starting pistol
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You could fire a starting pistol next to some and they would barely look up.

This is, as it were, the starting pistol for the Commission's work.

It turns out to be just a starting pistol.

They were armed with a starting pistol, a knife and an iron bar.

They show that even before the starting pistol was fired on the election, the Tories were way ahead.

It's this little pair who fire your starting pistol."

After twenty turbulent years we have now finally fired the starting pistol for the European single currency.

Again they sprinted across the tarmac as if reacting to a starting pistol.

Or did Brinkley fire the starting pistol the moment I walked out of his house?

Roughly the size of a watermelon, Sputnik was the starting pistol that launched the space race.

I wish, for instance, we had a starting pistol.'

Last week, the chancellor, George Osborne, fired the starting pistol on the race to the bottom.

Rather, it is the starting pistol.

A brass band will play carols from 12 noon until the starting pistol at 1pm.

Several makes of starting pistols use .22 Short blank cartridges.

But he stood by his decision to give Robert Ward, 20, probation for holding up a solicitor's office with a starting pistol.

"It seems likely--someone had to fire the starting pistol."

Sunrise was like a starting pistol for fishermen, though they moved out to sea at the pace of the tortoise, not the hare.

It was a handgun which once in its life had not been capable of firing - a replica, a starting pistol or a collector's weapon.

Crossing the line or starting before the starting pistol is fired most often results in disqualification of the runner.

Specific models of blank-firing starting pistol that are "readily convertible" to fire live ammunition can also be banned.

Demeke entered the airport carrying a starting pistol loaded with blanks.

As the race is about to begin, Kramer's car backfires; Jerry mistakes that for the starting pistol, giving him another head start.

ON May 1, the starting pistol will go off for a key Olympics event - the race for tickets.

A different gun was used on each of the three days.

The police would not say what kind of gun was used.

I used to get the mind to fire the gun.

You should not talk when people have a gun to your head.

He put himself between her and the man with the gun.

The man said he had a gun, according to the police.

I always point the gun to the head, you know.

One of them put a gun to her head, the police said.

By the time he said get down, the gun went off.

Some of them make my wife seem like a top gun.

I feel like I've got a gun to my head.

She had to hold a gun for the first time.

He was found dead with a gun at his side.

The problem is, he started too soon after the gun went off.

And he still is the best, the son of a gun.

The police said they were still looking for the gun.

Police do not yet know what sort of gun was used.

He could even provide me with a gun if I needed one.

The King wanted to know what the gun was used for.

The man with the gun had run back to the car.

But why did he feel the need of a gun?

One of the men tried to bring his gun around.

I needed to put them down to fire the gun.

He tried to bring the big gun up with one hand.

He might as well have held a gun to her head.