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nipped

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Past of nip

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Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 3.56pm BSThe:56 The peloton, which has been slashed to around sixty riders, make their way over the top of Bradfield - Andrei Grivko of Astana nipped in to take the solitary point on offer.

He swung one past the nightwatchman Gary Keedy's defensive bat to hit off-stump, and doubled up with a more significant breakthrough with the home captain Chris Read caught behind to a very good delivery which nipped away off the angle.

Saints' demise was complete when Adam nipped the ball away from Sadio Mané in the box and swept a volley past Davis.

Madrid continued to push and were desperately close to a second when Ronaldo nipped in front of the goalkeeper only to fire into the side-netting from a tight angle.

Footitt found classic inswing from the start, which meant moving the ball away from the left-handed Cook, although the other Essex opener Jaik Mickleburgh was undone by one that then nipped in the other direction.

However, if the UK and other EU states in particular, had complied with their international obligations, as clearly set out in the advisory opinion of the international court of justice in July 2004, this crisis could have been nipped in the bud at the outset (as could Israel's bombardment of Lebanon and Gaza in August 2006).

Changing at Newcastle, we'd nipped out to visit the cathedral and stumbled across a cracking piece of public art.

Alston nipped in to capitalise, with Tremarco's denial of a scoring opportunity earning him a red card.

Bolder action at the beginning might have nipped the crisis in the bud, says Jürgen Trittin, a leading Green; instead Mrs Merkel "always delays, then eventually does what we said".

The staff tending the deep-fat fryers and counters are as eager as any London cabbie to tell you about the football and snooker players and soap-opera stars who have nipped in for a coffee or a pee.

IT WAS, says Gowher Rizvi, a close adviser to Bangladesh's prime minister, "very quickly nipped in the bud".

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