I get sidetracked by minor distractions all the time, but if I really want something, I'll keep the goal in sight and eventually get there. |
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The hill is located about a mile away and we trudged through the schmutz and ice to get there. |
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I get there and I buy a bag of chips and a pop with the little amount of money that I have left. |
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We don't want people to land in Spain during the strike because there are no baggage handlers and there is no transport once they get there. |
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This is not yet a company that has made it in commercial terms, and there is always a chance that it will not get there. |
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I don't like bandwagons, because I am a slowcoach and it's usually pretty crowded by the time I get there. |
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I was lucky to get there at all, having arranged to meet Ross at the station and then forgotten to bring the directions. |
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To get there, head towards Gyeongju on the main highway out of town and just follow the signs. |
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Sunday's meeting is likely to attract a massive crowd so all of you who are going should get there early to beat the rush. |
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When we get there we will go out the back door and I want you to follow very close behind me. |
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You don't get there any quicker by being 20 centimetres rather than 20 metres from the vehicle in front. |
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We won't know until the inspectors get there what his frame of mind is, but it's pretty bellicose in the meantime. |
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It's not that far from us, although it takes a little while to get there since all the roads are bendy. |
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Take the plunge of trance induction, but don't use illegal substances to get there! |
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Its stores have a 1960s feel and customers find they can buy just about anything they would get there in a weekly shop at a supermarket. |
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We've been assured that all is well this time around, but we won't be sure until we get there, log in, and do the bizzo. |
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It appears to get there by some black magic known only to those with knowledge of the black arts. |
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People assume that driving is the only way to get there, but they should not forget the free shuttle bus from the Metrolink's Stretford station. |
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If that little scamp has left the left wing by the time we get there, then I officially announce the child uncatchable. |
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I watched his friends carry him up Wembley Way, determined he should get there in body if not in spirit. |
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Crossing the international date line to get there plays havoc with your body clock. |
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Galanthous had slit both of my brothers' throats, and we couldn't get there in time. |
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To be asked to render assistance and then when you get there to be assaulted, it's literally a smack in the face. |
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I tried to figure out the best way to get there, but it was obvious that the usual streets I would take were unpassable. |
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He had to drive through a nasty hurricane to get there, which was interesting, but that's not the best part of the story. |
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But he won't get there unless he is willing to make some non-trivial mid-course corrections. |
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Theoretically, you could get there in 13 hours but then you'd probably have to travel in the dead of night. |
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While the last half-hour is as suspenseful as you could hope, it takes an awful lot of contrivances to get there. |
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After three muddling performances in maiden races in May, I thought he might just possibly get there in the final furlong of a stayers ' race. |
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I was shaking from head to toe when I heard what had happened and I couldn't get there quickly enough. |
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The race starts at 7 p.m., but most of us get there early to get a good seat and have something from the carvery in the hour beforehand. |
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Book everything by phone and call shops to check opening hours, or how to get there. |
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I don't know that you get there by creating a new czar whose job is basically to try to stovepipe, or otherwise streamline intelligence. |
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It did work quite well once it was finally set up, but that it was a cow of a job to get there. |
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But to get there you have to cross a treacherous stretch of water called Jack Sound. |
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Make sure you get there early, as it becomes members only after the clock strikes twelve. |
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He also has a clear view of where he wants to take his business, and it is my role to help him get there. |
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The only way to get there in time was to fly out of Montreal on an evening flight, but it was oversold. |
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The coalition which will form the new government will almost certainly have to give a number of hostages to fortune if it is to get there. |
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It was pitch dark, and we were crawling along behind a military tank with its big searchlight sweeping through the fields to get there. |
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If you are talking about reaching parity with Britain and France and Germany, then you have to have a very long road to get there. |
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Always late to the party but sure it's a good one when I get there, I've done two things I should have done a while ago. |
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He imagined he could climb the rock face to the cliff above, run down the path and still get there before her. |
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So now I'm tweeting and facebooking where my next stop is going to be and I'm telling them how long it's going to take me to get there. |
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It took a lot of persistence and perseverance and a lot of great people around me telling me that I could do it and I could get there. |
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The party persuaded itself that it has a destination and must travel to get there. |
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So, for a last chance to jive and mingle with the last remaining fellow citizens from far-flung corners of the globe, get there now! |
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Most people come to my farm in the afternoon and have traveled a good distance to get there. |
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As you can see, the place will be rammed, so get there early for your fill of roots, dancehall and such. |
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All we want is plinking ammo and it makes absolutely no difference how long it takes to get there. |
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The bonfire will last only as long as supply of cards, flowers and other flammable material is available, so get there early! |
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You have to get votes, it isn't like a panel, we had to get there by popularity. |
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After some hassles with getting food and crummy weather, I finally get there. |
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She urged the horse into a full gallop, wanting to get there as quickly as possible. |
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Pleasurable when you get there but try not to pull a muscle or strain something else trying to saddle up. |
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It will take time to get there, and time too to get tourists, confidence, investment and economic migrants back. |
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When you have got 10 poles of ground elder to deal with and it takes two bus journeys to get there, a hosepipe ban is the least of your worries. |
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The end product is not what counts, it is the process and the experimentation that your child goes through to get there. |
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They fantasised about being these cool dudes in a Godard film, but they didn't really get there. |
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And what better way to get there than on board a music-filled steamboat, featuring the sounds of Dixieland and New Orleans jazz? |
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You probably won't get any of the computer doorbusters if you get there at 3am. |
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I tracked the trail right to the other party, but it took me a day to get there. |
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It's restricted information which I'm not at liberty to discuss with you till we actually get there, ok? |
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To get there, you must go past the Capitainerie and through the working bit of the boatyard. |
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I know that's not a good thing, but at least my hypnotized mind knew the way home and how to get there without accident, right? |
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When we get there we'll find a way to survey the property and figure out a plan of action. |
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The Norwegian made an impressive amount of ground to get there and tweaked his hamstring in the act of stretching for the ball. |
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By the time they get there they are totally jaded by the whole thing or keen as mustard to help. |
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If you get there after 8pm, entry is still only a fiver, which is still good value since you can continue to boogie until 1am. |
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These are the memories that we will hold on to when we become advanced in age, if we get there. |
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I have set the goal of 500 for myself and, by jeebus, I am going to get there if it kills me. |
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The only way to get there is by an old bus, along the alarmingly narrow roads that cling to the sides of the mountains. |
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We usually get there early and sit around waiting for ages to soundcheck, my stomach gently knotting and unknotting with impatience. |
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Even if the region is now relatively safe, there is no knowing what will happen to the troops once they get there. |
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But it is I myself who must get there, even though I have the directions and destination down. |
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You get there together through a chain of cooperation, support, reinforcement and a willingness to share talents and gifts with others. |
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I generally knocked off the asbestos lagging myself rather than wait for laggers and scalers to get there. |
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Well sorry to tell you but if there is a life after death and you get there and don't like it then too bad. |
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On the ring road it was necessary to take to get there we discovered massive long queues. |
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Energy prices have gone through the roof and somehow taken a route through your wallet to get there. |
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It would be absurd to assess the qualities of a holiday destination solely on the basis of what there is to eat when you get there. |
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When you get there, a jazz group is quietly playing Scott Joplin to an appreciative audience lounging on the grass. |
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It had taken them just about two days to get there taking the most direct route possible. |
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If you only want to get there, you take the quickest route and worry about nothing else. |
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To get there, you walk past the old cricket pavilion, now the province of the Scouts. |
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It took me over an hour to get there for I met all the infantry coming down the sap. |
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To get there you must climb a kilometre long flight of steps, now a deserted forest path frequented only by babbler birds, peacocks and monkeys. |
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Local people know how to get there down the back roads because they are looking for it but passing traffic is missing it. |
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I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land. |
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To get there tata poured capital into British plants and research and hired thousands of workers. |
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If the differences are important, we need to overcome them so as to develop a progressive vision of a possible future and a strategy to get there. |
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I don't know who'll get there first, but Las Vegas is a good bet. |
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Remember to refresh the page when you get there if there's nothing new. |
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Oranjestad harbor is well lit if it gets dark before you get there. |
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You remember, we were in such an all-fired hurry to get there, that we couldn't wait until the United Nations actually completed their search for weapons of mass destruction. |
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Then the opportunity to retreat to an uncle's cottage in the Penrith countryside presents itself and the budding thesps can't get there fast enough. |
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There is a long tradition of epistolary relationships and the only difference between us and, say, Victorian letter writers is that our letters get there faster. |
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And when you get there, you enter your zip code and you'll get a list of places close by where those shots are being given and where they have the vaccine. |
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It can shelter 3,000 people, if they can get there before a twister strikes. |
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The long and winding railroad to London is back on the straight and narrow as Manchester travellers can once more get there without changing trains. |
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Regardless of how you get there, it is worth making a trip to the island's capital, which is built on a promontory that projects dramatically out into the sea. |
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The Vegas oddsmakers are already taking bets on who will get there first. |
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But the lawyers need to turn some somersaults before they can get there. |
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How fast could I get there carrying a plastic grocery sack of food in one hand, a dog on a leash with the other, and piggybacking a four-year-old boy? |
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All the world's a stage and if you want to play your part on the big screen, then there's a new way to get there, thanks to the first Irish casting agency for film extras. |
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Kind of a schlepp to get there, with it being on Randall's Island. |
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I'll be patient, tackle the job slowly but surely, and I'll get there. |
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You strive so hard to get the brass ring that when you get there, it can be blinding. |
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They were dreading a race against the clock to get there in time until the M.E.N. stepped in to help organise cut-price air fares for the dedicated dozen. |
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They run out quickly of these heavenly delights, so get there early. |
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Visitors who came to the point by land, and wanting to reach the beach from that approach, needed a large amount of strength and bravery to get there. |
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By the time the police get there, they've scarpered and nothing gets done. |
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In the summer, providing you get there early enough, you can buy a punnet of fresh-picked local strawberries, fat and luscious, still with the morning dew on them, almost. |
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Pancakes, chipolatas or ice cream under the cereal are some of the suggestions for this surprise breakfast, and if they don't get there on time it's ordinary breakfast. |
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The later you get there on weeknights the worse the food is. |
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Her trainers believe that she has the ability, commitment and determination to realise her Olympic dream but she will need a little financial help to get there. |
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But if you've got a penchant for a particular dancer, get there early so you can put your name on the list, as each dancer has a limited number of nightly performances. |
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We only ever got as far as a turkey farm six miles down the road, and it took over four hours to get there owing to the fact that neither of us knew how to drive a lorry. |
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Until we get there and are hard pressed to find a restaurant offering any of those two dishes, it is all nouvelle cuisine these days. |
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They saw us and ran for it like merry hell, trying to get there and plunder it before we could raise the alarm. |
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Maugham subsequently said that if he had been able to get there six months earlier, he might have succeeded. |
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Nutting out our own way of doing things may take some work, but we get there. |
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In the story The Fat Controller's Engines several of the famous engines visit London, and run on the mainland permanent way to get there. |
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Traffic was horrible on the main roads, but she knew all the back roads and side streets, and managed to get there quickly. |
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The expedition arrived in early 1512, passing en route through the Lesser Sunda Islands, being the first Europeans to get there. |
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There are two routes to get there. We're in a rush so we'll take the shorter one. |
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To get there, he had to go through a toll barrier at the east end of the Tappan Zee bridge over the Hudson River. |
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I was eager to get there, but I got stuck behind one Sunday driver after another on that trip. |
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By the time Jack can get there it will be too late. The damage will have been done. |
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You can get there by bus, or train, or taxi. Whatever. You pays your money and you takes your choice. |
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There were a few tears as she walked towards the chuppa and Alan on the day, considering how much she'd had to achieve to get there. |
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And when we get there, we don't send a postcard home, as a rule, preferring the convenience of sending a picture message instead. |
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Living in Bournville it was a tuppenny bus ride to Priory Road and I'd get there on to the Rea Bank and watch Noman Horner and John Jameson. |
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In the backs of all our minds was the proud hope that somehow or other we should get there. |
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I guess the room wasn't so bad, except for the climb to get there. The stairs were destined to be a serious health hazard. |
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What we do know is that when they get there, they depend on the oyamel fir forests for their wintering habitat. |
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At the time I was skint and I just had about enough petrol money to get there, that's the truth. |
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And when we get there we'll either be gloating or making out to the gloaters we're not really that bothered about the result. |
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There really is no way to get there without the process of good diagramming. |
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Once they do get there, there's not even one bit of dramaturgy separating Janie and Teacake's lovemaking interlude from the souring of the relationship. |
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The forces that Fortinbras conscripted to march against Denmark will instead be sent against Poland, though they will pass through a portion of Denmark to get there. |
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So Bennie and Elita resolve to find Alfredo's grave and quite literally deliver his head to outraged El Jefe, presuming that Sappensly and Quill don't get there first. |
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Throw enough mud at the wall and some of it will stick. Be prolific and don't be afraid to make stuff that's rubbish. If you keep trying eventually you'll get there. |
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He's having trouble completing the Sudoku, but he'll get there eventually. |
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Those who gesture with revolutionary fervor toward a postgender or post-binary or post-male-dominated world cannot, as the old saw has it, get there from here. |
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At the moment, I think everyone there is conscious that they are on trial and are trying to overplease perhaps, but it's a learning process and we'll get there. |
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They rightly say that if the Government sends young men and women to hellholes like Iraq and Afghanistan, then they have a duty to care for them when they get there. |
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A nonauthoritarian, postcorporate, more democratic future still remains a worthy goal. Just how we might get there, however, is a wide-open question. |
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