They intended to cut a major scene out of the beginning and they had also fiddled with the end quite a bit. |
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She took a deep breath and fiddled with the sapphire necklace hanging down below her collar bone. |
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Scholars and scoundrels, judges and jackasses have fiddled with its diplomatics, paleography, translation, interpretation, and application. |
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He turned up the volume as a cracked voice began to pop on and off as he fiddled with the control board. |
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No one spoke for a moment as Delaney nervously fiddled with the strings of Keaton's sweatshirt again. |
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When they had all left, I took a hairpin out of my hair and fiddled with the lock. |
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Baret sat down on the bed beside Marta, who kept her face downcast and fiddled with the sheets nervously. |
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Today, I spent a long time at the hairdressers, gossiping with the staff and having my hair coloured and snipped and fiddled with. |
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Daniel fiddled with his cup and sighed, bouncing his daughter, Grace, on his knee. |
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He tapped on the desks, he fiddled with his pencil, and he counted in binary on his fingers. |
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Jane fiddled with the plastic covering her sandwich and took a sip from her grape juice box. |
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Gracelin looked at her finger nails while Edward fiddled with a wooden spoon left on the kitchen counter. |
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He was sat at the end of the first row, his head down as he nervously fiddled with the straps on his back pack. |
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His imperious bulk, even his accent, counted against him and when he was found to have fiddled the books he appeared to be beyond redemption. |
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She fiddled with the plastic spoon that was stranded in her coffee cup and smiled ruefully. |
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I mean, how many people know that examinations have never been an exact science, and that results have always been massaged and fiddled to fit? |
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As a techie myself, I know that technology is a siren call to be explored and fiddled with. |
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Maria fiddled with the keys, trying to open the lock to the door of her yellow convertible. |
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Rhea blew a raspberry with her tongue and fiddled with the fabric she was lying on. |
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I pushed at the eyeliner on my right eye and fiddled with my zippers a bit more before I walked out. |
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Henry may have fiddled and diddled, but at least he did not go out of his way to slag off an entire nation. |
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I don't know what was wrong with it, but I've fiddled around with the internals, reseated some connections and tweaked the control centre. |
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People began to greet the two of them, and Cally fiddled with her hands nervously. |
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Jack looked away from the man, unsettled by his strange green eyes, and fiddled with his papers nervously. |
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John Waters of the Irish Times said on radio on Saturday that he would have fiddled tax back then if he could have got away with it. |
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She adjusted the seat and mirror, fired up the ignition, and fiddled with the gear stick. |
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The guitarist fiddled with various electronic devices and guitar pedals throughout the show, showing great musical versatility. |
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A 'superhead' who fiddled attendance records and SATs scores has been struck off the teaching register. |
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In the absence of having anything of substance to write about, I have updated my profile and fiddled around with my links. |
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The equally sheepish assistant fiddled with the mouse and looked blankly at the screen. |
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Feeling strangely out of place, DJ fiddled with her fingers in her lap and looked around nervously. |
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How would you like it if he fiddled around in a folder named Anna's stuff? |
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She fiddled with her hair, already perfect in its loose chignon. |
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I laughed nervously and fiddled with the loops on my sweatshirt. |
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This one-woman band fiddled and jigged from Dent to Barrow to Bradford during her recent winter tour, bringing a smile to the faces of shoppers across the North. |
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Once they became a vital part of any transaction, I fiddled and footled about until the realisation dawned that I would not be able to buy anything unless I got a pin. |
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At university they were trained in a manual chemistry laboratory where they fiddled around with test tubes. |
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The floorboard he had fiddled with while sanding, promising to return with claw hammer and new nails before varnishing. |
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We fiddled around with it and my assistant and I figured out how to get it up and running in an afternoon. |
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He fiddled with a baseball once signed by a great Birmingham Barons team of the past. |
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As she fiddled with her key in the lock, the Killer opened the door from within. |
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He fiddled on the table with two smartphones and the keys to his Jeep when asked if he had lost friends in Qusayr. |
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He asked Damien as he fiddled with a beer mat out of boredom. |
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The boy, whose name was Tom Schaar, fiddled with his mouthguard and flashed a frustrated smile. |
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Politicians in the northern states turned a blind eye as politicians in the southern states fiddled their books and avoided reforms. |
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He dropped out of school, and fiddled round with bricklaying and gaming parlours before starting to buy companies. |
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He fiddled by putting pay equity in the budget implementation bill, stalling it. |
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It is precisely with the short-fibre variant that farmers fiddled the system. |
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Working hours are being fiddled, and so are collective labour agreements as well as many other things. |
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Women in need could have been helped by now if he had not fiddled while Canada was burning. |
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They were so much more concerned with their own national purses than about the people in Kosovo that previous pledges were fiddled. |
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I fiddled with the machine and I finally got it to start working, and an additional 5 hours later my yogurt was solidified. |
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He fiddled while Canada was burning by putting in the Navigable Waters Protection Act. |
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There have been a lot of allegations of postal votes being fiddled in many parts of our region, not least here in towns such as Blackburn, Burnley and Nelson. |
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So what if he'd fiddled his taxes and done business with crooks? |
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Ignoring the blank looks she was getting from the others, she uncrossed and recrossed her legs, fiddled with the sleeve of her jacket, then finally looked up at them. |
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She fiddled with the buckles dangling from her black laced skirt. |
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Stuart shouted out that he used to be a plumber, rolled up his sleeves, got down on the floor and fiddled about in the cistern until it was fixed. |
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They looked into their files with an expression of indescribable sadness while their fingers fiddled agonisingly with a paper clip or a piece of blotting paper. |
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We wandered and fiddled and zithered and tambourined through France till the chills and rains of autumn rendered our vagabondage less merry. |
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We have ensured a Financial Regulation with less bureaucracy, with more transparency about who receives agricultural aid and with a common blacklist of those companies that have fiddled EU funds. |
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This is a lie: the accounts have been fiddled. |
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Others gossiped or fiddled with their mobile phones. |
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At least when Nero fiddled, Romans got to hear music over the flames. |
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While he fiddled, we got out there and did the job. |
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I fiddled with preload and damping to reflect my considerable mass, plus that of my photographer passenger, ending up with a smooth fully laden ride with adequate damping. |
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The riding of Bruce-Grey is one of the few ridings, actually, where the numbers went up during this census, the last census, so I'm not too sure why it has been fiddled with by that much, but it has been. |
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If a little prankster fiddled with the standard kilogram in Paris, and nobody noticed, it would be all of Science, and even world trade which would suffer disastrous consequences! |
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As he intermittently drew hard on his cigarette, disarranged his sandy hair and fiddled with a constantly shuddering BlackBerry, it was easy to suspect he was feeling nervous. |
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The centre-left Social Democrats who run Berlin's government have fiddled about with no fewer than 23 school reforms, most of them ideologically tinged to level down rather than foster excellence. |
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He has now shown that the spending figures can still be fiddled. |
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Then the man had to go to jail because he fiddled with his expenses. |
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So, what is it? Whatever it is, it seems to contain likenesses of things in two or three dimensions which, once in it, can be reproduced and fiddled with at will. |
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But when those clear agreements come here to Ottawa, we are all very well aware of how they get fiddled about with at Economic Development Canada, of all the red tape, of all the delays there are. |
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The movie proved that trying to mix horror and comedy intentionally is a slippery slope, but it did have Rutger Hauer as an ancient vampire who fiddled at inappropriate intervals, so it wasn't all bad. |
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Every second oil change a new oil filter should be fiddled in. |
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I fiddled with the sole lighting rheostat, as antique as Edison. |
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In such a climate, perhaps the strangest thing about the breakthrough of the Lib Dems less besmirched by fiddled expenses than the other parties, and untainted by office is that it took so long to come. |
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What I am suggesting is that our present constitution was actually born between 1848 and 1849, and that afterwards we fiddled with it as we went along. |
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