Jane paused momentarily, caught up in shock at both her own mistake and at Mr. Collins's harsh reaction. |
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He paused as the woman moved away, then lifted his eyes to the ceiling again. |
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Local golfers paused awhile to point it out to one another, then continued on their rounds. |
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Walking out onto the grand balcony, two robed men, one in teal, the other in purple, paused for a while to admire the open sea. |
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Oblivious, Sam paused to quickly scan the print-outs and spiky, almost illegible handwritten notes strewn around the room. |
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They paused for a moment and began to trade a flurry of blows, parries and dodges in a blur of movement. |
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She paused a moment to gather breath as she felt dizzy from using her powers. |
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She paused for a moment, as if gathering her breath for another onslaught of rapid-fire questions. |
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On the way to lock it in the nightstand, she paused to kiss his cheek and smack his backside. |
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Between rallies of intense project chatter, they paused to scrutinize me, murmuring and smirking like schoolboys at a junior high dance. |
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She rolled over onto her stomach and paused, as if she was waiting for the right moment to move. |
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He paused to dismount as well, tossing a thin tether to a man who took the animal away. |
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We paused to scrutinise tree tops for the green, blue and yellow birds, and were rewarded by several pairs of the tubby ungainly fowl. |
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She paused and glanced at me as though to check that my attention hadn't drifted again. |
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As he came in stamping his muddy feet on the porch mat, she paused in the kitchen to listen. |
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He paused, waiting for the cruel and actually childishly stupid words to sink into my thick brain. |
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He paused, having nothing further to say on the matter and then changed subject. |
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She paused as she glimpsed the shock in my expression that she was speaking more than a handful of meaningless words. |
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He paused, noticing that Devon was still seething with anger about Officer Sizemore. |
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He paused before delivering a powerful thrust that skewered the water creature beyond healing. |
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He paused again, meditatively, and his voice was thoughtful when he continued. |
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Sandra paused for a moment and debated in her mind as to whether she should go or not. |
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She paused for a moment as though opening and shutting drawers in her head. |
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Darren paused, looking like he was searching his memory until he looked at little confused. |
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I was getting ready to go call a cab and paused momentarily to gaze at Gavin. |
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We paused to let some Berber muleteers pass us, their donkeys' panniers loaded with the skis and packs of another climbing party. |
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He paused a little, gathering up his courage, removing the tremor from his voice. |
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He paused before a tray of Belgian chocolates, and examined them carefully. |
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As we walked toward the front door, he paused briefly at a small tree, touching tips of the branches with both hands. |
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Instead, he was seen using his travel card to pass through the barriers, and even paused to pick up a free newspaper. |
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She paused to swallow noisily, burped, and then wiped her mouth with the back of her hand. |
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I paused, gazing about the room, watching carefully for any sign of movement. |
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Jerwon and Tania, still a little speechless, paused in silent contemplation before following them. |
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He cleared his throat at the mike and paused as the room settled down to a dull roar of voices and the tinkling of glass and silverware. |
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Allyson paused, listening to the soft melody, a shy smile spreading over her wan features. |
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Captain Jessie paused a moment to take a breather from his speechification. |
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He paused as he sniffed the air and glanced over at the coffee pot percolating java on the counter. |
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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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He included an anecdote about a water main breaking at the track and how he rushed out of his office, then paused to wonder what to do. |
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These hopes were soon dashed as he cocked one ham-sized fist back, paused and then unloaded into my right shoulder. |
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The boy turned and walked back into the woods, then paused and turned back towards Kevin, all former traces of a smile replaced by a grim anger. |
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I paused in the act of buffing my expensively manicured toenails, startled. |
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As he paused beside a large rock to reload his Bren gun, he was shot dead by a sniper. |
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He paused, watching the rainbows of refracted light from it sparkle on the shelves and walls, an expression of almost reverent awe on his face. |
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I rapped my knuckles on the splintering wood twice, paused, and knocked again once. |
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He paused in his assent, wielding the weapon with a skill that surely took years of training. |
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She said each word deliberately and paused slightly before going on to the next word. |
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After grabbing ourselves a table, and having a high chair rolled on up by one of the super solicitous staff members, we paused to enjoy the view. |
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A few times, the actresses untimely paused between the lines, cutting the smooth flow of their dialogue. |
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The wolf that followed him snarled visibly, his teeth bared in their direction as he paused a moment before passing beyond the door. |
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He paused when he reached the right position and withdrew a small amount of clear fluid. |
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I packed clothes, underwear, make up, pictures, books, her toothbrush and other toiletries, but paused when about to put in her nail file. |
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The Professor paused to refill his tea cup, offering the pot to the others. |
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Wiping out humanity is hard work, so she naturally paused to slake her thirst. |
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Later on, as she was making dinner, she paused mid-stir with the wooden spatula deep into the Quorn mince and looked wistfully skywards. |
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The Queen paused at the Black Watch regimental plot and spoke to Brigadier Donald Wilson and regimental secretary Joe Hubble. |
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She paused near the ticket booth, hoping the next ferry would be along soon. |
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She paused at the edge of the woods, mustered her courage, and plowed into the underbrush. |
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The woman paused, then nodded reluctantly, opening her door wider, letting them in. |
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I paused there, not knowing where to go, when I noticed a medium sized boat coming up to the shore. |
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She paused, looking up so Yuko was looking at the creamy pale skin of her throat. |
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While in Sacramento she paused in the middle of her performance and lectured the audience on their poor manners. |
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She paused, staring at the back, one finger gently tracing the black rune that appeared to have been burned into it. |
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When her mistress left her, she fell to doing her work slowly again, and sometimes she paused to listen to the talk in the bathhouse behind her. |
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Walking down her long driveway, she paused briefly to check the mail in the letter box before continuing down to the sidewalk. |
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The showers have paused and the sun brushes the patio as the steaks and sausages sizzle on the grill. |
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She paused long enough to let the change of direction take effect, then resumed the rapid, rhythmless speech. |
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She used a walking stick held in her right hand to assist her on her way into church and paused for a moment before entering. |
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Near the start of my test I paused expertly to allow an unaccompanied dog to walk across the road in front of me at a zebra crossing. |
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We paused with morbid fascination at the scene of the recent lorry tragedy and peered cautiously over the edge. |
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She paused momentarily as if she was going to add her opinion, but in the end, decided not to rise up against the authority of the principal. |
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He paused, his brows furrowing and his lips going into a thin line before he spoke again. |
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I was more nervous than I'd expected and my stomach turned as we paused outside of King's Cross. |
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The constable paused to grab a heavy monkey wrench and he put it back down and pulled out the far shorter regulation truncheon. |
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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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She paused to look at him, and noticed something strange, an odd cast to his features. |
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Mother, too, paused in her work and looked questioningly over her shoulder. |
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He said Mitchell paused only momentarily before crossing the central reservation. |
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They paused with the same look of embarrassment and astonishment on their faces. |
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He paused there momentarily, wondering if he should just say it and get it over with. |
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He stated and the president paused in his stretch, rising to stand immediately as a somber gaze appeared in his eyes, his face falling. |
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He took in the cooling salt air and paused to listen to a gull's cry past a hedge of trees. |
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Asked what kind of support he got from rank-and-file Democrats, he paused before replying with a hearty laugh. |
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As the kids then bolted for safety, 6-year-old aidan Licata paused to hold the door for a little girl. |
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I asked why, and he paused for a moment, furrowing his brow and exhaling deeply. |
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He had been in the midst of a campaign for parliament when he paused to prepare for the match with charr. |
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He paused for a few seconds before qualifying his chief complaint. |
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The wedding march started, everyone stood up and my dad and I went to the doorway and paused for a few seconds before slowly starting down the aisle. |
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And a third is that we all paused a second to look at the red glow over Baltimore, 35 miles away as the crow flies. |
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With a sigh, Lucien paused to press his nose against a bakery shop window. |
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Startled, he paused for a moment before picking up the receiver. |
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Lynn paused, feeling the knot starting to tighten again in her stomach. |
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He paused for a moment, obviously thinking as his tan brow wrinkled. |
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Yahnna paused to refresh Duvessa's drink and to think for a moment. |
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The detectives are still at it, seeking to account for a period of time when Brinsley may well have paused to sit somewhere. |
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Kieran paused, tilting his head in a manner reminiscent of a predator. |
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He led them deep into the back of the castle before they crossed a small, obviously rarely used courtyard and he paused, pulling back the rusty latch of the small gate. |
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Her voice was raspy and after answering questions she paused, as if about to faint. |
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At the edge she paused, sitting with her feet dangling in the water, then she slipped gracefully down, disappearing immediately beneath the surface with barely a ripple. |
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She paused and looked back as the two men rose and stood beside the table. |
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I paused, the hair rising on the back of my neck and down my arms. |
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Stepping into the rose garden, she paused and looked up towards the sky. |
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Of those snapping pictures, almost all were locals who had paused to gawk at the strange sight. |
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She paused to take breath for another sentence, but Will shook his head. |
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Captain Valentine paused before he scolded Wesley for his audaciousness. |
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The traffic came to a screeching halt and the faceless multitudes shuffling along the pavements actually paused to turn and look at the cause of it all. |
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I paused before answering, feeling terrible and sick to my stomach. |
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Chad paused, and examined the squishy white marshmallow he was holding. |
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He paused, she looked like a tigress on the prowl, and briefly wondered if he should try and run through the crowds to avoid a public confrontation. |
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Andy paused for a few beats, grit his teeth and forced a smile. |
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When I was done he looked at me, paused a beat, and belched. |
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On arriving at 10 Downing Street she paused on the front step to address the throng of reporters. |
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Kerra paused at the edge of her driveway, fear sheathing her heart in ice. |
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Her dark eyes flashed when she was upset, and she paused occasionally to smooth her mane of shoulder-length black hair. |
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He paused, moistening his lower lip, nervous of her reaction. |
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And the band were rarely better than on this track, with its climb-the-ladder introduction that paused briefly before sending you off down their pop-rock helter-skelter. |
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She paused at one point due to the pain, and handler Red Eldridge nudged her to keep moving. |
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He paused at the bottom of the stairs and surveyed all his stuff. |
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I paused as I spied a familiar figure in the hallway, putting on a jacket. |
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The busker paused to thank her with a smile, before raising the saxophone to his lips and puffing out his cheeks like he'd just consumed a ten-pin bowling ball. |
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After unstrapping their quivers and slinging them onto his saddle, he paused for a moment, wrapped in thought, then went back to the still figures. |
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Max yelled, raised one eyebrow, paused for effect, breaking the rhythm. |
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He paused for the brief spattering of polite applause that followed. |
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The lead doe minced into an opening and paused broadside at 140 yards. |
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Haig paused for a moment to take in the expanse of bronzed, rounded flesh. |
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Asked to name one Issa-led investigation that had been appropriately managed and not politicized, Cummings paused. |
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The last monk paused in the vestibule and looked back at Ford and Travis. |
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Several shoppers and passers-by paused to observe the vigil. |
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He paused, and then a strange expression appeared on his lips. It was very like a simper. |
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At about 14,000 years ago, retreat of the ice paused for maybe 500 years at the city of Durham. |
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The man took a long, unlit cigarillo out of his mouth, and paused. |
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Johnson recalled that Brown paused to chat with some construction workers. |
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He paused, grimly regarding it, while a dash of pleased coxcombry seemed to mingle with the otherwise savage satisfaction expressed in his face. |
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Carlotta paused at the door. She had spent very little time in the library and was unfamiliar with the booklined shelves. |
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Before she turned to give her follower instructions the woman paused to counter Mrs. Marrison's unadmiring gaze. |
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He paused and with a silver nutpick extracted the last meat from the walnut. |
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In the middle of a game at tipcat, he paused, and stood staring wildly upward with his stick in his hand. |
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Here the galley paused not at all, but floated easily in the blue of the sky among fleecy clouds tinted with rose. |
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It was a very clear night so I paused to stargaze until I got cold and went in. |
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Then he paused a while, and Adrian seemed to hear certain strange squeakings proceeding from the walls. |
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A roboid waiter, human-like but running on hidden casters, paused with a tray of drinks. |
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In the afternoon, they paused to regroup to attack again but they were bombed for two and a half hours and were prevented from even forming up. |
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Shaw paused to consider the 6,500 geophysicists convening for their annual meeting across the street. |
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The old lady nodded off to sleep many times during the narration, only waking up when George paused, saying it was most interesting. |
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The teacher paused in her lecture to allow the students to assimilate what she had said. |
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She paused momentarily as her backing music continued, before she managed to separate herself from the cape and then continued performing. |
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Marcus caught up another large rock, but before hurling it he paused, squinting eagerly down his murder-hole. |
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Well, that got our attention. Ashley put down her chopsticks and paused in midchew. |
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Delius left Danville and returned to Europe via New York, where he paused briefly to give a few lessons. |
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As half in the deep window embrazure, Lennon paused to watch her, the overhanging cliff ledges reverberated with an impatient call. |
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Speech paused momentarily on Faxa's lips as he pondered her birdsweet notes in smoky silence. |
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Father Leland paused for a second and barely opened his left eye. |
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As I paused in some confusion, a sidesman took pity on me since I was clearly not a regular attendant, and ushered me forward. |
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Exhausted competitors paused for breath on the slope, leaning against ski poles, heads sagging, drawing in lungfuls of thin air. |
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Joseph paused for a few second, staring out across the estuary. |
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Silence fell, a hush descended, streets emptied and a nation paused, huddled around their televisions and radiograms. |
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Atticus paused, watching me locate an elusive redbug on my leg. |
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When one of his ships was lost in a storm Ulloa paused to repair the other two ships, and then resumed his voyage on September 12, eventually reaching the head of the Gulf. |
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However, instead of marching into nearby Winchester and seizing Henry's treasury, Robert paused, giving Henry time to march west and intercept the invasion force. |
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But after a couple of hard swats, he paused the Discman and retaliated. |
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Here the division paused until 4 November and was subjected to artillery and aerial bombardments as well as minor skirmishes with German infantry. |
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He paused while the waitress deposited his coffee and stroopwafel on the table. He picked up the stroopwafel and put it on top of the coffee cup, like a lid. |
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The attack failed and the fighting paused while the winter weather set in. |
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She paused in the midst of licking a dab of frosting off one finger. |
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As Bruce's army drew nearer, they paused and knelt in prayer. |
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The conflict paused briefly in June 1183 when the Young King died. |
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