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Of course, I don't like you so well when you're half anaesthetized all the time.

I was allowed to stay with her while she was being anaesthetized.

The ward nurse may be asked to remain with the patient until fully anaesthetized.

Laughter here might anaesthetize our feelings, deaden us to the moral issue.

Even he has been drugged by the system and anaesthetized against the perception of his own misery.

In exactly three minutes I'll be totally anaesthetized.

After which, tongue anaesthetized, I will switch to the cheap stuff."

The patients were fetched, anaesthetized, operated upon and handed over to her care with a speed which was too good to last.

The aching sickness was still there, but they were gradually becoming anaesthetized to the horror.

We are of a generation which is in dreadful danger of being anaesthetized morally.

I cut through shallow, sandy hills, but the struggle was anaesthetized by day-dreams.

Her flesh felt rubbery, indistinct; it was like being mildly anaesthetized.

We would train chicks on water or methylanthranilate, and then anaesthetize them.

We've anaesthetized him before he woke up.

It is important that all limbs are fully supported in a neutral position while the patient is anaesthetized.

At the hotel I lay down and fell asleep as though I had been anaesthetized.

These all anaesthetized my emotions and feelings.

"I dimly recall regaining consciousness only to be anaesthetized," Johnny said weakly.

The researcher insisted the dog had been anaesthetized and won a much-publicized libel suit.

Well, then he would be wisest to anaesthetize his mind directly, letting his body stay strong and ready."

I think that it may have been a poisonous exhalation that was intended to anaesthetize its victims.

Although he had only been lightly anaesthetized, he failed to "wake up" and died shortly after leaving the theatre.

But as I entered my 20s I became lost, anaesthetized by consumerism and other propaganda.

It no longer hurt, but on the other hand it no longer anaesthetized the present, either.

He could feel no contact at all, both hand and face were anaesthetised by the cold.

Margaret had to be anaesthetised for the birth, and she was hardly well when they sent the two of them home.

He closed his eyes, listening to the din, being anaesthetised by it.

Anaesthetised it was laid on a damp towel for treatment.

It was as if a part of their consciousness was anaesthetised.

Without such a sense of pain we would be anaesthetised to the plight of others.

The main argument is that animals should be anaesthetised or "stunned" before killing.

That told me nothing, either, because the nerves of my tongue were entirely anaesthetised by the cocaine.

I had a gun at the doctor's throat as he anaesthetised My Lady.

And perhaps she had become anaesthetised by the fact that a third of the married couples in Britain were now divorced or separated.

What guarantee can there possibly be that anyone not drugged or anaesthetised could survive such an experience?

He'll be anaesthetised of course but there's usually a lot of pulling."

"It was my recommendation that it be anaesthetised," said the newcomer.

He was later anaesthetised and captured after leaping into the nearby tiger enclosure.

Voters were asked whether they approved of prohibiting butchering without the animals being anaesthetised.

The whisky slopped in his glass, but he was sufficiently anaesthetised not to drop it.

Before they are killed, cage salmon are anaesthetised with a herbal extract.

Women can give birth without knowing it, not only when anaesthetised, but also when profoundly drunk.

And perhaps that was all she could hope, that her pain, her regret for what might have been, would be anaesthetised.

Adult male and female fish are anaesthetised.

Final evaluation of the wound is done once that part of the body or the whole patient is anaesthetised.

"You should have anaesthetised it," he said.

Instead she is anaesthetised and her foreleg X-rayed.

Waiting until she was anaesthetised and had no control over events re-enacted and reinforced the abuse begun by her father.

"Why has it not been anaesthetised?"

I'm going to tell the doctor not to anesthetize you at all and use a big needle.

Someone said that progress often depended on anesthetizing the past.

They practically had to anesthetize her to stop the screaming.

"In your 20's you tear everything up and anesthetize yourself," he said.

I could teach you how to anesthetize them and make injections.

Short on drugs, they have turned to acupuncture to anesthetize some patients.

Never again would he anesthetize himself to life's highs and lows.

It would require getting the surgery room completely ready before anesthetizing the dog.

There he was, wounded, and the ship's banking computer would not even let him anesthetize himself.

Let the nearness anesthetize him, so that he might for a moment forget.

But no, there are too many deer to anesthetize and helicopter to a remote area.

"He is a dangerous man who can never be forgiven for anesthetizing the people.

We were forced to anesthetize everyone and starve the entities.

If she held on to the thing for long enough, she might be able to anesthetize herself completely.

Do they, before the last moments, experience, as we did, a terror so anesthetizing that it could pass for courage?

Before the first cut could be made, team members spent hours in the operating room carefully preparing and anesthetizing the babies.

As yet we don't know enough about its metabolism to anesthetize without risk of killing the patient.

It is illegal to capture them or even to anesthetize them and take their blood.

Some of his friends and associates maintain that the habits were related: he had to be doing something or to anesthetize himself.

First of course he has to anesthetize with Novocain.

Frantic doctors, desperate for any medication, anesthetize their patients with vodka.

I should have gone down to sickbay and had that holographic medical program anesthetize me.

The gods were not kind enough to anesthetize him during this procedure, but he had grown accustomed to the pain.

He recovered the lance and bathed himself with anesthetizing pulses.

For example, a divorced single mother may drink because she is trying to anesthetize the pain of her disconnectedness.