The soldiers now trooped out, ranged in four files opposite to the palace, radiating away from the pole to stand holding the ropes.
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All young, upcoming talent needs people expert in their fields to show them the ropes.
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Once he learns the ropes, his f uture books may be less hectoring, and he may come across as less uninformed.
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During his exercise lessons, he used jump ropes along with the chest expanders and clubs and scepters for helping students strengthen their arms and hands.
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Readers, roped together behind their erstwhile guides, set off with confidence that the route is well-prepared and that new topographical features will be drawn to their attention.
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Two groups were pulling each of the chariots with two long ropes, guided by two smaller groups who manoeuvred the direction of the wheels with two shorter ropes.
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She was a difficult toddler; her parents tied her and her sister to their beds, restrained them with ropes and chains, and locked them in closets.
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Unweaned calves are tied by ropes.
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Fences (80 cm in height) used to enclose quadrats were made of flexible fine plastic mesh sheets attached to plastic ropes at the top and metal chains at the bottom.
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Over time, each manufacturer learned the ropes of heavily regulated markets and adapted sales and marketing strategies to the prevailing regulatory framework in existence in each country.
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Echoing the tangle of ropes at the beginning of the novel, entanglement again serves as emblem of indeterminacy - of the unpredictable and unknowable in a world of mixed phenomena.
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In the volador ceremony, several individuals, whose feet were tied to long ropes wrapped around a tall pole, leapt off the pole to "fly" in circles as the ropes unwound.
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The only radical solution is to cut the ropes tying it to the fake, blowing it to pieces and putting the pieces together, in a new and revealing configuration.
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Traps were made of square pieces of large-mesh polyethylene fabric tied by ropes to four neighbouring live trees, at about 1.5 m above ground to avoid disturbances by large mammals.
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However, reliable nannies, mostly young women from the countryside, are hard to recruit and keep, once they have learned the ropes about life in the city.
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Collocationswithrope
rope
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bell rope
All lead up to a partitioned room where thebellropehangs through a hole in the ceiling.
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hemp rope
With the exception of controlled establishments producinghempropeas well as wire, the answer is in the affirmative so far as women workers are concerned.
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knotted rope
The tomb was closed with aknottedrope, and the rope impressed with a clay seal.
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