| The trolley was pulled from beneath me and an agonising pain shot through my body. |
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| It relieved all my body's stress, even though the next day I would be in agonising pain. |
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| Regaining my determination, I grit my teeth and ignore the agonising, torturous pain in my wrist which was quickly spreading through my body. |
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| I was fully prepared for the agonising stench as I entered the wet tropics zone of the Princess of Wales Conservatory, but I was disappointed. |
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| There begins his slow and agonising rehabilitation, after being paralysed in a car accident. |
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| But he has been left in agonising pain with serious injuries to his back, head and legs. |
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| In other words, when the men get tired of the women spending long hours agonising over jewellery, they can just step next door for a swig. |
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| Ever since Oceanic Air flight 815 went down on a remote Pacific island, I have been agonising over some very important questions. |
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| Detainees live day in, day out with agonising uncertainty about the duration of their detention. |
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| This will put an end to the agonising wait at the bus stop for the harried commuter. |
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| It was particularly agonising for Michael, who had spent months growing his flowing mane. |
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| In the short term, therefore, the economic facts spare the government from one agonising political choice. |
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| She fights off agonising back pain, sustained in a work injury two years ago, to keep the show on the road. |
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| The Scotswoman swam magnificently to finish in 1 minute 22.2 seconds, just an agonising fifth of a second behind the winner. |
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| My brother spent the weekend agonising over whether to claim on his insurance. |
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| Rain sheets down, fog descends, soldiers' boots squelch through mud on an endless, agonising climb. |
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| Hawthorn have ended a miserable week with an agonising 12-point defeat to Carlton in a thrilling encounter at Docklands in Melbourne. |
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| After several agonising minutes, she squeezed his finger and began to breathe. |
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| It's just before the point when the pain turns from discomforting to agonising that he lets go of my hand. |
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| If only he had been able to go to the country when he wanted, instead of having to wait nearly 12 agonising months. |
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| But there's a self-obsessed drama type weaving and trilling and agonising and monopolising the stall owners. |
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| Whereas cocodamol are great for sending a person squiffy in the head, they're pretty useless for relieving agonising back pain. |
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| Two riders jumped steady clears to finish ahead of Joanne, but she held on to the third ticket after an agonising wait. |
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| Ultimately, Jessica's relationship dilemma feels about as agonising as choosing between a skinny decaf latte and a grande mochaccino. |
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| We would have spared ourselves both the agonising process and vicious product of our elaborate schemes. |
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| By midday the pains had gone from sharp twinges every 5 minutes or so to a constant, agonising pain. |
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| The brave bride had amazed guests when she made it to her wedding ceremony on time despite being rushed into hospital with agonising stomach pains the night before. |
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| Due to Henry VIII's agonising difficulty in siring a healthy, legitimate male heir, the succession was safeguarded by both royal wills and acts of Parliament. |
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| This disease is terminal and the death is slow and agonising. |
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| I don't spend time agonising over that: there are bound to be great moments and blacker times, highs and lows, as that is part of the race. |
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| Contrary to what some people think fish do have nervous systems and experience agonising pain when impaled on a hook. |
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| Ministers, who are known to have been agonising over the benefits proposals, may have decided that would have been a provocation too far. |
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| Many speak of John Anderson's disposition to anguish and agonising. |
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| Whilst the World Bank is agonising over economic reform in Pakistan, the military regime is wrecking democracy. |
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| No consideration whatsoever was given to the people and millions suffered an agonising death. |
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| The band has come a long way since its early recording days, five years ago, with their Britpop guitar sounds and agonising lyrics. |
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| Why do we need yet another body when we have just had three years of self-imposed agonising over the Constitution? |
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| Whether you are worried about growing your company without losing control, agonising over funding, or designing a killer marketing campaign, our panellists can help you. |
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| In 2006, at the latest, the European Union will face an agonising debate over the solidarity required with the candidate countries. |
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| Poor countries would like to see the amount doubled, and disbursements made less agonising. |
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| But I'd recently been bitten by a pariah dog in Charing Cross, near my boarding school, and had to endure three weeks of agonising anti-rabies injections. |
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| None of us will have been in the position of some of the leaders who have had to make agonising decisions over the past few years. |
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| It was agonising to watch the salvage of the Ancient Olympia museum and the archaeological site of the first Olympic Games. |
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| It fights inflammation at the root of the problem and alleviates the agonising pain of arthritis and other forms of rheumatism. |
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| It should also be noted that dying from the effects of sonar injury is an extremely painful, agonising and slow form of death. |
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| You can look back and say, well this did have to be that agonising or that intense in order to plumb the depths, in order to reach the dark night of the soul. |
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| The parents of a youngster who pricked his finger on a hypodermic needle in a park face an agonising wait to find out if he has caught any diseases. |
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| Michael has been like a cat on a hot tin roof, locked in an internal struggle of agonising proportions … It was never going to be easy. |
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| Her family faced an agonising wait to see the extent of her injuries. |
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| He closed his eyes, then suddenly felt an intensely agonising stabbing pain in the side of his head, but it was quickly gone, and he knew no more. |
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| I can only say that this so-called human being must be a coldhearted monster, surely any creature does not deserve to die an agonising death? |
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| Italy know they cannot wallow in the disappointment of last week's agonising near miss against Ireland. |
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| Watching her dip her head and gaze adoringly at Sugar was agonising. |
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| It's the fact of taking yourself out of yourself for a few moments, forgetting your predicament, changing the wallpaper and breaking the cycle of rumination, mental agonising and loneliness that depression can inflict. |
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| The most agonising choice many attendees of the World Economic Forum in Davos face is whether to go for a Martini or a smooth Riesling at the countless lavish parties that take place after hours. |
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| When he's not eking out a modest living as a translator, he's perambulating Copenhagen's streets, musing on James Joyce and Dante, fretting about his ex-wife and kids, and agonising over questions big and small: What is love? |
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| One young poet name Lydus Cattus dramatised a lovers' quarrel as a legal hearing, which he then set out in an agonising pastiche of Latin and Italian, hexameters, elegiacs and terza rima. |
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| It was an agonising end to the campaign for Fener, stumbling at the final hurdle with the prize in sight to a team rapidly emerging as their bogey opponents. |
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| Buboes – hard swellings of a lymph gland, called botches or plague sores – would form in the groin, armpit or neck, then rupture, causing pain so agonising that some victims would leap from windows. |
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| Now the EU is agonising over access to its documents, but at the same time wants to cancel EU-tenders in national newspapers and thus in all native languages. |
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| If ever a match would sum up just how thrilling and agonising the play-offs can be, then the second leg between Sunderland and Gillingham was as good an example as any. |
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| I am convinced that the majority of well-informed, enlightened consumers would never buy a product that had suffered agonising torment before ending up on the shelves. |
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| Transport development has become a highly political issue, as it involves increasingly important and often agonising choices for society as a whole. |
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| Jeane, perceiving the final response of the child as a rejection, left the room crying, while the two leading therapists straddled the agonising child, laughing and making fun of Candace. |
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| On top of this, he was at the helm of Guatemala's highly successful 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany qualifying campaign, when they came agonising close to making it to their first finals ever. |
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| The whistleblowers often go through agonising dilemmas. |
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| Here again, the timing of such intervention can be an agonising decision. |
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| Many Old Testament characters like Noah, Abraham, Moses and Joseph had to wait an agonising length of time for God's promises of change to be fulfilled. |
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| I would not want anybody to go through pregnancy with the gnawing, agonising fear of whether the child will be born healthy or a victim of the human errors, the propaganda lies and the arrogance of the regime. |
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| Lesser weevers, fish just 12cm long, bury themselves in the sand and can cause agonising pain if they are stood on. |
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| Lesser weevers, fish just 12cm long, hide in sand and can cause agonising pain if stood on. |
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| Avoid wasting time agonising over why a user hit the dislike button, or didn't retweet, and focus on these other areas of social media analysis. |
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| A WOMAN savaged by a dog has undergone agonising skin grafts to repair her badly mauled arm. |
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| In May Cassandra and Henry brought her to Winchester for treatment, by which time she suffered agonising pain and welcomed death. |
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| But with BMWs featuring the dreaded iDrive there's an agonising 15 minutes scrolling through menus and submenus before you can get started. |
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| The club face an agonising wait to see if the CVA will be accepted with the vote now scheduled to take place at Tynecastle next Friday followed by a meeting of shareholders. |
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| Before public appearances he would have up to eight injections of procaine in his back to numb the agonising pain and often got about on crutches. |
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| The brave two-year-old was born with mastocytosis, which causes agonising blisters that could cause his body to go into life-threatening anaphylactic shock. |
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| Predestination also reduced agonising over economic inequality and further, it meant that a material wealth could be taken as a sign of salvation in the afterlife. |
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