My right side leant against the wall for support once I got out of the elevator. |
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He suddenly leant threateningly over the child, eyebrows furrowed, eyes glittering menacingly. |
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The voice purred in his head, clear as though someone had leant down to his ear and spoken in the normal tone of conversational speech. |
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He leant over their table like a solicitous waiter, holding his warrant card. |
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He leant back in his chair, as if he was only incidentally present in the courtroom. |
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We leant into the smelly wind as we walked and it was strong enough to hold us up. |
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An hour later it was still there, so I went upstairs to get my camera, and leant out the window to take a picture. |
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After about ten minutes of this, he let his arms fall to his sides one last time and leant back against the wall of the theatre. |
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I leant over and pushed a few stray hairs off her forehead and kissed her gently. |
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Then he said something that was obviously really important about us two, leant in close and kissed me on the cheek. |
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I snuffled, and leant against his warm body, comforted a little by his arm, which was around me waist, his hand resting on my stomach. |
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She decided quickly and leant over Adam, performing the direct heart massage and life breathing. |
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Growling softly to myself I leant down to pick up my stuff, my papers scattered everywhere. |
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A dark figure leant over him, and something with a strong, pungent smell was thrust into his face. |
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The study has that evocative smell of newly cut timber and wood glue about it as the components are brought in and leant against the wall. |
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I leant my head against it, expecting to feel heat radiate through it, or pick up muffled sounds. |
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He cracked a sleepy smile and leant forwards, enveloping me in his arms and holding me tightly. |
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He didn't have a clue who I was, so was quite shocked when I leant across to recite his name and address. |
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He came closer and leant heavily on the kitchen worktop, putting the bottle down. |
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He just leant towards her, steadying himself with one hand, and wrapping the other round her waist. |
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Jordan was taken aback for a moment before he undid his seatbelt and leant over to his mother to wrap her in his embrace. |
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Will leant back and let out a huge bellow of laughter that made me laugh all the harder. |
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She leant across the table and pointed her remarks with her knitting needles. |
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I leant my bike on the side of her car and explained patiently through the window that she was going to pay for a new wheel. |
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But after that the smile left her face the woman just rested and leant her head against the wall. |
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Sophie leant her elbows on her knees and cradled her chin in her hands, praying, hoping and wishing for anything to come and make things easier. |
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He leant against the small bench and waited for Callum to return from round the corner. |
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I sat next to a scraggy woman whose child in the seat behind leant forward between us and asked her why some people go on holiday on their own. |
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Bees leant Keighley a front row player and uncontested scrums were the order of the day. |
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When I got into bed, the cat meowed at me and came over and sat right next to me, leant up against my body and had a good purr. |
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He closed all the programs and leant away from the computer mistrustfully as though it were its fault. |
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I leant into the embrace, nuzzling into the comforting warmth of my only friend. |
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Grant steepled his fingers and leant his chin on them, looking for all the world like he was evaluating her. |
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She beamed at him, pocketing the money, and leant on her elbows on the table, deep in conversation with Tom about the show. |
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I leant back against my locker with my eyes closed trying to swallow the feeling of nausea. |
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After his body was wet, Hugo's chubby little arms held onto his Dad while he leant back to wet his hair. |
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I leant back with my black brush in my hand and combed my hair into a high ponytail. |
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Jake's soft against me, pulled up, and I've leant my head against his chest and his arm's round me and it's comfortable and snug and warm, and nice. |
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Alesso, dressed in a flowing white tunic belted at the waist with gold, and shod with golden sandals, leant out to catch the fleeing Daphne around the waist. |
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Meanwhile a forlorn figure leant against a goalpost long after the finish. |
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Newton and Locke, on the other hand, leant towards the anti-Trinitarian heresy of Arius of Alexandria that denied Christ and God were consubstantial. |
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This leant itself to a literary style that became necessarily expositional. |
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Countries that have leant on exporting cheap goods to the rich world need instead to turn to internal sources of spending. |
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On the barrel a P leant with an E turned over in an oval that corresponds to the punch of test of Paris. |
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The same officer leant an eident ear to a pipe band playing in the square. |
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Since short-term interest rates fell to zero, the Fed has leant ever more heavily on forward guidance. |
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People in the Acadian Peninsula, or French-speaking people in Beresford and Petit-Rocher have leant how to work with people in the Bathurst area. |
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In the current context, the most substantial momentum that can be leant to the peace process must come from the actors directly involved in it. |
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With his hands crossed, he leant on the wall elegantly and causally. |
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There is such a thing as a free press, as well as a free press that is leant on. |
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Choose the right femoral size using the femoral sizer with the spacer leant on the tibial cutting. |
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She has leant her image to various advertising campaigns for major manufacturers and some of the greatest brands in beauty. |
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The giant feathers and strippergram cops, while not as I had expected, were evident but leant a certain amount of scissor-sister appeal to the show. |
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The bank leant heavily on his elderly father, and in due course the latter without further advice mortgaged his farm to cover his son's further outgoings. |
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Tanen made a warning gesture, they leant against an enchased marble wall. |
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He complied, leant over the bowl, and sucked the food into his mouth. |
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It has now leant its name to a shadowy cabal known within the German meat-processing industry as the Atlantic group. |
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While many of these may have allowed Salt to blend in, they also leant a certain fashion cred to her style. |
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The Biennale is always quite intense and feverish, but that heat leant an extra intensity, leant a few extra degrees to the fever. |
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Ryan leant on a wall, watching the clock's minute hands tick slowly by. |
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I leant my head against the window, the chilled glass prickling my skin. |
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And every time a squall threatened to overturn their flimsy craft, as it did during several outbreaks of political violence, both sides leant to their oars and pulled as one for the far shore. |
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As already noted, in 2002 Portugal sought to rebalance the consumption of appropriations between the two fields of the Cohesion Fund, which had hitherto leant heavily in favour of transport. |
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Russia must be leant on to respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of its near neighbours and within the UN help resolve the problems in the Middle East as well as nuclear proliferation in Iran and North Korea. |
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I leant back against the rock of the megalith and closed my eyes. |
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Most other OECD members, including those in the European Union, have leant towards relative poverty lines drawn at a given percentage of median national incomes. |
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She leant for a moment against the wheel of the truck and glanced about. |
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Lithy, amazingly, leant against Rude Boy's knee. |
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Karpov leant forward, chewed his lip and ran a thumb up and down his chin. |
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A strong nuclear commitment could tempt Georgia's Johnny Isakson and Tennessee's Lamar Alexander, both of whom have leant strongly against the bill in the past. |
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De Beers also says it has leant on wholesale purchasers who buy from its stockpile, but also buy diamonds on the open market, to follow suit. So far, so good if also, rather obviously, good for De Beers's own interests. |
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The euro area had leant heavily on strong export growth to keep it moving. |
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