I understand how distracted a woman can be with a virile man waiting at home for her. |
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I called out a greeting but was distracted by the volleyball again before I got to say anything else. |
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And indeed, the sound of skin squeaking against glass distracted Mark from his melancholy for a moment. |
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Eventually, the tone stabilizes, and, by the second half, the power of the story will envelop all but the most distracted viewers. |
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It is better to focus our attention on that now than to be distracted by anything else. |
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The woman let them in, but luckily a male friend called in and distracted the men and they fled empty handed. |
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When the tournament is held before the season, not in the middle of it, players aren't tired, nursing injuries or distracted by their seasons. |
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It was meant to keep the kids distracted while the parents got quietly hammered on long island iced tea. |
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I am distracted from further conversation by an expanding exchange on MSN Messenger. |
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She grinned lightly, and made a hand signal to a man in the back while Dave was distracted. |
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She's also more easily distracted, so multitasking requires extra mental effort. |
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The intentionally boxy, stilted animation is arresting at first, until one is distracted by the content of the show itself. |
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Every time one of these virus stories hits, people get distracted and I get fewer and fewer pieces of hate mail. |
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We go up and do our training, get it over and done with, and try not to be distracted by what people are saying about the match. |
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Beth's husband Kevin, a charismatic history teacher, emerges as a stoic, entirely but mutely aware of his wife's distracted love. |
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My thoughts were soon distracted, however, when I found an onsen off the road. |
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His stout defence distracted the Austrians, helping Bonaparte to invade northern Italy and beat them at Marengo. |
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I looked straight at my screen all day, but was distracted by a faint sniff sniff sniff coming from a nearby desk. |
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He was distracted from his blindness, he says, by the deluge of mental and physical challenges coming his way. |
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It disturbed the agenda, and patients seemed to be distracted from the subject that made them seek health care in the first place. |
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You may be distracted, overly hopeful, in a fault-finding mood, or just plain bored. |
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She was distracted from her ranting by a staticky voice over the comm informing them they were cleared for liftoff. |
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Scooping his own jacket up, Shanza gave it a distracted shake and tossed it over his shoulders in a dazed stupor. |
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And, with the nicest August weather DC residents could possibly ask for, I'm distracted by the out of doors. |
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When a comely woman flirts with him at a bar, he acts distracted and disinterested. |
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They were distracted by a dull thumping sound from the other side of the room. |
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His focus seemed to be distracted or maybe Nanci succeeded and had found the mathematical formula for regret. |
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The picture also has some jitter, but I was so distracted by the streaking that I didn't notice whether it persisted through the entire run time. |
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I'm distracted, tense and edgy, staring intently at the phone willing it to bring me good news. |
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It's a pity you're distracted all the time by the plotless, joyless machinations of everyone else involved. |
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You are distracted by acrobats and circus performers and watch little chubby cheeked children clapping their hands with sheer joy. |
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Mr Quinn had two of the raiders under effective arrest in a car, but when he was distracted by two other raiders, the men in the car rammed him. |
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Most working mothers cite improved focus on their work on returning from leave, and are not distracted clock-watchers. |
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When he found himself clock-watching, he taped a piece of cardboard over the clock face so that he wouldn't be distracted. |
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He adopted one medium after another, fascinated at first by new formal possibilities and soon distracted into perfervid polemic. |
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Doubting she would be distracted enough by that to forget it, Adam quickly tried to think of something else to say. |
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He was distracted momentarily by the way the light played off her fair skin and golden hair. |
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Their defensive concentration is not distracted by anticipation of a fast break. |
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Memories sit waiting at the door of the subconscious, just raring to flood out whenever the gatekeeper is distracted. |
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A wide range of grape varieties is grown at least passably well, which has distracted from the question of what the district does best. |
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I winced in pain, so distracted by his intensity that I was deaf to the clunking of boots on the concrete floor. |
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No matter how good the opposing goalie is, he can be distracted by traffic in front of his net. |
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But like a child whose attention is easily distracted, he turned his attention back to Michelle once again. |
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I remained distracted until we had demolished our desserts and had only our glasses of wine remaining before us on the table. |
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Daycare's about keeping everyone happy and busy and distracted all at once. |
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Suddenly his eyes averted over my head and he seemed distracted for a moment. |
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But we should not be distracted from the real issues it could not investigate. |
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Grace was too distracted by the thought of getting dirt in her brand-new white shoes. |
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The distracted cyclist flew over the handlebars and landed on the pavement. |
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Attention is impaired, and a delirious person is difficult to engage in conversation and easily distracted by irrelevant stimuli. |
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Many also fall behind at school because they are too tired or too distracted to complete homework properly. |
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Nothing much happens and when it looks like the film is set to take a certain path, it gets distracted and ambles off on its own. |
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These days I'm so distracted by the arguments over it that I cannot concentrate on teaching my students. |
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A deep chuckle emitted from Kyle, showing his amusement at how quickly I could be distracted. |
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I almost started to question his shoe color preference when I realized his eyes were glassy, his face was flushed, and he seemed distracted. |
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Okay, so she was distracted and confused a lot of the time, but some strange qualities are endearing. |
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I was distracted for a second and realized I had traveled a bit off the road. |
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As my sister distracted the guards, I pulled up the hood from my anorak and quickly disappeared into the large crowd. |
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Hands-free devices are not considered to be safer as the driver is still distracted. |
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In another a distracted soldier is masterfully pickpocketed in a crowd in Saigon. |
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Dave nodded, but seemed distracted by something else, for Christopher had risen from his meditation suddenly, and he was coming out. |
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I rubbed my forehead and tried to concentrate, but I was distracted again by a passerby consuming a large, warm cinnamon roll. |
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My attention had been momentarily distracted by a lock of hair curling over his eye. |
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She distracted Annie from more questions by ordering around round of drinks for everyone. |
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That was the plan, and it relied on the enemy being distracted by their decoys. |
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Before I could finish casting unwarranted aspersions on all fourteen of my fellow jurors, I was distracted by the actual oath. |
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The US will not be lulled into complacency, or distracted by the feverish terrorist activity in Iraq. |
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The driver is so distracted by a milkshake that he almost plows right into the back of another car! |
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But before I could open the door, the sound of a car pulling up the gravel driveway behind me distracted my attention. |
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There is a mild, prickly sensation for 45 minutes as the solution is left to work, but you are distracted with a hand, foot or scalp massage. |
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I have a tendency to scratch vigorously behind my right knee when distracted. |
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He seemed distracted for a second, and then grinned and slung himself up into his bunk. |
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Charles has always had his head screwed on right, but this past year, he's seemed, distracted. |
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While some fans were distracted as police and stewards quickly dealt with it, City showed their concentration level was bang on. |
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While he was distracted, they rifled through a jacket and made off with a bank book. |
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So we all should be careful to keep our eyes on the real issue and not be distracted by all the prestidigitation in the media. |
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Auguste Piccard conceived the bathyscaphe in the 1930s but became distracted by the allure of high-altitude ballooning. |
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My daydream distracted me and I jumped when I noticed Red plop down in front of me. |
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Anna looked up, momentarily distracted by the noise her friends were making. |
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She weaves her voice in and out of the song, occasionally distracted by a gap-toothed fan waving at her furiously from the crowd. |
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People are briefly distracted, Gable concedes, but she says the boost in morale makes it worthwhile. |
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With her attention distracted the young boy toddled over the brightly coloured shelves placed at child height and covered in toys. |
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Liz rather cleverly starts a fire using meths from the camping stove and, while Mick is distracted, sneaks in to free Kristy. |
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Maybe it is purely the perception of energy patterns at all that keeps us distracted on the doing and not the being. |
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Uncharacteristically, perhaps because the bellyache and the fever distracted him, he sat in the open rather than behind tree cover. |
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Seated in the theatre's lower gallery, I found myself distracted, not for the first time, by the endless gropings of the groundlings. |
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In England, married women, children, idiots and distracted persons were prohibited from transferring property out of their estates. |
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He's looking a little distracted, as he's trying to earwig on the Edge's conversation. |
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It means they're not distracted, and they can single-mindedly focus on the other team. |
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Depending on how much I'm distracted from the mindless task in hand, it remains there for a period of anything up to six hours. |
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As you said she's easily distracted so she doesn't quite pick up on things. |
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You'll learn not to get distracted when the car is about to shift into top gear. |
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I distracted her with some of my famous mint chip ice cream, and she left with no more questions. |
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Sometimes the decoration was misaligned, possibly because the decorator was overworked or distracted. |
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Dogs, just like humans, forget, get distracted, make mistakes, get into mischief and act on impulse. |
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So anyway, I distracted myself until I decided that the distraction could be a school in and of itself. |
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In that incident, a woman put her purse in her shopping cart and became distracted. |
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A properly trimmed airplane will do its best to maintain a constant speed should the pilot become momentarily distracted. |
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They're divided, of course, and distracted by their own dramas of birth control and marriage. |
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He tried to moderate, but seemed a bit distracted, quoting interviews more than asking questions. |
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Sorry, I'm a bit distracted at the mo, hence the bittiness, so I'll stop now. |
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The shovel fell and clattered to the floor behind the monster, whose attention was momentarily distracted. |
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Women have reason to be relieved that Parliament's attention was distracted. |
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Clear-sightedness is only possible when one is not distracted by jargon, and psycho-babble or intimidated by emotional blackmail. |
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Remember, Gilligan made possible Alastair Campbell's diversionary tactic that distracted attention from the argument about the need for war. |
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It is easy to get sidetracked and distracted by events of apparent urgency but low importance. |
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Let's not get distracted by futile debates or sidetracked by issues that have been going on for centuries! |
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Jeff responds in monosyllables and Travis, my best guy friend, gets incredibly distracted by what is going on in the room around him. |
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There's been a bit of activity in the FX market, but most of the equities market people have been pretty well distracted. |
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Maybe they are a little bit distracted from having fun and skating with their friends. |
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So whether it's teens watching Buffy or executives watching their budgets, the distracted mobile user seems to be a common type. |
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And because it was taking longer to go back and fix typos, or edit sentences, I found myself losing track of thoughts, and getting distracted. |
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It distracted him enough to prevent a quick victory, but not enough to let Jeremy win. |
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Suddenly, my instrument cross-check was distracted by a strange light reflecting off the surrounding clouds. |
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Much of what Reed writes here seems accurate, though again he is distracted by the desire to find in this detail a disruptively textual aspect. |
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There was no time for Kari to mull over the matter any longer, as the conversation continued and her thoughts got distracted. |
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He roared in anger and charged toward Anya while she was distracted and slaughtered her violently. |
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She is the object of their often distracted attentions, a blonde bombshell and all-around American girl. |
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Make sure they are ready to play and not wet, hungry, sleepy, cranky or distracted. |
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The reason for this was that he was distracted by ground crew who were bringing beverages and ice to the aircraft. |
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So remember the big picture and don't get too distracted by what only tomorrow will become history's footnotes. |
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Rocky Carlini grounded to the third baseman, but was distracted enough trying to hold Freeman, that he overthrew to first base. |
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She was trying to pay attention to what her host was saying, but she was being distracted by the fairies busily unknotting her tangled hair. |
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What distracted me the most yesterday, despite the sadness of the occasion, was the type of small talk that was going on. |
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Drivers should have their eyes on the road and be on the lookout for pedestrians and other road users and not be distracted by these signs. |
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Except while you are teetering on the precipice of your next upchuck, the only thing you crave is to be distracted. |
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In the first stages of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted, it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. |
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They found pupils felt more confident in lessons, they were less distracted and did not feel the need to show off. |
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Her state of insobriety had distracted Chris to such an extent that he really hadn't paid much attention to the contents of the serving tray. |
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Then again, perhaps we were distracted by thoughts of our little room with the piney smell and stiff sheets. |
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He was still very subdued and distracted so I suggested we go somewhere nice to eat. |
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Too many more of these so-so auditions, and viewers could get easily distracted. |
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People sitting in the big top were in trances, distracted by the cracking of peanut hulls and dazzled by spangled spandex wardrobes. |
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We have basic good form, but we are easily distracted by birds or small children or other exercisers who look and perform better than we do. |
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She seemed distracted, not fully listening to him, and she picked at her food. |
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And if counting the spondees in the dactyls might have distracted me from what the words were saying, wondering about the parenthetical insertions pulled me back in. |
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If anything, he is apologetic that he is being distracted with incoming emails about it. |
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Somebody yanks Chan and elbows him and he is momentarily distracted trying to apprehend his assailant. |
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At the moment when the remaining gunmen were distracted by a cellphone call, the five survivors bolted into the darkness. |
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Our cars will chide us if we tailgate and watch us as we drive and jolt us awake if are distracted or drifting off to sleep. |
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I then got distracted by the real world and I ranted about power stations. |
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Turn to your companion to voice this worry, but then instead get distracted by a dandelion. |
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First we laugh, then we begin to wonder why the man was so distracted that he didn't notice he'd taken the doorknob with him. |
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They end up flirting with some girls while traveling with Ben, and are so distracted that they leave him on a city bus. |
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Amid our grief we now see that New York had been distracted by flash and wit and cash for too long. |
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Perky blond Allie is a latchkey kid, her mother too rich and too distracted by her serial dating to pay attention to how her daughter spends her time. |
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A bright crisp curse of the four letter variety, distracted Janey, from her pleasant thoughts about the Chancellor of the Exchequer and a pair of bolt cutters. |
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Eyebrows remained firmly horizontal when a distracted customer would mumble something about a novel about an athlete's pain written by one of those angry young men. |
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Eventually, after being distracted by an unnecessary subplot about goings-on in Vegas, Jack unravels the cover-up and starts proving that revenge is a dish best served cold. |
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Mauresmo realizes she has doubters, but is not letting herself be distracted by all the fuss. |
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In the past, political confrontations with the state and struggles over budgetary allocations distracted us from attending to the poor management of the public university. |
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I felt marginally happier and less distracted by events beyond my control. |
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She is distracted by the splintering noises thundering in her ears. |
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Don't be distracted by the tired old vaudeville routine in Europe. |
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Doctors are then on to the next patient, and between patients they are distracted by a towering mountain of non-clinical tasks. |
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Eventually they will become so distracted, and their relationships will be so corroded by duplicity and miscommunication, that they will simply give up and die out. |
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I was momentarily distracted by the latest item of spam in my inbox. |
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Pro that she is the monarch didn't get distracted but carried right on with her speech. |
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Too crabby and distracted to pay attention to where he's walking, Greg barely manages to sidestep a pair of nurses wheeling a gurney down the hall. |
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We can live and let live about many things, and football and Mylie Cyrus and Sesame Street and ncis can keep us distracted. |
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In fact, the possibility of being savaged seemed so low on her sense of possibilities that she was almost instantly distracted by a bluebottle banging against the window. |
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Thinking she was off-air, Simmons cursed at her reportedly distracted co-anchor, Chuck Scarborough. |
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It was just as I was getting distracted by this odd train of thought that the door at the top of the staircase flew open and Rachel Marie began bounding down the stairs. |
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In the revolutionaries' eyes, anything that made a woman look attractive was considered a vice because it distracted people from piousness and spirituality. |
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Those who had watched the most television were more easily distracted and confused, more impulsive or restless, and more prone to obsessive behaviour. |
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The woman managed to escape when her captor was distracted and spent more than four hours hiding in scrub as he searched for her with a torch and dog. |
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Controlled yet so easily distracted, his camera eye acknowledges that existence is merely an ongoing stream of consciousness, intuition, dissociation. |
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The whole exercise may have sounded interesting while distracted by 10,000 buff, flag-waving foreigners, but out of context the cheeseball bombast proves too much. |
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I find myself distracted by a cornucopia of seriously hot women in Washington, women of various ages and ethnicities and body types who seem disproportionately alluring to me. |
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Kirk house-sits for them but is distracted by his pretty new girlfriend. |
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With Rovers currently hovering dangerously near the relegation zone, it's vital the players are not distracted from the task of trying to secure a priceless away win. |
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I was distracted by a window full of patisseries on the Rue Bonaparte. |
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Yet, when we factionalize, we become distracted by our own machinations, and we forget that no one group of women is more valid or significant than another. |
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And we all ought to go about our business in a commonsensical, calm way, and not in any way be distracted by scare stories or horror stories or headlines. |
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Katastematic pleasure has this status because it is the enjoyment of one's natural constitution when one is not distracted by bodily pain or mental distress. |
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Don't be distracted by my foul vocabulary or by your own frustration. |
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Most of Saturday I was distracted and fretful, wracking my brains about what I could do when I would be forced to disappear from Rob's life for an entire month. |
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But being me I kept being distracted by the fringe of the projected image. |
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People are distracted, throwing furtive glances over their shoulders. |
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He was easily distracted from regional politics and domestic governance. |
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As he stared at the bright, off-white disk, though, he was distracted by some small flashes of light, which started appearing just below the disk of the moon. |
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This again is so discourteous to your fellow patrons, and the performers, who are all quite distracted by your shuffling and stumbling in the dark. |
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We have been protesting, rallying and mobilising, but we've also been distracted by the more mundane activities of teaching, dissertating, and drinking. |
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Traci distracted the ref and Douglas hit Daniels with a chain. |
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For a split second utter confusion distracted me from my misery. |
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A large rumbling noise distracted their attention for a moment. |
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In the hallway I was distracted by crying sounds, a woman's cry. |
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While contemplating her mother's advice, Fannie was distracted by a sound. |
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I never heard anything but I was somewhat distracted at the time. |
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He said the incident happened when she was momentarily distracted and Kye had a tendency to jump up at people with bags. |
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A distracted Kovac also falls foul of a psychiatrist who overmedicates an abused foster child who wants to go back to his drug-addledmother. |
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The students are easily distracted, especially when they're tired. |
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Now we want to make it harder for youngsters to be distracted by the easy availability of junk food close to school. |
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The mind will sympathize so much with the anguish and debility of the body, that it will be too distracted to fix itself in meditation. |
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The local story distracted attention from news of the war overseas. |
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And Bushnell was distracted by Chuck E. Cheese, among other endeavors. |
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During this time, he was distracted by concerns about style and possible libel in Keep the Aspidistra Flying. |
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Then Dr. Day allowed herself to become distracted by a tree on the other side of 83rd Street, a sophora tree. |
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Have I not cause to rave and beat my breast, to rend my heart with grief and run distracted? |
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Mary Shelley was distracted and unhappy in the cramped and remote Villa Magni, which she came to regard as a dungeon. |
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The most common injury in weaving is pinched fingers from distracted or bored workers, though this is not the only such injury found. |
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Hearthstone, the older brother, was distracted and playing with rocks when a Brunnmigi emerged from a well and killed Andiron. |
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After 1863, the Polish revolt against Russia further distracted the European powers, and ensured that they would remain neutral. |
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Meanwhile, the subordinates can access the food while the dominants are distracted. |
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King Richard was distracted by a growing conflict with the Lords Appellant from this time on. |
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Flyposting is a nuisance but also raises concerns over road safety, as motorists can be easily distracted by unauthorised posters. |
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Research by an occupational psychologist showed a surprising flipside to being bored or distracted in the office. |
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The twisted thieves coaxed Staffie Dozer outside then distracted him with Roger the bunny so his barks would not wake his owners upstairs. |
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Drivers talking on a hands-free mobile phone are more distracted than when speaking to a passenger, a Government-commissioned report has said. |
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However he suggested that worrying about double-dip or tripledip distracted from real concerns about the economy. |
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The Doomster used sneakily subtle methods on him, knowing full well that Maesteg lads don't believe in being injured or otherwise distracted. |
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Instead he allowed himself to be distracted into developing a variant of the Savery engine. |
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However, in 405, Stilicho was distracted by a fresh invasion of Northern Italia. |
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The present laws do not specifically address the issue, although the umpire can call dead ball if the batsman is distracted. |
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While everyone is distracted by the pandemonium of an all-out suscitation, a criminal may have greater access to the executive. |
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If you watch the movie you can't help but be distracted by a desire to starspot. |
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They are squirmier, chattier and more easily distracted than the fourth-grade girls. |
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Taikonaut The Chinese astronaut distracted our attention from textiles and copyrights to remind us that China is a rising industrial power. |
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You need to routinize yourself You can't be going through the day distracted by trivia. |
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Trying to field a punt inside the 10, he was distracted, maybe even interfered with, by a Bearcat. |
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The most common answer contained lexeme mimo which belongs to CONTAINER conceptual metaphor and were correlated with distracted state of Mind. |
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Then tracers laced the sky in front of me. Forget the shooting! If I get distracted now, I'll buy the farm anyway! |
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But in the symphonies which framed the evening, Haydn's Surprise and Mendelssohn's Reformation, Manze's overemphatic body-language distracted from the quality of music-making. |
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Frederick Ashton as a distracted man modist, lead the dancing. |
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This sequence of exercises is designed to mentally take the Pilates practitioner from a state of distracted stasis to a focused and concentratedly active state. |
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The app on the Nook tablet and other Android devices also lets you hide the device's status bar, so you're not distracted by notifications at the top. |
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This can help them to escape predators, which are either distracted by the wriggling, detached tail or left with only the tail while the lizard flees. |
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We've been sitting here since our oldest child was a toddler so that he would be less distracted and less tempted to make goo-goo eyes at fellow worshipers. |
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During a foxhunt by Sir Thomas Stanley one afternoon in February 1833 his presence distracted the hounds of Stanley to such an extent the event had to be called off. |
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Hammers keeper Shaka Hislop came racing into the Tottenham box for the late set-piece and distracted several players, allowing Ferdinand to score. |
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Something amiss in the arrangements had distracted the staff. |
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Gratian's armies were distracted by Germanic invasions across the Rhine. |
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His last moments were soothed by the devoted attentions of his now distracted widow, and by the presence of some of his distinguished and faithful friends. |
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In the absence of protocols, medical practitioners may misjudge the situation, or panic, or allow themselves to be distracted by irrelevant factors. |
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Rosey is distracted by The Spencers' music and overwaters her plants, sending excess water to the fish bowl on Eric's windowsill, ousting his goldfish. |
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Keepers who saw him distracted Knut and lured him into his cage. |
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Well, let's face it, neurotypicals don't have the same focus you or I have. They always get distracted, by marriage, kids, competitive cooking shows. |
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The reader is continually distracted by a tangle of tenses and the personification of inanimate objects with inappropriate use of the possessive case. |
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But I'm an easily distracted woolgatherer, and I need lots of help remaining engaged as one of the priestly people called to lift up my heart on Sundays. |
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Just as he was ready to spring all two hundred pounds of him on the helpless lizard, his attention was distracted by a rather large snake of the unkissably poisonous variety. |
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His long period of minority, coupled with the increasing tensions between Henry's Lancastrian supporters and the Yorkists, distracted attention from Windsor. |
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Often the eye is distracted from it by action elsewhere onstage. |
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Xenophon, who viewed hunting as part of a cultured man's education, advocated the killing of foxes as pests, as they distracted hounds from hares. |
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I was distracted by a pictorial retelling of the cosmic cycle of birth, as endless starmatter condensed and exploded, while my body was given a thorough purge and overhaul. |
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For a while, both countries were distracted by internal troubles. |
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