| He didn't need to, because Labor acquiesced as a government-financed housing boom continued in existing settlements. |
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| I'm glad we didn't use the tent. It's so much nicer to sleep outside under the stars. |
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| The door opened and closed so quietly that I didn't notice he had come in the room. |
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| He hated being patronized and pitied by those who didn't believe his story. |
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| Gault, for example, did qualify as an alternate in 1988, but didn't compete, and then missed the team in '92 in Albertville. |
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| Although I've known him for years, we didn't become close friends until recently. |
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| The movie's crudities were supposed to be funny, but they didn't make me laugh. |
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| I didn't recognize him when he was in his theatrical makeup. |
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| No, I didn't ask him what he wanted the car for. That's his business. |
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| I didn't have time for lunch so I just grabbed a quick snack. |
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| Her parents threatened to disown her if she didn't go back to school. |
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| I liked the story but I didn't really agree with the book's message. |
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| They didn't begin to celebrate until they knew their victory was secure. |
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| The Chicago Cubs finished ten games over.500, but still didn't make the playoffs. |
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| More disturbing was that zines and underground culture didn't seem to be any sort of threat to this aboveground world. |
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| Talk of dynamic compression and adiabatic gradients didn't carry as much weight as the certainty of its conscious intent. |
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| The big homecoming game, however, was canceled when the, uh, president got shot, as was the date itself when I didn't behave aggrievedly enough. |
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| I was a Durannie and I had you on the inside of my bedroom door, didn't I, Simon? |
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| When asked about her tax plan, the candidate didn't equivocate. |
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| We didn't get traction on this idea until the board took interest. |
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| Like a little child, he often moped when he didn't get what he wanted. |
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| I didn't like the ending, but otherwise it was a very good book. |
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| The fact that you didn't get an invitation is surely just an oversight. |
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| His father threatened to give him a licking if he didn't stop misbehaving. |
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| I didn't kirtle my skirts above my knees. I'm not wearing breeches beneath my habit, though without a doubt they'd be warmer than my stockings. |
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| Since you didn't do your chores, you can kiss your video game privileges goodbye. |
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| I'm sure there are subjects I could have covered, but I didn't want it to get too kitchen-sinky. |
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| After she won the lottery, Marge had long-lost relatives she didn't know from a bar of soap come up to her to ask for money. |
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| His lameness may have prevented him from walking but it didn't stop him from running for public office. |
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| Well, as soon as Alice finished singing, land sakes! goodness, gracious me! if a big fox didn't pop out from behind a tree. |
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| He said he didn't get any sleep last night and I know he hadn't gotten much the previous night. |
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| By the time we finished lawyering up the agreement, we didn't want to sign it. |
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| You didn't come to me in time. And by the time you came to me that fool of a doctor had bled and leeched the lifeblood out of Timmy. |
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| Noskote and lipcoat were smeared on his face, but it didn't matter. He was as gorgeous as ever. |
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| The designs now used widely throughout the United States didn't appear until more than a decade later. |
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| His littleness didn't bother him, except when he needed to get something off the top shelf. |
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| I didn't know what a mitochondrion was until I looked it up in a dictionary. |
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| While looting the stores the looters took the opportunity for revenge by destroying what they didn't steal. |
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| Mr. Schultz didn't want to be lordish about it, he showed great tact that way. |
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| The old dog loyally followed his master even if he didn't really want to go out. |
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| I tried for ages to find a pair of blue suede shoes, but didn't have any luck. |
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| Oddly, the big difference didn't come in our user ratings, where we expected the famously friendly Mac interface to shine. |
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| Our car broke down and we didn't have any tools but Jim MacGyvered it with some toenail clippers and we were able to limp to the service station. |
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| Perhaps, but my sources think the mackerel knew of this girl but she didn't know of him. |
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| Two years ago we were going to Mars, and that sort of didn't happen...and now there's, like, manimal. |
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| Alcuin is credited with inventing the first known question mark, though it didn't resemble the modern symbol. |
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| What Severn didn't realise was that Keats saw it as a possible resource if he wanted to commit suicide. |
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| Severn was in such a quandary he didn't know what to do, so in the end he went to the doctor who took it away. |
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| When she returned, Shelley fell madly in love with her, repeatedly threatening to commit suicide if she didn't return his affections. |
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| Basically, you meemawed anything you didn't want people to overhear, even when there was no one around to listen in. |
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| I didn't really have any misconceptions about our ability to do anything other than play music, and I was scared. |
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| In June 2001 John sold 20 of his cars at Christie's, saying he didn't get the chance to drive them because he was out of the country so often. |
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| The new hippies, most of them, were just people who didn't buy into the rampant meism we were fed as children and teenagers. |
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| He's a master technician and sometimes he was doing stuff I didn't see, I couldn't register. |
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| It didn't lack anything, least in Japan, where there was always the human voice doing the dialogues and the commentary. |
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| As a cinema owner you didn't have to pay the wages of musicians and benshi any more. |
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| Again, we didn't know how dark but we realised that as the kids get older, the movies get a little edgier and darker. |
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| I felt as if I didn't say anything, and then we started to lose that option, it would be a shame. |
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| Marrying Sabyn to get control of a merkingdom that had obviously decided it didn't want me as a ruler was not an acceptable thing to do. |
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| But that disappeared when he didn't fight as regularly as he should have done, when he was cutting corners on his training. |
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| I didn't speak much Mexican, but I savvied a lot more than I could speak and picked the word banditos out of their conversation. |
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| Despite winning on the undercard, a fight between Briggs and Haye didn't materialize. |
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| Caught in the murderous rain of arrows, most of the Scots didn't reach the enemy's line. |
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| Stevie didn't care. At least he didn't have an oddball name like Milo and he never had to get up for church on Sunday. |
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| I didn't close anything, but I minimized all the windows so I could see the desktop. |
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| The Punjab Irregular Force not only didn't revolt, it played an active role in suppressing the mutiny. |
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| So without my visit, if Simon didn't attend, a minyan would be hard to come by. |
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| I misexpressed myself when I said I didn't want to see you. I only meant that I was temporarily busy. |
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| The oft misused word didn't mean what he thought it meant, but everyone else misunderstood it too. |
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| Once this massive credit crunch hit, it didn't take long before we were in a recession. |
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| During the war, thousands of Liberty ships and Victory ships were built, many of them in shipyards that didn't exist before the war. |
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| Our aunties said I didn't need a motherer, since I had such a good sister, and I agreed. |
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| The thing wouldn't exist if I didn't make it and so it belongs to me and don't steal it. |
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| In the lowest moments of my life, the only reason I didn't commit suicide was that I knew I wouldn't be able to drink any more if I was dead. |
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| It didn't sell outright, and on 30 August 2008 was sold to a consortium that included Hirst himself and his gallery White Cube. |
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| There are thousands of young artists who didn't get a look in, presumably because their work was too attractive to sane people. |
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| At first, Burton refused to play Coriolanus as he didn't like the character's initial disdain for the poor and the downtrodden. |
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| The personal magnetism Richard had on the sound stage didn't come through the camera. |
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| He didn't want anyone else to do it as he thought it could be for Elizabeth what Hamlet was for him. |
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| Sho, now! come to t'ink o' Sambo, he didn't nebber like Mockers, a'ter one time he 'spicioned a Mocker tole tales on him. |
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| Nevermind that she didn't know him, or that he was Japanese. Nevermind that she saw herself as always alone, despite the many people in her life. |
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| Mary J. Blige got eight Grammy nominations to Justin Timberlake's four and didn't even have to flash any silver-plated nippage. |
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| I could tell he didn't agree but he went to the corner and took up his squirrel gun, feeling the nipple for a percussion cap. |
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| I used a nonabrasive cleanser to clean the porcelain fixtures because I didn't want to scratch them. |
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| However, if the Romans were ever on the current castle site then they didn't leave more than a coin or two. |
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| As a warrior, he knew a thousand ways to kill nonattributably. But he didn't lash out. |
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| Why he had taken refuge in the chapel, he didn't know. His mind had been non-op for a long time now and he just let the impulses flow. |
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| The Pembrokeshire grey seal population didn't appear to be affected too much and impacts to subtidal wildlife were limited. |
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| My friend didn't know what had hit him when I poured a bucket of water over his head. |
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| He didn't know any more than little mites of Sunday-school children do nowdays. |
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| Those of us who didn't want OBHWF felt that Rowling was making a mistake, not that she was being misleading. |
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| If the international was a friendly, the feeling was that I didn't have to play. |
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| But after seeing Sweet Catatonia perform, the band members didn't agree and so Matthews remained with Catatonia. |
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| But, the singles from Equally Cursed and Blessed didn't repeat the success seen in the previous album. |
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| In fact, by this stage they were singing in English, but McGee didn't realise because their Welsh accents were so strong. |
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| That meant if you didn't bet on the off time posted on the infield board the race went off anyways. |
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| To relieve the pain, I was given daily shots of morphine and since I didn't have an okole any more, I had to take all the shots in my arms. |
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| There was Olive, a soft drowsy girl who didn't like me because I called her Olive Oyl. Even after I was made to apologize she didn't like me. |
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| There wasn'ta man around there but had a price on his head and didn't dare show himself in the settlements. |
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| He didn't mind not being on salary, with all of his compensation on the come. |
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| Luckily, the members of the committee were on the same wavelength, so we didn't have endless discussions about what words meant. |
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| Awdry had built a model of Percy as a reference for the artist but Dalby didn't make use of it. |
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| The presenters noted that the other modifications generally didn't help, and some even made the car slower. |
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| Eventually, Hammond had to deliver the after dinner speech, which didn't please the crowds. |
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| Many a pretty girl I have seen in my time, who didn't pan out according to specifications when I finally met her. |
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| However, yachting and yacht building didn't really take off until the middle of the 19th century. |
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| They didn't understand what they could possibly paste up on the computer for people to read, or worse, how they could sell ads for it. |
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| The poor old dog did look fairly peched, and didn't bat an eyelid when I lifted up the nearest pup, a black and white ball of fluff. |
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| What the Romans didn't have was anything like the ergonomic vegetable peeler. |
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| In the beginning, members didn't have uniforms and often paraded in business attire. |
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| Because news of the city's capture didn't reach Europe until after the Treaty of Paris, no provision was made regarding its status. |
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| Then he'd go and do some piss-ass thing that didn't count for beans and blow his horn. |
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| At this rate, he was going to pit out his dress shirt, and he didn't have anything to change into before the meeting. |
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| My neighbours were going to build an extension but they didn't get planning. |
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| We had to play for an hour, so that meant that we didn't have time to play and joke around. |
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| If they ask for something we didn't prepare, we will have to play it by ear. |
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| Back then, kids didn't have TV or video games, so I guess slaughtering your mom and dad was a bit like the Playstation of its day. |
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| I didn't know one could pollard elms. I thought one only pollarded willows. |
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| The Xia Xiyang explicitly mention that it didn't record the journey from Taicang to the capital. |
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| Novgorod didn't want to give him shelter, either, so that Andrey had to escape to Kolyvan and then to Sweden. |
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| She kept the dates written down in her Latin 'pony', so she didn't have to bother about who it was. |
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| It was tender and delicious, with a kind of porky taste you didn't often get from supermarket meats. |
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| Jack didn't get an engineering degree, but has practical knowledge of metalworking. |
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| Mungo didn't like their attitude. Nor did he like exposing his prat in mixed company. |
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| I had no prior knowledge of linguistics, but that didn't stop me from writing a dictionary. |
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| Among the protohuman institutions that didn't exist, materially speaking, was the behavior pattern of storytelling. |
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| I didn't want him to sense my fear but cringed as he peered down at my underdeveloped and pubeless body. |
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| For example, the 11 ring pulldown didn't stick in my head because I don't really juggle rings, and I have no conception of how hard it is. |
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| It's a wonder the director didn't pull the plug on that project months ago. |
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| He knew if he didn't stand up for himself, he'd be punked out by someone stronger. |
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| We didn't tell our friends that we were dating, but I think they put two and two together. |
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| The housemother was a relief housemother, and she was quacky, and we didn't think she knew anything. |
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| He'd refused to say anything more, because he didn't want to distract her with his problems on the eve of the Quals. |
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| Although Spain aided the rebels in the American Revolutionary War, the Spanish didn't want the Americans to settle in their territory. |
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| They didn't make it easy for him and didn't allow him a seat in the lower deck. |
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| What if she was a rebound after all and he didn't feel the same way for her anymore? |
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| While the prisoners may have been released once the sentence was served, they generally didn't have the resources to get themselves back home. |
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| I have never tried to diminish the appalling things that happened in Russia, though the sheer extent of the massacres we didn't realise. |
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| Its advantage lay in the fact that it didn't require the use of a mechanical regulator like its predecessors. |
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| Technically, DOE did not need authority to reprogram the funds as long as the spending didn't span different appropriation line items. |
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| The marigolds had reseeded themselves in the flower box, so he didn't have to buy new ones this year. |
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| As we came from the warmth of the hall into the cold room we started to shiver and just couldn't get warm, so we didn't get much sleep. |
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| At that time, I didn't think to ask how he, a rice eater, could have been forced to eat bread. |
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| And doing it righthandedly and lefthandedly and upside down, it didn't seem like just writing your birthday, did it? |
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| I didn't tell the girls it was my birthday. First thing they always did was grab the poor victim's arms and legs and give her the royal bumps. |
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| Old Sally didn't talk much, except to rave about the Lunts, because she was busy rubbering and being charming. |
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| Broadmoor didn't want the same old-same old, and so the idea, through the education committee, was to have a charter school here in Broadmoor. |
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| The scorched-earth ad campaign directed at her opponent didn't win her many votes. |
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| Once she began listening to her instincts and didn't second-guess herself the entire time, her artwork improved noticeably. |
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| Even though she didn't think of herself as a seductress, her effect on men showed she was one. |
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| His indigestion was self-induced. If he didn't eat so much it wouldn't hurt. |
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| The package was addressed to someone we didn't know, so we returned it to the sender. |
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| The blow to his head rendered him senseless, he didn't awaken until he was in the ambulance. |
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| And if Mrs. Garner didn't need me right there in the kitchen, I could get a chair and you and me could set out there while I did the vegetables. |
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| I didn't enjoy the concert much because the tenor kept going sharp on the high notes. |
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| I didn't ask my father for money, figuring he'd get shirty about it since I had quit school and had no job. |
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| Yet Tressel didn't slam the door on the possibility that Wells might still play in Saturday's game against Ohio University. |
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| We realized the project could go sideways very quickly if we didn't get the sales and marketing people on our side. |
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| He was born with a silver spoon and an upturned nose, he didn't lose the latter when he squandered the former. |
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| She'd like him jammed into her slot, like him to crank into her and she didn't think ignition would be far off if he did. |
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| Most of the guys at church seemed nice enough, but I was fairly certain they didn't want to date someone who appeared to be a slut-bag. |
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| Maybe he was smitten with Clare. And maybe the fact that he didn't want to leave meant it was past time he did. |
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| Having fought many fires in the States, I sure didn't envy future Smokey Bears in that terrain. |
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| I agreed to answer a few questions, but I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition. |
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| She didn't protest when he put his arms around her, pulling him to her spoonwise, kissing an errant lock of hair as it brushed against his face. |
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| This old lady we picked up was spun out because she didn't manage her insulin properly. |
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| Roger ran back and, instead of hoisting a defensive lob, went for a reverse between-the-legs squash shot, which didn't come off. |
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| We didn't ask for rent, but we assumed they'd help around the house. But they don't do squat. |
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| She didn't have a ruler, so she drew a squiggly line to highlight the main points. |
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| Alaska didn't attain statehood until 1959, when it became the 49th state of the United States. |
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| I tried to give you the steer, but I guess I didn't get it over. Everybody knew it but you. |
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| The long-stemmed roses didn't fit in the short vase because the stems were too long. |
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| The news report stemmed the tide of concerned calls, but didn't stop them altogether. |
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| I didn't think I'd be stepping on my sister's toes when I told my nephew to sit up straight at the dinner table. |
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| She was a supercook. In my mind she was the real Wonder Woman. There didn't seem to be anything she couldn't do. |
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| This undoubtedly is the key to why so many of last year's supershows didn't make the grade. |
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| He didn't intend to swive her here in the tiltyard, did he? Surely he was not so heathen as that. |
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| It didn't matter whether we traveled with a fiery-tempered swordstress, or a vain Trickster God. |
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| Why didn't he give me a contact number when I asked? Scientists can't be telephobic. |
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| Marshall didn't stumble on his fortune, but sure enough, his well was filled by the same Texas tea. |
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| I know you didn't think it was a very good product, but just look at the fantastic sales figures. That's the proof of the pudding. |
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| When he asked to have a look at my bank statements, I didn't think much of it, but now I'm certain he was up to something no good. |
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| They cancelled the entire project because the new management didn't like the prototype, but I think they threw the baby out with the bathwater. |
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| It was nice to use the public restroom at the Hillary event. I didn't have to worry about a republican toe-tapper being in the next stall. |
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| Aaron didn't appreciate being topped from the bottom, but Joey's voice was so rough Aaron didn't care who was running the show. |
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| Even the hardcore Toriphiles didn't seem to embrace Strange Little Girls with their normal fervor. |
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| The problem is that they didn't allow for the extra centimetre of overlap, so it didn't fit correctly. |
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| I didn't need her to take my shoes off and then my turban and the angarkha. |
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| If the settlement payment owed me was made on time, I didn't figure to be around for the ante upping. |
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| He didn't enjoy washing his car, but it was so dirty that he did it anyway. |
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| I didn't plan to stop there, but as luck would have it, they were open when I went by. |
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| Four thousand years of ingrained asshattedness didn't suddenly change over the course of a hangover. |
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| He didn't know then that he had hired the Attila the Hun of ambitious young lawyers. |
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| He didn't take an academic course, but picked up the subject autodidactically. |
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| The cars were parked as avoidably as possible, but it didn't prevent her from running into one. |
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| My beautiful sister Marveen. You are my babygirl. I didn't know what I had been missing until you appeared in my life. |
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| They didn't mention that the bang bus was about to arrive with gainful employment. |
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| Professor Stebbins didn't need to apply for government grants because his lab was bankrolled by a large pharmaceutical corporation. |
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| Susan beeped Jessica, and then Jessica called her back, because Susan didn't have enough credit on her phone to make the call. |
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| Earth and Mars have been stepping on the necks of the Belters out here for over 100 years and I didn't want to be the boot. |
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| She likes blingish rings. So I got it for her, she didn't know that I got it for her. I was going to wait for the right time to give it to her. |
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| Oh I'm such a block head, why didn't I figure this out sooner, this is embarrassing! |
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| As her current bloke was turning out better than expected, I didn't see much of her lately. |
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| The gale force wind blew every blowable object to the north, including things I didn't even know were blowable, like the roof. |
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| Dad sure knew how to kill a mood. He had blown up my phone all day, ensuring that I didn't back out of our agreement. |
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| The Web page didn't display properly because I bollocksed up the formatting. |
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| So we went around the corner, looked in the garbage, and, boom, there's about 16 of the tapes he didn't like! |
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| They were bosker horses. Until I went to work for Bill I didn't know how good racehorses are. |
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| I think about him everyday, wondering why he gave up, he had so much to live for, he just didn't have that bouncebackability! |
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| Because the didn't have enough young boys for two full teams, they bracketed the seven-year olds with the eight-year olds. |
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| Hey, brah, do me a favor. Don't lay your guilt trip on me. Why didn't you tell her? |
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| Unwilling to try his hardest, Jason instead chose to bring it weak at the gym, and didn't even break a sweat. |
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| But it didn't all bubble up and become clear until that last... week or so. |
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| They were quite bunglesome working together initially, and she didn't understand why. Sometimes she felt uncomfortable. |
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| Ah didn't play butty, ah promise yer. Yo all on yer mek the poor lad yer butty. |
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| Celia didn't eat at the diner anymore because she thought the carbonation in their fountain drinks was off. |
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| At first, many people didn't like that kind of music, but after a while it caught on. |
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| Besides that, Mir was certifiably loaded... she didn't need my Mom to buy her squat... but apparently Mom had insisted. |
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| Mrs. Jallatt didn't study cheapness, but somehow she generally attained it. |
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| They were a couple of city slickers and if they had seen a cow before, they certainly didn't act like it. |
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| Notions didn't come more cockamamie than this one, but one unrepressed chortle and Delbert would be furious, or feel like a fool. |
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| He signaled for me to come over, but I was no cockblocker or third party, so I didn't move. |
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| I had always supposed that playboys didn't give a hoot for anything except blondes and cold bottles. |
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| I still had strong feelings for him, but didn't tell her because I didn't want to come between him and his happy family. |
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| Why, consarn you, Anderson Crow, I didn't have any spare children to leave around on doorsteps. |
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| The fact that I was middle-aged, bald, married, and raising girls instead of chasing them didn't really bother me. Muscles are cool at any age. |
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| You didn't read the paper. You dully copypastaed the abstract. The abstract is not the paper. |
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| There were lots of jokes on the show and they were pure corn, but the audience didn't mind. |
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| A guy in a Cosby sweater lamented he didn't bring along some Trivial Pursuit cards. |
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| The man looked ill, and she hoped he didn't have that coughy flu that had been wiping out everyone at the office. |
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| As I write this, I wonder why I didn't wear my sleeveless blue-and-green sweater and coordinated coulotte skirt instead. |
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| I bought them in bulk at the health food store because the local feedstores didn't carry organic grains. |
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| But I had been pushed across the boundary by I didn't know what hands, whether streaked or cradlesome or hooflike, and I could not turn around. |
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| Then again, her whole evening was full of crazy, and she didn't know what else to do. |
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| I think the manufacturer was so ashamed of its creation that it didn't put its name on it! |
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| It involved such a cringy mix of self-indulgence and vulnerability I didn't feel equipped. |
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| Back in the lobby he bought a copy of Time but didn't like the way the plain-clothes crushers looked at him, and left. |
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| She and Henri had some kind of cyberdeath pact. If one didn't come back, the other one wouldn't. It was all very perverse, and confused. |
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| He said he didn't have a dad-blamed furriner nor a dad-blamed Injun in his outfit. |
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| Will Wyatt having moved up a notch, the project was deputed to a second team of producers whose judgement I didn't trust. |
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| Also, there was a Derpy cameo in this one, but she didn't have derped eyes. |
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| I didn't want to waste people's time telling them things they already knew. It's more efficient just to give them the diffs. |
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| Rain type 17 was a dirty blatter battering against his windscreen so hard that it didn't make much odds whether he had his wipers on or off. |
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| If you didn't go for Lila you're some kind of prissy old prude. If you did go for her you were some kind of dirty old man. |
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| He first saw Jutimala at the fair. Although she wore a dokhona, she didn't really look like a Bodo he thought. |
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| Those children playing didn't look like doomy little criminals, once you knew their names. |
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| The aircraft is designed to use a drag parachute as a brake, but Mr Prothero didn't have time to deploy it. |
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| Though natural gas prices dropped, the folks doing solar didn't get with the program. |
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| Where did you dredge up the idea that they didn't know what hospital he was born in? |
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| It didn't take long for the waves of heat to reach him, and with them came the scents of tempanuts, earthberries, and honey. |
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| He didn't think I could do it, but I proved him wrong and made him eat his words. |
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| If we didn't rewrite for Windows, they insisted, our competitors would eat our lunch! |
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| What do you mean you didn't come home last night? Would you care to elaborate? |
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| But I embraced the suck and shelled out three thousand dollars for something I didn't want and something that would give me nothing to show for. |
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| She was the empath who would betray empaths if she got the chance. So they'd tried to fix things so that she didn't get the chance. |
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| The smoke didn't obscure the rainbow. Rather it seemed to rise enfoldingly around it, like honeysuckle climbing a porch column. |
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| I didn't think it at all strange that a thirteen-year-old boy in the unreconstructed Southern town of Stamps spoke with an Englishy accent. |
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| You didn't have to buy enough wrapping paper to choke a horse, just because it was on sale. |
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| Diarmid sang in a language Camrose didn't know, with a lot of liquid sounds mixed up with exhalings from deep in the throat. |
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| He didn't realize she was facestalking him until she saw that he had a new girlfriend from his postings. |
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| And fergawdsakes, when your instructor tells you something, acknowledge by nodding or indicate you didn't understand by appropriate expressions. |
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| He'd stand at the board making jokes the kids didn't understand, improvising fey little couplets of dactylic verse. |
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| When I got fibro, the Internet was not in common use, so I didn't have the resources that a newly diagnosed person would have now. |
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| I spent all of Monday fighting fires and didn't get a single thing done on my project. |
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| He didn't serve a full lunch or dinner at the party, but there was plenty of finger food to munch. |
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| For starters, thin me tanned easily and didn't have a forehead so wide it was called a fivehead. |
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| It starts with Chris Paul, because Blake didn't really used to flop like that, you know, last year. |
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| She danced flowingly across the stage, as though gravity and friction didn't apply to her. |
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| By the time she was twelve, she could flank and mug as well as her brothers, she could forefoot anything that moved, but it didn't matter. |
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| I didn't buy a thing, but they were handing out some neat freebies and samples. |
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| Reggie woke her from a frightless slumber years ago with a tarantula in a shoebox, disappointed when it didn't make her scream. |
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| It got next to no prozine publicity and Los Angeles newspapers ignored it, so the fringefans didn't know about it. |
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| I found out to my cost that the tree fern I brought back from New Zealand was frost-tender, and it didn't survive the winter. |
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| I understand that Mrs. Bassett's ill, and I suppose Bassett didn't like to leave her. There's nothing fuddlesome in that. |
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| Only this time, I knew I was going for the full ride. The only thing was that I didn't know was what kind of ride I was going on. |
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| I was always so busy and full-speed ahead that I didn't take any time out to really listen to God. |
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| Provided you didn't surrender your ticket into the maw of the gateline at B, you could in theory go back to A and do the whole trip again. |
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| This may come as a shock to you, Johns, but I didn't ghost your son. He seemed set on killin' himself. |
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| He didn't have much heart for his teaching, either, and he found himself taking to girlwatching on campus. |
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| They found plenty of email that gave the lie to his assertion that he didn't know about the incident. |
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| He didn't want to make an unsecured loan to the business because it didn't look like a going concern. |
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| Marge Quincey didn't deserve a husband like his dad. He was pure gold, and she wasn't worth a light beside him. |
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| Why didn't you just pull it? My goom still has a sore where you put that needle. |
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| It didn't take a brain surgeon to realize that things were obviously in danger of going Pete Tong. It was time to back off. |
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| He and his sister deeply valued their intimate relationship as they didn't have much else to live for. |
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| How close he didn't realize until the machine slipped over the grasstops, coming into view just two meters away. |
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| His employee status didn't entitle him to one, but Magdy on reception would slip him a key if Sabr greased him with a fifty. |
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| He didn't show a lot of ground game in that fight, but his advantage was on the feet, so that's understandable. |
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| Henry didn't doubt the little boys and girls knew that this place was haunted, just like all the growed-ups did. |
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| He didn't have puffed-up gym muscles. His strapping body had a rippling stomach, ridged like a tray of baklava. |
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| What do you mean, you didn't halter the horses when we stopped for the night? |
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| He didn't earn much, but the company seemed to rake in money hand over fist. |
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| People really didn't want their Party Motivators in their photos, anonymous dancers, happying up the place. It spooked them. |
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| So it didn't seem much of an option, leaning against a tree waiting for Harry Hun. |
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| Oh, that's right. You said that yesterday, didn't you? I have a mind like a sieve. |
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| This didn't seem at all unlikely, but when I none the less havered, he insisted that his 'Egyptian fortune-teller' had confirmed it. |
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| I hunted him for half a hour, aiming to learn him to hit a man with a table-leg and then run, but I didn't find him. |
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| There was a pause I didn't like, punctuated by shrieks of shrill laughter from the hombres at the bar. Only Mexicans can laugh like that. |
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| Otto named his relatives the new leaders of the stem duchies, but this approach didn't completely solve the problem of disloyalty. |
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| The medical examiner was behind on autopsies and cranky, so we didn't even know if the old guy in the pool was a homicide. |
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