| The Ardoyne area remained tense last night as nationalists and loyalists braced themselves for more clashes following two nights of trouble. |
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| Saturday's game against Altrincham was a tense affair with everyone knowing a win could clinch us the title. |
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| I can feel his upper body tense up as he's fighting to keep the food down, and pass him a glass of water. |
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| It will be a tense and tight affair with a single goal probably enough to seal a place in the semi final. |
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| A series of grievance procedures and disciplinary hearings have made an already tense situation worse. |
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| But instead of referring to him in the past tense here, I've referred to him in the present. |
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| A tense energy hovers about these forms that float just above or just beneath gauzy clouds of paint. |
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| The use of the future tense indicates that blessedness includes future benefits that overcome the misfortunes of the present. |
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| Some will succumb to frostbite and there may be tense encounters with wild animals. |
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| The second day was tense as they struggled to find the previous days' form. |
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| These flustered women actually turned a calm and sorted situation into a tense one. |
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| The heart rate and breathing quickens, muscles become tense and senses become heightened. |
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| Apparently, things are getting tense in central Auckland, as there have been nine contenders for eight frequencies. |
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| And I heard that he came across as very tense and high-strung, while Coleman was more relaxed and natural. |
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| But Stevens then misses the brown, and an exchange of unbelievably tense safety follows. |
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| Relations between members were informal, often tense, and their debates were certainly high-spirited. |
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| With an eye on longevity, the book is written entirely in the past tense, which also helps give it an impressive and immediate air of gravitas. |
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| The subject nominal is in the oblique form and the verb phrase lacks tense and agreement markers. |
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| It was a very interesting evening and for the five candidates seeking nomination, a tense evening. |
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| The car was quickly surrounded by police and the captain approached the driver to handle the tense situation. |
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| India has numerous armed insurgent groups, and suffers from frequently tense Muslim-Hindu relations that recently exploded into violence. |
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| And everywhere that tense and wiry quality of sound, that lack of sympathy with the natural voluptuousness of the cello. |
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| We often use the past tense in English to describe an imagined present or future. |
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| In a photo taken in 1965, the year my first child was born and my brother died, I eye the camera warily, my mouth in a tense line. |
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| The film wraps with tense footage of a catch-and-release night hunt for a seven-foot bull shark. |
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| The hot water of summer increases the stress factor for captive shrimp, and the race to the tideline can be tense. |
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| In this learn Spanish grammar lesson, we review the Spanish conditional tense and how to conjugate Spanish verbs in the conditional. |
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| A small departure from idiomatic standard English, and a use of tense that would be grammatical in some languages. |
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| Things got a bit tense when Gagne walked J.T. Snow on four pitches as well to load the bases. |
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| Artistic vision, imagination and intuition seem poised in tense opposition to order and rationality. |
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| Mitsubishi Motors and Mitsubishi Australia are playing a tense waiting game. |
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| Music is used nicely, especially the climatic, tense tunes that play during frightening and tense battles against hellacious adversaries. |
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| Those that won't go forward, or are tense and stressy, suddenly become very relaxed. |
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| Narrated in the present tense, the story unfolds in the voice of an unnamed third-person narrator. |
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| He looked like a character actor from a tense psychological thriller set in Michigan or Kansas. |
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| Lounging on the divan, his arms placed unguardedly before him, he had none of the tense, high-strung, honour-obsessed posture of his people. |
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| The words were as therapeutic as his strong hand against her tense strained shoulder. |
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| Jamie growled to himself and lifted his hands in a tense strained pose, ready to strangle. |
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| New York pronunciation has a long, tense, very round vowel in words like caught, and a long, tense, relatively high vowel in words such as cab. |
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| Sylvia Plath and the Theatre of Mourning continues this tense push-pull struggle with biography throughout its pages. |
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| This left a very tense closely fought final set with both teams striving to win out. |
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| My eyes were tight shut but streaming tears, and I felt my face set into taut muscles and tense lines. |
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| His strong hands rested on her shoulders and began working the taut muscles, causing her to immediately tense. |
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| Throughout the 60s and 70s, Jack Lemmon was typecast as a tense, neurotic, excruciatingly insecure pen pusher. |
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| In our case, it helped to turn an already tense situation into a snake pit. |
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| Every muscle in her body was tense and she was trembling from head to foot. |
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| He fixed her arm underneath his as they neared the punchbowl, a small smile on his face, for Katherine seemed as tense as a slingshot. |
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| We know the characters in the tense drama that is the gospel reading for today. |
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| You started with the present tense, you then went to the past tense and now you have gone to the pluperfect past tense. |
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| Now the book's no work of art, but it's certainly tightly plotted and nice and tense, which is all it set out to be. |
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| The chilling realities of street life are skilfully combined with the familiar trappings of adolescence to create a tense, powerful drama. |
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| In 1799, during the tense round-up following the Rebellion, George became a notable public figure. |
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| This afternoon, with almost half his squad involved in matches, he will face a tense wait for news of groin strains and hamstring pulls. |
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| They stared at each other for a tense moment until the feline let loose a powerful roar. |
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| Even during rather tense scenes, the music was sickly sweet, laid on thick with little subtlety. |
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| Now, in the non-standard dialects that have it, this is an indicative past tense. |
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| Bullous pemphigoid is an autoimmune skin disorder characterized by subepidermal blistering that results in large, tense bullae. |
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| Had it not been for his level-headedness during an extremely tense situation, this would be a story about our ejection. |
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| My son has just told me my DIL is tense when I'm around as I don't let her feel in control. |
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| But the fact that the necessity for dialogue has to be stressed in the more than 50-year-old alliance shows how tense relations are in reality. |
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| If people seem tense because of unvoiced disagreements, you may have to bring concerns out into the open. |
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| Cocteau, he added, protected his speech with short, tense and elliptical lines which formed a barrier between himself and the reader. |
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| I spoke with the tone of some peevish adolescent, arms tense at my sides, and eyes like two slits expelling charcoal fog. |
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| I have gone from being very pressurised and tense and nervy to being more relaxed and far happier with how things are. |
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| I was, as ever, tense and nervous about the whole thing but I found it quite interesting and nicely handled. |
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| We paddled on in tense silence, waiting for more gunfire or perhaps the twang of a banjo, but they were not interested in us. |
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| What followed was a kind of very tense standoff where gunshots were fired for about five minutes. |
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| Her nimble, agile body tense and ready, she pressed her feet into Jeff's shoulders. |
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| The original text of this article used the future tense, indicating that the book Sri Chaitanya-sikshamrita had not yet been published. |
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| The tense atmosphere outside is in distinct contrast with the excitement of the audience inside. |
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| We rarely had any kind of tense moments and even then we resolved them quickly. |
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| He was tense and coiled, and if looks could kill, she would already have been a pile of ash and dust. |
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| In a tense, closely fought encounter, the boxers were level going into the last round. |
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| The visit could have been a real ice-breaker for tense cross-strait relations. |
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| After a few minutes of tense waiting, Kade's scanner detected a massive tachyon burst, indicating the Sirran ships had entered hyperspace. |
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| But if you read it closely, you'll see I'm using the intransitive plural subjunctive tense. |
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| In these cases, if the globe is proptotic and tense, the physician should suspect a retrobulbar hematoma. |
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| It was the final stage of the journey and despite his tough Brooklyn upbringing he was tense and nervous. |
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| A tense atmosphere permeated the school's airy corridor, the classroom, and dormitories. |
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| The Fuegians have a word, or rather holophrase, mamihlapinatapai, which simply expresses a tense relation. |
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| The girls defeated Carrigallen from Leitrim in a tense and exciting cliffhanger on a scoreline of three goals to two. |
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| Extra time meant the chance to score a golden goal but despite chances at both ends the game moved into a tense penalty shoot-out. |
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| Feeling tense I said goodnight myself and ambled off to my room for the night. |
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| The situation has become increasingly tense as street protests, ethnic conflict and armed separatism have emerged across the nation. |
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| The atmosphere was very still and tense as parents waited to learn what had happened to their children. |
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| Challenges become threats, pop heroes become corpses and present tense becomes past participle. |
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| We returned to the hotel late, only to be greeted by a tense desk clerk with a note in his hand. |
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| Parnevik kept up the pressure in a tense clash with Tiger Woods to take the game to the final hole. |
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| His fingers convulsively clenched into fists for an instant before he forced his tense muscles to relax. |
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| I couldn't shift at all, my muscles were too tense and my mind too cluttered. |
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| In some extraordinary way the Kennedy visit seemed imperceptibly to usher Ireland from the past tense into the present tense. |
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| His fingers move over the mouse pad and the keyboard for a few seconds and then he looks up with an excited, tense expression. |
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| The overseas invasion is poised to draw attention away from failed domestic policies, the stock market plunge, and tense congressional contests. |
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| After a few tense moments, officers relieved him of the weapon and ammunition and escorted him to the Soi 9 police station for an interview. |
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| Every thirty seconds or so a violent convulsion would shake her and she would tense then lie backwards, wheezing and moaning. |
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| He drops the envelope on his desk blotter and concentrates on his partner's tense face. |
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| She was glad to make friends with him, despite the tense circumstances under which the relationship had been formed. |
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| French has inflectional morphology to indicate plurality, person, number, and tense, so inflection is not a foreign concept. |
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| Thus, many African languages simply do not express a future tense or a future history. |
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| Talking during films has made cinemagoing such a tense experience for me that I now mainly avoid it. |
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| Hence, the shift to the character's present tense is not drastic or striking. |
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| Many refer to him in the present tense and, when pushed on the company's future course, still invoke his name. |
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| It's to place the reader right there in the present tense and to create an awareness that this is unfolding right in front of me. |
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| The little combo clock adds that tense, time-based factor so players can incorporate their newly found move into a bigger combination. |
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| With a joke and a smile he was able to defuse many a tense situation and his presence in any room was unmistakable. |
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| It is learnt that more changes in the civil administration are also in the offing as part of the ongoing efforts to defuse the tense situation. |
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| In a lot of scenes I come on and do these very brief, very tense monologues, and go off, each time to the point of breakdown. |
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| By his use of the Hebrew imperfect tense, the psalmist shows his present trust in God is based on past experiences of God's presence and help. |
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| I'm distracted, tense and edgy, staring intently at the phone willing it to bring me good news. |
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| His charm and eloquence, combined with an easy, self-assured attitude, had a settling effect on the tense nerves of some of our colleagues. |
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| If anyone got within eyeshot of her, she'd tense up and leave it to me to deal with them. |
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| At this comment, Laura's body posture changed from a relaxed one, to a more tense one, with her arms crossed. |
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| But I am so tense that I'm topping the ball, shanking it, anything but hitting a straight one. |
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| After a couple minutes, her tense body relaxed and she wiggled in the stretcher to get more comfortable. |
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| Somehow he made my tense body relax some, I don't know how, but it was soothing. |
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| The slow, fluid movements help tense, stressed people relax and strengthen their bodies without worrying about over-exertion or strain. |
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| He felt her tense and then relax back against him, allowing herself to take the comfort that he offered her. |
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| The first verb conjugations you will probably encounter are those of simple regular verbs in the present tense. |
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| But there is an eye for the storyline pent in tense emotion that generates many of these poems. |
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| The atmosphere was very tense and what we saw as youthful excitement was interpreted as unacceptable disrespect. |
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| His fingers kneaded the tense muscles of her shoulders but it did very little to relax her. |
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| Frayed nerves and tense muscles seemed to melt in the viscous liquid that poured out of the brass container suspended above me. |
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| She let her tense shoulders fall and retreated back to the opposite wall, keeping her eyes on Zarius the whole time. |
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| A food storage depot was looted and burned down during the night and businesses were badly hit by the tense atmosphere yesterday. |
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| I felt very uneasy, as if my stomach was tight and tense, yet it was sloshing about and very empty. |
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| This melodrama, and I love melodramas, is really beautifully performed, it's heartfelt and tense and romantic. |
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| First, it is relevant to the formation of the perfect tense in many European languages. |
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| But what we do in English is shift the subordinate clause verb into preterite inflection as if to respect the choice of tense in the main clause. |
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| When a fight goes the distance, a tense interlude settles in while the judges tally the scorecards. |
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| After a few tense minutes of waiting, Sergeant Williams held up the ok sign for the sub lieutenant. |
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| If the past tense conveys distance from the speech event, the present tense conveys proximity. |
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| We may just get a bit tense, and that comes down to inexperience, playing the best team in the world. |
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| Also known as the quincunx and denoted by the symbol, it is said to represent a harsh or tense relationship based upon incompatibility. |
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| Both were described in the future tense since both took place in the context of the Eucharist, of which the novice had no direct experience. |
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| You take swift decisions and make quick changes when situations are tense and demanding. |
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| He said he finally agreed to sell the film rights to Disney after a weekend of tense negotiations at his luxurious new house in Marrakech. |
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| But other players who became overly anxious could find their bodies became too tense to complete smooth movements. |
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| If the question is framed in the future tense, then I understand what conversation we are having. |
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| Then it belatedly dawned on me that the report was in the future tense and was written to explain what was due to happen that evening. |
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| This is a bond of trust that football writers speak of only in the past tense. |
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| Cork were the better side if only marginally, and we made them earn their bread in a tight and tense finale. |
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| The situation between the parents became tense and this tenseness spilled over into relationships with the children. |
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| That is why an entire novel cast in the present tense would seem much more unusual in English than in Czech. |
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| I try to tense my entire body when I'm training, no matter what body part I'm working. |
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| The board of directors looked tense and apprehensive, anticipating the storm that was about to break. |
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| Being under stress causes you to tense your muscles, and this can make you more prone to injury. |
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| You have to be able to tense your body and keep the defender from getting around you. |
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| To exercise the muscles, tense them tightly for as long as you can, then relax them to their normal position. |
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| Panic sufferers usually tense their bodies and breathe in a way that increases symptoms. |
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| The film that creates such an atmosphere of despair that I begin to tense up and get nervous. |
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| The atmosphere is tense and edgy, and the political slogans on the posters read like threats. |
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| It occurred to me that what he did for a living was relax people in tense situations. |
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| Before and after the tense match, bricks and bottles were lobbed through the air. |
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| In an exciting and very tense second half, the teams were locked together on three occasions. |
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| Union leaders said they expected the lockout and blamed the employers for inflaming already tense negotiations. |
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| The only problem is that it looks or sounds for the most part, therefore, exactly the same as the present tense of the verb. |
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| Everybody coming to this department is very tense and nervous because they are awaiting results. |
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| At first she was tense, but she relaxed slightly when he put his arm around her. |
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| But the real conundrum in the characterization offered above lies in the presumed subjunctive tense. |
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| Thus the tense, often jarring interplay between rapid pans or other movement, and stationary close-ups. |
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| Blotter made a show of biting her knuckles and growing pale, as she was programmed to do in tense situations. |
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| He was still tense and agitated, and the view did nothing to calm him down. |
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| A tense period of extra-time failed to produce a winning goal for either team. |
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| A burning ember becomes a surreptitious reference to a tense nation teetering on collapse. |
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| The extract was a very graphic, detailed description of a particularly violent rape, as told in past tense by the victim. |
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| My muscles were tense from the unusual exertion, and my body was still exhausted. |
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| Learning to breathe more fully can help you let go of pain and loosen tense muscles. |
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| Over time, an individual will learn to recognize the feelings connected with tense muscles. |
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| She'd taken a long, hot shower and even that had failed to relax her tense muscles. |
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| She slid behind him and began to massage the tense muscles in his shoulders. |
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| Its present tense was similarly chosen to discourage construal with topicalised elements. |
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| He was tormentingly tense and uneasy, and at the same time felt an extraordinary need for solitude. |
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| She was exhausted and she needed a hot, steaming shower to loosen her tense muscles. |
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| She tried to stand up, but her already tense muscles had stiffened considerably during the flight. |
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| They had also survived a tense semi-final against Russia, Turnbull scoring a try in sudden-death extra-time. |
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| It's a tense drama set in a world of bad cops, corrupt and corpulent politicians, hard men, hard liquor, and dangerous women. |
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| Frequent headaches may be independent, but because they make you tense, and you have a tendency to stammer, you probably do so during a headache. |
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| In a tense final he was beaten by the championship's number two seed Bobby Brook. |
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| The meaning of the tense morphemes alone does not completely determine the temporal interpretation of a sentence. |
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| With both countries being nuclear powers, tense relations could jeopardise one fourth of the world's population, he added. |
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| Quiz bowl competitions can be extremely tense affairs, with down to the line finishes and shattered dreams. |
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| And in a tense final, Trevor managed to finish fifth, with an Andorran winning the event. |
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| The body is a harpsichord, and when its strings are too relaxed, or too tense, the man is sick. |
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| Mr. Marshall sighed, trying to spread a more relaxed feeling out into the tense air between them. |
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| Chamomile, lime flower, valerian, hops or passion flower all have relaxant properties and can be given to calm nerves and relax tense muscles. |
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| I saw her tense up slightly before relaxing and forcing a grin on her face. |
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| The second type of participle, the past participle, is a little more complicated, since not all verbs form the past tense regularly. |
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| Pak Rabun was padding along the mulch in the sparse undergrowth when he stopped and went tense. |
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| Sure, it really is worrisome, because it is clear that the situation has gotten very tense there. |
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| Peter gulped down a tense, hard knot that had formed in the back of his throat. |
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| Italy and Portugal overcame tense games and red cards thanks largely to the veterans. |
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| This morning's Cabinet meeting is also expected to be tense, especially after the latest round of recriminations. |
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| I had visions of hearing the thrum of the tense bowstring as I unleashed an arrow at an archery target. |
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| The present tense of the actual verbs in the dialogue, like the mimetic form of direct rather than reported speech is a dramatic illusion. |
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| She'd obviously inherited her mother's elegant features, but combined with her father's square jaw, it made her look severe and tense. |
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| The atmosphere is tense, police and coastguards are on hand to make sure nobody jumps the gun. |
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| Beside it, another tense wooden spar holds an inscribed scarf and an enigmatic black tube resembling a rifle barrel. |
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| The prime minister looked worn and tense at his press conference yesterday, as well he might. |
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| Moreover, the political situation, worsened by great economic hardship, remained extremely tense. |
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| A thumping in the distance made him tense with fear and he slowed his pace to a jog. |
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| And yet, de Montalk's tense, restrained minimalism is capable of packing a punch. |
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| Roman sat up against the seat, still tense but looking slightly more reassured as he peered into his wing mirror. |
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| The muscles in his legs were tense, as was the moment, and then he unleashed all his power in a mighty jump. |
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| Somehow on Saturday night he was not only able to remain outwardly cool, but he also held his players together in a tense situation. |
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| I was feeling extremely tense and uncomfortable and the whole thing was winding me up more and more and more. |
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| However, with supper came darkness, and as the sun went down, the atmosphere in the apartment got tense. |
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| Japanese words are composed of many syllables, and endings are attached to change tense, form a negative, or otherwise modify meaning. |
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| In the present tense construction, the verb agrees with the subject but not the object, hence the subject but not the object can be omitted. |
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| The only tense moments were provoked by police over-reaction and aggression. |
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| Despite his frequently tense relations with his superiors, he engendered fierce loyalty among many of his subordinates. |
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| In view of the time required to move to more peripheral vowel positions, tense vowels tend to be peripheral and lax vowels closer to schwa, the neutral or central vowel. |
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| It was a tense matchup that made up in suspense for what it lacked in aesthetics. |
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| No wonder then that the players, especially the home team, felt tense because spectators were unrelentingly severe on players who did not perform according to expectation. |
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| There was a tense moment when a sharp snapping sound rang through Ready but it was only one of the guide ropes that guided the steel hawser back onto the drum giving way. |
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| Black people are tense because they are sick and tired of being subjected to what they see as a prejudiced judicial system. |
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| By definition, non-finite verb phrases do not have tense marking. |
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| Dr Allen is purportedly speaking in the present tense about a law that still has not gone into effect. |
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| After a long, tense wait, during which he kept glancing nervously at the newcomers, the door was opened by a bleary-eyed young man wearing a disheveled lieutenant's uniform. |
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| For instance, the author systematically misuses the past perfect tense and passive voice in a way that makes it impossible to understand temporal relations. |
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| For several tense moments there were answering concussions from deep within the earth that echoed and reverberated, until at last, all became still. |
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| Their sails tense in the wind, foresheets and sternsheets straining. |
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| Nerves are beginning to fray as the match reaches a tense climax. |
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| The sudden shift at the end from the present tense to the conditional and qualified suggests that the epiphany that the poem seems to promise is a transient thing. |
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| The present tense in Japanese is both the simple present tense as well as the future tense, while the past tense in Japanese acts as the simple past tense. |
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| Not only did the win send the home fans into state of rapturous delirium, but the achievement relieved the team's coach, who had looked tense during the final. |
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| It would be weird if she acted so tense and edgy all of a sudden. |
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| He was rude and antagonistic to my friends, kept picking arguments and was often deliberately provocative, manipulating people into tense arguments. |
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| Those bored by exposition who like action and dialogue written in the present tense will eat these up. |
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| The indicative verb form differs from the others in varying for tense and aspect, and in showing grammatical concord with the subject in the present tense. |
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| In the Under-14 final, Selby Olympia enjoyed the narrowest of victories over Heworth winning by a solitary goal, scored in the first-half of a tense final. |
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| Much of complexity in the use of tense and aspect in English derives from the fact that the categories of perfective and imperfective allow a number of subcategories. |
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| It clarifies how developing inflections, particularly tense markers, align with aspect categories and how this association varies across proficiency level. |
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| A tense atmosphere could envelop your marital relationship or love affair. |
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| It was a tense last few moments but Rovers kept their nerve. |
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| It should have made for a tense and nervy finish but the goal provided the wake-up call as City switched back on the concentration button and defended resolutely thereafter. |
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| Since Nestdrop continues to do so as of this writing, they wager a tense gamble that the odds will be in their favor. |
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| The tense 1953 film has four desperate men delivering two truckloads of extremely explosive nitroglycerine via a nearly impassable South American jungle road. |
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| I covered New York politics for 15 years, and I saw some awfully tense moments between the police and Democratic politicians. |
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| A tense commute to work in Houston will start to resemble a tense commute in Boston or New York City. |
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| It was a very high-vis mission, and there was many a tense moment. |
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| The loss of the future tense presumably occurred in Gothic times. |
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| The decision to send the jets, famous for their vertical take-offs and landings, comes as Afghanistan faces a tense period in the run-up to elections. |
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| Moving closer she put her arms around his tense body, afraid for him. |
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| His entire body seems to shift from a tense stance to a casual sag. |
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| One of most tense occasions was being called to action stations at lunchtime on March 20, when the country started to fire missiles into its neighbour. |
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| There is a relationship that develops, tense and often testy, between a journalist and his quarry. |
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| The buzz is that the engagement of the happy couple has hit a few bumps and, after reportedly tense holidays spent at their house, wedding plans may have been put on hold. |
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| Even so, every walk in a jungle where wild elephants, rhinos, buffaloes or tigers roam, is a tense experience, even if you do have an armed forest guard along with you. |
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| In English, tense must be expressed in all finite verb phrases. |
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| That there is only one of Him is not just a first approximation, it is also the last word on the subject, and it makes the concept of Godhead a notably tense one. |
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| A tense, dynamic equilibrium between the U.S. and China seems more likely than a clear displacement of the former by the latter. |
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| However his continuing recusancy could only have increased the tense relationship with authority which his seemingly seditious plays had instigated. |
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| Electricity is also used to stimulate tense and knotted muscles. |
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| Whereas she's relatively calm and relaxed, he's tense and anxious. |
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| Something about that made me less tense, made me relax some. |
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| To those press people and television reporters badgering me, it was easy for them to talk about George in the past tense even as he lay on a hospital bed. |
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| Her muscles were tense and a cold sweat was breaking out on her forehead. |
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| He relaxed his tense finger that had been curled around the trigger. |
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| The man did not extend his hand, but his tense posture relaxed noticeably. |
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| She ran her hands along Elisa's shoulders, smoothing her tense muscles. |
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| She put her hands on his back and rubbed the tense muscles soothingly. |
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| His body had relaxed a bit, but his voice was tense and apprehensive. |
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| Feeling more and more tense and unable to sleep, he was prescribed drugs. |
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| Children who are feeling anxiety may be tense or get upset easily. |
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| He was as calm as ever but there was a tense anxiety in his eyes. |
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| There was a big crowd now, and Celinda was already tense with excitement. |
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| The man in the guitar shop was very tense, somewhat agitated. |
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| I'm just too tense an individual to really relax first before writing. |
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| In these tense hours emotions, tempers, and fears are running high. |
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| Another voice rang out, startlingly loud in the tense stillness. |
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| Nobody said anything for a while, creating an uneasy and tense silence. |
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| As soon as she left, an awkward and tense silence settled over the room. |
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| There were a few tense moments of silence before she answered. |
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| She had a tense encounter with a small but vocal group of protesters. |
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| Last night there was a tense silence between them during dinner. |
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| In order to widen your eyes, you must tense certain muscles in your face. |
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| The new academic year will also be a tense year for teachers and students. |
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| Camillus differs from Brutus and Scaevola in his energetic and tense posture, his legs apart, his left arm akimbo, and his right hand grasping the banner high up the pole. |
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| The muscles in her legs, arms, and her whole body were tight and tense with the exertion of running and her sopping hair flew wildly out behind her. |
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| After a tight, tense struggle, the Limerick side came from behind to capture the trophy for the second time in three years, and their fourth ever title. |
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| She would not be able to bear another tense, sleepless night. |
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| You should be thick-skinned as things can get tense on location. |
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| A tense and low scoring first half left the teams level at the break. |
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| The yachtswoman scored her greatest feat yesterday when she won a dramatic solo transatlantic race in a record-breaking time after a tense fortnight at sea. |
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| So I knew that there was no need to go on the lam, and things will be a lot less tense at the next neighborhood block party if I do the right thing as soon as I return home. |
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| While Leeds looked tense and nervous, City were confident and relaxed. |
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| When a reported matter is introduced by a reporting verb in the past tense, the shift from direct to reported speech is accompanied by a back-shift of the verb. |
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| Everyone was tense as shovels of dirt were tossed into the air. |
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| As the world environment grows more tense than it has been since the end of the Cold War, the UN shows itself hopelessly inefficient at tackling such threats. |
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| In contrast to the tense distinctions that characterize English, English-based Creoles are said to make a basic modal distinction between realis and irrealis. |
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| The two countries were eyeball to eyeball in a tense standoff for almost a year. |
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| When the forgiveness of sins is considered, the use of the aorist tense in the Lord's Prayer makes clear that only a final forgiveness is sought when the Lord comes. |
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| Specifically, it is suggested that the meaning of the tense morphemes alone do not completely determine the temporal interpretation of a sentence. |
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| He said it was tense on board, people were jumpy and nerves were taut. |
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| It is a surrealistic story involving a tense relationship between lovers, nannies pushing baby carriages, and starlets parading around in a snake pit of Hollywood promises. |
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| Ashley suddenly felt herself tense, though she could not say why. |
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| In the long and tense exchange Coulson tells the Home Secretary that he knows about his affair with Kimberley Quinn. |
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| And then, in an emotionally tense few seconds, sobbing, she completes the final hang power clean, barely standing upright. |
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| There are inflexions for number and tense, the vocabulary is Latin or Germanic for the most part, with all the baggage those words bring with them. |
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