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Перевод: straightening

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Тезаурус:

1. She sat up, straightening her clothes just as Edward opened the steamed-up window of the car and dumped the handkerchief out into the hedge.
2. He tried drawing in his stomach and straightening his shoulders, as instructed by the physical education teacher.
3. "Maybe the crew are being kept prisoners," Delaney offered, straightening up.
4. She was getting quite neurotic, Harriet reflected, and the same thought occurred to her now as she checked her image in the full length mirror, tucking her camisole top more neatly in at the waist of her pants and straightening the ornamental clasp of the loose belt she had fastened around her hips.
5. Start as before, first bending the knees, then straightening the legs.
6. The helper assists the person into a sitting position by straightening his/her knees.
7. The roads in this upper part of the valley were designed in medieval times for the occasional passage of horses and carts and have never been brought to modern standards by straightening and widening and it is to be hoped that they never will be.
8. With a slight change of posture - a lift of the head, a straightening of the already straight back, that little proud look - she seemed to transform herself into a great lady of some kind.
9. He might practise controlled movements involving bending his knee, or bending and straightening his arm.
10. He remembered little things - childhood images trapped in memory: his father's hand laid momentarily on his mother's as they sat at table; laughter from their bedroom at night; his mother straightening his father's tie and drawing her finger in a delicate gesture along his cheek.
11. Hundreds of such details mark Dostoevsky's year-long burst of composition, hour upon hour, "Without straightening my neck", he said.
12. Straightening, she opened the book at a page marked with a tram ticket.
13. Frederick the Great had been straightening his tie but now he turned round to look at me and after registering a look of surprise he called to Sally and her friend and they all burst into laughter.