Her hand flew up and a loud smack was heard throughout the large room before Nora knew what she was doing. |
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I work pretty much smack bang in the middle of it all in Farringdon, right next to the unmarked Reuters building, which is Fort Knox by the way. |
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But this isn't just a swipe at Miller or a throwaway smack at the paper of record. |
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The thief, instead of beating a hasty retreat, confronted his accuser and hit him in the face delivering a smack on the jaw. |
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Piecemeal reforms of immigration law are insufficient and smack of tokenism. |
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It finally took a hard smack with Godzilla's tail to rouse him out of his glum state and knock us all over with a wind tornado of anger. |
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She knew at those speeds she could easily smack into his back end and total both their cars. |
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Two pilots smack in right off the dollies and one throws his chute just behind the tow paddock after locking out on tow and tumbling. |
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The trailer park was located smack in the middle of an industrial park in Canoga Park. |
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The Central Coast Sauvignon Blancs smack sharply of the herbaceous or grassy flavours for which the Sauvignon is so widely noted. |
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The spectacle of two Morris Dancers running smack into each other could hardly be bettered for a belly laugh. |
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According to the media, he is a big girl's blouse who deserves to feel the smack of firm government. |
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She plays a spoiled rich wife cast away on a desert island with her hunk of a servant, and they seem to smack each other around a lot. |
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She suddenly felt like she was going in a wrong direction and she turned her head and ran smack into a corner. |
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Soon after, she felt another something hard smack into her skull, making her head pound and spin. |
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With one farmer acting as go-between, eventually you would hear the smack of spittle-wetted palms signifying a satisfactory result all round. |
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First I realised that there are situations in which a smack on the bottom or a slap on the fingers was the only way to get a message across. |
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Melanie's hand slapped the table with a smack, and she, too, got hold of one. |
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He got a smack in the head and a smack in the throat so he won't practise today. |
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She was snapped out of her wandering daze as Meghan gave her a sharp smack to the back of the head. |
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He straightened in surprise and was met with a sharp smack from the small girl before him. |
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She pushed her way from the table and passed her previous customer, who gave her a sharp smack on the rear as she passed. |
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Properly done, you will spill you drink, face-plant and make a loud smack when you hit. |
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There was a loud smack, and one of the shelves detached and plenty of magazines spilled onto the floor. |
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A loud smack of something hard meeting with something soft was heard before Trinity spoke up. |
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Just then, Kat's hand made contact with that stupid grin with a loud smack that made the whole hallway pay attention. |
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He tries the pipe out and ends up flying out and landing with a great loud smack. |
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Sadly it was soon followed by a whistle as the sword cut through the air, which prompted a loud smack as it hit its target and a groan. |
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A loud smack was heard and the sound of flesh on flesh reverberated in the now silent gym. |
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My landing was uneventful, which is to say there wasn't a loud smack on the wall at the bottom of the stairs. |
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I heard a very loud smack and my eyes went directly to the front of the room. |
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They hurried along, the smack of their feet the only sound that echoed in the dank cavern. |
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Suddenly he dropped me without warning and I hit the ground with a loud smack. |
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When the teen reached the doorstep to the house, she heard a loud smack, and a child crying. |
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The bodies hit the cemented pavement with a loud smack and they begin to roll across the floor. |
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After Amber's palm made contact with Jackie's face, sounding off a loud smack through the area, Jackie fell to the ground from the force. |
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Throwing his sheets back, he swung his legs over the side of his bed, his feet hitting his hard wood floor with a loud smack. |
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After a few second, he heard a resounding smack and a thud as Valshar obviously hit the wall. |
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She kissed the scratch on my forehead with a loud, wet smack and then hurled herself onto Rafe's twitching lips. |
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Partly because his kiss was a solid one, not a smack or whatever other types they are, also because this was Kenny! |
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I slowly exhaled and lifted my soles off the ground and planted a light kiss on Dexter's lips, not a smack. |
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He smiled at me, took my cheeks in his hands, and kissed my forehead with an over-dramatic smack. |
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His mother had tried to smack Jeff for eating the leftover food and instead Jeff ended up hitting her. |
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We all sat and watched an out-of-control mother repeatedly smack her toddler at a major shopping centre this afternoon. |
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Despite my professional training, I had always thought that I would smack my children if they needed punishing. |
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The intruder shot across the floor in a straight horizontal line to smack against a pillar in a bone-crushing impact. |
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They were walking sidelong the lockers to their own when a locker opened up out of nowhere and hit Mae smack in the face. |
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Hurriedly turning a corner, Tielle ran smack bang into a large figure heading in her direction. |
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The new Opposition leader has had a dream ride, but this week he's landed smack bang into political reality. |
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These are big punchers and Diaz will fight right smack within their power range. |
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I turned around to see what he was yelling about when I ran smack into a locker door. |
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I bumped smack bang into Kelley as he emerged from the family room carrying a coffee table. |
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After she'd stopped screaming she turns to run out of the rood, smack bang into the door. |
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But just as I turned away from my locker, I bumped smack into someone's shoulder. |
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She sailed across the room, landing smack in the unsuspecting dark-haired boy's arms. |
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Mychael spun around, her hand connecting with Caleb's face with a loud smack. |
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However, they also put you smack bang in with all your competitors making it easier for the browser to comparison shop. |
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I've no aspirations-I'm living smack bang in the middle of my aspiration and it's a great place to be. |
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We had booked into a guesthouse smack bang in the centre of the shopping district on Hong Kong Island. |
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Wet and Wild is a relatively new water park, smack bang next to Movie World. |
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There's a clear warning sign planted smack bang next to her photo on the Wimbledon poster. |
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The garden of No 10 is a delightful oasis smack bang in the centre of town. |
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Well, unless you've been living under a rock you'll know that we are smack bang in the middle of NZ Music month. |
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Apart from Evan, who's sitting smack bang in the centre of the room, the place is empty. |
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That is a disgrace, and a smack in the face for those families who are struggling to meet those children's needs. |
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It took a few moments for what the servant had just said before the full meaning hit Elizabeth like a smack in the face. |
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He picked up the phone, making a mental note to give his butler a smack in the face later on. |
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To be asked to render assistance and then when you get there to be assaulted, it's literally a smack in the face. |
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The words that he called back to her over his shoulder felt like a smack in the face to the young woman. |
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It offers the drinker not an overpowering smack of peat, but a delicious honeyed, floral sweetness. |
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To suggest any changes in that respect would be deemed politically incorrect and would smack of extremism. |
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But at least one protester said revelations that others were paid makes the whole demonstration smack of political opportunism. |
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I usually prefer my words in neat parcels, bare little things that are scratched onto the page with a smack of impressionism. |
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I'm assuming that the reason Mia Wallace overdosed was because she mistook Vincent's smack for coke, and the former isn't snortable. |
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But I could see from her eyes she was away with the fairies, courtesy of smack, methadone, or maybe some indiscriminate bottle of tranquillizers. |
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Our footballers are too stupid to tell the difference between smack and steroids and haven't a clue where to score either. |
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Alas, a fish cannot live without water, a heroin junkie cannot survive without smack, and I just can't function without my dancing. |
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As I walked out with my suitcase, other residents and some of the counsellors said I would be back on smack within days of me leaving. |
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They take drugs, they take ecstasy, speed and smack because, to be honest, they're good fun. |
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He was so much stronger than cocaine, wasn't it supposed to be as dangerous as smack? |
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It is located smack dab in the middle of Siberia and is about 500 miles east of Lake Baikal. |
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I witnessed a little girl weighing no more that 100 lb get hit hit smack dab in the shoulder and fall to the pavement. |
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I turn around and head straight out the side doors, running smack dab into Kyle James. |
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You could be dipping your toes in clear water in a community pool smack dab in the middle of the country. |
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Can you imagine stumbling home intoxicated and walking smack dab into a tree that looked like that? |
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Fields of water smack together, foam spitting and curling, but it's sheltered in our cove. |
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A thief, no matter how much his activities may smack of a James Bond adventure, is still just a thief. |
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References are made to the recipient's domain name and email address to give the message the smack of authenticity. |
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Their pudgy little hands are variously balled for punches, or raised in preparation for an opened-handed smack, fingers spread wide. |
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It isn't paramilitaries but guys acting the lad till someone hits them a smack in the gob and that's all it is. |
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Jerry also works the streets, pimping his old lady Stella to raise the cash to buy smack from the repellent drug lord, Fats. |
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This is a potentially huge source of digital leakage and widespread copying right smack in the heart of the living room. |
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Winning away at Anfield, defeating Arsenal, annihilating Rangers home and away, all smack of a team capable of greatness. |
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In retaliation, a member of the Khazraj tribe paid a Jew to smack the face of the Bedouin. |
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I passed by at least five incredible women who almost compelled me to remove my shoe and rhythmically smack my head with it. |
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The court rooms play host to crusty gout ridden old men that wouldn't know justice if it was to smack them on the snout. |
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She had a giant plastic ruler she would smack on the desk to quiet people in situations like that. |
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Now, I am certain that priestly charism transubstantiates my lame lay prose into inspired revelation, but do not my efforts smack of presumption! |
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On the way to lock it in the nightstand, she paused to kiss his cheek and smack his backside. |
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Put the veal cutlets between two pieces of wax paper and smack them flat with a tenderizer. |
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Every time I can scrape a few quid together, I smack 'em straight into the premium bonds. |
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But he has been unable to rid England of this desperate inability to smack second-raters in the face. |
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But doesn't opening up the Lord Mayor's official residence for corporate bashes smack slightly of commercialism? |
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I worked out that at default, its set dead smack bang in the middle. |
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On my way back to the camp I nearly ran smack into the blonde girlfriend of the Range Rover pilot as she delicately stepped from the women's porto-can. |
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To the uninitiated, this might smack of poor taste and inappropriate timing. |
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In the SMU study it was found that children lasted about 10 minutes after a smack before they started misbehaving again. |
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You wouldn't know that we were smack dab in the middle of it right now. |
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And as I hurtled round the corner, I ran smack bang into them and fell. |
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It would all smack of politicians appointing a Speaker to suit themselves. |
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Asia's largest slum lies smack bang between a high-tech business district with gleaming glass skyscrapers and a tiny Mumbai suburb dotted with grand Art Deco mansions. |
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When her little sister gets shot up with some bad smack by a greedy dope pusher, Coffy decides to exact her revenge all the way up the food chain. |
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He plonked smack bang on the green green grass of Lismore Lake. |
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The ball hit her smack against the side of her head, sending the cell phone flying to slide along the floor and under a bleacher, a broken fake nail not far behind it. |
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As the sketch began, we were treated to the sight of various middle-management types snorting lines of cocaine, toking on joints and shooting up smack. |
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It was when cheap sound cards and computers hit Australia, and collided smack bang with a dance music industry on the upswing, that the revolution really began. |
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And you have to be certain that you don't get impatient and smack the horse in the belly and ruin everything it was understanding up to that point. |
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These shops are placed smack bang in the middle of a walkway, in an apparent effort to squeeze as much rent money as possible from the shopping centre. |
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If you go to a dealer to buy it, they will most likely also have other drugs, therefore anyone who wants a smoke will get pills, coke, possibly smack or crack offered to them. |
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Last year on holiday in Florida we were right smack bang in the path of Hurricane Charley, itself a Cat 5 storm although nowhere near as big as Katrina and Rita. |
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There was a smack, then the sound of a door closing and locking. |
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If you were, you'd be smack bang in the firing line of his new book. |
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And smack dab in the center of LA is the old Farmer's Market. |
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Britannia, the oldest surviving smack belonging to the company, 71 carried a cargo of salt to Riga in 1823 but was employed intermittently after that. |
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He growled and I didn't hesitate this time to just haul off and smack him. |
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Once a person takes upon himself community leadership, it is best to minimize public participation in activities which have a smack of triviality. |
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And I had the chance to finish off the match when I was leading 17-14 and my opponent hit a lame return, only for me to smack the shuttlecock into the net. |
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I leaned in and gave her a quick smack on the cheek as she shoved me away. |
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A couple of hours later on, the prime minister came the closest he has got so far to a smack in the face when he won a division on a clause in the bill by a single vote. |
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Zelda had come back, late in the evening, running home with as much energy as she could muster, with a monster of a bruise bang smack near his eye. |
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I probably got a motherly smack on the back of the legs for the escapade. |
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Saturn in your sign will keep things real, refining elements in your make-up that smack of affectation. |
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An arrow zipped over the horse's saddle to smack into the bole of a tree. |
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The extras, however, smack sour like olives in a jelly bean jar. |
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Landing smack bang in the midst of all these misfits is Vlad, a seemingly normal guy who appears to have everything, including looks, talent and confidence. |
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The jones, the real smack was not the chemicals themselves, but the euphoria of the endless possibilities set off by the acquisition of the substance. |
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David walked up and coolly punched the man smack in his mouth. |
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You have to have a surprised face for each one you receive or you'll get a smack in the ear or a whack on the side of your head or one with da wooden spoon on your arm. |
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However, critics of the scheme say the moves smack of the nanny state. |
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These adorable, fairytale-like creations, which recall Alice In Wonderland and smack of defiant frivolity and impracticality, are the recessionista's status symbol of choice. |
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Bruce works his pupils hard, but there is a great atmosphere in his gym, and between yelling at us to try harder, he finds plenty of time to talk smack to everyone. |
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On the rim of one stands a regiment of demons, shoulder to shoulder, constantly using their pitchforks to smack down the sinners who are trying to escape. |
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He winced when Kala delivered a loud smack to her father's cheek. |
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I smack his hands and tell him he can wait till tea-time. I'll be putting a rich crumble topping on it and it'll be served with lashings of custard. |
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Parents will now be the only people legally allowed to smack children, and childcare organisations say they hope the law will eventually be extended to parents as well. |
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At the final whistle the ball zinged out the ground, carrying with it only a modicum of the frustration which prompted Ferguson to smack it skywards in the first place. |
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A rustling plateful of deep-fried whitebait with anchovies and a red onion dressing screamed out for a smack of chilli, but was still pleasing for all that. |
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Well, it has landed smack dab in the holiday vs. Christmas controversy. |
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This is looking more and more like a partisan hit by a demoted career staffer who happens to be promoting a book smack dab in the middle of the presidential election season. |
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For example, I believe you have the right to smack the person in front of you with a grocery divider if they're taking too long going through their change purse at the cash. |
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He caught her with ease and gave her a sharp smack on her rump. |
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Lydia tried to stop him and was rewarded with a sharp smack to the leg. |
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I was running back and forth trying to find the train and I walked smack dab into a riot where there were police in riot gear beating on this group of about a hundred guys. |
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At the back of the drainboard, smack in the middle of the dishcloth, a small brown roach waved his antennae sluggishly-sick, no doubt, confusing his nights and days. |
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He claims his foray with smack was explicitly for research and meant to be short-term, but he became addicted. |
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This article is I suppose intended to be light-hearted, but it's the kind of humour that in many circles would just get you a smack in the face sooner or later. |
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Attempts to export shale oil and gas, for example, have run smack into legal and regulatory barriers as old as a gran Torino. |
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His brother Sidronio immediately took over, and the Windy City reported no shortage of smack. |
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In a long struggle with a smack addiction, he made novenas at the shrine of St. Jude, patron of hopeless cases. |
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Mainly because he jumped the queue of 50 folk who wanted to smack Bieber first. |
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Right smack in the middle of the village is a huge kapok tree, which is where they get together and have their market every fifth day. |
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The corpse of the freak, the child-fucker, the monster, slipped to the floor with a wet smack. |
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However, for long-time readers, some of his vituperativeness will smack of overkill. |
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Now, they are smack dab in the middle of a GOP primary in Mississippi. |
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We're currently smack bang in the middle of our final preparations and we hope we can do the town proud again this year. |
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He kept talking smack, his story getting more and more depressing with each lie. |
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We're currently right smack bang in the middle of our final preparations, and we hope we can do the town proud again this year. |
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It's a long overdue smack in the face for a company that couldn't organise a booze-up in a brewery. |
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It's smack bang in the middle of the city centre so is a handy meeting place. |
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Her conversation is full of choccy bics, smack the botty, toothypegs, lovely choccy and Mr. Poddle. |
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He then cleaned the water closet, but when he finished, he found a handprint smack in the middle of the mirror. |
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After about 20 seconds, he ended his performance with a punctuative smack of the taut drum heads. |
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Tyrone are smack bang in the middle of a transitional period and it is very hard to envisage them causing a shock on Sunday. |
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Excuse me while I look for bargain breaks smack bang in the middle of term time. |
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And I was talking smack, cracking jokes, playing with Mateo the host. He liked it. |
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A half-mile away, we slowed down and were slapping hands and talking smack, so impressed with ourselves. |
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Devoting the bulk of the front page to one story may smack of tabloidism to some, bringing to mind screaming headlines about the latest blood and gore. |
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He was not sailorly, and yet he had a smack of the sea about him too. |
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He makes this comment with such hostility that he is largely in the role of the smacker, not the smackee, as if his blood is just boiling to smack this obnoxious kid. |
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Just as long as they don't come around talking smack to us. But if they ain't in no gang and they live in our area, it's up to them if they join or not. |
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The FTC needs to smack down the rest of the alcopop industry, and state and local governments need to ban sales or severely restrict these youth-endangering products. |
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Heroin appeared on the streets of our town for the first time, and Innie watched helplessly as his sixteen-year-old brother began taking the train to Harlem to cop smack. |
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This research has been front and center since the Hurricane Sandy disaster, when the wavy jet stream steered the storm on its sharp left turn and smack into the Jersey Shore. |
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If you're in the middle of nowhere and smack bang in the middle of a monumental gearbox issue without reverse, here's a reasonably clever fix to get you moving again. |
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Seconds later I was spark out on the ground, having being toppled by some missile that had arced its way through the gathering dusk to clonk me smack on the temple. |
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You then drove smack bang into a police car coming the other way. |
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