She was alive, but her right hand was trapped.

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In 2008, he wrote another report in which he said bruising to the right side of her face face was in keeping with a punch or a forceful grip with a hand when she was still alive.

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The capture method is unusual: the flies must be alive and whole so they are caught by hand using humans as bait.

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The fingers were alive: that meant that he would keep his hand and arm, and that death had been and gone long ago.

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McGregor kept the tie alive when he turned Ivanschitz's long-range effort round his right-hand post.

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Knifed drop-shot from Murray on the back-hand side, but that's great scrambling from Chela to keep the game alive, yanking a backhand volley past the flailing Scot.

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