I gave an online acquaintance a ride to a meetup in a town three hours away. |
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A good number of cyclists of my acquaintance have fully taxed, insured and MOT'd cars on their drives. |
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Sentimental souls are invited to renew their acquaintance with the Warrumbungle National Park during its 50 year celebrations next month. |
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After graduating from Paris, Burman returned to India to renew his acquaintance with the tradition of the art and the culture of his native land. |
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Our first acquaintance with power is, presumably, our experience of the power of personal agency. |
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Long acquaintance with her own profession makes her impatient with fantasists and phonies. |
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John Raw has a liking for comic roles, and it is easy to see why on making his acquaintance. |
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A very quiet individual, his gentlemanly manner endeared him to all who made his acquaintance. |
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Two lovable rogues are discussing a mutual acquaintance who has just been released from prison. |
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Blackburn Hawks renew acquaintance with arch-rivals Whitley Bay Warriors this weekend, not once, but twice in back-to-back cup and league action. |
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And like Terry, over the course of their rocky acquaintance Jean gains greater understanding and insight. |
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The latter requires some sort of acquaintance with, or apprehension of, objects like numbers. |
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I was walking to the laundromat today when I met an acquaintance, Paulos, on the road. |
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So this online acquaintance was running a LARP and needed video characters for it. |
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My acquaintance with her just before she entered government made the experience particularly alarming. |
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In 1811 he returned to England and renewed acquaintance with his half-sister, Augusta Leigh. |
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Not to mention he sees me as a safe choice, the last male in his acquaintance who'd ever play the masher with his wife's kin. |
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It just didn't seem to me that the Reaper was in any hurry to make my acquaintance. |
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An acquaintance of his asked for permission to cut the rather weedgrown grass off it for hay. |
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Another polo acquaintance stole one of Rubi's jockstraps and nailed it up in the barn where he kept his breeding stallions, as a good luck charm. |
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He was held in the warmest regard by all who were indeed fortunate enough to make his acquaintance. |
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The entire executive would welcome the opportunity to make her acquaintance. |
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And I, it must be said, was particularly pleased to have made the reporter 's acquaintance. |
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It was a pleasure to have made your acquaintance and to have met your wonderful dedicated team. |
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Venus lives with her husband in Vancouver, and we look forward to making her acquaintance. |
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I am pleased to make your acquaintance, for I have always wished to meet a Master Bard. |
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And like most people I've encountered there, I don't recall the specifics of making his acquaintance. |
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So basically, you look at the family members, acquaintance, or a total stranger. |
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His varied acquaintance included Boswell, Bentham, Godwin, Paine, and Coleridge. |
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Djuna Barnes was one of the bohemian set in 1920 and 30s Paris, and her creative circle of acquaintance included Gertrude Stein. |
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In such terms Mr Gradgrind always mentally introduced himself, whether to his private circle of acquaintance, or to the public in general. |
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To give an example from the purely personal level, an elderly female acquaintance of mine does not drink coffee. |
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Now, because of her acquaintance with Moher, Zalie was looked at as if she were one of the most important people ever born. |
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I genuinely love the company of women, unlike certain misogynistic Lotharios of my acquaintance. |
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When his marriage is disrupted by the renewal of his acquaintance with Shimamoto, it comes back to haunt him. |
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His telling anecdotes draw on years of personal acquaintance with key figures, and alert attendance at arcane, cultish tech conferences. |
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With the renewal of his acquaintance with her, Jean's life takes a new turn. |
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One fellow London-dweller of my acquaintance said recently she was finally decamping from the city. |
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Now, have you had opportunities, in the course of your acquaintance with Mr. Favreau, to watch him walk? |
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Very clever, Valda, though some professional magicians of my acquaintance manage this trick with much more aplomb and good humor. |
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Black manages to compress a good deal into a limited space, calling on his thorough acquaintance with a vast array of primary sources. |
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Some had experience of Frankish Gaul and hence some acquaintance with Roman institutions and culture. |
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It's been marvelous to make his acquaintance, and it's great that he's still on the end of a phone call. |
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There was none of the awkwardness of fresh acquaintance, no conversational false starts or miscues. |
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A young man of my acquaintance just returned from a tour of duty with the U.S. Army in Afghanistan. |
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My acquaintance never ran out of metheglin, which was mixed when he harvested his honey, and he never failed to offer me a swig or two. |
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As soon as the statement was issued to the press, however, anyone enjoying even the slightest acquaintance with the player recognised that the words were not his. |
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If you haven't listened to this music since the 1960s, it's time to renew your acquaintance with these songs. |
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Not long ago, I mentioned the Victims of Communism Memorial to an acquaintance. |
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In the early 2000s, an acquaintance told Sun about the possibility of doing business in Ethiopia. |
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James was a very disciplined guy at the time and he was an acquaintance of mine. |
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Heim had met von Leers a few times, but it was not an acquaintance he had any interest in deepening. |
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These were, remember, college students in an age of widespread awareness of acquaintance rape. |
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Non-stranger rape or acquaintance rape is real and happens every day in America. |
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His relationship with Romney, a fellow Mormon and longtime acquaintance, can be charitably described as frosty. |
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They think of him as a quisling, a nuisance and a dangerous acquaintance. |
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Despite the title, this play adds little to our knowledge or appreciation of Beckett although assuming a fairly comprehensive acquaintance with his works. |
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It's appalling to think that a book like this may enter classrooms and inflict itself on young minds with little or no acquaintance with art history. |
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Next it brought an experimental acquaintance with grace and forgiveness. |
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It was a fine achievement and I hope the singers enjoyed singing it as much as I enjoyed the opportunity of renewing my acquaintance with this excellent piece. |
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Should the rest of us trust what we see on television when our acquaintance with a case is confined to that little bit of testimony that is billed as a confession? |
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It was a moment of collective acquaintance with history and the past. |
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I'm currently on leave, so I should obviously be using all this spare time renewing my acquaintance with children's telly, particularly if it's getting this risque. |
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It was lovely to renew acquaintance with Gareth Edwards in particular, possibly the greatest ever scrum half, whose fine Welsh accent endears him. |
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Early in his career he had made the mistake, at the outset of his acquaintance with a lady, of telling her that he loved her and exacting the same avowal in return. |
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If, during the course of the night, you happen to meet two philosophical ladies of your acquaintance, it is important that you conduct yourself respectably. |
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It was the most amazing part of his acquaintance with her yet. |
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She despises George and is diverted by the renewal of her acquaintance with the rakish Judge Brack who offers the possibility of flirting, gossip and intrigue. |
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After all, the ladies of your acquaintance belong to high society. |
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Many shooters use nothing else, One young fellow of my acquaintance, an avid shooter and hunter, mentioned he had never owned a wood-stocked rifle. |
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She has difficulty believing the rumours of her husband's acquaintance with the infamous Mrs. Erlynne, but yields to the rumours anyways in hope of finding true love. |
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He could have included elite journalists in that circle of acquaintance. |
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It is striking to realize how much of this material is personal-not subjective, but rather framed by her own family history or immediate acquaintance. |
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Each will have a special anecdote of their friend Michael and his memory will long be cherished by all who were indeed fortunate to make his acquaintance. |
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Harry and Dolly will be pleased to make their acquaintance again, too. |
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Those of us who were fortunate to make his acquaintance during his brief stay in the city know only of his quiet courtesy and readiness to help others. |
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Her gentle, good humoured and obliging nature, mild manner and unassuming disposition commended her to all fortunate enough to make her acquaintance. |
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Remember the name, as it's well worth making their acquaintance. |
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Rather, we might follow the example of one especially history-aware acquaintance, who has been assiduously preserving letters, scraps of poetry and journal jottings. |
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Nothing is known of her education, though she was clearly well-read by the time she made the acquaintance of one of the Cambridge Platonists, Henry More. |
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But it is precisely that wonky smile, lugubrious air and bitter chocolate voice that pierces the hearts of the toughest ball-breaking women of my acquaintance. |
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Walls, windows, letters, bodies, books, John Donne redivivus, one might say, had that epithet not been applied to his acquaintance, Rupert Brooke. |
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Should old acquaintance be forgot, just remember a few of the resolutions the Founding Fathers made this year. |
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When I told an acquaintance about a ten to one shot that romped home later in the day, I had no idea how much, if anything, that tip was ultimately worth to him. |
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His acquaintance hissed lividly at the sound of Birdie's surname. |
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Should auld acquaintance be forgot and days of auld lang syne? |
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Quickly climbing the musty stairs to the executive offices, I sought out an old acquaintance. |
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The concert happened to be performed by an old acquaintance of mine, who I used to know many moons ago, when we were both angelic little trebles in local parish church choir. |
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Sir Walter had sought the acquaintance, and though his overtures had not been met with any warmth, he had persevered in seeking it. |
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They state that date and acquaintance rape are as serious as stranger rape. |
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There have been documented instances of police being unwilling to investigate instances of acquaintance rape and same-sex sexual assaults. |
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Still, it stung when a slightly older acquaintance asked me why I couldn't do any better. |
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Forex Peace Army Chief Dmitri Chavkerov took some classes from MasterChoa Kok Sui and developed a good acquaintance with him in the period. |
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As his name gradually became known, the circle of his acquaintance widened. |
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Recently, I helped an acquaintance install a new 25-watt, fixed-mount VHF radio on his 22-foot center console. |
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While he has some acquaintance with the subject, he is not an expert. |
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His acquaintance with Wordsworth led to his settling in 1809 at Grasmere, in the Lake District. |
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In England, he settled back in the family home at Southwold, renewing acquaintance with local friends and attending an Old Etonian dinner. |
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Many children of his acquaintance remembered the stammer, while many adults failed to notice it. |
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In 1837, the Scottish poet and playwright Joanna Baillie reflected on her long acquaintance with Wordsworth. |
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He became an acquaintance of Coleridge and Wordsworth, having already sought out Charles Lamb in London. |
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To solve this problem, I propose the locution 'quaint, which is short for acquaintance. |
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They travelled together to examine the Cornish coast accompanied by Davies Gilbert and made Davy's acquaintance. |
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With some of them he kept up an acquaintance as long as he and they lived, and was ever ready to shew them acts of kindness. |
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On further acquaintance I concluded that Mr. Spear's bruskness was assumed, and that beneath the tough husk there beats a very tender heart. |
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Around 1671, Anne first made the acquaintance of Sarah Jennings, who later became her close friend and one of her most influential advisors. |
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Probably my acquaintance, Mr Blank, therefore, would have been able, if he had so wished to do, to purloin the papers which he mentioned. |
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They then settled in Barnard Castle, County Durham, England in 1818 where Murchison made the acquaintance of Sir Humphry Davy. |
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The method was first revealed in 1807 by his acquaintance Thomas Thomson, in the third edition of Thomson's textbook, A System of Chemistry. |
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None of the quarrymen were intimate friends of mine. I had a nodding acquaintance with them. |
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Murray told Turing that the burglar was an acquaintance of his, and Turing reported the crime to the police. |
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They recently renewed their acquaintance after more than 10 years apart. |
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There isn't any doubt but that he had a nodding acquaintance with every pretty girl in town. |
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An acquaintance from college, Gavin Elster, asks Scottie to follow his wife, Madeleine, claiming that she is in some sort of danger. |
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Till ye finally meet with the acquaintance of Mister Typus, Mistress Tope and all the little typtopies. |
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Unsatisfied with Hutton, Arthurs invited and auditioned acquaintance Liam Gallagher as a replacement. |
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While Conrad had only limited personal acquaintance with the peoples of Maritime Southeast Asia, the region looms large in his early work. |
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Watson's description of Sherlock Holmes when he first makes his acquaintance in A Study in Scarlet. |
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She's taken a miff at something, I suppose, and means to cut my acquaintance. |
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I read a page here and there, and made acquaintance with a great many authors whom I was content to know thus desultorily. |
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These young women tell their stories of incest, date rape, acquaintance rape, and mentor abuse. |
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Matthew, John, Guy and Peter asked their mutual acquaintance, Trudie Styler, to invest in the production of Ritchie's second film. |
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Wilson could often be found walking around Marylebone Gardens with his acquaintance Baretti heading toward the Farthing Pie House, now known as the Green Man Public House. |
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The conduct of acquaintance and Hypata aedile, Pythias, in punishing a fish seller for overcharging Lucius has occasioned considerable discussion. |
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The acquaintance then formed lasted to the end of Harris' life. |
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The group had hired the motorboat to immerse the ashes of an acquaintance in Sangam river, the Ganga and Yamuna rivers' confluence, considered holy by Hindus, Yadav said. |
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They would gain much in common only slowly, and I should add rockily, for the early stages of their acquaintance was based substantially on mutual self-interest. |
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As an occasional contributor, he had formed a particular friendship with its first editor, Frederick Greenwood and a close acquaintance with its second, John Morley. |
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Business studies lecturer Tecwen Whittock, who is accused of being the cougher, was just an acquaintance who was looking for tips to help him get on the hit show, she claimed. |
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Around this same time Handel made the acquaintance of Telemann. |
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Gladstone fixed that point lower, and was more vehement against those who went above it, than any other politician or official of my acquaintance. |
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She contacted an acquaintance who worked for The Sun in Manchester. |
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Evans had long been an acquaintance of John Fitch, the first to build a steamboat in the United States, and the two had worked together on steam projects. |
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Alternatively, there are various paths up the mountain from lower down the valley which offer the possibility of closer acquaintance with the crags of the north face. |
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Our new acquaintance very deliberately coiled up the tube of his hookah and produced from behind a curtain a very long befrogged topcoat with astrakhan collar and cuffs. |
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The Firm's work received increasing interest from people in the United States, resulting in Morris's acquaintance with Henry James and Charles Eliot Norton. |
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Being a very strong, active man, with gift of versatile hand and brain, and early acquaintance with handicrafts, Christopher Bert could earn his keep. |
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According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, an Arizona outfit known as RESTORE seeks to use restorative justice to adjudicate allegations of acquaintance rape. |
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The comparative advantage the relearners gained from previous acquaintance with a particular maze vanished as the elapsed time approached six months. |
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On this tour, he was also asked to sidestep before a cine camera and made the acquaintance of the intensive Russian training R methods used by the Rumanians. |
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