I am generally fond of Granny Smiths only, but this is some sort of red variety and quite palatable. |
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Everyone is fond of relating their own exploits and they are on this account a nuisance to one to the other. |
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But because Americans are not nearly as fond of dates as they are of coffee, java came out on top due to sheer popularity. |
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The water vole, whose numbers have been steadily diminishing over the years, was previously believed to be fond of just lowland habitats. |
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I'm fond of Mrs. Johnson, who has a gentle southern accent and a radiant expression. |
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The Romans were fond of building enormous ramps to allow them to walk over the walls of an enemy's strong point. |
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As I'm fond of reminding readers, your feelings don't have to change to get what you want. |
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In fact the imp has just made the excellent point that Jesus himself was very fond of a drink. |
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I'm particularly fond of akebias, not least because they produce edible fruits. |
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I was one of those who hated the last redesign, and I'm not fond of this one. |
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Elise had been fond of knick-knacks as evidenced by the many figurines which decorated the apartment. |
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Members of the family say the eel is an agreeable house pet, that eats twice a day and is fond of strips of raw chicken or fish. |
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By now she's growing more fond of the kids, yet she never takes her eyes off the bonus money. |
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This disappoints me a little, as I was quite fond of the idea that the first languages were sign languages. |
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She wasn't particularly bright, granted, but she was unassuming, fun, game for anything, fond of her grub and up for larks. |
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I would tell you to bring her along, but the reprobates aren't fond of kids. |
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If you're really fond of vibrant colours in your garden, none dazzle brighter than zinnias. |
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My father was fond of relating a story about a professor lecturing on geography. |
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Joann's customers were so fond of Kim's look in the film, they have even brought their pearls in to be restyled in that fashion. |
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He is a little too fond of building huge abstract entities on the back of discoveries from anthropology, zoology and neuroscience. |
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He needed to learn to let bygones be bygones, burry the hatchet, forgive and forget, and all those other euphemisms my mom was so fond of. |
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Church apparatchiks are fond of saying they think in centuries, not days or years, but perhaps it's a habit they need to kick. |
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The areca palm, for example, is particularly fond of toluene, a by-product of glue that can be harmful when it combines with oxygen. |
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Ethan became fond of her good nature, her liveliness, and her deep passion for nature. |
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Henry VIII was fond of wearing a velvet, gold-embroidered purple doublet encrusted with diamonds, rubies and pearls. |
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Dione is especially fond of the tough but gorgeous rugosa roses, such as Blanc Double de Coubert and Hansa, as well as Rosa glauca. |
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Large hands belong to people who are fond of fine work and like minute details. |
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I will admit, sacrilegiously, to not being terribly fond of Beethoven's opera to begin with. |
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By this time she was permanently in a wheelchair, but still full of life and very fond of sangria and flirting with Spanish waiters. |
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Also, the field should be watched for several days to prevent pigeons, which are remarkably fond of tares, from devouring much of the sown seed. |
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Perhaps the biggest reason that so many rebellious types are fond of the band is that they were genuinely dangerous back in the day. |
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You and some of your correspondents are fond of colourfully bagging Andrew and that is your right. |
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At dinner, the doctor ate several plates of Scotch broth, with barley and peas in it, and seemed very fond of the dish. |
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She loved ceilidh music all her life and was very fond of traditional music and ballad songs. |
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We are too fond of living for the day, of buying on tick and the never-never. |
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We both are quite fond of football and enjoy the lime and a couple of beers as well when we go there to watch. |
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Liza was also very fond of toast, oranges, and tonic water and her pink fluffy slippers that she never seemed to be without. |
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Is it because you are fond of them or is it because they are convenient as a form of technique in your methodology? |
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A person practicing archery is called an archer, and one who is fond of or an expert at archery is sometimes called a toxophilite. |
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They were fond of each other, and observers of his early work often say that she brought out the best in him. |
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As much as I had grown fond of these three people in these few days, I still believed they were all crazy out of their mind. |
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I am also mindful of the literary old, who are, at this point, surely less fond of me than I am of them. |
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Adults live on flower nectar and pollen and are especially fond of lantana and shepherd's needle. |
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Hardwicke often had to mediate between the brothers, who, though extremely fond of each other, were not temperamentally suited. |
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It was created in Asia, home of the sneaky ninja who were fond of throwing shurikens at enemies from their hiding places. |
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He said that even though he was an undercover agent, he preferred to pal around with the Mongols on his days off because he was fond of them. |
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While he was fond of the theatre, he was wary of music as bordering on the sissyish. |
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I can't help being fond of him, he is so resourceful and undismayed, two of the qualities I like best. |
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I have a sneaking feeling that I am rather fond of period instruments, especially in the woodwind. |
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There are many exotic flavours to sample, but I'm fond of the ginger beer or the sorrel soda. |
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She is also fond of risotto, mild goat's cheese, olives, breadsticks and pitta bread, especially if she can dunk them in some creamy hummus. |
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She is very fond of fruit, particularly bananas and eats a good breakfast and dinner every day. |
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Having read his correspondence, I can only think he was uxoriously fond of his wife. |
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As new parents, we were fond of videotaping pretty much everything involving our newborn child. |
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Unlike most South Africans, he is not fond of beer, preferring cider, which is not sold here. |
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Yeldham is fond of red, a popular colour for paintings, and also of brown, another colour that fits in nicely with interior design schemas. |
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Indians abroad are as fond of their mother country as the Chinese are fond of China, but investment isn't a matter of the heart. |
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Against my own inclinations, I hope you're vindicated, because I'm fond of the magazine. |
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As Claire was fond of telling me, I had a habit of reducing every situation to the worst-case scenario. |
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I was also very fond of visiting the villages around Mysore, where the people were camera-shy. |
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He'd also became fond of switching lights on and off to the point where it was almost an obsession. |
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They are very fond of one another and quite willingly help each other in their needs. |
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He was keenly fond of the arts, the open air and individuals of the female gender. |
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There is an abundance of nature words, probably because the people are so fond of the outdoors. |
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Latham is overly fond of a technocratic style of language, favoured by business elites. |
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The cultural supplements of Germany's newspapers, always fond of high-flown debates, will have their work cut out for them this summer. |
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He is fond of thin paint and frequently layers a dark blue or black wash over phosphorescent pastel hues. |
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Hom is very fond of English horticulture and commissioned an English landscape gardener to design his garden. |
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He was of a healthy constitution, very fond of tobacco, which he used to call his panpharmacon. |
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He was fond of out-door activities and enjoyed swimming, hill-walking and cycling. |
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You'll need to scrape out his hooves twice a day, and not with that tool on a Swiss army knife if you're fond of your fingertips. |
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He was so fond of a little taste every day that in the winter he smuggled in frozen hunks of it, dropping them on the hearth to thaw. |
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He clasped her hand tightly and she was immediately fond of his firm, warm grip that felt as if it fit like a glove. |
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Father had been fond of giving gifts, and Margaret knew it to be worth a small fortune, should she need it. |
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This one turned out pretty well, but I am not fond of the coldness of the colors. |
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It was a large bedroom, with a double bed, a comfortable desk, and various sofas and armchairs, which he was quite fond of. |
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When it comes to learning English, Indonesians are very fond of native speakers. |
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In the past 20 years, landscapers have grown inordinately fond of using male trees. |
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The brothers shared a wince at the memory of the snotty chef their mother was inordinately fond of. |
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And not only are the men fond of it, even such insentient creatures as plants and trees have become infected and take delight in it. |
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Slugs are fond of the white pith inside empty grapefruit skins, which make good traps, and wilted comfrey leaves are also a good bait. |
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Once his mental instability manifested itself, she won a divorce, but she did not seem so very fond of him in the first place. |
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I was very fond of plain chocolate, though it was not as good as what you can buy today. |
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Does it seem to you that Americans are particularly fond of symbols and pledges and oaths? |
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In her journals for 1787 Susan Burney describes Hoole as conversable, entertaining, and fond of children. |
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I am rather fond of the indigent look, myself, and am the proud owner of a modest collection of plaid flannel shirts. |
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Some journalists are fond of staging rescue operations that make great copy for newspapers. |
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Starapples are a soft fleshy fruit that have a stainy skin, they grow on a large tree and she was fond of them. |
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He seems fond of coqueting with the House of Commons, and is perpetually calling the Speaker out to dance a minuet with him, before he begins. |
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Guitarist Charlie Davis III is fond of playing snaking countermelodies and aggressive leads with his guitar covered in trebly distortion. |
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She had grown rather fond of the European drink and found it to be relaxing to sit and sip. |
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Pundits and politicians are fond of referring to the campaign as a conversation between the candidates and the public. |
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She was quick to notice that one of Bingley's sisters seemed quite fond of Mr. Darcy. |
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Nevertheless, as leading economists are fond of pointing out, the dollar remains king. |
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Maybe they're guilty of collective naivete, but I've grown fond of American optimism. |
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Moreover, Shyamalan seems to be too fond of withholding information from the audience. |
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Some writers' memoirs make you so fond of them that you wish you knew them personally. |
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When tipsy or sober, the painter and Jew was mild, charming and fond of quoting Dante. |
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In fact, I'm quite fond of fuchsia specifically because its that sort of colour that can make ANYONE look as though they have a healthy tan. |
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She appears here as a more amiable figure, fond of a good gossip, and with an endless fund of stories. |
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He was fond of outdoor activities and enjoyed swimming, hill-walking and cycling. |
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In their book they write that the hawk eagles are fond of visiting open forest areas. |
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Even those who weren't particularly fond of Linklater's dreamers and gabbers still had something themselves to say. |
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The Queen Mother, daughter of a Scottish earl, was very fond of Scotland and the feeling was returned. |
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He talks about his passion for cricket and his days as a prankster fond of practical jokes. |
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I was sitting on the sofa with a man I was dating whom my daughter was quite fond of. |
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We are fond of dismissing the participants as dupes, but we are the bigger fools for believing that the shows represent some kind of truth. |
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As a cook, he may be a little too fond of traditional English ingredients like suet and American novelties like puffed wheat and canned corn. |
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She is a lively, good tempered dog and anyone can quickly become fond of her! |
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He was a sociable man and a popular figure in Newcastle, fond of a gossip on the Quayside or at the Exchange on Sandhill. |
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The man seems quite fond of abracadabra himself, going by what his partymen are planning for the poll campaigns. |
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For a man so fond of speed, racing against time was probably a game that this Bollywood actor had no difficulty mastering. |
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Still, people seem to be more fond of free speech in the abstract than in specific instances. |
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I'm not fond of sweeping generalisations but on the whole I see people who beg as wasters taking the easy way out. |
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Sartre also, Marie-Denise Boros points out, was particularly fond of the crab, a creature which scuttles its way into everything from his philosophical texts to his plays. |
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And as Geoff was fond of saying, time and tide wait for no man. |
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So what are my final deliverables, as consultants are fond of saying? |
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I may have liked God when I was three, as I testified on the study wall, but He certainly wouldn't be very fond of me when He found out what I'd done to His gaff in Acton. |
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I am fond of it, and I like using an SLR rather than a compact camera. |
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And, like Twain, people fond of corn pone remember it with specificity. |
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He was very fond of the theater and had purchased tickets for several performances. |
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Nevertheless, he is a flamboyant showman, fond of electric blue suits, who once turned up on a motorbike to wild applause at the Cannes festival, where he is lionised. |
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But over the years as he matured, she grew quite fond of him. |
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Although Okonkwo could never show emotion because that would be a sign of weakness, he was fond of Ikemefuna and the boy began addressing Okonkwo as father. |
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He is fond of waving aloft his well-thumbed copy of the UN charter. |
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I had progressed along some appropriate path, survived all the general miseries, horrors and institutional insanities that humans are fond of ordering themselves through. |
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Even though his Mum was too high and mighty to keep visiting me he used to come by whenever he were near the place and I'm pretty fond of the lad. |
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That Schubert is fond of modulating to the subdominant is well-known. |
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The horned lizard Phrynosoma mcalli apparently uses the horns on its head to deter the shrike, a bird fond of impaling lizards on thorns or barbed wire for later consumption. |
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Despite all the diseases they carry, the nuisance they make of themselves and their general foulness, I'm actually quite fond of these little rats. |
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I've never been particularly fond of the gender politics in his work. |
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The puppy is irritatingly fond of gnawing at the bottom of my moleskins. |
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It wasn't, as coaches are fond of saying, pretty, but it was certainly effective and the visitors did score three tries straight out of their favourite box of tricks. |
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There are many reasons why the high-rise flats of Glasgow and other cities failed, but suffice to say, people are not that fond of living in them. |
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His father and mother were very affectionate and I was fond of his family. |
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The English are also very fond of games, including snooker and darts. |
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We have infestations at different times of things like Spider Crabs and Spider Crabs are very fond of nipping the ends off the arms and sucking the gonads out from inside. |
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Back in France, he bought a villa in Marnes-la-Coquette, a suburban village, where he grew fond of tending to the grounds, reading and playing with his chihuahua. |
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Only 16 percent of those who identify themselves as conservatives approve of unisex, while 34 percent of those who call themselves liberals are fond of the look. |
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I also became rather fond of a very saucy mouse in my office. |
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I took a boxful home for Jenny, who is particularly fond of them. |
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I'm not particularly fond of your brand of scruffiness either. |
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And he became inordinately fond of various chorines and divas. |
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For that matter, they never seemed too fond of anything adults liked in the way of books, movies, or music. |
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We've always had a soft spot for Kate, and are quite fond of Pete's work supporting Carl, but this is overplaying their hand to a dangerous extent. |
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Raphael, for example, is very fond of Harold Nicolson, while Epstein seems to prefer Isaac Bashevis Singer to Flaubert. |
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Calm, mannerly, fond of bowties, Whitworth was a workaholic. |
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Monteverdi was equally fond of chromaticism, especially in his madrigals. |
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I must confess, madam, that I have never been too fond of the countryside. |
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Whether you are Vaishnava or a Shaiva, everybody is very fond of Ganesha. |
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Now, please don't disapprove, but I am very fond of Peter Halliway. |
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He is fond of the occasional drink and is considered to be good company. |
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Somehow, I didn't think Noriko would be particularly fond of either idea. |
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There was one old cow cocky I was very fond of who simply waited it out. |
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Hemingway was a keen sportsman but he was fond of blood sports. |
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He's always been a cryptic songwriter, fond of oblique references and catchy off-the-wall phrasings, but here his metaphors and jests are haunted with regret and suspicion. |
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When you started out as a pro and dethroned the King, Arnold Palmer, in his backyard at the 1962 U.S. Open, the public wasn't nearly as fond of you as it is now. |
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We are fond of making decrees, we even specialize in doing it, but a lot of the regulations made by the House of Representatives are only paper tigers. |
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On the other hand, he is fond of the kind of design analysis that leaves the uninitiated wishing he would speak in plain English, in terms the layman can understand. |
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As the immunologist Graham Rook is fond of saying, co-evolution invariably leads to codependence. |
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The federation which at one point acted as a semi-autonomous government organisation is famously fond of using its power and influence in the law courts. |
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She met a Forbes at the club the other night who is fond of literature. |
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The team grew fond of their gruff, curmudgeonous supervisor and feted him with a party upon his retirement. |
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Queen Victoria spent childhood holidays on the island and became fond of it. |
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He was so fond of drink, that he would shamelessly accept the contemptuous hospitality of hornyhanded workmen. |
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He was fond of his children, and was devastated at the death of two of his sons in infancy in 1782 and 1783 respectively. |
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Doll Sneerpiece was not a scholar but fond of gentlemen, although to dub her a limmer, would have been to do her a wrong. |
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The late Poet Laureate Sir John Betjeman was famously fond of Cornwall and it featured prominently in his poetry. |
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The pixies of Dartmoor are fond of music and dancing and for riding on Dartmoor colts. |
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Locals of Flin Flon are especially fond of the Saucisse de Toulouse, which is often served with poutine. |
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She became particularly fond of the Greek revolutionary Prince Alexander Mavrocordato and of Jane and Edward Williams. |
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The marriage proved a happy one, and Mary Shelley and Jane were fond of each other. |
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He became a voracious reader, and was fond of Penny Dreadfuls and the works of Robert Michael Ballantyne and James Fenimore Cooper. |
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Sullivan was also very fond of his brother Fred, whose acting career he assisted whenever possible, and of Fred's children. |
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He was also fond of hand knotted Persian carpets and advised the South Kensington Museum in the acquisition of fine Kerman carpets. |
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He wrote poetry and read widely from eight or nine years of age and was especially fond of the works of John Keats and Shelley. |
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Samuel Beckett was also fond of Surrealists, even translating much of the poetry into English. |
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In contrast to his father, Joseph I was fond of de Melo, and with the Queen Mother's approval, he appointed Melo as Minister of Foreign Affairs. |
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They are also boasters and threateners and are fond of pompous language, and yet they have sharp wits and are not without cleverness at learning. |
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Adela seems to have been fond of Henry and joined him in his travels, probably to maximise the chances of her conceiving a child. |
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It could not be said though that the Totnes townsfolk were not fond of their policemen. |
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So he thought over various plans for relief, and finally hit pon that of professing to be fond of Pain-killer. |
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They were very fond of eyeliner and eyeshadows in dark colors including blue, red, and black. |
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And Darwin, who in spite of his reclusivity was fond of honors, received his belated acceptance by the French in good spirit. |
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They were both fond of her sister Agnes' four children and often had them to stay. |
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He is inordinately fond of the scare quote, a sign that he is not really sure of what he's talking about. |
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He is fond of gossip, and apt to speak slightingly of some of his friends, but is loyal to others. |
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At last he took a third york. She was a foolish young thing, but very fond of him... he paid her more attention than the generality of husbands. |
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They are inherently fond of the same things bacteria treasure, things like bread, cheese, soil, and sticky fingers. |
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I know too well that a great majority of Englishmen are fond of The Indefinite which they Measure by Newtons Doctrine of the Fluxions of an Atom. |
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Pinto, whose paper is very much dependent on Alain de Libera's studies on Aquinas and Averroism, seems fond of oversimplified dualisms. |
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This is why the krayzee boffins are so fond of making those whacky discoveries so beloved of tabloids and deejays the world over. |
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He was particularly fond of diving, having earned his divemaster certificate, and dived in many countries including Jordan and Thailand. |
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Women, even those with a family history of breast cancer, tend to be fond of these protuberances. |
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It is written that Christopher Columbus was fond of Portuguese espetadas, a beef shish kebab marinated in wine and roasted on an open fire. |
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As you know, folks, I might be fond of some honking old cack but I draw the line at the Peter Pan of Pop. |
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He seemed particularly fond of Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy. |
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I AM very fond of Ian Mosh as I feel his designs are quite folky and seem to epitomise the music and songs I create. |
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According to Suetonius, Claudius was extraordinarily fond of games. |
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The miners found diversions even in his alleged frauds and trickeries... and were fond of relating with great gusto his evasion of the Foreign Miners' Tax. |
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While living in an abandoned structure connected to a cottage, he grew fond of the poor family living there, and discreetly collected firewood for them. |
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He attended a banquet held by Qurtai, the Yuan Mongol administrator of the city, who according to Ibn Battuta, was fond of the skills of local Chinese conjurers. |
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Well, mostly Jameson whiskey and Magners really, but she's also quite fond of the idea of a blueeyed hunk from Donegal who'll whisk her away and show her his shillelagh. |
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By their presence they bring blessings to those who are fond of them. |
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Joseph Sedley, who was fond of music, and soft-hearted, was in a state of ravishment during the performance of the song, and profoundly touched at its conclusion. |
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Normally other states are fond of cricket but, association football is the most popular sport in Goa and is embedded in Goan culture as a result of the Portuguese influence. |
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They are fond of fun and therefore witty, wit being well-bred insolence. |
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I'd never been with anyone in the States who precame very much at all, and decided at that very moment I was quite fond of the sweet, sticky stuff. |
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Whereas classical writers are fond of making a sharp distinction between peace and war, for the Byzantines diplomacy was a form of war by other means. |
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Later he attended a banquet of the Yuan Mongol administrator of the city named Qurtai, who according to Ibn Battuta, was very fond of the skills of local Chinese conjurers. |
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Whereas classical writers are fond of making ethical and legal distinctions between peace and war, Byzantines regarded diplomacy as a form of war by other means. |
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Oriyas are very fond of sweets, so dessert follows most meals. |
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The CHP is fond of pointing out that vox populi is not vox Dei. |
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Rex Stout's fictional detective Nero Wolfe is described as fond of solving the London Times' crossword puzzle at his New York home, in preference to those of American papers. |
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The group, especially Moon, were not fond of the hippie movement, and thought their violent stage act would stand in sharp contrast to the peaceful atmosphere of the festival. |
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I must suppose, indeed, that he was fond of preaching sermons, and so am I, though I never heard it maintained that either of us loved to hear them. |
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However, Tolkien was not fond of all the artistic representation of his works that were produced in his lifetime, and was sometimes harshly disapproving. |
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Hardy corresponded with and visited Lady Catherine Milnes Gaskell at Wenlock Abbey and many of Lady Catherine's books are inspired by Hardy, who was very fond of her. |
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The mechanic explains to the judge that while he was very fond of Heather, he was never physically attracted to her, and wonders if that's how Manda feels about him. |
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They've always been fond of bear-baiting and allied blood sports. |
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Assapans are fond of living in colonies, and where they have not been disturbed come together in great numbers for what can be no other purpose than play. |
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I'm more fond of the doubleness in puns, especially flagrant puns, when the punster knows and registers the silliness of what he's just said, which good punsters do. |
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If you're particularly fond of Foster's, Heineken or Moosehead at home, you will be disappointed to find that it's been wimped down for the American market. |
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