Younus Khan hit 46 not out of 31 balls, but his team finished limply on 137-7.

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And it punctiliously obeys, its gas pedal falling limply ineffective as you approach the limit.

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Fifty-eight years old, he was invariably dishevelled, in an old jacket and trousers that hung limply on his narrow frame.

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It hung limply by my side like an elephant's trunk.

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But Bolton never gave up hope and really should have equalised in the dying minutes when Elmander headed limply wide before Ivan Klasnic shot across the face of goal.

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Most secretaries of state seem at sea when they are not overseas: Mr Baker once tried to explain the Gulf war by saying limply that, well, it did mean jobs.

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Another witness, a 17-year-old girl, told prosecutors that the girl was unable to lift her head when a now-infamous picture was taken of her being held limply by Richmond and Mays, but she said the girl was not unconscious.

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Chelsea were partial architects of their own downfall as Jon Obi Mikel headed a long Bridge clearance towards his own goal but Tevez then repeatedly managed to hold off both Terry and Ricardo Carvalho before shooting limply beyond the outstretched but ultimately futile dive of Hilario.

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