In fact it might even pay to speak broken English, perhaps with a Norwegian accent, when striding around ex-British colonies. |
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It was Chris, striding across the lawns towards the canteen, something in his step suggesting a conquering general returning home in triumph. |
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I could see him striding across the wasteland to the Lochee Road towards the railway bridge at Muirton Road. |
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Enforcers in full-face helmets were everywhere, striding through the crowd with arrogance born of unchallenged supremacy. |
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The statue, created by sculptor Tom Murphy, shows a striding Lennon wearing his trademark round glasses and a casual suit. |
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Dawson's face brightened considerably when he saw his sister and best friend, and immediately he stood, striding to shorten the gap between them. |
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Darren Kelly's leveller just ten minutes from time means City are creeping rather than striding their way to glory. |
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Father's nostrils flared as he registered what he was seeing, and in an instant he was striding into the room. |
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Shot in Bluff Creek, California, it shows a Bigfoot striding through a clearing. |
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He was striding at cruising speed with his skis in one hand and his poles in the other. |
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Faith looked up to see a man striding towards them with a thunderous expression, dragging a little girl with him. |
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At first I was determined, striding down passages and exploring new corridors and rooms I found. |
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She spun around to see Arthur striding towards her, his brow furrowed with concern. |
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He walks to the furthest point he reached yesterday, then begins, striding past the small, neat houses with their frosty lawns. |
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Suddenly he was striding up to Loretta, grabbing her around the waist and hoisting her up over his shoulder. |
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But I'm already striding back to my apartment, my heart beating a mad tattoo inside my chest. |
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He rose and placed his kepi on his head before striding out into the middle of the parade ground. |
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They depict the pharaoh, or rather the pharaoh's ka, in a striding pose and holding a mace in one hand and a long staff in the other. |
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He had been striding back and forth, rubbing his chin in deliberation at an agonizingly slow pace. |
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The poor old emperor striding down the street in the altogether was, of course, blissfully unaware that he hadn't got any clothes on. |
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Olivia gestured vaguely in the direction of the candy and Isabella took off, striding purposefully. |
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Crouching for breath might be a more appropriate position to assume after striding to the top step. |
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I noticed, across a distant paddock, a white-haired figure striding through the grass. |
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The story begins with three stylishly dressed men striding into a warehouse, where they confront a gang armed with knives. |
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I turned to find Mrs. Abernathy striding down the steps toward us, looking and sounding harassed and more than a little stressed. |
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Nodding the redhead turned sharply on his heel and started striding off in the direction indicated by the brunette. |
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He gave me a sad smile, dug the heel of his combat boot into the rubbery ground and spun in the opposite direction, striding down the hallway. |
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As problems at home well up, she diverts attention by striding the world stage. |
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He is striding light-footedly and in high spirits towards a victorious golden and peaceful white future. |
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Schools taught the young by rhythm first, and then with simple striding chords, and eventually with artless tunes. |
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Compared with long-legged ostriches striding across a plain, waddling penguins come up short. |
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Fifteen minutes later the door opened to reveal the Marquess of Bradford, striding confidently towards him. |
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Now awake and in charge of the day, he longed to be off, striding across the rich brown soil, out into the world, to explore. |
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He split away from the group and began striding in our direction, shouting questions. |
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The thin man slipped between them and fluttered down the steps, striding to the far end of the room. |
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You might have seen this tall man, hair swept back, with a thick black moustache striding the stage in plays. |
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He gave the door a hefty kick for good measure before turning on his heel and striding back to his bed. |
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Peter St John, the affable 9th Earl of Orkney, is striding through Lower Fort Garry, a fortress built by Orcadian masons. |
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She gave him a smile before striding over to the door and lifting the weatherproof casing from the keypad. |
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In recent years, democracy has made a quantum leap on our continent and is now striding across the world. |
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She acts by striding about, arms akimbo to suggest self-confidence. |
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She sighed, tried to even her breathing to this change in the structure of her torso, and stepped around the screen, striding towards her dry sink to fix her hair up. |
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Emanuel badgered and bothered the home player-manager sufficiently on the edge of his own box to win possession before striding confidently downfield. |
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Reviving himself from his contemplations, Jonathan got up and stretched luxuriously before striding purposefully to his desk and examined the items left there by Thom. |
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He has always found it easier to look purposeful by striding about on the world stage than by getting stuck into the messy business of domestic politics. |
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Around the base of the neck are roundels featuring phoenixes in heraldic poses which alternate with striding griffins. |
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It is a life-sized statue of the Pharaoh in the customary royal striding position, wearing the royal head-cloth nemes and holding a mace in one hand. |
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Della Francesca is a son of Danzig and it's still hard to imagine the big sprinter descendent striding over the jumps with so much svelteness. |
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We made the driver stop and walked for a companionable half-hour with two herdsmen, striding along at the head of their great mass of long horned cattle. |
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He eventually perished in the deep to Sakande before striding off, bat raised towards the pavilion and the phalanx of photographers. |
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Here are striding parsons, botanising antiquarians, madmen, painters and poets. |
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We are lost in a private member's club in central London, striding up and down stairwells, through doors and down dead ends. |
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I had almost overlooked one of them just now, but there he is striding quickly to his seat. |
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By expanding geographically and adding new product lines, the group is resolutely striding down the path to sustainable growth. |
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The fact is that the country's eastern region is striding ahead confidently with this key technology of the 21st century. |
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The dramatic sight has inspired legends of giants striding over the sea to Scotland. |
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A year older than that duo, Patrick Vieira can still be seen striding across pitches with his famous long legs. |
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She and a girlfriend pretended to tango, striding across the floor, tossing their long hair over their shoulders as they turned, then nearly falling over with laughter. |
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Charles offered him a curt nod, before turning on his heel and briskly striding out, his polished black boots beating out a rapid tattoo on the varnished floor. |
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A photograph from the day shows the President and the First Lady then striding past their newest junior host. |
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George W. Bush is back, thumbs in belt loops, striding across the literary world with a new memoir. |
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Every single sentence is purged of any possible thoughtcrime, any suggestion that one's corporate goal is not striding confidently forward on its shining path. |
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Soon after, a saddled and bridled chestnut horse came striding into view. |
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Once again Brecht's eyes surveyed the grounds before they settled on a broad shouldered brute of a man who was already striding confidently toward him. |
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Perhaps even now he is striding the Highlands, walking stick in hand. |
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I have an image of living in a country cottage by a babbling brook, striding over the hills with my two black Labradors for a pint in the village inn. |
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There, in the early eighties, a band of colourful characters roamed the streets, striding on stilts, juggling, dancing, breathing fire, and playing music. |
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At 9am the channel projects its own version of Groundhog Day: a vigorous Andrew Marr striding purposefully into the studio of the show that still bears his name. |
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As she had only run on flat surfaces, she took full advantage of the easy downhill, her long legs striding out and feeling like she was riding a bicycle. |
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But the few women who are to be seen in public are striding intently from one enclosed space to another. Pictures of Tarique Rahman, Mrs Zia's firstborn son and heir-apparent, are pasted to electricity posts. |
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I saw a young guy striding down with an armload of wild fennel. |
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Then I hacked up the ghyll to higher ground, toward the hill's bare head, counting the dead and the hikers striding along the ridge, thinking of taking a drink from the tarn, thinking of adding a new stone to the cairn. |
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Hours into his floor speech, Paul was still going strong, striding the floor behind his Senate desk to keep mobile and regaling the empty chamber with details of British and American constitutional history. |
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Cao was striding about giving directions with his swagger stick. |
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For all we know, they come with the same hopes and dreams and fears as those first people who stood on the edge of Asia and then started striding over the ice towards the outline of an unknown continent countless eons ago. |
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A birdchief, bluestreaked and feathered in war panoply with his assegai, striding through a crackling canebrake over beechmast and acorns. |
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A tall young man came striding through the park along the path near which she sat. Behind him tagged a boy carrying a suit-case. |
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Madball have been in France for a long time and Freddy gives everything, striding along the stage, not remaining one second in the same spot, offsetting the static stances of Mitts and Hoya. |
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In 1990, O'Connor's film featured moody shots of the singer striding around a garden wearing a black full-length military-style overcoat and looking lonely. |
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With feelings running high, the sight of a Network Rail hi-vis jacket beside a level crossing attracts the attention of a man who comes striding across a Suffolk beet field, brandishing an alarmingly large pair of secateurs. |
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This is one of the best Eddie pictures, a tough cigar-smoking Clint Eastwood cyborg Eddie striding through a futuristic bar full of weird alien beings. |
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You spin around and around, striding up and down the aisles as your heartrate quickens and you fear your shopping trip has just ripped the heart out of your life. |
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In the final furlong at Doncaster the fluentness of his forward propulsion was akin to striding out between departure gates on an airport conveyor belt. |
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And there was 14-year-old Isaac Hempstead-Wright, who lost use of his legs in the first episode, now striding around in a dandyish Vivienne Westwood suit. |
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A small figure was striding out from the tunnel, dressed in a leather jacket, a long black sweater, ripped black leggings and 89 stompy lace-up boots. |
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The 1-6 favourite was not striding away from the pack as expected, with McCoy's look over his shoulder on the home turn revealing Niche Market still in his slipstream. |
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And high above me now the bridge seemed to move of to where I could not see, striding like a robot, an iron man, whose iron legs clanged doomfully as it moved. |
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The birds often perch in trees, but spend much time on the ground, striding about or standing still for long periods with an upright stance, often on a single leg. |
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