It was one of the old-fashioned services which helped absent-minded customers avoid the risk of driving without insurance. |
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Right now I'm reading Good Night, Gorilla, a gripping tale about the adventures of an absent-minded zookeeper. |
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The conversation at dinner tonight might have shed some light on why I am so absent-minded. |
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He was a bit absent-minded and he used to leave his door open now and again. |
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By the end of the day, I had almost completely forgotten the topic, which proved how absent-minded I was. |
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The latter-day St. George yearns to rescue the daughter of an absent-minded aristocrat who lives in a castle but who fancies himself a gardener. |
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Finally the ash falls on his white cotton slacks and he sweeps it with his hand in an absent-minded manner. |
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Yet handling a lovable, though absent-minded, husband and the children could not have been easy. |
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Despite the reputation of academics as absent-minded Professors, getting a PhD takes an ordered mind. |
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He appears to have been a flighty, absent-minded luvvy, given to changing his mind daily during rehearsals, much to his fellow actors' annoyance. |
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I have a fellow feeling for the absent-minded who are accused of wilfulness. |
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Konrad has been a bit absent-minded lately, but then he is getting old and was quite fond of a drink now and then too. |
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With the worsening spells of temporary forgetfulness caused by hypothyroidism, you may be afraid of becoming absent-minded. |
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A fairy in a globe, absent-minded and withdrawn in her own universe, begins to dance. |
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I had a lot of stuff on my desktop, and was a bit tired and absent-minded when I did the upgrade, so I forgot to make a backup this time. |
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Design project managers saw designers as absent-minded artists with unrealistic ideas who were quite difficult to communicate with. |
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Astrud's little-girl voice could be singing a nursery rhyme, for the absent-minded ease with which she delivers this classic by The Doors. |
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A rush of water spills from above, but not from the bottle of an absent-minded commuter or tipsy traveler. |
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The boy genius Geithner turned into an absent-minded professor when he filled in his tax returns. |
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Because I tend to be a bit absent-minded at times and as well as forgetting where I put my keys or took off my glasses, I also forget where I save things to. |
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This is no absent-minded professor, lost in the world of abstraction. |
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Three prisoners had to be treated for smoke inhalation after an absent-minded prison van driver left the handbrake on while he was taking them to court yesterday. |
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A droll, unassuming man with a handsome gray beard, Baker has the manner of an avuncular, absent-minded professor who has left something behind on the way to class. |
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Even though the card would probably not help catch a single villain, it would criminalise many thousands of absent-minded, forgetful and inefficient people. |
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This fidgeting included absent-minded arhythmic key rattling, and moving repeatedly in his seat. |
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He was a slight, gentle, self-effacing man, very bright, a little absent-minded, with a lovely sense of humour. |
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It is to my eternal shame that I am absent-minded and occasionally a blithering idiot. |
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He was a much loved figure, witty, kind-hearted, and absent-minded, and his satires are plain, clear, homely, and predominantly good-natured. |
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He is surrounded by equally famous characters: Captain Haddock, Professor Calculus, hard of hearing and absent-minded. |
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I can assure you that Mr Schulz is not absent-minded and that he does not say things without thinking first. |
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He or she seems absent-minded, very tired, or exasperated by contradictory information. |
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He is the perfect example of an archetypal scientist: white messy hair, absent-minded, and highly intelligent. |
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They may be excessively active with a short attention span or they may be indifferent, apathetic or absent-minded. |
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He's something of an absent-minded professor. |
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Very old and slightly absent-minded, they have forgotten who their king is and spend much of their time performing acrobatic dance moves to make the youngest. less practiced Teensies envious. |
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She may wonder why you're so different from other hetero dudes who tend to be more absent-minded about Valentine's Day. |
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The model receiver for a work of art is not some absent-minded passerby. |
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It took the absent-minded man twenty minutes to find his glasses on top of his head. |
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That potential can be seen through your little absent-minded actions. |
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I ask the Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development who is now in charge of defending the north, will he honour the Goose Bay commitments made by his absent-minded colleague in the Department of National Defence? |
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We came to like this mechanism over the course of a few weeks, but beware of absent-minded people who change cars with someone else and keep the key in their pockets. |
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Warm, hospitable service can be absent-minded. |
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As William Safire has suggested, that may have been the work of an absent-minded chiseler. |
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In 1860, this old colonel of the British army complained to his spouse, an absent-minded chatterbox that they were never able to sit down to dinner at the proper hour. |
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Making appearances are an absent-minded surgeonfish, a hammerhead and a great white shark, voiced by Barry 'Dame Edna' Humphries. |
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Hart seemed to have conceived the character of Kieran around the testicles: his absent-minded rubbing became not only a comic motif but a defining characteristic of a young man in a state of primal, and pongy, innocence. |
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Joseph Smith, a diffident, conscientious young man with moist hands and an awkward, absent-minded manner, was head gardener at Wotton Vanborough. |
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The absent-minded pedestrians wait for the very last second to move aside. |
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I was absent-minded at the moment and was last in the queue. |
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