Sentence examples for prise up from inspiring English sources

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If it appears to have been lifted before or has been cut into smaller pieces, there may be pipes lying directly underneath the boards and you'll need to prise up the board to check that it is safe to add new fixings.

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By now, villagers on Khon have prised up most of the tracks for use as fencing.

Others searched for hidden dungeons, shouting into air vents and frantically prising up floor tiles in the hope that long-missing relatives might be found underground.Yet the buildings were largely empty, their floors deep in drifts of shredded paper.

The worst examples are often the consequence of the so-called 'croc roll' – also known as the 'tin-opener' – which sees victims prised up and away from rucks in a judo-style move which can snap ligaments and bones if the tackled player is unlucky.

She believed she had deciphered instructions in Bacon's letters to look beneath Shakespeare's Stratford gravestone for papers that would prove the works were Bacon's, but after spending several nights in the chancel trying to summon the requisite courage, she left without prising up the stone slab.

Once a list of candidate primers has been produced, sorting tools in PRISE speed up the selection process by allowing a user to sort the primers by properties such as amplicon length, GC content and sequence selectivity.

It was particularly encouraging to see Wenger's two forward recruits, Sánchez and Welbeck, teaming up to prise open a contest Arsenal were under pressure to win.

He was involved in Portugal's second-half plunder that afternoon and, while Carlos Queiroz's side may have disappointed, the youngster returned from the tournament with his reputation enhanced and suitors lining up to prise him from Benfica.

Even when the music seems to promise a melancholy meander (until a historically correct friend disabused me, I'd spent years convinced that 'Let's Hang On' was entreating, 'Let's hang up'), it can prise the saggiest of Sixties bottoms out of their chairs.

United are aware of Bayern's resistance though they have not given up hope of prising him away for a fee in the region of €80m (£55.7m).

A study on gender inequality and the empowerment of women in Ethiopia suggested that children are often held in high regard in the country, where they are seen as prised-possessions who will grow up and benefit the parents financially (especially girls who will be married off and thus bring wealth, through dowry, to the family) [ 5].

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