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1. It is a wrench saying goodbye to her – this is no longer a game where all I have to do is go to the right place and collect the trophy … there are people out there trying to stop me … permanently and with extreme prejudice as the saying goes
2. The now familiar wrench in the pit of my stomach happens again, I daresay I shall get used to being linked with Alastair in time
3. it’ll be a hell of a wrench leaving the cottage but if it has to be, then that’s that
4. A large hammer and a wrench solved their problem
5. ” replied Fletcher, putting down the wrench and massaging his aching fingers
6. “Not yet, sir, but it will by the time I’ve finished with it” chuckled Fletcher, tapping it with the wrench, “The main piston has been knocked out of place and now it catches on the casing
7. In some places the wire hung down and would catch on our equipment as we passed by and we would wrench ourselves loose sometimes breaking the wire as we did so
8. He felt his heart wrench in sympathy and wished she didn’t have to feel this way, but he couldn’t help feeling glad that she was there, as a silent supporter, giving him courage and confidence
9. Gibbons tosses a wrench into the plans
10. It took her a moment to wrench her mind back to the conversation
11. His unfortunate flirtation with Keynesian Economic Policies (Wage and Price Controls) and prolonging the ―Great Society‖ by introducing fresh initiatives, threw a monkey wrench into the economy but enough of that! Seeking (public) forgiveness, if not self-forgiveness, this tormented soul sought redemption in seclusion and productive writing
12. " He tapped the union with his big adjustable wrench
13. I ducked as he swiped at me with the wrench
14. She got the jack and lug wrench and tossed them next to the spare
15. She pulled off the hubcap—an original spoked model that she’d bought to restore the car to its former glory—and slotted the wrench into place
16. As she bent to fit the wrench over the third, she realized the bike was stopping
17. “Nice view,” he said, his gaze resting on her rear, which was still pointed skyward as she bent to push the lug wrench into place
18. He grunted as he stood, the wrench dangling from his hand
19. He tossed the wrench into the trunk and closed it, continuing up the left side of the car
20. Frank struggled against his bonds, face reddening as he tried to wrench his arms free
21. Frank kicked him between the legs, yelling his defiance as he managed to wrench one arm free
22. I tried to say something, anything, but the force of his influence came over me again, and it was all I could do to wrench open the door and turn to run into the clean morning light—
23. A gut-busting wrench of adrenaline hit him as he noted the set of Boyce’s head and neck, his shoulders all bunched up like that
24. With a wrench I pulled myself back to the present day, and tried to show a little compassion, although I had this particular former student pegged as the classic, ‘A-type personality,’ which is a scholarly euphemism for the nethermost regions of the alimentary canal
25. that tug and wrench my frame,
26. That throws a wrench in his strategy
27. I try to wrench my body out of his grasp
28. She could not contemplate calmly the thought of such another and harder wrench
29. And whether the masters of the University have known it or not, their work has all been for one final goal—that the Eastern Lands might wrench themselves free from the grasp of the Empire
30. His words seemed to wrench her back, to force her into conversation she did not want to have
31. Those who do not understand the long struggle to wrench freedom from tyranny are less vigilant in its preservation
32. against this leverage with a second wrench on
33. She grasped it and, with a mighty wrench, tugged it free
34. Then, with that terrible wrench, awareness had struck him that he would never do any of this again
35. Yet the feeble arms of elderly women, for a moment, gained the strength of Samson, and we were able to wrench the heavy slab away
36. probably just as willing to throw the wrench of his or her
37. Kevin showed us where the lug wrench was
38. I took a bight on the wrench, but when I turned it, the pulley just rotated
39. Then putting the wrench on one bolt, I spun the
40. As the wheel rotated, I held the wrench still, using it instead as a crank to
41. Batistuta felt his stomach wrench
42. "Torque wrench," I said
43. to be an awful wrench for her
44. I don’t bother with stone this time, I just wrench myself away from him, backing up until I hit my desk
45. The pain of leaving, that great wrench called emigration that had torn him and his family away from where he instinctively felt they belonged, was he discovered, still very raw
46. Before Nick had a chance to reply to Eddie, Mark Sox pulled a wrench from behind his back and cracked it hard against the side of Nick Adams’ skull
47. Even though Sarah and Martin had bought a house at the other end of the town, it was a wrench that would be raw with her for a while
48. As for Matthew it would be a big wrench, in the sense that he had no immediate family living in Ireland
49. As she knotted the silk length about her supple body, Conan turned to the window and with a contemptuous wrench tore away the soft gold bars that guarded it
50. But somehow, clutching the pincers clumsily with both hands, he managed to wrench out first one spike and then the other
1. Hot metal tracks shimmered, giving back the heat absorbed during the long sultry day, groaning to themselves as the thermal stresses wrenched at their very fabric
2. It wrenched his heart to see her so unhappy
3. Grabbing a handful of covers he wrenched them back
4. It had squawked abruptly when she wrenched its wing off; the sound had been unpleasant
5. The hole spread over a large area, possibly three or four metres across in places; muddy throughout its entire extent: deep, claggy, black mud, sloppy with water and dotted with bits of green from the decimated plants which had been wrenched from the ground by its making
6. The dead weight stuck in the doorway, one leg catching on the doorpost … Ozzie had wrenched again, hauling on the now insufficient garments half clothing the body
7. Harry wrenched his gaze from the crowds and boards to follow him to the awaiting carriage, now loaded with their things
8. ‘And look – one of the bushes has been wrenched out
9. Looks very much as though it has been wrenched out … must have gone over the cliff edge
10. " He wrenched his face "Well, I guess it sounded that way
11. He knew he couldn't stand on its slick surface, he had to get it off of there and wrenched at it in panic
12. Djgarr roared, his heart wrenched with rage and grief
13. As the probe moved away, Torbin was wrenched back from his focus on it by Zardino who, with a baleful look, shook his head
14. He wrenched his arm away from me as though I carried the plague and screamed at me
15. He wrenched at his hair and his body shook with his sobs
16. Shock gripped his heart, and his stomach wrenched with fear
17. ’ Milo wrenched the covers away and prepared for his daily run
18. His stomach wrenched and his breath caught in his throat
19. Raven’s stomach had wrenched, and he felt physically sick as he thought about losing her, as he had done with Alexia
20. The soldier, unaware of his attacker continued his assault until Saldon's massive arm wrenched him off of her
21. He wrenched his axe slowly around to his left side and watched the serpent carefully
22. The ashes rose in a cloud behind their boots and from the walls as they wrenched open charred doors
23. The nearside wheels dropped into the shallow ditch beside the road and Contin’s smile of triumph quickly turned to one of fear when the steering wheel wrenched to one side, breaking his thumb
24. The sound of boots on metal wrenched Amaranthe’s attention from the scene below
25. By the time she wrenched her reins to a skidding, spinning stop near him, his face was tight with anger
26. Kay moved to sit up, and a sharp twinge wrenched her abdomen where the small hoof-mark still troubled her
27. Would he assume that her times with him were part of that same play-acting? The thought wrenched at her heart, twisting her in agony
28. The tambourine player gasped in surprise when a half-crazed Detective Inspector Grunt wrenched the tambourine from his hand, pounded across the snow, and laid into us, shouting some very un-Christian like remarks
29. Agonizingly, he wrenched the arm all the while speaking into her ear, saying ugly, hateful things that registered not as words which could be recalled, but rather as unspeakable evil shrouded in pain which would never be forgotten
30. After nearly forty-five years of marriage, loosing George was like having a limb wrenched off
31. They grabbed at her, trying to stop the girl as she rushed passed them, but Kirsti wrenched herself free, disappearing into the night
32. Screwing out the knurled knobs holding the covers in place, he wrenched the sides off and located the hard drive
33. She wrenched her face to the side and spit up towards his face
34. That’s when Hartle wrenched the controls in a great slewing arc, watching as a field of stars swept past his view
35. He wrenched the overcoat from its plastic wrapper and unfurled it before her
36. He lunged into another ditch, hit bottom, and the rearview mirror wrenched free to join a hundred other objects flying from one side of the car to the other
37. He came down hard among the rocks with a bone-jarring crash that sent hubcaps flying, fired a shot of pain up his spine, and wrenched the right front wheel sideways with a terrible ripping noise of twisting steel
38. It wrenched away and she kicked at it, while trying to regain her feet
39. It troubled me for an endless amount of time, during which I spent long years trying to figure the exact way in which he had wrenched the Centron’s gears
40. It seemed to have been wrenched from where it had branched, tearing a piece of trunk off with it, making a flattish surface at its base
41. Five hours later, painfully stiff legs and a torturous neck-ache wrenched him from sleep
42. The whole UFO spotters group had finally wrenched
43. Several men caught hold of the arm and wrenched with all
44. 39 But when Jared saw what they did, his very soul wrenched itself from them; neither would he taste of their food or of their drink
45. “What the heck,” blurted Norman, as he was violently wrenched sideways?
46. She grabbed his arm and wrenched it around his back
47. "When the man [the angel] saw that he could not overpower him [Jacob], he touched the socket of Jacob's hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man
48. Because the angel had wrenched his hip out of the socket, Jacob had a limp
49. He wrenched open the door and shouted into the darkness of the cab
50. 39 But when Jared saw what they did his very soul wrenched itself from them; neither would he taste of their food or of their drink
1. He wrenches open the passenger door and leans out
2. All these thoughts went through Fred’s mind as he puttered about, getting gloves and funnels, wrenches and oilcans out of the big bin on the side of the truck
3. I dive for the gun, but before I can touch it, he grabs me and wrenches me to the side
4. Tobias grabs the Dauntless woman by the back of her neck and wrenches her to her feet
5. He wrenches me to the side and fires again, hitting Christina in the leg
6. He stops next to Caleb, grabs his arm, and wrenches him to his feet
7. Certainly there should be an optimal compartment to store tools and other overnight essentials, including adjustable wrenches, a battery tester, flares because they were under-rated
8. When I think of maybe never seeing her again, it wrenches my guts
9. The stout gnome drew his wrenches from his tool belt and hurried into the melee
10. Sensing the momentary relaxation of his clutching fingers, Josie finally wrenches herself away from him, and, spinning out of reach stands, laughing hysterically, at the mixture of frustration and rage on his face
11. But Sal and her table were there first, grabbing up wrenches and crowbars and hammers; and they began ripping crates apart in search of other things
12. with wrenches would jump out, and shielded by the truck would take every
13. And in the modern era, as the naivety of a Nehruvian socialistic pattern of society perpetuated the Islamic legacy of celebrating poverty, Mother India remained a pauper in the vice-like grip of the State, tightened further by his self-serving daughter Indira, till Narasimha Rao unshackled it by the Manmohanamic wrenches!
14. The movement wrenches at my heart
15. It’s like a huge tool chest chock-full of different wrenches and saws and hammers
16. Gregory grabs my head and wrenches it to the side, giving Uncle Dylan access to my neck
17. With an air of normality Alex wrenches the car door off its hinges and hauls out a skinny looking boy covered in spots
18. I had come to understand guns, that they were tools and that they were no more evil, in their essence, than pliers and wrenches
19. "Oh, if you think of living as the Wrenches do!" said Rosamond, with a little turn of her neck
20. Devon wrenches on the steering wheel, executing a clumsy right turn
21. But when you branch out into options, it is like opening your toolbox and seeing a set of Allen wrenches
22. Yes, they are all wrenches, but there are now so many to choose from
23. “This and this and this,” said Mink, instructing the others with their assorted spoons and wrenches
24. “We oughta get us a set a socket wrenches,” he called
1. his rattling of hinges, his wrenching at shutters,
2. Little by little the wrenching sobs slow; I hold him, his face against my shoulder, until the shuddering breaths stop
3. Half wrenching myself out of Berndt’s embrace, I turn to see Deris standing there, Adamant’s reins in his hand
4. On it raced, growing higher with each turn, enormous even from their distant view, racing backward to Mesapit wrenching and crushing posts and barriers
5. It was a relief and a blessing how their mutual remembrances did well to ward off the most wrenching pain of the heart
6. All around Danny’s cottage lightning strikes hit here and there, wrenching the air with their electric screams
7. Depending on our past actions, the process can be joyful or heart wrenching, but undeniably it affords us a moment of learning
8. They hadn’t the slightest idea of what conditions were really like nor would they ever be able to grasp the sheer horror and gut wrenching terror of battle or even a raid
9. Losing Rosie in this way would be like losing my Mother and Father again unthinkable, unbearable and heart wrenching
10. The weight of his actions swelled inside him, wrenching at his guts
11. Wrenching her body over, she clawed for his face, but with his free hand, he seized her wrist and held it immobile while, from behind, a heavy man pounced on her, crushing her to the floor as the car sped from the curb
12. They soon found that Fin’s foot was stuck between the rocks and it took them a lot a tugging and wrenching to free it
13. Soon after Truman left for Puerto Viejo in the poor light of early morning, she tripped among the rocks, wrenching it and partially tearing loose the sole of her sneaker
14. The moonlight disappeared behind a swirling mass of storm clouds, just as in his mind, darkness had filled him with gut wrenching panic
15. Man has made these many wrenching adjustments with capacities that he never realized that he had acquired, and that had never been expressed in quite this way before, nor exaggerated to this degree until Man
16. lowered, his eyes collided with a heart wrenching sight
17. boldness of speech, dislocated his hands and feet with racking engines, and wrenching them from their sockets, dismembered him
18. “I need to see them,” I said, a wave of nausea wrenching my stomach
19. The wrenching pain in my chest at the thought of letting her go was a powerful testament of that
20. Most times, however, this does not happen and sooner or later we find ourselves having to do those awful, tedious, sometimes teeth grinding and heart wrenching things
21. Because of the wrenching and overwhelming effect of the sixties, I still live very much in the moment, racing from case to case, from cause to cause, not worrying or reflecting about what happened yesterday or what might happen tomorrow
22. “Now, stand up, you wimpey little shit,” Carlisle said, wrenching the door open
23. The wrenching sadness that eats into your soul can only begin to be relieved by the happiness a new puppy can bring
24. Quickly Bannister used both hands wrenching the stick from Rawson's grip so severely the plane banked to a near inverted position directly over the friendlies
25. 5 But they highly incensed at his boldness of speech dislocated his hands and feet with racking engines and wrenching them from their sockets dismembered him
26. Parker righted the plane and concentrated on recovering flying speed as Bannister slammed his fighter into a wrenching turn, dove past the struggling O-1E and started firing into the tiny area directly ahead of Parker
27. ” To appreciate the wrenching story one must read the gripping saga, but suffice it here to reiterate the fraud and deception necessary to further the philosophy of unopposed Socialism, which must be perpetuated by coercion
28. Suddenly, staring me in the eyes her pain was so clear and heart wrenching
29. The screams the trees made were heart wrenching
30. After the trepidation and gut wrenching of the first kill, an icy elation slid
31. Not just tears but a chest wrenching, sobbing deluge of incoherent muttering, gasps of pain, mucus, saliva and salty water
32. His stomach was wrenching with
33. It was soul wrenching when she would ask them when she was coming home, often
34. The Pict was wrenching furiously to free his knife hand, was clutching at Balthus' ax, and driving his knees at the youth's groin
35. Wrenching away the bow and an arrow he staggered toward the opening of the pavilion
36. "You're crazy! The machine would break up with this much water aboard," he cried, his hands wrenching the controls while his old flying eyes stared into the black night ahead
37. Involuntarily, he gasped as the full weight of his body swung free wrenching his already stretched and battered arm muscles
38. debris out of the way, he made the gut wrenching responsibility of who to
39. A wrenching feeling came into Joey’s stomach
40. Lafit felt a gut wrenching pain, he coughed up blood
41. Clastaan hurried out of the bushes, fueled by adrenaline and fear with a wrenching twist in his gut
42. The light revealed the heart wrenching sight of hundreds of genothroids surrounding the convoy
43. Her own mother, wrenching her away and flinging her screaming out the door
44. Never again, she reproached herself, between waves of nausea wrenching at her stomach
45. deep, soul wrenching despair
46. They gripped the ladder and it pulled them upwards, wrenching their arms viciously and dropping them like a yo-yo, thrusting them under the water
47. when the wrenching squalor
48. The wrenching screams of his singeing torture
49. The flashes of brilliance grew in intensity and frequency until, in a sudden wrenching crescendo, the journey ended with one final almighty flash
50. Harmony fought the wrenching urge to share her secrets