Her legs remind you of a grate, everything's with holes up to the knees.

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Tian Tian (Sweetie) and Yang Guang (Sunshine) were also able to interact with a grate keeping them apart.

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He'd be squeezed against scores of other swine, hoofing a steel grate floor, while growing fatter and fatter on a factory farm.

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In February, Hasbro offered to add a plastic grate to keep young fingers out of the oven.

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In recent months, the two original padlock bridges have become so overloaded that locks have spread to any bridge with a small grate.

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The ideas may be fresh, but both pubs have retained their rustic character: flagstones on the floor, rough beams, a crackling fire in the grate and, most importantly of all, a passionately loyal local clientele.

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As such, the very idea of empire grates on his ears in a way it does not grate mine.

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You don't hear from Colin Powell some of the things that you hear from say Richard Pearle who's not actually a member of the administration, but you can hardly turn on a radio or television programme without hearing the ubiquitous Mr Pearle, and there are probably European voices which grate on American ears.

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