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[001] wrote down the address. Satisfied, he drove away. His _____ was ready. Morse was surprised to discover that he w
[002] nne, and she was dead. So they carried out the same _____ as earlier in the week, when it was in fact Conrad wh
[003] ley and his wife laughed loudly, delighted that their _____ to separate the two young people seemed to be succeed
[004] n out of the way. But this time Hindley discovered my _____ . 'Ah, you keep my son in a cupboard, do you!' he crie
[005] t Heathcli alone. But Catherine must have guessed his _____ . . She hurried to the door and locked it. Mr Edgar lo
[006] revenge on Edgar! But I won't let him carry out his _____ , whatever it is. I'll die, or I'll see him dead firs
[007] ors so that Heathcli could not get in. He told me his _____ was to murder his hated guest that night, with the w
[008] her to see Linton, Ellen,' he replied. 'Listen to my _____ . It's really a very generous one. I want the two cous
[009] thcli looked scornfully at his son. 'I don't think my _____ will ever succeed, Ellen!' he whispered to me. 'Who w
[010] hope Edgar dies before him. If Linton dies first, my _____ will fail.' He shouted angrily to his son, 'Get up, L
[011] d this time. We persuaded him to explain his father's _____ to us. 'father is afraid I'll die soon, you see, so h
[012] out a tough, violent man called Hogarth, whose modest _____ was to hold the world in one hand. There were robbe
[013] wing under their feet. When Flora told Charles of her _____ , he was silent at first, and she thought he was shoc
[014] ed to find that Flora was determined to carry out her _____ . 'I think it's terrible, Flora,' cried Mrs Smiling. '
[015] someone's got to, poor little things. But I've got a _____ for them, you see. I'm going' to turn the four of the
[016] ht-clubs.' Flora was a little shocked at Mrs Beetle's _____ for making money, but felt that at least it was organ
[017] Very interesting indeed.' But she said nothing of the _____ that had come to her in a flash, and Seth suddenly de
[018] Now, listen, Elfine, in think it would be an excellent _____ if you went to this ball. in shall go, too, to keep
[019] partner. Flora began to feel a little ashamed of her _____ . The 'charming woman' might not consider Elfine the i
[020] a knew what a disaster it would be for Elfine if the _____ did not succeed. On April 19th Flora came down to bre
[021] flash. In a few seconds she had every detail of her _____ clearly in her head. Calmly she wrote a telegram to C
[022] hat. Bruce McCullough and Father Kani helped Woods to _____ his escape: he told no one else. One day in December
[023] ather Kani to arrange the final details of the escape _____ . Kani would wait for Woods at a bridge six kilometres
[024] ving room. Jane and Dillon, who knew about the escape _____ , kissed Woods goodbye. Because the house was bugged,
[025] ide for him to walk across. The rain had spoiled the _____ . Woods saw that the sky was beginning to grow light,
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[001] 'Yes, please.' Morse wondered if the boy would try to _____ away, but Edward waited calmly for his beer. Togeth
[002] eard us, and sent the dogs after us. We were about to _____ away, when a great fierce dog caught Catherine's leg
[003] eg at once." , "Why does her brother Hindley let her _____ around with such a companion?" wondered Mr Linton. "I
[004] n't stay to be laughed at!' he cried, and was about to _____ away, when Catherine caught hold of his hand. 'Why a
[005] catching hold of his hands. 'But how cruel of you to _____ away and keep silent for four years, and never think
[006] we discovered that Isabella's room was empty. She had _____ away with Heathcli! When Mr Edgar heard the news, he
[007] ,' he replied with a laugh. 'She was stupid enough to _____ away with me. I never pretended to love her. Now I th
[008] ed. I could see that she was expecting a baby. 'I've _____ all the way here from Wuthering Heights,' she said, g
[009] ack to him. But I can't stay here, in case he 'I've _____ all the way here from Wuthering Heights.' comes to fi
[010] , that you were nothing but an animal. I told her to _____ away with me and forget you but she wanted to do the
[011] hild across the face. Lucille remembered how she had _____ away in pain and horror. 'Why do you have such big
[012] es she had been unable to think of her name. She had _____ in fear to the doctor. That was past! She might even
[013] e cheap whisky when we heard the shots. We saw Colt _____ out to the car - a black or dark green Ford. Colt fir
[014] erly woman named Iris Langerneckert who had seen Colt _____ out of the store and into the car. Like Gantner, she
[015] s at the side of the road, and twenty cars must have _____ over it. But after I wiped the mud o it, the familia
[016] he'll make it easy for the mugger to grab, push and _____ . He won't usually choose a victim who looks as if she
[017] st evening they had learned to scream loudly and to _____ fast. The second evening they had learned how keys an
[018] same person. The streets that cross the main street _____ between rows of neat cottages near the bottom of the
[019] grenade or two. I left the main street and began to _____ up the hill. Men were running towards me. Two of the
[020] as running back to the Hendrixson's house. I couldn't _____ , or walk fast. She and Hendrixson and more of his s
[021] n the path without my seeing him. But he could have _____ around to the general's side of the house and disappe
[022] on't think I'll have to. You're too sensible to try to _____ when I'm pointing a gun at you.' She laughed again.
[023] oo sensible to stay. Your crutch is broken. You can't _____ after me. You pretend you'll shoot me, but I don't be
[024] bump into me, so I had to give up standing still, and _____ about like the others. I started running after the b
[025] rt Poste's child. I have my tasks to do, and I cannot _____ here and there to serve a young thing like 'ee. Besi
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[001] thing or two about looking after herself. 1 A dark _____ of bushes stood between her and her car. She walked
[002] fore we had heard of Couignal. We would find a small _____ of wealthy people, suitably isolated, and after beco
[003] k to the Church of the Shaking Brothers, a religious _____ which met in Beershorn. She decided to accompany him
[004] hich had just started blowing. As though frozen, the _____ in the kitchen waited for the distant crash which woul
[005] n was all she could carry back to the eagerly waiting _____ downstairs. Mr Mybug and Rennet had joined the Stark
[006] oods thought. He knew that Biko's Black Consciousness _____ wanted black people to create their own organizations
[007] with blacks. Have you noticed that all our songs are _____ songs? - not someone singing to the moon about how lo
[008] urned and disappeared into the crowd, protected by a _____ of guards. For a moment there was silence. Then anoth
[009] African Government banned the meeting and arrested a _____ of Black Consciousness leaders who were helping to o
[010] st photograph, taken in the 1860s or 1870s, showing a _____ of men working on a farm. 'Look at the concentration
[011] ded him an envelope from the court. That afternoon a _____ of black men were playing rugby in a lonely field out
[012] t's OK,' he repeated loudly, and pulled away from the _____ . 'You're a dirty player,' Woods called. 'I was taugh
[013] not there at all. About an hour after they arrived, a _____ of people came on to a big platform at one side of th
[014] he crowd and across the field towards the platform. A _____ of young men in uniform came first, marching and sing
[015] ing and singing. The crowd began to sing with them. A _____ of priests followed. Then came the coin made of beaut
[016] abba hasn't a good name in the profession it's in the _____ we call School. We put schools, you see, into four gr
[017] il the afternoon,' said the vicar, who had joined the _____ of parents. He deliberately cheated, the little rat,'
[018] o be present one morning, as she interviewed the next _____ of girls in her study. Paul sat at one side, fascina
[019] s took this opportunity to break away from the little _____ cutting stone in the quarries. Come back,' shouted th
[020] outside the family. The only strange member of the _____ was Benson, Ashton's personal servant. He spoke with
[021] to bed early. Next morning after breakfast the whole _____ went out for the day. Again I saw Mr Rochester and B
[022] th me?' 'With pleasure,' he answered, bowing, and the _____ moved towards the piano. This was the moment for me
[023] d. The gipsy woman No sooner had Mr Mason joined the _____ of guests than a servant entered to announce the arri
[024] s happened! Our Globe has gone. While Iss had taken a _____ to explore the cave, the rest of us were on guard at
[025] this... But there was more sorrow to come. Two of the _____ who had gone with Iss returned with a dreadful story.
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[001] im today. The doctor says he's lost the2 sight in one _____ completely... and they don't really know . . . 'You
[002] f his watch and held it in front of his patient's left _____ . 'How are you now, Michael?' 'All right. But I feel
[003] ill holding his watch in front of the boy's staring _____ . 'I don't know. Tea-time, is it? About 5 o'clock?' T
[004] o'clock?' The watch said 8. 45, but the boy's injured _____ stared past without seeing it. As the doctor put th
[005] shop open in Walton Street. Losing the sight of one _____ did not stop Michael Murdoch studying at university,
[006] r Lockwood,' he said finally, brushing a tear from his _____ , 'you can go into my bedroom to sleep for the rest of
[007] told Celia we were married. There was a look in her _____ - the same look that must have been there when she p
[008] f a police line up,' Nudger reminded her. 'So what? _____ witnesses often make mistakes.' Nudger had to admit t
[009] he story. He came in, big and smiling, with his right _____ purple and completely closed. Then he told me. In t
[010] m. He was tired and he needed a shave, and that awful _____ was getting blacker. But he was big and strong and s
[011] ora at the station. Two Explorers, keeping a jealous _____ on each other, accompanied Mrs Smiling, and Charles c
[012] you went to this ball. in shall go, too, to keep an _____ on you. in will ask one of my friends to try to get s
[013] received for a hundred years. Meanwhile, she kept an _____ on the relationship between Mr Mybug and Rennet, and
[014] a sat beside her. She thought it was best to keep an _____ on Aunt Ada until the last minute. The plane that woul
[015] feel annoyed. Then something near the tree caught his _____ . A tall black figure was standing quite still, watch
[016] find them delightful boys, quite delightful. Keep an _____ on Clutterbuck, by the way, a very delicate little ch
[017] ' There was a long silence, during which the Doctor's _____ travelled down the line of boys. I will give the guil
[018] ground out for the races.' Just judge the distance by _____ . Really, my dear Pennyfeather, it is quite unlike you
[019] ost them in Level Purple.' 'OK. But you can't keep an _____ on four people with six men. I'll let you have eight
[020] that she might recover some of the sight of her left _____ , but she would never see with her right
[021] , but she would never see with her right _____ again. When I talked with Gillian, she wanted to know
[022] n Stockholm and it was impossible for him to keep an _____ on both of them for twenty four hours a day. I had t
[023] the past, sir,' I said, wiping a secret tear from my _____ . 'No, Jane, you're right, the future is much brighter
[024] something on a piece of paper on the table caught his _____ . He glanced at me, then tore off a tiny piece very q
[025] ny. After two years his sight began to return in one _____ . Now he can see a little, and when our first child wa
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[001] y hand fell on his shoulder and a voffice said, 'Just _____ walking, will you!' At about the same time that Mors
[002] s?' Richards smiled. 'I'm afraid not. I just couldn't _____ control of the children in my class. In fact my les
[003] u were a bad teacher, that's all. Someone who could _____ an audience happy for an hour and a half could never
[004] eceive a copy of the l parking ticket, and they also _____ details of who paid the I fine, and when it was paid.
[005] he had gathered enough information about Jackson to _____ Morse happy. Mr and Mrs Richards Next morning Morse
[006] u may be right, sir, but I need a bit of solid food to _____ going. Do you think we're anywhere near solving the
[007] if only they had never decided to adopt... She would _____ her guilty secret for ever - she knew she would ne
[008] accept 75 if I would just read a letter to him and _____ it a secret. And of course it was only after beginnin
[009] married a man and they had a baby, but they couldn't _____ it, so it was adopted. That's a modern way of gettin
[010] ur desk?' 'No, but Celia did. It was stupid of me to _____ it.' 'But I'm glad you did. It's the biggest clue in
[011] e Jackson continued to watch the house opposite. Just _____ walking will you! Jackson put the bag into his bicycl
[012] emed. 'Help! Mr Heathcli! Help!' I shouted, trying to _____ the dogs back. My landlord and his servant were in no
[013] over the moors in bad weather: he answered. 'I don't _____ guest bedrooms. You can share a bed with Hareton or J
[014] hcli, and the worst punishment we could invent was to _____ her separate from him. Her father could no longer un
[015] ry expression on his face, and he did not even try to _____ himself dean and tidy. He seemed to want people to di
[016] her, I knew there was no hope for him. Nothing would _____ him away from her now. And sure enough, he came back
[017] ident or on purpose, when he was drunk, so I tried to _____ Hareton out of the way. But this time Hindley discove
[018] . But this time Hindley discovered my plan. 'Ah, you _____ my son in a cupboard, do you!' he cried angrily, pick
[019] y for her, or encourage her to talk. 'ElIen, will you _____ a secret for me?' she asked in the end, giving me her
[020] of his hands. 'But how cruel of you to run away and _____ silent for four years, and never think of me!' 'I've
[021] if Heathcli had never come back. Catherine could not _____ her happiness to herself. In the middle of the night
[022] you're not wanted! But whatever you say, nothing can _____ me from my home, my place of rest, out there in the o
[023] llness. 'If you really love her,' I told him, 'you'll _____ away from her now. She mustn't be over-excited. Her h
[024] ton! I suppose Isabella wants me to hate him! She can _____ him for the moment. But tell Edgar Linton I'll have t
[025] d hear about his son's arrival, which we had hoped to _____ secret from him. And Cathy would certainly ask her fa
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[001] ht him, he found himself looking into the frightened _____ of a young constable. 'Oh, it's... it's you, Inspect
[002] the doctor!' said Bell, laughing at Morse's unhappy _____ . The next morning Morse phoned Charles Richards at ho
[003] When she arrived at Betty's, and saw her sister's kind _____ , she found she could not stop crying, 'I'm sorry,'
[004] oulders were shaking and tears were running down her _____ . She looked completely helpless. Edward had never se
[005] early a shock for poor Mrs Purvis. The muscles in her _____ trembled. She opened her mouth but no words came ou
[006] ompletely. Her shoulders shook and tears ran down her _____ as she replied. 'I didn't, but I did explain to him
[007] was a very old servant, with a sour expression on his _____ . He looked crossly up at me as he took my horse. 'Go
[008] only about seventeen, with the most beautiful little _____ I had ever seen. Her golden wavy hair fell around her
[009] this lady's husband!' This was worse than before. His _____ went red, and he seemed only just able to stop himsel
[010] me home. I lost my way!' There seemed to be a child's _____ looking in at the window. Terror made me cruel. I rub
[011] hcli dropped his candle and stood without moving, his _____ as white as the wall behind him. He did not seem to r
[012] 'Come in! Come in!' he cried, tears rolling down his _____ . 'Catherine, do come! My darling, hear me this time!'
[013] , and liked giving orders. But she had the prettiest _____ and the sweetest smile you've ever seen. I could forg
[014] d had not bothered to wash or change his clothes. His _____ and hands were black with dirt. In spite of this, Cat
[015] And if you have a good heart, you'll have a handsome _____ . Who knows who your parents were? Perhaps a king and
[016] and dull. There was always an angry expression on his _____ , and he did not even try to keep himself dean and tid
[017] ock on the door. . Edgar Linton entered, his handsome _____ full of delight at receiving Catherine's unexpected i
[018] y, and, unable to control herself, hit me hard on the _____ . 'Catherine, love! Catherine!' cried Edgar, shocked.
[019] her shoulders shaking and the tears rolling down her _____ . Edgar managed to get as far as the door. But here he
[020] sad and worried, and I even saw a tear or two on her _____ . But I had not forgotten how she had lied, and behave
[021] d. He wore a confident, intelligent expression on his _____ , and his manner was no longer rough. Although I reco
[022] e and more annoyed as he watched his wife's delighted _____ . She could not take her eyes off Heathcli. 'Tomorrow
[023] hat stupid girl?' he asked. 'She has a miserable pale _____ , and weak blue eyes, just like your husband! But. .
[024] gh I was a little worried by her pale, almost ghostly _____ . 'I begin to see that you don't like me, Ellen. How s
[025] Who is that over there?' she asked, staring at her own _____ in a mirror opposite her bed. I could not make her u
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[001] ouldn't keep control of the children in my class. In _____ my lessons sounded rather like a zoo!' All the audie
[002] rsuade Charles Richards to speak to us, you know. In _____ , she arranged it all with him.' Morse suddenly felt e
[003] 'All right, Lewis, go and see her this afternoon.' In _____ the inspector seemed to have lost interest in the Ric
[004] t to her the next day, informing her that she was in _____ pregnant, and it had probably been delivered to her
[005] d,' answered Charles. Things were going very well In _____ Celia was worried and unhappy. As she drove to Cambri
[006] for the police to suspect him of murder. I think in _____ he was the person who rang us up later. I'm sure he f
[007] 'Yes,' said Lewis slowly, finishing his last chip. 'In _____ I decided some time ago that's what happened.' 'Real
[008] al clues to the mystery of the Jericho deaths. 7 In _____ , that night, it took him four hours of careful thought
[009] al children. They could have been very happy, but in _____ their story is one of the most horrible in the whole
[010] uestion, 'my husband will be back from Spain soon. In _____ he phoned me just now, to say he'll be flying back
[011] ry of Oedipus did not explain Anne's death. But in _____ Morse was very close to the truth. The final clue to
[012] ps you wouldn't mind letting him take yours again? In _____ he's waiting outside now.'2 Richards sat down heavil
[013] the same plan as earlier in the week, when it was in _____ Conrad who drove the Rolls to Oxford, and Charles w
[014] y here in Yorkshire is so beautiful! Mr Heathcli, in _____ , is my only neighbour, and I think his character is s
[015] d out of the door and, I thought, into the fields. In _____ I discovered later that he was sitting just under the
[016] rest of the story another time. Four weeks later In _____ I was ill the next day, and have been ill since then.
[017] er Heathcli took him to live at Wuthering Heights. In _____ Linton only stayed one night with us. Later that eveni
[018] d he went down on his knees to pray. Hareton was, in _____ , the only one who was sad at Heathcli's death. He and
[019] u less because that would be treating you badly. In _____ , if you ever want more' 'Oh, no, madam! But I wish t
[020] he didn't kill that liquor store woman, and that's a _____ . It's not right that he should have to ride the ligh
[021] , but he didn't move He had stopped looking angry; in _____ he seemed rather pleased with himself. 'That's bette
[022] active ankle. The first had not been weakened by the _____ that she always did what she wanted, nor the second b
[023] unch. Were ye afraid in would cook it?' Flora had in _____ been worried about that, and was glad to hurry away f
[024] Flora. 'in don't want the farm. Really, in don't. In _____ ' - she hesitated whether she should tell him it seeme
[025] ht if only you'll be honest with me. As a matter of _____ , I'm not very interested in whether they have souls e
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[001] and coldly, giving her no time to think. Who came to _____ bridge that Tuesday evening, the night before Anne's
[002] Poor Heathcli! Hindley says he is wicked, and can't _____ with me or eat with me any more: My eyes were beginni
[003] at he went there to look for me. Hindley asked him to _____ cards, and when he discovered Heathcli had a lot of m
[004] ar father again, and have a cousin of the same age to _____ with. But when the coach arrived, young Linton had to
[005] s miserable, because she would not now have anyone to _____ with, but she soon forgot him. Whenever I met Zillah,
[006] very shocked and unhappy about her death. You had to _____ the part, didn't you? You should never have killed h
[007] in dierent houses, just to sit and watch the children _____ . But they had usually been dirty and had used bad l
[008] for that? A jealous wife? It was possible. She would _____ around with a woman's husband until she was tired of
[009] violent outdoor sports which she had been forced to _____ , but she realized that neither was adequate as equipm
[010] I have only a hundred pounds a year now. And I cannot _____ card games.' 'How can people spend their time playing
[011] e awful years at school and college, where you had to _____ all those terrible outdoor games, without getting to
[012] y large party in a cold room, where everybody has to _____ a team game with great enthusiasm. But I was going to
[013] how she's mine. An' this summer, when the water-voles _____ in the stream, I'll make her mine!' And he turned and
[014] ning coat. In the evening they all went to an amusing _____ at a theatre, and then Flora and Elfine spent the nig
[015] epy; she felt as though she were at some awful modern _____ that goes on for hours and hours. Aunt Ada was sitti
[016] and stepped into the office. 'I don't have all day to _____ games, and I...' 'I would have met you in the church,
[017] ly danger is that you will lose your idea that whites _____ the best football in this country.' In fact there was
[018] about fifteen, came towards them. 'Will you be able to _____ tennis?' he asked his father. 'Ja, of course,' Kruge
[019] e man appeared over the hill and stood, watching them _____ . When the game was over the two teams started to walk
[020] ad no experience, I've got no references, and I can't _____ any sport.' You shouldn't be too modest,' said Mr Lev
[021] ch you the organ, I believe.' Yes, it's great fun. We _____ in the village church. Do you
[022] in the village church. Do you _____ terribly well?' Remembering Dr Fagan's advice, Paul
[023] 'm waiting till I land in the soup again. Then I shall _____ that as my last card. I usually get into the soup soo
[024] , that's what we think, anyway. And now I am going to _____ the organ. After all, my mother does pay five pounds
[025] ext to the tea-tent. Take your band in there!' We can _____ nothing whatever without the money first,' said the s
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[001] he alarm clock, sir,' said Lewis, coming downstairs, ' _____ for . 45. So she did get up early. And you know tha
[002] way too. I won't murder you tonight, unless perhaps I _____ the house on fire. But that depends how I feel' And h
[003] would like to write a book as good as Persuasion, but _____ in modern times, of course. Until then I shall colle
[004] e'll have to look inside every piece of this railway _____ . The whole thing is so big that we have to use the c
[005] happily. 'Miss Ashton gave me permission to use the _____ upstairs whenever I like. It really is a fantastic r
[006] a liar. From that moment, I felt I was accepted, and _____ to work to learn as much as I could, and make as many
[007] d obviously told the servants that he had accidentally _____ fire to his room by knocking over a lighted candle.
[008] l asleep, so he must have knocked the candle over. It _____ fire to the sheets, but luckily he managed to put th
[009] now we must say goodbye.' 'Goodbye, Mr Rochester.' I _____ out early the next morning and travelled all day. As I
[010] ead cried for her. The future Mrs Rochester And so I _____ out on the long journey back to Thornfield. Mrs Fairf
[011] ke sure our race survives. 'Tomorrow the Globes will _____ out to search the heavens in every direction. Each on
[012] nd cruelty, could go to a clean, new planet. We could _____ out in a huge spaceship, and we could start a new lif
[013] ng them. He waited for an hour, while the distant sun _____ , and then he went back to the window to observe resul
[014] icity would flow along the wire to the box that would _____ off the explosives. Then the dome would be blown up,
[015] re in fact being used that day in the fields. So Jane _____ out on her horse, while her mother called cheerfully
[016] , and the next day Elizabeth and the other travellers _____ off again. When the coach arrived in Hunsford, they w
[017] ave their children in Jane's care. The next day they _____ out with Elizabeth on their journey. The three of the
[018] rcedes drove in up to a large, yellow house which was _____ in a beautiful garden. There was a big swimming pool,
[019] the beach. The beach was empty as the sun had already _____ and most of the other visitors had already returned t
[020] d Sean, you mustn't play any more stupid games.' They _____ out behind Thomas. . Sean pretended to walk like a so
[021] xt to the window. Mike got into the driver's seat and _____ o, driving slowly and carefully. Everyone was quiet.
[022] gether, looking our over the water. The sun had almost _____ and the moon was rising over the sea, round and full.
[023] ' Joyce looked out of the window. The sun had almost _____ . There were just lines of red in the west. 'I didn't
[024] so that I would not be seen so easily at night. Then I _____ my alarm clock for one o'clock in the morning, got in
[025] in bed. It was good to leave the city behind as Anna _____ off west along the M4 on the 500 kilometre drive to P