That first night as we struggled for several hours to find a cushiony spot on the cracker thin futon mattress, we became aware of the winds. |
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The timing and placement of particular pieces is also spot on, and lead the audience through such a tragic event by softening it with humour. |
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The bow-tie, cockney accent and affected intimacy with the great are all spot on. |
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He idly picked his nose and then a large spot on his chin that was troubling him. |
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The currant tomatoes are repotted now and have been moved to a sunny spot on the front windowsill. |
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This means a spot on the skin which crusts or scabs and fails to heal completely. |
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The second and third tries in a different spot on his finger were also unsuccessful. |
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So I watched them shooting it for a few days, just checking that Paul was playing me right, and he seemed to be spot on. |
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I think the smug thing is spot on, I really can't stand the guy and I don't know why. |
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The writing is spot on, with characters, situations and dialogue that are, unfortunately, all too believable. |
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Which is more harmful, a spot on a leaf of silver beet or the chemical sprayed to control it? |
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The group commandant, Colonel S.Kumar, visited the spot on Saturday and witnessed the cadets fly with enthusiasm. |
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It has blowholes and lava tubes, the wettest spot on earth, and the nation's only royal palace. |
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I know some people though it was a bit slow to get started, but I thought the pace was spot on. |
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She rocked the gleaming harp towards her, nestling it into its accustomed spot on her right shoulder. |
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Finding a particular spot on the tape means you have to wind the tape forward or backward. |
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He was heading right for the perfect spot on the rail, turned 90 degrees as you should be for a boardslide, but his board wasn't with him. |
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She looked spot on in her lime-green shift, with matching black bolero jacket, and black hat trimmed with green feathers, plus black choker. |
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His strength allows him to muscle shots even when he doesn't put the bat's sweet spot on the ball. |
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Jack's eyes were unfocused, his gaze tossed onto a random spot on the wall. |
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His first year at SFU was highlighted by securing a spot on the junior varsity basketball team. |
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Head lice are hard to spot on the hair but can be removed, and then identified, by combing them out. |
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Joan had found a nice spot on the floor to sit, leaning her back towards a bookshelf full of law books. |
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This bozo later got a prime spot on the roster, encouraging all his fans to register to vote. |
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Changing out of his painting clothes after a somewhat disappointing day in his studio, he noticed the worn spot on the heel of his sock. |
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If people's musical tastes were a mirror of themselves, you'd be pretty spot on in feeling that everybody had gone just a little crazy. |
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Apparently someone had hit a slick spot on the road in the very very light drizzle and managed to flip completely upside-down. |
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It's a short scene but it is so spot on perfect that it makes you wish Lucas had included more scenes like this one in the movie. |
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I had a well balanced car until a flat spot on my right front tyre caused terrible vibrations which eventually led to the suspension failure. |
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He since has earned a more permanent spot on the staff with good early-season work. |
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They had found an open spot on the beach, and were splashing each other, while Pat taped. |
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The guitar tone is spot on for Pat's sound and the vocal track moves with the guitar in synchronized harmony. |
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The vocals and production are spot on and this track has easily passed the test of time. |
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He was a slight man wearing owl glasses, with thin brown hair that left a bald spot on the back of his head. |
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I think your analysis about the disconnection and alienation from communities and the consequences is spot on. |
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In portraying the therapist, her combination of coldness and reluctant vulnerability is spot on. |
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I have family from the area in which the film was shot and the way of speaking the characters adopted was spot on. |
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A designated spot on an artifact is subjected to high energy produced by an X-ray tube. |
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His yardages are spot on and he's certainly helped me a lot already this week. |
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George has a soft fontanelle, a spot on the top of your head that usually closes over with bone during infancy. |
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Then, he took the spare fly rod from her hands and returned to his spot on the shoreline. |
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Grabbing a chair, she positioned it underneath a particular spot on the ceiling. |
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Whether in a grand hotel or a rural coffee shop, I found the service to be spot on every time. |
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Her little dragon was cobalt blue with a grey spot on his muzzle, an adorable and shiny little fellow. |
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Each spot on the payroll was precious, a weapon to defeat the threat of mediocrity. |
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I left the table, and retreated to a quiet spot on the stairs beside Smokey, hoping not to be found for the rest of the day. |
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Mateo, 24, could parlay that performance into a spot on the Reds' bench as a fourth outfielder. |
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I baited up another spot on the other side of the swim before retying up the second rod with a new rig. |
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The animal was released back into the wild at the Leeds and Liverpool canal in Ince near the spot on the railway line where he was found. |
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While a little black spot on the sun may seem like a simple act, the transit of Venus is not. |
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His head spinning, the impact of the collision threw Tobias from his spot on the ladder and flung him against the other bookshelf. |
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The film opens with a pre-title sequence that shows a close-up of a brush as it paints a large black spot on a blank canvas. |
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Following an unfruitful attempt to locate the exact original site, we chose a spot on Lake Champlain in the general area. |
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His conversion five minutes earlier had come from virtually exactly the same spot on the right touchline, and had arrowed between the posts. |
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Found a nice spot on the cement embankment, away from the spray, and sat down to contemplate on life. |
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I shrugged slightly and pretended to discover a dark spot on my sleeve, which I immediately attended to with the greatest care. |
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It may have been based only on looks or alliteration, but it was a great nickname, spot on for the young Vaughan with his steely studiousness. |
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The ratio of one element to another was spot on, whetting the appetite, not dulling it. |
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Somewhere a crow caws, and in the far distance those black birds endlessly circle a spot on the western edge of the world. |
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Scrambling up the talus slope, the cave entrance is easy to spot on the right side. |
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My professor, from Pittsburgh, thought that I had just abandoned the character to the most godforsaken spot on Earth. |
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The Spaniard gained almost four seconds on the Finnish competitor, who was chasing him for fourth spot on the leaderboard. |
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I remember opening an eye one groggy morning to notice a big black spot on the wall. |
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Dale prodded at a ticklish spot on Tiffany's stomach with his fingers, which made her giggle. |
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Another spot on the grass which will darken to a malevolent green and then die over-winter, requiring seeding. |
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Sadly though, she lacked the consistency necessary to secure a spot on a World or Olympic team. |
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He said his horse Rusty was spot on but his hazer played a large role in the overall success in a run he desperately needed to have. |
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First impressions can more often than not be deceptive, but when it comes to football they tend to be spot on. |
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Picco said that, if re-elected, he will again seek a spot on cabinet, but he has no interest in the premier's job. |
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He pointed to a spot on the weapon's surface which had been worn down a bit, as if someone had tried to scrape something off the surface. |
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Even schools, where milk had long held a treasured spot on every child's lunch tray, became fair game for soda marketers. |
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The pale white light floated evenly, sterilely, from a spot on the western horizon. |
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They went over to a spot on one wall where handguns and revolvers were set up. |
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I quickly splashed cold water to my face, tied my hair in a low ponytail and dabbed concealer to that annoying, red spot on my nose. |
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As soon as she hit a certain spot on the bottom stair, Tess made her way out. |
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I work harder than most people here, sell more beer, take more money, and my tills are always spot on at the end of the night. |
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A battle over the right to walk in a beauty spot on the edge of Keighley is to be waged at a public inquiry. |
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Their awkwardness, overextended maturity, mercurial temperaments, and easy companionship were all spot on. |
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A school has been forced to admit it made a mistake after allowing geology students to hack at the rock face of a beauty spot on a field trip. |
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The freshly buttered warm garlic toast made a tasty companion to the vegetable soup, and the pasta dishes were spot on. |
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Aislinn found a spot on the blue settee and the doctor seated himself across from her. |
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Starting on a positive note, the acting, action sequences and design work were all spot on. |
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She slammed the serrated edge into a hidden spot on the parasol and heard a sharp click. |
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As their ship got closer to the alien ship, it lurched as if caught in a tractor beam, and was pulled to a spot on the far side of the large egg. |
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He was spot on with the boot with another two place kicks and a further one-pointer to ensure a berth to the next round. |
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They picked a spot on a hill, overlooking the beautiful scenery of birds tweeting in the trees, and the water trickling in the pond underneath the flock of geese and ducks. |
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This means the favored candidate gets an advantageous spot on the ballot and a distinct electoral advantage in that county. |
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Curbs at nearly the exact same spot on opposite sides of the street are popped out of alignment. |
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The FDNY spot on the JTTF was among the items deemed no longer worth the expense in a time of budget cuts. |
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She went to Canada, won a gold medal and her old spot on the U.S. biathlon team. |
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The thing that made me the most anxious, weirdly, was the interaction that Patrick had socially, where he had that blind spot on. |
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Track and field star Lolo Jones may earn a spot on the Olympic bobsled squad after only one year of training. |
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But bonfire of the Vanities this is not, and that is unfortunate, though the cultural references might be spot on. |
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Others project a brilliant vertical plumb line on walls and posts, or an exactly located spot on the ceiling, permitting perfectly aligned walls, wallboard, and plumbing. |
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Hiring a guide is a good idea, since trained eyes will point out more rufous-tailed jacamars and blue-crowned mot-mots than you'd ever spot on your own. |
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Annie's head ached, her ribs hurt from coughing, and the simple act of craning her neck to peer through a clear spot on the windshield made her dizzy. |
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Here the comparison to the dot-com era is spot on, when the greater fool theory of stock investing reigned. |
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She sat still and stiller and never looked up from some mystery focal spot on the table in front of her. |
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De Sa had moved Wits from reputably being the roughest tacklers of the game to the league's most improved club, ending the season at third spot on the log. |
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A small group wandered down to a spot on the river that looked like the local swimming hole where they romped around, diving and splashing and fishing. |
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Jones could be heard egging Flintoff on from his spot on the boundary. |
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A military helmet that the artist himself wore on the Maidan occupied an important spot on the shelf. |
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Send Becca funny emails with pictures of places we'd like to go, with exes marking the spot on the idyllic beach where we'd sit drinking mai tais. |
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Restaurant This homey and homegrown spot on the East Coast has a table and a delicious meal with your name on it. |
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Their chins should be up and their eyes fixed on their target, which is the spot on the square where they want to bounce the ball off the backboard. |
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After collecting several branches of large red berries, he gathered as many wedge fruit as he could carry from the nearby tree and walked back to their spot on the grass. |
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I was five minutes early so I scouted for a good spot on the beach. |
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A million Hindus a year, from all over India, pilgrimage to this, the most sacred spot on India's most sacred river, to bathe in and to drink the water. |
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The extensive white spotting helps to separate female tragopans from those of other pheasants, and the elongated white central spot on each feather is bordered with black. |
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After crossing the checkpoint line, an official punched the appropriate spot on my bib, indicating the completion of the first section, and then pointed me towards the food. |
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Democrats just elected Maxine Waters to the top Democratic spot on the House Financial Services committee. |
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He said Hindus had been looking for a temple site for more than 20 years and a spot on the town's main business and administrative artery road fitted the bill perfectly. |
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Pigs are the one bright spot on the horizon but supplies are short. |
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I think Amberleigh House is just about spot on, and in the next 10 days we will put a fine edge on him, but if the race was tomorrow he'd run a blinder. |
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The white guy was closer to sixty than to fifty, and his shaggy white-blond hair was shot with grey, and he'd given up trying to hide the bald spot on top. |
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I let out a low groan to let the surrounding world know I was awake, but other than that didn't move from my rather uncomfy spot on the hard wooden floor. |
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After a full day of rest and relaxation, the Crazybox nightclub at The Waikiki EDITION is the nightlife spot on the island. |
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Since natural objects are not uniform, we can't compare one spot on an object to another spot, but we can find common features among objects in the same class. |
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Having been at SFU longer than I care to disclose, I can unwaveringly state that this period of The Peak's history is really a black spot on its reputation. |
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This is absolutely spot on and sadly remains as true today as it was then. |
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I thought it was a little slow but the characterization was spot on. |
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But The Usual Suspects just seems too spot on for it to be anything else. |
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The writers and directors have got it spot on in Series Three. |
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That's just so spot on, it's not funny and hilarious at the same time. |
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The casting for each of these characters was spot on perfect, especially in the case of Richards, who becomes something of a parody of her own image by the end of the film. |
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Well, I can recall a briefing in Afghanistan in January, when I went on a congressional delegation, and they pointed to a spot on the map no bigger than a half dollar. |
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If there was a weak spot on Liv, it was her oversensitive stomach. |
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Severe winter conditions, and sometimes soil deficiencies, may cause physiological problems such as sunscald and purple spot on the leaves of evergreen hollies. |
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Hitters growing up swinging aluminum bats have a greater degree of error when they switch to wood because of the smaller sweet spot on a wooden bat. |
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Through good research and development, the destructive black spot on lupins has been eliminated, and it is hoped that field peas might also benefit. |
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Mike was a burly guy who played both ways in football as an end at Duke, and earned a spot on the All-Conference team as a receiver and place-kicker. |
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He hastily boarded the bus and found the nearest vacant seat, flinging his bag on the window seat and plonking himself on the aisle seat, his favourite spot on the whole bus. |
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So he makes a point of always getting up and walking over to just in front of the last guest spot on the couch and standing there during the performance. |
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They'll last indefinitely if they're used on the right spot on a freight. |
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On Tuesday morning when I passed the spot on the other side of the carriageway I saw an earth mover and a gang at work to restore the caved in road and fill up the potholes. |
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Other time wasters to the life saving emergency service came from a divvy with a broken finger nail and another with a spot on the end of her finger. |
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His recent success has catapulted him into the running for a coveted spot on the International Race Of Champions circuit, an honor never before bestowed on a drag racer. |
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The anthelion is a spot on the parhelic circle, where the Wegener arcs, the Hastings arcs and the Tricker arcs cross the parhelic circle and increase the brightness. |
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Cusco was found in 2006 to be the spot on Earth with the highest average ultraviolet light level. |
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He declared that Montfort deserved no spot on holy ground and had his remains reburied under an insignificant tree. |
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In contrast to Duke, Double Double has been knocking on the door in his three hurdle starts, filling the runner-up spot on each occasion. |
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The eggs of most gulls and terns are brown with dark splotches, so they are difficult for predators to spot on the beach. |
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Overspray from my wife's hair spray has left a rough spot on the floor about 3 feet in diameter. |
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The lively Hart got on the score sheet after 31 minutes before securing all three points from the penalty spot on 71 minutes. |
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Mac and Smoky scorned the fuggy atmosphere of the lower decks, and proceeded to select a breezy spot on the after boat-deck. |
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Sinclair opened Swansea's account from the spot on 8 minutes after a Ryan Shawcross tackle had felled Wayne Routledge. |
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They're the unheralded players fighting for a spot on the team. |
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When the embarrassed owner returned to his parking spot on Monday evening he told rescuers that his satnav had sent him there. |
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Chantelle is obliviously ready to work hard for the top spot on the competition. |
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Goldsmith's spot on about the Lib Dumb loudmouth when four years later my hospital remains open. |
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Handing himself in, my fugitive's predictions were spot on, being jailed for two years and chibbed three days later. |
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A BOVINE VISITOR stops to check out sunbathers on the beach in Goa, a popular vacation spot on India's west coast. |
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This is connected with the fact that effective diameter of the heating spot on the pool surface is commeasurable with dimensions of a mould. |
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There was a yellow spot on the posterior operculum dorsal to this line, and the preopercular area was yellow. |
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Gilliland of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore suggest two explanations for the hot spot on Betelgeuse. |
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Tree sparrows can be readily distinguished from male house sparrows by a black spot on large white cheeks, and a chestnut crown. |
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This long-tailed macaque strikes a thoughtful pose, the limelight gets the hawk-eagle in a flap and the clouded leopard looks spot on. |
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If we didn't find, say, a red-banded leaf-roller, then we'd know that spot on the apple wasn't from one of those. |
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Using a traditional tendon reflex mallet, we located the most sensitive spot on the triceps tendon with the strongest reflex response. |
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Open of Snowboarding two years later taking the top spot on the podium for quarterpipe. |
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At the end of March, she disappeared and was found on April 2 at alonely spot on Dartmoor after setting herself a light. |
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Flak Jacket finished an eye-catching fourth at Pontefract last time and Nicholls should have him spot on again. |
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She'll tell you what to do for black spot on tomatoes, while she weighs out your turnip seed, or slices you a pound of hoop cheese off the wheel. |
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Under Jason Ryan they were tactically spot on but didn't get the credit for punching above their weight in reaching the All-Ireland semi-finals. |
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Haut convinced a couple of Wahines into taking surf lessons on the spot on the table. |
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His forecheck was spot on, he worked hard in every practice and every shift. |
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Debut singles of various UK garage artists were hitting the number one spot on the UK charts. |
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His counterpart Neil Warnock got his tactics spot on as Chelsea struggled to get into any sort of groove in the first half. |
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With quill pen in his right hand and an inverted copy of The Rights of Man in his left, it occupies a prominent spot on King Street. |
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In 1964 you were given a guest star spot on the series The fugitive. |
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The two first parts of that equation are spot on, but simple is not exactly the best word to describe BMW's i-Drive never ending menus, submenus, M buttons and Power buttons. |
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I then set up my carpenter's square and marked this spot on the ruler. |
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Tennis elbow or golfer's elbow, an inflammation of the tiny spot on your elbow where the tendons of the muscles are fixed, ones that straighten your arm. |
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But while their highlights maintain their spot on the celebrity C and D lists, their earnings show that they're not as simperingly silly as they look. |
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Moving up one spot on Team Stableford leader board and in second place is Jumeirah College, who collected 65 Team Stableford points in round 3 for a team total of 191 points. |
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And although the Chelsea boss is the kind of man who would inspire fury in all but the saintliest of football supporters, on this occasion his assessment was spot on. |
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When my father comes back with a dark wet spot on his pants, right in front, as if he has made in his pants, he starts eating his food in great shovelfuls. |
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The aircraft is intended to be hard to spot on radar and to be able to cruise at supersonic speeds without using the fuel-guzzling afterburners needed by present fighter jets. |
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So if your next note involves lifting a finger, you need to plan to lift the finger promptly to above its spot on the string so that it's ready to play again at any time. |
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Did you see the spot on the news about the shoelace factory? |
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Some ice cold lemonade would hit the spot on a warm afternoon. |
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He followed the ghost outside where it indicated a spot on the ground. |
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Maybe you wish your parents were smarter or funnier or richer or better looking, but you might as well wish for a spot on the local Quidditch team. |
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It has frontoparietal stripes on the top of its head, a faint golden midlateral line, and a distinctive black spot on the hind border of the gill cover. |
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Sales in global markets have been the only bright spot on the balance sheet, at least until John Deere reported better fourth-quarter 2002 results. |
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The bespoke Jenny Packham cornflower blue crepe de chine dress she chose was spot on for the occasion and I loved the Diana nod with the polka dots. |
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The ocellated turkey has an eye-shaped spot on its tail feathers. |
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And to complete a day of heartache for the Costa Ricans, Turkey snatched the second qualifying spot on goal difference with a 3-0 success over China. |
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