| Composing himself, he turned to the girl again with a deprecatory smile. But no smile answered him from her set face. |
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| We all paused, turned to look at Sara in shock as she tugged self-consciously at a lock of pale hair. |
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| The crowd applauded at the speech as the Mayor turned to reveal the sign for the new wing of the museum. |
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| The realization that Kenny went with the girls soon set in and his mother's expression turned to worry. |
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| His arms suddenly turned to gooseflesh and his heart started to beat faster. |
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| Kat turned to him to see that he was giving her a faint smile, which she returned a second later. |
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| I turned to face him again, my attention returning to him in an instant at the challenge. |
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| But their joy turned to anger after the judge reduced the sentence after agreeing to purge the contempt of court conviction. |
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| In Paris he turned to Cubism after meeting Juan Gris and was also influenced by Picasso and the work of the Purists. |
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| Aleya turned to me and for a moment I saw once again those sweet eyes of Lucia, that sweet innocence and purity. |
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| They all turned to see a freckled face red-haired girl in a 80's retro type green dress and pumps. |
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| They'd gone to a Karnal concert, and the girl who'd been talking with vibrant animation in her voice, turned to the guy. |
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| I turned to look at my grandmother clock and it was only then that I noticed the time. |
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| For the British, however, it has all turned to dust, surrendered by the pusillanimous politicians. |
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| The cymbals have sounded, and one of the leopards has turned to look at a goat harassing a putto in the foreground. |
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| He had a firm grasp on her arm, but when she turned to him, he avoided her gaze. |
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| She turned to see him waving at her in the midst of a field of tall, brown and green grass and brightly colored wild flowers. |
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| Slowly and inexorably though, his effervescence and buoyancy turned to bitterness. |
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| Mr Lewis had owned a second-hand shop in Victoria Road, but in his grief after Terry's death he turned to drink. |
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| To explore this idea, the investigators turned to the heterogeneous family of Phyllostomidae, the New World leaf-nosed bats. |
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| They were practically groping him, grabbing his shoulders and tugging on his shirt, even as he turned to leave. |
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| They had proved a point by making a small film that turned to be a big grosser. |
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| When they had reached a small grove of trees, the girl turned to look into her love's eyes. |
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| No longer able to rely on Marxism to excite voters, the left turned to nationalism as a new form of collectivism. |
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| He turned to her, she was all wet, droplets of water fell from her head, water dripped from the bottom of her dress to the ground. |
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| In the North, there have been cases where the enthusiasm of activists has turned to downright intimidation of workers from other parties. |
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| Once they were out of earshot, and eyeshot, of the others, he turned to her. |
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| She turned to find herself faced once again with the disapproving glance of William. |
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| No one in her family could believe that she had suffered a stroke at such a young age, but soon their disbelief turned to anger. |
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| I turned to Jonas, noting the disconsolateness that flawed his gorgeous amber-colored eyes. |
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| Air travel uses large amounts of fossil fuel, which are then turned to greenhouse gases, released at high altitude. |
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| To tease out the details of the transition, other researchers recently turned to lancelets, vertebrates' closest spineless relatives. |
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| In search of answers, she turned to research in her native Sweden and discovered the work of a local Professor. |
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| She quickly scanned the room, pausing as her eyes encountered Landau, troubled memories encumbering her before she turned to regard Damien. |
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| His back was to her, but he turned to face her, coolly, his eyes taking in her dishevelled appearance. |
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| I looked to the teacher at the back of the class for support but as soon as we'd made eye contact she turned to look out of the window. |
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| When he turned to look up at her, it was with a wild look, a hope so anxious it almost hurt her to see it. |
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| Earlier expressionists turned to tribal art to find the inspiration to distort the body in ways that could convey modern despair and agony. |
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| He slung his duffel bag over one shoulder and turned to Raine who had put on a long wooly striped scarf. |
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| Previously, he had published travel essays and short stories, but he turned to writing novels. |
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| Raymond turned to his son and gave a small nod, telling him everything would be okay. |
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| To reduce the problem of fuel supply in the cave, they turned to less bulky kerosene. |
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| Thoughts of my dominating this race quickly turned to thoughts of my finishing this race. |
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| When they walked out into the cold night, she turned to him and her face was aglow with the golden fluorescence of streetlights. |
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| To do this they turned to techniques developed by Freudian psychoanalysts to read the inner desires of the new self. |
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| She said afterwards that they had made her feel uneasy and that she had turned to go back home to avoid them. |
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| She sighed as she looked at the price tag that put the dress well beyond her reach, and turned to walk away dejectedly. |
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| She reached the yellow front door and turned to look at the view from there. |
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| While many other designers turned to the west for their influences, Edward stayed true to the kebaya, but revived for modern times. |
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| Raine turned to leave, waving her boss good-bye as she wobbled like a goose towards the frost-lined door of the small book-store. |
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| He paused and turned to look at his brother who was staring at him with an almost accusing glare. |
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| They both turned to Paxton, who was watching them warily, apparently not wanting to get too close to Seth, which irritated him. |
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| The three of them then turned to look at the subject of their topic, just in time to see a grey address book fall out with a thud. |
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| The popular Aussie made some abortive attempts at comebacks, with dismal results, and then turned to fulltime television golf commentaries. |
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| After the pension scheme was revalued in the wake of the dotcom bubble, that surplus turned to a deficit. |
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| She studied herself from the front, then turned to the side and inspected her profile. |
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| The queen turned to find a young servant girl with bright red hair and deep blue eyes. |
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| So it turned to private industry to provide the extra manpower needed to implement the program. |
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| We each turned to Antonio who was gazing prissily at his nails, examining them closely. |
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| They shared a quiet moment together before Tara stood up and turned to Rob. |
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| Originally trained in oil painting, the young artist turned to woodblock printmaking. |
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| The look changed to one of dawning comprehension and the guard turned to shout a warning. |
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| Whenever I was upset, I always turned to her, and she would talk to me in a calm, serene, optimistic manner, which always left me cheerful. |
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| I growled and turned to strangle his scrawny neck, but I quickly remembered I was pinned against the wall. |
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| Beaton turned to Winterhalter for royalty in full fig, to Romney for pretty girls. |
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| Cunningham paused, and turned to appraise Katalin, who was still lying insentient before the fire. |
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| Sophia touched his shoulder and he turned to look at her now fully nude body. |
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| He really was a general manager, not a coach, and for the past six years or so had turned to golf to fill his unceasing competitive desire. |
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| Unable to bear the situation any longer, Zhang Jianya turned to the court, alleging that Zhang Chun had criminally infringed upon his reputation. |
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| You can see the gears that turned to pivot the enormous centre section of the bridge into the air, allowing riverboats to pass underneath. |
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| Instead, owners have turned to vendors and to system integrators to ensure smooth coordination of the systems. |
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| He sighed, and as I turned to face him, I saw a brief flicker of rage cross his face. |
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| Areal watched her friend walk off, and then a flicker of emotions came over Dido's face when she turned to look at him. |
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| She thought she caught a flicker of movement out of the corner of her eye and turned to peer intently that way. |
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| Brian yelped with surprise and turned to fish his girlfriend out of the water. |
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| Finally, the Federals ran out of ammunition and turned to fighting hand-to-hand with bayonets, scrambling through the forest and the underbrush. |
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| Surprised, Jeana turned to look at her reflection in the mirror with the convex surface. |
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| The scientists had their backs turned to the door and were inspecting a cupboard full of flasks and vials holding multi-colored liquids. |
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| His big eyes glinted with a sudden flare of light and Teera turned to see the camp going up in flames. |
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| She wallowed in self-pity for what seemed like hours, but after a while that sadness turned to anger. |
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| Delia felt a poke and immediately turned to her father, who was holding a piece of toast out for her. |
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| Isn't it nice that he turned to taking over the world via flat-pack furniture instead? |
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| It is the second time the Swedish flat-pack furniture giant has turned to the courts over its proposed store, blocked earlier this year. |
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| In their search for some kind of self-justification, for a sense of moral purpose, Western elites turned to the international arena. |
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| Ball had been niggling away at the Dutch striker, but, as they turned to run towards the box, his elbow poleaxed the young defender. |
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| From the copilot's seat, Captain Simeon Grey turned to face the conference. |
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| A coping saw has a c-shaped frame and a handle, which is turned to tighten a thin flexible blade. |
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| Both men turned to see her standing with a towel wrapped turban style around her hair and wearing a terry cloth bathrobe. |
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| Macmillan held his earpiece again as if hearing something new, and then turned to the printer just as it began to print. |
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| I started off spitting on bashment riddims, then I turned to rap music two and bit years ago. |
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| As the portentous millennium approached, evangelical thoughts turned to the long-awaited Second Coming of Christ and thence to Armageddon. |
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| The ground is frozen, the trees barren and the wind raw, and our thoughts have turned to cycling. |
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| Alison flurried about the room putting away her essentials and then turned to Blair and finally heaved out a breath of air. |
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| Catching my breath, I turned to my true love and finally posed the question that anyone else would have raised many hours earlier. |
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| He quickly turned to face the man as he leapt, presumptuously, onto the deck and approached quite swiftly. |
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| It is, of course, a pre-scientific agricultural society, that turned to magic and superstition to assist them with their crops. |
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| Policy makers then turned to a contract labor program for male agricultural workers, which became a large-scale and long-term program. |
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| Wiping the corners of her mouth with the napkin, she brushed the crumbs off her denim coveralls and turned to me. |
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| He kissed both our foreheads before standing and ruffling our hair one final time before he turned to leave. |
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| Green hills turned to blue-grey, a little more craggy here, a bit mountainous there. |
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| Willis turned to the south to see a small spidery-like creature crawling about, heading straight for him. |
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| Others simply lean against the sea wall, thermoses at the ready, their faces turned to the sun. |
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| When Rees was giving birth, she was close to blacking out from pain and turned to reach for the mask supplying a painkilling gas. |
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| I turned to face him, finally meeting his gaze before leaning forward and kissing him softly. |
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| Modern girls, jaded with Charlotte, the domestic drudge, turned to the more exciting Emily for inspiration. |
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| Amono's anklet turned to a bangle of solid amber which had once been sap, the lifeblood of trees. |
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| Ten minutes later, they were almost out and the droopiness on their side had turned to frustration and anger. |
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| She turned to me, the anger in her eyes, no longer controlled, blazing freely. |
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| She reached the stairs and turned to Chris, who was frozen with shock and fear. |
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| After mid-morning, things turned to a wintery mix of freezing rain and sleet. |
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| He then turned to a back shelf and brought down a large crystal ball and set it in the middle of his desk table. |
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| His grid suddenly turned to a screen and several characters were scrolling across at a rapid pace. |
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| The street twisted and turned to such a degree, he could not see more than twelve cubits in any direction. |
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| She poured a little experimentally into the water, and smiled when it turned to bubbles, frothing in great white mounds. |
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| Her head was turned to the side and I could see a trickle of drool shining from the corner of her mouth. |
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| Walking out the door after the end of the meeting one of the girls turned to me and said that she had thought I was an FTM when I first came in. |
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| I turned to her, slightly entertained at the annoyance curling her upper lip. |
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| Functionally considered, cataracts are complete when the patient cannot distinguish fingers with his back turned to the light. |
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| Scott nodded and turned to go back to his funny papers and the sports news. |
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| The elevator came to a stop at the top floor and Anna turned to face the doors as they creaked open. |
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| To find out who uses a radar detector to avoid the fuzz, we turned to New York City-based Simmons Market Research. |
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| A creative who flipped the script and studied art first, Williams turned to acting to support his artistry. |
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| She narrowed her eyes and turned to the door, wanting to pound whoever was out there. |
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| Loud cheers and slight screams were heard all around me and I turned to Zach grinning. |
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| While early efforts were aimed at marketing vegetables, the emphasis soon turned to dairying. |
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| School bored him, and he wanted nice clothes, so he turned to the street, selling ganja for extra money. |
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| It has turned to improved service and a thriving rental business to hold its market share. |
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| Jane Vance looked on in surprise as the bookseller turned to an elderly laptop computer and entered search data into a databank program. |
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| She turned to Ian enquiringly, as the boy scrabbled frantically on the floor looking for coins. |
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| Her back was turned to me, so I could only see her short crop of black hair and the red mantle she wore. |
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| As I turned to face him, our surroundings melted and we were in a gazebo in a garden. |
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| Police baffled by the murder of a North Yorkshire man have turned to national TV in the hope of tracking down the killer. |
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| As we turned to go, a tall old geezer with a long walking stick was in our way. |
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| In many ways, Peter's is the classic story of a youngster who turned to the bad because he could not see any way forward. |
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| She turned to ask the person to move, but she caught the glint of metal catching light. |
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| Later, the business world turned to Manila hemp, accelerated by the Japanese Industrial Revolution. |
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| John entered the bathroom and turned to sink on to hot, placing his hands under the scalding water. |
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| For centuries, Italians had turned to the Virgin Mary in times of individual or collective trouble to ask for salvation or deliverance. |
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| Stravinsky then turned to a pagan rite of a girl dancing herself to death before the elders in order to propitiate the god of spring. |
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| Letting out a sigh, she turned to the lake, silently viewing its glorious wonders. |
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| How much gumption does it take to pillory the malfeasant editors, reporters, and publisher who turned to compost ages ago? |
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| He closed the book and turned to place it into the glove compartment under the dashboard. |
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| Attention was also turned to the association of fatherhood with notions of provider and breadwinner. |
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| As his athletic bulk has turned to flab, he is now seen as a danger only to fellow-users of public transport. |
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| Fossils, he claimed, were the remains of once-living organisms, turned to stone inside layers of silt or sand deposited by water. |
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| I could only see the gleam of a pair of very bright eyes,which seemed red in the lamplight, as he turned to us. |
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| A frown creased my face as I turned to find Loren sitting next to George. |
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| When the girls had left, Zara turned to Paz in a fever of agitation. |
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| Then, realizing he didn't know me, he turned to someone else and said the exact same thing, so he could receive an eagerly desired knowing, insidery smile in response. |
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| Later, he turned to an intracranial approach for pituitary tumors. |
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| With the advent of interactionism and labelling theory in the 1960s, attention turned to the importance of societal reaction in constructing deviant or delinquent acts. |
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| During one of the most severe dry seasons in the reserve's history, when fires threatened nesting trees, the whole research team turned to creating fire lines. |
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| She turned to her brother, who had a small smile playing across his lips. |
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| Doyle turned to see a tall, if slightly plump, woman walking toward them. |
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| We were in the air about 45 minutes when I felt a poke in the ribs and turned to find my row-mate prodding me with his rolled-up reading material. |
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| During a 15-year moratorium on videomaking, beginning in 1979, Campus experimented with large-format Polaroids, then turned to the new medium of digital photography. |
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| On one occasion, traveling to a corrida in Andujar, he turned to his banderillero and announced he was going to do something that afternoon no one had ever seen before. |
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| They eagerly turned to literature printed in the East to acquire fluency in the expressive, if nonverbal, rhetoric made possible by this new sensibility. |
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| The fat portly man who had been questioning him turned to look at him, and Jason saw a snarl beneath the man's lips as he saw the figure stride forward. |
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| I turned to the only consultant I could on this forsaken island. |
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| Not about to sit by idly as other categories steal their calcium franchise, dairy processors have turned to fortification to recapture share of stomach. |
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| She turned to the old chuckling crone, snarling all the way. |
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| She smiled back, nodded and turned to face the front of the classroom. |
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| And to get a slant on how to bring the big picture into focus, we turned to business futurists who have a knack for forecasting economic and technological trends. |
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| Soon, he was attracted to clay and turned to designer pottery, producing earthenware with the assistance of local potters from a studio in Kottayam district. |
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| Balbastre's early keyboard pieces have descriptive titles in the manner of Couperin and Rameau, but he gradually turned to writing sonatas in the galant style. |
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| She turned to see him standing there looking quite dashing in a tuxedo with a blue garter over the vest and some medals on the left side of the lapel. |
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| We stopped for gas on the way home and were parking in front of her house when she turned to relate what I've come to think of as the quintessential Lisa story. |
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| I turned to Hashem, I cried and davened, cried and said tehillim. |
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| She finally came to a dead end and turned to face the girls. |
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| I turned to Jack, who was prone on the floor a few feet away. |
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| I turned to her and saw a bright mischievous glint in her eye. |
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| Amber turned to me, her eyes glittering seductively as they met mine. |
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| At the end of their long day, after the evening meal, their thoughts turned to their crotchet needles, weaving looms and the preparation of their glory boxes. |
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| So when my sister casually turned to me at Christmas and asked if I would be the godfather to her baby, I quickly agreed without really thinking about it. |
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| In despair, the people turned to Aaron to build them a golden calf. |
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| By the 1850s, once the first flush of gold fever was over, a number of the immigrants turned to grape-growing and wine-making as a more reliable source of income. |
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| Police have now turned to the public for help over the August 27 attack. |
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| When the famine came around here it was terrible, the lovely drills of potatoes were just getting ready to blossom and overnight were turned to stinking, rotting pulp. |
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| Rasa kept up a steady chatter as the tiled floors turned to squeaking boards under my feet, the black wood scratched and gouged from the passage of countless clawed feet. |
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| Angie turned to see Maya standing there with a devilish grin. |
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| Passed over for court painter to George III, Reynolds turned to the King's opponents, the Whig grandees and the group that surrounded the Prince of Wales. |
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| Vicki turned to go and suddenly felt a tight grip on her arm. |
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| I turned to pick up a cookie and that dumb dog was growling again. |
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| Cameron gulped the much-needed air as he turned to see Damian frowning. |
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| They quickly stopped their quiet conversation, oblivious to how outrageously rude and discourteous it was, and turned to him, taking in what he had just said. |
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| To fill in details about family and marital status and missing information on occupation, I turned to the census enumerators' books for 1841 and 1851 and local directories. |
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| They turned to each other, laughing excitedly, talking, not listening. |
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| Within two weeks the lesions turned to pustules and then enlarged to painful, ulcerated nodules up to 2 cm in diameter and ulcers with black eschars. |
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| They both nodded and turned to exit, but Leaf stayed behind. |
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| Jane wiped her watering eyes and turned to look at the spinning dreidel. |
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| Our destiny always lay just beyond the horizon, and some who stood looking out over all of creation saw what the future beheld and turned to go back. |
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| After seeing the sights in town, I turned to summer outdoor activities: to hiking and mountain biking. |
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| He then turned to the mirror and gelled his hair down smooth. |
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| Heads turned to see if the visitor was still present and available. |
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| He turned to the person in the corner of the pub and gestured him over. |
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| David turned to the decrepit man sitting in the interrogation room. |
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| Her eyes turned to Beatrice and locked in defiance of her former mistress. |
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| Again the Rockies turned to the intentional walk to set up the double play. |
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| Darfur heard the crack of doom, As every kind of odious deed Was turned to by the janjaweed. |
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| Chris put the scope on it, had a long look, and turned to me with a deadpan expression. |
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| Some have turned to donor insemination, but this solution does not necessarily meet everyone's expectations. |
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| For two generations, various ethnic communities have trustingly turned to us. |
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| When we threw the head out on the ground, she turned to it and lowed like it was her baby. |
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| Rogers turned to the New Testament parables of the lost sheep and the lost coin to illustrate his understanding of God. |
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| I started taking classes in development, grant writing, and budgeting and turned to dancers that we knew. |
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| Each time their conversation turned to the single status of their children, who were both living in Manhattan. |
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| With bigger vessels unfortunately absent, the society turned to plan B, launching five smaller boats into the quay, including a 1943 vintage dinghy used by the Royal Navy. |
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| Telephone lines became jammed as distraught relatives tried to check up on loved-ones but that did not stop the rumours spreading as attention turned to who was responsible. |
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| She smiled, and turned to look up into Anthony's watchful gaze. |
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| These men were radicalised and turned to jihadism here in Britain. |
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| However, it wasn't long before this psychological warfare turned to my advantage and gave me the chance to turn the situation around quickly. |
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| As a means of regaining support for a return to power, the Conservative Party turned to support of denominational schools. |
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| Ms. Richards is one of the many children of celebrities who have turned to turntables to eke out a living. |
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| The alcohol was so potent that upper class juiceheads turned to all nature of seltzers, tonic waters, juices and citrus to sand the edges off their cocktails. |
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| Then followed a dinner, during which the wine waiter sneakily filled my glass every time I turned to talk to the person next to me. |
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| Though made while Matisse recuperated, weakness was not the chief reason he turned to this new form. |
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| Josiah's young cousin Todd Slade either disappears or is turned to stone or both. |
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| When a character dies or is turned to stone, we don't see the team carry the body. |
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| The movie ended, and the television turned to snow and white noise. |
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| He turned to me and I hung my head in embarrassment, my face glowing. |
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| Instinctively, with the dawn coming, I turned to Madam Mina, intending to hypnotize her. |
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| The workers finally turned to Chávez, who went on to nationalize the company. |
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| As the economy shrunk, the government turned to the bond markets, which sopped up paper that was fully exempt from taxation in all 50 states. |
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| After my crying spell stopped, I gritted my teeth, tucked my crutch under my right arm, and turned to my husband. |
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| After studiing philosophy at the University of Roma, Riccardo Giagni turned to musical studies at the music school of the Aquila. |
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| Oklahoma turned to pentobarbital, another barbiturate, but this drug also became hard to locate. |
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| So is your sin removed from you that far, if you have repented and turned to follow after your God. |
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| And living proof that fashion is a chronic pilferer, it's recently turned to recycling working-class uniforms. |
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| Against the above backcloth over the last decade many Governmental authorities have turned to the private sector to solve their water problems. |
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| I turned to my brother and told him he did as good a job as could be expected, all things considered. |
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| Inspired by a visit to Istanbul, he turned to ceramics for this project and has created a range of bowls and vases completed by a candleholder. |
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| With Kala-kriya Aryabhata turned to astronomy in particular, treating planetary motion along the ecliptic. |
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| He turned to the lithograph after 1892 as a medium well suited to this goal. |
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| He has the head of a rooster turned to the right or left, with the beak facing forward or lifted heavenwards. |
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| Deejay and producer of evenings, he turned to electro and techno since 2005 and occurs in the U. S., Spain or Czech Republic. |
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| He let out a yelp of pain and released her wrists, but it must not have hurt him too badly, because he remained standing and chased after Elizabeth when she turned to run. |
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| To get rich, they turned to growing tobacco, plants and sugar cane, which they then sold abroad. |
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| Recently my investigations have turned to other manifestations of trauma: Auschwitz, child abuse, multiple personality. |
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| He turned to size her up, wondering if she knew that she sounded like a coquette. |
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| When the judge finally asked Picasso if he knew Apollinaire, his embarrassment turned to rage. |
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| With the threateningly popular Mr Weld gone, the state's Democrats have immediately turned to scalping other Democrats. |
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| At that, the conversation turned to people's home towns, everyone trying to outdo each other on the smallness of scale or the restrictiveness of their upbringing. |
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| As Monday turned to Tuesday morning, five hostages had escaped and the Central Business District had turned into a ghost town. |
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| With Killam in charge, politics were pushed aside while the Board turned to the pressing business at hand. |
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| People in need then turned to loan sharks for credit and many lost their livelihood. |
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| When supplies ran out, some consumers turned to soy sauce and fermented bean curd, because of their saltiness. |
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| The vessel had turned to the south when a miscommunication occurred between the bridge team, resulting in an incorrect helm application. |
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| The vessel turned to port, missed the pier, and passed under the main span without touching the bridge substructure. |
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| The cash-strapped population is struggling to meet basic needs and has turned to bartering for goods as their money becomes worthless. |
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| In the Papillion, the ears are set high, with the auricle well open and turned to the side. |
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| By that time Paxport found it did not have the financial backing it needed so it turned to Claridge for support. |
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| Voters turned to Rabin and Labour in such numbers because of the centrist values he is said to epitomize. |
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| After shutting the door and locking it up, she turned to look at Hope. |
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| I now turned to my right past a field in which there were several dead cows and came to a road and a level crossing over a railway. |
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| The couple, who are from the south east of England and do not want to be named, turned to the website after repeated failed attempts at IVF and artificial insemination. |
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| Brent turned to me, rolling his eyes, his tri-corner hat slightly askew. |
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| When someone got sick, they turned to the shaman to be healed. The shaman was-and is-a priest, a healer, a magician, a diviner. |
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| I turned to say some very unkind things to friend cat who was now in a frenzy of excitement. |
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| Pakistan derives about a fifth of its output from agriculture, and much of its most productive cropland is submerged or turned to bog. |
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| Britain is a small country and so the United Kingdom turned to Canada for assistance in the development of poison gas weapons. |
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| Crawford, 40, turned to freehand embroidery, which had been a hobby, and set up business alone at the same time she had her son, Toby. |
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| I am reminded of King Midas, who starved to death because everything he touched turned to gold. |
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| True to local customs, the family turned to a church leader to help them reveal the person whose ill will caused the family's misfortune. |
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| Twilight turned to darkness, and the overhead lights flicked on as people settled into their reading. |
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| She had a good idea of how to make the generators, but she says she turned to a makerspace for inventors and tinkerers to help with troubleshooting. |
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| State governments have increasingly turned to tolls to fund individual projects, but tolling inevitably meets stiff public resistance. |
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| Others turned to the production of traditional decorative pieces such as baskets, which they sold or traded for a dependable source of income. |
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| When pond-raised trout glutted urban markets, the association turned to advocating establishment of wild populations in public waters rather than promoting pond culture. |
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| The precipitation turned to snow after the passage of the cold front, causing heavy snow accumulations to the northwest of the low's path. |
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| She screamed a high pitch screech and turned to face the voice. |
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| In parallel with the design process, thoughts naturally turned to the proposed method of how physically to cast the highly sculptural forms that had been created. |
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| Although art was already present, it was then that he turned to all means of creativity to exorcise his feelings towards what he lived. |
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| As the protests continued, the company turned to military control and in a confrontation, 200 people were killed and many women raped. |
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| Other Quebec women also turned to their personal diaries at various times during their lives. |
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| In some cases, dolphin and porpoise bycatch has turned to directed net or harpoon hunts by artisanal fishers. |
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| As several deliveries drifted harmlessly down the leg-side, the crowd muttered its disapproval. My attention turned to a man in front of me. |
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| The complainant was not satisfied with the position taken by the Commission and, therefore, turned to the Ombudsman. |
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| I found it difficult to follow what he was saying because he was mumbling away with his back turned to me, digging into the pile of robes. |
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| He turned to face the new threat, to find it glinting on the table, resting on a dark cloth. |
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| The man beside him belched noisily and turned to the traveler. |
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| We were packing up one evening after an event when one of our employees turned to me and said, 'Doesn't it make you feel good at the end of the day to know you've done a good job? |
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| Just as elegant Indian women are looking for dressy clothes that edge away from the traditional sari, European designers have turned to draping for inspiration. |
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| Without God, he turned to self-examination. |
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| Eon again turned to Richard Maibaum for the script, although Paul Dehn was later introduced for rewrites. |
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| For right ear BPPV, perform the motions in the opposite direction, starting with the head turned to the right side. |
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| Eventually, it is reported, he ceased working and turned to his wife, who was in tears by his bedside. |
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| Later, for summer clothes, he turned to charity. |
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| The two Gordon setters came obediently to heel. Sir Oswald Feiling winced as he turned to go home. He had felt a warning twinge of lumbago. |
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| The blotches turned to ugly sores that became gangrenous. |
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| Some turned to exclusionary Englishness as the solution to current grievances. |
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| You have old photos, turned to yellow, damaged, faded or stained and are looking for a high quality and low cost digital repair or restoration in Photoshop, done by a touch up specialist? |
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| His nation has regularly turned to the 27-year-old hotshot since awarding him his first cap in 2004 against Germany, the country in whose domestic league he now stars. |
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| They were out of earshot, of course, but the duke turned to the president of the Royal Agricultural Society with his hands held about 10 inches apart. |
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| This not only cost the Canadian treasury hundreds of millions in lost taxation revenue but established a smuggling infra-structure as easily turned to arms and illegal alien smuggling as cigarettes and alcohol. |
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| It reached the furthest point and turned to stare over at me. |
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| Convinced that laser micro-processing was ready to be taken further, the Institute turned to a special interest group of 14 industry and academic experts to help pinpoint promising markets and potential applications. |
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| I turned to my girlfriend, hoping she would tell me it was just a car outside or my own pounding head exploding, but her grim nod confirmed the worst. |
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| Some new firms have turned to specialist providers of seed capital. |
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| In this sense, Canadians can take justifiable pride in the efficient manner in which the rather prosaic service of earmarking of gold was turned to commendable Allied and, at times, humanitarian ends during the war. |
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