While his heart thumped eagerly he went with slow and pretended reluctance back to the old desk. |
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When I tried to stop him he hit me in the face and knocked my glasses flying, then he thumped me in the chest. |
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The Trinidadian striker whirled and thumped in a volley which looked net-bound but just skimmed by the left-hand post. |
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A wound on her leg had been scabbed over and was extremely tender, and her head pounded and thumped with an ugly ache. |
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I thumped the mahogany table in fury and told Peat to take a letter for the prime minister. |
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The Soviet national anthem and the Moscow Festival song were thumped out by the band. |
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My heart thumped in my mouth as cyclists parted this sea of sweaty, screaming, sign-toting, picture-snapping fans. |
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Her heart thumped and a cold clamminess filtered into every pore of her skin. |
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When he spotted Shama coming towards him, dressed in a yellow floral-patterned sari, his heart thumped heavily with excitement. |
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The striker thumped the ball in the net before pulling off his shirt and celebrating having beaten Reynolds' record. |
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When he pulled the trigger his bullet thumped into the log and the crow flew lazily away unscathed. |
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Voices still chattered in the hallway, doors squeaked open, slammed shut, feet thumped, tramped up and down the stairs. |
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Sir Clive Woodward's side were thumped 51-15 by Australia following back-to-back defeats to New Zealand. |
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The cupboard door kept swinging open only to be thumped closed by Ivan, who had incorporated this gesture into the rhythm of the dance. |
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Something heavy thumped into my shoulder and I cried out as I was sent sprawling to the floor, thudding to the ground. |
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Before she could step outside, her mother's powerful hand thumped the door shut. |
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Fellow MEPs hurled abuse at Mr Berlusconi and thumped their desks in the European Parliament Chamber in dismay. |
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He laughed and thumped the table in appreciation, then twisted his fist in front of his nose, miming a snout. |
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A burly man who seemed to be all bristling black hair thumped Sam on the shoulder. |
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After seeing a fox, wallabies thumped their hind feet in alarm, suppressed foraging, and increased looking. |
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My boots thumped against cobbles and breath rasped in my lungs as the guard tried one door, then another. |
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In the end Ottawa went on to beat Toronto in a squeaker and thumped Guelph in a 7-1 rout for the championship. |
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Kozinski ripped open a package of printing paper and thumped the stack against a table to align the edges. |
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At least with his old look hoodies would have been too frightened to have thumped him. |
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A rock song played in the background and the crowd thumped along to the beat. |
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The Aussies gave us a hiding in Sydney two weeks before and now we've thumped them at Ellis Park. |
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He cleared his throat, thumped on his chest a bit, then threw his arms out wide. |
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He pulled another one back on the hour when the big centre half thumped home a free kick and suddenly it was game on. |
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Hoss thumped down the stairs, his arms full of extra clothes for Adam and a large bag of medicinals. |
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Carlow hearts thumped in time with the drum roll as six shining envelopes were brought to the stage at the Brandon Hotel, each containing just one name. |
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One poor guy gagged on his retainer and his pal thumped him on the back. |
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Then a high pitch by Rivera thumped off Posada's glove and rolled about 15 feet away. |
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No one is muttering darkly about laptops being thumped around like parcel post packages by airport security checkers. |
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Italy thumped seven past Mihály Kozma's luckless side to notch up the biggest hammering of the night. |
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Once upon a time, the world quaked when people like Rice and McCain thumped their chests. |
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Listen to what Santorum said after he thumped Romney last week in Missouri. |
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One bird, another common yellowthroat, thumped into a window right at her feet, and came to rest on her ankle. |
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Indeed, his first ball, from around the wicket, is thumped away with a crack to the cover fieldsman. |
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My arms ached like they'd been repeatedly thumped, and there was an aching in my stomach which suggested they'd given me a hefty kick in the balls. |
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The young striker, on loan from Aston Villa, thumped the ball home. |
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And Ibai Gómez had only been on the pitch for 30 seconds when he thumped in this one against Real Madrid. |
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It overwhelmed the room and when I opened the door my heart thumped each time I entered. |
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County responded through Michael Gardyne, who thumped a superb 20-yard volley against a post. |
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A former child resident told the inquiry on Tuesday that the Sisters of Nazareth in the Termonbacca care home thumped and kicked children. |
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We are looking at something which is going to go to the other place and get thumped through there as quickly as possible. |
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After the irregularities of the first round Europe thumped the table, but failed to utter even a murmur of protest. |
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There's no guarantee we'll go to the second round, but we will not be thumped by anyone. |
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Only Panama, who were thumped 6-0 by Argentina, allowed their net to be violated more times in the group stage. |
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Another fusillade of shots clipped nets and thumped into wood. |
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Getting off the elevator at the fourth floor, he thumped across the antiseptic hallway. |
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When Henman took the third he thumped his fist to his chest. |
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She weakly lifted her head and whined, her tail thumped once. |
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The magic of the cup is one thing, but should a team really qualify for Europe without defeating a single Premiership side and then being thumped in the final? |
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Incumbent President Thein Sein sat and watched the band stage-side, while a crowd danced and thumped behind gun-toting soldiers. |
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A television murmured somewhere down the hall, and a ventilation fan thumped in a nearby window. |
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Two weeks after Gary had thumped me, his ten-year-old brother blew him away with a pump action shot gun, which his dad kept locked in the boot of an old BMW in his garage. |
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He thumped the table to emphasize how robustly and convincingly straight he was. |
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But Mitch Nichols, Australian U-20 hero, equalized just before the break, and Dutchman Sergio van Dijk thumped home a left-wing cross in injury time to give the home side a crucial 2-1 win. |
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Few, certainly, had expected the Tahitians, edged out 1-0 by New Caledonia in their group opener, to encounter any significant problems in inflicting defeat on a Tuvalu side thumped 16-0 by Fiji in the first round of matches. |
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In an attempt to shoot, he instead mis-kicked directly into the path of the onrushing Bresciano, who thumped a right-footed shot past Fabian Carini. |
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He felt he was thumped and beaten left and right and lost a lot of weight. |
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Either in the bending of the ash board and ajusting it whith the calf hide stillborn, thumped, crafted and sewed whith a waxed thread whith help of a awl. |
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And with many regarding the Czechs as a challenge much like the Scots, who were thumped soundly in a 3-1 opening victory, the belief that this team can go deep into the tournament is starting to rise. |
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The event had the trappings of a religious revival, with outdoor tents, singers, musicians and the speakers who thumped home the message that people had to change their ways or face extinction. |
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A disc jockey thumped hip-hop while a cluster of teenagers, with sweat still dripping from their brows, recalled their on-court foul-ups. |
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Shaiman Anwar thumped two sixes as he top scored with 30 before giving O'Brien a simple caught and bowled chance, while the UAE's hopes were undermined by their failure to find the boundary on a regular basis. |
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When a dauntingly technical lawsuit thumped onto the tables of a small district court in Wisconsin today, the global mobile phone industry sat up and took notice. |
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He got out his tire thumper and thumped the tank. |
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Brian Hughes was the main man for Thingwall as they thumped VMH B 5-2 to jump to second in the table. |
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Nytanga met the Spaniard's in-swinger with a powerful header that Ashton blocked, and Davies thumped the rebound into Robert Green's net. |
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Darren Bent slotted in a Stewart Downing cross to give Villa hope but that was ended when defender Nemanja Vidic thumped in United's third. |
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Remembering the exchange now, Dickie smiled that winning southern-boy smile. Then he went glum again. He thumped the purfled sound board. |
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Ulysses thumped his side and itched his back side, then slipped into his car. |
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With their confidence stung, the Mexicans thumped their northern neighbours 4-0 in the following event's final match in front of no less than 120,000 supporters at the Azteca Stadium. |
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Mcleod occasionally thumped him with a wild, looping haymaker of a right-hand, exposing basic flaws in Katzman's defense, but that was the limit of his effectiveness. |
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But 19-year-old French trialist Enzo Fuentes thumped home a stunning 20-yard winner that gave Friedel no chance. |
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Producers want the film to be as close to the book as possible, but there's a scene in Ian Fleming's tale where agent 007 is thumped in the testicles with a carpet beater. |
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One guy farted repeatedly and laughed out loud each time he let it out. To top off his disgusting behavior, he constantly picked his nose and thumped the waste in the air. |
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The mayor strummed a psaltery, the mayoress thumped a side drum and musicians Paul Leigh and Gill Page, from Trouvere, played a crum horn and citole. |
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Kasper Schmeichel brilliantly denied Marouane Chamakh before Bacary Sagna thumped home a second, though Bradley Johnson's screamer halved the deficit. |
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The noise levels in a weaving shop, where the shuttles in 500 plus looms were being thumped 200 times a minute led to levels of deafness in all who worked there. |
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There were lighter moments as well when he rubbed his stubbled cheeks to create a grating sound or thumped his chin with his fist to produce a thud. |
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