At first he merely toyed with the instrument, running a slide up and down and picking out series of notes almost like scales. |
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She once toyed with writing a biography of Margaret Thatcher, the first time she's ever been interested in writing about a living person. |
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Biting my lip, I slid my arm in his and toyed around with calling her on it. |
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For a moment we just stood there, holding each other, his head against my chest as I toyed absently with his hair. |
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She thought it over as she toyed absently with a lock of hair behind one ear. |
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Mom sipped a cup of black coffee and toyed with the sugar packets on the table. |
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But she has toyed with my affections once too often and I gave her a wide berth. |
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She toyed with them incessantly as she typed up the daily status and safety reports. |
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Her long, slender fingers toyed nervously with the two rings she had on her right hand. |
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Cora toyed with her cloak, twisting the shining white fabric between her fingers while gazing up at the stars. |
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I toyed for a while with the idea of a fake tattoo, but decided against it. |
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I've toyed with a few ideas and am settling for a further simplification of the layout. |
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Rebecca toyed with the edge of the thick blanket closest to her face, knowing her sickness would not allow her any sleep. |
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I toyed with the idea of scootering myself to every recording studio in Soho. |
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He glanced over at him and smirked as he toyed with the tanto, the smallest of the set of Japanese blades. |
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He toyed with the idea of trying to explain but realised he probably did not have all day, so he just shrugged. |
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In the 1670s he toyed with the idea of writing a poetic appreciation of the fountains there. |
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For a while, he toyed with the idea of offering to redecorate the entire room. |
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For a moment I toyed with presenting myself as a wanton temptress with a dozen regular gentlemen callers and a bedside drawer full of Mates. |
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For all I know, the company may have toyed with the idea of slightly widening the nozzle on the windscreen-washer jets. |
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She even toyed with the notion of racing dogs in Ireland but gave it up as a bad job when she was forced to quarantine two dogs. |
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While it toyed with serious drama, Moulin Rouge is injected with joyous melodramatic fun. |
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Then, he looked up and saw Mel's blank face as she toyed the string beans on the plate using her fork instead of eating them. |
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There were dolphins, and swans, pomegranates and lime trees as she toyed with her human lover, Adonis, arguing for his love with Persephone. |
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For mere seconds I toyed with cowardice, before curiosity and professionalism won out. |
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But, if he'd even toyed with the idea of defining journalism, he must have realised he would be on a loser. |
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Businessmen adjusted their ties, women applied makeup, and young belles toyed with their locks. |
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She was pleased by the soft wind that caressed her bare neck and toyed with her hair. |
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She toyed briefly with the idea of torturing him for a little longer but decided that was just too cruel. |
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I toyed again with my gin, not quite certain why my mood was such hopeless, dismal despair. |
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In the end it was simplicity itself as Cork toyed with our fast faltering challenge and virtually romped to the most facile of victories. |
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She had also toyed with the idea of being a chicken farmer but considered the risks too high. |
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White toyed with the idea of resistance, but a casual glance at the guards' belts immediately reminded him of the repercussions. |
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I toyed around with the idea of waiting for awhile, until I could take a break from what I was working on. |
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We toyed around with the idea of letting you start with special powers and higher level values at start-up but decided that that would hinder the accessibility of the game. |
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Creators Robert and Michelle King have toyed with the audience here, creating in Kalinda a chameleonic character. |
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On Egypt, he toyed with preserving Mubarak ad interim before the tide became irreversible. |
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He toyed with receivers in ways that allowed quarterbacks to think he'd been beaten, only to come back, quicker than a snake lick, and steal the pass. |
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He told us to turn off our mobile phones and give them to his colleague, who sat watching us from a corner as he toyed with an old Kalashnikov. |
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The sun emblazoned the white houses skirting the Moorish castle, and Janet and I toyed with a crossword while enjoying an aperitif. |
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Roosevelt toyed with the idea of interning Italian-Americans in camps along with Japanese-Americans. |
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Such attempts are absurd and doomed to failure but, as we know, these ideas are being toyed with further east. |
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Nonetheless, neither the yacht nor the skipper have raced between the three capes and toyed with the South Seas. |
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Then I toyed with the idea of fashion designer, thinking to ultimately build on my interest in sculpture and painting. |
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In the very feminine tradition of the T-Collection, the T-Facet and T-Mini-Squares toyed with the subject of geometry and clean-cut lines. |
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Like his fellow students, Marshall toyed with attending university until world events affected even the smallest towns on the prairies. |
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What we are talking about here today is not an issue which can be toyed with at leisure. |
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Initially we had toyed with the idea of sacrificing one of the smaller galleries to house the shop. |
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Other people have different views, and that is fine, but respect for human rights is not something to be toyed with. |
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The majority of her paintings are acrylic-based, but she has also toyed with other layering methods such as collage and dry pastel. |
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As I whispered into the microphone, I toyed with my top's straps and ran my fingers through my hair. |
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You have lived with the thought that we your higher brethren of the light have toyed with you and bluffed. |
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Kaka toyed with journalists yesterday, when asked whether he was still planning to stay with Milan. |
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A young rabbit toyed with taking up residence in a corner of the garden, nibbling dandelions and pea plants to nubbins. |
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Last month I toyed with the idea of buying my 20-month-old daughter a helmet. |
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In 1996, when John Major's government toyed with it, he put forward a parliamentary amendment on privatisation. |
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He speaks of taking on all the top junior welters, and he has also toyed with the idea of going up seven pounds to take on welterweight champion Cory Spinks. |
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They toyed with them after a fashion, and then got back on the bus. |
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Alexander at one time had toyed with the idea of renouncing his rights to the succession and going with his wife to live an idyllic life on the banks of the Rhine. |
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I toyed with a ReWire-connected session using Reason 2.5 and had no difficulties driving numerous synthesizers, samplers and drum machines with DP's sequencer. |
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Forrest silently toyed with the toothpick lodged between his lips. |
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Her fingers toyed absently with the handle of the mug of ale before her. |
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Time and again he won possession inside the mid-field area, shimmied, dummied and generally toyed with his opponents before threading delightful passes to his team mates. |
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Tony's face reddened and he toyed with the wrapper off his chewing gum. |
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She toyed with an oversized hoop of tarnished silver around her wrist. |
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He toyed with the idea of composing a patriotic epic in blank verse called Brutus, but only the opening lines survive. |
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I toyed with the idea of taking the 10K clinic, but after some soul searching took a huge leap of faith in myself and the Running Room clinic instructors and joined the Half Marathon clinic! |
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They toyed with our nerves and in the worst moments, after Sweden had turned the game upside-down with two goals early in the second half to lead 2-1, they strayed dangerously close to an almost implausible ordeal. |
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During his career, Dzhugashvili served as a colonel in the Soviet and Russian air force, briefly toyed with politics, and in 1999 stood for Russia's state duma as a representative of a group of communist parties. |
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John Travolta's inability to cope with a name, even then, was toyed with last night, and the joke — in which he manfully, or uncomprehendingly, joined — looks set to run for many ceremonies to come. |
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So I quite deliberately toyed with this juxtaposition of the dynamics of urban development and the persistence, the obduracy, of technical infrastructure. |
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They toyed with the idea of moving to Miami, Mrs. Deans's hometown, but then Mr. Deans, 31, an assistant principal in Manhattan, was offered the principalship of Victory Collegiate High School in Canarsie, Brooklyn. |
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He toyed with thickening agents such as Xanthan gum and algin. |
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Indeed, I've long believed that Americans would be less resistant to large guest-worker programmes if not for the constitution's birthright citizenship provision, which is why I've toyed with doing away with it. |
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An avid kayaker, cross-country skier and fisherman, Traves had toyed with the idea of running his own sporting goods store. |
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As a bright and capable seminarian, and with some influence from his professors, he had toyed with the idea of becoming a Jesuit but was also attracted to parish ministry. |
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Many a time the organisers have toyed with the idea of discontinuing, but over the years the amount of love and encouragement that they have received has forced them to carry on despite losses. |
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For years Brian Boychuk toyed with the idea of starting a comic strip with his brother Ron, who lives in the Boychuks' hometown of Regina, Saskatchewan. |
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For years he toyed with the idea of turning it into a screenplay. |
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We toyed with the idea of looking for some funding from the government under the grants program, but we cannot continue to sustain that from a local government level. |
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I kind of just toyed with her all day, I thought it was funny. |
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I had toyed with going for the Waldorf salad, but in the end I decided that it was a cold night and what I wanted was meatballs. |
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I toyed briefly with the impulse to exercise my authority and order up, in a loud and captainlike tone, my dinner. |
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Jackie Lilinshtein, meanwhile, toyed with cocktails. |
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He toyed with her emotions just to get her in bed. He took advantage of her. |
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There is also a suggestion that he toyed with the idea of moving Nelson's Column to Berlin. |
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The banker is toyed with — terrorized, really. |
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He toyed with the idea of fleeing to Germany and taking his pupils with him. |
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The well-travelled 31-year-old toyed with calling time on his career when a shoulder injury picked up as a singles player persistently dogged him. |
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