Curious, thought the manageress, she was the last person you would expect to waltz in quite that late without so much as an excuse. |
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Petrol usage would be a bit higher but not by so much that it equals the rent we would have paid. |
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If I think a horse is going to run so much that he's going to be hard to catch, I may leave the lead rope hooked to his halter. |
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It calmed me so much so that I was totally unalarmed when I saw a large black spider go scuttling by along the wainscotting. |
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They sat in the large leather armchairs to wait the arrival of the man on whom so much depended. |
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Since I spend so much of my waking day in my car I've got myself a stereo that is also an MP3 player. |
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It's still three strikes you're out and four balls for a walk but so much of the fun is gone. |
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There is just so much to know about cellular respiration, which is vital to the survival of many living species. |
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Why do they think they are so much better than everyone else when they go abroad? |
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But there is still anger in the industry about British firms being undercut by hauliers from abroad who are paying so much less for fuel. |
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They actually demand so much of themselves that they can be unfair on themselves at times. |
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In no time the heap had heated up so much that it was difficult to keep your hand in it for more than a few seconds. |
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There was just so much more to see and do but time and tide wait for no man, and my budget was going on a diet, losing weight fast. |
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There are people who feel that gamers are wantonly throwing their lives away, spending so much times playing games. |
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Another jab of pain comes from my stomach, reminding me to see why it hurts so much. |
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There is so much mindless golf jabber on TV that I would welcome a season-long commentator lockout. |
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Without so much as flinching, Bri had the car in drive and was screeching out of the parking lot with the pedal to the metal. |
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But when we consider the status of women in academe, we may confront not so much a myth as a glass half empty or half full. |
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And that fire warms the pages of fantasy literature so much that tress whisper and rivers weep. |
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A pure, startling and resounding poetry, informed with so much legerity and fire. |
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Do I love him enough to overcome my morbid dread of acarids or do I hate the acarids so much that I will risk losing my love? |
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Because it takes so much effort to accelerate particles for an experiment, many accelerators have storage rings. |
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How did so much bad writing get past the early script development phase, let alone into a final cut? |
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Other Faculties, notably Arts and Science, did not limit numbers so much as accept any student who met certain criteria. |
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I've already used regular washi to save an old shoe storage unit and now it's so much cheerier. |
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I'll just keep it that way and make everything else so much bigger that I'll look wasp-waisted and cartoonish. |
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Odd how one can agree with so much of the detail of a book, while feeling slightly queasy about its broader perspective. |
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All of which makes me feel slightly queasy and disinclined to buy so much as a new face cloth. |
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Another reason I have started the practice at least on a small scale is that I hate to see so much potential going to waste. |
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Bardem's performance is astonishing, not so much in his ability to mimic a wasted body, but by capturing the essence of a lively intelligence. |
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For a film that carries so much brutality and pain this is a surprisingly easy watch. |
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I was walking in queenly honor and majesty feeling enormous pleasure and gratitude to all in my life who bring me so much joy. |
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Online, audiences or communities don't necessarily build so much as grow or accrete. |
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Romans didn't so much come here to bathe in the natural spring waters as to wash their hands and face. |
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People rely so much on these accursed contraptions, they have become joined at the hip. |
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Perhaps what takes Hamlet so much time in the play is that a ritual of abasement needs to performed. |
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It is not so much an abasement of self as an acknowledgment that one's own way may not be the only or even the best way. |
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Iraq's currency has lost so much of its value that it takes enormous wads of it to buy anything of value. |
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I just think it's stupid to have so much money in the wallet when you're doing the town at night. |
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A nice section of low, wet wallows are the main attraction in the Giant's Windpipe, which was so much fun I almost wanted to do it twice. |
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But the real issue was not so much the absolute size of the increment, but rather what the others in the Center got relative to oneself. |
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But the point is, it is not so much what you do, but who you pass your time with and in what mood you are. |
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Because so much time has passed, the case can only be conducted under war crimes legislation. |
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I heard so much about him, and everyone says that I inherited a lot of characteristics from him. |
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Who knew that angst had so many faces, or that thick paint had so much to say? |
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It's not so much a matter of overlighting an area as it is making sure there's adequate lighting on the perimeter to allow some accommodation to take place. |
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That is to say, the market has boomed so much in large measure because corporate profits have boomed so much. |
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It is anniversary that will go largely unacknowledged, like so much else about the history of the event. |
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We all felt the betrayal not so much of the institution as of the man who had noisily and heroically put it on the map. |
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At first, I am annoyed because answering these questions takes so much effort. |
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He so much embodied the ancient teachings of the Buddha, yet insisted on a completely inclusive, secular, contemporary approach. |
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Like so much of modern Cambodia, these individuals appear to be haunted by their past. |
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A successful end to the current talks, in the eyes of the West, would represent not so much compromise as capitulation. |
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It was a tragic irony that he made himself sick by worrying so much about his health. |
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Carmela was so much about the hair, the nails, the makeup, the jewelry, all that. |
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There was a time when the bigoted, Bible-thumping crowd ran roughshod over D.C. Now, not so much. |
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The Interview, which caused so much controversy, was never intended for release in South Korean cinemas. |
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I'm glad we didn't use the tent. It's so much nicer to sleep outside under the stars. |
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They're understandably insulted when no one asks for their opinion on a matter that affects them so much. |
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That was amazing because I spent so much time in a different kind of studio for once! |
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All those who knew her and especially those many who gained so much from her tuition, warm friendship and generous kindness will miss her very much indeed. |
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Just don't let it warm your heart so much that you let your anger cool. |
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The salaries were reduced so much that 1000 euro for many workers has now become a goal or aspiration. |
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To see so many children wearing their rugby shirts and baseball caps with pride says so much about what the club have achieved off the pitch as well as on it. |
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Adelaide, who just wanted to be a pretty girl, deserved so much better than life gave her. |
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I realized that every day we are blessed with so much and I wanted to give back in some way. |
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Janeane Garofalo bashed President George W. Bush so much over the invasion of Iraq that it likely cost her her own ABC sitcom. |
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The addiction to adjectives that plagues so much fantasy writing has vanished. |
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But things have not turned out that way, like so much else in this bedeviled relationship. |
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He had only gotten with her because she seemed to like him so much, and he was silly enough to believe all her promises of fidelity and acceptance of the situation as it was. |
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The big man in the Middle endures as an archetype, largely because he was so much of what first made basketball unique. |
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There's only so much melody stored in your body that you can physically get onto one record. |
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Diocletian, the emperor, was so much affected with it that he gave over his sceptre and turned gardener. |
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The danger now isn't so much from the AIDS virus itself as from opportunistic infections. |
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On landing in Wales at Aber Alaw Branwen died of grief that so much destruction had been caused on her account. |
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During the first half of September, temperatures usually are not so much affected, but the sunset is obviously earlier compared with in June. |
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Cranky employees harassed by justifiably cranky customers... Oscar the Grouch would be thrilled. Investors, not so much. |
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The churches' earnings from their land also dropped so much that the Hanseatic traders dominated the city's foreign trade in the 15th century. |
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The presence of so much ice upon the continents had a profound effect upon almost every aspect of Earth's hydrologic system. |
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Now whatever improbability there is the former adds so much to the probability of the latter. |
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The loss of so much cargo in one swoop confirmed, once again, the folly of building such gigantic ships. |
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The presence of ice over so much of the continents greatly modified patterns of atmospheric circulation. |
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I have been blessed with wonderful Zapotecanist and Otomangueanist colleagues from whom I have learned so much. |
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Now that he was doing so much else she could never have the grossness to apply for it to Sir Claude. |
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It is not that they made some mistakes that is surprising, but that they did so much right in circumstances of the greatest possibly difficulty. |
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The nine males packed on so much fat their weight increased to more than 700 grams. |
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Not for the first time, he reflected that it was not so much the speeches that strained the nerves as the palaver that went with them. |
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I had to memorise so much dialogue that never makes it into the movie so I always have a plethora of extra gubbins I can't remember. |
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As a result of the warm air and currents moving northward, Antarctica cooled down so much that it became frigid. |
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When so much of Earth's water was locked up in massive ice sheets, the sea level was lower. |
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Since so much of the fish is water, they are not compressed by the great pressures at these depths. |
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If you so much as look crossways at either of these women again I'll gutshoot you and leave you for the ants. |
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In Ireland, taxi deregulation decreased waiting times so much that the liberalization became very popular among the public. |
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He brought his kit down and blew me off, blew me off the stage because he was so much faster than me. |
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Stopgap quarterback Matt Leinart exuded so much broness, he broke his collarbone, forcing T.J. Yates into action for the Texans. |
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The modern depiction of archaeology is sensationalized so much that it has incorrectly formed the public's perception of what archaeology is. |
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In some cases, the introduced species can disturb the environment so much that it becomes unsuitable for particular fish. |
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They had no buildings, of course, not so much as a reed hut, indeed, they feared the very idea of venturing under a roof. |
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For all practical social purposes 'race' is not so much a biological phenomenon as a social myth. |
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There was so much cobalt oxide from Persia that the porcelain center Jingdezhen had a plentiful supply for decades after the voyages. |
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I love you gaily, madly, high-heartedly! I love you so much that I could laugh and sing! |
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But no sort of Brunions are in so much Esteem as their Peaches, because they do not quit their Stones. |
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The personal determination that allowed Denis to achieve so much in the political realm could sometimes harden into obstinacy and arrogance. |
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Haiti has so much foreign debt that payments have rivaled the available government budget for social sector spending. |
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Belching loudly, he sat back in his chair, letting his pot-belly protrude out so much that it touched the edge of his desk. |
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Indeed, the structure of the Medici Bank resembles nothing so much as the modern holding company. |
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So smooth of face, so fine of eye, so much a beautiful part of his beautiful chestnut prad. |
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There's quite a trade in laudanum since the police started shaking down the hop-joints so much. |
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She feared for her son and heir Pavel's safety so much that she made sure that large crowds were kept at bay and sought to isolate him. |
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Maya warfare was not so much aimed at destruction of the enemy as the seizure of captives and plunder. |
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An eye is only a good eye in so much as it can see, because the proper function of an eye is sight. |
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We tiptoed into the house, up the stairs and along the hall into the room where the Professor had been spending so much of his time. |
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Some languages have borrowed so much that they have become scarcely recognizable. |
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He wrote so much that a modern bibliography of his published works required 655 pages. |
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As has been pointed out, the issue of an international language is not so much which, but how. |
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One may therefore ask how King Henry II and his sons, in spite of their many wars, possessed so much treasure. |
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You can put your worries into perspective when you realise how many people in the world are so much worse off than you. |
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The best of us doth not so much feare to wrong him, as he doth to injurie his neighbour, his kinsman, or his master. |
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The Spanish mission in America soon became not so much crusade as apocalypse. |
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We are proud to have had a part in quelching the evil ideologies that brought so much suffering to mankind. |
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The sort of real delicious Italian country cooking that is a revelation after so much chichi Italian food dished up in London. |
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Thanks so much for offering to help. You're a real lifesaver! |
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It is interesting that he has proved himself so much liked by men like President Kennedy and Mr Rusk and Mr Gromyko. |
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And ready money had been so much more plentiful of late, owing to poor John Morton's ready-handed honesty! |
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The planters' complacency about slave contentment was shocked by their seeing slaves, who risked so much to be free. |
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Electric lighting was so much safer than oil or gas that some companies were able to pay for the electricity with the insurance savings. |
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Because the topography and development of the land changed so much in the floods, the region had to be remapped. |
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In the east, where the mountain scenery is so much more stirring to begin with, Patterdale provides the focal point. |
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That large body of the working men who were not counted as citizens and had not so much as a vote to serve as an anodyne to their stomachs. |
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The highest point carries not so much a cairn as a rearrangement of some loose rock at the apex of the pyramid. |
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In orchards and gardens, we do not so much respect beauty as variety of ground for fruits, trees, and herbs. |
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Queen Elizabeth I was given 'Lemster' wool stockings and liked them so much that from then on she insisted only on 'Lemster' Ryeland wool. |
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All this jingoistic bombast, however, was directed toward defending, not so much the national vernacular as the national beautiful letters. |
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His painting continued to improve, so much so that he soon eclipsed the reputation of his father. |
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Elizabeth realizes the story must refer to Jane and is horrified that Darcy has interfered and caused her sister so much pain. |
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And without so much as a departing retort, some face-saving insult, the duffel-coated rickle of banes slunk off. |
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The accent is not so much on the honest man's problems as on the lust-riddenness of the society. |
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The Saminess, for their grandparents, was not so much a reflexive matter as something naturalized and implicit. |
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George seemed unperturbed by the incident, so much so that he fell asleep in the interval. |
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I configured my screensaver to appear after only two minutes, because I enjoyed watching it so much. |
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Hard to keep that edge of horror over the death of another human being when it was surrounded by so much tedious scutwork. |
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But persistent sealore says that there was so much attention paid to oppression that good seamanship suffered. |
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His indigestion was self-induced. If he didn't eat so much it wouldn't hurt. |
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I wish that the atrocities of which we hear so much and which I abhor as much as any man, were indeed unexampled. |
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A world where the hes are so much more common than the shes can hardly be seen as a welcoming place for women. |
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We instructed our men to shoot first and inquire afterward, if a shenzi so much as showed himself in the clearing. |
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The horse shied away from the rider, which startled him so much he shied away from the horse. |
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If she chips so much as one of my porcelain piggies, I'll sue her six ways to Sunday! |
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No race has suffered so much from an inferiority complex as has the German. |
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The temperature was below freezing. Maybe that's why I snoze and coughed so much. I have snozen all day. |
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Without so much as asking, he walked into the office and started digging through their files. |
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They are all working like slaves, so much so, that there is a risk of mistakes through physical and mental fatigue. |
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Man, we've done so much close-order drill and manual-of-arms that I think we could do it in our sleep. |
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But they will have been through so much that, can they accept it? |
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After all, to go into outer space is not so much worse, if at all, than a polar expedition. |
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The strange man with the large head spooked me out so much until I realized it was only a picture. |
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That night he was almost too happy to sleep, and so much love stirred in his little sawdust heart that it almost burst. |
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Consider, after so much stir about genus and species, how few words we have yet settled definitions of. |
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The Romish doctrine makes their straithandedness so much more injurious, as the cause of separation is more just. |
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Victor sat on a rock and tried to strip off his waders, his body shaking so much that he couldn't get a decent grip. |
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He mounded so much honey on the top of the buns that they looked like miniature stupas. |
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Though we wipe away with never so much care the dirt thrown at us, there will be left some sulliage behind. |
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This show is one of my favorites, so much so that even I am a part of the Superwholock fandom. |
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Alan Turing was driven to a terrible despair and early death by the nation he'd done so much to save. |
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The mind will sympathize so much with the anguish and debility of the body, that it will be too distracted to fix itself in meditation. |
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We're going to have to get a second telephone line installed at our house, because the teenagers spend so much time talking to their friends. |
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Indoor track can be a three-ring circus, with so much going on in the space of a few evening hours that the fans hardly know where to look first. |
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They weep when they see the country being so much exploited and yet nobody lifts a finger. |
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It is not so much movement in Time of which we are conscious as movement which is timeable. |
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Gosh, I hate to say this, but my tookie sure does pain me from sitting so much for nothing, waiting for something real to pop. |
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He recuperated at Teignmouth, and enjoyed the area so much that he purchased an estate at Watcombe in Torquay, Devon. |
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Peter was a little annoyed with them for knowing so much, but if he wanted to lord it over them his triumph was at hand. |
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It does not so much impress me as an infantile beginning of life as an epitome of all the past of turtledom and of the earth. |
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It's fantastic, as is so much of Forgiveness Rock Record, a collation of so many talents that it's practically bursting at the seams. |
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That mean I don't get so much as another uckfay from you and the unexpected baloney pony? |
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The Great Wilkie and Little Win were the biggest draw on the halls when you were not so much as a twinkle in your daddy's eye. |
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The elements for this made-to-order story come from all corners of the archives, which contain so much. |
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Is sorry Sir Bassingbourne should have so much trouble in getting his glass. Undersends the charge. |
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Would it not be an unexemplified unthankfulness to requite rebellion to him, for so much unparalleled affection? |
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Remember old years and do not break your oath with me, Jehane, since God abhors nothing so much as unfaith. |
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I din't say yay, I said, coolsome'n'stony, Grazin' goats ain't int'restin' for folks with so much Smart as you. |
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It was modified and enlarged so much that it extended beyond the boundary of Penge Place, which was also the boundary between Surrey and Kent. |
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Theirs was not a personal quarrel leading to distinction through organization, with religious differences trailing behind as so much adiaphora. |
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Heroic cultures are inevitably presented as ur-cultures, as something not so much lived in as looked back upon. |
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Jen even admitted she loves the treatment so much she makes sure to be vajazzled at all times. |
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It's a crying shame that so much money has been wasted on this pointless political campaign. |
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A clever gambler wagers just enough to get ahead of the game, but not so much that he could be knocked out. |
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Worse, Kutcher never even so much as apologized for the incident. |
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Only womb-brothers could look so much alike, and Thamalon had been present at Tamlin's birth. |
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For me, it isn't so much about the actual hunting as much as the woodsmanship and skills that come into play at every stage of a hunt. |
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For this day ought to promise not so much mulch as yesterday or all the other yesterns all back in a row of boredowndom. |
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Help with onerous conditions is not help so much as benevolent coercion. |
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Wedge politics is a zero-sum game, based not so much on class as on ressentiment. |
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He liked what he had tasted so much that we settled on five gallons of the Weiss beer I was making at the time. |
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There is only so much you can carry on to a train and that does not include a 36-inch television or flatpack Welsh dresser. |
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There is so much to see in Chicago that it can be more than a little confusing for the would-be architourist. |
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And whyever not, considering that the Dodge has so much room in the back that it can easily be compared to our extended wheelbase cars. |
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I refused to make so much as a curtsey for the passing nobles, as I am a staunch egalitarian. |
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This is one of the best air shows around, because you get to see so much,'' said Dennis Brown, who has been attending air shows for 15 years. |
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It decides me to look into the matter, for if it is worth anyone's while to take so much trouble, there must be something in it. |
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We owe so much to the Anderson shelters and to those who designed and manufactured them. |
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The jangly guitar gets things rolling along so much it doesn't stop to squeeze in a chorus. |
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Excuse us for being skeptical, but this sounds like so much political jawboning. |
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She intimidated me so much that I could hardly get out a coherent sentence in her presence. |
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By lending so much, Keats could no longer cover the interest of his own debts. |
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The Phocians behaved with so much gallantry, that they were thought to have made a sufficient atonement for their former offense. |
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She was the same height and weight as Mother and had the same hairdo and dressed matronly like her. It was scary. She looked so much like Mother. |
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Thus, analytics is not so much concerned with individual analyses or analysis steps, but with the entire methodology. |
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I shall do late you have so much that ten of you should not eat it at one meal. |
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Those Roman knights were so called, if they could dispend per annum so much. |
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And she likes you so much, and thinks you so accomplished and distingue-looking, and was just as set as I was to have you for best man. |
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The report was riddled with so much corporate doublespeak that it was impossible to interpret. |
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Mrs. McLash's anger was gone completely, douched not nearly so much by the beer as by this attention to her son. |
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Merrily we row our boat... We're having so much fun we're singing about it. |
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They've played so much great cricket over the past 10 years and built up an advantage on the points system. |
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For greate men hurt not the common weale so much by beeing evil in respect of themselves, as by drawing others unto evil by their evil example. |
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If the wind shifts in the sailor's favor, called a lift, so much the better, then this tack is even more favorable. |
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Whence should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fill so great a multitude? |
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How could so much warmth and unassuming gentleness be subtracted from the world by the simple misbeat of an organ? |
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The intention was to incapacitate the RAF so much that the UK would feel open to air attack, and would begin peace negotiations. |
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We look upon it not so much as a strangely overpraised, but as a mispraised composition. It is a torrent of abuse. |
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If we're too stupid not to read it, understand it and draw the obvious conclusions, then so much the worse for us. |
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A meatless day or a beerless or tealess day does not suggest moderation so much as immoderation. |
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On 23 September the Isle d'Aix was taken, but military staff dithered and lost so much time that Rochefort became unassailable. |
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I loved him for nothing so much as his flocci-nauci-nihili-pili-fication of money. |
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Robert spent so much time in London the following year that his partners accused him of neglecting his business. |
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The important point here is not so much that the British treated him forbearingly as that he was always able to command publicity, Orwell wrote. |
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Once we analyze all of the migrating factors we can get to the idea that the net migration rate can tell us so much about a country. |
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Because their wood contains so much water, and fallen baobabs decompose so quickly, the trees are poor fossilizers. |
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Working around the wreck for so much time, you get such a strong sense of the profound sadness and injustice of it, and the message of it. |
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Our soil and climate are peculiarly adapted to the culture of what has contributed so much to the comfort and welfare of the Native Californian. |
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I know someone who uses and uses and uses the naughty step and threat of same, so much so that the phrase sets my teeth on edge. |
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I have said so much, that, if I had not a frank, I must burn my letter and begin again. |
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Stevenson translated a French study into the noble families which suffered so much in the Hundred Years' War, and is oft quoted. |
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By the second generation, death rates from malaria and other local diseases had declined so much that a stable family structure was possible. |
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She pats her breast, not so much to draw attention to her fried eggs, but to force her breaths to become rhythmic. |
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Their ferocity impressed the Catti so much, that the wildcat became their symbol. |
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Socrates lived in Athens during the great plague which has made so much noise in all ages. |
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The Geckotians, is composed of nocturnal lizards, so much resembling each other that they might be left in one genus. |
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The election was fought not so much on the peace issue and what to do with Germany, although those themes played a role. |
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Since sea levels were low due to so much water tied up in glaciers, such marshlands would have occurred all along the southern coasts of Eurasia. |
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I never saw water falling so gracefully, so much like thin, beautiful threads as here. |
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I think about him everyday, wondering why he gave up, he had so much to live for, he just didn't have that bouncebackability! |
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The sun gloats in the sky, casting a gleam on the pasture where there was so much umbering and ochreing only moments before. |
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His love of golf was blamed by the Spanish media as the reason why he has spent so much time out injured for Real Madrid. |
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He affixed to his breast the octoradiant star, so much larger and more lustrous than any actual star in heaven. |
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So loving, so funny, I miss your hugs and pinches every morning and your quippy remarks that made me laugh so much and our little sing songs every day. |
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I admit it to be not so much the duty as the privilege of an American citizen to acquit this obligation to the memory of his fathers with discretion and generosity. |
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My view is free from apeirophobia, the horror of the infinite, which colored so much of what was written at the beginning of this century about the foundations of mathematics. |
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The cult of the chief executive reached its apogee in the nineteen-nineties, a period when C.E.O.s seemed not so much to serve their companies as to embody them. |
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The bloke's suit looked made-to-order for someone else's body, not so much a bag of fruit as a crate of it, and his hat band was twice the normal width, more like a bandana. |
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He loves her so much that he has a blind spot when it comes to her faults. |
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He's normally quite a boozy person, but isn't drinking so much these days. |
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After so much stress, he suffered a breakdown and simply gave up. |
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With so many labels, so much fashion information and incessant celebrity style hype, it seems we all can't get enough of the scene and its material trappings. |
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I don't mind saying 'u' instead of 'you' so much, mostly because I've become numb to it, and some people do it because it's 'cool' to speak chatspeak. |
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Since the eyes take up so much room on the chibi face, the head needs to be stretched and, therefore, usually ends up being oval-shaped to accommodate the oval-shaped eyes. |
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Of course a cicisbeo is a normal enough figure in Alexandrian life, but things are going to become socially very boring for you if you go out with those two so much. |
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And I'm from some place so much littler than this. That redneck culchie. |
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One-and-twenty worn and defaced shillings, however, were considered as equivalent to a guinea, which perhaps, indeed, was worn and defaced too, but seldom so much so. |
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She faffed about so much, she never got to eat her breakfast. |
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This method of hunting, however, is not so much practised now as formerly, as the antelope are getting continually shyer and more difficult to flag. |
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It was still too shallow for the turtle to swim, but it used its four flappers with so much effect against its two assailants, as to give them a thorough shower-bath. |
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At length, after repeated fruitless trials, he lay down panting by me, kiss'd my falling tears, and asked me tenderly what was the meaning of so much complaining? |
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He was unquestionably kind, but it was a sort of lazy kindness, owing not so much to gentleheartedness as to a desire to avoid conflict at all cost. |
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The first walk I took when I grew stronger and was able to get about was up to Aunt Jane's, notwithstanding she had never so much as been to ask after me all these days. |
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Bob and the gang have so much fun, working together to get the job done. |
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She was grieved, and bitterly sorry for the man who was hurt so much. But still, in her heart of hearts, where the love should have burned, there was a blank. |
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In this sense, education wasn't lost so much as it had yet to be acquired. |
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It was a victory that clearly meant so much to Van Gaal as the normally impassive manager raced from his seat in the technical area to celebrate Lingard's winner. |
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Jesus Christ does not so much impart life as He inbrings life. |
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As his perspective was so much at odds with other views, Hobbes struggled to understand the thinking of most of his potential audience and people in general. |
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Speaker, among all the people of the universe, I know none who have shown so much zeal for the liberty of their country, as the English, at this time, have done. |
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There she was, floating amongst the jetsam, like so much debris. |
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Large crowds had gathered to cheer the royal party, which apparently frightened the horses drawing the barge so much that they fell into the canal. |
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Dowding had spent so much effort preparing day fighter defences, there was little to prevent the Germans carrying out an alternative strategy by bombing at night. |
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That this attraction is so much the greater as the bodies are nearer. |
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How should you go about to lose him a wife he loves with so much passion? |
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It was so much his interest to manage his Protestant subjects. |
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He appears not so much as a revolt against societal standards as an embodiment of them, being generous, pious, and courteous, opposed to stingy, worldly, and churlish foes. |
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He said that he was dismayed by her appearance at Rochester having seen her pictures and heard advertisements of her beauty, so much that his face fell. |
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He believes that identities in the play are not so much lost as they are blended together to create a type of haze through which distinction becomes nearly impossible. |
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It was not his matchless talent that exalted Koufax beyond his greatest contemporaries so much as it was his knowledge that character was not connected to talent. |
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On 16 June, she miscarried, losing so much blood that she nearly died. |
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The Greeks prescribe the median or middle vein to be opened, and so much blood to be taken away as the patient may well spare, and the cut that is made must be wide enough. |
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At the Montreal Olympic Stadium, a group of noisy and enthusiastic fans in the front row of the audience irritated Waters so much that he spat at one of them. |
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Other scenes have the freedom fighters wasting time in debate, with one of the debated items being that they should not waste their time debating so much. |
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By the last years of the 19th century, The British Museum's collections had increased so much that the Museum building was no longer big enough for them. |
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The Games have grown so much that nearly every nation is now represented. |
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Yet Mr. Weinstein was also markedly buoyant, insisting that the ministudio had not so much failed in its aims as succeeded in ways not widely understood. |
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Identical twins are so much alike, it is difficult to identify them. |
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The reigning error of his life was, that he mistook the love for the practice of virtue, and was indeed not so much a good man, as the friend of goodness. |
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His main contribution was not so much the inventions as the highly disciplined and profitable factory system he set up at Cromford, which was widely emulated. |
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They got so much things to say right now, they got so much things to say. |
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The problem was that the American market was so much larger and richer. |
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Rules and laws are also generally easier to change than attitudes, so much of the work done on how to improve voter turnout looks at these factors. |
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No one has ever employed so much intellect to persuade men to be beasts. |
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I think of so many people who are no more, and I pity them. Yet they are not so much to be pitied, for they have solved every problem, beginning with the problem of death. |
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Often the Brittonic influence on Scots Gaelic is indicated by considering Irish language usage, which is not likely to have been influenced so much by Brittonic. |
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This vase is not worth a dime. Why did you pay so much for it? |
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