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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
belay .
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Examples
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Bean went up the mountain first, belayed by Alex, just to prove to me that he was okay.
Adrian Margaret Brune: Patagonia Climber Bean Bowers: 1973-2011, He Always Picked Himself -- And Others -- Up Again Adrian Margaret Brune 2011
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I belayed Alex at his own urging -- a move to practice my confidence building -- and Alex belayed me as I climbed.
Adrian Margaret Brune: Patagonia Climber Bean Bowers: 1973-2011, He Always Picked Himself -- And Others -- Up Again Adrian Margaret Brune 2011
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So I rested and belayed for a little bit, and came back to try an easy fun new route with a little corner on it that I got Monday, because I wanted to see if I could just glide up it.
my fandom runs like a girl greygirlbeast 2008
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In airmanship class Mr. Rigby had taught them about how riggers “belayed,” which was Service-speak for sliding down a rope without breaking your neck.
Behemoth Mr. Scott Westerfeld 2010
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But a Suzuki Bluesmaster is about £20 quid a pop, so that order is belayed for now.
Nobody ever got fired for using an E instead of an Em « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog 2008
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A brief walk up from the green grocer left me breathless so I called off my personal plans to climb today, if I couldn't make it up a hill without wheezing I don't think that I would have been too successful in a self-belayed climbing attempt.
Archive 2009-10-01 Khalil 2009
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A brief walk up from the green grocer left me breathless so I called off my personal plans to climb today, if I couldn't make it up a hill without wheezing I don't think that I would have been too successful in a self-belayed climbing attempt.
Felling a bit better... Khalil 2009
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Thank God there's lunch with elfshot tomorrow, and Peter Mulvey at the Iron Horse Sunday night, and the gym with ashacat and a long-belayed trip to my massage therapist on Monday, and hiking on Tuesday.
As promised, the cast list for INK & STEEL hal_duncan 2007
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A big barrel chest, with warm brown eyes and a disarming grin, which belayed a very serious man who, she had no doubt, could lose his temper at work.
Extreme Measures Vince Flynn 2009
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There were no fire escapes or windows on the memorial wall and the writers had to rappel from the roof with belayed ropes or sway on makeshift scaffolds when they did an angel in the lower ranks.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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