Even though he was upstairs, drunk out of his head in her house, she still risked calling me from her house phone. |
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Alice Roberts looks back at Dundee's history of whaling and meets former whalers who risked their lives in this now reviled industry. |
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The two of us mothers were not sure if my boy kid and her girl kid would get along and go sledding while we skied, but we risked it. |
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Orchin's difficulty was that to make the association more attractive to members he risked alienating the patrons who subsidized its activities. |
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Organisers on relief risked having their benefits taken away, but still they persevered. |
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Grey's anatomical studies follow the precedent set by Michelangelo, who risked excommunication to secretly study anatomy in a morgue. |
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And during the shoot in Norway, John risked his life by performing a series of extreme stunts on ice. |
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They fought on foreign shores, flew through enemy skies and risked their lives to liberate the world. |
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I risked death because I knew that I would be helping to ensure the future of our country. |
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She had risked my father seriously injuring her in order to save me from his abuse. |
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You risked your neck as much as we did tonight, and for two guys you'd never even met. |
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What if we risked a dose of literalism and listened again to these sweet words and their implications? |
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Consequently those who came to believe that orthodox teaching was inadequate or wrong risked being declared heretics. |
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Since a man has been charged with that murder, the short film clip risked running foul of the law on contempt of court. |
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Ever since wooden ships were felled by storms at sea or robbed by pirates, successful businesses risked coming to grief crossing oceans. |
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Plans to cut health and safety spending risked the lives of workers across the country, said another union. |
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Pickled samphire was once so popular and saleable in England that men risked their necks to collect it from the cliffs. |
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Until recently long-haired men risked being picked off the street for an obligatory short back and sides. |
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A district council has been forced to backtrack on its proposed council tax rise after being warned that it risked being capped. |
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I risked a pint of Old Rosie, scrumpy cider twice the strength of normal beer! |
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Heroic neighbours risked their lives to rescue an injured pensioner from the shattered remains of her home after a massive gas blast. |
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The fellow was truly smitten, since he risked his job to give Carolyn a smidgen of moon dust in token of his adoration. |
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They concluded that creating a conventional military force as large as the USSR's risked beggaring the U.S. economy. |
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If they failed to do so, they risked falling behind their competitors and losing their jobs. |
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In committing himself to this policy he risked accusations of treasonable relations with the enemy, and so risked his life. |
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He said fans should behave well as Zambia risked FIFA sanctions if they misconducted themselves. |
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However admirable the hard work of those who have risked life and limb to give the Iraqi people a fresh start, the overall effort has misfired. |
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The devastated parents, who already had a daughter, risked trying for another child and had a second healthy baby girl. |
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A York boy who risked other people's lives in a rooftop showdown with police was today starting a four-month sentence. |
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Simply by being true to his sexual nature, he risked public shame and possible imprisonment. |
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Isaac Newton risked his vision by poking a bodkin beneath his eyeball to understand how we see. |
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He felt no resistance from Annie, so he risked sliding a hand along her thigh. |
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I risked a peek, then hugged the dirt again, mud and slimy leaves rubbing against me. |
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When there, I risked being a real bore by showing some Bowie video clips while we ate and got through two bottles of appallingly horrible wine. |
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Of course, on the other hand, he was a man of many half-truths and blatant untruths and she risked her life for his cause on a regular basis. |
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Asking for the Bloc vote, he said that by voting for the sovereigntists, Quebeckers risked voting for the same result. |
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As he ripped at his shirt, he risked one quick peep through the car windows. |
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Any political action stepping outside their traditional place in society risked a backlash. |
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The Duke of York almost risked a real-life deluge for his visit to the opening night of the Millennium Mystery Plays. |
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He risked his life to get the word out about the atrocities that were taking place. |
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They were not advised that they risked losing their grants nor were they supplied with information or reasons for cancellations. |
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Municipal officials said further showers risked flooding the city centre, escalating the crisis faced by the country. |
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They risked their lives to present these theater shows, disguising their political commentary behind clownish puppets. |
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I couldn't stop thinking about the mystery of why the faceless boy had risked so much so that I could get to the target. |
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However, he had risked his entire political career on a far-reaching compromise and lost. |
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He was an unlimited supreme commander, but he also risked loss of blood along with his most humble pikeman. |
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I have risked life and limb sauntering through snake-infested grasslands hoping to flush a quail. |
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But that would have risked grinding up the teams and making them less attractive for postseason tournaments. |
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Having invested our fondest hopes in that remote goal, we risked a wounding disillusionment. |
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He was a former slave who bought his own freedom and then risked his life to help other enslaved Africans escape. |
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But an awful lot of people did not know that he risked both political life as well as physical life as a freedom rider. |
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If women resisted sexual advances, they risked physical cruelty and punishment. |
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By dallying with her at Alexandria, he risked losing what he had just won at Pharsalus. |
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If you can convince them though that by their actions they've risked eternal damnation, that's another matter. |
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What happened to the image of dauntless police officers, the ones that risked their lives to perform the right tasks? |
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A visitor had fallen into an enclosure and risked being gored to death by a herd of wild gaurs, also known as Indian bison. |
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Your opinion, although disagreeable to me, is something that I risked my liberal life to protect. |
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Karen risked her life every day, nothing made her feel vulnerable, only her mother's sad voice. |
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Neil says he risked everything to sue because honesty was important to him. |
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He risked censure, expulsion from the House, even his life, to ensure that the halls of our government resounded with the voice of the people. |
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Last November, 400 villagers risked drowning as the waters rose around them. |
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With laundry piled on her lap, she routinely risked life and limb as she navigated her wheelchair over the highway to the laundromat on the other side of town. |
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He risked his life for the sheep so that his father had no loss. |
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It had to be risked, and I shoved the airscrews into fine pitch. |
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The Moscow protest was not sanctioned, which meant every participant risked arrest. |
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He risked a mutiny, but nonetheless handed over six senior park officers to the courts for trafficking park resources. |
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Anyone who crossed the wrong cardinals in Rome risked being sent to oversee the troubled American diocese. |
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Police officers who risked their lives chasing the driver of a giant forklift truck who left a trail of destruction across York have been praised for their bravery. |
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Instead, they risked being upended by the many people who have felt for some years that there is a lot of largesse sloshing around the nation which has not come their way. |
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Although Johnston depicts Cook as a cautious and dignified man compared to his vainglorious counterpart, both men risked their reputations in their mutual quest. |
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And the crowds who risked trench foot in October around the muddy, muddy banks were as enthralled as their counterparts at sunny St Andrews in July. |
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There are those who risked ambush in the taking of surrenders. |
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Thatcher and her allies risked everything and reaped a rich reward. |
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Millie the cat risked one of her nine lives when she became stuck. |
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Veronica told her that in the four years she had been doing a line with Andy, she never risked bringing him inside the door in case Jacko had drink in him. |
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We are very much piggy in the middle as we have to go along with what the council decides, but we don't believe bikers' lives will be risked by the in-fill. |
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Two young police officers risked their lives to save a driver trapped in his burning car which hit a stobie pole and exploded at Smithfield Plains. |
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I risked a glance at her gaze and knew she wasn't buying it. |
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He risked a very hasty glance to the side where his father was standing. |
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I can't think of many politicians in the past five years who have risked the hazards of a modern high school classroom or a teeming community college campus. |
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I risked my neck to save these peoples lives, and they were deserting me. |
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I risked my neck to try and get the book while he was busy hiding. |
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Now, since I risked my neck to come get you, you'd better come swimming. |
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The Trooper, only the second man to be given the VC, risked his life to save a trumpeter and the second-in-command of his regiment, the Queen's Royal Hussars. |
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Still the pod drew nearer to the hive and risked entering the swarm. |
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A new survey suggested that a third of men risked indigestion by rushing their meals and a behavioural psychologist warned the nation to slow down and enjoy our food. |
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At first he'd wondered if the clean-cut fly boys who risked their lives making low altitude parachute drops behind the iron curtain knew what their cargo was. |
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Later, the company risked its stance of ostensible objectivity by joining the preacher and his family for a picnic supper at a farm north of the city. |
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These rules had been strongly enforced during authoritarian regimes to the point that people risked imprisonment or even death if they failed to follow them. |
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Rork had already risked so much and his plans kept backfiring. |
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Competition in the ring was ferocious as fearless competitors risked their knuckles and aimed to split the conker at the end of a leather string held by their opponent. |
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He did a marvellous job and risked his own life to help a neighbour. |
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Because the sonnet's formal structure was so well defined, its popularity as a form risked obscuring the boundary between true art and simple workmanship. |
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So now, keeping all that in mind, how many Afghans do you think risked life and limb to cast their ballot? |
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This risked individuals working on the platform being exposed to the toxic gas, hydrogen sulphide and excessive quantities of sour gas being allowed into the atmosphere. |
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Even to give your child a Welsh forename was a crime and risked imprisonment. |
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He had risked all his fortune on one cast of the die, and, gamblerlike, had lost everything. |
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Johnson, denounced by many Tennesseeans as a traitor, risked his life to keep his state from seceding. |
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The brazen reorganization of German territory by the French risked threatening Prussian influence in the region, if not eliminating it outright. |
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Seven years ago, Jen risked her own life to save Dan by donating 60 per cent of her organ in Scotland's first live liver transplant. |
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The ex-London mayor risked fuelling civil war in the party by saying rebels face deselection after a surge in Left-wingers. |
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We are truly grateful to those who risked their lives in order to protect those of our children and future Mozambicans. |
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A FORMER Coventry man risked heat stroke by walking for ten hours in a heavy diving suit in searing heat. |
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Meanwhile, two bodyboarders risked their lives yesterday riding 15ft waves dangerously close to a sea wall near Newlyn pier in Cornwall. |
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Significantly, if he chose political activism he risked disownment from the religious community of his father and his Welsh ancestors. |
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However, Democrats who supported the treaty risked being labeled tools of the Southern slaveocracy. |
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The teaching assistant at university risked her marriageability by eating an hibiscus ice lolly in the park with me. |
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Anyone who failed to wear a sprig of oak risked being pelted with bird's eggs or thrashed with nettles. |
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Transporting salt in standard aircraft risked rapid and severe structural corrosion in the event of a spillage. |
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If the wreck stayed uncovered any longer it risked irreversible damage from biological decay and tidal scouring. |
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Moreover, he noted that savage races risked extinction more from white European colonialism, than from evolutionary inadequacy. |
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Toghan risked his life to take a shortcut through thick forest in order to flee home. |
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Far from being treated as if they were married, couples known to be cohabiting risked prosecution by the church courts for fornication. |
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In 1814, only 1 out of 14 American merchantmen risked leaving port as a high probability that any ship leaving port would be seized. |
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The planters' complacency about slave contentment was shocked by their seeing slaves, who risked so much to be free. |
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The editor decided that repunctuating Shakespeare's sonnets risked damaging their meaning. |
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If true, that means he deliberately risked American and French lives, and maybe the battle, in order to get in solid with Lafayette. |
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During the debate, 25 MPs risked their careers to draft an amendment protesting against the UK's tacit acceptance of Poland's domination by the Soviet Union. |
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The batsman would need to defend himself, and if he touched the ball with the bat, he risked being caught by one of a large number of fielders placed on the leg side. |
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Button's management argued that the BAR option was not valid because it contained a clause allowing him to leave if BAR risked losing their Honda engines. |
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Many recaptives were so unhappy that they risked the possibility of being sold back into slavery by leaving Sierra Leone and going back to their original villages. |
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Educationists made clear that the school risked losing grants from public agencies over which they held sway because of the dean's overt sympathies. |
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The youngsters were delighted to meet and talk to very friendly professional footballers who again risked writer's cramp with the number of autographs they signed. |
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Polk, by contrast, risked war against Mexico for annexationist goals. |
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Sudbury's business community celebrated the career and legacy of a man who risked his own life many times for the sake of his business, at a retirement party for Robert Lipic. |
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