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bend

(bend) a flexure or curve; a flexed or curved part.

varolian bend the third cerebral flexure in the developing fetus.

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His fiancee-to-be vowed to give him an official 'yes' once he got back to full fitness and proposed on bended knee.

I popped the question from my intensive care ward But lorry; But proposal was put on hold until injured lorry driver could get down on one knee

At the moment, I won't be ringing him up on bended knees saying 'please come back we really desperately need you.

We're not desperate for Adam - Gatland

During preparations to go down on bended knee, Ronny makes a shocking discovery: Nick's wife Geneva (Winona Ryder) is cheating with a tattooed younger man called Zip (Channing Tatum).

Designing the truth

Nicola is delighted when Jimmy gets down on bended knee, until she finds out he knows she's pregnant.

EMMERDALE

Karim Raslan, a political analyst, told Al Jazeera: "She comes on bended knee from the largest debtor nation in the world .

Clinton seeks new US-Indonesia ties

With some retail bosses keen on getting a shop-floor perspective with the occasional shift of shelf-stacking, perhaps we'll see Justin or Sir Terry on bended knee with brash and Toilet Duck in a bid to sharpen performance.

Asda is best place to spend a penny

The soap's cult hero goes down on bended knee in the Tall Ship to stop cleaner Charlie leaving him and heading for America.

SHELLSHOCK BOB; SHIELDINCH EXCLUSIVE He finally proposes.. but will he bin trackie for tuxedo?

The dancers maintain this rhythm (typically, with one partner's left hand clasping the other's right) as they navigate through turns--side to side, behind the back, or with one partner on bended knee, hand held out like a compass as the other literally dances circles around him.

With a hop, a kick, and a turn, Cumbia enters the global stage: a dance that began as part of the Spanish slave trade in Colombia is gaining popularity

There is no getting down on bended knee, no engagement ring produced from a pocket and no happy tears at the words: "Will you marry me?

Practical couples opt out of romance

Then all 18 boyfriends turned up, got down on bended knee and popped the question, simultaneously.

LOVE ON THE AIRWAVES TWO VALLEY COUPLES ENGAGED AFTER TELEVISED PROPOSAL

CATSA had to go on bended knee, as it were, to get funding from the treasury board," he says.

Sky-high costs giving carriers a grounding

It's quite nice when you've been generally dissed about your irrelevancy and then suddenly have people coming on bended knee and saying, 'We need you to come back.