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The former Old Trafford and England star lifted the lid on three years of pain as he struggled to overcome crippling knee tendon problems.

You take the lid, put your arm through the hole, take hold of my chin and pull it up high enough to put the lid on.

The greatest of these was to give up his nuclear programme and help to blow the lid on the nuclear black market centred on Pakistan.

Put the lid on. Cover the container with a big plastic sheet and tie it closed with some string or twine around the middle of the container.

South Africa and Vietnam have failed to keep the lid on prices and have been duly punished with a depreciating currency.

Phil Thompson today lifted the lid on why he turned down the opportunity to be reunited with Gerard Houllier.

De Lille blew the lid on corruption in South Africa's 1999 multibillion-dollar arms deal and was a witness in the case against Zuma.

His feet peddle as it moves, the lid on the back opens, see photo.

Forgot to put the lid on the blender, turned it on, and had everything fly out.

I've got a place at an American university but I can't afford to go, so that's put the lid on that.

He pulls and can in fact get her head up high enough to get the lid on.

You can use the index card, folded in half, as a makeshift shovel. Place the stones in the jar and screw the lid on.

A tentative recovery would keep the lid on demand for riskier assets and keep safe-haven government debt in favor with investors.

The impact on consumers may be more significant, because companies are keeping the lid on wages, their biggest single cost.

Globalisation has brought the Indian and Chinese workforces into the world economy, which has kept the lid on wage costs.

Place these herbs into the ready decoction and put the lid on for fifteen minutes.

Put the lid on the saucepan when cooking as this can save as much as four times the energy.

The pressures to reduce the federal deficit will tighten the lid on defense spending.

To keep the lid on the Carrefour issue , China's internet gatekeepers began restricting searches using the French company's name .

Once it's at a full boil, pop the lid on, turn it down to a simmer, and let it go for 10 to 15 minutes.

Local officials also largely kept the lid on this news.

Put the lid on that jug in case the lemonade sloshes over the sides!

When boiling vegetables, use enough water to cover them and keep the lid on the saucepan.

"We have defined key technologies which we are protecting by not lifting the lid on them. "

Arlie Russell Hochschild's seminal 1989 work, The Second Shift, lifted the lid on the imbalance between women's and men's workloads.

As soon as this was done, the fisherman clapped the lid on again, and the genie was shut up inside.

I took a stick of butter from the fridge. I lifted the lid on the butter dish.

It rained and rained, which put the lid on our plans for a picnic in the park.

Join me as I close the lid on my marriage.

Next steep the pearls in the hot water with the lid on.

The fisherman put the lid on again.

Put the lid on to prevent gas escaping.

That implies the need to keep the lid on deficits and wage growth.

When you've packed the box, hammer the lid on.

D on't forget to screw the lid on m the jar.

He put the lid on the jar.

Put the lid on the box.

I can't get the lid on.

This keeps the lid on costs and at the same time encourages people to keep working (since annuity rates rise with age).

Larry: The what? Oh, that. Well, just keep the lid on it and we'll all be fine.

Can you fit the lid on?

And pressures to reduce the federal deficit will tighten the lid on defense spending

An American victim lifts the lid on a social taboo

put the lid on (the teapot)

Screw the lid on tightly. exian