| I didn't actually see the draw but my mum rang me and I thought she was mucking me about. |
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| The real issue going on at Casino Avenue Towers is my washing machine. It's mucking me about again, refusing to complete its cycles. |
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| Obviously, tinkerers have been opening up gadgets for centuries and mucking with them. |
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| I must stress at this point that our friends are pretty good at mucking in and we do enjoy seeing them. |
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| From sweeping the floors to reading bedtime stories, the show sees Melinda mucking in with all the daily tasks of the house. |
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| Plenty of people enjoy mucking about in boats, but just as many appreciate a power shower and a lie-down in a real bed afterwards. |
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| They are quite self-orientated usually, but after a week mucking in with their cousins, they help out more. |
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| There are many things that can distract a driver, and kids and pets mucking up in the backseat is a classic. |
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| There've been numerous other similar incidents this year of footballers mucking up in public. |
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| They fear you might use the certainty of a weekly wage to start mucking up again. |
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| Our neighbour managed to get hold of some more tools and after a bit of mucking about, we managed to gain entry without causing too much damage. |
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| And, from a novice's perspective, mucking about with soil does look pretty raunchy. |
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| But when the blueprint demands mediocrity, why bother mucking it up with excellence? |
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| If anything, they've gotten a bit crafty with the songwriting, without mucking it up by trying to reinvent the wheel. |
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| As with all juniors he would have started mucking out stalls and exercising the horses in the early hours of the morning. |
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| So I parked the wheelbarrow in front of a stall where I could still see the front of the barn and started mucking. |
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| That's about as close as it gets to celebrities mucking in with ordinary mortals. |
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| He spent most of his time shouting at me because I was always mucking up and answering back. |
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| That won't be the best of all possible outcomes but it's better than if the Liberals get another chance at mucking things up. |
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| In between looking after the horses, other duties included mucking out the stables. |
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| When I go home to my parents in Pennsylvania, people are amazed to see me in the barn, all filthy, mucking stalls out in wellies. |
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| For my next assignment, I was instructed to get my hands dirty by mucking out some of the kennels at Foal Farm. |
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| We were in detention together on more than one occasion, me and Andy, for mucking around in class and smoking and stuff. |
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| Set in 1942 in the Forest of Dean, it's about seven children mucking around on a summer's afternoon. |
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| It's happened since the children have gone back to school, so it must be kids mucking around. |
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| In 1975, he retired to the shores of Loch Fyne, where he indulged his love of renovating and mucking about in boats. |
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| He put on a blonde wig to imitate my hair, and started mucking around as if we were best mates. |
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| He was mucking around because, in an all-male boarding school, there weren't any other options. |
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| I think he wasted at least a third of the allocated 90 minutes with his mucking around. |
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| Schumacher still loves race karts and he can sometimes still be found at the track tuning the engines, mucking in. |
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| We've already got new songs that we are mucking around with, so we've almost got a new album ready to go. |
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| It was good to see there is some community spirit left with everyone mucking in to lend a hand and do whatever they could. |
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| Then David had a look, and after grumbling how people had been mucking about with it, he had it going as good as new. |
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| Didn't play golf this weekend, as I had a bit of a turn early Saturday morning due to mucking about with my medication dosages and had to cancel. |
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| It didn't turn out as well as I expected, but I'll be mucking about with it over the break. |
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| They all got their start by mucking about with existing machines and trying to make them better. |
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| Then someone did ring from Staples, apologised for mucking me around, all to do with a new warehouse, blah blah. |
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| The latter groups are so worried about elections and ratings that they are mucking up clear thinking, and our society is buying into their flawed theories. |
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| In short, you know these guys rock, so stop mucking about and go buy. |
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| You know with the ape thing, the whole thing, I'm just saying pumping him up and mucking around, all that sort of stuff. |
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| So that spruced up my day again after all that fruitless mucking about with the water-maker. |
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| I do understand that it can be difficult dealing with male colleagues, especially if they are accustomed to mucking about and taking the mickey out of each other. |
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| This sort of thing includes the possibility for mucking up the inside of the port with glue — so be warned. |
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| And it's not by wearing green jerseys and all sorts of, of things, mucking up the trucks. |
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| A decent size again, but a bit smaller than the two previous big ones and not worth mucking up my pan for on its own. |
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| Yep, I've been mucking around with the site's appearance again. |
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| They can't have foreigners coming over and mucking about with their democracy, it might end up with officials becoming responsible for their actions! |
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| Raised in Anstruther, where her parents run a hotel, she was used to mucking in and helping with the waitressing, cooking and cleaning, as required. |
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| Angela says the response from parents has been overwhelming and many have become involved themselves, either musically or mucking in with stage management. |
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| But no, they insist on mucking it up by deciding for themselves. |
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| It is one thing to have the US government mucking things up overseas. |
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| Cleaning, saddling, bridling, feeding and mucking out are just as much a part of instruction as riding itself. |
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| Clare is clearly happier mucking out stables than getting done up like a dog's dinner to sip Pimm's on the terrace. |
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| I'm not interested during the game in the big drinking sessions, you know, the laughing, joking, and carrying-on, or mucking around with the locals. |
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| She's someone who sort of prefers mucking around the back row, usually with the likes of Jennifer Barrigar and other rebellious types. |
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| When mucking has been completed, the last phase of this sequence is the installation of ground support. |
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| The U. S. is continually mucking with the price of grain and distorting the price. |
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| All these reasons make it important that mucking out can be performed easily and quickly. |
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| When I was a kid, I liked mucking around and trying to fix my own stereo or Sega Genesis. |
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| Negotiations with agricultural organisations made it possible to store all the mucking products in the immediate vicinity of the north head. |
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| How do you go from mucking around with manure to an all-expenses-paid trip to Paris? Just ask Jérôme Leis. |
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| The fencing as a whole can be tilted above the hutch for mucking out the exercise area in front of it. |
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| Debbie turned green around the gills when she was mucking out the pigs. |
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| They were on their way to the bar to get drinks, but they ended up mucking around with me for a while before they went back to their table with me in tow. |
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| His scapegoats then, as now, were the United States and Europe, which he blamed for mucking about in his backyard. |
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| The Senate Finance Committee has rolled up its sleeves this week, and is mucking about in the fine print of amendments. |
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| I have so many very happy and fond memories of my aunt, who was also my Godmother, and the many hours I used to spend mucking around as a kid with my cousins at her house. |
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| If they start mucking you around speak to their complaints department, get them to send you another form with a self-addressed envelope so they cannot say it's gone elsewhere. |
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| I didn't know what to expect, but they were laughing and mucking about. |
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| One of the hardest things we ever have to learn is that you can't lead other people's lives for them, however intent they seem on mucking them up. |
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| Instead, you are drawn in by the nearly somnambulistic logic of their destiny: they are born creeps, and you want to see how far they can go in mucking up the world. |
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| Did you consult study any guides as you were mucking your way through? |
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| France still trapped Zero option A missed chance Hold your breath ReprintsEven so, it would be unwise to underestimate Mr Berisha's capacity for mucking up a transition. |
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| The residents of his building can't help mucking up one another's lives. |
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| But the emergence of a band of Belgian designers dedicated to a radically deconstructed vision of dress signaled a mucking out of fashion's Augean stables. |
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| Pavel glanced at his brother, to check that he wasn't mucking up. |
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| Now it was a millstone, mucking up a live campaign event. |
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| After mucking, the pumps must be re-installed. |
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| After rip-roaring sets from his friends, they get together onstage at the end for a session of anything goes, seat-of-the-pants mucking about. |
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| My younger brother, Brendan, mentioned that she loved her garden, spent pucks of time mucking around in it, even read books on the matter. |
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| I'm put off, however, by all that mucking around with sterilising tablets, yeast and glass demijohns to make something that's never going to be as nice as wine made from grapes. |
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| Inspectors were asked to remind producers of the importance of mucking out barns and sheds, spreading fresh straw, whitewashing walls, installing mosquito screens and washing cows' udders before milking. |
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| Children's natural ways of moving about, jumping into puddles, mucking about with clay,climbing trees or wriggling in chairs, all have a purpose, namely to organise the qualitative pattern of their bodily development. |
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| You, Gary's voice echoes, mucking out the funny farm? |
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| The third oldest boy in the family, Stephen took a hand in scratching out a living from the scrubby farm as he grew up, milking the cows, mucking out the barn, weeding the garden. |
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| In Ontario, the Renabie and MacLeod Mosher mines closed, and the Aunor and Dome mines introduced rubber-tired load-haul-dump units for stope mucking to reduce costs. |
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| The council believes whoever it is has been active for quite sometime mucking up the netherverse. |
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| While plenty of people would probably quite enjoy the sight of a warden mucking out a particularly smelly cage, they'd be less thrilled to find they're picking up the tab. |
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