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dragging

verb

Present participle of drag

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If you think of us as a comet, we've got the bright, shiny head, but we're not dragging along a giant tail," he says.

Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 11.18pm BST23 18 ET17: Brahimi gives Lahm the slip on the edge of the final third and looks set fair to make his way into the penalty area until he's dragged to the ground with the German dragging out of his shorts.

On the Bure, fortunately, TheCanoeMan has worked with enlightened private landowners willing to provide crucial access to the river bank where "portage" – dragging your canoe over a field to avoid a weir or watermill, for instance – is required.

Soon after, I got a message from a rooftopper in New York City telling me that the whole scene there was on lockdown after two German artists, Mischa Leinkauf and Matthias Wermke, put white flags on the Brooklyn Bridge and that the FBI were dragging urban explorers in for questioning.

Six Metropolitan police officers accused of responding to an offer of assistance from an off-duty black firefighter by abusing him, dragging him from his car and shooting him with a Taser should face disciplinary charges for possible racial discrimination, the official watchdog has concluded.

The dog lunged at the face of a passenger in the car then latched onto his thigh dragging him from the vehicle.

Yet if he had come clean about his decisions to go to war, if he had not mislead the international community on his motives, we would not be seeing a unanimous dragging of heels when it comes to intervention in Syria.

On Tuesday, former Conservative foreign secretary Lord Hurd said the way the inquiry was dragging on had gone beyond questions of mere negligence and forgivable delay.

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