the end of every sentence she uttered. |
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| It is entirely possible that the jelly sweet stuck to his finger while he wet his finger to shine the ball. |
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| Some US forces were north of the Euphrates River, but most were stuck south of the waterway as engineers tried to build a pontoon bridge there. |
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| I was actually stuck with a porcupine quill once and had to go to the hospital to get it out. |
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| In this work, Geers has plastered a wall with broken green glass bottles stuck in cement in an aggressive statement of repulsion. |
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| I'm told they have radios tuned to police wavebands stuck out of sight under the dashboard. |
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| Along the streets lamps were covered in flowers, icons and hand-written messages, stuck up with coloured candle wax. |
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| So as long as I'm stuck inside, lemme give you some highlights from the last month! |
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| Children's plastic windmills, stuck in the ground around the same area, are also said to do the trick. |
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| At least I got a new monitor, inherited from an unidentifiable wazzock who had stuck a sticky address label onto the screen. |
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| Jamie was about to retort the remark made by someone behind Maddie but found her words stuck in her throat as that person slowly came into view. |
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| A few years later the rabbi was studying and came across some money stuck in his book. |
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| As a lad, he used to race bikes and his brother blessed him with the name of Bob-man, which has stuck like glue ever since. |
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| Reiser went to his left on the play, put up his glove and the ball stuck in the webbing. |
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| At the time, paleontologists were stuck in a reptilian perspective on dinosaurs. |
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| One of our biggest regrets is that the horsemen, who have really stuck with us over the years, now have one less place to go. |
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| Besides wearing his lucky jockettes every week, he stuck to a rigid pre-match routine of eating hamburgers. |
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| Practice narrowing your focus by hitting a tee that is stuck in the back of the cup directly on line with your ball. |
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| It is assumed that the fruit was an apple and a piece of this fruit got stuck in Adam's throat, hence the name Adam's apple for the larynx. |
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| He confidently stuck it away in the top right hand corner, prompting wild scenes of celebration at the 3-1 win. |
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| Roop saw the look of eagerness on my face, and stuck close on my heels as the crowd jostled us forward. |
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| While they were water rafting or singing campfire songs I was stuck in my room listening to my parents fight. |
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| My wife managed to put away one of the desserts, while I stuck with a cappuccino. |
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| They feed by probing, and leave bands of holes along a beach where they have stuck their beaks into the sand probing for food. |
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| The furthest I've ever stuck my neck out has been to advocate the use of Adirondack chairs, front porches and outdoor showers. |
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| I spent a good amount of time rolling my eyes, which frightened me because I worried my contacts would get stuck behind my eyeballs. |
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| It remains to be seen whether the glitter will stay stuck to the prints as I just sprinkled it onto the wet ink. |
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| Seconds later, He wet his finger and stuck it in the ear of an unsuspecting TV reporter. |
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| And most of them are just as stuck inside their own point of view as everyone else. |
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| Wish I could have stuck around longer to mingle, but my legs were giving out and the kids were getting antsy. |
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| If you are stuck for ideas, just ask your local wine merchant for recommendations. |
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| When it started to rain, we wormed into our bivy sacks, said good night, and pulled the drawstrings so tight that only our noses stuck out. |
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| She's the one who is moving on whereas her parents are stuck with the story, are stuck in the past. |
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| Although the youngster was wearing a lifebelt, she had become stuck under the water after turning upside down. |
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| I noticed that Paul Johnson has dropped the whimsy and got stuck in to some serious vitriol throwing. |
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| Do you constantly whine like a pig stuck in a tight pram over minute issues? |
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| Her ears twisted until they stuck out sideways, she took several rasping breaths. |
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| Wind stuck his tongue out and blew a particularly loud raspberry in Dragons direction. |
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| When she reached the fence, she stuck her tongue out at the little kids and blew a raspberry. |
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| Subway whistlers are the worst, mostly because they only perform when the train has been stuck between stations for at least 15 minutes. |
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| We appeal to all organisations and social movements to affiliate to the organising committee and get stuck into the task of raising money. |
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| His Afro adds an entire foot to his height, and his thick, long eyelashes look like they're stuck together with tears. |
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| Like a gramophone stuck on a groove, he kept asking me why Wen shouted at him. |
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| She had been stuck in that horrible keep for the last four years of her life. |
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| Firefighters had to help a woman who was trapped in the car and a man stuck in the cab of one of the lorries. |
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| The cameras and magnetic strip readers were stuck to the ATMs and looked like original parts. |
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| It looked like it was a well kempt city, but this bus stop stuck out like a sore thumb. |
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| It helps to pass away those long hours stuck on a plane or stuck in some foreign airport due to traffic controllers throwing a wobbly. |
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| Then I got into pre-ground real coffee, and I guess I stuck at that for years. |
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| I don't think he stuck around to smoke it cause I went out about 10 minutes later and he was gone. |
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| I have always stuck up for the players and not publicly had a go at them when they've not played particularly well. |
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| You may be stuck between a rock and a hard place, but if you look hard enough you'll find some wriggle room. |
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| It is kind of a risky thing to write a pop song about a legionnaire stuck in a desert. |
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| Reaching her apartment, Marla pulled her key out of her pocket and stuck it in the keyhole. |
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| I winced, half in pain, half because I knew what was coming and half because of all the chewing gum stuck to me. |
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| The black windcheater and jeans stuck to her lean form, making her appear like a withered scarecrow. |
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| They do not want to get stuck on those narrow, dangerous, windy roads, behind big trucks. |
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| Early on Tuesday, two window washers who had been stuck on scaffolding outside a Times Square high-rise were pulled safely inside the building. |
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| Sometimes, however, young children can have a cough because an object is stuck in their windpipe. |
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| The water gained on the pumps but Athneal stuck with the vessel and slowly managed to beat to windward. |
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| The boat got stuck on a mud bank and his skipper shouted to let the airman go. |
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| His golden hair wasn't lathered with gel, but rather stuck out in messy clumps, urging girls to run their fingers through the shiny tresses. |
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| She was stuck in the kitchen, surrounded by recipes and various ingredients. |
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| The sun was shining outside, but it didn't change the wintery cold that stuck to the windows and tried to enter the warm room. |
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| This house didn't have a rec room, so I was stuck sitting in my own room and booting up the machine. |
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| And being a computer-head, Norman has very thoughtfully stuck huge wodges of his library up on the web for all to see. |
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| My eyes were red and puffy and my eyelashes were stuck together by my tears. |
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| It is sometimes suggested that, had they stuck to a career in the courts, Howard would have been the bigger success, but I wonder about that. |
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| A red-faced couple were forced to drive to Hadleigh fire station after the handcuffs they had put on got stuck. |
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| I've been stuck on the scratch, zigging and zagging with great effort through the past 4 or 5 days. |
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| We've simply stuck to our knitting, giving viewers the kind of top-quality, original programming they've come to expect from us. |
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| Wayne easily slipped through the crevice in the rock face, but I had to hold my breath so I wouldn't get stuck. |
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| It was a testament to love that knows no bounds that my wife stuck with me for the three years we lived there. |
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| It is simply a little sling that dangles the knur from a stick stuck in the ground. |
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| He's a bit stuck up and rude to everyone, but to the working girls he is very charming. |
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| He was sprawled over a comfortable looking chair, a reefer stuck in the corner of his mouth and smoldering softly. |
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| Didier was ninth after a few laps but then got stuck behind Donoso, who had already been lapped. |
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| Deosaran's motion was delivered with passion, without rancour, and stuck mainly to the facts. |
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| He had walked into a clearing, where the remains of a circle of scorched tents stuck out like the ribs of an animal long dead. |
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| What appeared to be wreckage from the car was stuck in a water fountain and in trees. |
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| The rest are stuck at the lower and middle levels of the managerial hierarchy. |
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| Occasionally a car stuck in the middle of a traffic channel refuses to budge when the light changes. |
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| She listened to the removal van start up and accelerate away, and two words looped in her mind like a stuck record. |
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| He considered retiring from the movie scene when the Jack the Joker label stuck too firmly after the release of Batman. |
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| Won't some kids be stuck with a label very early on, when actually they might well change? |
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| In all honesty I was expecting a tiny wall stuck in the corner of the hall about eight feet high. |
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| I stuck my head under the bed and was greeted by moist canine jowls. |
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| They stuck together for years, and the names still roll off the tongue. |
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| We're all stuck with each other, like wackily mismatched sitcom roommates. |
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| See, the doctor not just bandaged Bobby himself, but stuck a big wad of gauze into the slice she'd put in him, to keep it open and to help it drain. |
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| I had been stuck behind juggernauts on the A9, and was 45 minutes late. |
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| No woman has shown the faintest interest in me in many years, except in a dutiful way if stuck next to me at a dinner party. |
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| There was a small hand held tape-recorder stuck in the rewind position and a crumpled piece of paper with a phone number and address lying on top of the whole pile. |
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| People driving along with phones stuck to their ears have long angered me. |
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| From that time on for over ten years I stuck to Athneal like a pilot fish and he taught me, not only whaling and its history in the islands but about Bequia life as well. |
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| I didn't know anybody used the stuff anymore, they may have stuck it back here years ago and just forgot about it, but it's what they call laughing gas. |
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| Too many cops are stuck in a game of jurisdictional roulette. |
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| Matchmaking is still stuck within the constraints of numerous archaic portrayals. |
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| The paper was too damp, or the ink too sticky, or the gods too angry or something, and it stuck solidly to the acetate that I was printing it from. |
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| Pete stuck his thumb out at the age of 17 and hitch hiked out of Birmingham, England. |
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| But, despite entering all the races, he couldn't steer home a winner and it proved a costly day out for those punters that stuck with the local man. |
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| What if the food is rancid and you're still stuck with a full plate? |
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| A hand stuck out of the door, palm up, fingers waggling expectantly. |
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| Perhaps society would be better off if its schools stuck to the three Rs and did a solid job in domains where they enjoy both competence and wide public support. |
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| Like the colander, in use since ancient times, it is an example of a kitchen technology that has stuck. |
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| They are not just stuck in their little kainga, wearing their piupiu. |
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| If you are one of the few who have stuck with it, kudos to you. |
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| Murmelstein was stuck with a thankless and impossible job, caught between the hammer and the anvil, as he tells us. |
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| At least at his size he should not get stuck in a rabbit hole. |
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| But it wasn't a view shared by the Times or the Telegraph, where Steyn stuck to his earlier predictions that Republicans would walk it with a 315 electoral vote victory. |
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| That was a fundamental contribution of Menzies and the label has stuck. |
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| Looked at in closeup, it reveals a row of popped rivets, with one rivet still partially stuck in place. |
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| They can corrode through whatever human tissue they contact if swallowed or stuck into an orifice, sometimes in a matter of hours. |
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| Drivers upset at being stuck in traffic let it rip when the road is clear. |
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| A new set of non-stick cookware is a boon for any housewife as it means a goodbye to all those grease-stained kadais and pans stuck with food deposits. |
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| Or perhaps I could devise a way to plant a heavy-duty rat trap in my bag, arranged so it would not spring unless someone stuck their hand where it didn't belong. |
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| Well, she's stuck in this rat trap now, so I can't say I blame her. |
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| As everywhere, political labels were stuck on innumerable long-standing local antagonisms and vendettas and provided new justifications for pursuing them. |
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| A group of hippos who were wallowing in the water the far side of the river stuck their heads up to watch us as we unloaded our kayaks and canoes. |
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| As the rest of the country changed, Atlantic City seemed to be stuck in the past, and tourism eventually died off. |
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| Anyway, thanks a bunch to those of you who have still stuck around. I know I'm a pain for taking so long to update, but it's not really my fault, righto? |
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| He has kept his head and stuck with the things he believes in. |
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| For three unhappy days we were all stuck in the house because of the blizzard. |
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| But what really stuck in my craw was that Pope mindlessly repeated a spate of spurious claims about ethanol and Brazil. |
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| In the Chrome universe, a piece of software will not be a disk you buy, own, and are stuck with, but a place you go. |
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| One morning a few years ago, the editor left his apartment to find an ax stuck into a log on his doorstep. |
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| Rescuers were racing against time last night to haul up a mini-submarine stuck 190 metres underwater near the Pacific coast before the seven sailors on board run out of air. |
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| Another month, another sign that the job market remains unchangingly, distressingly stuck. |
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| Millie the cat risked one of her nine lives when she became stuck. |
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| As the country waited with baited breath, national media covered the mission to rescue the miners, stuck 240 feet underground. |
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| It occurred to me because I was stuck in traffic next to a young man in an old Honda who was apoplectically outraged that we were not all zooming down the highway. |
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| For whatever reason they had enlisted, once they got to basic training, they stuck out miserably. |
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| Jeb Bush recently stuck a stick in the GOP beehive on immigration and common core education standards. |
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| If we continue to believe that we need to find that one right person or that one wise individual, then we are stuck on a hopeless road of a wild goose chase. |
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| He stuck his hands in his pocket and wandered off down the road. |
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| I rang the bell, and a geeky, middle-aged man in bifocals stuck his head around the door. |
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| Mr Wells had hooked a large flatfish which he thought was a skate, but it turned out to be a stingray and it wound its tail round his arm and stuck a four-inch spike into him. |
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| The running joke is about a well-educated immigrant stuck in a dead job. |
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| Much of the eurozone is stuck in a simmering crisis that never seems to really resolve itself. |
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| They were shaped like basic Japanese throwing knives, but they had small slivers of metal on both sides of each knife that stuck out during flight and acted like airfoils. |
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| It was so dark, Cheryl had the creepy feeling that if she stuck her arm out the window she would never see it again. |
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| With Europe stuck in a double-dip recession, the United States once again finds itself a prime engine of global growth. |
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| Confederate flags rode beside American banners stuck on bumpers and windshields, the historical anachronism of the pairing apparently lost on the owners. |
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| Both twins had computer chips surgically implanted in the lobes of their brain, and a tiny computer chip stuck out just where the head met the neck. |
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| He retied his waterskin and stuck it back into the folds of his cloak. |
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| William had a beer in his hand while CiCi stuck with her wine cooler. |
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| The audience effectively gets stuck in the panic on the rock face, watching helplessly as Peter makes a life-altering decision that will taint relations with his sister. |
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| The victim in this serve is the clay court, as Roddick hits the ball so hard that it literally gets stuck in the ground. |
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| Occasionally a pamphlet for a salsa class might be tossed on a doorstop or stuck on a pole near a bus stop. |
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| I am having this recurring nightmare that I will be stuck in traffic for so long that I will die and my body decompose beyond recognition before anyone notices. |
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| If time flies when you're having fun, it drags interminably when you're waiting to get a party started, according to the players who have been stuck in the wings this week. |
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| A caravan of trams stuck in the middle of the medieval city waited in line for the protest to end. |
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| On the last Sunday in March, Marina is hanging diapers on a flimsy clothesline stuck in the grass in the small backyard. |
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| Are we all so stuck in our roles that when a given issue comes up, we just default to type? |
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| Vehicles previously stuck in queues past the A2 junction suddenly speed up and try to get the best position as three lanes expand to eight for the toll booths. |
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| Each leaf-cutting bee in the lab lives in a paper drinking straw stuck in one of many holes in a plastic block. |
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| The new copier had an antijamming design to keep the paper from getting stuck. |
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| As a trapeze performer, she generally worked in the big top, but due to her injury, she was stuck working concession. |
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| If I'd had my way, we'da stuck them twoprong bizzos that let you put threeprong bizzos into them into the powerpoint and be done with it. |
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| He's stuck his hand in his pocket as if he wanted to look more like an ordinary man, or more blokeish. |
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| So we all stuck our feet into cow-pats, and after walking over the frost it was bosker and warm sure enough. |
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| He puffed on the big cigar that he always had stuck in his face and posed back like a big butter-and-egg man. |
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| Every Catherinette has received, by the first post, a Valentine card, with midget mob-cap and the pretty, doleful ribbons stuck on. |
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| Yebbut...she ain't a childer any more...she's stuck in no-mans-land for the next few years. |
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| I'll now lead you to an honest ale-house, where we shall find a cleanly room, lavender in the windows, and twenty ballads stuck about the wall. |
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| When the sub got stuck, the brass kept the fact under wraps for 32 hours before Russia came clean and asked for foreign help. |
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| He thought for a moment as he deftly rolled the paper and tobacco into a durry, licked the edge and stuck it down. |
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| The drive took forty minutes, stuck behind those farters from the backwoods. |
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| They stuck not to say that the king cared not to plume his nobility and people to feather himself. |
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| The microscope showed several different fibres stuck to the sole of the shoe. |
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| The foreign body stuck inside the dog's stomach turned out to be a bottle cap. |
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| With a little forethought we'd have planned for this contingency and not been stuck here now. |
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| A bad haircut is no fun, but at least you're not stuck with it for good, only until it grows out. |
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| I'll get the bottles. I'm the one who stuck them out there. And you're a freeze baby, while I'm clearly not. |
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| Once in a while, you will find yourself stuck in the friend zone. Don't panic, you are not alone. |
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| Then get stuck into one of the char-grilled steaks, the sesame-encrusted tuna, or slow-cooked lamb shank. |
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| That is precisely where so many of us are-trapped in our own cisterns, stuck in a gloryless life and a gloryless church. |
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| The poor girl is going spare, stuck in the house all day with the kids like that. |
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| And to think how you had stuck that greengrocing job, when there were jobs like this to be had for the asking! |
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| The team stuck fast in the black muck, and every effort to extricate them served only to imbed them more hopelessly in the sticky gumbo. |
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| When found, the vehicle was stuck, high-centred as an apparent attempt had been made to drive it through a creek bed. |
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| Thousands of homeless families find themselves stuck in emergency accommodation for at least two years. |
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| Danny had christened himself the Italian Stallion years ago in reference to his family's Italian heritage and the name had stuck. |
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| I had a few chicks that I messed around with but this one main jawn stuck out in particular. |
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| For one, learners may become fossilized or stuck as it were with ungrammatical items. |
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| He'd stuck his hands in his pockets as I came in, and he sat down lumpily in his chair. |
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| If you're stuck in traffic, try not to make a mountain out of a molehill worrying about it too much. It could be much worse. |
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| The chimes are stuck on the eighth Gregorian tone, which is also used at Merton College, Oxford. |
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| Previously, it had been known as Walkfares, but like several other palaces, the name stuck even once the royal connection ended. |
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| As had been the case on Bligh's tour 20 years before, the Australian media latched fervently onto the term and, this time, it stuck. |
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| And anyway, his presence seemed to mommick up electricity. So he stuck to walking. |
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| Within a month the Michigan mudkicker found her new master and the naive young pimp was stuck wtih a brace of howling crumb crushers. |
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| In Australia and New Zealand, a printout of permanent residence visa or resident visa is stuck to a page of the permanent resident's passport. |
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| Upstairs were four small glass cases, each containing a cow's head stuck with scissors and knives. |
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| Neptunes in hempen wigs waltzed with the lean New Zealandress, who had stuck flowers from a hat into her fair hair, to impersonate Oceania. |
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| China was largely unaffected by the Depression, mainly by having stuck to the Silver standard. |
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| In France hammer stuck coins had been banned from the Paris Mint since 1639 and replaced with milled coinage. |
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| Still nimble of mind and fleet of foot, Morris buzzed here and there, linking well and getting stuck in at every opportunity. |
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| It just kind of stuck to us like glue, and that was okay with us because the Who were among our highest role models. |
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| Over 2,000 passengers were stuck inside failed trains inside the tunnel, and over 75,000 had their services disrupted. |
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| Light animals managed to get free, while heavy individuals got stuck and died. |
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| As dolphins are mammals and do not have gills they may drown while stuck in nets underwater. |
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| At night, some nap on their stretchers. High up on a wall, stuck to peeling paintwork, are photographs of eight drivers killed in service. |
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| When ready to spawn, the female ascends rapidly to the surface, where she lays a mass of eggs stuck together by gelatinous mucus. |
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| The pigeon, very offended, flew back to the Bird Woman and, to pay out Mary Poppins, stuck the rose in the ribbon of the Bird Woman's hat. |
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| However the nets can also function as gill nets if fish are captured when their gills get stuck in the net. |
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| Natural pearls form when a small foreign object gets stuck between the mantle and shell. |
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| Willibald's vita describes how a visitor on horseback come to the site of the martyrdom, and a hoof of his horse got stuck in the mire. |
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| He plipped the locks on the pool car, stuck the keys in his pocket and flexed his aching left hand. |
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| Reds, sweeping aside the garbage of plutodemocracy, and dissolving the bourgeois parties, I remained stuck in France. |
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| Cheap compasses with bad bearings may get stuck because of this and therefore indicate a wrong direction. |
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| His conclusion would soon be revealed as a mistake, but by that time the name had stuck. |
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| An attempt to relieve this group in 1922 failed when the schooner Teddy Bear under Captain Joe Bernard became stuck in the ice. |
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| Dieter's car had suffered a puncture on the RN3 road between Paris and Meaux. A bent nail was stuck in the tire. |
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| On the way back we got a puncture, and we were stuck at the roadside for three hours until help arrived. |
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| The British party tried to push the boats off but all except three remained stuck. |
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| However, it is possible for them to become stuck in the upward position, and by doing so create problems in the weaving. |
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| The cotton gin was a wooden drum stuck with hooks that pulled the cotton fibers through a mesh. |
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| The shaft became stuck at one point during its sinking as the pressure of the earth around it held it firmly in position. |
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| When Kayak Boy was mad he put his shoulders back and stuck his head forward, a roosterish stance that reminded me of Travis. |
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| And then some salad dodger on the construction crew stuck his gut in the way trying to make peace. |
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| The shocking thing was that he was forty and still chasing girls, still a schlep who was obviously stuck in his adolescent pursuit of sex. |
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| Jack glances at you sidelong while the middle-aged spookmaster is fumbling to articulate whatever it is he's got stuck in his mind. |
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| In the servant girl's room there was a stay-button stuck in a crack of the floor, and in another crack some beads and a long needle. |
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| Those two mincemeat tarts hadn't stuck to his ribs the way he'd thought they would. |
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| Our big Lab, Gracie Burns, will start barking to alert us that he is stuck like Chuck. |
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| Like the lady said, she could have gotten in the truck and driven away. Left us here, stuck like Chuck, out here on this ledge. |
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| These conversations seemed dictated to him by something outside of him. He was a stuck record. |
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| The rich people in that neighborhood were stuck up and not friendly at all. |
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| The type of battery and the battery power level may cause the lens to be stuck up. |
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| I was eager to get there, but I got stuck behind one Sunday driver after another on that trip. |
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| Baseball has its superstars, pro football has created a superbowl, and college football is stuck with the superfans. |
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| He guessed one of the well-off people living in these houses must have took a shine to Cody and decided how he'd look good stuck up on they roof. |
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| Why have they stuck stones in my kidneys, devaluated my tumulosity, retracted my hair? |
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| Twill tape at the four corners ties the enclosure to stout sticks stuck in the ground or to sticks tied to the corners of a cot. |
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| A piece of oatmeal stuck in the underhang of Roy's lip. May sipped her morning coffee, watching it bob as he spoke. |
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| Whose fault was it anyways that truck three got stuck in the ravine? |
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| The weather forecast is woegeous. Imagine being stuck in a field in Galway with the wind and the rain lashing down. |
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| While many hip hop stars boast about their lifestyles, their riches and their women, Arrested Development have stuck to their politics. |
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| It was a little bit like an awakening, and I just stuck with it. |
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| While many persevered with long-range Method feeder tactics, Eamonn stuck with the pellet waggler on peg 100 to bag 18 carp to around 12lb. |
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| The water is rising, mom and the kids are stuck on the roof and dad is too acrophobic to even help plug a leak. |
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| The white maggot, which has been nesting in his scalp for six weeks, yesterday stuck out its head for the first time. |
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| The Widnes welder then stuck two white maggots on a 16s hook and helped himself to seven bream. |
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| It was stuck under the wheels and firefighters used high-pressure air cushions to lift the vehicle and free the dog. |
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| Almost half a million Yazidis have fled fearing they could be executed and are now stuck in refugee camps. |
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| Yorkists spend an average of 86 hours a year stuck in traffic in the Leeds-Bradford area. |
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| Workers were ripping up the street with jackhammers while drivers stuck in traffic leaned on car horns. |
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| But during daylight, Jim stuck a bucket over the mast to act as a radar reflector. |
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| Then in an antiques shop one of the women tried on a silver bangle and pretended that it had got stuck. |
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| Rescue teams also managed to pull out all cars which were stuck in roads immersed in rain shower. |
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| This meant I was stuck at the airport with my fellow junketeers for a considerable amount of time. |
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