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Over the last few months, we have been in some sense paralysed.

After all, these people had paralysed the country three years earlier!

A few minutes ago, he had been paralysed with fear.

And I am going to say one thing to you: it has been paralysed for more than a year.

The child was paralysed with fear when he saw the big dog.

Only then did he notice how paralysed the face of his friend was.

Yet how many of us are paralysed by our fears?

In 1999 a stroke left her paralysed on one side.

Three others were paralysed for several hours but they later made a full recovery.

In fact, he seemed to be paralysed from head to toe.

He had been paralysed and in permanent hospital care for 21 years.

He felt paralysed by the gravity of what had just been decided.

We have been doing everything to avoid the idea that Europe is paralysed.

The process of reform in this country is still being paralysed by political forces there.

The strike by teachers has completely paralysed the school system.

I was almost paralysed with fear, until outrage took over.

He found a few wounded, one or two paralysed by fear.

The older man appeared to be fully paralysed like the rest.

The shooting had left him paralysed from the neck down.

Ron's right arm was paralysed for the rest of the night.

He wasn't going to be paralysed for the rest of his life.

That is where I am now, down and paralysed, while the hunters close in on me.

On 9 December 1997 a national strike paralysed the country.

Sometimes, he was almost completely paralysed and had difficulty moving them.

He then fell into the water, paralysed from the waist down.

Two days after her death, the family was still paralyzed.

Our party had two per person and was nearly paralyzed.

For a while, American business was paralyzed as never before.

Four years later, I was paralyzed on the left side.

She looked like a woman who would never be paralyzed again.

He was paralyzed from the middle of the back down.

Once, he would have been paralyzed by the very thought.

As a result of the fall, the two women said, the young man was paralyzed.

Another man might have been paralyzed by the problem of what to do next.

But it was the eyes, not the voice, which held him paralyzed.

He was anything but paralyzed by it before, why now?

For a moment the four men stood as if paralyzed.

He was paralyzed by the fear of making the wrong decision.

There was a time when being this high up would have paralyzed me.

Other people say they feel paralyzed by the lack of information.

It had all happened so quickly that everyone was as if paralyzed.

Half my face became totally paralyzed when I was 13 years old.

He has been paralyzed from the neck down ever since.

The condition has paralyzed the left side of his face.

By the age of 31, her left side was entirely paralyzed.

"I was paralyzed by the connection between me and the people in the car."

In the second, 48 people were hurt, including a 60-year-old woman who was paralyzed.

One look at you, and I seemed to be paralyzed all over, as in a dream.

"I think in a sense, foreign policy has been paralyzed."

A car accident left the right side of his body paralyzed.