But he burped instead, a tiny little noise, commensurate with what he had eaten.

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Then it burped, the flame died and a shower of alcohol spewed over the tarmac.

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You bears laughed at me two days ago when the market burped up 450 points.

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Alan aside, who has not burped as badly, at least once, during the last five years?

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"By the time the food has been digested by the animal, a lot of the energy in it has been used up or burped out, " he said.

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