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  • Made for the up-and-over garage doors common in Europe, they mount with Velcro and can be adapted to fit sectional garage doors.

    Cool Garage Doors « You Got to be Kidding's Blog 2009

  • The latest model from Screwpull is one of its easiest to use, removing the cork in a simple up-and-over motion.

    For the Oenophile Who Has It All Will Lyons 2010

  • It shook and rattled like an up-and-over garage door as they kicked at it in a fury, and when it did finally swing open, it was still rattling like a pantomime thunderstorm.

    Bravo-Two-Zero McNab, Andy 1993

  • Around 1: 30 pm, a neighbor called police to report a truck that had driven up-and-over several lawns, eventually crashing into the outside of a home at 5251 Sierra Highlands Court.

    KOLO - HomePage - Headlines 2010

  • Somehow, in the last few years, the creative free-kick has largely been abandoned in favour of the Ronaldo patented 'valve' punt or the up-and-over Beckham curler.

    TEAMtalk Football News 2010

  • I know a guy who took his estate car through the car wash and when the up-and-over brush got to the back of the car, it ripped his rear wiper off.

    TechNet Blogs 2009

  • Media and OMMA magazines, Manolo Almagro of Show+Tell, Tony Jarvis of Clear Channel Outdoor, and Joe Mandese, Editor in Chief at MediaPost, discovered the chair layout gave them an opportunity to do step aerobics every time the presenter changed: the podium was blocked, so they had to do a little up-and-over the stairs during the changing of the guard.

    unknown title 2009

  • Then it was up-and-over a steep "knob" of snow that turned out to really be an old lip of a crevasse.

    unknown title 2009

  • Delpech's performance during the final round of competition involved plenty of bottle juggling - six 40-ounce bottles at a time, at one brief point - and several behind-the-back, up-and-over, showy moves.

    Las Vegas Sun Stories: All Sun Headlines 2009

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