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Finding the leak required breaking through the concrete and metal biological shield with sledgehammers.
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After breaking through an upstairs wall and discovering an ancient dusty bedroom, a long-dead skeleton is found in the four-poster bed.
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He moved closer, thinking it was a clump of toadstools breaking through the ground, but there was something about the shape that bothered him.
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This was not a naturally-occurring whirlpool, but a man-made disaster caused by breaking through the roof of a salt mine.
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The embalmers took out the brain by inserting a sharp object in the nostril, breaking through it into the brain and then liquefying it.
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He decided that he was going to take it over either by breaking through the city's defenses or by starving the inhabitants into submission.
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Shortly afterward the abolitionists stormed the hall, breaking through the door with a battering ram.
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The road is a dangerous one for truckers, who risk breaking through the ice.
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Sledgehammers are often used in destruction work, for breaking through drywall or masonry walls.
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At least 100 people marched through town yesterday with some breaking through the cordoned-off central business district.
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