| But the eviction is just the first step towards rebuilding community spirit, which has been ruined by a plague of anti-social behavior. |
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| The fun of seeing the scammers get scammed and double-crossers double-cross each other is ruined by the nastiness of the characters' behaviour. |
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| It has now been proved beyond doubt and some people have had their reputations ruined as a result. |
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| They slashed trailer tyres, drilled holes through the hulls of boats and ruined the expensive protective covers. |
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| Spanish whistle-blower Ana Garrido tells James Badcock how exposing murky deals in the ruling Popular Party ruined her life. |
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| His fuss over something possibly quite trivial ruined her skim-milk flat white. |
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| Matty Graham's New Year's Eve was ruined after he was dealt a sucker punch during a beer-fuelled bash. |
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| The places chosen for these unorthodox interments were often sites of ancient churches or graveyards, or of ruined abbeys etc. |
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| The grass is being ruined by the vans and lorries and by the travellers' quad bikes. |
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| I overdosed on both prescription and over-the-counter drugs, abused alcohol and ruined my liver, and can't tolerate any drugs now. |
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| The allegations of child sexual abuse and molestation ruined the lives of some teachers, who were wrongfully accused. |
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| The ruined city of Vakith stood deserted, but the distant memory of children playing or merchants peddling their wares echoed in Drakas' ears. |
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| I drove down streets that once teemed with life and now are ruined wastelands. |
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| On the acropolis is a smaller walled-in area where a ruined Byzantine chapel lies over the foundations of the Temple of Athena. |
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| It's a shame that a match between two well matched sides like this has been ruined. |
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| As their ruined villas attest, the Romans went to Brioni, an island in the Adriatic off the coast of Croatia. |
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| A childhood toy the loved one whimsically lent to you, to evoke innocent days before they grew up, met you, and ruined your life. |
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| It's rather a good speech, ruined by his quite astonishingly poor delivery. |
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| Others claim that the greater affordability of skiing means that the slopes are now being ruined by a torrent of reckless boarders and skiers. |
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| After the British evacuated, patriots returned to ruined properties and a city ravaged by fires. |
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| No more than a shell, it sits almost apologetically, ruined by the ravages of time. |
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| Eric said the water ruined their electronic wizzo till, affected the overhead lights and doused the cigarette and sweet stock. |
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| Jeff takes them to the ruined house where the last lot disappeared and where the real witch was supposed to have been murdered. |
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| Hark looks on aghast at his ruined production, but snaps out of it when the audience responds with a standing ovation. |
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| Hay waiting to be baled may have to remain in the windrow for a week and can virtually be ruined for feeding to heavy milking cows, if rained on. |
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| It seemed to me that this necessarily complex structure was ruined beyond recall. |
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| Builders will be tackling the ruined presbytery, repairing windows and reconstructing the roof. |
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| Naismith was recruited into the army at the start of World War I, but suffered gassing in the trenches which ruined his health. |
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| A landlord and landlady today told of the battle to prevent their pub being ruined by flood water. |
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| The dinner ruined, Colonel Everson and the wizard repaired to the smoking-room to light their calming pipes. |
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| The gym hall was strewn with sobbing lassies, their lives ruined, their confidence shattered by human error. |
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| Instead, the aging amtracs are negotiating mine fields of urban detritus, swimming through ruined neighborhoods six feet beneath the fetid water. |
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| In the cab were three Mexican kids and a skinny Anglo from town wearing ruined Lee jeans, a dust-covered denim shirt, and a humongous cowboy hat. |
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| So why did the visual quality have to be ruined by unreasonable reliance on slow motion and constant fades? |
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| Government officials stole relief money assigned to rebuild ruined rice terraces and then local authorities attempted to levy a tax on villagers. |
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| Shakespeare probably ruined my social life at this school also, for all I know. |
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| Without it, York's historical fabric would have been ruined and its retail heart irreparably damaged. |
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| Names are established, reputations ruined, narcissism runs riot and lives are changed forever. |
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| Her stockings are ruined and a rivulet of blood trickles from one of her knees. |
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| Fears were being expressed that the occasion might be ruined by people falling out of pubs and rolling drunk into the graveyard. |
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| Angry householders have claimed the historic look of their community is being ruined by the removal of cobblestones. |
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| In one such living quarters one end of the building is ruined and reclaimed by the vigorous growth of the rainforest. |
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| Here, too, there was a tendency to remodel ruined buildings and convert them into more modest structures, often using perishable materials. |
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| He says the soldiers systematically demolished the village and ruined the surrounding land. |
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| Although partly ruined, largely due to the bombardment by Morozini in 1687, it still fills the visitor with admiration and awe. |
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| The landslides of September 19 destroyed their farms, killed their livestock, and ruined their land. |
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| There was nothing left, nothing, no ruined buildings, no burned farmland, no bodies. |
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| Like the homes of most people from the Davidson Street basin, her house is ruined. |
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| In summer roosts have been found in caves, lime kilns and ruined buildings especially those with open roofs. |
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| Businesses and houses were ruined as torrential rain caused water levels to rise to record levels. |
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| In the Poland sequence, giant ruined industrial buildings, looking straight out of the 19th century, loom among the hills. |
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| If she didn't let him, he'd go to Uncle Luther, and then she'd be done for sure, her big break would be ruined. |
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| His parents were working on a billion dollar assignment, when John sabotaged everything, and ruined their reputations. |
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| I rocked back on my heels and pretended to be offended, though the effect was probably ruined by the badly suppressed grin on my face. |
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| We do not want to see our bio-diversity destroyed and our farmers ruined because of corporate bio-terrorism. |
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| Braddock had all his money tied up in stocks and the crash left him ruined. |
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| He was much in demand for occasional music but died in poverty, ruined by his attempts to find the philosopher's stone. |
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| And in a place where the rivers are running dry, and the harvest has been ruined by drought, the specter of starvation is looming ever larger. |
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| If my memory serves, he had ruined his stomach with rotgut whiskey, and had taken to drinking his rye with milk. |
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| Bathed in the red glow of the darkroom safelight, Ian McDonald was staring hard at a ruined photograph. |
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| His reputation was ruined by his authentication of a forged 60-volume diary. |
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| But they sandbagged her, so the last thing she was going to do was take insults from the man who almost ruined her career. |
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| One bomb destroyed a truck carrying troops, and the other went off in a ruined church where the survivors took cover. |
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| There were heart-wrenching tales from families whose innocent lives he had ruined and scarred forever. |
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| He transplanted much of his tenantry to found a dairy farm in 1842, only to return home, ruined, in the following year. |
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| The street is the latest in Swindon where normal life has been ruined by the scourge of anti-social behaviour. |
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| Meanwhile, those few who had managed to scramble ashore were sheltering below a ruined Turkish fort. |
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| If their horse finishes anywhere near the good ones, his handicap mark will be ruined and he could go two seasons without winning another race. |
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| In 1971, rain ruined a test match being played between Australia and England in Melbourne, but the weather was fine on the last scheduled day. |
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| They quickly offer their apologies, and hope and pray that their careers are not ruined. |
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| The floor was left bare because floor coverings would have been ruined by tobacco spit. |
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| Does he walk the townships with bodyguards on all sides, stopping to step inside ruined basements and first floors? |
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| C Jason Kendall is healthy again after a thumb injury ruined his 2001 season. |
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| I want to walk along a tropical beach at sunset or ramble through a ruined temple at sunrise. |
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| They're still waiting, in part because his 1998 season was ruined when he was beaned at midseason, and then he struggled with his confidence. |
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| The branch-cutting of oaks that was common everywhere meant that good timber was ruined. |
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| Production lines were left blackened and charred, hundreds of tonnes of ingredients were ruined. |
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| The River Ouse above York had risen to seven feet above normal after midweek thunderstorms and ruined the annual first Sunday open. |
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| The plan has some in the community worried that the forests and steep trails will be ruined. |
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| Others are probably wondering why I'm going on about my life being shattered and ruined. |
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| Nothing has ruined more trips than choosing uncompanionable companions to travel the wilderness with. |
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| Built by the Guptas, this ruined, but well-conserved, temple was reputedly the first northern Indian temple with a shikhara or spire. |
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| I eventually had surgery, but the doctors had misdiagnosed me, and they permanently ruined my feet. |
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| He suggested that football could be ruined, for many, if a small group of clubs monopolised all the talent. |
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| Maybe inserting a monosyllable here would have ruined the poetic symmetry of his sentence. |
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| Rabbits in particular almost ruined the grazing industry down here in the period from the twenties to the fifties. |
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| The people are still poor and miserable, and the land ruined, and the elegance Monseigneur lived in has been stamped out completely. |
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| Carry on between fields to a ruined building and a signpost indicating the way on to Lady Mary's Walk. |
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| The mountainous county has become a natural habitat for boars and owls, yet crops there have also been ruined by them. |
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| Just how cold and uncaring her father was for that one moment in time had ruined her forever. |
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| The only sounds we could hear were the blustering wind, and fluttering paper pressing against ruined hedges and walls. |
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| Ryiron got off from the ruined skywalk and didn't know what to say to his buddy. |
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| A major skyway nearby had been shattered completely, the ruined cars forming a junkyard at the bottom of the long drop. |
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| A group of teens had their planned weekend away ruined when a murder of crows inexplicably smashes into their car, causing them to crash. |
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| The court sentenced to ten years hard labour a ruined Bonapartist found guilty of having set fire to his house. |
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| The environment is gradually being ruined by sloppy and haphazard planning. |
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| This is the third successive match now that he has come, played like a slowpoke and ruined India's runrate. |
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| A young girl thinks it will never come, though when it does, things will be ruined and things unmeant may be said. |
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| The hull breach had contaminated the galley stores and ruined most of the unpreserved food. |
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| The strongest physical characteristics may be ruined if the surroundings are unwholesome and unsanitary. |
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| The object of these Sovfilm productions was to celebrate an unvanquished popular spirit emerging from ruined buildings and lives. |
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| It was freezing and I had to walk home my little grey silk lined shorts soaking wet and ruined. |
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| At a moment when Smith fears she is ruined, she seeks solace and comfort from a clergyman. |
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| She landed in a crouch, her night vision momentarily ruined by the candle's brief light. |
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| In hot, dry areas, salt build-up in reservoirs has led to saline waters that ruined farmland. |
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| Many a good black and white bullseye was temporarily ruined by the melting sweet sticking to the paper. |
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| Angels first baseman Mike Epstein ruined North's plan by reaching the bunt before Lange. |
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| Taksin's force took the ruined city after most of the defenders, Thai troops pressed into the service of the Burmese, defected. |
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| On the actual broadcast, voice-overs and promos pretty much ruined the piece. |
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| He was taking cover behind the ruined console, so he could avoid their first volley of bullets. |
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| Residents say the area was once a peaceful place to live, but has been ruined by unruly youths. |
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| The agency has also agreed to rehabilitate ruined public buildings where nearly 800 families are squatting. |
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| The first time I had a Vietnamese fresh roll, it ruined the lugubrious, cabbagy egg roll for me forever. |
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| Then the great depression of the 1930s ruined the economy and Prince Industries' stock took a plummeting nosedive. |
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| The medieval view had it that comets were signs of a ruined world that has fallen into sin. |
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| But remarkably, the new coral takes only a few years to establish itself on the heaps of ruined staghorn coral. |
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| A soldier found some calfskin boots for her, but those became ruined after a short march through the mud that was sometimes knee deep. |
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| America became the numero uno superpower once Europe had ruined itself through war. |
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| Chalk Richard Lewis up as another statistic on the list of people who have ruined their lives through illegal drug use. |
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| A gap appeared, and soon became a gulf, when modern industry arose in the West and when imperial conquest ruined many traditional handicrafts. |
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| Passion for revelation, lighting fires in the minds, will be ruined by cross-cultural carping. |
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| Someone on high must have decided that we've had more than our fair share of ruined bank holidays. |
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| The league is literally ruined when one team stomps the competition game after game. |
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| A terminally-ill teenager was left heartbroken when thieves ruined what could be her last Christmas. |
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| However, what stood before me ruined all chances of a catnap and my imagination was back in action. |
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| In their wake, the giant auto concerns leave behind an industrial wasteland of mass unemployment, ruined infrastructure and social decay. |
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| Here they find a mysterious island where their father has a metal strongbox buried in a ruined outhouse. |
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| He is a passionate defender of the noble art of genre film-making, something he feels was ruined by spendthrift Hollywood studios. |
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| Out in the ruined west of the city, where most of the film was shot, the traffic jams that clog the centre thin out. |
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| The first mission of the Stalingrad set has you crossing the Volga towards the ruined city while being strafed by Stuka dive bombers. |
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| The now ruined Spofforth Castle was the base he established in the area and would have had a chantry chapel for private family worship. |
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| Or a program text might be ruined by alteration of a critical subprogram that makes the program as a whole useless. |
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| He wrote five characters on each fan which made the woman angry because she thought all the fans had been ruined. |
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| I can't tell you how many times I've had races ruined by people giving me an elbow to the face or a hand to the hip disguised as an arm swing. |
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| I feel hopeless now and I don't want my life ruined just because I have not enough cash. |
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| The field has been ruined, the grass has been churned up into mud, there are piles of rubbish everywhere and it's not even been bagged. |
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| I know much of the country is focused on New Orleans, Louisiana, but parishes outside of New Orleans have been ruined. |
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| And the findings will try to clear the name of the warship's commander whose career was ruined by a subsequent court martial. |
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| Eventually, I made our excuses and took her home, worried that I had ruined yet another woman's life with my clumsy social skills. |
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| You're paying for my ugly and out-of-date penny loafers, by the way, since you've ruined them. |
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| In 1625, he leaves prison banished in perpetuity, his health ruined and his spirit broken. |
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| They find themselves on a stark, dead planet surrounded by a ruined landscape and petrified flora and fauna. |
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| They carefully picked their way down the ruined staircase and into the basement floor. |
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| The head is welded directly to the shaft, so if the pick breaks, the tool is ruined. |
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| The once fertile land of Egypt is now being ruined by the proliferation of brick, stone and concrete. |
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| Any attempt to finagle with the formula would have ruined the simplicity of its basic premise. |
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| Farmers were ruined and indebted as a consequence of war and the passage of troops. |
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| Then he went and ruined a good conspiracy theory, by explaining that it was a note so that two similar reports didn't get confused. |
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| New Orleans city officials say the threat of their flooded, ruined city being consumed by fires is worsening by the hour. |
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| Other residents expressed fears that the village's character would be ruined and house values would plummet. |
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| There is a ruined former railway cottage on the property with potential for further development. |
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| Isolated and ruined, it sits on 1000 acres of windswept, forbidding land, and is the quintessential haunted house. |
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| The boy was smartly dressed in formalwear for the occasion but the effect was ruined by his messy sandy hair. |
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| Agricultural officials estimate that 150,000 hectares of paddy rice cultivation has been ruined. |
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| A common current myth about American English is that it is being ruined by mass media. |
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| Instead of a pristine home, the prince was being met by the reek of dampness and ruined walls and flooring. |
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| I also discovered that my nails will be ruined, as they have glued the extensions directly on to them, rather than onto a layer of gel. |
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| Brian made a lot of money and feared that if the truth got out, he'd be ruined, so he did the next best thing. |
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| If pro-life activists get their way and abortion is once again made illegal, my life along with many others could be ruined. |
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| He ruined her with his empty, broken promises and his declarations of imaginary friendship. |
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| A dim line of light gleams from its surface across the building's ruined ceiling. |
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| One prothonotary warbler does not make a May Day, but Shakespeare has bare ruined choirs full of them. |
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| I'm sorry I ruined your hair, but it will be good as new in no time, you'll see. |
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| They've ruined our economy, apparently seized our oil and desecrated our sacred sites and our museums. |
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| Twain, one of the great puffers, tried to give up smoking but found that it ruined his work. |
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| The wounded creature snarled and sprang away, leaving me to lie and pule in my ruined body. |
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| Another utterly gorgeous morning here, ruined only by the fact that I'd rather not be working. |
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| If it were, say puromycin, the results of half the lab would be ruined for a year. |
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| Caste has ruined the Hindu race and has destroyed, demoralised and devitalised Hindu society. |
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| He was grousing about classical music compilations and how they ruined the intent of the original composer. |
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| It's funny, in a way, at least if you overlook the fact that people's lives are being ruined so that he can grub a few more votes. |
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| Two disgraced employees recount how their lives were ruined when they stole from their employers. |
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| The action takes place almost entirely in his house, and on a ruined wall overlooking a lake. |
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| Her sari was torn, her hair straggling, her fingernails ruined. |
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| The former owner of the small firm that closed down had just started a new business, vowing never to be a sole trader again because it rather ruined her own lifestyle. |
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| It was the terrain displayed, the same ruined city, that first gave it away, but then he began to see players dressed in assorted street garments with red bandanas. |
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| The script writer and director ruined the ending of the movie for me. |
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| Cal leaves a wake of broken hearts and ruined lives behind him. |
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| Armed with 18th century maps he showed me the straggle of ruined cottages once occupied by poor country folk who worked for a pittance on local farms. |
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| When I got home from school that afternoon I got the third degree from my father about how I had ruined his reputation as a minister and how I had ruined my own life. |
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| Killigrew's original play aimed to demonstrate the brutishness of the British Cavaliers as they stormed through other countries and left paths of ruined women in the wake. |
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| I have heard other stories about weddings being ruined because the dress or cake firm or indeed the reception venue imploded on the eve of the happy event. |
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| There is a ruined brass door knocker in the shape of a swan. |
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| Then, the bubble burst and thousands of investors were ruined. |
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| The breakup ruined my concentration, my focus, my ambition at the company. |
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| He ruined lives in his quest to dox a Twitter account parodying him. |
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| When food writer Petrit Husenaj went to visit TV food star Ina Garten, he got nervous and ruined a pound cake. |
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| She ruined the scarf she was knitting after dropping a stitch in fright. |
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| Lawrence plays his much younger wife, who is devoted to turning her husband's ruined house into a paradisiac, yet secluded refuge of peace for them both. |
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| We needed Keynesian policies again, which completely ruined my nice rise-and-fall thesis. |
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| The serious message of the film is ruined by the bathos of its ridiculous ending. |
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| He was ruined by megalomania and self-indulgence, but had also been shrewdly disarmed by a society that reduced those who threatened it to harmless buffoons. |
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| In the east of the island there are two ruined cottages, a disused graveyard and the site of a cross and oratory plus several drystone walled fields once used for tillage. |
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| Sometimes the ADS would get in the way of playing, and a perfectly lined up shot would be ruined. |
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| Are you cool with your bracket getting ruined if UCLA wins the national title? |
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| Your misinterpretation of vichyssoise ruined my Bar Mitzvah! |
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| An Easter opening is planned for the new visitor centre, which is built in the ruined shell of a 17th century seat of the Cholmley family and fronted by cobbled garden courts. |
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| It's completely ruined now, there's a bend in it that won't come out. |
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| In any case, questions of that kind would have ruined the Mick Jagger love-in. |
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| I don't know why the pretend face ruined it for me, but it did. |
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| Walk From the north end of the High Street, go left to the bay below the ramparts of the ruined castle, the site of which has been a stronghold since Roman times. |
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| However, Cooke can never really bring himself to see Joplin as ruined by the limelight. |
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| How typical of the mindset which has ruined state education for decades. |
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| He completely ruined the naturalness of candid cinematography by goofily looking into the lens as it filmed each shuffling step of his perambulatory progress. |
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| Did it all just fall apart, ruined by the ravages of time and neglect? |
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| Unfortunately, we don't have a market price on the lives we've ruined with harsh prison sentences. |
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| They've ruined the city's best intersection, probably irreversibly. |
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| Frankly I don't give a whoop about Sony losing a dime from piracy and think they have ruined what is a great hardware product with absolutely terrible software. |
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| Half of the student body's uniforms were ruined, splotched with white from the bleachy water, but there was no way to prove that Michael and Darren had done the crime. |
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| People don't consider that their old farm buildings or the shopfronts in their towns are heritage, but do think that the ruined castle or abbey is. |
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| Haven says high winds ruined her curtains and broke her air conditioner. |
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| Teachers have had their lives ruined by grabbing hold of a misbehaving child. |
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| They blabbed about their time in the desert, became zillionaires and ruined it for everyone who fancied earning a bit more than the king's shilling. |
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| Flipping through chests of used UB40 and Steel Pulse records, I never found any treasure, and the Trustafarians at school had all but ruined Bob for me. |
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| In an exceptional feat of perverse alchemy he has, during his 22 years in office, changed gold into lead and ruined a once relatively prosperous southern African state. |
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| A certain amount of blackberries were kept for jam making but some people mixed apples with the blackberries and ruined the true flavour of the jam. |
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| Even allowing for floweriness of language, that a man could so deeply feel his life ruined and wasted as a result chasing a mathematical proof somehow sets me back in my seat. |
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| In a bizarre but later understandable chain of events, an incident happened in seconds that ruined the lives of four men and ended that of a fifth. |
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| This time at a lower register which is both more commanding and better suited to an auditory range ruined by years placing bets at the dog track at Concreton. |
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| She could easily have ruined his career with a harassment suit but instead chose to just walk away, and he's insisting we reprimand her for doing so. |
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| Here at last is a superhero who not only washes his costume at a cruddy coin-op Laundromat, but has his socks ruined when the red and blue colors of his costume run. |
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| Wiesel suggested that instead of bailing out banks the government should bail out all the nonprofits ruined by the charlatans. |
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| At the very top was a ruined building, outlined against the fading sky. |
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| I loved it, especially when worn with high heeled gold sandals, but the effect of course was utterly ruined by those white ankle socks peeping out from under it. |
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| Each was ruined or wrecked by some aspect of its location that made it unsuitable as a building site. |
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| Well, that really ruined the moment for her especially, and made me feel really horrible for a long time, and caused dirty talk to become a kind of taboo for me. |
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| Why light candles and leave mementos out in the open to be weathered and ruined? |
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| Beyond, the huge jutting tower, crumbled walls and mounded stones of the ruined castle resembled some massive mythical beast dozing at the river's edge. |
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| There are coast paths, too, winding through dwarf willow and mountain ash to ruined villages looking wistfully out to sea, their populations long since departed. |
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| This is a delicate equilibrium balance that can easily be ruined. |
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| Custer reasoned that dragging the guns and ammunition over mountain trails would have decreased his speed and ruined his chances of finding the elusive Sioux. |
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| The roofs have collapsed, the ruined towers, the high gate unbarred, frost in the mortar, the ramparts gaping, rent, fallen, gnawed through by age. |
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| She must have walked for an hour or two, heading nowhere in particular, when she felt a weird, sudden urge to go to the Shambles, a local ruined building, with no roof. |
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| A woman who claims her husband ruined their marriage by bringing in another sister wife will be leading demonstrators at the trial of a polygamist leader this month. |
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| We were ruined a bit by John Calvin or at least, misunderstandings of John Calvin and the Protestant work ethic that developed as a later part of the Reformation. |
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| The central hub of Bondville is the harbour overlooked by fishing cottages and guest houses as well as the great ruined fortress of Portland Castle. |
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| By 1879, his arrogance and conceit having ruined a lucrative relationship with his wealthy patron, Frederick Leyland, Whistler's fortunes were at an all-time low. |
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| I resolutely resisted the temptation to take the easy road and use modern words as loan words in Sumerian, which would have ruined the whole experiment. |
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| Council tenants whose furniture was ruined had to scramble around borrowing beds when there were stocks of camp beds and blankets tucked away for just such an emergency. |
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| Whole villages, ruined by murrains, pests, fires, or raids of new immigrants, were often abandoned by their inhabitants, who went anywhere in search of new abodes. |
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| The defence of a ruined fort in the flyblown town of San Antone, against a superior force of trained Mexican troops, seemed reckless in the extreme. |
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| And what's particularly unforgivable is the way the theme music is ruined. |
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| It notes that most people do not have access to safe water, power failures are frequent and the country's landscape still features ruined buildings. |
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| Last week government officials told the press that more than 120,000 hectares of rice fields had been destroyed and almost 300,000 tonnes of unhusked rice ruined. |
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| If another weekend was ruined for the Fifers' manager by a slipshod performance, his counterpart will hardly be able to wipe the smile off his face. |
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| Two-thirds of the lake is in Montenegro and the other third is in Albania, along with about 50 islands, some with ruined fortalices and monasteries. |
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| Everything wasn't ruined, but his soul had been frayed a little further. |
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| The suspicious white powder that sparked a chemical scare and almost ruined a Hampshire couple's big day is believed to be from a fire extinguisher. |
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| It ruined my last couple of months at gow, because people were constantly making jokes about me and the hooker. |
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| He lay crumpled on a ruined street of a once high class district. |
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| I'm narky because I know that at some point on the journey I'm going to drop the box or the box is going to break and my lovely candles will be ruined. |
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| As he ponders his native state, ruined and under federal occupation, Lee expresses some of the concerns of the unreconstructed agrarian poet seventy years later. |
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| Some people may simply not want to know that that field boundary runs under that ruined mine building, or that the round barrows are intervisible with the stone circle. |
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| Lives have always been ruined by heedless acts, but perhaps not so loudly and thoroughly. |
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| Additionally, I ruined it by spending the entirety of my meal making promises to myself of a tomorrow full of extra situps and a bowlful of lettuce for lunch. |
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| Fairhurst and hirst wore clown costumes, got drunk, and ruined their outfits while making spin paintings. |
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| She believes that Fowler has ruined Phuong's chances for respectable marriage, that her sister is doomed to return to her former life as a taxi dancer. |
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| Thereupon the Russian army moved their headquarters to the far bank and proceeded to bombard, snipe and ambush the Germans throughout the ruined city. |
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| In a story, I suppose I would have slaved away at my school project and it would have been thrown away by my mother or ruined by one of the schoolkids. |
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| But she says the golf course will be ruined after being untended for at least a year, and the Halls Bowling Club captain, 69, says members will have gone elsewhere by then. |
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| Young offenders responsible for vandalising some of Hull's most attractive areas have redeemed themselves by restoring a ruined pavilion in West Park to its former glory. |
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| The old ruined turret and battlements of Brittas House could offer a point of interest which could be exploited but access, etc needs to be addressed. |
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| A few years ago a craze for slenderization swept the United States. The corset industry was ruined. |
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| It was a nightmare working with Peter because he was a terrible giggler and, between my father and Peter's laughter, they ruined dozens of takes. |
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| A very yellow or gold young white wine has probably oxidised and will be flat, ruined and unalcoholic. |
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| I remember a holiday of mine being completely ruined one late autumn by our paying attention to the weather report of the local newspaper. |
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| I am now back to square one with everything in the downstairs of my property ruined. |
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| After a lurid trial, he finally beat the rap, but not before his political reputation was ruined. |
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| The sloganeers of Roti, Kapra and Makan have ruined the lives of people, he said. |
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| In August 1699, the Olive Branch and Hopeful Beginning with 300 settlers arrived in Darien to find ruined huts and 400 overgrown graves. |
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| In 1838 Gladstone nearly ruined his career when he tried to force a religious mission upon the Conservative Party. |
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| In the 21st century the ruined castle is managed by Cadw as a tourist attraction. |
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| The castle comprises a scarp and ditch forming a raised platform and on the north face is a ruined drystone building. |
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| Dolphins also seem to have been important to the Minoans, judging by artistic evidence from the ruined palace at Knossos. |
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| That gloomy spot they spoke of lay aside from the hamlet. In a dell, begirt with firs, you might behold a hut, and various ruined office-houses. |
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| The Napoleonic War left Spain economically ruined, deeply divided and politically unstable. |
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| It made the Ottoman elite contribute to building and rehabilitating the ruined city. |
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| Built in 1707, the now ruined stone building of Windhouse is claimed as the most haunted house in Shetland. |
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| By 1815 the fort had fallen into a ruined state and it wasn't until 1903 that it was sold and improved by its farmer tenants. |
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| The river then flows through Blantyre and Bothwell, where the ruined Bothwell Castle stands on a defensible promontory. |
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| Norwegian acoustic balladeers make songs that are picked up and ruined by mobile phone companies' cinema adverts. |
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| Surdam argues that the blockade was a powerful weapon that eventually ruined the Southern economy, at the cost of few lives in combat. |
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| Tavistock Abbey, also known as the Abbey of Saint Mary and Saint Rumon, is a ruined Benedictine abbey in Tavistock, Devon. |
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| King Charles's Castle is a ruined artillery fort overlooking New Grimsby harbour on the island of Tresco in the Isles of Scilly. |
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| A ruined wall suggests that there was a building there in late Roman times. |
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| They left behind a region largely ruined as a result of wartime exploitation. |
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| Although the state was not a major battleground, the war ruined the economy. |
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| The ruined town was later eclipsed by nearby Murmansk, of which it is now commonly considered to be a satellite. |
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| Ignorance produced a series of blunders that ruined their efforts to find allies. |
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| However, Wilson collapsed midway with a serious stroke that effectively ruined his leadership skills. |
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| Zimbabwe is unusual in Africa in that there are a number of ancient ruined cities built in a unique dry stone style. |
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| The party rapidly declined in popularity and was ruined by the 1918 general election. |
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| From the same starting point it is possible to climb the fell up the north eastern ridge following a ruined dry stone wall. |
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| The top of Lord's Seat is a smooth grassy dome, the summit being marked by the meeting point of ruined fences and a small cairn. |
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| Darcy immediately and departs in haste, believing she will never see him again, since Lydia's disgrace has ruined the family's good name. |
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| I am, like an old rook, who is ruined by gaming, forced to live on the good fortune of the pushing young men. |
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| The school was in sore need of textbooks, theirs having been ruined in the flood. |
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| Bin the close-ups I hope the King George is not going to be ruined by ridiculous close-ups. |
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| But it is at the expense of those whose lives have been ruined by the pederasts the church has shielded. |
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| Worse, it has ruined a generation, turning out chowderheads unfit for real jobs. |
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