| She'd spent a lot of time ruminating on her conversation with the billionaire earlier that morning. |
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| I spent a lot of time trying to get clearance from the soft rock band but they completely blanked it. |
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| However he just couldn't help spending a lot of time mooning over the situation. |
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| Men do spend a lot of time in there, when the spirit moves them but it is nothing when compared to how much time the woman spends there. |
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| I lost a lot of time at the start of the race and I tried to close the gap as much as possible. |
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| Life has fallen into a languid pattern, my voice unreliable and my blood count chronically low and I tend to spend a lot of time asleep. |
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| I don't have a lot of time left unbooked between now and the 20th, so call me soon. |
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| On our side of the tracks, we didn't spend a lot of time increasing our ski jump distances. |
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| Many upper class women spent a lot of time on embroidery and became very skilled. |
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| It was sudden and unexpected and so I haven't had a lot of time to wrap my head around it. |
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| Grayson and I spent a lot of time together, rolling around, sitting in laps, and being smooched. |
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| So I spent a lot of time on the water and learned a lot about marine biology from the naturalist on the whale-watching boat. |
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| I spend a lot of time in meetings that I could otherwise spend productively, but that's the nature of the beast in my profession. |
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| She gets crushes on girls, or her gay male friends, though she spends a lot of time necking with a cross dresser named Curry. |
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| Suffering from a mild form of insomnia, I spend a lot of time up and about in the early hours before dawn. |
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| They both played soccer and softball, and, as a result, got to spend a lot of time together. |
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| We have spent quite a lot of time and money on decorating the ground floor and the upstairs was in pretty good condition. |
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| I know that I wouldn't be comfortable spending a lot of time with someone who spanks their children or is frequently angry with them. |
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| Boxers in training spend a lot of time hitting the speed bag and jumping rope. |
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| So we spend a lot of time, sort of like jiving with each other, you know, jiving and vibing, at our farm. |
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| I think that insofar as I am a poet, I was cut out to be a poet who needed a lot of time to get started. |
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| I hated tomatoes as a child and spent a lot of time picking those bad boys off salads and burgers and sandwiches. |
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| It saves us a lot of time not having to worry about organic and non-organic product getting mixed up. |
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| I used to spend a lot of time trying to keep up with the boys, who would often take to the bush. |
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| I spent a lot of time hanging out at their place and the books were always out in the open. |
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| We've spent a lot of time measuring everything and I don't think it could be any straighter. |
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| The Scottish popular press doesn't have a lot of time for gays either, even though there are a few among their number. |
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| I was good about not taking a lot of time on my sites this morning, but now I must be off. |
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| Lawyers read omnivorously, for though books were somewhat scarce in the colonial period, there was a lot of time in which to read. |
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| Yesterday the Assistant Speaker spent a lot of time in the House hauling me over the coals for apparently using unparliamentary language. |
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| Played multiple times, each player will spend a lot of time standing alone outside the opera house or a movie theater. |
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| It is this practice that he spends all his time doing now, but there were others he spent a lot of time doing in New York many years hence. |
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| The latest offering has become very popular for hunters and outdoorsmen who spend a lot of time in bad weather. |
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| All in all, this is a return to form for DiFranco, and these tracks should spend a lot of time in rotation on CD changers and mp3 players. |
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| We spent a lot of time together, well over two months, and so we really got to know each other. |
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| He also spent a lot of time in the college library, occasionally paging through the numerous chemistry books at his disposal. |
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| If you spend a lot of time outdoors gardening, or reading in the sun, you'll want to invest in a pair of cheater sunglasses. |
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| Materials chemists spend a lot of time and money researching and developing metallic materials. |
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| I didn't have a lot of time to prepare for the parachute landing and, not being a parachutist, this was new to me. |
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| It humanizes an issue that a lot of people haven't spent a lot of time thinking about. |
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| Traditional programming requires a few coders to commit a lot of time and effort, for which they will reasonably expect to be paid. |
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| As a child, it was discovered I'd had a stroke and I spent a lot of time in and out of hospital. |
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| The team spent a lot of time looking at offensive lineman and wideouts at the scouting combine. |
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| We could spend a lot of time talking about precision adjustments for plows, tillage implements, grain drills, and combines. |
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| I called in sick way too many days, spent a lot of time at home curled up in a fetal position. |
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| Good con artists invest a lot of time figuring out which kinds of people are most vulnerable to which kinds of scams. |
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| We spend a lot of time in this electronic community, but do we ever stop to think whether this community is real or fictitious? |
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| Beside the production work, does it take you a lot of time to concretise your ideas? |
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| And they're on the run, and I don't think they're going to be spending a lot of time thinking about how to conduct new terrorist acts. |
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| I've spent a lot of time over the past few months trying to figure you out. |
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| I did some very quick laps when he pitted, so probably I made a lot of time then. |
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| I consequently spent a lot of time avoiding the kitchen, holed up in my room reading. |
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| This group, whoever they are, had a lot of time and funding in order to plan the smuggling and detonation of one thousand pounds of plastique. |
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| Back when I was an editor at HBR, I spent a lot of time plowing through turgid academic papers trying to turn up nuggets of practical wisdom. |
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| I spent a lot of time those two days shaking my head because he had so much control over the ball. |
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| She has a lot of time left to develop her skills and to become a competent and inventive designer. |
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| I spent a lot of time watching my feet, making sure to throw off of my left foot rather than resorting to my old flat-footed infielder peg. |
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| To ease her loneliness, she also spent a lot of time with her French poodle and dachshund. |
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| Inggs has for some time been collecting detritus and flotsam from an area a short distance from Cape Town where he spends a lot of time. |
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| Lee spends a lot of time counseling young people, encouraging them to build strong foundations not just in the gym, but in all aspects of life. |
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| Clearing up after fly-tippers costs the Council a lot of time and money each year and we are determined to catch those who do it. |
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| Most fears can be treated using desensitization and counter-conditioning techniques, which require a lot of time and patience. |
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| I mean, we've spent a lot of time today talking about counterterrorism or counterproliferation. |
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| It would free up a lot of time for him to get on with the rest of his life. |
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| I'm a film maker, I've been diving the reef for 37 years now and the last 18 months I've spent a lot of time on it filming crown of thorns. |
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| It sounded like a book that would teach me how to be a proper lady, complete with frilly lace, curtsying and a lot of time spent being meek. |
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| And I did spend a lot of time futilely trying to talk to the FBI press office about the flight. |
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| She was more of a daddy's girl than mum's girl and they spent a lot of time together. |
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| Watch any bird for a while, and you will see that it spends a lot of time preening its feathers and bathing in water or dust. |
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| Since I was talking generalities rather than specifics, it wasn't my intention to spend a lot of time searching and counting replies. |
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| I also did quite a lot of gigs with different set-ups and I always had to re-arrange the music again for these gigs, which takes a lot of time. |
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| I spent a lot of time at their house while I was growing up and despite themselves they made the house a warm and fun place to visit. |
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| I spent a lot of time on the beach picking up little pieces of mica and quartz and granite that I thought looked interesting. |
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| I just won't be spending a lot of time in the meantime puzzling over her identity. |
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| My competitors use standard jacks with no grease nipples that constantly need replacing and take a lot of time to crank up and down for hookups. |
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| And he was, is, a very honest, very direct bloke and I had a lot of time for him. |
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| No doubt the Labor Party will be spending a lot of time, money and energy analysing how it so disastrously lost the election. |
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| We spend a lot of time on tank gunnery, Bradley gunnery, rifle marksmanship and antitank missile systems. |
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| As a writer, someone who spends a lot of time in his own head, he sympathises with Barney's sense of dislocation. |
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| To dismantle the alarm box and break through these very solid security doors will have taken a lot of time, effort and skill. |
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| Suing a supplier based overseas can be difficult, expensive and take a lot of time. |
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| Although a lot of people spent a lot of time exploring for tin they did not do very well. |
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| They have a wicked bearded collie called Dudley who I spent a lot of time winding up! |
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| That's a lot of time spent fiddling with the steering wheel in a traffic queue. |
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| I used the book as my primary source and then I spent a lot of time observing women. |
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| I am very angry that we didn't even get a letter back acknowledging our petition, because we spent a lot of time on it. |
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| Not that I've spent a lot of time rummaging around such places, mind you, but I got me an active imagination. |
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| Another butterfly that is rarely seen is white admiral, a beautiful butterfly that spends a lot of time feeding on honeydew at the tops of trees. |
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| You've got to have a lot of time to put into investing in stocks in order to do it right and rake the money in. |
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| He was a popular culture junkie and spent a lot of time in high school watching old movies on television. |
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| But we have spent a lot of time getting the pastry just right so it rises perfectly. |
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| I spent a lot of time judging the atmosphere and the whereabouts of guards. |
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| You'll save a lot of time and aggravation if you have detailed building plans. |
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| Don and I spent a lot of time talking about this and going over the plans leading up to surgery as well as the week after surgery. |
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| If you teach a string or wind instrument, you know your students spend a lot of time practicing incomplete pieces. |
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| I understand you've spent a lot of time in Montreal over the past year, and recorded part of the album here. |
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| He is known for keeping a low profile and spends a lot of time in the United States. |
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| This is very helpful, as creating workable policies generally requires a lot of time and effort. |
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| They were a pleasure to work with and it is great to see young people putting in a lot of time and effort for a very worthy cause. |
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| We spend a lot of time in rehearsal on the floor laughing our heads off, making discoveries, trying things. |
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| She confessed that she did spend a lot of time practising for the competition and rehearsing her performances. |
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| Not to do that would be to waste a lot of time and money reinventing the wheel. |
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| And I think he wanted to do it because he had spent a lot of time in period costume and relished the idea of a sci-fi movie. |
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| The press release mentioned that it took you about four years to complete the album, and that you spent a lot of time re-recording tracks. |
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| We spend a lot of time on legislation that does not have that level of significance. |
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| I've been spending a lot of time on there and I think some of it has rubbed off. |
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| But loyalty is something that takes a lot of time to chip away at and it also takes a lot of time to replace. |
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| Do you commute to work or spend a lot of time travelling to meetings and conferences? |
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| What I mean is that some liars will spend a lot of time convincing themselves and others that they are not really lying at all. |
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| As an unrepentant internet devotee, I spend a lot of time rootling around cyberspace seeking out the edifying and unusual. |
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| He's a man I have a lot of time for and could gladly listen to for a lot longer than a day. |
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| I spent a lot of time following, and not always enough time asserting myself. |
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| Now Anya's a little secretive about her love life, and the rest of us spend a lot of time wondering about what's going on. |
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| Ms Taylor has spoken about how her daughter spent a lot of time in suicide chatrooms with a macabre obsession with death. |
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| She gets a lot of time to indulge in her hobbies like gardening and reading, goes for walk and takes part in many other activities. |
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| As well as stopping and talking to people on the street we also spent a lot of time checking under bridges and talking with the homeless there. |
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| I have spent a lot of time in Kashmir during my childhood and grown up admiring the musical notes of santoor as my father played the instrument. |
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| I have to spend a lot of time explaining to my Aunt Mae that there are no aliens, monsters under the bed, or satanic cults in our company. |
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| You spent a lot of time flicking and teasing your hair with an Afro comb at lunch time, or during class or after class. |
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| However, back on the track the backmarkers were frustrating and I lost a lot of time. |
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| We spend a lot of time swinging the banjo, and only yesterday had to put in a new winze, following damage to our trenches from Beachy Bill. |
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| I spend a lot of time chasing people for information, and it hurts, I tell you. |
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| I had very low grip which caused me to slide and run wide before the back straight, which cost me a lot of time. |
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| These natural joints are stronger than man-made ones and save the carpenter a lot of time creating joints. |
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| I write most of my stuff late at night and tend not to spend a lot of time editing it. |
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| I spent a lot of time getting ready for Halina the second time, but she had bad news when I arrived. |
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| This was one of my favorite paintings in the show, and I spent a lot of time staring at it where it was hung over one of the fireplace mantels. |
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| I've spent a lot of time twisting the knobs, getting the mix almost right before going too far and scrambling the hues again. |
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| Over the past year or so, a lot of time, effort and money have been put into promoting internal tourism, i.e., Thais touring Thailand. |
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| People spend a lot of time making sure their holiday is what they want and is good value. |
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| He spent a lot of time at the prison, while giving the prisoners art lessons for creative and therapeutic reasons. |
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| Yes, in other words I have a lot of time to play around on the computer today and I guess its befitting the birthday bashment. |
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| I definitely have a select few people I spend a lot of time with but no boyfriend. |
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| A natural endurance athlete, he spends a lot of time meditating, doing yoga, and simply focusing on breathing. |
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| Unlike most woodpeckers, flickers spend a lot of time on the ground probing for ants. |
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| That doesn't leave a lot of time for breakfast, and besides, I don't like to eat that early. |
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| He spent a lot of time with the contributors, and believes his honest approach helped get the best from them. |
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| I also spent a lot of time with other technology executives whom I viewed as best-practice in some slice of what they did. |
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| Starting out, I spent a lot of time on the trampoline getting comfortable landing on my back. |
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| Your average sheila and bloke, be it in Sydney or beyond the black stump, doesn't have a lot of time for earbashers. |
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| Twenty-five years ago, I learned about business travel by spending a lot of time in San Francisco. |
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| Bolton shopkeepers and businesses have spent a lot of time and money to encourage visitors to their town. |
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| I have spent a lot of time, effort and money to try and put together the next project. |
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| Most experienced players of MMORPGS will start a new game expecting to have to invest quite a lot of time into it. |
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| I spent a lot of time acting and directing some pretty cool mocap for the game. |
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| Numbers of truants are so high education social workers do not have the resources to spend a lot of time with all the families involved. |
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| Because Raymond tires so easily, we spend a lot of time in front of the tube. |
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| So we spent a lot of time living there with this specific community of monks, a monastic household. |
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| While I'll grant that Boyle does look pretty extra-terrestrial, the filmmakers seemed to have spent a lot of time and resources into making her look bosomy. |
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| I spent a lot of time inside that shelter with Hannah, while the rest of her crew ran, and screamed, and died. |
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| I spend a lot of time practising the skills I need to survive under water, and this is important in ensuring that you have the correct mental attitude. |
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| I'm a great believer in finding out what works well and then doing more of it, because we can otherwise waste a lot of time reinventing the wheel. |
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| Having spent a lot of time in conservative churches, one of the first questions I get is about dominion. |
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| The breast-bone of Pteranodon was relatively small, restricting the size of flight muscles, so presumably they would have spent a lot of time gliding and soaring. |
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| You've been spending a lot of time with these guys, the storm chasers. |
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| I spent a lot of time trekking through the jungle, exploring uncharted areas and meeting primitive tribes, some were friendly but more often than not they were unfriendly. |
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| Although bull elephants spend a lot of time alone, they regularly meet up and renew their friendships, one of their favourite meeting places being around water holes. |
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| That's no big job, but if you are copy-editing a book and need to make words in boldface hundreds of times each hour, a macro to do this can save you a lot of time. |
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| In particular, they carry out instructions one after another, in a single linear sequence, and they spend a lot of time moving data to and from the memory. |
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| I spent a lot of time biting my tongue, which isn't easy for me. |
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| John Brown, perennial shut-in, spends a lot of time indoors. |
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| Over the years the family spent a lot of time holidaying in Europe. |
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| Somewhere between a frittata and a souffle, this comforting, old-fashioned dish is perfect for dinner when you don't want to spend a lot of time shopping or cooking. |
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| Cricket is a game that I have a lot of time for, ever since I made the conscious effort a few years ago to sit down and make myself familiar with the rules. |
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| He spent a lot of time thinking about the attributes of each character. |
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| But I spend a lot of time these days in the playground area of our local parks and it makes sense for Zippy to tag along and get his daily walks at the same time. |
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| But who today would spend a lot of time reading Wyndham Lewis, a leader of the Vorticists and, in 1914 and 1915, editor of the short-lived but significantly named Blast? |
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| I have invested a lot of time and energy in getting this project off the ground and it will have massive benefits for the town and indeed for the county. |
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| Most of the courts we play on these days are very slow, and it gives my opponents a lot of time to hit good returns, run over and make good passing shots. |
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| City crews will be hooking the curling rink ice plant up to the thermal siphons to hurry the arena ground along, but it will still take a lot of time. |
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| I have visited 53 battlefields that napoleon fought on, and it has taken me a lot of time. |
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| I think we spent a lot of time trying to convince tired and burned out staff that this is a good idea, instead of convincing the people who really should make the decisions. |
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| They made a choice to not do that and to take the big fire engine which shaved off a lot of time and it was a good call because they were able to get to me that much sooner. |
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| We spent a lot of time on retail politics and fought for every one of those votes. |
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| The flirtatious Emily spends a lot of time clumsily pursuing her crush. |
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| I left the office about 5pm and spent a lot of time wandering around the different backstage sites, dressing rooms and stage areas, to make sure everything went to plan. |
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| What he really needs is a lot of time on a psychiatrist's couch. |
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| Spend a lot of time reassuring this woman that you see beyond the bod and aren't just another voyeur looking to put another notch on your stripper pole. |
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| College football coaches spend a lot of time recruiting high school athletes. |
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| Most of the super fans I spoke to spend a lot of time on cam sites or pay for one-on-one Web chats with the girls they idolize. |
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| I could save myself a lot of time and aggravation if I just limited my listening to megastars and their hyped hits. |
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| Both Riki and Avigayel, who sat in the styling chair, were unemployed and spent a lot of time hanging out at Linda's salon. |
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| I hate to besmirch the reputation of an innocent dog, but a lot of time her personality is like a rabid pit bull. |
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| Saves a lot of time, does that, as well as a fair wad of money. |
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| I spend a lot of time praying that they are imbued with greater wisdom. |
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| I don't have the time to attend gun shows or spend a lot of time rummaging through the gun listings looking for World War II vintage collectible firearms. |
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| At least by Chinese standards, moreover, transforming your pooch into a panda can eat up a lot of time and money. |
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| Parenting a preschooler is hard, and it takes a lot of time, energy, and forbearance to do it right. |
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| We spend a lot of time evaluating and taking the measure of markets. |
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| You spend a lot of time studying this situation in the Middle East. |
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| But when Summer comes around what I really do is spend a lot of time on the patio having cocktails. |
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| You know the FX are too pronounced when you spend a lot of time wondering what onscreen is practical, what the actors are really interacting with. |
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| Well, all due respect, and if comics buffs want to spend a lot of time and energy agonizing over whether comics get enough respect or not, why deny them the pleasure. |
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| But my sister went to temple University, so I spent a lot of time in Philly. |
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| I'd spent a lot of time checking and rechecking the answers. |
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| I've spent a lot of time in the swanky bars of London, Leeds and all other cities around the UK, but I have to say, Manchester in general knocks the socks off anywhere. |
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| She devoted a lot of time to recreation, hobbies, and charity work. |
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| Just before the drawing the lots, she took a lot of time going through the showroom, floor by floor, promising herself that she would be back on a shopping spree. |
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| Beyond simply transposing the text into English, the translator and the company dedicated a lot of time to discussing the context of the script with the author. |
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| It takes a lot of time for Ottoman taffies to be ready before they put in the market. |
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| We spent a lot of time putting it together and choosing the repertoire, and thought about what would 'unzip' me and unzip the Carmens I've done. |
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| On top of that, though, the Irish comedian has been spending a lot of time analysing family dynamics for his new TV show, Father Figure. |
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| We've spent a lot of time completely remastering the game and the final high-definition experience is a true testament to the team's hard work. |
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| In fact, at first bluff, Hughes appeared to be the sort of man I could spend a lot of time with, both on the river and off. |
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| The traditional Faroese national dress is also a local handicraft that people spend a lot of time, money, and effort to assemble. |
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| They decided on this name after seeing a poster in the White Horse pub in Richmond where they spent a lot of time whilst recording the album. |
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| He deeply admired and wished to save his father's accomplishments and spent a lot of time proving his claim to the throne. |
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| I worked as a lagger years ago and spent a lot of time working out of town. |
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| Because I spent a lot of time alone back in LA, calling the Telepersonals had turned into a habit. |
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| They have been spending a lot of time flirting with Dale stroking young mum Jen's cheek with a hairclip. |
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| Right whales are baleen whales, and in the winter spend a lot of time diving for food deep in the water column. |
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| Hey, he took a lot of time to paint that picture for us. I think we should at least pretend it doesn't smell like a load of Bandini. |
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| Born with a harelip and no palate, as a youngster he spent a lot of time in hospital having operations. |
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| Clearly they haveless chemistry, less of a friendly relationship than myself and a lot of events together, spend a lot of time with each other. |
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| It's a little more work up front, but it will save a lot of time in the long run. |
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| Players spend a lot of time in first-person perspective as Brody's character, Jack Driscoll, on Skull Island. |
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| In 1969, the team spent a lot of time experimenting with a gas turbine powered car, and, after four wet races in 1968, with four wheel drive. |
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| Young black women who spend a lot of time watching rap music videos may be at increased risk of poor health outcomes. |
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| I'm the tough guy on the ice, the one who doesn't score goals or have any assists but spends a lot of time in the penalty box. |
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| It really was full-blown world creation, and that takes a lot of time. |
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| It will take a lot of time for the peace dividend to filter through the people. |
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| Smaller sengi species spend a lot of time clearing twigs or other high hurdles off the potentially lifesaving speedways. |
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| Some cosplayers spend a lot of time and money to make their own costumes, while others buy costumes ready-to-wear. |
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| The museum's director spends a lot of time romancing potential donors. |
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| The gas water heater is much more involved, and can take a lot of time. |
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| I did, however, observe that her students spent a lot of time reading independently and completing TAAS practice reading assignments independently. |
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| In his book, author Tim Maltin has claimed that a lot of time was wasted assessing the damage from the iceberg when nearby ships could have been steaming to the rescue. |
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| Her improvements to the price books and price packs have reduced the number of misorders, or incorrectly configured machines, saving the company a lot of time and money. |
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| Denys was very careful to explain to me what he was doing and why he was doing it and I spent a lot of time with the script supervisor and the editor. |
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