He learned enough Thai to get by, to add to his fluency in Tagalog, English and Spanish. |
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I think he really thought it was perfectly OK to knock people, to bump people and get by them and go on and win. |
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If you are the biggest numbskull in the world you will get by on good manners. |
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But like caller ID and call waiting, once people start using them, they won't get by without them. |
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His can-do attitude spurred him on and he took part-time work to get by while continuing to write songs. |
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But if you're tagging along for the adoration you get by being her bud, eventually people will see that you're just a hanger-on. |
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Colon was expected to mix in off-speed pitches, but he has been trying to get by with average heat. |
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How will they get by on Sunday, with no shampoo, just grated carbolic soap. |
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Could we conceivably ever get to a stage where we would have to harvest and eat other humans to get by? |
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Don't get me wrong, this record has enough hot beats and club appeal to get by, but the lyrics are just super derivative and one-dimensional. |
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But this does not imply that the track sprinter can get by with training only a few days a week. |
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He likes to be able to get by in new countries, and where better to start than to learn how to order drinks in bars? |
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The government strictly enforces price controls on basic items as well as rent control laws, that help low-income people get by. |
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He can't get by on skill and athletic ability and must outmuscle opponents instead of outmaneuvering them. |
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It was just what she did to get by and be happy and be able to paddle outriggers and go to Hawaii every year. |
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With no tax credit payments, she says she is making do with child benefit to get by. |
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To get by, many cash-strapped mistresses go back to work as nightclub hostesses or juggle several patrons at one time to earn extra income. |
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No surprise there, given that it's cold outside and everybody needs a little human friction to get by. |
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There was no importance placed on the way you look, because that was not the way you were going to get by. |
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At worst, Gibbons makes a nice platoon bat, and has been able to get by in right field, and play well at first base. |
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I don't think respect is something that you can get by intimidating someone. |
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Try using a torch to investigate how much more detailed contrast you can get by using cross light. |
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He's somehow managed to get by without being eliminated, but his number looks likely to be up very soon. |
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We knew it would be a difficult season, and basically we did enough to get by. |
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They leave these matters to others and get by somehow, often living from hand to mouth, day to day. |
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As a twentysomething student living at home in Dublin, he could get by on little money. |
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He is grateful for the company but it will be difficult to get by without his family. |
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How on earth do we get by, living, as we do, amid the exhausted projects of modernity? |
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I'd cleaned the house thoroughly early in the day and Dolly and I had managed to get by with only minimal mess. |
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To get by and earn at least some money, many are forced into degrading and menial work. |
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One died presumably to satisfy some ideological or religious prompting or to get revenge, and the other while trying, somehow, simply to get by. |
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This girl is so concerned with pronunciation, you almost can't get by the words to hear the music in the song. |
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The tape doesn't reduce light transmission too much but serves to diffuse the direct rays that get by the shields. |
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I have no problem with giving a kid a sandwich for lunch if it helps his parents get by while they are down and out. |
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There were colorful pareos, wrapped for wear in sundry ways by Tahitian women, who can get by with half a dozen as their entire wardrobe. |
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If you are stabling Shetlands rather than warmbloods you can get by with a smaller stall. |
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Still, it's a very watchable and entertaining film if you can get by some of the flaws. |
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But after seven months in which my wife and I spent every hour together, it is so hard for me to get by without her joyfulness. |
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That's substantially more today than you get by putting an extra penny on income tax. |
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Someday, all of us will have to become workaholics, happy or not, just to get by. |
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But not all of you will require a working knowledge of English grammar to get by in life. |
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Pity the poor candidates who believe they can get by on charisma, pandering, and laugh lines alone. |
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How much we could all get by way of tax cuts if we could rebuild family life in this country! |
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It'll pass of course, these things always do, and in the meantime I can get by on aspirin, linctus and the occasional hot toddy. |
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At least she can just get by on her pension, but when her teakettle burned up last week she couldn't even afford a new one. |
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Talia's an abusive foster mother, scamming the system, that's what she has to do to get by. |
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Granted, some still get by with the bare minimum, but the great majority produce work of much higher quality than 20 years ago. |
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Although she was managing to get by on the meagre salary she drew tutoring primary-school children after school, it most likely wouldn't last. |
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Many people maintain a formal job for health benefits and pensions, but rely on a range of informal activities to get by. |
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After all, the current shortfalls stem in part from companies trying to get by with paying less. |
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She then took an office job to help her get by while she wrote short stories, novels and poems. |
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When I say get by, I'm still bleary-eyed and coffee-dependent in the morning. |
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Thank you for your newsletter, as it helps a ' silver surfer ' like me to get by with the day-to-day computing tasks. |
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While your customers can get by with foam earplugs or muffs, Bane recommends protection that is more sophisticated. |
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What can the booker do if he has this specimen with all this talent, but does just enough to get by with the victories every week? |
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These staunch proponents of raunch and roll have delivered a fairly entertaining album, if you can get by the shallow lyrics and not entirely original nature of the music. |
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What I can get by force I get by force, and what I do not get by force I have no right to, nor do I give myself airs, or consolation, with my imprescriptible right. |
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How could I get by so thoroughly desiring someone I could never have? |
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There are no precedents for what is the most public act of inhumanity in the world's history, so schools have largely been left to get by on a wing and a lot of prayers. |
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And so, many struggle to get by on a pitiful allowance of 40 leva a month with very little chance of bettering themselves or finding a means for independent living. |
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Why do it when you can get by just as well without cracking a book? |
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On the ice cream front I managed to get by with only two tubs of vanilla ice, two of orange sorbet, one portion of rose, two of pear, and 500 ml of mango. |
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And I've been hitting the bottle in the evenings to help me get by. |
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Some monorails get by with tracks just a shade over two feet wide. |
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Because the band made little money, the members had day jobs to get by, Guggi working as a signwriter, gradually spending more time on it than in the band. |
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They say he is a survivalist who can get by without the basic necessities. |
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Nathan loaned him money to get by until his next social security check. |
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Whilst most animals, including humans, inherit one set of chromosomes from their mother, and a matching set from their father, male bee drones get by on one set alone. |
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Verbatim notetakers can get by thinking I'll figure out what this means later, but later, you've got those horrendously voluminous notes to deal with. |
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This way, when you buy some valerian root or St. John's wort, you'll know if there are any adverse reactions that you could get by using the herbal medication. |
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If a Russophile is elected, they can get by with Russian assistance. |
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Maybe he and his niece could join a traveling circus to get by. |
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She finds friendship with a homeless boy, but the two find that friendship is not enough to get by on in the dark underbelly of Russia's rough and unforgiving streets. |
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Much of the emphasis in recent cryptological research has been on ways to get by with less randomness, but a recent proposal takes a step in the other direction. |
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He laughs and says he does not expect his slaves to be honest, as the system of slavery forces them to resort to cheating and dishonesty just to get by. |
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With so few resources, they get by on little more than instinct and family love. |
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Margaret Thatcher might have been able to get by on four hours' sleep per night, but her relationshipwith shut-eye was by no means normal. |
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If I zeroed Jack, I'd get by So I'd erased him, pretended the last few months had never happened. |
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Minnie just tries to get by with the least she can do, and has no team spirit. |
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We would get by, of course, but we'd have to rejigger investments to make more cash available, and we don't want to do that. |
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Before he can succeed, he will have to shed the mentality that he can get by without hard work. |
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Some patients wear a pressure bandage while they are healing, but some get by with no bandage at all. |
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As the sea warms up in August and September, you can get by with just a mask and snorkel. |
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Alan is basically irreplacable at the moment but if anything should happen, we'dhave to get by. |
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Regardless, to get by once there, she nannied for a French family and lived on a couch for a year. |
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It is not the same hide but we make it do. You work harder to make it into good leather and harder to make it into good shoes, and we get by. |
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But even if Mark Gottfried's Racers get by Jim Harrick's Rams, we don't like the odds of Murray State upending Kansas in the second round. |
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If not, you might be able to get by with repair and regular maintenance. |
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