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Give 30 chest compressions, pressing quite hard and fast on the lower part of the breast-bone (the sternum).
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Give 30 chest compressions, pressing quite hard and fast on the lower part of the breast-bone the sternum.
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Give 30 chest compressions, pressing quite hard and fast on the lower part of the breast-bone the sternum.
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Give 30 chest compressions, pressing quite hard and fast on the lower part of the breast-bone (the sternum).
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But youre a player, I said, my heart slamming against my breast-bone.
Paradise Lost Kate Brian 2009
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But youre a player, I said, my heart slamming against my breast-bone.
Paradise Lost Kate Brian 2009
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He seconded the word with the action, and plunged the dagger, which he suddenly displayed, into the broad breast of the English yeoman, with such fatal certainty and force that the hilt made a hollow sound against the breast-bone, and the double-edged point split the very heart of his victim.
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She was narrow-boned all over; though her breast-bone protruded sharply, her chest was narrow.
Archive 2008-04-01 Bruce Schauble 2008
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She was narrow-boned all over; though her breast-bone protruded sharply, her chest was narrow.
Tolstoy II: Horsiness Bruce Schauble 2008
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I say, that this sword of my father was through the body — the point came out behind his back — the hilt pressed upon his breast-bone.
The Monastery 2008
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