You could just see it written all over that ole boy's face that he thought having that big black hat on made him some kind of man. |
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This calls for some kind of experience that leads him to reappraise his self-image and re-evaluate his self-esteem. |
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When the mistral winds blow it is particularly chilly, so a property with some kind of central heating is a necessity. |
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So, right now they're probably going to bring some kind of a vehicle to the airplane. |
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It helps, as it always does with sport, to have some kind of kindred bond with one of the teams, however tenuous that may be. |
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Most of the time the dying children are hidden under their mother's shawls to lend them some kind of dignity. |
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They also showed scenes from some kind of fair in Mongolia with lots of people doing Mongolian wrestling and horse racing. |
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The dancers writhed, wrapped in yards of cloth on top of rostra that made them look like some kind of pole dancer. |
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The culture appears to be undergoing some kind of revival among those who like to express their individuality by dressing alike. |
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Just because you do nice things for people doesn't mean you have to be some kind of wussy pushover. |
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They need some kind of invisible stitching, a dash of the X factor that brings an unyielding aura. |
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Such barriers are some kind of geographic feature which isolates parts of populations, and leads to allopatric speciation. |
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Behave churlishly and rudely, treating everyone you encounter like some kind of moron and generally laying about you with a riding crop. |
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Lots of men in tweeds and their small yappy type dogs engaged in some kind of competition. |
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Don't you think that Katie's open letter at least deserves some kind of response from the almighty corporation? |
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I think I must live in some kind of crazed fantasy land, when I have absolutely NO self awareness whatsoever. |
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A young, female arm slipped round from behind him and removed the dissected remains of what was some kind of fish dish. |
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Mandy was sipping some kind of cold icy like drink while Erik drank down a latte and I swallowed water. |
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The discussion whether they took him seriously or if he was only some kind of exotic amusement for them fills many books. |
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Every day it seems we hear about some kind of incident with an athlete that runs afoul of the law. |
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This provides some kind of explanation for the apparently surprising properties of the laws of nature mentioned above. |
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These residual responses could reflect leakiness of the mutants, redundant olfactory mechanisms, or some kind of nonspecific odorant response. |
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I wish all those kids were doing some kind of composition and improvisation as well, leavening their virtuosity with creativity. |
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I'm not sure if the anti-matter and matter particles annihilating each other produces some kind of energy. |
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At the end, the heroes walk triumphantly into the sunset, while some kind of outdoor PA system announces that the ozone layer came back. |
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The whispering that his attempts to think through a new strategy are inspired by some kind of visceral anti-Americanism is ludicrous. |
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My only quibble is that the piano sounds like it was recorded well and then had some kind of reverberation added later. |
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But there is the possibility here of a civil war or some kind of civil conflict. |
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It's best not to stare at children too hard these days, but listening to them I found myself in some kind of reverie for my own lost youth. |
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It seems odd that the memos were simply typed on blank sheets of paper instead of some kind of letterhead. |
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Every year I've been presented with some kind of opportunity, and each time I've let it slip through my fingers. |
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Does Keighley hide some kind of weapons of mass destruction or is there some other secret that cannot bear the light of day? |
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Everyone else was spread out in a circular patter, behind some kind of cover, covering the rest of us while our weapons were limbered. |
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Canada's three major cities appear to be in some kind of rivalry with one another. |
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I wanted to think this was some kind of dry joke, but 3 years of servile apologetics from some broadcasters prevent me. |
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In an appropriately modernist account, the witnesses claimed that it was clearly propelled by some kind of European technology. |
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His audience is polarised, either denouncing him as a fraud or lionising him as some kind of spiritual leader. |
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Take some kind of lip balm with you because wind and cold weather aren't friendly with lips. |
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You must have cut some kind of figure in Oxford, among the more literary undergraduates anyway. |
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The pleated window night screens could be replaced by some kind of roller blinds which are easier to retract. |
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As the jugs of wine were passed round and the atmosphere grew more ribald, Bligh wondered if this was just going to be some kind of orgy. |
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It was amusing to watch as the band tried everything in their arsenal to garner some kind of response from the crowd. |
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The White Balloon is the first Iranian film to get an art-house cinema release in Australia, which is some kind of milestone. |
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He wore some kind of big baggy silken shirt with long sleeves that almost stretched down to the tips of his fingers. |
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I would have liked to see some kind of rousing, spirit-lifting choreographed song and dance. |
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That Government has already made up its mind to turn right, but needs some kind of rubber stamp to make the decision appear to be democratic. |
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Clerks from both of their firms circled around the trash-talking combatants, as if this were some kind of Wall Street rumble. |
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But let's not run away with the idea that Kevin is some kind of burbling half-wit who shouldn't be trusted to do up his own shoelaces. |
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The majority of the low-cal and light foods we eat contain some kind of artificial sweetener. |
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There seems to be some kind of law that requires presidential campaigns to become asymptotically more trivial as election day approaches. |
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The keyboardist loomed like some kind of elder wizard, clad in ludicrously bright long coats. |
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Indeed, the ones who do it balanced atop a luge are so brave that they probably deserve some kind of counselling to go with the medals. |
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They are still awaiting some kind of atonement for the excesses of the late 1990s and beyond. |
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The guard, who had been speaking frantically into some kind of communicating device, fell like a sackful of potatoes. |
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I then briefly turned my attention to the television and saw that he was watching some kind of war movie. |
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It seems I experienced some kind of tipping point, at which I decided I wanted to learn about other races, rather than wanting to hate them. |
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A job is about selling your labour for money and creating some kind of saleable product for your employer. |
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No sooner had the lights gone out than there were mumblings of sabotage, some kind of conspiracy, foul play, under-hand machinations. |
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All it takes is some kind of security sweep at his job for his past to be uncovered. |
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Giving aid to someone you messed up, with them thinking you are some kind of Samaritan, does not leave you with a good feeling about yourself. |
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But writing it is some kind of automatic process, a direct link among emotion, brain, and typing fingers. |
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Many players believe that the shuffle has some kind of mystical properties which change player advantage. |
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The chattering classes have always thought that public money is some kind of Magic Pudding. |
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Terry rails against Jack's indifference and desperately tries to salvage some kind of relationship from the tangled chaos. |
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But if one is magnetized by works of the imagination derived almost solely from linguistics, Roussel represents some kind of summation. |
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Let me emphasise the point that the establishment of such a society is not some kind of utopian dream. |
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Maybe there was some kind of telepathy she held, where she was able to secretly communicate with his parents. |
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The platform was actually some kind of map to the stars above with thousands of tiny specks of light dotting the dark blue steel. |
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In front of the chair, three black children were on their hands and knees playing some kind of game with marbles. |
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With a terrific bang, he drives the hammer into some kind of post to send it further into the ground. |
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I began to scrabble and fumble around on the floor in search of some kind of weapon. |
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The siblings always get into some kind of scrape or moral dilemma, and there are a lot of siblings to choose from. |
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One idea which has been bandied around recently is some kind of election before anointing Prince Charles. |
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They feel they have to make some worthy comment, treat the city with some kind of moral scrupulousness and say something appropriate. |
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Don't tell me this is masquerading under the guise of some kind of tribute. |
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If anything, it was the epic length of the encounter that turned it into some kind of heavyweight contest for a prize purse. |
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I've never been that materialistic, but I need something, some kind of tool to improve my self-esteem. |
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The enemy evidently knew of the their arrival time and place, erected some kind of barricades, and were in position to ambush the convoys. |
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She had four children, so I mean obviously four times she did have some kind of bodily intimacy. |
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It would be a sad day when we all dropped our cultural identities in favour of some kind of fused oneness. |
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But beyond the glasses, there is the belief that she is on some kind of mission. |
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Another good place to hold some kind of meetup would be Zeitgeist, which has a wonderful beer garden with lots of picnic tables out back. |
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In their search for some kind of self-justification, for a sense of moral purpose, Western elites turned to the international arena. |
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He has developed some kind of megalomania which makes him feel superior to others. |
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Most of the weapons have some kind of targeting laser that looks very cool but it doesn't help getting a bead on a charging zombie. |
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Devices like this were not some kind of semaphore code, but simple, effective images that we could easily respond to. |
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The Duke's a very wise old bean, and his theory is that his better half is regarded as some kind of Ju Ju object. |
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He just looked down at her for a moment and she thought she saw some kind of emotion flicker in and out of his eyes. |
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The piece of metal was then beaten with some kind of hammer, before being put back into the fire. |
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Is this absence of black some kind of sad rebellion being staged within my tiny mind? |
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The implication is that poet-critics are some kind of sensitive plant, and their heads are easily turned. |
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When my husband and I were separating, I helped him move into an apartment because he told me he was having some kind of crisis. |
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The city turned the light sculpture off and pondered whether to protect the sculpture with some kind of plastic or wire mesh covering. |
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He believes that her seraphic new image is down to some kind of medical intervention. |
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The walls and the podiums were made of some kind of shiny metallic, silver alloy. |
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Of course, meths or some kind of strong alcohol-based solution will do the same job. |
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For all I know, you're some kind of hacker, or somebody I know who is yanking my chain. |
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The protruding scimitar handle was bound with some kind of dark twine with a dark stone mounted on the pommel, set in silver. |
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He seemed to be in some kind of cave, the light coming from torches carried by hooded figures in dark robes. |
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Of course, there has to be some kind of love interest, so O'Conner falls for Toretto's sister Mia. |
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People who pray tend to beseech their deity for some kind of enrichment or advancement. |
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They might be basing their charges on some kind of analogy to the cost of the hotel room. |
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Their shapes were not clearly distinguishable, as they were covered by some kind of insubstantial black flame. |
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I usually listen to some kind of dance music or trance music or something that is upbeat and continuous. |
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It must be some kind of transference, so the studio guys think that they're geniuses, too, for discovering them. |
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I'm leaning towards some kind of biography but I have no particular subject in mind. |
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Is such footwear now trendy or is this some kind of tongue-in-cheek statement from the pocket-sized sheila? |
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She shouldn't be giving me any kind of compassion like this, maybe she is trying to play some kind of sick mind game. |
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Make sure you have some kind of honeymoon directly after the wedding, even if it is just a minimoon. |
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He was certain that he would be able to bring about some kind of miraculous treatment method. |
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I remember because there was some kind of earth tremor one night and I fell out of bed. |
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That, given sufficient publicity some kind of audience will appeal for almost any event, no matter how shoddy or potentially immoral. |
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Unless television has steered me wrong all these years, surely being bionic means you become some kind of super human. |
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It's for a fast hat for me, and probably some kind of fingerless mitten to wear at work when it's cold. |
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Now I don't want you thinking I am some kind of moany Englander who can't live without their fish and chips, because that really is not the case. |
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There's a chance you might decide to start to strut around like some kind of hopeless mockney wideboy after you've seen it, though. |
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In fact, it even described how the body was wrapped in some kind of shrink-wrap paper. |
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The two sides have to find some kind of reconciliation, some kind of modus vivendi over time. |
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Without some kind of guide for distinguishing truth from falsehood, we are lost. |
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While that may be a truthful representation of the area, the movie hinges on the idea of the state having some kind of magic that transforms you. |
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Did it give you some kind of sick thrill to write about the little crime spree that you created? |
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As a side issue, would the claimants be entitled to attend the court, and would that then entitle them to some kind of residency status? |
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As a result of these factors there is a strong possibility of some kind of financial turmoil over the coming years. |
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But don't think for a second that the Fed has some kind of monopoly on a situation where rapacity pervades honest reason. |
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I'm sure someone will present me with some kind of horridly boring monotonous work any minute now. |
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The monotonous hum of words out of the undertaker's mouth was slowly lulling my mind into some kind of stasis. |
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He gives some kind of elaborate order in French to one of his Montagnard lieutenants. |
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The image morphed to show a snow covered street, facing some kind of large store. |
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They're made of flat blobs of glass, held together by some kind of soldered metal. |
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The sheer bloodiness of the war and its myriad intimate losses demanded, for the living, some kind of greater meaning. |
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Many different cultures struggled to come up with the means of providing some kind of realistic feedback to such unaccountable leaders. |
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The process of becoming healthy is like some kind of asymptotic aim towards an unachievable end. |
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I was almost trampled by a herd of mouth-breathers, apparently in the grip of some kind of snack frenzy! |
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Was it some kind of situationist art installation designed to highlight the grottiness of the lavatory? |
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My dad had definitely been sizing Mally up as some kind of snow-shovelling helper. |
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Could it be some kind of underhand marketing strategy, designed to get us to max out our credit cards? |
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People usually think that trying to remain undistracted is some kind of deliberate act. |
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Any actual customers had bolted from the place with half eaten whoppers in their hands fearing some kind of massive overthrowing or revolt. |
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Eventually, I ordered salmon flavored with honey and soy and served with some kind of cooked cabbage slaw and rice. |
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I wish she'd told me so I could give her some kind of comfort, but as she'd said, the repercussions were unguessable. |
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Will you admit that you've been treating me like some kind of slot machine? |
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I honestly thought it must be some kind of bootleg recording of one of the acoustic shows I did back in the late eighties. |
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What matters is if we can figure out the association between nanobacteria and kidney stones and develop some kind of countermeasure. |
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There's always some kind of borrow, and even bad golfers can mis-putt and make it if they have mis-read the borrow. |
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Perhaps it is natural for them to expect some kind of reward from the organisation. |
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Are they driven by intrepidity, by unsuspectingness, or by some kind of vague hope? |
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Fourthly, there are those who protest out of some kind of violent instinct, who find pleasure in unthinking acts of fury. |
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Most of where I live also happens to be beach, or at least bordered by some kind of salt or brackish water, so that's a plus from my perspective. |
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It looks like some cool sculpture or maybe some kind of futuristic brass instrument. |
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Perhaps that is not to be regarded in this context as some kind of breach of promise! |
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It was eggplant baked with breadcrumbs and some kind of sauce and cilantro. |
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I was trying to speak up on behalf of the unjustly stigmatized, but I was treated as if I were some kind of soft-headed liberal spam lover. |
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Every successful use of the netroots has involved some kind of encouragement for donors. |
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The manufacturers must be some kind of solipsists, or in any case unsure that the cream cheese really exists. |
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Do web pages or rotting newspapers leave some kind of afterglow in the light of the universe? |
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It would be a mistake to think that this is all some kind of anarchic attack on the Establishment. |
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They seemed to be ranting and raving at each other about some kind of mistake. |
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Arieal was sure he must have used some kind of gel to keep the hair in place. |
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It came as a bit of a surprise to find that Fox is neither a rebellious teenager nor on some kind of exotic substance. |
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If only they'd attached some kind of story to it, it would have been far, far better. |
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We are in talks at the moment with the health board to set up some kind of service for the elderly. |
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It takes five to six venues in some kind of logical sequence to make for a successful tour. |
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So it felt to me as though the place were moving towards some kind of greater democracy. |
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Pensions, according to our government, are some kind of luxury provided by the state. |
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The NCC could well be lurking near the entrance ready to mount some kind of attack. |
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But the matter of Rome is so long a story that every era can find some kind of mirror in it. |
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It must surely be some kind of guard to talk so incessantly without pause or prompting? |
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I wish the mag well but they must get some kind of story archive onto the web sharpish. |
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As a Syrsis he must have some kind of power, it was said in every legend and enough hints had been dropped. |
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Anyone who could get away with intoning it to an audience must be some kind of storytelling genius. |
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She's warm, caring, full of life, and she puts up with me, which makes her some kind of saint. |
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It was some kind of scrapbook, stuffed to the brim with photos, letters, and newspaper clippings. |
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Is it some kind of perceived void in ourselves that causes us to seek validation by peering into the lives of those we idolize? |
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No, he just has to perpetuate that pathetic myth that Britpop was some kind of idyllic golden age for British music. |
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The entire opera takes place in some kind of subterranean vault, or perhaps a subway station. |
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I don't know if it was some kind of Leonids preview, or if I just happened to see some space junk returning to earth. |
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Is it that Graphic Design will be thought of as a species of decorative art or some kind of crazy expressive thing? |
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Jeez, you'd think I was some kind of little old lady hanging around by my window all day, spying on the neighbours. |
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There was some kind of superstition that the souls of the dead would come back to haunt the vilifiers. |
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She sat there and took it like some kind of valkyrie or virago, perhaps the harpies of ancient myth. |
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Inexorably, the conventional wisdom would go from determined noninvolvement to a resigned acceptance of some kind of U.S. role. |
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They would probably think the whole thing was some kind of devilish trick, a smoke screen for some larger splittist plot. |
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If we are not to use man-made poisons, the answer favoured by progressive gardeners is some kind of natural remedy. |
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Hardly a business day goes by it seems without some kind of blockbuster announcement involving the music industry. |
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My wife thinks he's some kind of demi-god and I'm just the bloke in the study writing nonsense, you know. |
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Or whether there was someone out there more expert in illustration than I who might be able to turn it into some kind of logo or badge or button. |
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It was a light black buttoned shirt made of some kind of fabric that seemed extremely durable. |
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It was only by degrees that I started to feel some kind of artistic calling. |
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The Alice, one of the most remote places in the world, ought to have some kind of response to globalisation. |
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For the individual who connects their cable modem or DSL line directly to their PC, they should have some kind of personal firewall operating. |
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The most common mistaken belief about the haggis is that it is some kind of pudding made from sheep innards. |
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I'm waiting for some kind of apology for their recent display of callousness. |
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He's a famous star, sees a big picture of himself as the limo drives him to his hotel, an ad of his pushing some kind of liquor. |
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At the time, we grandkids thought this was some kind of peculiar old-person habit, like playing canasta and reading Reader's Digest. |
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It's no wonder that the way some people handle it is to have a stash of secret savings hidden from their partner as some kind of insurance. |
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If the court is prepared to grant a stay then what the Claimants are effectively seeking is some kind of preliminary disclosure order. |
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Tomorrow's woman's handphone should have some kind of barcode scanner built in. |
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The man was subdued by pepper spray and was found to be carrying a steak knife and some kind of religious book. |
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In spite of its myriad problems, the region needs some kind of mass transit system that removes odoriferous gashogs from highways. |
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A potful of Nicotiana langsdorfii has been attacked by some kind of leaf-sucking thrip or capsid bug. |
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You're saying it has some kind of haptic sensitivity or touch that you can actually develop skills in your fingers. |
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If this guy stays there will be some kind of suffering and if he goes, that hardship will be twofold. |
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Most of these are boiled, served with some kind of stewed fish or meat, and accompanied by a sauce. |
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They also sprayed some kind of substance on the equipment which made it sticky and unusable. |
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Colour always gives some kind of emotional response, and green is no exception. |
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Mark jabbed his fork at what he supposed was meant to be some kind of lasagna. |
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The warden wants Crewe to coach the prison guards' football team, in hopes of acquiring some kind of semi-pro national championship. |
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I had a little Chihuahua named Carlos that had some kind of skin disease and was totally blind. |
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I was insecure about being some kind of a commando jock photographer, but once everyone was awake we'd hit the streets and the bros were psyched. |
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In some kind of internal holding pattern with my bearings lost, deadly shy and baffled. |
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The pre-season friendlies cannot be finalised either until City have some kind of guarantee over the long term. |
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I can't accept anything without thinking that it must be some kind of joke or trick, or have some ulterior motive. |
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I know this is crazy, but I honestly feel that there was some kind of weird connection there. |
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He also seems to think I should understand this well enough to provide some kind of commentary. |
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Has that second bottle of Beaujolais addled his brain, inducing some kind of hallucinatory fever? |
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Then the TV glows to life and fills with jumpy, amateur-hour footage of some kind of mass convulsion. |
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Amid the rambling dialogue and semi-lucid metaphors we become privy to a sense of the director's desperation to conjure up some kind of meaning. |
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But perhaps now we'll be given overdue respite from the rantings of those intent on persuading us he was some kind of miracle-worker. |
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Not everyone has the time, but most have the wherewithal to make some kind of contribution. |
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I heard the beep and the whirr of some kind of machinery, but I couldn't see because my sight was focused on the ceiling. |
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Donald's love of sport was not some kind of affectation designed to bring him street credibility in constituency walkabouts. |
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I saw a man up the street as he chased frantically after what looked like some kind of small, ugly animal. |
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In most cases, some kind of agamic fusion of protists can be considered as its prerequisite. |
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It appears to suggest that some kind of moral objective reality is necessary for ethical functioning. |
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For warmth she wore some kind of white fur wrap she had found months ago at a second-hand store in New York. |
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From deep within, looking up at the tropical sky is like staring through the dome of some kind of earthen cathedral. |
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Gone is Jason Russell and his kid, gone the self-aggrandizing references to his own role as some kind of hero of Africa. |
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In the countryside, my view is of trees and some kind of mountain range in the distance. |
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Surely at least one would involve a team of evil-fighting battle bots that, when prompted, would join together to create some kind of giant evil-fighting battle-bot. |
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But we're in this huge nest, right above some kind of bottomless pit. |
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Every house in the sample is painted with some kind of hooded portico over the front door, most often simulating thatch, and all except one have latticed windows. |
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To persuade Iran to abjure weapons, the United States will have to make some kind of deal. |
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Pretty girls glide on rollerskates under the beady eye of Isabel Vendle, an ageing single woman of means who promises to be some kind of Miss Haversham character. |
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Who knows, maybe something good will come of this, or maybe, as often happens, the whole process will get stuck in some kind of regulation technicality or other. |
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There was some kind of traffic tie-up on the highway to my hotel. |
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But don't run away with the idea that this is some kind of New Jerusalem. |
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Most people do some kind of work when they're growing up for extra moolah. |
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I hope he doesn't think I'm some kind of snoop for touching it. |
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He looked me slowly up and down as if I was some kind of blithering idiot. |
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Silos need to be retrofitted with some kind of aeration equipment. |
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Small dumplings, poached in boiling water then tossed with some kind of sauce, gnocchi can be made of potato, flour and ricotta, semolina, milk and cheese, and even polenta. |
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Busyness has become some kind of desirable state in our non-rural America. |
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After the game, while the Bucs' cheerleaders are celebrating on the field, the Raiderettes walk out in single-file line looking like they're on some kind of a death march. |
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He was relieved to be somewhere peaceful rather than duking it out with Tom like some kind of brute animal, not that he wouldn't eventually fight Tom. |
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She managed to shake off the dust, probably aided by ultrasonics or some kind of electrostatic charge, and soon was none the worse for her experience. |
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Yes, the record of the 2000s looks better if you treat the bust as some kind of exogenous event caused by overbearing government. |
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Most artists made some kind of preliminary sketch on their support but our knowledge of these underdrawings is severely limited by the methods available for studying them. |
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He swung his bar-code reader like some kind of ray gun, the tiny machine bleeping and blooping as it scanned bar codes printed and pasted across the counter in front of him. |
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To accept this, however, would be to underrate our heroine, branding her as some kind of cheap accessory when she is, by many accounts, a gutsy and rugged individual. |
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Some critics even suggested that the pervasive blue-violet tonality typical of impressionism was symptomatic of some kind of visual disorder suffered by the artists. |
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Anyone who thinks this movie is good fun should go on some kind of NSA watch list. |
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So I turned it into a poster and I added some kind of fake Russian font to make it look alien. |
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Wave after wave of panic swept over me like an avalanche and my mind tried to reconcile what I was seeing in front of me with some kind of logical thought. |
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If Deadmau5 and Disney can work on some kind of a payment arrangement, this suit might just go away. |
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On the other hand, you could say that he stands there like some kind of glam-rock geography teacher with a gutful of meths, talking toss at a hundred words a minute. |
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As the sonic booms of her passage echoed from the rocky canyons, though, small rockslides tossed debris into the murky water as if to signal some kind of warning. |
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In 20 years, if there's some kind of rockumentary and they want to interview my withered old form about how crazy it was back in the '90s, I'd totally be into it. |
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I had half a mind to make some kind of winter squash soup, and was toying with the idea of adding candied orange peel to make it more interesting. |
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The very fact that so many troops co-existed with so many militants meant some kind of complicated alliances were afoot. |
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Ok, so I didn't expect him to come to the beach in a suit or some kind of formal wear, so I guess his attire of board shorts, white tank top and thongs didn't count. |
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You name it, we went there, along with a gaggle of individuals who each had some kind of purpose. |
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He looked beyond Lull for a master method, flirting for a time with Rosicrucianism, which was rumoured to be a source of some kind of synoptic understanding. |
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One theory on arms races is that, if controlled at a key stability point, they may contribute to some kind of strategic stability, akin to a balance of power. |
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Question those taking on the mantle of victimhood and you are immediately cast as some kind of aggressive, unfeeling oppressor. |
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Three years on, the demands for some kind of reparation have reached fever pitch. |
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Many of the rest of us have to wonder why Armstrong has not been indicted already for some kind of racketeering. |
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Lord Metfield gave her a surreptitious look-over while she introduced herself, and was amused to see that the lady seemed to subject him to some kind of inspection too. |
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She could feel some kind of sticky slimy ooze running through her fingers. |
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Is it supposed to suggest that those women who do play the game are some kind of freaks who have been asexualised simply because they've chosen to wear boots and jerseys? |
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Maybe I could turn all these quarters into some kind of rib-sticking casserole. |
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The performances are so stifled that at times one feels like throttling the characters to extract some kind of expression from them, apart from the usual long face. |
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It had claw marks across its wooden panels, and when I traced them with my finger I decided that they were far too big to be from some kind of animal. |
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From even that age they were to mine the earth for some kind of mineral. |
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As always, the NRA suggests it is some kind of grassroots organization that arose out of a common concern. |
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Local media had been reporting that the arsonist was using some kind of Molotov cocktail to smash through the car windows. |
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I thought it would be hidden, out in the woods, or some kind of backroom deal. |
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If it gave people some kind of joy afterwards, great, but everything took a backseat. |
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Inevitably, any anger and resentment we feel is contained within some kind of metaphorical exoskeleton. |
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The straggly, scrawny kid who grabs a guitar in hopes of finally getting some kind of attention from the girls other than sneers and spitballs is no more. |
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Still, I have heard more than a few people, of all races, shrug in some kind of befuddlement about what they are expected to feel. |
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I still think you're all playing some kind of mind game with us. |
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And they bristle too at the notion that they had some kind of personal enmity toward the president. |
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According to the census Bureau, 49 percent of Americans receive some kind of government benefits. |
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Again, they will in time be able to exercise some kind of supervision. |
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He was initially portrayed as some kind of Pythonesque absurdist. |
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In my experience, secular Americans are as likely as religious Americans to believe that we are the rightful beneficiaries of some kind of manifest destiny. |
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It would almost be less disturbing if he was showing some kind of sign he was a homicidal maniac. |
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A quantum computer is an extremely small photon driven device which can perform some kind of useful logical work, particularly in the area of encryption. |
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In any other civilized nation this effort at some kind of summer escape would barely raise an eyebrow. |
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He must be pretending to be something, striking some kind of clumsy tribal note. |
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This last point seems to have sent some kind of tremor through the American media. |
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Would the law of New Zealand that takes away rights of common law actions for personal injuries and puts people on some kind of pension scheme apply? |
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And there's a chance that the box might have some kind of radio emanations that reveal the raw, unencrypted data to an attacker who has a good radio and directional antenna. |
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The two of them were in a small room made of some kind of marbly stone. |
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Don't let the ads fool you into thinking this is some kind of edgy French thriller, by the way, or you'll be too annoyed by its unhurried pace to enjoy it. |
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Or are they gripped by some kind of apocalyptic delusion, some dream of messianism achieved by global destruction? |
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A prototype probably, covered in some kind of synthetic latex. |
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I like to end columns with a potential policy fix, some kind of suggested action, or at least a stern finger-wagging. |
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Thus, rather than achieve some kind of resolution, Chrissie has simply guaranteed that he will sink ever deeper into his personal slough of despond. |
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Indeed, Pakistani Muslims too are reconsidering their position, increasingly emphasizing their ethnic identities and musing about some kind of confederation with India. |
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