They were little tin-foil squares that you snapped in half like a glow-stick, and they'd get all warm and toasty. |
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Of the ones I know, or know of, there's about ten who have actually lived up to what they said they'd do. |
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She was legally his wife, though they'd never shared a roof together in the forty years since they met at art school. |
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I'm sure many people will be saying this week that they'd give their right arm to go to Saturday's FA Cup Final. |
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If asked to put a name to their poison, they'd call rye, corn, booze, hooch, eel juice or rotgut. |
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They'd have to pay for it themselves, without corporate contributions, and they'd have to handle all the logistics. |
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In one case, workers reported that they'd performed some routine maintenance on the spinning machine that made the housing for fans. |
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New Zealanders flock here for long weekends and nominate it as the city they'd most like to live in. |
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On the way back they'd spotted a car on a forecourt so we all had to trundle back over there for a closer look. |
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Even if they felt like rubes, they'd pretend otherwise, behind a screen of smart remarks. |
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Apparently he was a loner there, too, and looked at askance, so his family moved, which they'd been planning on doing, anyway. |
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Most of the people who are going through this now had already lost touch with the only community they'd ever known. |
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The play focuses on ordinary people ruminating over questions they'd never been required to address publicly before. |
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Sometimes, they'd also go to rummage sales in the local area looking for bargains for them to bring back to their homes. |
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I checked with the lost property department, but they'd had nothing handed in. |
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His clothes were rumpled and looked like they'd been slept in more than once. |
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If they were no-added-sugar celery flavoured rusks, then they'd probably be not bad for you at all. |
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Whatever he might have added was cut off as they had reached the small patio where they'd lunched the previous day. |
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Imagine the disappointment if they'd had to turn in their khaki safari jackets and go back to reporting dull stories about Medicare. |
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He smiled down at her and leaned back against the tack and saddlebags that they'd piled on top of each other. |
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Yeah, the bloke who'd been so badly injured they'd pulled him off the pitch would have been the perfect choice to take an important spot kick. |
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The English bowlers looked to have their tails up, as though they'd had a moment of revelation. |
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The early talk was that they'd address only people who purchased locks in the last two years. |
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I just wish they'd give away free samples or sell smaller-sized bags so I can more cheaply see which formula this puppy prefers. |
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But for six weeks prior to the race, they'd secluded themselves, far from the madding crowd, to train in southern Tasmania. |
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A search party had been sent out the previous evening, to no avail, so they'd gone out again at dawn. |
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But who in tarnation would believe him and Olaf if they told what they'd seen lying dead in the meadow? |
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If the Democrats were in the majority, they'd find the Republicans holding up nominations to the courts to be anathema. |
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Fortunately she hasn't been majorly disfigured or anything, otherwise they'd have had to break the nose again and re-set it. |
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He put whatever money he had in savings, so that they'd have something to pay for his son's education with. |
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I tried explaining to them that if they changed this aspect of Sean's make-up they'd also be changing the way he plays the game. |
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Inspired by another factory building they'd seen, the architects opted to try out a sawtooth roof structure to bring in northern light. |
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Both of them said that they'd never have an abortion, but they don't want to go back to the days of back alley abortions and women dying. |
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Second, they'd imply that Chalabi had been unjustly maligned or demonized by opponents with other agendas to pursue. |
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Then, ages after they'd arrived, the crew got water to come out of the hose. |
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Certainly they have worked hard to sort out the mess but at their rate of pay they'd want to be burning the midnight oil every night. |
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Firstly it said that they engaged in medical malpractice, in other words they'd been sued. |
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The metal manacles binding his wrists together over his head felt as if they'd been refrigerated before being locked in place. |
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At 21, if I approached a 40-year-old hard-nut comedian to play my new little comedy club in York, they'd probably tell me where to get off! |
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But the fact is that by the last episode they'd resorted to cheap schmaltz. |
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When we returned to Bristol they'd want to throw a baseball with the big gloves and everything rather than a cricket ball. |
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I showed them our pile of scrap lumber and told them they could have whatever they wanted if they'd build a fort with it. |
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A couple of those shows would have failed even if they'd only been opposite a test pattern. |
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Those in the toy business have to be pretty good at judging the future market, or they'd never make any money. |
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Ask any woman what men keep in their sheds and they'd be bound to mention those. |
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Through no fault of their own, they'd just fallen through some of the gaps in our system. |
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From their accents, it was apparent that they'd come down from Scotland to take part in the event. |
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Half an hour later four of the nine absent jurors arrived to the news that they'd been fined. |
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I had a bit of a hangover because Bruce, Pam and I had polished off a couple of beers when they'd got back. |
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I charitably overlooked the fact this cost slightly more than they'd given me. |
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So they wouldn't say that they'd cooked a meal for their girlfriend or gone to see a film with their boyfriend. |
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She said that those ladies must have been lying when they'd promised their support. |
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After meeting everybody, each person wrote down those they'd been attracted to. |
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One day at school, someone turned up with a box of records they said they'd found at Lime Street station. |
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Someone last week left me a comment to say that they'd typed in the URL as printed in their newspaper. |
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She said she'd let me know the next day when they'd made a decision on who to hire. |
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They argued that they'd given him every opportunity to put his side of the story. |
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I wish they'd divorced years and years before, because I think he would have been a happy man. |
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He said he would have fired the officers even if they'd been acquitted of all charges. |
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No one else they'd ever employed had been able to do what she did as quickly as she did. |
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Police said yesterday they'd been unable to go onto the site on Tuesday night because of its dangers. |
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You'd have thought they'd never seen a naked man before, but then that's booze for you. |
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Loud snores drifted over from one side of the room as someone had become so relaxed they'd fallen asleep. |
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Perhaps they'd be in a better position now, if they'd taken the risk of opposition seriously. |
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Inevitably, some babies wouldn't make it, but at least they'd have been given a chance. |
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Perhaps the local police could investigate, but they'd have to be paid for their time, too. |
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How many of them have given thought to their audience and the type of things they'd like to hear on a regular basis? |
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They knew they would be late, so they decided that they'd sleep in their van, which was in the car park. |
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Far from sneering at our obsolete goods, they'd be raving about all our fabulous antiques. |
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The two couples that we see most of responded before the weekend, saying yes, they'd like to come. |
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Don't worry about all the doctrinal injunctions in the catechism, they'd tell us. |
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They would have got six months in jail or whatever and then they'd have come looking for me. |
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Before going to war soldiers have always had to ask themselves if they'd be willing to die for their cause. |
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As an English exercise I got them all to write a speech about what they'd like to say. |
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It does make me wonder whether they'd do the same with their cash-machine PIN numbers. |
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They said they'd pay her a fiver then proceeded to borrow a tenner from me. |
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They were irate, and justifiably so, though it was nothing to what they'd feel at the final whistle. |
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When bad weather came, they'd sail up one of the creeks around the lake for shelter. |
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You'd think that they'd maybe put the results up on the front page of their web site, wouldn't you? |
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I knew it was only a one in a thousand chance that they'd be hurt, but was still relieved. |
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Vic suggested that if I got on the radio they'd have great difficulty ever getting me to shut up. |
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I held my breath there for a sec wondering if they'd be able to hold onto the notes. |
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For the first half-hour they'd barraged him with questions, but now they seemed content to just try and get some sleep. |
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Uncle Vernon had taken a wrong turn and they'd ended up in a pretty seedy area. |
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To and from school they'd walk so closely together they looked like they were in a three-legged race. |
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I grimaced involuntarily, thinking about the meat loaf they'd likely be serving. |
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Several of Scotland's gold medallists turned into ambassadors, expressing how much they'd like the Games to come to Scotland in eight years. |
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He nodded towards the bowl of dirty brown liquid they'd used to clean their paint-soaked brushes. |
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Pulling on a pair of trousers, and brushing damp freshly-washed hair out of my eyes, I tried to work out what they'd got me for. |
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During questioning, both agents admitted to the offence and told officers they'd been dealing in the illegal drugs for a long time. |
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I kept asking them if they wanted to look into another type of business, but they said no, they'd stick with self-storage. |
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First, in viewing the taped segments afterward, the board picked up details about candidates that they'd missed during the live interview. |
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And they know you aren't bluffing because, well, they'd do the same, and they know you've backed yourself into a corner. |
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Peta is well known for its provocative ad campaigns, which sometimes feature nude models proclaiming they'd rather go naked than wear fur. |
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We phoned a place in Toronto to send for replacement instruments, but made the mistake of telling them they'd probably been stolen. |
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Georgian may be the last word in chic for today's online merchant princes, but doubtless they'd have found the real thing a bit grim. |
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Alex got along with everyone he met, so there were no doubts in my mind they'd become fast friends. |
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My fingers slipped through his as though they'd never been separated, cruelly ripped apart by decency and weakness. |
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The box didn't so much open as separate, coming apart into two pieces that barely looked like they'd fit together. |
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They'd seen the show before, but then they'd had shish kebab and mesclun salad before, and that hadn't dampened their appetites. |
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Congress and the president were supposed to figure out how to cut the deficits or else they'd have a sequester, forced spending cuts. |
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Soon they'd have enough money to but the children another mattress, with sheets and bedspreads, too. |
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He'd follow soon after and then they'd both stare at me until I got the message. |
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As soon as they'd finished singing every word of 'Morning Train', I thought the little toerags would shut up. |
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Once again, 15 minutes after arrival, they'd togged out and with towel in hands were off down to the pool. |
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By enrolling thousands of the uninsured, proponents figured that they'd have the money rolling in toot sweet. |
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It had surprised his parents so much that he'd been interested at all that they'd barely been able to come up with a believable reply. |
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They will think that a Mickey Mouse court fouled up, and if they'd been in a US court they'd have seen justice done. |
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You're just lucky you're cute, or they'd still be bent out of shape for having to study your book in school. |
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It really wasn't such a security issue, but there were definitely people who would get all bent out of shape if they'd seen him do it. |
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When I told them I didn't have any money coming in, they used to shake Colleen down after they'd seen me leave the apartment. |
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The teachers around her were all wearing tracksuits and attire that they'd wear whilst teaching. |
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As he neared the hill the shapes took outlines of men instead of the formless gray lumps they'd appeared as. |
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Maybe it was for the best though, she thought, she had to deal with her own problems, they'd catch up to her anyway. |
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Because they were made of wool, they shed water, though eventually they'd get wet. |
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In fact, they'd even had several discussions with her about being civil and minding her manners. |
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It was as if they'd got all padded up for a cricket match and the opposing team had suddenly run onto the pitch with a rugby ball. |
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The girls were very biddable then, they'd do what they were told and what their mother and father would tell them. |
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And then, once they'd turned their backs for a minute to do something else, we could see my pizza catch fire and eventually blacken to a cinder. |
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He'd treated her to the expensive meal, and was now taking her to the theatre to see the play that they'd been talking about the night before. |
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All thirsted for adventure in the bone-dry world they'd found outside the big house. |
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Draw the lines into the future, imagine the ways in which they'd split and branch, imagine a million hearts that will never flutter into life. |
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If the trendspotters took the time to listen to the music rather than just putting their ear to the ground, they'd hear some inspired sounds. |
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People aren't happy to hear me say that, but if they were in my shoes, looking at the whole picture, they'd feel the same way. |
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On returning home they'd boiled the billy and had a good laugh over their endeavours. |
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By the middle of last week I was beginning to wonder if they'd missed me out, but oh no. |
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I'd love it if they'd put up a fight against his nomination, but I seriously doubt they will beyond a few moans and groans for theater. |
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Ward and his video crew, afraid they'd miss out, commandeered an inflatable raft and shoved off downstream. |
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There still are Trots in Ireland, but if they could muster up 100,000 for their own demonstrations I'm sure they'd be happy. |
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The best showrunners I know put out shows they'd like to watch and are in tune with the viewing audience. |
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After they loaded their luggage into the trunk everyone climbed into the car and followed the directions to the hotel they'd be staying at. |
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I sent that opening to the publishers as a try-on, thinking they'd want it changed. |
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I wish they'd leave me alone because, to be quite honest, I'm sick to the back teeth of them. |
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I wouldn't want to be in a monogamous relationship with someone who stayed with me because they'd feel worthless without a partner. |
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They casually remarked one morning that they'd seen a black widow spider in the tub and washed it down the drain. |
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Rock had downed eight, Ally seven and they'd also gone through a bottle of wine and half of a fifth of vodka. |
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The images in front of my eyes began flying by so quickly, I was no longer able to focus and pretty soon, they'd melted into one big grey blob. |
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I mean, they're kind of bohemian, or they'd be working on a building site rather than a theatre, but they are blokey. |
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While they'd spent the weekend, glued to the TV I'd been away at some distant town racing motocross. |
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We were afraid we'd become the target for the millionaires, that they'd blow us out with big airstrikes. |
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In both cases, significant constituencies had been left to rot, unattended, and they'd had enough. |
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So far, though, the Wharton kids look as if they'd be content just to survive the daylong workshop unbruised. |
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They were going to see a show in the city and they'd brought along a nice single friend of theirs to make up the sixsome. |
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He sat on down on the skanky couch they'd stolen from a skip, and lit two cigarettes. |
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In her concentration she had not noticed that they were both still lying uncomplicatedly in the same position they'd started in six hours before. |
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The pivotal moment came, we're told, when newfangled plastic wheels made skateboards infinitely faster and smoother than they'd ever been before. |
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At one point I was skimming stones into the mist, and I couldn't tell how many jumps they'd made as I'd lost contact. |
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They had a sofa bed, but it looked as if they'd skinned the dog from Blues' Clues to make it. |
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They'd also make a few arbitrary, unreviewed, undiscussed decisions about other stuff they'd keep. |
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If I hadn't got them autographs and they'd found out I'd been in the great woman's orbit, they'd have slain me. |
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I never had gauntlet gloves but always thought they'd be nice trapping mushrats, etc. |
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I just looked out on the prison compound from the solitary room, and I could tell, I couldn't run with these people at all, they'd eat me alive. |
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I didn't know this, but in the Old Days they'd slip a paper sleeve over the bottle to keep the condensation from dripping on your lap. |
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But then maybe I only think that because I believe they'd be benign and unformed stirrings, augmenting my life and not upheaving it. |
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She and her new flatmate, Jasper, were moving into a completely unfurnished flat, so they'd have nothing to sit on. |
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It wasn't only the wig, they'd put on the mutton chops as well, and the costume. |
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It's summer, or so they'd have us believe, so take some time out, wrap up well and just sit and enjoy your garden instead of slogging it out. |
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But who's to say that they might have been even better if they'd been unleashed on the free market. |
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She didn't completely understand why the sepia still photos looked like they'd been smudged, smeared or painted. |
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We had to give them 10,000 dollars just so they'd let us out of our contract. |
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Luckily however, her mother and neighbours were not about to give up on the notion and warned her that if she didn't enter, they'd do it for her! |
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It was an 80-floor walk-up, we were saying, and they'd better book the next day off. |
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I'm sure they'd have fancy statistics saying that this added up to a quadrillion dollars in lost revenue. |
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Within an hour they'd hacked it down to fence height, luckily sparing the thick branch to which one end of my washing line is tied. |
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I thought they'd be doing little dance routines with slap-bass accompaniment, but they are quite Dutch, calm and businesslike. |
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He began thinking of the huge travelling contingent from the Highlands sitting above in the stand and wondering if they'd had a wasted journey. |
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I wish they'd introduce a system for rating bus drivers like they do on blog listing sites. |
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She breathed a sigh of relief as the orchestra finished the quickstep they'd been playing. |
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If they tried to clear my arteries, they'd find one filled with vanilla cream, one filled with jelly, and one dusted with powdered sugar. |
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That way, when they woke up and saw that their sign was gone, they'd know that the Jesus freaks across the lake did it. |
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There was only a fifty percent chance that they'd actually get quizzed on the material tomorrow, but she couldn't chance it. |
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And then as the afternoon wore on, they'd move out and sit on the verandah and look out at the garden beyond. |
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They felt they'd acquitted themselves of their minimum responsibility but getting the statement into the technically true category. |
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From this point on, they'd be practically flying blind, with only the occasional glimpse of their surroundings. |
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Later we made the corrections and gave each person a copy, so that they never thought that they'd been gypped. |
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The befuddled hosts at first tried to jolly Stewart into being the good-natured guest they'd expected. |
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I wish they'd put the money up to secure the loose nuclear materials in Russia. |
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Ayako wasn't one to scare easily, and she knew full well they'd catch onto that. |
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Celebrities were wheeled out, and they'd just stand there and tell anecdotes. |
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For some reason he ranted on and on about the fact that they'd been promised a move to new offices, and it wouldn't happen. |
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On paper you knew what they liked to drink or where they'd heard about the show, but there was no intimacy. |
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If their land had become part of the city, they'd have faced the high property taxes used to cover social services in less affluent areas. |
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And even after they'd cleaned up you could still see the coal dust under their skin. |
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They got up on their high horse, whooped and hollered, rode around in circles, and ended right back where they'd started. |
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However good their intentions, they'd risk aggrandising themselves and diminishing or insulting their subject. |
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The resultant kerfuffle almost overshadowed the fact that they'd released a belter of an album. |
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By now we were agog to hear what else she had noticed, but they'd had to leave. |
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Figuring they'd be arguing for awhile, she just pulled the keys out of the ignition and leaned back across the seat, looking her son in the eye. |
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I wasn't here so they left one of those little, scrawled notes that they'd reattempt delivery the next day. |
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Nazia was also afraid that if she said no to her parents, they'd kick her out of the house. |
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If the agency is willing to employ such airheads at their office, what kind of dunces do you think they'd employ for your client? |
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Do you reckon they'd let me write the recaps on the official site if I apply for the gig next year? |
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When Kelly figured out her parents were helping her kid brother through an ordeal, she realized they'd do the same for her in tough times. |
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He was asking me to proof something I'd already proofed, saying they'd made more changes. |
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But clearly the received opinion was that they'd rather be seeing the actual band. |
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Oh, sure, you all have seen me wing a couple of people, but I hope that it was only after they'd repeatedly attacked me. |
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They thought they could teach me to be the ultimate killing machine if they'd beat me to death. |
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But if people see this as a recipe for some sudden improvement in prices, they'd be mistaken. |
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I have a feeling that if they'd been given half an eternity to sort it out, these two would have been arguing right down to the wire. |
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Let those involved decide if they'd wish to participate in the meting out of justice. |
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I wondered if the fact that it was me that called them would count in my favour, they'd probably just assume it was a mistake on my part though. |
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He was supposed to say sorry and she was supposed to forgive him, then they'd kiss and make up. |
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Then they'd park and write new code to make improvements, redesigning the system on the spot. |
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When they were young, they'd adopted wryness as the defining tone at home, skirting anything too intimate or windy. |
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I regretted the words immediately, knowing that they'd carried an inference of sourness, and guessing that she'd notice. |
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Yet after an all-nighter they'd go out for a celebratory lunch, then go home and come in late the next day. |
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I was mainly doing vocals and they'd tell me what they had been doing all day, mainly we'd get together and yak away, mix all the material up. |
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He's even made the cards sepia-toned, as if they'd slightly yellowed with age. |
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The game is being played at walking pace at the moment and if the Italian players were ambling around any slower they'd be stationary. |
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Every window in the train had been smashed and they'd obviously had a bit of a Larry Dooley on the way down. |
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They men weren't bored, as they'd expected, and were usually the heartiest laughers. |
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She was stuffing all her clothes in a washing machine at a Laundromat they'd discovered that was about a five minute cab ride from the hotel. |
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Wayans Manor was the kind of house the Munsters would have lived in if they'd been zillionaires. |
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Don't be surprised to find yourself rerunning some stories long after you thought they'd be forgotten. |
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People are lazy and they'd rather exaggerate to get what they want than tell the truth. |
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The death metallers, of course, come across not so much as being in league with Odin, as they'd like to think, as being a group of bullies. |
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If they'd fix one leaky tap that's been dripping for at least 9 years next to the church we'd probably save on a load of water expenses! |
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At multiple stop stations they'd play announcements over the PA system to tell people which train to get on. |
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Rusk insists they'd never have such acute antennae for the cutting edge without his wife Louise's talent for creating new looks. |
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He just hoped St. George's Primary School had got the piano retuned, like they'd promised. |
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If Neil and the boys knew then what they know now, they'd likely have been far less interested in climbing aboard and strapping in. |
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This is a table where they list dates, details of the subject they are revising and what results they'd like to achieve by when. |
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If they'd have let her come with us, she'd have been on that boat as quick as a flash. |
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If it were to stretch any further they'd be rolling up their trousers and paddling in the icy North Sea. |
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The tree was dripping with ripe, juicy peaches that looked so soft and succulent that they'd burst in your mouth at first bite. |
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Thirty grayish white pillars surrounding the building rose so high that I couldn't help but wonder if they'd used magic to set them up. |
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You think they'd notice if you had six fingers, or a lisp, or if you were two feet shorter? |
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I wish they'd just put up a transcript, but for those of you with broadband it's well worth a listen. |
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He took a bunch of pictures with it, and sure enough, they too look as metallically eerie and ghostlike as if they'd been lost in archives for a century. |
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They can smell competition in the wind, so thought they'd have a lash at getting new offshore customers before they start losing their own to Chinese competitors. |
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They had onion skin traces made of all bombers returning from raids, as to where they'd been hit by anti-aircraft and enemy fire. |
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In Italy, minding a friend's house, we managed to flood it, and spent much of our stay whitewashing walls which looked as if they'd been stained with nicotine. |
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When a gang of my friends arrived with six-packs of beer dressed like they'd just walked off the set of Trainspotting my flatmate's face could have turned a dairy sour. |
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You know in old movies, they'd have a calendar that used to go whoosh! |
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The developers accomplished what they said they'd do, and made the rewritable media compatible with the installed base of read-only DVD-RAM and DVD-Video drives. |
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If they knew it was you who turned them in, they'd gut you like a fish. |
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And they would come there and they'd come from deep in Asia over centuries and centuries, and they spoke their own language, Romany, which had a heavy Indian influence. |
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The telecom industry was already in a tailspin, so no one wanted to take on the added risk of doing business in areas where they couldn't be sure they'd get paid. |
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Until they came up dry, they'd follow his lead without question. |
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Once Kinnaman flew out to Los Angeles to do a screen test, sud said, they knew they'd found their man. |
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They sat on their civilised behinds and laughed as the frightened face of the woman they'd nicknamed The Pig stared from their screens like a rabbit caught in headlights. |
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The jury were staring like they'd never seen a talking cat before. |
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Both Web-hosting concerns said they'd likely comply in some fashion if a sitting U.S. senator registered a takedown request. |
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I thought they'd go off the deep end but they weren't surprised at all. |
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If they'd included a radio tuner, I would have bought one already. |
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Along the edge of the lawn drifts and heaps of yellow leaves caught the first light, looking for all the world as if they'd grown there overnight. |
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One would hope that they'd bring the same disciplines to the process of politics that they should have in the legal profession and are bound by similar ethics. |
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Meanwhile, in the Mail's tartan edition, Mr Bartholomew had changed his tune somewhat, recommending to the rag's Scottish readers that they'd be better off staying put. |
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On the other hand, in fairness to them, if they had read the book, they'd no doubt be madder still. |
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Anyway, recently the children asked to try some whelks and winkles, which were so vinegary they'd lost all their flavour, and then Megan asked to try the crab. |
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I'm not one of those people who has to clap a wet cloth over his face when artificial scents waft his way, but I wish they'd stop making everything smell like something. |
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The boards would be a nice touch, but they'd ruin the aerodynamics, so perhaps better additions are a chalk-striped suit, fedora, and spats to your wardrobe. |
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He doubted any would stop him if they'd seen his coat of arms. |
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Another long pause of silence, not due to shock or confusion, just because they'd done this before and neither felt it necessary to repeat melodramatics. |
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I found him intractable, dominating and intent on lecturing everyone about the way to do things, which in his case meant only the way they'd done things in the fifties. |
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I think they'd prefer a splash of tinsel round the school instead. |
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If you go to the harbour, there are wizened old ladies selling beautiful hand-made lace and tablecloths for a fraction of what they'd cost back home. |
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Ethan was standing in knee-deep water, looking back the way they'd come. |
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The hotel they'd booked me was expensive, but I wasn't complaining. |
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The man's head lolled around with the motion of the train, as if his neck muscles had decided that they'd been working too hard and it was time for a holiday. |
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They were headed farther down, several levels below the room they'd been in the day before, hoping to find more than empty rooms and bare alcoves. |
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Her parents probably would be happy that she'd got this part, although it would be the same sort of happiness that they'd show a child successfully making mud pies. |
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If only salespeople were fuzzy and wagged their tails more, they'd probably find it easier to cooperate with the inevitable. |
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Hoping they'd be safe enough, it was an eye-opener to read Enders's account of four of their Iraqi staff having a barney and falling silent as he passed. |
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If teachers didn't resist each new fad, they'd be lobotomized. |
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He reined in his horse and looked back in the direction they'd come from. |
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And the way these used to work was that they would have each applicant come onto the stage and play a short piece of music and they'd do a very quick sift. |
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He was explaining in detail about some armed robbery he'd been involved in, how they'd shot through the kitchen window and how he was sure he was doing bird this time. |
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If there was real empowerment behind princesses, they'd be a powerful tool for girls' self-actualization. |
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Had he ever done something like in Newtown, every self-important shrink on TV would have claimed they'd have seen it coming. |
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I just wish they'd put in undersoil heating when the ground was built. |
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As morning broke in the windowless Bedsit, Emma peered wearily out of the bed they'd shared as Michelle trumped loudly and proudly into the already stale air. |
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He said they'd do everything they can, which was so morale-boosting. |
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So they'd hide me in an upper berth and that's where I'd sleep. |
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And in a surprising turn of events, no singles were released for this album, with the assurance that they'd be releasing a few A-sides in December. |
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There are no open drains, fortunately, or they'd be silted by now. |
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Over the years I've often been tempted to try Achimenes, but having never seen them grown locally, I'm not sure they'd like our sometimes hot days in summer. |
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I couldn't show any sign of weakness or they'd eat me alive. |
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Wish they'd shut their laughing gear and just get on with it. |
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Then, they'd thought I'd lost the plot when I suggested buying the lease. |
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If they didn't spin, they'd suffer bad press and PR disasters by the day. |
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Maybe they'd have saved Medicare Advantage from cuts, gotten some sort of tort reform thrown in, or slightly changed the pay-fors. |
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Maybe if those guys shaved like everyone else they'd look good. |
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Would have been nice if they'd been anywhere close to this skeptical back in 2003, eh? |
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My portion of braised veal trotters seemed to have been overbraised by a week or two, and the lamb sausages tasted faintly of gas, as if they'd been blasted with a blowtorch. |
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On their US tour they'd wear boubous, traditional Senegalese dress. |
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On the way, they'd been attacked by brigands again, but they'd scarpered as soon as they realised the team was capable of offering armed resistance. |
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Actually, they said that it was my thespian talents that made them choose me, and they said that my voice was adequate, but they'd prefer it if I kept improving it. |
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And before night they'd finished threshing the whole mow of wheat. |
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He'd haul in a few dozen loads of dry wood and they'd heat the place up until we could set up a town in there and walk around in our shirtsleeves. |
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On the wet days they'd sit in my shop and one would look out of one window and the other out of the opposite window to keep a check on what was going on. |
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She seemed nice at first, but within a couple of days of them hooking up she started throwing her weight around, acting like they'd been going out for a year. |
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Now, if they'd played it properly, they'd have made a joke of it. |
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When the police took a dislike to them they'd run them out of town. |
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Maybe they don't have much disposable income, and if they didn't download songs they'd borrow CDs from their friends or check them out of the library. |
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If we were turned over to the public, I think they'd string us up. |
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If users bought a personal firewall and configured it never to accept incoming connections, and were smart about email attachments and websites, they'd be a lot safer. |
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No consideration was given to the fact that most Apache hostilities were self-defense or retaliation, and that they'd first been raided by the New Mexicans. |
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Even people who were flat broke got in on the action when brokers lent them the money to buy shares, in the belief that when their ship came in, they'd share the ride. |
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It was only when they'd gotten their breath back that they realized everything was quiet around them, except the sound of the music playing from the boom box. |
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