His face was redder than the tomatoes he was squashing under foot and spittle flew from his mouth as he lumbered toward his wife. |
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Rather than arguing the toss, we'd be better off planting some extra vegetables in case we're lumbered with food rationing. |
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He was a vast hulk of a man, who hummed a tuneless melody to himself as he lumbered down the corridors. |
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A chicken nibbled on smashed watermelon, and dancers swam in a plastic water flume, and a fake walrus lumbered across the stage. |
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When the camel lumbered to its feet it was me who was screaming with terror while my son smiled serenely. |
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I dragged myself up, hanging on to the treacherous railing, and lumbered up the stairs, bruised all over. |
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It is not the first time a cost-cutting exercise by the Royal Mail has lumbered Hampshire residents with a second-class service. |
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Good thing I did all that Arsenal stuff yesterday, I'm lumbered with the lurgy and feel like I have a sponge for a brain. |
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As the show ended, the crowd lumbered unable to digest that the nite was over. |
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Their real fear is that Hutchison will appeal and they'll be lumbered with the costs. |
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I saw walruses and heard their grunts as they lumbered slowly off their ice floes. |
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Not many ordinary people were out on the streets, but there was a heavy population of police and army trucks lumbered ponderously around. |
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Without any explanation at all, Master Jezro lumbered off towards the north one day, and to my knowledge, he was never seen again. |
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I slung her over my shoulder and lumbered down the stairs to throw her out on the street. |
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The maids there didn't even look up as he lumbered past ovens and drying herbs. |
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He lumbered to a halt, resignation stamped plainly on his bibulous features. |
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The heavy steel door swung open and Grimes lumbered awkwardly through the entrance, key ring bouncing from the ridges of fat around his waist. |
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The party is still lumbered with an egomaniacal leader and still singing the same old tune. |
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It is also alleged the group has been lumbered with a huge excess of stock which could involve write-offs of as much as 15 million. |
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One of them usually gets a top-of-the-range model, but another is lumbered with a mobile phone camera and expected to perform miracles. |
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In five years he has lumbered business will all manner of regulations, costs and red tape. |
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A grey heron was disturbed on its lunchtime patrol, a raptor lumbered over on heavy broad wings, a soft warm wind funnelled up the valley. |
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They watched silently as the old plane lumbered over to gate 2, discharging a huge, billowing black cloud as it rolled to a jerky stop. |
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Laughing, he opened the door and lumbered up to her, the shorter man waddling behind him. |
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Birds sang their morning songs from the high perches in the old trees that lumbered over the near distant lands. |
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Judge Pat lumbered up to his bench high above the courtroom. |
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Bush then lumbered him with a vast new bureaucracy now encompassing over 2,000 souls. |
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He pointed to a dun lionhead that lumbered peaceful as a blimp. |
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The normally debonair George Hamilton lumbered around the Stars stage during Season Two, lacking all of his usual grace. |
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Surely the ultimate equaliser is not nakedness but clothing, which lets us be who we want to be, not merely the body with which we've been lumbered? |
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Now shopkeepers fear being lumbered with shelves of unwanted tunnel-tattered products, as Israel's neater goods pour in. |
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Although it is nonetheless lumbered with the visa procedure, it did not follow suit. |
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We are lumbered with it and will have to deal with it in some way or another. |
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We are all lumbered with our State and its ability to protect us, its credibility, its legitimacy, etc. Of course we are not equal! |
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We will be lumbered with policies framed by people who are not even in office any more! |
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We are lumbered with this legacy and it is not fair, really, to saddle future generations with problems. |
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It is not acceptable for Afghanistan to be lumbered with another regime which fails to observe democracy and human rights. |
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In other cases, the vehicle may be lumbered with debts, but that detail is not known because the papers do not disclose it. |
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In this way, we would at least avoid other countries, especially Third-World countries, being lumbered with second-rate cigarettes. |
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This fall, Canadian grain combines lumbered through United States' wheat lands giving a practical demonstration of the good neighbour policy. |
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This is another pattern in which one juggler is lumbered with all the Hurries. |
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Just now when we are nearly free of the Taliban, we are lumbered with regions such as the north of Nigeria, where the shari'ah is introduced. |
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They moved into the flat upstairs and they lumbered about like huge beasts, stomping up and down with no thought of the excess noise being transmitted to my ears below. |
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We watched on TV from a helicopter vantage point, as a caravan of five fire trucks lumbered up the vacant, closed-down interstate to battle the blaze. |
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Brussels may be the home of the EU and, in some eyes, lumbered with that organisation's bureaucratic and dull reputation, but nothing could be further from the truth. |
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This left us a legacy of legal straitjackets which have, in their way, contributed to the climate of sleaze, greed and corruption which has lumbered us with costly tribunals. |
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All antsy-ness dissipated when Kristian Nairn, a.k.a. Hodor, lumbered onstage. |
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The cheapo chip has been lumbered with a puny 66MHz front side bus ever since its inauspicious launch as the cacheless Covington in the latter years of the last century. |
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That was when the saxophonist Joe Lovano lumbered around the drum kit, grabbed a pair of sticks and took over, without breaking the chug-a-lug on a ride cymbal. |
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Not only would it add to the administrative burden and responsibilities of paying agents upon receipt, but the tax administrations would also be lumbered with complicated and costly procedures. |
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I can remember standing in the bowels of Norwich City's Carrow Road ground sometime in the early 1970s, notebook and pencil in hand, as a tall, jowly figure who clearly enjoyed a pork pie or two lumbered into view. |
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A prosperous economy will provide the funds, but you have lumbered yourselves with the euro, where the ECB's interest rate is trying to cover such diverse economies. |
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More nuclear power stations are being built all around the world, and then we are surprised to find ourselves lumbered with not just one Iran, but many. |
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As our tiny convoy lumbered into a village in central Kandahar City, the mid-morning sun began to strengthen and the temperature climbed over 35 degrees Celsius. |
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Has the court acted in the best interests of my ex-wife by awarding her such a large portion of my income with no accountability, leaving her now lumbered with excessive debt? |
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Now it is not enough to ban illegal trade in wood: the importing of products and furniture manufactured from illegally lumbered wood must also be banned. |
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Roth excels as a weary assassin lumbered with the plodding son of a crime boss and the story truly engages as the mismatched pair bond. |
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But we are still lumbered with the habits and reflexes of four decades of rivalry that clouded the world debate and distorted priorities in just about every field. |
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We are now lumbered with a body which employs fifteen people and which is assisted by another twenty people who work internally in the different institutions. |
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While so many other countries are lumbered with huge, unaffordable state pension benefits paid from taxes on workers, Britain has done relatively well in building up funded occupational and personal plans. |
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The hot sun shone, the sea sparkled, the palm trees waved gently in the breeze, and the occasional giant iguana, protected in this part of Cuba, lumbered by. |
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If you don't know what's possible, you won't know what is or isn't a realistic target, so you will be afraid of being lumbered with a target you can't achieve. |
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But one by one, a band of green sea turtles and one loggerhead turtle emerged from the sea and lumbered around the beach looking for perfect nesting spots. |
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With a timid, loutish movement the great beast turned aside, then lumbered off followed by the calf. The other buffalo also extricated itself from the slime and lolloped away. |
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