Which reminds me, I have just learnt that a robin's pincushion is technically known as a bedeguar. |
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During the training, she learnt to deliver several punches and elbow blows so quickly they would subdue an aggressor before he knew what hit him. |
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He'd learnt in psychology that parental behaviour had a strong impact on the subconscious. |
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One of the earliest lessons I learnt in 40 years in a service industry was to keep the customer informed. |
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I have learnt never to underestimate the worth of young people, nor to ridicule or belittle them. |
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You'd think we'd have learnt how all the bells and whistles on our phones worked after that wouldn't you? |
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We settled in and I began to study the cards, playing my hand to the strict rules we'd learnt in Acton. |
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If you haven't learnt the craft and you produce a lot of unreadable garbage then people won't read you. |
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His face fell, as if he had just learnt of a sudden failure of all the plane's engines. |
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Her condition meant she never learnt to swallow or suck as a baby and would be sick as soon as she was fed. |
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The till staff had learnt the script for their cheery greeting well, without ever sounding transatlantically insincere. |
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One lesson he has learnt from his family's wine business is the importance of the unpretentious Two Paddocks name. |
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Bald and shell-shocked by the experience, she also learnt a valuable lesson. |
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I am proud to relate that in the 15 minutes of tuition, before they started pulling out stop-order forms, I learnt to cha-cha. |
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I learnt young that if you wanted someone to give you something, celebrity worked wonders. |
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He cautions against trying to professionalise everything as there is a lot to be learnt from traditional construction techniques. |
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Later he helped the blacksmith making new springs for the same trap and learnt to shoe horses, give reading lessons and to build sheds. |
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The children moved on to the Salvation Army Sunday School, where she learnt to play the triangle and cymbals. |
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I have no doubt that there is a lesson which stands to be learnt from Alice's misfortune. |
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What if everything that I learnt from my guides was just the delusions of a misguided egotistical fool? |
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There were no dull moments as helmsmen quickly learnt the necessity of anticipating gusts and wind shifts. |
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We learnt to be careful about our preconceived ideas misleading us, not making us critical enough. |
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Pretty soon, she had learnt all the tricks of the game along with the jargon! |
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He quickly learnt that his mother and father, who was a catechist with the local Anglican church, had not survived. |
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Although I aced the exam and the class, the only biology I learnt that semester was animal behaviour. |
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As we have painfully learnt during periods of national food shortages, it is expensive and wasteful to let crops rot for lack of storage space. |
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And so the two American boys really showed us how to do it, and we learnt dramatically from those lessons. |
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The trouble with skills training is that it is part of the socialisation process and can only be learnt through experience. |
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Below that was a path bordered by a bamboo hedge, where I learnt to ride a bicycle. |
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We hope and trust that workers have learnt a lesson and in future will reflect and weight all the pros and cons before deciding to down tools. |
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His readers learnt that when gigantic portraits of Stalin were illuminated by electricity entire apartment blocks were blacked out. |
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They even learnt sign language because of having a deaf boy there, which was excellent. |
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He has been a slow learner but has learnt the finer points and has put them into practice for the benefit of the team. |
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He learnt Morse code, obtained a licence to transmit radio signals, and started to use a radio transmitter which he had built himself. |
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Of course, I learnt how to cope with dangerous tyrants during my spell in military intelligence in the Falklands. |
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I sincerely hope that harsh and hard lessons are learnt from this which aren't casually forgotten. |
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I learnt Singhalese, was bitten by a scorpion and met the Queen at a garden party held at the British High Commission in Colombo. |
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From time immemorial, man has learnt to extract this precious metal from Mother Earth. |
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Those who have learnt to approach art with an open mind know that it's rewarding. |
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I am glad I went on the hunt and learnt more about the blood sport, though am not in a rush to repeat the experience. |
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He had learnt some useful skills at the school such as arithmetic, double-entry book keeping and how to use a slide rule. |
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From vocal music to violin, tabla to mridangam, flute to the rarely learnt harmonium, the school is out to find music in everyone. |
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At the high skill end, some appear underqualified because they have learnt on the job over a number of years. |
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Yet, business people who try to carry over what they have learnt in commerce to running an economy will often get it wrong. |
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In the last two years he says he has learnt to ignore the barbs from the fourth estate by not reading newspapers. |
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After years spent as a skint student with only a few pounds to my name, I learnt to sniff out the best deals behind the bar. |
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Participants learnt advanced techniques in producing and protecting roses, orchids, gerberas, anthuriums and carnations. |
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I learnt a valuable lesson which was to be a little more careful with my finances. |
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The examination of the liver of a sacrificed sheep, haruspication, was learnt from the Mesopotamians. |
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If that's the most the Treasury has learnt since Black Wednesday, let's hope the old guard has resigned or retired. |
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He was very clear in his views and showed that he had learnt the game the hard way. |
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He attended Pearson's lectures and learnt how to go about statistical research. |
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During the past week campers learnt the art of African and tassa drumming, how to walk on stilts and how to put together an atlas. |
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Soon he learnt to recognise, simply from looking at a dried patch of mud, whether it was worth breaking its crust with his pick. |
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What is learnt in the four walls of a classroom becomes totally irrelevant when the students get employed. |
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By the time that ward round was finished, I had learnt two more things that were important. |
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Although she had learnt the waltz in a conservatory social dance class once, Roza had never been to a ball in her life. |
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I learnt to get on with them, I just wanted to be something I wasn't, a bit of a Jack the Lad and it was the start of a rocky ride really. |
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We've learnt at The Sunday Times never to take manufacturers' claims for top speed and acceleration at face value. |
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We would do stories and do subbing and page makeup, so probably we learnt more than the fellows did as a cadet on the newspaper. |
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It was an old trick that he had learnt in the jungles of South America from sentries on the midday watch. |
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Besides learning criminal law, he learnt to investigate cases of police torture and providing free legal aid to the poor and indigent prisoners. |
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At the American supermarket I learnt that we must join the line, not the queue. |
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I learnt that, being the eldest, any arguments and squabbles would nearly always result in a smack for me. |
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I just learnt that several thousand people attended the web 2.0 conference last year, no doubt why so many media knows this word. |
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It's like, whatever I learnt or received from the Reiki today had an effect on me in some indescribable manner. |
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The Daily Dispatch learnt that the three-day-old baby was in an incubator in the nursery and had been breathing with a ventilator. |
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It is important that lessons are learnt from these cases and that they are used to improve our understanding of vector biology and pharmacology. |
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The others have just had so many false dawns they've learnt not to be too gung-ho, which is good news from an investment point of view. |
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In their early ages, they have learnt the grammar of the ragas, the basics of laya, tala and technique together with a few patterns of tana. |
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While on the continent he had been learnt French, German and Italian and read widely. |
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He learnt acrobatics, jugglery, dance, music, expression, balance and many other things at the circus school in Brussels. |
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Graham, who learnt from his father and other Barkinji elders, is a walking encyclopedia of traditional bush tucker. |
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The actor, by his own admission, claims that he has learnt to relax and take success and failure in his stride. |
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He learnt to become an observer and a narrator because so much of his childhood and adolescence was spent in bed. |
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A year after football fans went on the rampage in Croydon the council says lessons have been learnt. |
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It is learnt that the forthcoming releases will have at least one fast number, which would be a collage of words sans any sense. |
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The reason why I have certain comfort zones is due to a lesson I learnt when I was younger. |
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Even children who have just learnt to spell words can play and sometimes their limited vocabulary becomes an advantage. |
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The students learnt how to heat little copper pellets in a spoon over a Bunsen burner until they melted. |
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They have to be learnt afresh with each new generation, and they are easily lost. |
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He learnt Dutch and Afrikaans so as to translate accurately from diaries and clippings. |
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His work was based on the mathematics he learnt as a student and he appears not to have kept up with new developments. |
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I was glad I had read widely and learnt poetry and parts of the Book Of Common Prayer by rote. |
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The school nurse visited to talk about healthy bodies and the children learnt to cook wholesome foods. |
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Mark had learnt, during their talk that the man's name was Joseph but everyone referred to him as Josh, and he was extremely agitated. |
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They were mostly away on the mainland, I later learnt, and those in school locally didn't bunk off. |
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In the circumstances there are clear failings all round and no signs that the necessary lessons will be learnt. |
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We learnt to rely on air con, flyscreens and the enormous fridge full of cooling drinks. |
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They also learnt the lesson that the aircraft carrier rather than the battleship was to be crucial to victory in naval warfare. |
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However, as it turned out, I learnt from my contemporaries that you don't necessarily need a wind instrument to make wind music. |
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They have learnt, through much experience, that we can literally tell at a glance if what they are about to start taking will help or harm them. |
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After I've learnt the Windsor knot, maybe I should get lessons in chopstick management? |
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It was an exciting time for the youngsters, who learnt the basics of handling the air rifle, air pistol and.22-rifle. |
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One of the first lessons I learnt as a fresh wine waiter was not to sell Australian red wines. |
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I learnt as much as I could about the control and coordination procedures for airspace management and aircraft operations during these events. |
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He also learnt to play the vibraphone, saxophone and percussion instruments. |
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Whatever the nature of their reclusiveness, all of them have learnt to maintain a tightrope balance between the world, the self and their art. |
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So, having finally learnt that you can trust no-one, I guess I became reclusive. |
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Under his tough tutelage, moreover, I learnt a good deal about how to handle the world. |
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I was wonderstruck when I learnt that the place now known as Silicon Valley once had an opulence of orchards. |
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Then we learnt how coffee was harvested, roasted, percolated, espressed and consumed. |
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Des remembers fondly some of the expressions he learnt from mates he used to knock around with. |
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Hill argued, as did almost all of the guides to public speaking, that speech-making could be learnt. |
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No matter how we felt about the workhouse the inmates who had been there quite awhile, like myself, had learnt not to even mention running away. |
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Back then, children were expected to entertain themselves, which is how Lucky learnt to play the clown. |
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He was the character actor, I was more the vaudevillian, pantomime comedian, and we both learnt a lot from each other. |
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It does not matter what counsel may think, it is never wise, as many have learnt to their regret, to come without the pleadings. |
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As a child, Tjayanka learnt to carve utilitarian objects such as wana and kanilpa. |
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Most of them must have learnt their craft by chance, or from peers or family members. |
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The message to be learnt from this festival could be that the reading habit has vanished from our homes, while books are safe in libraries. |
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After leaving school at 14, he worked in an engineering workshop where he learnt to use a metal lathe and other equipment. |
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The company learnt this lesson and used it as a leverage when they launched out on their own. |
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Trotsky soon learnt that there was more to Marxism than that, but he always used it creatively to analyse new problems. |
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Rather than lose a valuably trained doctor we have gained a professional who has learnt a painful lesson. |
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He learnt music first with his father, leader of the Gewandhaus Orchestra, then studied in Leipzig and Munich. |
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They crush grains, they allow grains of different sorts to flow from hoppers and it's an area in which there is still a lot to be learnt. |
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He adds that he is no longer a dreadful student, has letters after his name, and has learnt a useful lesson from his North Sea mishap. |
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Their author has evolved into a prose sophisticate, and clearly learnt some important lessons along the way. |
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Attitudes are learnt through observation of those in relative power or seniority. |
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Ormond Square was my first training ground, where I learnt my craft and developed a love for the beautiful game that I still have. |
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The Leader of the House is saying that the Minister did not have enough time to discover on what date he learnt a piece of information. |
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Outside medicine he became a first division bridge player, learnt to speak Spanish, and played golf and tennis. |
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But the things that I learnt during the year have resulted in me getting the jobs I have had since. |
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In Poussin's later treatment of the same subject at the Washington National Gallery, the Cretans have learnt more sense. |
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Many pedestrians have learnt not to rely on the pedestrian phase even if there is one. |
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Whenever I used new words and expressions in my poems, my teacher would ask where I learnt them from. |
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About 135 km into the day, I learnt another valuable definition in the lexicon of cycling language. |
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They learnt how to keep it for quite a long time by building ice houses, with a dome, which looked like igloos. |
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Ever since I learnt about cities and transport planning, I realised that the real villains in urban chaos are personal vehicles. |
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Thanks to the Grassington Festival I have learnt to build dry stone walls in limestone as he would have done. |
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He has also learnt sign language and can now sign 30 words and speak them clearly. |
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Eventually they learnt to leave a full bucket of water outdoors until it had frozen solid and then hollow out the block of ice. |
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In this process they learnt to use power drills, hack saws and soldering irons. |
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The men at the resort all looked apprehensively at this glow and we learnt that a forest fire was headed towards our resort. |
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She was a natural linguist and learnt Latin, Italian and English and studied their literatures. |
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Seven years later, he learnt the author was a pastry cook who catered for the ball, and won Elvira's hand. |
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Having gardened for a living since 1977, I have learnt to respect the individual weather characteristics of every month. |
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One would hope that the lessons had been learnt from these experiments in social engineering and urban redesign, but the signs are not good. |
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I missed out on a couple of the facts I'd learnt last night, which would have been good to throw in to round things out. |
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His death came as a shock, followed by anger when you learnt of the circumstances. |
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From that, what I have learnt is never to be ashamed of saying you're sorry. |
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Hall's pieces are pastoral, evoking the chirrup of birds who have learnt the song of car alarms, and the grunt of a badly maintained bus. |
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The fact he then learnt in a couple of weeks, but simply won't read books today, is an illustration of lost opportunity. |
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During this time Peter learnt to speak French and this was the beginning of his love affair with Europe. |
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However, I've learnt from my experiences and my hurts, and I've come to the conclusion that I want to try something different. |
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My brother taught me a thing or two, the rest I learnt from magazines and tapes. |
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Then my subconscious mind taught my conscious mind how to use the tricks it had learnt. |
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He gives what today is called Pascal's triangle, up to the sixth row, saying that he learnt it from her treatise. |
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My first car, the one I learnt to drive in, was an NSU Prinz with no synchromesh between first and second. |
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It was from her that he learnt ballet, tap, ballroom, Hawaiian, Tahitian, Spanish, jazz and baton-twirling. |
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He has been elevated through the ranks perhaps too quickly, has not learnt parliamentary procedures, and is struggling in his jobs. |
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I learnt that someone from my past who I thought liked me in fact hates my guts with a passion. |
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Since then almost 30 years have passed and it is learnt that the control of parasitic diseases require sustained efforts from all partners. |
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But as investors in such firms have learnt this year, the sector is not as risk averse as had been widely perceived. |
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That afternoon we learnt to fillet and skin fish and make a brandade and haricot bean soup with truffle oil. |
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When he learnt of a valuable Baltic convoy carrying timber and tar for shipbuilding due into port, he waited to ambush it off Scarborough. |
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The German tribes had already learnt to fight mounted in heavy armour from the Sarmatians. |
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Indeed, there is much to be learnt from the Brigadier in terms of drifting and baits and chum. |
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I've learnt a lot from it, for example my posture is better and I walk with some sassiness in my step! |
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I learnt to make choux pastry which has always defeated me up until now, and you take home your efforts. |
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Even if he didn't he would have learnt his lesson, assuming he had the brains to understand what it all meant. |
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She looks up to you as her friend, philosopher and guru, because she was an untrained singer and has learnt so much from you. |
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But we never learnt Finnish so that is what my parents talked when they didn't want us to know what they were saying. |
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At school in the old days, we had scab duty, and you soon learnt not to mess up. |
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I have learnt a lot about effective teamwork in split geographical locations. |
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There is little which suggests that experience of Paduan teaching transformed the medical outlook he would have learnt from Cambridge doctors. |
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Many girls, which I have learnt over the years are a complete tease, complete show offs and most of all just seem to want our money. |
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Her smile wavered a teensy bit, the kind of tiny movement that I had learnt to determine in Ali's smiles. |
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Once having learnt to scavenge carcasses, the classic piranha feeding behaviour could have followed soon after. |
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David learnt of the organisation when backpacking around Romania and saw the work that they were doing and was keen to help. |
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He caught several fish, learnt a lot about the fish, the flies and when to use surface fished popper, floating flies or sunk flies. |
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He learnt by his mistakes by forgetting last season's infatuation with the flat backline and by not overtraining his players this time. |
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It is evident that school-leavers who haven't learnt to think for themselves are going to be in trouble. |
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The chauvinists were enraged, but it seemed a pretty straightforward description of where they learnt and played the bulk of their cricket. |
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By 60, you've learnt to think the unthinkable and, even better, to say the unsayable. |
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He was from Barker, she learnt, forced to go to the private school much like she was, sharing her hatred for the snobs of their area. |
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Secondly I have learnt that I am an unusual practitioner in a city context as I have many strings to my bow. |
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Parents, students and teachers should be free to determine what is learnt and employers and society should be free to pass judgement thereon. |
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A life of poverty, tradition and religious dread suffuses songs steeped in misery and learnt by word of mouth. |
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They also learnt not to worry about quiet times in the summer as the winter season is so busy. |
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He learnt a great deal about the sufferings, the courage and the strengths of the East European churches. |
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The government and secret services don't appear to have learnt their lesson from that saga, but then are you surprised? |
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At Heathrow where there was a tight security blanket on information it was learnt that the crew were staying at the Europa Hotel. |
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One trick I have learnt is to put some bulbs at the bottom of the container so they flower in spring. |
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But the practicalities of measured judgement and well-timed decisions and deals can, they argue, be learnt and well cultivated. |
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He also learnt about cartographic techniques, that is the ability to go and chart coasts of new lands. |
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Sitting down in a chair, I focused my eyes and senses on your face and learnt the lessons of beauty. |
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Having learnt Western music at an early age, you would except this London bred lad to be slightly low on Hindi music. |
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He began life in a violent way but has learnt to channel that physical violence into creative energy. |
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We learnt that the two were made from the same variety of grapes called Chardonnay. |
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Henry learnt to play chess at a young age and soon became interested in chess problems. |
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He learnt over 10,000 proverbs by memorising them as his father, S. Parasuraman, read out from various Tamil books. |
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In 1788 Gauss began his education at the Gymnasium, where he learnt High German and Latin. |
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I've learnt a huge amount from Geoff since we contested the Cambrian Rally and I'm very positive that we can have an excellent year. |
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Sessions are timetabled for practising skills learnt during the teaching session. |
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Perhaps we may consider joint marketing with the Carib Girls from Trinidad, after all we have learnt from the Bajans that if you can't beat them, make joint bids. |
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I learnt to build walls, and I learnt why I should knock them down. |
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In Egypt he learnt of a water clock and later introduced it into Greece. |
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This workshop was the first phase of a training programme in which the kids learnt how to create expressions, actions and movements of characters. |
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The driver learnt his lesson and whenever ticketless passengers tried to board later in the journey he sent them packing and drove off without them. |
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Lessons are well planned and build well on what pupils have learnt before. |
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I have learnt the correct forms of address for archdukes and archbishops. |
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I learnt a lot about people and dignity when the chips are down and this started my interest in helping people plan their careers and achieve a measure of survivability. |
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But every British household had a khansama who learnt to fashion, out of local ingredients, the porridges, pies and pastries that were now required. |
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As this person says, if you learnt to type using an old-fashioned typewriter, you hit the keyboard hard, and it knackers normal keyboards in a matter of months. |
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Attractive single mother Loretta has obviously suffered sexual abuse from her alcoholic father and has learnt to use bodily charms to manipulate susceptible males. |
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He has learnt that the secret is to keep reinventing yourself. |
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I learnt this word from a rewatch of Pirates of the Caribbean. |
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She made it to the show's semi-finals with her professional dance partner, having learnt to dance the waltz, foxtrot, samba, rumba, jive and quickstep among others. |
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Katrina, who has loved dancing since she was five, says she has learnt Irish, ballet and modern dancing but has discovered a real passion for line dancing. |
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From the arid climate of the Sahara to the cold wastes of Siberia, man has learnt how to cope in a wide variety of ways with the effects of the atmosphere. |
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I do not know what he was involved in, because I had lost touch with him, but I learnt he was gunned down in an encounter in Baroda early into his career in crime. |
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This I would not dispute, although the direction of Low Latin grammar would indicate that the lesson was only partially learnt by the Romans who admired him. |
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I've long ago learnt that the breed I encountered today is atypical. |
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As our power of resistance has got exhausted, we have shun our frustration, and learnt the enviable and saintly art of satisfaction, stoicism and endurance. |
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He seemed such a beautiful and troubled person, so talented, I'm glad I learnt that he was also a fantastic artist as well as lyricist and song writer. |
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And as returning officers have learnt over the years, only a fool would stand up to announce an official result without checking first with the tallyman. |
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Yet he's also studied jazz and Indian music and learnt to play the sarod, so his band achieves a curious rapprochement between world-jazz and heads-down, no-nonsense boogie. |
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I learnt how to make saucisson, cure ham and make a good black pudding. |
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As we have learnt from other countries such as Canada, America, and Australia, a timely burn is highly appropriate as long as the area is not burnt every few years. |
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As the site is a protected scheduled monument, work will progress at a carefully managed pace to ensure as much as possible can be learnt about the site. |
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For example, an experienced ticket checker would have unconsciously learnt to look for telltale signs to correctly identify a ticketless traveller. |
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I have learnt I like Spanish reds, particularly Tempranillos. |
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Back in England, Sam learnt that the original matchbox had been retrieved, 20 years after its loss, by a farmhand who had found it while ploughing a field that very morning. |
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Initially the birds vanished from the countryside, as farmers learnt how to farm more efficiently and tougher hygiene rules led to the sealing of barns and grain stores. |
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The lessons had been learnt and, through enlightened policies, respect for national sovereignty and the mediation of the United Nations, peace would prevail. |
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However, for Melanesians, few of whom have learnt English as their first language, the text in this book would be, in some places, unnecessarily impenetrable. |
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At the age of 6 or 7 I'd say I started the music, my mother had one of those little melodions and we finished up tearing that to pieces but we learnt to play the music on it. |
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The participants also learnt that tilling their land every season was a bad practice which led to poor yields as the soil's chemistry and physics were destabilised. |
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I already have good time management skills that I've learnt this year. |
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I know that many people around the world remember my son, many health professionals have learnt from our choices. |
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What typifies the modern commune is the fact that it has learnt from earlier mistakes. |
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Equally at ease with singing in Punjabi, Hindi, Gujarati, Bhojpuri and even Arabic, Harjeet says he learnt to survive early on in his career by never saying no. |
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The way in which the senior consultant dealt with his junior doctor was helpful in that it shifted the focus onto what could be learnt from the error. |
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It is to be hoped that this miscreant youth has learnt his lesson. |
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Their solution was to require all students to spend a semester in an automobile repair shop, so that they learnt to use their hands in diverse ways. |
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Participants learnt about binocular vision, and its role in being able to estimate distances and differentiate between dissimilar elements in the foreground and background. |
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Way back in the mists of time, the fact that we could interact with so much of the world meant that we learnt more about how to use it to our advantage. |
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Even if you were raised in a single-parent family, you'll have learnt from the relationships your parent was in, or developed expectations about what being alone is like. |
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Despite the lessons learnt from Thredbo, the New South Wales Government is pushing ahead with more ski resort development in the National Park at Perisher. |
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Apart from mountain biking on Vitosha, he learnt to ski here and has enjoyed two winter sports seasons, although he nearly broke his knee last year. |
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They've learnt to band together in secret underground groups, occasionally breaking out to form pressure groups demanding action against prejudice and misguided legislation. |
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We live in a nanny state, it's about time we learnt to help ourselves. |
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After initial shyness and plenty of cajoling by the visitors who plunged into the crowd, a few volunteered to go on stage and learnt to swing like the natives of the island. |
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I was lucky that I learnt English and Ndebele pretty much simultaneously. |
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Anandakrishnan also learnt to click pictures with a box camera. |
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Farm owner Jeff Marshall used the heart massage and mouth-to-mouth techniques he had learnt to save newborn calves and lambs to bring the youngster back to life. |
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While scholars pondered the divine nature of light, other more humble sorts like sailors, artists and surveyors learnt to use light for practical purposes. |
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An immigrant buffeted by war and with little formal education, he learnt his trade as an intern before marching out on his own as a photojournalist. |
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I learnt this as a junior spin doctor for a minor political party. |
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From a personal point of view the case note viva was the most traumatic part as I learnt that I can make simple mistakes that I would not expect a junior doctor to make. |
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When he first entered Parliament he learnt his speeches by heart. |
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The Times has learnt that the Government has, for the first time in a general election, invited international observers to monitor the last week of the campaign. |
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Painters acquired the styles of Degas and Toulouse-Lautrec as effortlessly as industrialists learnt the secrets of Jacquard looms and steam hammers. |
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We learnt the hard way that being rude to colleagues is no way to behave. |
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It's a conditioned reflex learnt in the pubs of south Wales, where he'd catch beer bottles thrown at him by angry boyfriends and disarm them with a grin and a glug. |
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Along with most of the group, I have finally learnt how to catnap. |
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In squads they learnt how to obey orders instinctively, and to react to a single word of command, by coping with a torrent of abuse from the drill sergeants. |
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Eight months after having learnt this elusive skill, I have a tough hide. |
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As they pulled and twisted the cotton in the charkha, the children learnt to weave in threads and also became familiar with stories centred on it. |
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Being in a beauty pageant has always appeared to be about good looks and I used to be a detractor but I've learnt that you need to back up the beauty with brains. |
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But I had learnt from a young age that travelling around the state in mules with little ribbons stuck to them and a cotton housedress was a painful and cold trek. |
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He has learnt to play the percentages, and is a better golfer for it. |
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His formative student years were spent in Paris as a pupil of d' Indy at the Schola Cantorum, though he learnt more from the impressionism of Debussy and Ravel. |
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The Mayor s objectives for future support for London Pride and what lessons can be learnt for any other large-scale community events. |
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In the cycle training, we learnt the rules of the road and what it would be like to be on the road when we are older. |
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Napoleon learnt of that affair and a letter he wrote about it was intercepted by the British and published widely, to embarrass Napoleon. |
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He learnt his cricket with the Humphry Davy Grammar School and Penzance Cricket Club. |
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If you asked her where she learnt them, she would only laugh, her body shaking with laughter like jhow grass swaying in the wind. |
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Important lessons about ship design, damage control and ship construction materials were learnt from the conflict. |
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Very short sighted, he got a friend to tell him the sight test, and then learnt it by heart. |
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There he learnt Swahili and Italian, and made friendships with some of the Italian prisoners which he would maintain in after years. |
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You can't assume that someone else will call an ambulance. I learnt that the hard way after crashing my bike. |
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When he learnt that Louis had divided his army, William Marshal gambled on defeating the rebels in a single battle. |
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Thomas learnt the Welsh language at age 30, too late in life, he said, to be able to write poetry in it. |
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Both her parents were native Welsh speakers, yet she was brought up speaking English and learnt Welsh only as an adult. |
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Hughes became close to the family and learnt a lot about wildlife from Wholly's father, a gamekeeper. |
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I wish I had, for I might have learnt from it something of the kind of man he was. |
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The former Red Hand Commando prisoner William Smith learnt the language whilst in jail. |
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Charles learnt the usual subjects of classics, languages, mathematics and religion. |
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Robert learnt to play the flute, which he played during services at the local parish church. |
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Oratory was an art to be practiced and learnt, and good orators commanded respect. |
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Ecakyr later learnt that the woman and her family are defrauder and three more men were deceived by the family so far. |
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If I'd had a dartboard at school I might have learnt maths so that subtraction was second nature. |
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Two years later Jones, having learnt Sanskrit, revealed India's cultural elevation though the revolutionary upthrust of comparative philology. |
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Ruby, a pupil at Rice Lane Primary School, has learnt how to deal with Holly's suction tube and tracheostomy. |
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The club was organised by students who had learnt the game while at public schools in Great Britain. |
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There are certainly many, new features to be learnt about the microworld and which quantum mechanics can inform about. |
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The concept of mixing pathos with slapstick was learnt from Karno, who also used elements of absurdity that became familiar in Chaplin's gags. |
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Maya sadly said that her husband director Ehab Lamei and her learnt the news after going for a routine sonogram 22 weeks into her pregnancy. |
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Only on the hypothesis that what is learnt in one generation is remembered by the next, can there be any feeling of againness or of expectancy. |
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Jebali visited the offices of Telnet technocentre and learnt about models of Tunisian companies operating in the high tech sector. |
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The JD-U is learnt to be pressing for settling the issue of chief ministership first before starting the seat-sharing talks among its allies. |
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In the first part of the event, they learnt about code writing, had to generate animated figures and solve brain-teasers. |
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Lessons can be also learnt from how telcos secured their public-switched telephone networks from phreakers. |
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This pickiness I've learnt through experience, because I've done some bad gigs, people. |
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You need to evolve as a human being first, like I did when I went for a scriptwriting course and learnt baking. |
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The children learnt all about the history of space travel and rocket building in sessions led by real rocket scientists. |
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After his release by Wasps we were looking for a ball carrier but he didn't need to convince me he had learnt his lesson. |
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