Sentence examples for prise it off from inspiring English sources

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I always unscrew the urinal and prise it off before I go, just to make sure that, hidden in the cavity, there's not a university production of The Dumb Waiter.

"OH YES?" "Can you teach Jon the songs?" At this Frank raised his hands to his head and began to prise it off, turning slightly away, like he was shyly undressing.

In contrast, poor Max spends half an hour with a metal muzzle on his face, and it takes him a lot of time and trouble to prise it off.

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Prising it off will take firmer insistence on real disarmament than America, China and the rest have lately been able to muster.

Once the Lelos got hold of the ball, which luckily for the Scots was irregularly, there was scant chance of prising it off them until the referee, George Clancy, spotted his next frustrating misdemeanour.

And as time passes and Israeli leaders like Binyamin Netanyahu entrench Jewish settlements on the land of a would-be Palestinian state, the harder it will become to prise them off it.

Lula has called the judiciary a "black box" and promised to prise it open.

Get your thumbs into the middle of your cauliflower and prise it apart.

Both of them have their hands on the phone, attempting to prise it from the other.

I run my fingers around the frame, searching for a fingertip grip with which to prise it open.

I have sometimes found myself on middle-of-the-night raids with knives trying to prise it open.

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