After a few minutes, he felt the hairs on the back of his neck stand on end like he was being watched. |
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My father's eyes looked distant, the sort of foreign, faraway gaze he always had when he was being serious. |
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As he was being escorted from the building there was a struggle and the security guard's gun was discharged. |
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About a year after we married, my husband told me he was being sued in a paternity suit having to do with a one-night stand before we met. |
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When Mr Blair made his comments back in April I said I thought he was being a shade over-optimistic. |
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In Iowa yesterday, a reporter asked former House Speaker Gingrich if he felt he was being swift-boated. |
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I looked around and saw Cliff waving his arms frantically, because he was being swarmed by some local bees. |
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Although detectives were aware that the shopworker was in immediate danger, they did not know why he was being targeted. |
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As he was being taken to hospital in a tricycle, men in army fatigues stopped the vehicle and demanded to know if the wounded man was Beltran. |
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And what I found was that the people who were criticizing him were being just as shrill and obnoxious as he was being onstage at the Oscars. |
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My first thought was that he was being a little extreme, but on further explication his reasoning seems sound. |
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He remembers walking in downtown Joburg when, turning around, he noticed he was being followed by some tsotsis. |
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But in the end he realized that was another way he was being manipulated, his music put into a box, his musical palette circumscribed. |
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Supersensitive about his reputation as a minister, he was being sued by creditors, sought by the sheriff, even threatened with jail. |
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Ministers and loyalist deputies praised the speech, but opponents suggested he was being two-faced. |
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The chiropractor, who didn't appear to notice he was being two-timed by his date, was the only one other than Sam who still had an appetite. |
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And even if he was being serious about the tsunami escape centre, who's to say the idea is ludicrous? |
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Yes, these are tough times for everyone, but that is not why he was being so careful with his money. |
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Watching him bat even as he was being honoured took the crowd's enthusiasm to dizzying heights. |
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He claimed he was being made a scapegoat by the inquiry and strenuously denied he was a standover man. |
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He might have a list of 10 stores he was being paid to open, and being paid big money just to cut the tape with the ceremonial scissors. |
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If he was being true to himself and his principles then the answer would have to be in the affirmative. |
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Jean didn't drink any wine over dinner and I assumed he was being medically prudent. |
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I hated how he was being so nice about it, instead of just decking me and yelling at me about how I was being stupid and selfish. |
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The sheer expense of such an enterprise would mean the victim would never really suspect he was being tricked. |
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He had the distinct prickly sensation on the back of his neck that usually meant he was being watched. |
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He actually hadn't given any direct indication that he was being anything other than chivalrous and gentlemanly. |
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She said he had committed the offences after becoming resentful at the way he felt he was being treated. |
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He might have thought he was being a gamer by keeping quiet and pitching in pain last week. |
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Freddy made a face that was full of sorrow, as if he was being asked to retire from the major leagues. |
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A thief pawned a gold ring then snatched it back along with the cash he was being paid for it. |
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Her huge black Labrador came galumphing around the corner of her house and wagged his tail excitedly when he saw he was being taken on a walk. |
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As he was being wheeled off the field, he gave us the thumbs-up sign, which told us to keep playing hard and that he would be all right. |
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It was bad enough that his phone kept getting crossed lines, without the added hassle of all the low-lifes he was being forced to talk to. |
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He felt he was being punished for exposing the links between the business world, the Mafia, the secret Masonic lodges and the secret services. |
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There were also reports the murder might have been precipitated by a security sweep in the area where he was being held. |
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During all the nine weeks he was being barrier nursed in an isolation ward. |
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As he walked around the lounge his boots stuck to the floor and he became aware that he was being bitten by fleas. |
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The bay gave a soft whinny and the Prince couldn't help but feel as if he was being laughed at. |
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After just a few episodes of that show he was being hailed as the next magician and illusionist to enjoy mainstream stardom in America. |
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Freeman argued that at the time he was being chased by paparazzi and was forced to drive with excessive speed to avoid death or injury. |
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The only alibi he can provide for the night of the murder is that he was being spanked by a tart in frilly knickers. |
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It seemed almost as if he was being flayed alive and his flesh seared away, layer by layer. |
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A drunken man who wanted to fight with his father butted a police officer on the jaw as he was being arrested, a court was told. |
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Feeling there was something behind him, he glanced backwards and saw that he was being followed by a gigantic black figure. |
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The judge explained to him at an early stage that he was being asked to fine him or commit him to prison. |
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Rycroft, who had his head shaved to add to the deceit that he was being treated for the illness, also poured other people's money into a string of unprofitable businesses. |
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Hinton still insists he was being honest about the facts as far as he knew. |
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After Borman insisted that Olbermann work March 5, Price said he was being highly unprofessional. |
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Doyle, officially a contractor, said he was told that he was being let go as part of a program of layoffs at the New Mexico lab. |
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The people behind a prank TV show tricked a man into thinking he was being chased by a dinosaur. |
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Contending that he was being used as a scapegoat, Palmer asked for a trade. |
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To be clear, the fact that he was being used did not make the kid any less of a douche. |
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While he was being attacked, the two police officials came to his rescue. |
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For three whole days, during which time did not exist for him, he struggled in that black sack into which he was being thrust by an invisible, resistless force. |
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Traces of cough linctus suggest that he was being looked after. |
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He had no idea what was being said because it was dark and he couldn't lip-read, and he was being spoken to in Hindi, which he couldn't understand. |
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If a follower didn't like the way he was being treated by one particular lord in one lordship, he could and frequently did move elsewhere the following year. |
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I could hear the milk-maids' buckets clatter, the cows lowing in the dell, and the indentured servant boy's tortured cries as he was being flogged. |
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The actor later revealed that the taxmen came calling with this notice even as he was being wheeled in for surgery at the Leelavati Hospital in Mumbai. |
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Police were dispatched to the scene and an RAF helicopter was scrambled to airlift him to Raigmore Hospital where he was being treated last night. |
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No sooner had he his feet under the table, though, than he was being ballyragged at county board meetings by suits who knew better than he who should be playing. |
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Later on, after Raymond Santana had been interrogated about the rape, he was being driven to another precinct. |
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Furthermore, he has managed to steady the ship following the torrid days of early summer when he was being pilloried for everything from opera to poorly chosen kilts. |
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As recently as 1998, having led them to an improbably high 11 th place finish, he was being touted as a long-term contender to replace Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester United. |
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He said yes, but his yes was so mitigated, that I convinced myself he was being polite. |
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There was always a hint that he was being underhanded, sneaky. |
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I have always thought that Stanley was saying, in coded form, that he was being so bold as to speak to a gentleman to whom he hadn't been introduced. |
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From what I could gather, he was being sent around to cold-call upon the local residents in a vain attempt to convert them to the service of his electricity utility provider. |
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Perhaps he was being deeply ironic, although of all the many qualities one associates with John Motson, a facility for gentle irony does not usually figure among them. |
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Lau was non-committal when asked whether he was being boycotted by the group, but agreed that reconciliation with the central government was a touchy issue. |
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I got angry with him and told him he was being childish and stupid. |
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He paused often to consider what he was being told, teased the young woman who was interpreting in sign language for the deaf children, and smiled extravagantly throughout. |
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So it is indeed possible that he had no idea he was being so foul. |
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Police were dispatched to the scene and an RAF helicopter was scrambled to airlift him to Raigmore Hospital in Inverness where he was being treated last night. |
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But while he peppered his press conferences with the odd spell of self-flagellation, claiming he was being selfish, few will grudge him his opportunity. |
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Then he began to have a faint inkling that he was being treated leniently, and to think that they had done kindly by him, in not yielding to his wish. |
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As he was being carried down, he asked them to pause while he gave some advice to a midshipman on the handling of the tiller. |
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But while he was throwing harder shots he was being outworked by the busier Hertfordshire hitter, who caught the eye with slick combinations. |
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I always suspected he was being wound up to do something for 'racing's benefit' by more cunning folk who kept a lower profile. |
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He later called her an unprintably vulgar sexual slur, unaware that he was being taped. |
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Mehmood rejected the medical report in his statement, claiming that he was being framed. |
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His black eye had ignited rumors he was being brutalized in custody. |
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It was later revealed that he was being treated for bipolar disorder. |
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In October, he left Spain for New York, where he refused to leave Mary's apartment on the pretext that he was being watched. |
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He scoffed at press rumours that he was being barracked by a gang of discharged soldiers. |
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Tyrwhitt turned back to assist Keyes on receipt of the signal that he was being chased. |
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When I first saw him, he was being chewed out by some jiboney. I thought the guy was his boss. |
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By swimming, drunk, late at night and alone, he was being a fool to himself. |
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Wouldn't it be great if he was being psychoanalyzed by none other than Bob Newhart? |
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Several audience members failed to realise that he was being tongue in cheek. |
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Meles died on 20 August 2012 in Brussels, where he was being treated for an unspecified illness. |
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He said he was sorry, but I could tell that he was being insincere. |
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Pound persuaded the bookseller Elkin Mathews to display A Lume Spento, and by October 1908 he was being discussed by the literati. |
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He found he was being labelled as the poet of the wild, writing only about animals. |
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In fact, Waugh made his own way back, now believing that he was being possessed by devils. |
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His followers, however, liberated him when he was being transferred from one castle to another. |
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For a period of about five years in the early 2000s, his family and staff became increasingly worried that he was being physically abused. |
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The strain took a toll, and by June he was being laid up for days on end with stomach problems, headaches and heart symptoms. |
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Pushiest ghost of the lot is Frank, Gwen's hus band who got killed just as she discovered he was being unfaithful. |
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The pictures of David Beckham having a hissy fit because he was being photographed annoyed me. |
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He claimed he had heard voices telling him he was being targeted by a hit squad. |
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The fight was a sporting disaster for Welsh, losing seven of the ten rounds, and by the tenth he was being chased around the ring as he covered himself up. |
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At the time of his death he was being sought by authorities for failing to report to his parole officer, as ordered by the court following the 2001 drug conviction. |
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