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He quickly suggested putting a hooked stick in each room that could be used to reach up and grab the metal hook on the screen.
Then he took the hook and softly, noiselessly, fixed it in the catch.
Humans are off the hook for some extirpations, but still suspected in others.
The other part is an adjustable webbing loop with a locking hook on the end.
Breathable leather uppers and adjustable hook-and-loop straps add flexibility and comfort.
And the top layer acts as a hook that latches on to a cell's surface.
But you take it hook, line and sinker that he was even a he.
And those of you who live outside the hurricane zone aren't off the hook.
Membership made the political elites feel they were off the hook.
The tallest member of the family reached into the tree with the hook on the end of a pole pruner and pulled the fruit off.
They describe it as a crucial marketing hook, a powerful incentive to enroll, and a key retention tool.
The pirates managed to hook a ladder over the ship's gangway, and one of them began to clamber up the side.
Scientists have developed a new type of fishing hook to reduce the number of sharks accidently caught from commercial fishing.
Well, you do know that he's the sort to hook it up hook it up at conferences behind his girlie's back.
Alone, the hook lets you immediately zip up to the tops of buildings.
No campground in the park is equipped with utility hook-ups.
Taxpayers will also be on the hook for its administrative expensive.
When something slides across them there's no hook for a chemical or physical reaction.
The spear is balanced along it, with the blunt end snug against a hook.
These loans cannot be easily sold and if they lose further value, as seems likely, the state is on the hook.
Had flung his golden hook down on the field of stars.
Taxpayers are on the hook for hundreds of billions of dollars.
In other milkweed species, this hook attaches to the bristles or appendages of insects.
Add the hose coupling and then hook it up to the garden hose.
Ray went into his own house and took an overcoat from a hook back of the door.
So what we're really talking about here is placing universities on the hook for the business costs of the real money makers.
But instead the phones were ringing off the hook, with devastating news.
Hook the ball up against a tractor shed on the lefthand side of the fairway.
But then the children grow up and hook up with people who also have hyphenated last names.
People of the world, get a grip and hook into the benefits of science and engineering.
The hook-and-loop closure lets you adjust the fit, and the slip-on style is perfect for getting through airport security quickly.
Hook it up to a voltage and, presto, out comes light.
It takes this kind of denial to justify the evil and deviance in mankind, and let's you off the hook for it.
However, the first panel remained attached to its pole only by a single hook at the top.
Even whales killed with a perfect shot often float beyond reach of the hunter's hook and sink.
Often attempts to hook up advertisers with users backfires.
Nitrite, in turn, can hook up with food components called amines to form nitrosamines.
One answer would be to hook up a persons cell phone with a gps.
The major hook for the new app is a wealth of computer-animated dinosaurs.
Many of these are self-service, but the hook-ups are still available.
In addition to humor, cards require an emotional hook which leaves the sender and the recipient feeling better for the experience.
Someone can simply put in new circuitry and hook on a new canister.
They'll fall for anything out there and they did, hook line and sinker.
Caught by hook and line, hand-filleted, and packed in oil.
The logic is that if glamorous images hook smokers, especially teenagers, then the ugly truth will deter them.
To me that's the hook that is naturally occurring in science.
We'd still be on the hook for unemployment benefits, but that money would never be repaid.
For a lady, by definition, cannot throw a left hook.
The hook at the end of the stick was particularly well adapted to serve the purpose of a life-saving apparatus.
Even some winners would be on the hook, if the jury award is much less than they had previously been offered in a settlement.
Well, when these loops form a coiled coil, they spring up and drag the hook with them.
Pistils can even hook you up with a local carpenter for a custom fence or gate.
At the tip, where normal penguins have a slight hook to snag prey, the beak in this penguin is straight and pointed.
Tent campsites range from primitive to semi-modern with water and electric hook-ups.
Each birdhouse has a hole in the back and hangs on a hook on the trellis.
Honestly baiting the hook or not the problem still is that the student cheated.
There was something else: a stainless-steel hook embedded in its mouth, trailing a long strand of monofilament line.
But they say it should be possible to hook many more together.
Now they will be motivated to find a way to hook up electrodes to the unborn to see if they get the same reaction.
Briefly knead dough with dough hook or on a lightly floured board to expel air.
Any decent electrician can mount generator and hook up the hardware.
Whatever you choose to do, don't let students off the hook if their behavior was truly objectionable.
Recycling at home doesn't get you off the hook at work.
Residents need a fishing license to take rough fish by hand, hook and line or to spear fish where allowed.
From a company's point of view, the earlier you hook your customers, the better.
When the government is unable to collect on defaulted loans, taxpayers are on the hook for the losses.
Sites that are available have basic hook-ups, and it is ideal for nature lovers.
It's all a bait and switch, though, because everyone is too busy trading up to hook up.
It would be fascinating to know what bait was used to finally hook him after all those years.
The team also discovered that body size and hook shape were correlated.
The investigators say drugs and tanning lamps might hook you through similar means, including peer pressure.
We leave to fish for piranha in shaded glades using a crude pole with a simple hook baited with beef.
In this case, the rope was embedded so you couldn't really hook it.
They even manufactured tools, bending a wire to make a hook to pull a bucket holding food out of a tube.
Bandits are tiny bungee cords with a built-in plastic hook.
First, you cut a hook from an old shampoo bottle and slide it onto the camera's neck-strap.
From the plough-tail to the reaping-hook, and back again, is all they know.
Look for one with a locking lid and a hook so you can suspend it from a tripod over a fire.
Hook up wires to capture the electric current and that's your solar panel.
In other cases, they are on the hook because they have financed the purchasers of the loans in the secondary market.
It can make any politician's telephone ring off the hook.
After gobbling a shrimp-baited hook, however, the fish put up one heckuva fight.
Each wire, which measures a mere eight nanometers in diameter, can hook a different prey.
Aside from that grammatical problem, you do need to find a new hook for that first sentence of spider stories.
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