But it was like a glowing reminder of the beautiful boy who'd once worn it so proudly, an unfitting tribute to all that the world had lost. |
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My best holiday was with Leo, the artist who'd painted me, and his wife Gemma one summer. |
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Don't you think you're being a little unfair on your customers who'd like a choice of brand of cold drink from the chiller? |
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Casey was explaining that a sourdough was someone who'd spent the winter in the North, and Rick and Willow were still cheechakos. |
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Thank you for staying my hand when I was tempted to pen a nasty review of someone who'd written unkindly about my books. |
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A Colorado judge wrestled with that when facing noise violators who'd unleashed their blaring music on an innocent public. |
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Giles staggered to the sofa and sank down on it, looking like a man who'd been sucker-punched. |
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The men who'd bet on Raider winning were slapping high fives and opening up yet another case of beer. |
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In the foreground, I copied this photo of a girl who'd been napalmed in the Vietnam war. |
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He is also accused of telling a police switchboard operator, who'd recently been diagnosed with cancer, that he hoped she caught the disease. |
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Its slopes are relatively untrodden, making it ideal for hikers who'd rather earn seclusion than bragging rights. |
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He was a strict college professor who'd managed to rise to the upper social status himself. |
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Any man who'd have his mum's initials tattooed onto his back has something very special indeed. |
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There are 10,000 thirsty freshman and sophomores who'd pay you for this program. |
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This teacher went to jail and lost her job after tackling a bunch of youths who'd been terrorising her and vandalising her property. |
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Is there anyone who'd like to repeat what I just said for our head boy's benefit? |
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Anyone who'd seen the news even once in the past few years knew war would happen soon. |
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There are still a number of folks who'd prefer to gussy-up a hardtail rather than drop the big bucks on a new bike. |
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With his cuts cleaned, and a bit of plaster, he looked like an innocent ten year old, who'd fallen off his bicycle. |
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In another case, also featuring a desperate mother and a child who'd gone bad, Judge Hatchett lectured the mother to get some spine. |
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She says the insults were received with a degree of shock by the local residents who'd come out in support of their bushland. |
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The future of about 60 people who'd volunteered to take redundancy hung in the balance. |
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So who'd turn out that early in the morning to watch grown men make vomitous pigs of themselves? |
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My editors over the years had always pooh-poohed my suggestion for a media section or page as boring for readers, who'd see it as navel gazing. |
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Scriptwriters insist on depicting reporters as unscrupulous, hard-bitten hacks who'd sooner sell their granny than miss out on a scoop. |
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Cameron was a hard-hearted, cold individual who'd decided he didn't like Kate. |
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From what foul depths could have crawled a man who'd drive well above the speed limit, intoxicated by both alcohol and demon marijuana? |
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He half-heartedly nodded his greetings at several gentlemen who'd yelled their hellos to him from across the room, but he was too driven to stop. |
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Barely a decade ago the country seemed to be awash with 50-odd-year-olds who'd been put out to grass with generous pension settlements. |
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By midnight, save for the few who'd donned old sneakers and jeans, gay summer colors had become a uniformed dull, putrid, brown. |
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The discussion on who had bagged what quote was vastly outstripping even the goss on who'd be wearing what to the senior college formal. |
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Mainly, everyone there seemed astonished at the number of people who'd turned out. |
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Just over a year ago, I applauded a group of Star Wars fans who'd built the Millennium Falcon in their backyard. |
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Regulars said there were an awful lot of people there who'd never been to St Brigid's before. |
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City police officers who'd been there that day left their outpost to greet him. |
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But all my friends who'd never really listened to them were blown away, and loved it. |
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Alex, who'd dragged me up here to see what he was so excited about seeing himself, was taken aback. |
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At work, everyone who'd made an effort to be home was totally understanding when their viewings were cancelled. |
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For they all had to carry on the message of destiny now, everyone who had believed, everyone who'd had faith. |
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They would have no compunction about silencing a fellow countryman who'd discovered their hidden lair. |
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The woman who'd been sitting at the computer next to mine turned to face me. |
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When my Mother was 10 years old, my Grandmother returned to visit the family who'd looked after her. |
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I'd also looked after an old gent called Jack who'd been a sergeant in charge of a bunch of Irish lads. |
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The young men who'd been hiding in the hills filtered back into the town to greet their new protectors. |
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While I was in the coma, the doctors told Jim and my family, who'd flown over, to keep talking to me and play music. |
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As it happened, I got a phone call at work the next morning by a medical student who'd discovered my wallet and traced it back to me. |
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I suspect they were visiting a local family and had come to pay respect to two old folks who'd not seen this last winter through. |
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David Batty's touch took the ball beyond John Terry to Keane, who'd only been on the pitch for six minutes. |
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She learned German and went on a school exchange to Frankfurt, which was so prosperous she wondered who'd won the war. |
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If Chaucer were alive today, and armed with a shotgun, there wouldn't be a jury in the land who'd convict. |
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The deadline for those who'd like to submit their films is less than a month away, however. |
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So here are three excellent articles for those who'd like to bury the music industry and dance on its grave. |
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I get a cop who sounds like an old bored man who'd really rather be at the bingo parlor. |
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Feste tells a fool's tale about those who'd want to tax owners of more than one car. |
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He also found it helpful to think of the people who'd benefit from the charities he was running for. |
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He used to link up with Chris Llewellyn, who'd start his trek from Swansea. |
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You accept that someday your parents will die, but I never saw myself as someone who'd get divorced. |
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It's just a real pity that there are people out there who'd like nothing more than to exploit it. |
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Still, he was about to apprehend a fugitive who'd eluded the police for eleven years. |
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Frankly, I'm astonished that there's someone else out there who'd stretch to five pounds for it. |
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Remove everyone over 60, mostly old men who'd rather there weren't any women here. |
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The big man, and a whorish red-head who'd latched onto his arm upon his victory, were waiting for Joey. |
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I didn't want you all to think that I was going off on one again about a guy who'd never contact me. |
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Harris didn't understand why she felt this connection with the lunatic who'd kidnaped her, but he understood what she meant. |
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I knew the class was going to be hard work for students who'd written almost entirely in free verse. |
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But truth be told, even the guys who'd been explicitly invited were cramping the all-girl scene. |
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They're just saying you're a low swine who'd rather play word games than keep your word. |
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He left behind him a daughter, the only family he had, and a cowhand who'd been his partner of sorts ever since he'd saved his life. |
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Not to mention he sees me as a safe choice, the last male in his acquaintance who'd ever play the masher with his wife's kin. |
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Plus, there are these guys I had a bit of an altercation with last week who'd love to take a poke at me, and I ain't about to help them out. |
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Many begin to slip into unspoken worrit about those people, who'd been so hostile to our jests earlier on. |
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So now, the man who'd been arguing with them was covered with the birds, and was flailing about madly, sending feathers flying everywhere. |
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This was not some guy from the Midwest who'd gone postal on his co-workers. |
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I suspect that it's sneering anyone who'd consider watching it, and I don't think programme makers should gob on the hand that feeds them. |
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Especially if it were a lazy horse who'd rather be hanging around in a paddock somewhere without some bloke on its back whipping it. |
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Wilkins, a medical student who'd boarded there for five years, stood in his undershirt with his shoes in hand. |
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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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Siegfried, his head grader driver, ran one crew while Steve, who'd been with him from the very first, oversaw the other. |
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The ball goes out of play and he gets to his feet with the air about him of a man who'd settle for a corner. |
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Some of this support surely comes from some of the same people who'd considered him something of a cold fish. |
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The man who'd been ahead of them in the line ended up sitting five or six people away. |
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Yet it came from a tiny little schoolgirl, who'd been struck down by a filthy cold on the day of the recording. |
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He'd been strapped securely, according to the guy who'd put him in the harness, to a soldier's back for the descent. |
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A literary agent who'd read her manuscript of three essays and two short stories encouraged her to expand one of the stories into a novel. |
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The primary concern troll was a guy who'd been around since the very beginning of the site. |
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As I removed my earpiece after a live broadcast on Tuesday, a man who'd been listening approached me. |
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She recalls gathering up loose change dropped by blokes who'd been in the pub too long, and trying to give it back to the pie cart proprietor. |
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We inherited a sofa and a couple of armchairs, as well as a fridge from friends who'd moved out. |
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There are a thousand colonels in the army who'd give their eye teeth for this chance. |
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He could just have been a sore loser who'd met an opponent coldly invulnerable to his glowering mind games. |
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I saw him perform that same routine once against a fighter who'd landed probably two dozen low blows in the course of the match. |
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Rachel might be a flutterer who'd clearly heard entirely too many romantic ballads, but she was also an excellent cook. |
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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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What impressed me most about that weekend was the number of people who'd taken up macrobiotics and recovered from a variety of illnesses. |
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He still remembers what it was like for his friends who'd bucked the system. |
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I wasn't a broken-down jockey, or a book-keeper who'd done a stretch for tickling the peter, like the others. |
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She was a four-month old stray, a street urchin who'd been picked up by a dogcatcher. |
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For those who'd rather drink their dessert, there are 48 beers on tap and bottles sold by the bucket. |
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The incomparable Bennett, who'd seized control of the women's race almost from the outset, coasted to her fourth victory in five attempts. |
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His first album appeared in late 1961, a remarkable achievement for a hick who'd landed in the city only a few months earlier. |
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Summer was a major flirt who thrived on scandal and gossip, and she was the type of self-proclaimed daredevil who'd try anything once. |
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With his hair tinged by the sun's rays, he looked like a dog fox who'd out-witted his pursuers once again. |
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Sylvia, who'd bought a bottle of wine, carried the dog under one arm while she swigged vino with her other. |
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It was thought that mandrakes sprang up beneath gallows, with the root taking on the shape of the person who'd been hanged. |
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They ran into Marcus, who'd disappeared as soon as he came off stage, in the fenced in area by the backstage door. |
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Marnie hesitated for a half second too long, looking at the man who'd designated himself as her house husband. |
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True, it might mean higher taxes and less disposable income for those who'd rather pursue their children's interests on their own terms. |
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There must be thousands of gullible theatre-going buffoons who'd happily shell out for a piece of souvenir art. |
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In one small room a grey-haired jobsworth barked angrily at three tourists who'd dared to point their fingers too close to a minor masterpiece. |
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The tall, stately Gullah nurse who'd met them at the clinic smiled at Catherine and continued wrapping an elastic bandage around his wrist. |
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So it was a thrill to hear from Jed, who'd come across my name on the Web and wanted to get in touch. |
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To be charitable, perhaps his paranoid focus on who'd been criticising Latham obscured his focus. |
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If I had a dog who'd already had a tick-borne illness, I'd use a really reliable tick preventative. |
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A ticket inspector climbed aboard along the Whitechapel Road, failing to find anyone who'd sneaked on without paying. |
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Those revellers who'd brought their own champagne stood around and toasted 2004 in plastic beakers. |
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Around them were gathered a sea of Mercs, BMWs and Audis belonging to families who'd taken their children for a romp along the beach. |
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Nearby Silas's cottage, they find a tinderbox, which makes a townsman recall that a peddler who'd come to town recently carried a tinderbox. |
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There was Larry, the man with no teeth and no hair but a lovely voice, who enjoyed serenading anyone who'd listen. |
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We crept on tip toes into the middle of a tour group who'd obviously paid good money for their scholarly tour guide. |
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Everyone was running in or out, and the students who'd managed to sneak in or had avoided being kicked out were visibly shaken. |
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He had also wrote to Minister Cullen, who'd also acknowledged his letter, requesting him to use his contacts to expedite the meeting. |
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He liked dropping in and being treated as the visiting uncle who'd sit miserably by the fireside. |
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The shouts went up from men who'd already seen Mathian's banner fall, and panic spread out from them like pestilence. |
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As a result of this investigation, I was able to get a man who'd been sentenced to die in the Texas electric chair out of prison. |
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Tony, who'd flown seven combat missions at the time, hadn't faced many threats. |
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So the 35-year-old Californian, who'd had a moderate year in the Majors, finished in triumph. |
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There were dozens of men in the crowd who'd clearly gone to considerable effort to cultivate the famous towering quiff and sideburns combo. |
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As he wrote, he gave silent thanks to the people who'd invented the helmet. |
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There'd been an old drifter who'd stopped by for lodgings with his ragged hat and scarf, everything he owned in a beat-up pack. |
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My ex used to joke that I was the only woman he knew who'd rather have a diamond python than a diamond necklace. |
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It wasn't anything particularly evil or sinister, instead more on the lines of someone who'd just managed to housebreak a small puppy. |
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There are towns like Watchet all over Britain, left high and dry as local industries have failed, who'd give their eye teeth for the development funds available here. |
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He would at least describe the wench who'd clocked him with a trunk. |
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He was a self-motivated man who'd always give you the time of day. |
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He refused to be parted from her, the student who'd saved his life. |
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Trent faced the girl who'd spoken to him and was completely dumbstruck. |
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Suntanned from riding on his motorcycle, his hair longer than before and distinctly raffish, he didn't look much like the well-groomed man who'd hung around for Liza's birth. |
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Here was a wife who'd committed adultery, was an adulteress. |
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While I was in the arena, a demonstrator who'd been shot in the shoulder lay on his side for about an hour on the arena floor. |
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He once went to the help of a man who'd been mugged on Hampstead Heath. |
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Was this the girl who'd created my almost favourite album of all time? |
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I then got chatting with a really nice woman who'd come up from Cork. |
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Gosh, who'd have thought being a modern woman could be so complicated? |
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Synchronicity was young, still in the process of setting up, it was probably kismet that his wife wasn't one of the subjects who'd been completely tagged and bagged already. |
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She turned around to see Sandy, the crew member who'd recruited her. |
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Cohabitors still had a higher divorce rate and a higher level of discontent in their married life compared to couples who'd been living separately before tying the knot. |
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She pitied the poor scientist who'd caught the major part of his wrath. |
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There's also Ian, a tutor who'd been previously bumming around Europe for years and now seduces the more attractive of the students to whom he teaches English. |
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I returned to the towel section and attempted to speak to a shopper who'd just thrown a few in her cart. |
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Buena Vista was a sampler for people who'd never heard Cuban music. |
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Darren was the kind of man who'd lug a sofa bed up three flights of stairs without a whisper of complaint. |
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People who'd see us on the practice tee thought we were fighting. |
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I'd met few who'd been to the country, and from second and third-hand reports I'd heard, I imagined a strange land of bicycle-avalanches and where vegetarians ate grass. |
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The maximalist goal should strongly appeal to those who'd like to see a better and more just world. |
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Why I know at least half-a-dozen who'd file complaints in a trice. |
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Apparently, one anxious publisher phoned on behalf of a distinguished philosopher who'd misread the invitation letter and thought he was required to pay to take part. |
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Brandark's finery had astounded everyone, and some of those who'd prudently withdrawn from his vicinity had been lured back when he uncased his balalaika and began strumming. |
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Jay started blustering around telling anyone who'd listen, and there weren't many volunteers, that the mess from the earlier food fight would have to be cleared up. |
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Quality fanfic that makes me fall in love with the characters all over again, makes me squee and giggle and email everyone I can think of who'd like it too. |
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She strikes me as a no-nonsense gal, the sort of English rose, raised on tea and hockey, who'd be calm in a crisis and know how to make splints out of ice lolly sticks. |
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One show I saw involved a woman who'd stiffed an appliance store on a refrigerator and then had the gall to sue it for harassment when it tried to collect. |
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In the bar, punters were downing real ale or orange juice, and staring resentfully at the three people who'd had the cheek to light up a cigarette. |
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Coming to a halt, she rested her hands on her hips and tilted her head upwards, sucking at the air like a claustrophobic who'd been trapped in an elevator for too long. |
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The article related the story of a teenager who'd come to Father Shanley for counseling in the 1970s and was inveigled into a game of strip poker. |
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I finally lost my cool and told a youngster who'd been particularly loud and obnoxious to sit down and be quiet or I'd have him removed by theater staff. |
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It would shred documents as soon as they emerged from the copier, without the bother of distributing them to people who'd just throw them out anyway. |
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He cursed loudly, hollering it at the two men who'd raised him. |
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Jamie let a string of cusses fly before realising who'd knocked into him. |
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Of course you always get one like him, the guy who'd done the caves the hard way by potholing, umpteen years ago, and wanted to let everyone know. |
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I looked furiously from her to the one who'd had enough gall to do this. |
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The dog at his feet, who'd been sniffing at me suspiciously and tugging at its leash, gave a sudden gambol and licked my hand, barking enthusiastically. |
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The first film's rather subdued acting could be excused by the fact that it had had to set the scene, give the background to the few people who'd never heard of the stories. |
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The Boomers had been the ones who'd ushered in an era of inclusiveness, diversity, and Aquarian dreams for a more humane society. |
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Listen to that woman screaming,' she deadpans, 'I thought it was one of the midwives who'd opened her payslip. |
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Mother Teresa worked in the slums of Calcutta in streets infested with vagabonds who'd slit your throat for the price of a pappadum. |
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Beach-tanned technocuties at distant tables who'd scanned them with interest when they came in now turned away scowling. |
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Against the glacial backdrop he looked like a lost minstrel who'd taken a wrong turn at Albuquerque. |
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This club was crammed full of men who'd lived through the afternoon's rollercoastering emotions. |
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My first port of call was the home of an old friend of my mother's, an American woman who'd married a French man. |
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There are a number of Congresscritters who'd like nothing better than to convert the Shuttle into benefits for their own districts. |
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Here were kind words about bio-based ethanol technology from a President who'd never met a fossil fuel he didn't love. |
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Clint looked like he had been scalped by a Red Indian who'd smoked too much peace pipe. |
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Then, almost immediately on the heels of Beverly came Dante, who'd been 5150ed by his mother. |
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There are eager beavers who'd do an interview programme but nobody seems interested. |
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A headhunter told us of a man who'd been a star at several money center banks. |
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If every rubberneck who'd turned up for a squint of James Turner Street had left a tenner, we'd be hearing none of this victimhood piffle. |
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Reading these reports must have been pretty scary for women who'd had IVF or were contemplating it. |
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When it came to selling, the couple must have wanted a broker who'd go to the mat for them. |
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The group in the FBI who'd been studying our paranormalness had had no experience with such things. |
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Moki, the dog who'd been part of her life for 16 years, had died the previous day. |
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She was mixed race like me, a great student who'd been top of her class, who played piano and loved Nina Simone. |
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While Tam Donnelly wanted to know who'd win in a fight between Mighty Mouse, Danger Mouse and Fingermouse. |
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He was a shy history professor from Marseille who'd written three books on the Marranos of the sixteenth century. |
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Team Shark conducts open shark dives for individuals who'd like to see sharks up close but don't scuba dive. |
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He cannot let his party drift into abject irrelevance, a place full of tubthumping blowhards who'd rather make noise than policy. |
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She looks like someone who'd be very on top of things, but she's scattier than I am. |
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Suddenly mouthy Yank Vanilla Ice, who'd been shouting the odds all week, found himself penned in with Britain's sarkiest man. |
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Down the beach, a group of mergirls and boys were facing off with the same merprince who'd spoken through the mirror. |
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If Rix decides to walk I don't know any self-respecting manager who'd touch us with a barge pole. |
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But when they knew they were going back they lost his paperwork. No just his. Everycunt who'd tried to leave. |
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He wasn't one of those who'd bad-mouth the manager to his team-mates if he was left out. |
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But at that point the barman, who'd been following the conversation with increasing interest, raised a heavy soda siphon and brought it crashing down on the stranger's head. |
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Having babies spits in the eye of the Ludendorffs and Kaiser Wilhelms and the Krupps and all the other deathmongers who'd kill the lot of us if they could. |
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The man I dubbed the Skegness grave robber ripped-off 176 families who'd bought headstones, leaving a PS220,000 black hole in the accounts of his firm Simply Memorials. |
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The baby boomers who'd filled its cantinas in the 1980s deserted El Torito to cocoon at home, and the Mexican-food chain had to do some serious retrenching. |
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She went from the arms of the football captain to the dry-handed grasp of Mr. Depopolus, who'd retired from the faculty when she was twelve years old. |
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Yet they began so well, vindicating the few pundits outside of Merseyside who'd backed them for the title after 13 years of being the matinee idol who'd taken to drink. |
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Particularly attractive to non-aggressive, solitary mason bees who'd like to snuggle up at the back of the nesting tubes, it helps with their conservation. |
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The Argies have an embarrassment of riches up front, with five forwards who'd walk into any team in the world, especially if Kevin Keegan was picking it. |
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The main reason he felt he had to make it clear to Errol that he wanted her was that she was the one who'd seen them on the bus and she would be the easiest to chirpse. |
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Even a streaker couldn't disturb their massive concentration, nor could the dirgeful piper who'd earlier given the match its air of untimely triumphalism. |
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You see, when it comes to buying a car, people who'd haggle with the milkman turn into sadsters with 'empty my wallet' writ large on their foreheads. |
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He sounded like a retired boxer who'd specialized in the rope-a-dope. |
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But guess who'd pooed on the little mole's head, yes it was a dog. |
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Who'd have thought it would be Phillip Schofield and Fern Britton who'd cast themselves in the role of grand inquisitors and kick Katona around for 10 minutes. |
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