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'Just a Get Well card, ' said Hermione hastily, trying to poke it out of sight, but Ron was too quick for her.

Don't let your boy poke his head out of the train window-it's dangerous!

Make it a point to look for cartoons and jokes which poke fun at the circumstances that cause negativity or conflict in the office.

The boy sat down and began to poke little holes in the sand.

Nokia recently released an update to the 770's software that makes it a little more friendly to users who want to poke around on the device.

Because no one knows at the break time, I saw him drying his eyes and nose with his blue handkerchief. I didn't go up and poke him out.

He looked at Joe Scott a good deal out of the corners of his eyes, frequently came to poke the counting-house fire for him.

At this point plants should hook fishing hole down to the grass, grass cracks, commonly known as poke stubble.

There's always going to be something of indeterminate age in your kitchen, and you may be tempted to sniff, poke, and then taste it.

Why did he poke about for hours in the old furniture shop? He might have spent the time more usefully.

Just poke some holes around the bottom of the empty container and bury it in the ground up to the bottle neck.

He poke his head round the door to see if she was In the room.

Once you've been poking back and forth for a few days, it becomes time to take the poking from the internet to the bedroom. . .

When he decided to try the host began to poke fun at him that he would lose his poise and not be able to guess his weight.

I love being a photographer because it's a key that allows you to open doors into other worlds and have a bit of a poke about.

He went over to the baby where it was playing on the floor and began to poke his finger at it.

She startled one of the masked performers with a poke to the head because she was "curious" what it would feel like.

OUTDOOR HAND-WASHING: Poke a small hole in the bottom of a jug. Block the hole with a golf tee.

Dubai's skyscrapers poke through a carpet of fog at night in dramatic images taken from 800ft up in the air.

When a teacher came in and made an inspection, then the boy behind me would poke my back, I raised my head quickly and called my desk mate.

The electrodes used were non-penetrating, meaning they sit between the patient's brain and skull, but do not actually poke into the brain.

If you get lost or injured, cut a small hole in the bottom of garbage bag big enough to poke your head through.

Actually, I can't see you because I would rather poke my eyes out with a burning stick than open them right now. But, hey, whatever.

Lighten up. Joke about whatever annoys you, and if you can manage it, laugh about it with that person, or poke fun at your own reaction.

Sometimes, witholding that poke for a few days can intensify the relationship.

While context is bound to be missing from many queries, Tweetolife is still kind of fun to poke around. Can you find anything amusing?

Use a spoon to poke into the ice cream. If it's too hard, leave the yogurt at room temperature for about 15 minutes for it to soften first.

Could I at least poke my head in? I'm his wife.

I left E3 drolling with dreams of having this installed on my machine where I could poke at it for hours.

It has been a long-standing practice to poke fun at our cultural icons, symbols, public figures and celebrities.

However, consumers need to be careful in case they buy a pig in a poke and find no legal means of protecting their rights.

But above all, as Tehelka, a news weekly, observed, the strip appeared to "poke fun at the coy Indian attitude towards sexuality" .

You could even set up a cross-compiler and related tools and poke around in a little more detail.

When people poke fun at me for my big nose, I just laugh.

Steve would whip his camera from his little green back-pack and poke it practically into the creature's mouth, scanning the molars.

It has been a long-standing practice to attack or poke a fun at pop stars, movie stars or public figures.

These days a candidate is fair game for the press: they'll poke into every corner of his past life to see what scandal they can dig up.

He got a poke in the jaw for an answer, a good one that sent him flying to the other end of the bar.

It's not unheard of that the authorities get upset when foreigners poke around in what they consider being "their business" .

Before I poke a few holes in the Java technology dirigible, I should remind you of a little history.

poke broken door is the enemy of the things, they will use the major suit started to poke makers broken door.

With this done , you can visit the front page and poke around with the provided CGI scripts .

The element will shrink to the specified width, even if it makes the text inside poke beyond the element's boundaries.

Passengers are not allowed to poke their heads out of the windows.

She should know better than to poke the animal with her umbrella.

Tyler said friends and classmates sometimes poke fun at him, wondering where a black kid from Oakland learned how to sing Chinese opera.

No longer content to poke about in that little town, Morton went up to New York.

Mind you don't poke her eye out with that stick!

He did not allow his neighbours to poke into his garden.

Hiding a poke is the same thing as a rejection, and you don't want to send the wrong message to someone you might be interested in.

Roy: Should I speed the process to its logical conclusion and poke out my own eardrums now?

"I said, 'Take it down to Fio and have him poke some holes in it, ' " Dr. Kaplan recalled.

It's stupid to poke your nose into others' business, you know?

It was already targeted to poke around a nuclear reactor in Siberia. I took it an hour out of its way, tops.

Reviewing results in his lab in the foothills of the Rockies, Trenberth is the first to poke holes in his own work.

Celebi: How inappropriate! To poke fun at my petite proportions . . .

Friends taunted me with Facebook messages and pokes.

He came to Lant Street about once a year, bringing poke to Mr Ibbs, and picking up bad coin, cautions, and tips.

The impersonal pursuit of profit to the exclusion of all other considerations still deserves the occasional poke or two.

Luckily, he said, "this is something we should be able to poke at with the Large Hadron Collider. "

Carroll loved to spoof or poke fun at people who used fancy, important-sounding words when simple language would have done better.

We all poke fun at her because she wears such a strange hat.

more interesting is that, due to high similarity portrait, was also hand to poke to see, make sure the "Queen" what is true or false.

The goal here is to poke holes in the design and adjust it as needed (or throw it out and start over).

Just do what we tell you, don't try to have deep thoughts, and don't poke your nose into things that don't concern you!

Apple CEO Steve Jobs, borrowing a line from Mark Twain to poke fun at an erroneous report of his death by Bloomberg News.

After I get the radio tuned, then I take out the diode and poke around the pyrite for the hot spots.

Poke Root will assist initiates in lifting the veils of illusion so that one may more clearly see the truth of the matter.

Shutting off unneeded services creates a more secure environment with fewer applications and services for potential intruders to poke at.

When this wake lock is released, poke the user activity timer so the screen stays on for a little longer.

Wilbur watched him disappear into his tunnel. In a moment he saw the rat's sharp nose poke out from underneath the wooden trough.

You can poke around the bug and feature-request trackers, dredging up discussions on bugs opened and closed.

Poke with a skewer to check if the center is still soft and sticky.

They poke at it with long sticks, looking for bodies.

Tyson knocked my wallet off, so I took a poke at him.

The enemy is a long sleeve, you poke it, not long, not terrible.

It does, however, take my faith to depths I never fathomed, where hope begins to poke through the heartache.

When opening the condom wrapper take care not to poke a hole in the condom. Obviously, a hole or a tear in a condom defeats its purpose.

Nobody want a chemist to come in and poke around in their stuff like that and change things.

What's more, the pointy edges of the cube would actually poke through the planet's atmosphere like titanic mountains.

The best strategy for many companies is to openly fake it, to poke fun at their marketing excesses and admit their inauthenticity.

"By the dye vats, " I repeated cheerily, and flinched at a second, more insistent poke.

I'll poke at the dev team later to see what they know about it.

Take a plastic cup and poke a hole in the bottom.

"Our relationship is incredibly healthy, " says Mr Parker. "We poke each other all the time, we debate; it's a part of the process. "

In a coner, I saw a little bag on the road. So I poke it and opened it to have a look.

You've got to poke around every program to find out how to do its most basic tasks.

That certainly could be the reason for a small poke to become a large tear.

The poke of her black bonnet hide her face from him.

OK, it's easy to poke fun.

Never poke your head out of a train window.

Never had to try to poke one with a sharp stick.

They re always getting patients to poke their tongues out and I ve no idea why it rarely gives any useful information.

I hope that you will not take it amiss if I poke some fun.

The poke wasn't reported at the time of the occurrence.

Stop taking life and conversations so seriously and learn to open up, and poke fun at yourself and others.

Do not poke your hand out of the window!

Jokes abound that poke fun at Southerners and their ways, but Southerners say those who make jokes about their land are just jealous.

Unsafe poking can lead to stalker-esque relationships, both in and out of Facebook.

"People were talking about Doha or Bahrain but I'd rather poke my eyes out, " says the 28-year-old Scot.

"If they're kind of sitting there and you don't know if they're alive or dead, " she explains, "you poke them with a probe. "

In this paper, a two-layered structure consisting of the fat and the muscle of poke was used as the sample.

Mind you, people at international conferences love to criticize America, poke fun at America and complain about America.

Though China may be unwilling to give America more than a cautious poke, it is a different story with Europe.

The ability to distance from the everyday challenges of being in a relationship, and even poke fun at them, can bring long-term stability.

Politicians will struggle to contest plans that underscore nationalist and religious values and poke fun at Greece.

Ansoff included Prof Lindblom's article mainly to poke fun at those who acted on this advice.

And it is merely the latest manifestation of a growing tendency for science to poke its nose into the God business.

his eyes, frequently came to poke the counting-house fire for him.

My friends often poke fun at my accent.

This arrow (golden Ghale shameless) has hit a target he, passed through his philosophy military to poke his heart.

Perhaps the best way to expand geothermal is to pair it with another industry that likes to poke holes deep beneath the Earth: oil and gas.

I poke her in the stomach and she curls up like a hedgehog, giggling.

Loving your audience as much or more than you poke fun at them.

Take the dough, poke it down. We call this punching. Punching down the dough .

" Fu : " Qicun pinch, poke through the anus, two very effective way, we hope that the widely disseminated.

Poke the soil with your finger before watering.

If, along the way, they come across a new home under construction, they get angry and poke holes in the walls.

Perhaps the US should poke them some more, Im curious to discover what else the Chinese are keeping out of sight.

Don't poke your nose into everything. This is none of your business.

When a mosquito bites, it uses a long mouth tube, called a proboscis, to poke through your skin.

Cadie's homepage is hosted with Blogger, full of background music, poke the panda ads, and rainbows.

Wrong counts of fertilizer pokes sometimes occurs in old fertilizer poke count system .

Again and again these feminist lexicographyers refuse and indeed poke fun at the mainstream lexicography.

Don't poke me on the head with your finger!

Don't poke fun, please. My life is at stake.

Poke fun of text browsers all you want, but they are still prevalent in many mobile devices.

Traffic police stood under the shade of trees along long roads with no traffic, watching ox carts poke by in fields in the distance.

Poke around the wiki or the website, and see what they have to offer.

If she wins, she gets to go free, but if she loses, he'll poke out her eye.

Brown on the first poke a few holes, and place chicken skin side down.

He suggested I go on the Johnny Carson show and poke fun at myself.

"My advisers upstairs said we should not poke a finger in the eye of the appropriations committee, " the article quotes Runge as saying.

unless otherwise required off gate bridge, absolutely can't poke makers broken door!

And other children in curiosity come up and poke the lesion, because -- a natural curiosity.

You can tickle or poke with your finger or dance with Joa.

Poke two eye holes in a bed sheet and you've got the easiest Halloween costume around.

Don't poke you nose into what doesn't concern you. Attend to what concerns you.

YOU AND DOC JUST ENJOY YOUR POKE IN THE PINES.

People are just material objects, the sorts of things biologists poke and prod and study.

blunt-ended scissors (so you don't poke them), trim out all the hair growing there.

As a careless person, she always buy a pig in a poke.

Never poke someone you dont know and haven't spoken to, simply because you find them attractive.

Gather the sides of the overalls and poke a hole through both layers of fabric.

So when we poke fun at our leaders, in a sense we are also poking fun at ourselves because we are poking fun at the choices we make.

Officials from Russia to South Africa to China, predictably, poke holes in that logic.

Pepole will poke fun at a pauper rather than a prostitute. So no body will laugh at your quicker steps.

Police and firefighters will come when you call them and doctors who poke and prod you are using clean instruments.

His retelling of ancient stories that poke fun at our society is devilishly clever.

Place dough on the floured board, and knead for approximately ten minutes. You can poke it.

I often poke along in secondhand bookstores in search of interesting old books.

Also, putting up sexy, cute, or marginally attractive profile pictures that non-friends can see might lead to unwanted poking.

Improve the process with LEAN production mothed and push POKE-YOKE in the production line to avoid operating mistakes.

hello, you poke is telephone process telephone, please wait again.

The boxer--wants to poke and be poked, seeks revenge and ultimately victory.

I poke around but I still can't find any trousers.

A better approach is to start a timer, and have timer poke the event thread every so often to go look at the staging area for updates.

Don't poke your umbrella through the bars of the lion's cage.

It goes on to poke fun at British cuisine, drinking-habits and sport.

Poke To push or jab at, as with a finger or an arm; prod.

sorry, you poke is telephone temporary unable, please wait again.

"You don't poke at a lion, " the Timberwolves' Snyder said.

I just can't pass up this opportunity to poke a little fun at you.

The young writer takes a poke at the government's refusal to sign the green pact with the neighboring nations.

"We start on your poke. " Cal grinned.

"By the dye vats, " I answered, earning a poke from Hattie.

But the lesson I take from it is that I need to be more consistent about carving out some time just to poke around and generate ideas.

To jab or poke, as with a pointed object.

A careful person will not buy a pig in a poke.

Buying a car without trying it by yourself is just like buying a pig in a poke, isn't it?

This slow-poke game, which originated in 16th-century Scotland, has captivated the Type-A world of Wall Street almost by accident.

A poke, a prod, a wince and some colourful language (mine not his) and appendicitis is the chief suspect.

But China has a history of taking debt off its books and burying it, which should prompt us to poke and prod its numbers.

The poke, Facebook's signature function, is a kind of electronic "wassup" which Facebookers send to friends and acquaintances for fun.

No it doesn't. If you told me to poke you in the eye, I wouldn't do it!

The central meaning shared by these verbs is "to poke fun at good-humoredly"

Poke looked around at her crew. She couldn't read their faces.

Poke them randomly into your green plants for added color.

Don't poke it with your finger.

Can these guys poke their throat with toothbrush.

When they bought that house, they bought a pig in a poke.

And others took the opportunity to poke fun at the US.

It is impolite to poke the top of food with chopsticks.

Watched it straight spit bubbles that angry look, I am more excited to continue to poke it with the toothbrush.

Don't poke and pry about into what other people prefer to keep hidden.

When you feel yourself slouching, poke your chest out.

Many in the Western commentariat were happy to poke fun.

They bought a pig in a poke when they bought that car.

And you should even poke holes in your own recommendation before you take it to your boss, so that he or she doesn't have to.

I guess when you see my butt, you just really want to poke it.

To poke or prod with a stick.

The man who owns this land said I could poke around here anytime.

We hackers like to poke at the guts of things.

What devices is Ubuntu now designed for? Am I supposed to poke my fingers onto a flat screen and use a keyboard at the same time?

They'll wake up, poke their little heads out. . .

Our buildings will rise, poke out our own eyes.

Can you poke up the fire?

When youfeel yourself slouching, poke your chest out.

All right, ladies and gentlemen, let's poke.

Don't poke your mouth with the chopsticks.

There's no nod to the left, no telling elbow poke in our side or "psst" in our ear.

We can kind of poke at it and test it, maybe here is a problem, maybe we can fix it in the end.

In the countryside, ribs poke from under the taut skin of livestock.

Don't poke in when other people prefer to keep hidden.

Think of using a tooth-pick to poke an orange at high speed. See if you can make a symmetrical linear cut.

Ah, you little boy, you want to poke my privacy?

To poke, prod, or pinch (a person) between or on the buttocks.

She gave the fire a poke.

Don't poke sticks at the monkeys.

You shouldn't poke your nose into things that don't concern you.

This is what they call punching down, so poke it; don't be afraid. Poke the dough. Fold it over. . .

Don't poke your nose into my business.

Don't poke your nose into the affaires of others.

Poke around in people's brains.

5-Star Tip. It's never a good idea to "poke" your professor.

Poke two holes in the sack so you can see through it.

This is something I told you not to poke your nose into.

Don't poke your nose into my affairs.

She doesn't like to buy things by mail because that would mean buying a pig in a poke.

"Me too, " she says and looks out the window. He wants to joke, to poke at her side and make her laugh.

Should I poke it with my net?

You want to poke mama bear right now?

Don't poke or flip it once it's on the grill.

I'm sure economists (which I am not) and others can poke holes in this theory.

All the way they played poke and games, told stories and sang as if they were years' old friends.

DON'T POKE PEOPLE YOU DONT KNOW.

Han Jia, I wanted to poke a beehive.

He regretted buying a pig in a poke because the second-hand computer he had bought didn't work.

Paolo: Ah, poke a nose, mmm.

poke at with the foot or toe.

poke the cake with fuck.

Buy a pig in a poke.

Gosh, did I poke too deep?

Why do you always try to poke your nose into others'affairs?

Or I'll poke myself in the eye!

He used a nail to poke a hole.

Never buy a pig in the poke.

Be careful to not poke youreye out.

To poke a hole for port 22 in the firewall.

To poke fun at; mock.

I had that chicken, where you poke it and butter squirts out.

If you like being an elusive, hard-to-get poke, don't give it up too soon!

Until then, it's fascinating to peel open the map and poke around Africa to see who's doing what.

a poke in the jaw.

That every time you go out to play I have to warn you: don't touch the hornet, don't poke!

My father and two sisters are such heavy sleepers that if you poke them in the ribs they don't wake up.

Many Egyptian jokes poke fun at political and economic conditions that most feel they can do little to change.

You pull them or you poke them, one or the other.

In America, he says, it's funny to poke fun at yourself.

One can cross the bridge in 1 minute, another in 2 minutes, the third in 5 minutes, and the slow poke takes 10 minutes to cross.