| But once, trying to answer a question thrown at him, he choked and spluttered on a treacle toffee. |
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| As the Boss choked and spluttered for air he fished in his pocket for something. |
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| I gave a gasping cry and began breathing heavily, then choked and spluttered for his benefit. |
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| It's the kind of phrase that is spluttered out through a spray of pink gin or in a drizzle of descending real ale. |
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| He opened the throttle but the engine merely coughed and spluttered several times. |
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| Or at least I would have spluttered over my cornflakes if I could eat cornflakes, or toast, or even a nibble of a Rich Tea biscuit. |
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| Now, the coals of the campfire had burned low and, in the big skillet, rabbit legs and thick bacon rashers spluttered. |
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| Trying to scramble back onto the bank all grace aside, she kicked and spluttered. |
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| Keats spluttered and coughed to full wakefulness, and steadied himself with a stiff brandy. |
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| He'd driven the van around aimlessly until it had run out of fuel and spluttered and died. |
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| The heater coughed and spluttered loudly and we both laughed nervously, trying to ease the tension. |
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| And from the deep bowels of the ship, an engine coughed, spluttered and finally came on with a roar. |
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| Alex dropped the plate she was washing into the basin and spluttered as the soapy water splashed in her face, stinging her eyes. |
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| Inside, the group browsed, coughed, hacked, wheezed, and spluttered. |
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| In my descriptions of the encounter, I kept the focus on how I spluttered in the face of a blatantly sexist remark. |
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| The bacon spluttered, and he licked his gravy-japped finger. |
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| My Japanese and Finnish fellow jurors were both horrified and spluttered throughout this film. |
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| The car spluttered and coughed, but took us across the town, to a local restaurant. |
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| When we went there on a recce one weekend, we laughed at how slowly everyone drove and spluttered at how much a simple sandwich cost. |
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| Scott spluttered, earning himself a sharp dig in the ribs from Josh. |
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| His brother spluttered all the way to the table but to no avail. |
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| Despite its pedigree, the company spluttered through its first two years. |
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| I requested a new flight on April 22, the website chugged and spluttered, showed me an egg-timer, then. |
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| The generator spluttered to a stop, but they kept dancing anyway. |
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| The main engine spluttered, smoked and almost stalled with each roll. |
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| When the Stone Roses spluttered and wheezed their way out of existence at the Reading festival in 1996 without John Squire or Reni among their ranks, there were few fans who were glad they'd soldiered on. |
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| I was fascinated by that simple device as it gurgled and spluttered and choked and sent cool water around the channels we had cut at the foot of the trees. |
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| As the gunman spluttered, Towler continued the momentum of his hand to catch the man side-handed in the windpipe and, with his other hand, struck him hard in the crotch. |
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| She coughed and spluttered as she climbed out of the icy water. |
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