• His still delicate heart came to a stop, as if suddenly cast in stone, only to shatter into pieces when it came charging back.

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  • Everyone knows the Blues Mobile -- Jake and Elwood's 1974 Dodge Monaco in "The Blues Brothers" movie -- but few know where all the cop cars famously smashed to pieces in the film came from.

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  • As a band performed for an assembled crowd, the column came crashing to the street, breaking into several pieces.

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  • Then, as we all know too well, things fell to pieces as all that risky business came home to roost.

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  • Her favorite takes on the look came from Louis Vuitton, for "timeless pieces to keep in your wardrobe, " she said, and Balmain.

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  • All of Everton's goals in the 3-3 draw at Stamford Bridge in December came from set-pieces but Chelsea had obviously failed to heed the lesson.

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  • But because these savings came not from giant plants but in zillions of tiny pieces imperceptible to the untrained eye, energy efficiency gets little respect.

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  • Zhu's parents died when he was young, and he was raised by an uncle who gave his charge 100 pieces of silver when it came time for the young man to go to university.

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  • Together, engineers and factory workers came up with a specially designed tool that allows workers to pivot the two pieces as much as 2 millimeters in either direction to ensure a perfect fit every time.

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  • Astronomer Dr. Smith said there has probably been only one case in Sudan in 2007 where researchers were able to follow the track of a meteor as it came down and recover pieces of it on the ground.

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  • Last year, at Texas Motor Speedway, Michael McDowell hit an oil slick, slammed head first into the wall at a hundred and eighty miles per hour, flipped over and over, leaving much of his car in pieces on the track, and, when the vehicle finally came to a stop, crawled out of the wreckage and walked away.

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  • In 1998 the PUP came to power after defeating the centre-left United Democratic Party (UDP), and subsequently introduced several pieces of legislation financially advantageous to Lord Ashcroft.

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  • The only two pieces of action of note came in the final three minutes, first when Edwards clinched what turned out to be the winner.

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