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1- A shovelful of old compost with this also helps.

2- Gently, he sprinkled each shovelful until the hole was covered.

3- It was our shovelful of hot coals for the brazier.

4- The first shovelfuls of dirt were turned by Minister for Transport Martin Cullen.

5- When she returned to the kitchen, she found Beth sprinkling a shovelful of coals on to the fire.

6- Research is spilling out of the broking houses by the shovelful , but often straight into the fund manager’s bin.

7- Add a shovelful of compost to a 5-gallon bucket of water and allowing it to steep for a few days.

8- Place the tree in the hole and use one shovelful of the soil amendment to three shovelfuls of the natural soil.

9- Place the tree in the hole and use one shovelful of the soil amendment to three shovelfuls of the natural soil.

10- Bins are loaded in successive horizontal layers of greenstuff, FYM, a sprinkling of ground limestone, and a shovelful of topsoil or old compost.

11- Find out who owns the paper and then wash the muck off each shovelful of words dumped down on your doorstep each day.

12- EVIL ASH HEAD Huh? 363 CLOSE SHOT – THE EVIL DEAD 363 It’s eyes dart, looking for something on it’s face when a shovelful of dirt is heaped atop it. 364 EVIL ASH HEAD – P.O.V. – EYEMO 364 as a shovelful of dirt is heaped atop the CAMERA. 365 ASH 365 buries it deep.

13- EVIL ASH HEAD Huh? 363 CLOSE SHOT – THE EVIL DEAD 363 It’s eyes dart, looking for something on it’s face when a shovelful of dirt is heaped atop it. 364 EVIL ASH HEAD – P.O.V. – EYEMO 364 as a shovelful of dirt is heaped atop the CAMERA. 365 ASH 365 buries it deep.

14- And now the guilt has started, because we’ve had the compost a week and I haven’t moved a single shovelful .

15- It is this: Wash the feet with warm water and soap, and having wiped them dry, throw two or three shovelfuls of hot ashes and live coals, from red oak bark or hickory upon each of his feet.

16- For days he backed the little transport box into the huge mound and went up and down the fields in lines, stopping the tractor every few yards to scatter the lime, tossing each shovelful on the wind for the white dust to be blown out over the grass.

17- And when the last shovelful of soil was flung on top of the coffin, they walked back, still without speaking, to the carriage.

18- Every shovelful .

19- Then a group of local armourers assembled in the square, were blessed at a makeshift altar and turned the first shovelful of earth on the foundations of the new building.

20- It could only be done when the wind was blowing, by throwing high into the air shovelfuls of grain, straw and chaff, the lighter materials being wafted to one side, while the grain, comparatively clean, would descend and form a heap by itself.

21- However, like all good things, ponds don’t come without costs, and part of the costs come before even a shovelful of dirt is moved.

22- The gravedigger “waves” three times, i.e. puts three shovelfuls of dirt on the grave – that’s traditionally a part of the burial ceremony.

23- The poor drainage that results can be helped significantly by digging in shovelfuls of sharp, pea-sized fruit, together with plenty of well-rotted organic manure or compost.

24- He had taken a shovelful of embers from the fire, and now he tossed them at her so that she had to dance about to escape the sparks.

25- Throw a shovelful of tarmac into the canal and they went to pieces, it hadn’t been his fault he’d tripped over the cat.

26- The record pan, according to witnesses, was $1,400.00, or roughly 7 pounds of gold in 15 pounds (two shovelfuls ) of gravel.

27- When their plot failed, and Nadaid re-ascended the throne, married Najmeh, and as the final act of the “Living Greyhawk” campaign in Ket, he dug up the first shovelful of dirt in the rebuilding of Lopolla.

28- Months later, Lee and Kara Thrace both get drunk at a party celebrating the ceremonial first shovelful of earth being dug on New Caprica.

29- One custom is for people present at the funeral to take a spade or shovel, held pointing down instead of up, to show the antithesis of death to life and that this use of the shovel is different from all other uses, to throw three shovelfuls of dirt into the grave.

30- The first ceremonial shovelful of dirt had been turned on March 9, and according to the “Advertiser” report above, in the 140 days since, ten miles of roadbed was graded and ready for rail.

31- On the roofs, corporate bosses drink, dance, and sun themselves as a helicopter drops a shovelful of money down for them.

32- Years afterward, the French government ceremoniously presented a shovelful of soil from the grounds of Fort-de-Joux to the Haitian government as a symbolic transfer of Toussaint Louverture’s remains.

33- In the distance a mess of lights were spread out across the face of the night like a shovelful of glowing cinders, flickering and scintillating in the currents of air rising from the villages in the plain between.

34- He found a like-minded partner in Khurram Shehzad , and the pair began reclaiming ground in steady shovelfuls at first, before Misbah felt he had the measure of the pace-friendly Mohali dirt.

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