However, Monfils, ranked 17th in the world, regained his nerve in the next game to break back and put his country 1-0 up.

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Time and again he tried to quit only to be put back on his bike and coaxed up another hill.

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Steve Collins, an Australian broadcaster who runs the blog Grumpy's Getaway Guide, argues that he shouldn't have to put up with passengers who lean back and invade his personal space.

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Heavy body shots put Gammer down in the first round, although he got up to battle his way back against 'The Nordic Nightmare'.

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Socrates spent his life trying to wake people up, and his sleep deprived fellow Athenians eventually put him to death so they could go back to sleep.

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They got another lift from Iman Shumpert in the following period, when the swingman connected on all four of his shots in the second, including a rim-rocking, put-back dunk that put the Knicks up by 37-26.

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There was a suggestion of obstruction but the video official ruled in Sammut's favour and the full-back kicked his second goal to put his side 16-14 ahead, before Briers, who brought up his century of points in only his seventh match of the season, levelled the scores with an injury-time penalty.

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Four minutes later a length-of-the-field break by full-back Morgan Stoddart put winger Jones in to outpace Beauxis from outside the 22 to put his side 8-6 up.

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