When I awoke, it was already dark, but I fancied stretching my legs so I started walking and didn't stop until I reached here. |
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Iroka awoke with a start as the front door banged open and a figure stumbled in. |
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Half the barges were away, already sweeping downriver with thin, white mustaches under their bluff bows, when a commotion awoke ashore. |
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Seven months ago, Joe awoke from a sound sleep with an awful pain in his big toe. |
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At about the same time, a few blocks from Mrs. Rider, a woman and her children awoke and began vomiting. |
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He awoke bound and shackled in a prison cell with three brute men with whips standing around him. |
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I awoke with a start, tears coursing down my cheeks, my body shaking with sobs. |
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Easton awoke early this morning to find the thermometer had fallen 30 during the night, and was but 2 above a zero. |
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Residents awoke on Bank Holiday Monday morning to discover the traffic warden had gone down the street, before 9am, issuing the tickets. |
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I awoke Saturday morning to a pallid, milk-white sky that was seemingly unable to decide whether to rain or snow. |
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He went to bed saying he felt cold and shivery and he awoke at 5am the following day coughing up blood. |
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But when I awoke early next morning, the city seemed quiet, almost leaden, and the daily traffic jam was missing. |
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When she finally awoke she moaned in pleasure rubbing her face against her soft pillow and gripping another pillow in her arms tightly. |
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I awoke to find my phone shrilling loudly, as if threatening to fall off its hook any time. |
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She knew this bliss could not have lasted long, unfortunately, for she awoke at the expected sight of blood. |
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She awoke the next day, as her alarm clock let out a monotonous but loud beep. |
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This morning we awoke to a thick blanket of snow, and it's still coming down. |
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Kelsey awoke with a start and shook her head a few times to get rid of her dream. |
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Erin awoke, uncovering herself from the mountains of blankets that covered her on her bed. |
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He only awoke from the stunner darts this morning, two days after his arrest on the skywalk in Old Baltimore. |
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This morning I awoke to the sight of my socks and undies and bras all perched along the racks. |
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I awoke to find myself lying next to the blonde bombshell who was sleeping peacefully in my arms. |
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I awoke much later but kept my eyes closed, I still felt a bit sleepy and wasn't ready to start work just yet. |
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And suddenly I awoke with a start, a cold sweat turning the sheets to unfrozen ice. |
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When they awoke their stinking hangovers were not helped by being hauled up in front of a distinctly unimpressed female judge. |
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I awoke, arms flailing and my head floating in a pillow drenched in my own slobber. |
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When Gerry Danagher retired teacher of Skreen awoke from his slumbers one morning a few weeks back he thought he was in a time warp. |
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After having had disturbing dreams about being hunted by the CIA for crimes committed with bookends, she awoke feeling unrested. |
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Even when I awoke from a snooze, I still felt as if I'd not slept for a week. |
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Five hours later I awoke for my trek to work via home and a wash and brush-up. |
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The very minute she awoke she would begin this relentless spine-chilling howling, her wordless distress all too apparent. |
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Sam awoke to the sound of ocean waves crashing against the earth and seagulls squalling over head. |
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I awoke to find this numb sensation in my left arm, and a horrible headache. |
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When Anna awoke, she found herself back in a side room of the main lab on a rather hard bed. |
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Wes awoke with a start when he felt something hard whack him in the stomach. |
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I reached back and squeezed her shoulder, watching as she stirred and awoke, waking them in the process. |
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At 16 he awoke to his country's indigenous sounds after hearing traditional music played at his father's funeral. |
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The girls awoke at midafternoon to the rolling and swaying of a ship on the open sea. |
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I awoke very suddenly to the heavy, heady smell of smoke, and it immediately felt as if my lungs were being stabbed. |
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I rolled over to stretch, reminding myself of Felix when he awoke from naps. |
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He awoke terrified and helpless in a hospital bed, covered in bandages and unable to move his legs. |
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Now the servants came and awoke her, ran her a bath, and set out her clothing for the day before departing to take care of their other charges. |
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I awoke in the real dead of night to the sounds of muffled chatter and hurried movements both in front and behind. |
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I fell asleep in the warm embrace of a sunbeam, but when I awoke the world was dark. |
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On Thursday, July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day in which the temperature would reach 106 degrees. |
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Lyonha awoke to the sound of birds chirping and trees singing their ancient chants. |
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The sounds of merry birds chirping and horses neighing pleasantly awoke Nyerel. |
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Her senses tingled in reaction to the smell, alert, and the instincts of the huntress awoke within her. |
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In some parts of Sofia, residents awoke to find that their refuse had been cleared. |
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I was drifting in and out of consciousness, but in one of my moments of cognisance I awoke to find a doctor leaning over me, checking my pulse. |
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I awoke in a cold sweat, in a frantic panic trying to determine whether or not you had made your declaration. |
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I awoke, letting my eyes slowly adjust to the dim but still traumatic lighting of the infirmary. |
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I awoke this morning with a need to compose the letter I've attached below. |
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Anest awoke to discover that both he and Lily had fainted from exhaustion, though somehow she lay with her head pillowed on his shoulder. |
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When Blakewell awoke, his hands were pinioned behind the small of his back, and his shoulders, waist and arms were tied. |
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Revived from my state of walking death, I awoke with an insatiable thirst for that world, a mad desire to recapture it in the waking hours. |
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I nearly conked my head on the upper bunk when I awoke the first day at camp. |
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I awoke in the night out of blessed sleep to the depressing consciousness of the pain. |
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Police said the former fireman awoke to find a young man rifling through his living room. |
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With a start, Kris Connasa, Blair's younger brother, awoke from his slumber, hitting his head against the low ceiling above his platform bed. |
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When I awoke it was to the brilliant glowing answer to our little conundrum. |
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When I awoke, I was covered in strange purple hairs that poked out through my clothes and made a sound only dogs could hear. |
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Unfortunately, I suspect that your reporter awoke from his dream after his copy had been printed? |
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He dreamed of flea-bitten hotels and ballrooms, but he awoke with the smell of cigars in his nostrils, the scent of organized outrage. |
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St. John showed that apneustic breathing caused by rostral pontine lesions disappeared when the animal awoke. |
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The following morning Estelle awoke, still wrapped in her ermine winter robe. |
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Kinamori awoke to the sound of heavy footfalls, the clink of chains following each step. |
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She awoke again, but this time to the comforting warmth of her couch pillows and crochet blanket. |
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In the morning she awoke to the aroma of eggs and bacon frying in the kitchen. |
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Bigelow residents awoke to frigid temperatures last Sunday morning, and not just outside. |
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Unicorn was cuddled affectionately against Kyri's wet face when she awoke with a start. |
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The first time I took a nap in my frosh year I awoke and immediately got freaked out. |
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I slept better that night than I had for years, and I awoke uncharacteristically clear headed and full of beans. |
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The startled hogger awoke to the sparks of the fuzees and an horrific view of the rear of a train dead ahead and no way to stop in time. |
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They awoke to find the rain pounding down on the sole window of their room. |
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Once the assassin passed the golem, the golem awoke with pure rage in his eyes. |
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He awoke again with a start to the pungent smell of burning silicon wafting in the air. |
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But Madrid's ground zero panicked the minds and awoke the demagogues, ready to invert responsibility. |
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He awoke the next morning to the delicious smell that emanated from the fireplace. |
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The place was already engulfed in flames when he and his roommate Jerome awoke. |
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At midnight, Sara awoke to a dark room with her blankets entangled around her legs. |
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He suddenly awoke when he heard 3 dongs of the town's bell that meant trouble. |
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He, aged 47, awoke to find flames threatening to engulf the downstairs of his home. |
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The door was left unlocked, and when I awoke, the dry goods were on the kitchen counter and the perishables had been placed in my fridge. |
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Lee awoke in the early hours of the morning to find the front of his house ablaze with fierce flames lapping against the bedroom window. |
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The next morning I awoke to the bellows, grunts and snorts of a dozen huge elephant seals wallowing on the black beach below the sleeping dongas. |
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She awoke to the sound of shuffling feet and many muffled voices whispering in tones too quiet to be heard clearly. |
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Karya finally awoke to a weak light, nothing like the radiant shine in her now lost home. |
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He awoke to a subliminal judder and then a hollow, deep boom that rocked through the fortress and was not so much heard as felt. |
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They awoke from a short nap and upon hearing dull thuds, attributed the noise to a nearby naval gunnery range. |
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She awoke the next morning to the sound of chirping birds and the wind whistling through the trees. |
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The people of Abbeyleix awoke on Christmas morning to an unexpected white Christmas. |
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Joel awoke the next day to find Oak Branch and Ivy Petal at the foot of his bed. |
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The murder of this family, five in number, was the work of a moment, not one of them awoke. |
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The prisoners were then reported to be sent to the labor camp by motor boat before the town's people awoke. |
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Groggy farmers and their families awoke with throats, eyes and lungs seared and burning, pain shooting into their chests. |
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I awoke the next night, feeling relaxed and rested, after a calm night, and a dreamless sleep. |
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I shoved open the door and slammed it behind me, not caring if it awoke my parents. |
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The city noises drifted him into a light sleep until the cab driver's voice awoke him. |
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I awoke again in a dazzling fluorescent haze, my ears filled with the soft rushing noise of rubber wheels on linoleum. |
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It had been a few hours since he had awoke that morning and the first thing that crossed his mind was to tie up loose ends. |
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At this point I lost the plot and started screaming at Abby who awoke in a panic. |
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She awoke slowly, her head throbbing as it had the time she had taken a whole tankard of ale on a dare from the boys. |
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Birds awoke within 3 min and were placed into small recovery cages before being released into their housing aviaries. |
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On Saturday morning, Londonist awoke from a sound sleep with a self-satisfied smile plastered all over one's face. |
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Her neighbour used a piece of bamboo to rouse him from sleep and eventually he awoke. |
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It would be as if, when Gregor Samsa awoke from his sleep to discover he had become a grotesquely huge beetle, no one was bothered by the change. |
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It was rather more like a lethargic dog who awoke from a comfortable sleep. |
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After twenty minutes or so, the car came to a stop, and I awoke with the lack of movement. |
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Everyone was sleeping soundly until they awoke with me yelling at the top of my lungs in pain. |
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I was asleep in my chambers when a cry awoke me from my sleep, it came from Aurala's room. |
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In the end, he remained trapped between sleep and exhaustion as his momentary lapses awoke him with terrible fear. |
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A loud scream awoke me from my sleep and I sat bolt upright, staring around in wide-eyed confusion. |
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Shurkom gently awoke E.D. out of a restless sleep, and announced that Robert was in need of his presence. |
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My mother came into our room when our excited cries awoke her from her sleep. |
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With one final scream, a crash of thunder awoke her from her dream, for that's all it was, just a figment of her imagination. |
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My baby girl's need for an early morning feed awoke me and, seeing as how that's the sleep thing shot for now, I figured I might as well read. |
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Steve rushed to the door before she awoke his parents and snuck her into his bedroom. |
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It was probably some idiotic unknown stranger who awoke me from my beauty sleep. |
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It rang and echoed in the quiet apartment, until it awoke Brenda's mother, sleeping in the room next-door. |
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With the beautiful sound of songbirds singing in the tree beside our room, the gentle voices awoke Andrea from her sleep beside me. |
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She told the court that she fell unconscious after breathing in the gas and awoke to find Haslam spreadeagled on her. |
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When I awoke, some hours later, my heart racing without a complete recollection of why, the fire had died. |
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After a few hours he awoke, still twitching, and stared at the ceiling for awhile, trying to figure out what to do now. |
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The pilot lost consciousness, but awoke in time to notice large rocks rapidly becoming larger. |
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He claimed he lost consciousness and awoke in the Emergency Department at the Montfort Hospital. |
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I stayed in a stage that was in and out of consciousness until I fully awoke sometime between five and six in the morning. |
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She said Mitchell told her he was unconscious for half an hour and awoke to his friend's screams. |
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After six months Rick awoke from his coma, and finds his life soon turned upside down again. |
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Later-it seemed like hour to him-Theorton awoke, still on the hospital table. |
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The weekly newsmagazine Veja finally awoke to the issue in the recent edition. |
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Suddenly, everyone awoke to the realization that we had come to one mind, we had reached consensus. |
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Share prices began a steep descent, and investors gradually awoke to the reality that they had been had. |
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Just as he was pinching himself to make sure it was all real he was injured and awoke to the reality of trials and loan deals. |
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I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science. |
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Jacob awoke on a cold morning to an unending beeping and a sound only comparable to a saw cutting wood. |
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After a few hours of working in silence I heard a sound that immediately awoke my mind. |
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A few hours later when Maria awoke she couldn't remember where she was. |
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He awoke with first light, stumbled out, stiff and unrested, went to the creek, threw water over his face and head, drank some, and went back to his plane. |
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I awoke to the sharp feeling of a bruised head and strained muscles. |
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It took some time from the delivery of the Mabo judgment before many in government and business awoke properly to the implications of native title. |
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A scream awoke me on the morning of my last day at Tian's tower. |
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We awoke this morning, after promises all weekend of disruptive falls of snow, to a tiny white dusting, a little more fell soon after but for now that seems to be it. |
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One morning in late December, Sclove told me she awoke to discover a lump on her lower spine. |
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I awoke in a swirly world of snug pillows and dreamy thoughts. |
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Dennis Wyness and Lee Mair fight for possession in a bruising draw at Tynecastle as the home side, after early slumbers, awoke to claim a share of the points. |
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As the dawn broke over Paris the sound of the tumbrel wheels awoke the prisoners from their fitful sleep and were soon loaded like animals to go on their last journey. |
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A slight tremor shook the earth, and the Colonel awoke in the guest room. |
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The steady buzz of machinery vibrated in Slaeter's ears as he awoke. |
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The faint whistling of birdsong awoke Marcs as it crept into his cell. |
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The annoying buzz of my alarm clock awoke me from my dreamless sleep. |
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The animals in the fields awoke, the cattle in the pastures and the sheep in the folds, even the birds in the air awoke and began to call to each other, male to female. |
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He was knocked unconscious and awoke to find he had been robbed. |
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When he awoke, two hours later, a wave of nausea swept over him. |
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As the dawn broke over Paris the sound of the tumbrel wheels awoke the prisoners from their fitful sleep and they were soon loaded like animals to go on their last journey. |
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An hour later I awoke in my chamber with the help of smelling salts. |
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Someof the injured were being detained right after they awoke from anesthesia. |
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Tankleff, a 17-year-old, awoke one morning to find his parents brutally beaten and stabbed. |
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I awoke to the most glorious weather, that brilliant, white sun-filled light that has long drawn artists like Picasso here. |
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I saw them every morning when I awoke and every evening when I climbed into bed. |
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I awoke on May 28, 2014, ready for a powerful day of filming and to do some great work. |
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She awoke one night with fierce abdominal cramping and rectal pain. |
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The Doyles awoke to a flaming ceiling and dense black smoke on all sides. |
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Gemini awoke the next morning, not to her father prodding her in the side, but to a warm breeze sifting in through her window and the hot summer sun falling across her face. |
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Unreckonable moments had passed, and he awoke to discover that he lay prone upon a hard, flat surface and that he was restrained once more with thick, hempen ropes. |
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When she awoke, only half conscious, there were voices coming closer. |
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Kevin's senses came to him slowly as he awoke into consciousness again. |
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An hour or so later I awoke to find an orderly wheeling me to the theatre. |
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And all allegedly awoke with the unshakable sense that something wrong had occurred. |
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She awoke the next morning, blond hairpieces surrounding her. |
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When Little Snow White awoke, they asked her who she was and how she had managed to come to their cottage. |
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In crimson Room, players awoke in an unfamiliar room with no way of knowing how to escape. |
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This morning, I spent about an hour listening to the beautiful dawn chorus, as the birds awoke and greeted another sunrise with their mellifluous songs. |
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The flapping of the sails while the boat was in stays awoke my companion, who sat up and, in a weak and husky voice, asked me what was the matter. |
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Patrick's past training as a police officer kicked in, and he prepared Renee to receive mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, but she awoke before he even breathed into her once. |
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The morning of the 11th, my father awoke me with a phone call from the Eastern time Zone to suggest I turn on the television. |
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One day he awoke from his reverie and cleared his throat, as if to warn me that a rare insight into the strange mind of the peripatetic music teacher was imminent. |
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As I awoke the following morning I found a note taped to my head. |
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Aeneas awoke and poured a libation and then told the vision to his father. |
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The rattle of empty bottles into a wooden crate, awoke me, and I noticed that every man was in great humour, the rick was being combed down by two men with long handled rakes. |
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The demand for intelligence rose when increasing education, hand in hand with the material advance of the bourgeoisie, awoke a desire for political action. |
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She returned there several times, which awoke curiosity and rumors. |
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At this moment Nukite awoke from his deep slumber, his eyes closed in the early morning sunlight he rose slowly to his feet, stretching his arms in a wide arc as he did so. |
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When he awoke the boy was still there, fastening the arrowhead to the tip. |
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The entire team awoke early, all unable to sleep when they were awakened. |
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And so, this morning I awoke not knowing that I had a frog in my throat. |
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I awoke on a lumpy old couch that smelled more than faintly of alcohol. |
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A failed actor with a history of alcoholism, Treadwell bummed around California until, he claims, he awoke from a blackout to discover a bear looming over him. |
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I awoke in the forenoon, pulled on my robe and sallied forth into the kitchen where I found my friend quite naked save for a pair of the most threadbare of undergarments. |
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I awoke in mid-air, as the shock wave hurled me against the bedroom's far wall. |
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Rose awoke to the usual sounds of cars manoeuvring down the road, children playing in the park across the road and the chatting of women on the pavement below. |
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He awoke in terror, thinking he was in a tunnel that had collapsed. |
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When Steve fully awoke, Shield filled him in on the details. |
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One was of a stoker billeted in Collingwood Block who awoke one night to see his blanket held up at the end of his bed with no visible means of support! |
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He awoke to dogs barking and gunshots, he said, and turned on a kerosene lantern to see what was going on. |
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Despite sleeping late, I awoke with a real humdinger of a hangover. |
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Skyler awoke when the bus stopped and walked wearily from the bus. |
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Autumn awoke the next morning with a feeling of barely suppressible joy. |
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The priest awoke with a start, flailing about in the bed until he recollected where he was and heaved himself across the mattress, in search of breakfast, no doubt. |
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He said he went back to sleep and when he awoke, she was gone. |
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She awoke, her body protesting as she drew a convulsive breath and sat up. |
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Another stint of exhausted sleep passed and Kate awoke again. |
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A chorus of kookaburras, butcher birds and blue-faced honeyeaters awoke us ahead of our trip to see one of the world's top rock art areas. |
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Sam Vimes awoke from a pig's nightmare to find himself lying on a pile of sacks in a godown in the docks. |
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By the time Galerius awoke the following morning, Constantine had fled too far to be caught. |
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Before the enfeebled of the dull-eyed lychnobite of the press could succumb to its influence, the cheerful voice of the magician awoke him. |
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Anselm then slept, awoke returned to Aosta, and then retraced his steps before returning to speak to his mother. |
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The novelty awoke the interest of the people of Pernambuco, that soon adhered to the game. |
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When he awoke, his arm was allegedly being mauled by a Border Patrol dog. |
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Unfortunately, the uproar awoke Mr. Jones, who sprang out of bed, making sure that there was a fox in the yard. |
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The pair found fairy penguin Dirk in their apartment when they awoke the next morning, and tried to release him into a canal. |
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Kris awoke with a start. Sweat dappled his forehead, and he brushed it away. |
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On 9 July, the Queen awoke in her bedroom at Buckingham Palace to find an intruder, Michael Fagan, in the room with her. |
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Next day, Sir William awoke to find his castle besieged by Moray, who demanded its surrender. |
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When the Thessalians awoke the next day, they found Alexander in their rear and promptly surrendered, adding their cavalry to Alexander's force. |
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Mrs. Forbes's eyes were instantly fixed on her with mild astonishment, and something of a mother's tenderness awoke in her heart toward the little maid-child. |
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The next morning, the Beatles awoke to a negative critical consensus in the US, but a day later their first US concert saw Beatlemania erupt at Washington Coliseum. |
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On that occasion, lodging alone at the Cornell Club in Manhattan, I had fallen asleep watching Fox Channel TV baseball and awoke at the teariest part of THAT movie. |
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James locked up before going to bed in the kitchen but awoke early next morning to hear footsteps beyond the closed wooden shtters of his box-bed. |
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The bathyphase of the metabolic process ran from late evening until shortly after the subject awoke, with the lowest point recorded in at three o'clock in the morning. |
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