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Examples of poke


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I suggest that if he pokes his nose any further into this he will get it punched by local authorities.
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Specula- tors are already poking their noses here and there, trying to smell out what profits are in it for them.
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Is it not a fact that these old folk, like everybody else, do not like people poking about in their houses?
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I think it will be disclosed, when we have the replies, that our old friend the means test pokes his head up again.
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There is a clear role for the media, which need to stop using stereotypical images and stop poking fun.
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A very odd thing about politicians is that we love poking into other people's business.
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We have our wives and families in them, but we do not want anybody else poking around.
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He pokes fun at that; be does not think there can be such a thing.
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All kinds of gibes could no doubt be poked at us.
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I wonder how much of that is due to people poking their fingers in the wrong holes.
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I suggest that she must have realised by now that they cannot be stirred very far, no matter how hard she pokes.
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I believe that is an invitation to empire building and poking of noses.
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I do not want to see trained technical people coming into industry and being poked into offices.
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I claim to represent the public interest, which is always a good alibi when you are poking your nose into other people's business.
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He poked a good deal of fun at us on this side.
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They always walk in and start poking around by themselves.
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I recall being upbraided some years ago by an older councillor who accused me of poking my nose into matter which should not worry me.
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Recently the association poked its nose into political affairs.
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Members find it hard to resist poking fun at my continued idealism in raising the game of politics.
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He may be a supercilious fellow, but it did him and his party no credit when he poked fun at such a serious subject.
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The prisoners think it is appalling if some investigator or any member of the staff pokes his nose into their affairs.
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If the owner-operator starts poking about with the equipment, there will result wow and flutter, distortion, loss of audibility or, indeed, no sound at all.
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The system is simpler because it makes poking around every nook and cranny of the assessment of every rent unnecessary.
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Not only do people disregard notices, and climb over locked gates and break through fences, but children keep poking their way in wherever they can.
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A lot of fun was poked at the examination.
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He poked some fun at it and, if he had had unlimited time, he could have poked much more fun at it.
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I am sure he will forgive me for poking a little fun at him.
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There is no power to go poking your nose into industry and telling individual industrialists how to run their businesses.
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She poked her umbrella through a window, which, although recently repaired, could not be described as of any historic interest.
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I am told it lasted admirably until one day he poked a bonfire with it, when it disappeared, with results happily not injurious to himself.
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We have observed that he always pokes fun at us when he supports us.
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I had an image in mind of white-coated scientists taking a bunch of women down town for 15 pints and then poking them with a stick.
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The media must try to keep out of the way as it is extremely difficult to fight a war with television cameras poking over one's shoulder all the time.
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I deprecate the fact that on every conceivable opportunity fun is poked and derogatory references are made to civil servants themselves and to their methods of appointment.
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They were literally sitting in a corner of a room with a young man in front of them, poking his finger at them and demanding to know their salaries.
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I deny, however, that they have a right to go poking about and messing about with public officers of a public corporation to find out information, as was exposed yesterday.
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I do not mind them poking fun.
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Poking his nose into our business.
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He did not want doctors poking around.
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There is also concern that when poking about in structures that may be many hundreds of years old an awful lot of problems may be found.
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I regard that as much more important than somebody who has his hands in his pockets or who is poking a finger at others when he speaks.
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There are ladders poking through the windows.
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There is a need for the opportunity to learn by poking with a stick—to learn which end of a living creature is more likely to bite.
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While the audience follows their winding road to the playoffs, the film pokes fun at the clichs and conventions of other sports flicks.
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The often rambling conversation pokes fun at numerous prominent figures of the time.
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In association with their tough nature, many of them had facial stitches and their toes poking through their boots.
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The staircase moved forward in two places; top part moved while the bottom poked out more.
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They saw a group of women, poking with a long stick something on the ground that looked like a piece of ivory.
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He pokes one with a stick, but it does not wake.
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Candidates have traditionally given humorous speeches poking fun at themselves and their opponents, making the event similar to a roast.
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Indeed, poking each other's sore spots turns out to be the main order of business.
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High in a treetop he stopped, and, poking his head cautiously from behind a branch, looked down with an air of trepidation.
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The book is full of jokes about drinking and pokes fun at temperance.
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The humor is characteristically cynical, often poking fun of real-life situations, such as marriage, technology, authority and food.
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The dog directs the right path, instead of poking around wondering if you might bump into something.
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There are concrete pads at both ends of the strip, but these are badly deteriorated with rebar poking up from the surface.
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Here it pokes at the subconscious in unpredictable ways.
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Each episode consisted of two sitcom parodies poking fun at the actors who originally played the roles while twisting the original episodes' subtext.
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She notices that he wears contact lenses now instead of glasses, despite the fact that he didn't like poking his eye with his finger.
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He pokes her with a long stick and ink floods into her skin.
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Between service and sermon, an interval was allowed during which footmen poked the fires and saw that their master and mistress were comfortable.
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He pokes the basket, and it comes alive and runs around in circles.
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Therefore, the concerto was poking fun at his constant mood swings.
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Although he missed the penalty, he poked the rebound into the opposite side of the goal.
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Although the show was in fact poking fun at right-wing bigotry, not everyone got the joke.
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Crawford was poked with burning pieces of wood from the fire, and hot coals were thrown at him, which he was compelled to walk on.
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When a wrestler pokes his thumb or finger(s) into an opponent's eye(s).
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When a guard poked the tiger with a spear, the animal grabbed the spear then suddenly let it go.
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More generally the idiom pokes fun at older conservative bourgeoisie as a class.
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The strip gently pokes fun at the lives and foibles of modern women.
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With one of his eyes bulging from his skull and a bone poking out from his elbow, he sits down on the sidewalk.
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The show consists of different skits, poking fun at public figures and current affairs, though it has a constantly changing format.
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However, the play does not pick a side but pokes fun at everyone.
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Only monkeys who saw the levering model used the lever technique, by contrast with controls and those who witnessed poking.
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Typically, the call is caused by objects in a person's pocket or bag poking buttons on the phone.
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The activities include things like getting toast out with a fork and poking a stick at a grizzly bear.
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They weren't used to cameras poking them in the face.
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At times, the film captures comedic moments and at times pokes fun at the carnivalesque nature of the grassroots campaigns.
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Fingers of hair poked out the pillow, melted together with pins.
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Ticking is a tightly woven fabric, originally to prevent down feathers from poking through the fabric.
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He poked me in the chest with a piece of plumbing pipe.
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After she died, she appears as a floating ghost to her grandniece, giving her advice and poking fun at her.
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Predictable fun is poked at some of the more colourful characters.
I poked my head out of the covers and stared over the edge of the bed.
In the rustic humour there were opportunities for poking fun at lords and masters and oppressive authority, both civil and military.
She not only rejects all of her suitors but also pokes fun at them.
In any home where there is a young child, socket guards should be fitted to prevent a finger or pencil being poked into a potentially dangerous electrical socket.
The omission reflects the hubris of the academic wordsmiths who shaped it: in their scholarly world of tongues poked out at reality, describing is perceived as the same as controlling.
If you chose a large, cold thermometer and poked it into the water, it might absorb a lot of energy from the water and thus make it much cooler.
Because they were so busy trying to fill the holes the government had poked in the safety net, unions had little time left to make wage demands.
Neither the older people nor the students liked advertisements that ridiculed or poked fun at older people, or presented them as being out of touch with reality and unattractive.
She poked her neck and face far forward and had a tendency to slouch, letting the -ute hang to the right side at what appeared an extremely uncomfor table angle.
An alternative analysis would reflect the fact that poke requires an instrument, and modify the semantic representation for poke in figure.
The difficulties faced by the editors poke through in several places.
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