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shoved

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Past of shove

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On the floor, shoved beneath a table, a large cloth boy gazes sadly into space.

The menace had been all German, the South Americans' anxiety prompting a huddle just inside the mouth of the tunnel as they sought urgency with the intrusive television cameras shoved away by Martín Demichelis.

In Britain it is probably remembered more for the protests against the global leaders and for the death of Ian Tomlinson, a newspaper vendor who collapsed soon after being shoved to the ground by riot police.

That hardly sounds like a bank shoved into a bad deal, does it?

I know who I am and what my style raison d'être is, and if that involves a headache-inducing, print-filled, colourful ensemble with three or four bags shoved on the arms – then so be it.

I was surprised to be told the "before" picture doesn't look that messy, but it's only because I'd shoved 80% of my crap into groaning cupboards and drawers.

Innocent, hard-working people were arrested for pushing or being shoved on the picket line and hauled up in court for serious offences like affray.

Campaigner Paula Peters tells me she's been spat at in the street, while friends in wheelchairs have been shoved into oncoming traffic.

Alex is right: essay-submission facilities are becoming increasingly web-based, and lecturers and tutors now communicate with us through email rather than scraps of paper shoved in pigeon-holes.

Free hand shoved deep in his pocket, he held himself tight against the morning.

During the long bust, the problem wasn't fixed – it was simply shoved under the carpet of ultra-low rates.

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