Saki sat down and was handcuffed to his seat just as the jail warden walked onto the platform at the front of the room. |
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Silently and with some relief, we exited and sat down on the slightly damp curb. |
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She tossed the bundle of slightly damp clothing into the general vicinity of the tent and sat down on the grass beside him. |
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She promptly sat down at the end of the pier, her legs dangling off the end as she swung them slightly. |
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Then, when I finally sat down to write it, the entire novel veered completely off its predestined course. |
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Suitably chastened, the woman returned to her seat, and all four sat down in deathly silence until the plane landed. |
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They immediately stepped back and sat down as Raymond picked up the deck of cards and began shuffling. |
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The kids sat down, and within a moment all were in a state resembling decorousness. |
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When I finally let go, we sat down and talked, me almost giddy with delight. |
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Cameron was breathing deeply and he sat down on the porch step in an effort to calm down. |
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She had no inkling of how to proceed, but quickly moved forward and sat down by the fire. |
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Andrew sat down at his private table and gingerly threw his napkin into his lap. |
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She sat down on the floor next to him and gingerly fingered the pages of the book he had in his lap. |
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With a nod of his head as he inhaled the cigarette smoke, Laurie sat down rather gingerly. |
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She was laughing as Josh gingerly sat down and started a playful wrestling match. |
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I sat down next to the window and a shelf with heaps of promotional material on tourism in Hungary. |
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I sat down with my back to the wall next to the door that was propped open. |
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Her sister came away from the counter and sat down at one of the rough, gnarled chairs at the table. |
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I woke shortly after dawn, which is normal, and sat down at my desk for the morning writing session. |
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She sat down on the chair at her desk and pulled a small mirror out of the top desk drawer. |
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Your man Henry had more than half an eye on his future employment when he sat down with the selectors. |
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As the four sat down to a dinner of bread and grog that night, Nick pulled out a map. |
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No one said a word as the food was dished out and even after we'd all sat down nobody spoke. |
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He stared down at the water for a moment before he sat down next to it and slowly disrobed, easing his body into the water. |
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She looked distinctly nervous and sat down on the very edge of the chair he offered her. |
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When I sat down and turned over the exam paper I found that I could not answer a single question. |
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And Jesus went up onto an exceeding high mountain and he sat down and taught them saying. |
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Our hot dogs were soon done and we sat down on a blanket by the fire together, eating our lunch. |
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I sat down at the table and when the food was done, he pulled it out and sat it in front of me and then sat down. |
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That Monday, I sat down with two young people and we wrote our ideas down on paper. |
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We sat down, noting with interest the cold drafts blowing hard through an airless smoke-filled room. |
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She sat down on a piece of driftwood that sat on the beach, and looked out to sea. |
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We sat down in front of a friend of Supawan's family, who speaks Sanskrit, and a vat of cold water. |
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They all filed in and sat down in the chairs, looking slightly abashed that they had been caught. |
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They sat down at a long table with plates of waffles, syrup, butter, whipped cream, and strawberries piled on top of it. |
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Physically and mentally exhausted, I sat down in the sand, the warmness comforting me. |
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The men cleaned their boots off, washed up, and everyone sat down to supper. |
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I have often thought of that scene in the desert, when Christ, weary and way-worn, sat down, perhaps upon the gnarled roots of some old tree. |
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Sam stopped her impromptu jig and sat down on a barstool across from her mother. |
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She sat down across from me at the one available picnic table in the cobbled courtyard outside our building. |
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We sat down with a half of Timothy Taylor's for me, and a pint for him, to make our choices. |
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And we'd only just sat down when the melodious tones of a male choir sweetly filled the air. |
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Mitch laid her down the ground under a weeping willow tree, and walked to the lake nearby then sat down and started to throw stones at it. |
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I sat down rather suddenly next to Ming, who, evidently startled, gave a little jump in surprise. |
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Almost right away, as the adolescent pair sat down, a tall and skinny teenage waitress was there to take their order. |
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Walking over to the wall, he pulled his body gracefully up and sat down with his back ramrod straight. |
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She hesitated then sat down in the chair beside him, tucking an afghan over her legs and finding a book to read. |
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When he sat down, the barber held a straight razor to his throat and spun the chair. |
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He nodded and reached his hand out as I sat down between his outstretched legs and leaned back against his chest. |
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In a sudden burst she sat down and gazed at the teacher whose mouth was now agape with shock. |
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On November 25, 2003, we sat down with family and friends around a table spread with food we grew and said thanks. |
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I slipped, caught hold of the back of a chair, and sat down on the floor, heavily. |
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She sat down and tried to remember, downcast at her failure to recall the events of the vivid dream. |
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Diane took it all in without comment, then walked to the other side of the tables and sat down in one of the Windsor chairs. |
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I sat down in the recliner, reclined it back as far as it would go and yawned. |
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Forcing her legs to comply, she crossed over to the recliner by the window and sat down. |
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I sat down stunned, recollecting the days that I had spent in the East not too long ago. |
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She sat down on an old red brick wall at the front of someone's garden and recomposed herself until the wave of nausea had gone completely. |
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She sat down in her chair looking furious and just gave me a sneer and a withering look. |
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When Barnum's grandfather claimed to know nothing about this detail, the woodcutter threw down his axe in disgust and sat down on the woodpile. |
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Donald went over to his bed, an old, oak affair with knots in the wood and scratches on its frame, and sat down on it carefully. |
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Sam walked over to a stool in front of a bare workbench and sat down, putting his coffee cup on the workbench. |
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Can you imagine the knuckly bits this poor, unwitting woman in San Jose endured as she sat down to dinner Tuesday evening? |
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They all sat down with their insurance agents to assign liability for past projects and work in progress, should a claim arise. |
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He sat down without a sound on the worn wood and lifted his feet off the cold ground, his arms going around his knees. |
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In our family, we have always sat down and talked and tried to explain why you need to vote. |
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So Popovich sat down and watched Tony Parker perform against a team of American college all-stars. |
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We were strolling along the coastal path and sat down on the grass for a rest and to enjoy the panoramic view across the bay. |
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Finally relenting to the tempting rays of sun, I undressed and sat down on the towel that I had already spread out. |
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That gave me a slight relief but it quickly subsided when she sat down next to Travis again. |
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To the laughter of those around me, I marched him to the creek and sat down to remove my boots before pulling him into the water. |
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I turned towards Alex and sat down on his lap with my knees on either side of his body, facing him. |
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I sat down to write my editorial, but instead drank cappuccinos, vanilla lattes and gallons of tea. |
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So then after they took bath they came and thousands of them sat down on a big grass lawn. |
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Shrugging nonchalantly, Lucia sat down in the only open seat left at the table once her dark-skinned friend had reseated herself. |
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Absolutely terrified and trembling like a leaf, I sat down and played for him. |
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He realised that he couldn't escape so he sat down leaning against one of the support beams. |
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After the shih-tzu has come to you and obediently sat down, attach the leash and start the reward. |
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We sat down on the rugs in the tent and animatedly bargained, trying to find out where these came from. |
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After my shower I sat down to the piano and fumbled through another of those old songs we used to sing. |
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I sat down in a chair in the waiting area while he went and retrieved the proper paperwork. |
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Dennis Quaid sat down with me for a very revealing interview just before his new movie premiered. |
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He ordered a cup of black coffee and a Danish, added a liberal amount of milk, then found a stool facing the boarding gates and sat down. |
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She walked into to the beautifully decorated dining room and sat down at the rich, mahogany dining table. |
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When, during the rally, police tried to stop rickshaws entering the centre, protesters sat down in solidarity with the pullers. |
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So we sat down next to some guy who, in very slurred speech, started to tell us his life story. |
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He sat down in one of the old creaky rocking chairs while I leaned against the door frame. |
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Aria noticed instantly how warm the room was and as she sat down on her old rocking horse, she wished for it to be cooler in there too. |
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The man sat down between two people, so she didn't have room to move to see his face. |
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Alison asked she sat down beside Rachel and put a protective arm around her. |
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Joe and Hoss took their coffee and sat down in the armchairs on either side of the fireplace. |
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Two armchairs stood by each side of the hearth and I sat down in one of them to get warm. |
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He sat down on a chair next to her, rested his arms on the armrests and looked at her with interest. |
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Walking back to the door, she locked it securely then sat down at the table. |
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They sat down on the front porch, and watched the other three boys wrestle and rough house in the yard. |
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At the end of the day the ravenous gang of cow-punchers and rough-riders sat down to a hearty meal. |
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I turned round to look at everyone who had now sat down, and saw traces of jealousy drain from Jacob's face and turn back to a grin. |
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After ascending the helix of stairs, I sat down at my computer and pulled up the logs that Marius had sent me. |
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We sat down and looked at different ways of raising money and this will be a popular one. |
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I sat down and opened my olive green binder to a blank sheet of loose-leaf paper. |
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He planted himself in the armchair next to me, ruffling my hair affectionately as he sat down. |
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He was so exhausted from today's walk that when he sat down to rest, he fell asleep. |
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Needless to say I made it on time and sat down roughly in my chair, completely out of breath. |
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No sooner have you sat down than an assortment of dishes is laid before you. |
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Is Jesus Christ our High Priest Who sat down at the right hand of God after His sacrifice as the Messiah? |
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I walked into the lunchroom and sat down at our table, the first one there. |
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Drake and Spade sat down, both avoiding looking at the girls as they paid their tab at the register and left. |
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Liz already had the tabs for the 12 Stones song they were doing and sat down at her guitar and played them for Brent. |
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I can't remember the last time I sat down to a meal out with friends and diets did not end up becoming the subject of our table talk. |
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Chuppili had sat down to breakfast on two idlis and a cup of sambar when the calling bell rang. |
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After I ran out of breath, I sat down on the swing, and swung slowly as Alex sat on the sand and made sandcastles. |
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We sat down at the table in the lounge and that's when he handed me the satchel he was carrying. |
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The soldiers satisfied themselves that there were no more of the enemy around, and sat down behind the crates. |
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He made towards the window and sat down in the chair closest to it, panting. |
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Mackintosh beckoned from across the park, then sat down next to him like a vagrant on the make. |
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And so he made his way to the bench in where he sat down and relaxed his taut muscles. |
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One day Rabbit sat down beside a flowering acacia tree and looked up at the bright yellow flowers, the rough bark and the sturdy limbs stretching toward the sun. |
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Last week, I sat down with Kristen Stewart in the lobby lounge of the Greenwich Hotel in downtown New York. |
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Towards the end of Captivated, fowler sat down with the filmmakers for an interview. |
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When she arrived in sunny Gibraltar, Caroline was greeted by HMS York's Commanding Officer, Commander Paul Porter, before she sat down to a traditional lunch in the wardroom. |
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We shook his hand, then Charley introduced me to Furry and we all sat down. |
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She went to the couch, newly cleared of laundry, and sat down. |
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He went over to the sofa, limping slightly, and sat down gingerly. |
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Shortly before noon on Jan. 23, Bucher sat down to a lunch of meatloaf, succotash, mashed potatoes and gravy when Law, the ship's quartermaster, called down to the wardroom. |
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Another girl sat down to the right of Ladybug and pulled out a sack lunch. |
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When we sat down to get our breath back, he told me he was a student. |
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At last he went to the palace one day, and, being informed that the Caliph was making his ablutions prior to his prayers, sat down in an antechamber. |
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At first he pretended to be angry, but we just kept grinning angelically at him and eventually he started laughing and sat down to eat cheese and biscuits with us. |
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Then he took the chicken and walked over to his spot near the garbage and sat down to eat it. |
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Without a word or a glance around the room he sat down by himself. |
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I sat down dejectedly next to him after he picked up his school bag. |
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Edging towards the side of the pavement, he sat down on the kerb. |
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She sat down at her loom, working quickly on the tapestry she was weaving. |
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The first of these seems to have caused a sense of gloom, despondency and weary hopelessness to descend on the author as he sat down to put his book together. |
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So I sat down as she powdered my face and dusted eyeshadow and blush and glossed my lips and lined my eyes and curled and coated my eyelashes with mascara. |
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She looked so sweet and dainty that I kissed her again and then sat down before the easel. |
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Finally, I went for a long walk and sat down exhausted in a park. |
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Hunter sat down with Pheobe and Xander and they started to play go fish. |
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We had spent the day swimming and goofing around and when we sat down for a picnic we had started talking about everything the way best friends do. |
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He sat down and an aide attached a microphone to his jacket. |
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Glancing around the quarterdeck, he sat down on the deck beside her. |
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Well, the attention to detail is excellent, and as soon as we sat down small plates of ham and pungent Parmesan and some gloriously crisp olive oil appeared out of the ether. |
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Finally cubes of sweet juicy mango and fragrant curry leaves were added and we sat down to enjoy a meal with all the family after saying grace in Malayalam. |
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Keziah sat down at the back of the group, her mind in a whirl. |
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After lunching on a caprese salad sandwich, Lynch lit up an American Spirit cigarette and sat down to talk about his paintings. |
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The Daily Beast sat down with burton to discuss Big Eyes and his beautiful, dark, twisted career. |
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Finally reaching an empty table by the window, she sat down hastily. |
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We barely sat down before the lights dimmed and the curtains drew back. |
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Shteyngart sat down with The Daily Beast to discuss the book, the art of the blurb, and, yes, teaching James Franco. |
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I sat down with her the next day at the aroma Espresso Bar on West 72nd Street. |
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But then when I read it, it didn't sound like me at all, so I thought oh Lordy, sat down for three weeks and rewrote it completely, put more stories in, made it funnier. |
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He thrust it in among the glowing embers again and sat down on a box. |
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So they laid her on a bier, and all seven of them sat down beside it and wept and wept for three whole days. |
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When we'd sat down we were offered cream cakes and coke and guarana. |
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Then, they had left the healing room and resolved to take a stroll down in the gardens, where they had stopped near a spring and sat down on one of the stone ledges. |
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He let his mother into his home and the pair wandered through to the kitchen where Rose sat down at the breakfast bar where papers were strewn across, messy and disorganized. |
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Rose went and sat down, as the memories threatened to engulf her. |
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Ramirez sat down, and typed in his personal code, overriding the General's fail-safes and security measures as he retook control of the automated defence systems. |
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I sat down and retaught myself this unit and worked hard for it. |
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Kriti sat down cross-legged on a mat and gulped down a lota of milk. |
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We sat down in the sunshine on the bench at the foot of the equestrian statue of General Sheridan. |
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Last week, del Toro and Cuse sat down with The Daily Beast to reveal the inside story of the making of The Strain. |
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She sat down on the rock and unbuckled her shoe which was black with a round toe and a chunky heel, rather like a boot that'd had the top cut off it. |
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He sat down next to me on the grassy knoll by Tommy's grave. |
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It was early as I sat down to a leisurely breakfast on Grand Comore. |
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Yes we still had arguments, sometimes blazing rows but knowing we were in this for the long haul we sat down and talked about it and I mean really talked. |
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I dropped my bag next to my usual seat in the back and sat down. |
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He clunked the lemonades on the coffee table, sat down next to her. |
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He made his way into our house and found the lounge and sat down. |
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By the time I sat down to fill in the blanks, it was a grind to churn out what I already knew would happen. |
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They got to their usual spot, the glade in the forest and sat down. |
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Back home in Utah, McLean ordered some ripstop polyester, rounded up a set of plans, and sat down at his industrial sewing machine to create his own version. |
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Actually, that's a lie, I returned to York on Monday night but this is the first time I've actually sat down at my computer to go through my e-mails. |
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The man sat down next to me and opened his worn prayer book. |
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The dog hopped over the creature and sat down next to him, panting. |
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The histrionics continued as he got out of the car, went into makeup and sat down to talk to Ted Koppel. |
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Nikki grabbed the old worn Adidas jacket she had had for five years, and went out onto the patio, choosing one of the Adirondack chairs and sat down, her eyes closed. |
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Just a few short years ago, I sat down at my computer, and I typed out a similar goodbye letter. |
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Then, on Friday, Boehner and his leadership team sat down with these right-wingers and made a series of concessions to them. |
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With that, Mikhail sat down to place spools of thread on the serger, studying the directions and clearly dismissing her. |
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I sat down with Sa'dia in her Brooklyn apartment during one of the lotah community parties leading up to the installation's opening. |
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Recently I sat down with Diane Rinella and a number of friends and we discussed consanguinamory, which is incest between consenting adults. |
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After they had sat down, the party remained abubble until the speaker rose. |
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After checking the room for other alienesque creatures, she sat down on the edge of the bed and began to stare at the phone. |
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We sat down in the central square and drank coffee and a man came up and spoke to us in American. |
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One afternoon in 1920. a young pianist sat down in a shuttered room in the capital of defeated Germany and played a Bagatelle by Beethoven. |
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The Jester sat down on one of the marble balustrades and regarded Alvin with a curious intentness. |
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The Town Mouse came, and they sat down to a dinner of barleycorns and roots, the latter of which had a distinctly earthy flavour. |
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She started walking over to the trestle table and, about ten years later, sat down on one of the thirty-three bentwoods. |
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And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples. |
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Eurydice pointed to the cupboard, and sat down on the low divan with folded hands, and looked at the floor. |
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Titus moved his dry tongue across his lips and sat down on the flagged floor, but a sense of terror jerked him to his feet again. |
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On a sunny stone near a foresty bed of asparagus I sat down at last, tired, and a little dispirited. |
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As a crowning dissipation, they all sat down to play progressive halma, with milk chocolate for prizes. |
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They sat down and had a long-overdue heart to heart about the future of their relationship. |
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The Hikkams pushed a table over by the booth where the Lochwoods and Meekums were sitting, exchanged his and sat down. |
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He sat down, and lighted a cigarette, casting about the while for an innocuous topic of conversation. |
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The opening ceremony was considered a success and that evening 102 people sat down to a celebratory dinner at the Town Hall. |
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We made a few gargantuan strides, leapt three or four times more, and sat down at last in a lichenous hollow. |
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He'd stuck his hands in his pockets as I came in, and he sat down lumpily in his chair. |
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I sat down at night upon my bedside, and resolved that I would not go to sleep till I had fixed its title. |
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The hair was curled, and the maid sent away, and Emma sat down to think and be miserable. |
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I sat down on the wooden side of a mill-dam and thought over the past night and the strange adventure in the entrance-hall of Agnes' house. |
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Weena, I was glad to find, was fast asleep. I carefully wrapped her in my jacket, and sat down beside her to wait for the moonrise. |
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He entered the inn, and asking for dinner, unbuckled his wallet, and sat down to rest himself near the door. |
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Pliny sat down and could not get up even with assistance and was left behind. |
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Moments later, he briefly sat down on the drum riser before leaving the stage. |
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George sat down. Queenie got up. 'Could I have some money to buy a birthday present for somebody?' she asked. |
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Bernard dogs were about and when we sat down came over to give our hands a lick just as if they wanted to say Hello too. |
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After seeing to the shopping, cleaning and cooking, he finally sat down for some rest. |
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I thanked him, sat down on the sofa, and sipped it through the straw. |
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I had just sat down in my favorite easy chair and settled in when the phone rang. |
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Without any apparent regard for the suchness of her environment, she sat down. |
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They sat down and had one of their old chummy talks until an unmentionably late hour. |
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Then they sat down at the dinner table and ate with delight. |
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When Harry and I went to Central Australia, we met linguists in the Tanami desert who sat down with Warlpiri people to compile a dictionary. |
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So I just patted him kind-like on the shoulder and sat down. |
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The ball scooted off the fairway and sat down in the thick rough. |
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As we all climbed aboard, the little boat sat down low in the water. |
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He sat down and smiled at me, a corner of his mouth higher than the other and one eyebrow raised. Wow, that was entirely too shmexy for this early in the morning. |
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In February 1851 he sat down to articulate his new thinking. |
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Here was I sat down, full of Love and Respect to write my dearest Friends a dutiful and loving letter, when lo, and behold! I was made happy by the receipt of yours. |
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At Donauworth a Brownshirt came on board and sat down in our compartment, a scarecrow of a man, so skinny and pimply that you wondered how he ever got beyond the Race Bureau. |
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I sat down, and he left his perch on the edge of the table and pulled out another chair for himself. We sat facing each other. He laddered his fingers under his chin. |
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With school out for the summer, Jason and Sarah sat down and mapped a strategy to find the geocaches at each of the state's seventy-two parks and recreation areas. |
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After saluting her, he led her to a couch that fronted us, where they both sat down, and the young Genoese helped her to a glass of wine, with some Naples biscuit on a salver. |
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After a decade of scorched-earth warfare, Louella Parsons had sat down to public lunch with her rival, Hedda Hopper. The entente cordiale did not last, of course. |
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The class sat down so that the teacher could take attendance. |
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The scriptwriters sat down and put together the staggering cast. |
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Marketing genius Seth Godin sat down with SUCCESS Publisher Darren Hardy to discuss the challenges and opportunities facing today's bootstrapping entrepreneurs. |
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Determined to win, we sat down with the sharp scissors and the eyeglasses and a good stiff drink this time, and studied the shrink-wrap incision decision. |
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We sat down at a corner table and ordered a bottle of iced mousseux. |
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Eurydice pointed to the cupboard, and sat down on the low divan with folded hands, and looked at the floor. She was quite white. Elsa made her drink a glass of vodka. |
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