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Last week, a budget bill scraped through the House, 217 to 215.

But I had managed to scrape through and felt ready to face anything.

In fact, I feel pretty certain she will scrape through."

She manages to scrape through somehow with help from her friends.

At last he found a key that scraped through the eye of the lock.

There was little room to spare, but he managed to scrape through.

The aim is to cut costs enough to scrape through today's recession.

And then he scraped through to the other side, disappearing from my range of vision.

He had to do better than just scraping through.

There was only just room to scrape through between the roots of the tree and the edge.

The rest of the wreck scraped through the hole in the wire.

He gave another heave and then her hips scraped through.

Douglas rolled rocks out of the way, and they scraped through.

The week before, I had barely scraped through two very close shaves of another kind.

The most contested was the referendum on drug abuse, which scraped through by some 55 percent.

That was a group of overachievers who scraped through to one close victory after another.

Friends of Cuba suggest they may just scrape through now that oil in commercial quantities has been found.

Then his hands scraped through her hair and he lifted her face.

A hand scraped through the thickness of her hair.

She heard a clunk and felt a scrape through the thick metal.

"Yeah, he's been lending me enough to scrape through, too.

Good reflexes and enough brains to scrape through the Academy.

Suddenly, he said, the plane scraped through trees, hit a hill and began to skid.

"I was one of those children who could just about get away without practising and still pass, scrape through the grades."

Here there was room for only one wagon to scrape through the infringing forest.