| When my junker died I couldn't find a vehicle that I liked enough to waste vast sums of cash on. |
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| The man who had hoped to segue from comedy returned to the role he hated and the director he couldn't abide. |
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| In those days they used to say you couldn't nurture young joeys because you couldn't foster them. |
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| He tried to keep his tone matter-of-fact and business-like, but he couldn't completely hide the quiver of emotion as he spoke of leaving her. |
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| Because radiocarbon dating is only accurate to about 50,000 years ago, it couldn't be used to date Little Foot. |
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| Judith couldn't resist the gibe and regretted it as soon as Emma rounded on her. |
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| We just couldn't get past tackle three or four, and we didn't build any pressure. |
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| I was not taking notes while McCain spoke, so I couldn't quote him verbatim, and did not purport to. |
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| If the cars could take some of the weight off, couldn't we jack it up enough to take the strain off the landing gear? |
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| At daylight we hoisted the jack for a pilot and a Delaware pilot came off, Boat C, but couldn't take us to New York. |
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| The Abuna led a poor life and there were instances when he couldn't even pay his phone bill. |
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| When I returned I was laying in bed and couldn't sleep because of this rancid smell consuming the house. |
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| You can hear the joins, and couldn't think for even a moment that this is some acoustic as-live, technologically-innocent communion. |
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| We once had an enormous row because we couldn't decide what music to listen to in the car. |
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| To those who know him, he isn't a novelty act or a weakling who couldn't hack the rigours of the infantry. |
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| On that trip, I shared a lift with three French men jabbering away in this language I had been learning in class and I couldn't follow a word. |
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| An embargo against the military junta of the day meant they couldn't sell the coffee right away, but they still needed firewood to cook. |
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| There was only a fifty percent chance that they'd actually get quizzed on the material tomorrow, but she couldn't chance it. |
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| I couldn't win at a game of wallyball even if my competition consisted entirely of mannequins clad in movement restricting plate mail armor. |
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| The timing for this couldn't be worse because we've just had a very bad cold spell. |
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| I've booked into hotel rooms under so many assumed names that I couldn't remember how to sign the bill. |
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| But I couldn't begin to weigh the potential bloodshed against the potential benefits. |
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| Pension plans are legislated to be actuarily sound, whereas Ponzi schemes couldn't meet any test of actuarial soundness. |
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| Although they want to keep prostitutes out of jail, the panellists couldn't say the same for pimps and johns. |
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| There was still a tender spot there from when Henley had clocked him, but he couldn't remember where he'd gotten it. |
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| At the age of 49, I simply couldn't accept the doctor's prognosis that for the rest of my life I would be too weak to do physical labor. |
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| The swell was either just abaft or on the beam and at night you couldn't see it. |
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| He held to a value system he couldn't find in Kenwood, or in the bug-infested walk-ups, or in the shelters. |
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| You couldn't care less, because their language is waffly and you don't understand a word of it. |
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| But then, when Jesus said that he must undergo suffering and death, Peter simply couldn't abide it. |
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| At the same time, he couldn't abide facile equations between criminal desperadoes and the legalized murder machinery of a state. |
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| With potatoes, carrots and peas and a tasty seasoned gravy, I couldn't wait to tuck in. |
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| Some people here couldn't wait to get rid of him, but look at what he has achieved. |
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| Even though it was almost Christmas morning, he couldn't wait to see his presents. |
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| She went back to Ridgeway School earlier in September and couldn't wait to catch up with her friends. |
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| Everyone else in the room looked like they were at a funeral from which they couldn't wait to escape. |
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| It used to be that you couldn't wait to turn 18 so you could go to the Republik. |
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| Like nearly everyone who comes to Cape Town, we couldn't wait to head straight up Table Mountain. |
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| It hadn't occurred to me that people taking an acting class would find this scary, when I couldn't wait to get started. |
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| One minute I would be terribly home sick and the next I couldn't wait to get into central London. |
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| It was my first present from him and I felt so gorgeous in it that I couldn't wait to show it off. |
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| I made many good friends at work and had always enjoyed my time there, but by the time it was over I couldn't wait to see the back of the place. |
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| I spent all those years in school and couldn't wait to leave and here I am, 25 years later, going back. |
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| My head was full of ideas for my new design all day and I couldn't wait to get home and try them out. |
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| By the time I reached home every item of clothing I was wearing was nasty and I couldn't wait to strip off. |
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| The guy on the other end of the line wouldn't raise his voice above a whisper, which I couldn't make out at all. |
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| Ricketts couldn't have looked more out of his depth had he taken to the field in flippers and a wetsuit. |
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| The dogs had apparently zeroed in on a joey who, being younger, couldn't keep up. |
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| The old jerry-built compilation strung together 27 different computer systems worldwide, most of which couldn't talk with the others. |
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| And each was a special customer, and he was determined to serve their needs and he would see if he couldn't scare something up. |
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| England was an ally and they couldn't hold out for too much longer if the Jerries kept up the relentless bombing. |
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| If he had taken a large wet fish out of his pocket and hit me around the face with it I couldn't have been more surprised. |
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| The ground wavered unsteadily beneath him and he couldn't help but curse as his back erupted in pain. |
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| I packed him off to bed but he couldn't settle and he definitely couldn't sleep. |
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| Bobby Butler, one of the cornerbacks you chose for Atlanta's team, couldn't carry his jock. |
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| Who wanted to labor for a soul-deadening company that couldn't even offer job security? |
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| I couldn't concentrate on anything, the jumpiness in my stomach a constant distraction. |
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| When she couldn't find the key in its normal hiding spot, she jimmied the lock and let herself in. |
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| Husband Brian offered no sympathy but couldn't wait for the peace and quiet. |
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| The new guy whispered something to Jessica that Taylor couldn't hear due to the laughter, jeers, taunts, and whistles of the other students. |
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| I couldn't sit still, I was jumpy and anxious especially about meeting Erica. |
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| It was hot when I woke but not so much that I couldn't enjoy a brief stroll around the garden, admiring the flowers in the sunshine. |
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| By midnight, everyone was on the dance floor, jiving to a number Archie knew he'd heard several times, but couldn't quite place a name on. |
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| Lee tried to throw a punch at his nemesis, but couldn't raise his arm above the level of his belt. |
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| He said he couldn't understand why he was repeatedly jeered during his speech about the evils of reconciliation. |
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| There was an accusing tone to her voice, one that she couldn't quite conceal. |
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| She pried the trap open with her own arms, slowly the gaping jaws of the trap stood wide open, but she couldn't hold it like that anymore. |
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| Our star couldn't remember his lines so he ad-libbed all the way through the show. |
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| A week passed, and Enzo couldn't contain the excitement welling up inside of him. |
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| But there were many words he couldn't understand and he pestered his grandfather with queries about what they meant. |
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| An only child, with parents who wanted what was best for her, she couldn't quell the feeling she was different from her peers. |
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| Everything from accounts receivable to payroll to tax-return preparation was done by those bureaus because we couldn't afford our own computers. |
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| Every step was a jolt of pain through her body, but she couldn't let Luz know this. |
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| I couldn't help but wonder if he was always putting on an act for people, if the charm he always used was an act. |
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| The man I am doing business with has asked I accompany him and his daughter out for the night and I couldn't say no. |
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| Hunter replied, but I couldn't tell if he was sincere or just putting on an act. |
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| Naturally I couldn't say as I don't speak Italian or whatever language they were berating me in. |
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| She couldn't answer any questions because my ears were so red it was putting her off. |
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| He was clearly suffering from inadequate acclimatization, couldn't catch his breath, and thus couldn't keep up. |
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| She looked probably in her late twenties, I recognized her, though, for I couldn't have possibly forgotten that washerwoman's build. |
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| Those who couldn't squeeze into the hall could hear the lecture blasted across the campus on speakers, or go home and view the live webcast. |
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| I argued that the washerwoman might have mangled her hand if she was caught in the wringer, but it couldn't have engulfed her entirely. |
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| I knew some kids, usually of the jolly hockey sticks variety, who couldn't wait to tumble back into the classroom to see their pals. |
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| We wanted to put him down for the referees course, but he couldn't read or write. |
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| Wherever the race meeting, whatever the horse, he couldn't resist the allure of placing a bet. |
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| Above him, sea birds wheeled and called and although he couldn't see a beach, he could hear the gentle wash of waves on the shore. |
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| Donella had finished her packing, but couldn't locate where Tony had put her last suitcase. |
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| Although they enjoyed considerable possession at this point they simply couldn't put the scores away. |
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| It was a war zone and I was middle of it and I just couldn't understand what we were doing there. |
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| Since Christmas however, she had changed her route because she couldn't face walking past it every day. |
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| They rag each other endlessly about race and all its permutations, yet two men couldn't be more bonded together than they are in these mysteries. |
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| I heard my dad struggle with the pronunciation, trying to add on an Italian accent along with the words and couldn't hold back a giggle. |
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| She was blinded by her tears and the smoke, so she couldn't see the burning timber above her that was about to fall. |
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| Part of the reason the Coast Guard couldn't find the rafter is its crews' information-gathering tools are still binoculars, a map and radar. |
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| As if I couldn't get enough of the sport at practice I had to wear a soccer shirt too. |
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| The 82nd Airborne couldn't move from outside the city's limits without getting hammered. |
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| But Daley couldn't sustain his efforts, and never developed a permanent, salary-earning career as a journeyman writer. |
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| He found the looking glass easy enough, though why it was intact he couldn't say. |
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| I think the alcohol from last night has addled your brain, because you couldn't be more far off. |
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| So why was it that I couldn't get my fingers to turn the ignition and put the car in drive? |
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| I've done jury service twice and both times there were one or two people on the jury that couldn't follow relatively simple arguments. |
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| Even a dance-challenged Canadian reporter couldn't help but get a little jiggy with it during a recent visit. |
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| She tipped her glass at Hector as she gibed at the Antarctic and he couldn't have enjoyed it more. |
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| Our mate Robbo came over here for a few weeks last year and when he got back he couldn't stop rabbiting on about the place. |
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| If you had driven a stake through Baker's heart at that moment, you couldn't have caused a greater wound. |
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| Occasionally my friend Sarah would come over, but she lived a while away and couldn't drive, so that was never too often. |
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| Within seconds, we were surrounded by police, pushing and jostling us and telling us we couldn't go forward. |
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| I couldn't help but smile because Scott always did have a way with kids. |
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| A grammar of Japanese will tell you that a transitive verb is positioned after its object, not before, because you couldn't guess that if no one told you. |
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| The cave was ablaze with light, but Ian couldn't determine its source. |
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| Drake took a tight grip of the man's shoulders, but couldn't stop him from falling onto his side and rolling over onto his back with a metal jingle. |
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| Another time, Li just couldn't get her car to start up at an intersection when the light turned green, leaving a whole line of vehicles blaring their horns behind her. |
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| You wondered why they couldn't have found spare soldiers at Balad air base for this. |
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| She was wanting me to call her and speak with her last night, after not having heard from her for months and months, but I just couldn't be bothered doing that. |
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| But, despite entering all the races, he couldn't steer home a winner and it proved a costly day out for those punters that stuck with the local man. |
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| She wailed something in a language I couldn't recognise and struck a pose. |
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| Rebecca still had that radiant confidence that we'd uncovered within her a couple of weeks ago and I couldn't help but feel proud knowing that we'd helped her to achieve it. |
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| I couldn't have imagined that I would actually be sitting with him, coincidentally at age 30, discussing the same issue. |
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| I was on a liquid diet when I was sick because I couldn't digest solid food. |
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| She wore a red tunic that didn't try to mask her extremely feminine and athletic figure and pants so short that she couldn't possibly receive a wedgie. |
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| I couldn't help laughing at his abrupt, gruff delivery of the estimate. |
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| He knew the drugs Paul had given him would addle his brain, but surely not to the extent he couldn't follow a conversation with his little brother. |
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| I racked my brains but, oddly enough, I couldn't remember a single one. |
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| Decked out in stylish floor-to-ceiling wooden panels, the Zen-inspired bathroom has flat square washbasins with ultra-trendy taps that I for one couldn't fathom. |
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| Amber couldn't help the faint blush, or the weak smile, as she nodded. |
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| He admits he dreaded weekends and couldn't wait to get back to work. |
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| The shuttles were abominably slow, taxis couldn't be found anywhere. |
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| They had many chances to score but they couldn't convert their opportunities. |
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| He couldn't stay here and be an accessory to murder and theft. |
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| He got the jump on us turning for home and we couldn't quite run him down. |
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| But the ache got worse and worse and the next time I fell I couldn't pick him up again, so I dragged him home by the leg. |
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| Because of bad timing and aborts, squadrons couldn't find each other. |
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| Federal MP Anthony couldn't resist weighing into the debate. |
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| First of all, I couldn't believe that he was putting himself at such risk. |
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| Adam couldn't get his bearings from his position on the ground. |
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| However, within a year of the resort opening, the local technicians couldn't figure out how to service the wind turbines and the batteries for the accumulators. |
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| The ringleader said I couldn't identify them because I was blind as a bat. |
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| Trish had a previous engagement jacked up and couldn't come, anyway Pam, Peter, Tanya, Bronny and himself all fronted up and had a fantastic evening. |
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| The difference was that we were caught in the act so we couldn't deny it. |
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| I couldn't watch the news and I quit reading newspapers and magazines. |
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| Of course, anybody familiar with the way that planets are formed by the gradual accretion of matter in orbit around a star will be aware that this couldn't happen. |
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| The staff and teachers couldn't have been more friendly or more welcoming. |
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| It couldn't be that Keyshawn was slacking off in walk-throughs and workouts that left him ill-prepared to play when the ball was kicked, could it? |
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| The only shame was that we had to go back to work, and couldn't spend all afternoon watching the world go by, from the comfort of the leather sofa! |
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| This night couldn't get any better if it rained rubies and diamonds. |
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| I don't see why the word couldn't be used for hairless, though I'll admit it might be more usual to have an ablative of respect in there somewhere. |
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| I couldn't wait to find out and if that made me a wanton woman so be it. |
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| As we weaved through the screen of helicopter gunships on our final approach, I turned to Adrian, smiling the smile of a very happy man, and couldn't believe what I saw. |
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| She was looking her over so judgementally that she just couldn't take it. |
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| Aberdeen folk have Doric dour as their default demeanour but for weeks you couldn't waterboard the smiles off their faces. |
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| Chair Kristiana Serbin couldn't have asked for a better evening, weatherwise, for the 30th annual ball at Selby Gardens. |
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| His dam was a violent crib-biter and a wind-sucker and I took her to the sales but couldn't get rid of her. |
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| Hughes has earned a reputation as a wisecracker throughout his career and couldn't resist a funny in his acceptance speech. |
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| The screw was very tight so we couldn't get the Allen key to work at first, which is when I got a hack saw and started to try to cut the hinge. |
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| How could any organization possibly make money if it couldn't utilize world-class, value-driven strategies to succeed in a global economy? |
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| As her vocal cords were paralysed, she couldn't talk, but with the help of a writing board she could scribble some words. |
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| An overawed Spielberg couldn't bring himself to call him Tony, and insisted on addressing him as Sir Anthony throughout the shoot. |
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| When he hit the Jersey wall separating the north and southbound traffic, he sent up a huge cloud of dust that I couldn't see through. |
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| He flung subtle jibes at her until she couldn't bear to work with him any longer. |
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| Chad used to work as a coal miner, but couldn't handle the constant grunge. |
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| We couldn't help laughing out loud at the comedy of the situation. |
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| She couldn't imagine why anyone would cry over a stupid movie. |
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| She found that she couldn't afford the indulgences she had once enjoyed. |
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| I couldn't remember his number so I had to call information. |
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| I couldn't hear what they were saying because they were whispering. |
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| The band's lead guitar player hurt his hand and couldn't play. |
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| The team had trained well, but at crunch time they just couldn't perform. |
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| She wanted to send him a letter but couldn't recall his address. |
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| We tried pushing and pulling but couldn't get the couch to move. |
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| His heart being weak, of course they couldn't draft him, but anyhow they just absitively insisted on his going to work. |
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| This event couldn't have been possible without the efforts of the altruists that helped in their spare time. |
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| Foreigners playing a foreign music, they couldn't assume it as a national birthright, or absorb it in all its Americentric detail. |
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| What he said really hurt my feelings, but his apology sounded so sincere that I couldn't help but forgive him. |
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| We asked John if he wanted to come down the pub with us, but he couldn't be arsed. |
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| She developed severe arthritislike pains in her knees, shoulders, and back, and she couldn't stop sneezing in the halls and classrooms. |
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| I couldn't count them all, but I think there must have been at least 500 people in attendance. |
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| Th' singers couldn't get forrud for laughin'. One on 'em whisper't to Thwittler, an' axed him if his fiddle had getten th' bally-warche. |
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| For the first several years of my exclusive career in powerlifting, I couldn't bench too well. |
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| If I were a betting man, I'd wager my next pay check he couldn't do that again. |
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| I'd get my weight down for the event, then blimp out to where I couldn't fit into Orson Welles' cape. |
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| He was frustrated because he couldn't find anything about dinosaurs in the book. |
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| Gaddis found that with his broken arm, he couldn't climb the wall. Josh grabbed his foot and boosted him up. |
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| But what if that bottle-feeder she had to despise couldn't feed her own baby for some reason and wanted to? |
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| He came running around the corner at a breakneck pace and couldn't stop in time to avoid hitting the fruit stand. |
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| The roads were so slippery that I couldn't stop, and I bumped my car into the car in front of me. |
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| The buttery-tasting cookie was actually made with margarine, but you couldn't tell by tasting it. |
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| I thought I caught him sneering at Kevin and me, in our crufty pants and shoes, but I couldn't be sure. |
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| Putting a dirty buttprint on the bed probably wasn't the nicest thing to do, but it couldn't be helped. |
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| I let the cats out because they couldn't be arsed going through the cat flap. They were just sitting in front of the cat flap and yowling. |
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| The clincher was that we couldn't wait any longer to leave, or it would get dark. |
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| You couldn't help feeling he'd be caught out one day, and then what an almighty cropper he'd come! |
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| He could stay a little longer. Come to that, why couldn't he stay forever? He had nothing to get back to. |
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| And the appraiser said he couldn't come up with comparables, because there hadn't been any sales nearby in several months. |
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| It was a cop-out to say he couldn't sign the petition because he sprained his wrist. |
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| She couldn't turn around because the land around the road was too rocky for the low carriage of her rented four-door crapmobile. |
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| I couldn't hear the opening address because of all the crosstalk around me. |
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| I couldn't pay the bill and now my passport is in custody of the hotel management. |
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| He also had a deerish look of bewildered innocence, as if, after all this time, he still couldn't comprehend his circumstances. |
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| Besides, a video post room's console is smaller than those used for film, and you couldn't squander a dozen or more channels on dialog. |
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| Like other big cities he'd traveled to, the dollar-sign eyes of the young women couldn't resist staring at the fancy automobile he drove. |
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| He was watchin' of you close, he said, an' just couldn't follow your hand when you drawed. |
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| Everyone was so nicely dressed up for the wedding, I couldn't resist taking a picture. |
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| With the dried egg withdrawn, the country relapsed into virtual egglessness. My parents couldn't imagine life without the egg. |
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| Both of their evals suggested good upbringings, though the interviewer couldn't get much out of Swartzkoff concerning his home life. |
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| Still, Mick and the boys couldn't resist striving after whatever the Beatles attempted first, even when the Fabs flopped. |
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| You couldn't call it a feud exactly, but there had always been a chill between Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods. |
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| By my figuring, he couldn't have been much over forty, but sagging, bleached-out skin and a gray to balding head made him look sixty. |
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| The oddity of the situation was so flabbergasting I couldn't react in time for anyone to see it. |
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| His flabbergast was so great he couldn't even come up with a plausible answer. |
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| And, driving back in the fly, Macmaster said to himself that you couldn't call Mrs. Duchemin ordinary, at least. |
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| I checked my fuel gauges and decided that I couldn't stand any more full-throttle operation if I wanted to make it home to Munda. |
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| Akisumi couldn't do any better than this? Three women and a man? Two of the women and the man being gaijins at that! Fools! |
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| The busy orator and mother of two couldn't get around to her unfinished speech. |
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| Once she got going about my wages and everything else she had to pay out. She couldn't keep the wolf from the door, she said. |
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| After he called me that, I couldn't help myself from getting up in his face. |
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| They said I couldn't do the job so they gave me the elbow. So, now I'm looking for work again. |
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| Cory couldn't help but wonder what Ms. Calloway's story was, why someone so glamourama was riding herd over a posse of captive graffiti artists. |
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| The guy went ballistic when I tried to tell him he couldn't return the socks if the package had been opened. |
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| The entire plan went down the tubes when they found they couldn't get strawberries in December. |
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| His phone was off so I couldn't ask his permission, so I decided to just go for it. |
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| A heads-up posture meant the pilot couldn't pay attention to his instruments. |
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| When I was young and growing a lot, and Mama couldn't feed me enough, she used to say I had a hollow leg. |
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| When I saw the new dictionary, I couldn't resist the impulse to browse through it. |
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| He was so wrapped up in watching the incredible special effects that he couldn't keep track of the story. |
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| He was infirm of body but still keen of mind, and though it looked like he couldn't walk across the room, he crushed me in debate. |
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| Children being born in this country, just a few miles apart, couldn't witness a more wildly differing start to life. |
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| I couldn't believe that iron-handed old tyrant would have a son waho cared for nothing but praying. |
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| She couldn't move, not without that extra skeleton, and it was jacked straight into her brain, myoelectric interface. |
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| I couldn't hack it as a teacher, so I jumped ship and flew back to Australia. |
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| We couldn't get enough water to put out the fire because of a kink in the hose. |
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| I presumed Mullah Omar had filled such an important post with yet another madrasah-educated Koran-basher, but I couldn't have been more wrong. |
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| I couldn't make out the words of the song, it was just a bunch of la la la as far as I could hear. |
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| He told me he couldn't come because his budgie had fallen ill. A likely story! |
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| You're the one who told me I couldn't get lipo like I wanted, so this is the next best thing. But to do it, it has to be now. Tonight. |
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| Worse still, as spectrographic technology improved, additional spectral lines in hydrogen were observed which Bohr's model couldn't explain. |
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| Black cockatoos screeched and scratched at the bark of a big old manna gum as if they couldn't wait to see it done for. |
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| He's a master technician and sometimes he was doing stuff I didn't see, I couldn't register. |
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| I miss London very much but I couldn't live there because there came a time when I needed to be private and was forced to be public by the press. |
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| According to articles, reports and a biography, Turpin couldn't deal with the obscurity resulting from the loss of his crown. |
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| The car couldn't heat up the tyres enough and both drivers struggled with balance issues. |
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| The Legal Aid and Advice Act of 1949 introduced a state aided scheme to assist those who couldn't afford legal services. |
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| Harry said he couldn't stop and chat because his missus wanted to go shopping. |
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| Unlike the units and their equipment, military buildings couldn't be camouflaged. |
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| I couldn't bear to be without him, so I was like, 'Well, I'll just cancel my stuff then. |
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| I couldn't bewield this anymore. Interminable sentiments skirmishing inside me shouted for a vent. |
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| Through the crack in the door he couldn't help noticing that she had finally come through with the nippleless bra. |
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| The plastic was a nonporous surface, so the ink couldn't sink in and stain it. |
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| Before the recording on Saturday, 2 August 1969, Griffiths remembered the whole group being so excited they couldn't sleep. |
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| We tried to start a company, but we couldn't seem to get it off the ground. |
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| If we could see the last of that man, Didenhover, oncet, I'd take hold of the plough myself, and see if I couldn't make a living out of it. |
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| She was a one-night stand he'd met at the gym, and Herschel couldn't remember her name. |
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| The two actors had a very realistic on-screen romance, but in reality they couldn't stand each other. |
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| He couldn't outfake a lot of people, so when he'd get trapped he'd lower his shoulder and plow right into you. |
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| I couldn't find the particular model you asked for, but I hope this one will do. |
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| I only had ten cents in my pocket, so I couldn't use the payphone to call a cab. |
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| We couldn't take the boat into the shallows near the reef because our sonar pinger was broken. |
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| The damaged fighter jet pinwheeled out of control, the g forces pushing the pilot so hard he couldn't reach the ejection switch. |
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| The kid couldn't walk into a room without slamming into something, after which his pimply pizza face turned tomato red. |
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| The lights from the stadium polluted the night sky, and we couldn't see the stars. |
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| Did you hear about the man who was half Portagee and half Italian? He made himself an offer he couldn't understand. |
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| Hill was a problem child who was sent to Woodlands because his parents couldn't handle him at home. |
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| What he saw was not Peck Wilson but some soft scared pukeface whose mind couldn't stop running up against the bared teeth of the moment. |
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| Once the racing thoughts began, I had trouble concentrating on any subject and I felt like I couldn't think at all. |
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| I got a look at your boss's memoirs and I couldn't help but notice I wasn't in it. How do I fit into all this? |
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| But text typefaces were still a problem if Lubalin was to fully realize his vision. You couldn't cut and repaste every letter there. |
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| His reputability was in question, if he couldn't prove he was reliable then no one would hire him again. |
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| As we came from the warmth of the hall into the cold room we started to shiver and just couldn't get warm, so we didn't get much sleep. |
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| Other seaside bathing areas couldn't really get going until the railways were built some years later. |
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| The beam couldn't support the weight of the riveter, so the workers were riveting by hand. |
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| We went turtle-hunting and found a lot of scrabbly things that I couldn't bear, but Faith and Ernest like them. |
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| He probably thought she was an overprotective, neurotic mother who couldn't see past the end of her nose where her son was concerned. |
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| He couldn't afford the expensive headphones, so he decided to settle for the lower-quality set. |
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| There was no English on it. It was all Hebrew script and I remember it shat me off that I couldn't read it. |
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| And for all his shooings and worrying, he knew squirrels couldn't have done this kind of damage. |
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| I could see a silhouette of a figure looking out from the window, but I couldn't tell if it was a man or a woman. |
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| I couldn't actually see snowprints. The drifting would have covered them, but something about the trail made me think someone else had passed. |
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| I rode down the mountain to get the powder he needed to soften his cough. He said he couldn't breathe. |
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| Still, it stung when a slightly older acquaintance asked me why I couldn't do any better. |
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| Victor sat on a rock and tried to strip off his waders, his body shaking so much that he couldn't get a decent grip. |
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| While he was strung out, he ranted about conspiracies that he couldn't remember when he sobered. |
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| The little stunpoll of a fellow couldn't call to mind more than that 'tis Miss Somebody of London. |
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| She was a supercook. In my mind she was the real Wonder Woman. There didn't seem to be anything she couldn't do. |
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| Weakness was her enemy, the taloned beast that lived in her chest and couldn't wait to sharpen its fangs on her heart. |
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| Far from being amicable, the numbers seemed to turn their backs on each other, and I couldn't find a pair with even the most tenuous connection. |
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| I loved those red shoes but I couldn't thoil it in addition to the new dress I'd bought. |
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| If I couldn't even get a harmless little interview on Tinder, then how could any Tinderellas out there expect to get a date? |
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| There was a good many there, and some on 'em learned to read very well, and some couldn't learn nohow. I got on tolerablish. |
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| I spent hours in the archives, but couldn't turn up anything on the alleged criminal. |
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| Everybody was trying to throw the ugly-finder at him, and we still couldn't find him. |
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| Since the house was underinsured, we couldn't afford to replace most of the furniture after the fire. |
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| I was paid under the table, so I didn't have to pay taxes on the income but I couldn't complain when I was cheated. |
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| I could overlook an unsnipped tip, but this clueless? He had never heard the words synagogue or temple? I couldn't handle it. |
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| I acted by verbal authority, even though I couldn't be sure my superior would confirm I'd been authorized. |
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| However, researchers eventually found that the allozyme technique couldn't distinguish between closely related species. |
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| A man, only a few metres away, standing up in plain view, swigged on a bottle of voddy. Talk about careless! Egan couldn't believe his eyes. |
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| She waffled on for ages. Usually I'd say something smart or make it obvious that I wasn't interested and couldn't be bothered listening. |
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| We tried to comfort him, but he said it warn't much use, he couldn't be much comforted. |
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| My boss is so clueless, he couldn't schedule his own way out of a paper bag. |
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| The freezing rain covered our windshield with ice and we couldn't see a thing. |
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| I could see the dog running behind me in my wing mirror, but couldn't do anything about it. |
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