The first two novels - The Knife of Never Letting Go and The Ask and the Answer - were shortlisted for the Carnegie in 2009 and 2010.

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It doesn't look like the channel's beyond reality programming altogether, with its first two shows being a cooking competition named Knife Fight and its other being a celebrity-based travel show named The Getaway.

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He said that during a struggle Mr Thompson, who has a total of 182 previous criminal convictions including offences of serious assault and indecent assault, first used a lump hammer and then a knife.

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To section the fruit, first remove the skin and pith with a sharp paring knife.

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The first woman in more than a thousand years to perform the Knife Ceremony, a hallowed sushi ritual, did so last year.

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Incidentally, one of Mr Grayling's first acts in his new post was to commission a report on current knife crime laws - perhaps the fruits of that report may appear when the bill moves over to the Commons.

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First he makes a large circle on the flat side of the pumpkin with his knife.

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The design is first sketched on paper, and then engraved on stone, in reverse, with a knife.

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At first glance, it doesn't make any sense: If you can disarm a knife-wielding mugger, why can't you disarm your electronic mugger?

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Even on Saturday, when Keane had been suckered into a red card by Jason McAteer - hardly the sharpest knife in the drawer when it comes to the game's black arts - Ferguson's first instinct was a defensive one.

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