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[001] one.' The chapa was soon near the centre of Maputo. ' _____ 's get off here,' Cabinda said. But we'll find you som
[002] ika said. 'I promise I'll stay in the hotel, and I'll _____ you know when I've got a plane ticket.' They said goo
[003] y and get a seat on that tomorrow,' Monika said. 'Now _____ me pay for this lovely meal.' 'Certainly not,' Cabinda
[004] said with a nasty smile and pulled Monika up. Monika _____ the man pull her towards him. When she was very close
[005] p heel of her left foot. The man cried out in pain and _____ go of her. Monika turned and ran into the crowds at
[006] ay to the meeting,' Blom replied with a quick smile. ' _____ 's think about Carlson now.' It was six 0' clock when
[007] her on the head with the side of his hand. Her hands _____ go of him for a moment and he threw her down to the f
[008] Vitjord! He had been hiding inside the coach. Vitjord _____ go of Monilds throat. Then he hit her across the face
[009] behind Vitjord. 'Don't kill her yet,' Chapman said. ' _____ 's make her talk first. ' Monika understood now. Chap
[010] olding my head and kissing me on the cheek. 'Come on, _____ 's try and get some sleep.' I lay down again. She turn
[011] d I didn't see where he went.' 'Maybe,' said Andrea. ' _____ 's go and try.' We walked round to Gergely utca and st
[012] Andrea took my hand. 'Come on,' she said, laughing. ' _____ 's go and have a drink in your famous bar!' I was 'so
[013] opened the door. She couldn't hear very well. But she _____ me into her small kitchen, and oered me a cup of coee
[014] the little girl liked it so much that in November we _____ her stay all day. Andrea taught a few Hungarian lesso
[015] you about Janos Szabo, Mrs Fischer?' I asked when she _____ me in. 'Oh, the poor young man,' she said, looking at
[016] t my face go white, 'but as for the little girl. . . _____ 's think. . .' I waited for a moment. She didn't seem a
[017] . . And I could feel it inside my body. The fireman _____ me go, and I fell down onto the street and started cr
[018] s that her 'top five' was actually her 'bottom five'. _____ me explain. The thing that was top of her list was a
[019] when I see they aren't romantic anymore, then I just _____ them go. I mean, if men can't take love seriously the
[020] le but he did not see them. He fell into the seat, and _____ his case fall on the table, together with the envelop
[021] t to answer it. He wanted some peace and quiet. So he _____ it fall into the toilet. The phone continued to ring
[022] ry pleased that you've decided to come to Tredonald - _____ me know when you arrive in England. With all best wis
[023] ome on!' Megan jumped up and pulled Huw to his feet. ' _____ 's walk a bit more, then I'll have to go home.' 'Can I
[024] move away. 'If my father could see us now, he'd never _____ me come out with you again.' 'Sorry,' said Huw, not q
[025] ' said Huw. 'There's a new American film on in Afon. _____ 's go.' 'It's a long way. How will we get there?' Mega
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[001] had cheated death. The Emperor sat in a chair in the _____ of the tent and received visitors. Two senators, Falc
[002] igures of his family-parents and grandparents. In the _____ , protected by the others, were the two smallest figur
[003] ol. Proximo's school was like a castle prison. In the _____ was a square. On one side were the cages for the ani
[004] new ones were put together into a small arena in the _____ . One by one they were given heavy wooden swords and s
[005] took his breath away. The gladiators moved into the _____ of the sand. At the same time, three other teams appe
[006] de of the arena, forcing the gladiators back into the _____ . It was diicult for the men on foot to see fell throu
[007] igris stopped his chariot, got down, and waited in the _____ of the arena. He was carrying a sword and a spear and
[008] Army of the North, with Valerius and Cicero at their _____ . They had come to see if it was true that their gener
[009] o his servants. All eyes in the Colosseum watched the _____ of the arena as the elevator came up. Commodus steppe
[010] to him about his own home in Spain. Juba moved to the _____ of the arena and found the exact place he was looking
[011] put it carefully on the large, expensive table in the _____ of the room. He had five or six red sticks around hi
[012] d Mordecai Green, the Director of the 14th Street Law _____ , DeVon Hardy had recently lost his job. Then he becam
[013] the city, and drove until I found the 14th Street Law _____ . I parked at -14th and Q, certain that I would never
[014] ee the expensive Lexus again. . The 14th. Street Law _____ was in an old, tall, red brick house that had seen be
[015] on learn how important Sofia was to the th Street Law _____ . ... "I'm looking for Mordecai Green," I said. But ju
[016] city where the white people live. The blacks had the _____ of the city arid the whites the area outside. Sometim
[017] area outside. Sometimes the blacks moved out from the _____ into a white area and then the whites moved further o
[018] ormous," said Marc Tucker, president of the National _____ on Education and the Economy, which has helped devel
[019] d States, which has been an elusive statistic at the _____ of political and academic dispute on both sides of th
[020] ols. On Saturday, the Education Department's National _____ for Education Statistics released the latest version
[021] ted by Mark Jonathan Harris for the Simon Wiesenthal _____ in Los Angeles, that traces the postwar period when
[022] during a single evening in 1984 at the National Arts _____ in Ottawa. Although Mr. Vickers's performance is typi
[023] s and stair-climbing machines in the store's fitness _____ . There is even a trainer with a degree in exercise p
[024] se themselves in or near Goreme, which lies near the _____ of this triangle. Goreme is about 200 miles southeast
[025] d for rent in her three-family town house in Atlantic _____ , the new mixed-use community under development in dow
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[001] e Portuguese,' he said. 'When the Portuguese left my _____ in 1975 they took everything they could with them. An
[002] t be silly,' Cabinda replied. 'You are a guest in our _____ . I would invite you to stay in my apartment, but it's
[003] d when Monika had finished. 'Mozambique is a very big _____ , and Vitjord lives in an empty area near South Africa
[004] uth Africa. People say he has his own army there. Our _____ is at peace now. But men like Vitjord are still very
[005] He's a great man. One day he will be the leader of my _____ . His name's Vitjord.' Monika looked at Bruce in surpr
[006] ght it would be really interesting to work in another _____ , one I'd never visited. . Like many British people, I
[007] happy little family. Then for New Year we went to the _____ to stay with Andrea's family, as usual. We had a ; ve
[008] e was finding it diicult to get used to living in the _____ . But it was only with this story of the Ironing Man t
[009] ter than being a soldier and fighting in some foreign _____ , like a few of the men in the village. The prime mini
[010] u think I'm a strong person, but when you're in a new _____ , everything will be dierent for you. You'll meet a lo
[011] Both Huw and his father had worked hard in their new _____ . They had found work in a factory that made cars and
[012] er about the wonderful wild areas in the north of the _____ , and funny stories about the art world in Canada and
[013] he few remaining houses. Bangkok. She missed her own _____ very much. The sun was rising over the block opposite
[014] e to walk in a straight line in thickly forested hill _____ . Progress was slow and painful. They often had to sto
[015] d the people who matter most are the ones in your own _____ , your own home.' Ikuko thought she'd be happy with H
[016] sually just in Birmingham, but sometimes we go to the _____ .' He spoke quickly, but Ikuko managed to understand.
[017] . 'It's just the photography club. We're going to the _____ . To a place called Broadway,' Ikuko replied. Lucreti
[018] be it's better for you to marry someone from your own _____ , instead of being with a man who can't marry you yet,
[019] e you'll find it back in Japan after all. In your own _____ .' 'But if I leave who will look after the children?' '
[020] as. But she'd been born in the middle of Africa, in a _____ which had no coast, where fish were things found in t
[021] me, at twenty-seven years of age, alone in a foreign _____ . Italy. So much hope. Such a bright future. Such an e
[022] nd signed it, Love, Paul. Chapter 4 A weekend in the _____ And then in late April, after another of our team mee
[023] I say no? She was beautiful and I was in a beautiful _____ . If I had known what was going to happen I would have
[024] ern earth turned into rock and then into greener hill _____ , and as darkness fell we were getting near Clermont-
[025] lt for Andrea and the others to follow us along small _____ lanes, so I decided to take a chance. I checked behi
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[001] ,000 Mercedes-Benz and a $22,000 time-share vacation _____ . And the lead man left standing in all this turmoil
[002] ed for combat in the Seals, the Navy's elite commando _____ . She becomes the target both of a sadistic male instr
[003] more unwieldy than I had anticipated. Sure, the main _____ was only 3. 3 pounds, but throw in two spare batteri
[004] e whether a majority of the workers in the bargaining _____ want union representation. Before an election is hel
[005] he Giants are a team with no fingerprints, a faceless _____ of interchangeable parts, none of which worked too we
[006] also agreed to sell the assets of its Outlook Foods _____ to the S&J Food Management Corp for undisclosed terms
[007] his time!' *** Lynn Dermott works for the Low Pay _____ . One of her particular concerns is the working condit
[008] e crucial years as head of the Downing Street Policy _____ , and from Michael Portillo, who offers, on the face
[009] s attention. From 1983 to 1986, he headed her policy _____ in what was arguably its most creative phase. Redwood
[010] d housing. His own early contributions in the policy _____ included 'popular capitalism' -more home ownership, p
[011] o anything radical or important'. While at the policy _____ , Redwood dreamt up with Oliver Letwin, the education
[012] wrote at that time, just after he had left the policy _____ . Britain's Biggest Enterprise damned the NHS as 'a b
[013] - the need for short-term gains. While at the policy _____ he had urged on ministers a pledge that no one should
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[001] it has an important message. It is usually thought to _____ bad luck, and is often believed to show that there wi
[002] :what kind of message, my doppelganger was trying to _____ me. Thinking about it made me feel uncomfortable, so
[003] t the butterfly and asked him: 'What changes will you _____ to my life? Will there be an earthquake somewhere in
[004] phone number (a mobile phone number) and a promise. _____ ME YOUR PROBLEMS AND I WILL GIVE YOU ANSWERS. . . FAS
[005] ain and she thought some more. 'And if I asked you to _____ Tom back to me,' Marina said. 'To make it like it us
[006] pany in Bangkok, her mother and father allowed her to _____ one thing to remind her of home. Hu chose to
[007] one thing to remind her of home. Hu chose to _____ Lao Mao. Hu liked to talk to him when she was sad, or
[008] t beautiful there?' he asked. 'I don't know. But I'll _____ lots of photos back' She went to get her jacket. It w
[009] re you all right? We all heard what happened. Shall 1 _____ you some breakfast?' 'Yes, I'm all right. I'm fine. B
[010] in her mind. It had needed the pain and the drugs to _____ it back. Now she lay and thought about it all, the pe
[011] lace where you can spend some of your time, and maybe _____ your family when you have one. Your mother never foun
[012] ke again, her eyes still closed. 'Next time you come, _____ Joyce Chiluba.' 'She's Joyce Mutanga, grandmother.' '
[013] angements, just that it would be cold at night and to _____ warm clothes and walking boots. It had, she said, bel
[014] t, but shining, and said, 'Why would I have wanted to _____ you if they were here?' I said something stupid like,
[015] disbelief. 'How can you love me when all I've done is _____ you so much trouble? And when we don't even know how
[016] moved slowly, nervously, downstairs - any noise might _____ the guard or Andrea running with their guns, and our
[017] hat about cars in the village?' Stephen asked. 'Can I _____ the car down? It's in the car park at the top of the
[018] ill at the moment.' 'Yeah,' replied Tristan. 'You can _____ it down to unpack everything, but then you'll have to
[019] r tomorrow's night dinner, can't we?' 'Yes, but don't _____ home a lobster, please. I don't know whether I could
[020] and have dinner with us? We could barbecue the fish. _____ your friend, if you want.' 'OK. Thanks. It'll just b
[021] . 'I heard Mary saying you were an artist. , Did YOll _____ your paints with you?' I shook my head. 'No,' I said.
[022] is first book of poems appeared in 188I but it did not _____ him much money. He went on a tour of the United State
[023] ke had been hers. It was wrong 'and foolish to try to _____ two people together and she was ashamed of herself.
[024] ht" We had a letter this morning! 'And we shall soon _____ him over to Hartfield,' said Mrs Weston. They were b
[025] and said he could do it himself. 'Very well. I shall _____ Jane and her aunt and you can ask the other. guests.
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[001] ' 'Vitjord tried to kill Carlson once and is going to _____ again,' Monika said. 'I think he knows who I am. He t
[002] ere's an Air France flight on Sunday to Paris.' 'I'll _____ and get a seat on that tomorrow,' Monika said. 'Now l
[003] fe. We don't want another shooting. Secondly, we must _____ and stop Vitjord getting the nuclear bomb.' Monika no
[004] my head and kissing me on the cheek. 'Come on, let's _____ and get some sleep.' I lay down again. She turned off
[005] e bar much longer because I was afraid to go home and _____ to sleep. I was afraid to dream the same dream. On Th
[006] e where he went.' 'Maybe,' said Andrea. 'Let's go and _____ .' We walked round to Gergely utca and stopped outside
[007] alked home, 'you must believe me. I need your help to _____ and understand what's , happened to me.' 'I'm trying
[008] re you going to do now?' she replied. 'Well, we must _____ to find somebody from this Mrs Szabo's family, I thin
[009] loor, who was probably in her seventies. I decided to _____ her. She was a very nice old lady, but she had only m
[010] se,' said Megan quietly after a long kiss. 'We should _____ and watch a bit of the film.' But they soon turned to
[011] e day Megan and I can visit you in Canada. I'd love to _____ that fishing you were telling me about.' Huw said not
[012] door. Marwa started crying. 'Huuuu...' Hu started to _____ and speak. 'You must tell my father. . .' But the wor
[013] love songs from Anhui opera, and sometimes she would _____ the songs from 'The Wizard of Oz' in her strange Chin
[014] eir arms while the girls tried to decide which way to _____ next. Hu looked at Sean. 'Do you want to make that ph
[015] half ran to his mother's office. 'Sit down, Hu, and _____ and relax,' said Mr Riding. 'Relax?' thought Hu. 'Doe
[016] turn to ice. 'Now, off you go back to class, Hu. And _____ not to worry.' Hu didn't go back to class. She went t
[017] bout the things that happened with Mr Stanyer. I will _____ to explain her point of view.' The men on the other s
[018] e morning. The room felt cold and she got into bed to _____ to keep warm. She was tired but her mind was still ac
[019] wing harder and the ground was already white. 'Let's _____ to get some pictures of it,' said Bernard. But Mike w
[020] d with African music. Ikuko had written to Hiroshi to _____ to explain more about what had happened. After a whil
[021] , if you still want to see me, if there's any chance, _____ to come to Zambia. Please come. I'll be here. Love f
[022] d myself say. Apparently I had decided to be cool and _____ to find out what was happening later on. Chapter 6
[023] any, so my father and his partners decided to let him _____ .' 'And were they successful?' I asked. 'Very,' Sandra
[024] nd arrange a meeting place. We thought it was best to _____ and persuade him to go to the Italian police and expl
[025] arefully, and decide what he really wanted to do. And _____ and talk to Anna about it. Once or twice recently he
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[001] mes the people were only asked to wound themselves to _____ blood for the gods. Even the kings did this. Imagine
[002] st Stephen S. Fuller at George Mason University. They _____ more than 75,000 jobs. A waterman was vomiting re
[003] ordered a gamekeeper to shoot one from the trees to _____ a model for the character of Squirrel Nutkin. I lo
[004] for drinking on the job, Eva steals a car in order to _____ herself with transportation home. The car, however, h
[005] uments show the depth of White House involvement and _____ new details on how much top officials knew of the con
[006] nough to pursue long-term business plans. Seeking to _____ a better glimpse into this confounding and crowded u
[007] d spontaneous. John Nelson and the Covent Garden band _____ sensitive accompaniments. Favorable audio review.
[008] growers Underwood Ranches and Tierra Rejado Farms to _____ fresh greens, fruits and vegetables. So instead of ru
[009] le sequence of events. Swarms of earthquakes usually _____ the first indication molten rock is moving toward the
[010] me buildings need renovating, and the school needs to _____ more financial aid. 'Spelman has to be on the cuttin
[011] p. Who'd have guessed? In the long run, stocks will _____ higher returns than bonds. In the long run, investing
[012] investment than stocks. In the long run, stocks will _____ about three percentage points more return than bonds.
[013] al Airport and the backup radar at Andrews failed to _____ the missing data for nearly two hours, and it took ne
[014] suck away their leftover moo shu pork, and generally _____ an outlet for wet, smelly refuse other than overstuff
[015] antic for a 540 toll number, saying that he wanted to _____ callers with information on winning Lotto numbers, M
[016] the Be Hop Barter-Exchange Hut o' Pancakes, I have to _____ something of value in order to receive my breakfast t
[017] rateful to all our wonderful life- saving friends who _____ us with the blood we need. According to last year's
[018] ool or by direct correspondence. Our first aim is to _____ a basic education and, where needed, food, clothing,
[019] y. Our aims are to educate the general public and to _____ the care that the mentally handicapped need. About
[020] uld always order it in cafes, but they were unable to _____ us with any. We could only get that powdered coffee
[021] ers suggested three alternative solutions: either to _____ more lifts of the same type, or to replace the existi
[022] ne Way to explore. The clear, clean lakes and rivers _____ some of the most wonderful trout and salmon fishing
[023] good meal. Hotels, inns, guesthouses and farmhouses _____ a wide choffice of accommodation. And 'Bed and Brea
[024] can be reached by earth only occasionally. The farms _____ a diet similar to that on Earth, but with less fresh
[025] s Edinburgh's Telford College or the Open College can _____ a range of programmes to suit both individuals' and
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[001] bout a hundred kilometres the coach turned off onto a _____ road. The
[002] road. The _____ road ran through a forest. It was soon dark. The coac
[003] coach from the car. Worthington opened a door in the _____ of the coach. The huge 'suitcase' was put in and the
[004] to push Monika away and hit her on the head with the _____ of his hand. Her hands let go of him for a moment and
[005] and looked at the coach. It was very high and on the _____ there were two big doors. She opened the first door a
[006] She couldn't breathe. Her head was banged against the _____ of the coach again and again. 'Help!' she thought. 'L
[007] so teaches some students at home. We live on the Pest _____ of the city, not far from the Danube. The old part of
[008] still a lot of snow around from yesterday. On either _____ of the street were blocks of flats which had been bui
[009] s on the walls. 'I've asked Zsolt if we can make one _____ of the bar into a sitting area with tables and chairs
[010] hink we should wait?' asked Andrea. 'You stay on this _____ of the road,' I answered. 'When it's tIme, I'll go an
[011] st going down into the wine bar. Andrea arrived by my _____ a moment later. 'There!' I shouted. 'Did you see? He
[012] e other neighbours coming and joining in on the other _____ of what had been the front of the bar. Surprisingly s
[013] lar, and he took me over to a police van on the other _____ of the street. 'Good evening, sir,' said a young poli
[014] remembered once ironing a shirt. First she ironed one _____ , then she turned it over and ironed the other
[015] , then she turned it over and ironed the other _____ . But when she turned the shirt over again it still lo
[016] en she smiled at him again and turned her head to one _____ . Just a little, because she did not want to look away
[017] ind himself lying on the floor. The little key in his _____ was turning around slowly. If you turned the key a fe
[018] d at her own thoughts and then opened her hand on her _____ of the window; She invited the butterfly to come in an
[019] he middle of the page from top to bottom. On the left _____ he wrote 'Good' at the top of the page and on the oth
[020] wrote 'Good' at the top of the page and on the other _____ he wrote 'Bad'. Then he wrote: . . seat and table to
[021] y when he saw that a man was now sitting on the other _____ of the table. Tom could not see his face because the
[022] crossing the main road to get to a river on the other _____ of the road. The headline read: SAVE OUR DUCKS - BUIL
[023] t the long flight to Barbados telling each other their _____ of the story. Marina told- Tom about Tracy and the ma
[024] nel had fallen down and some miners were on the wrong _____ of the fallen rock. A team of men had been called in
[025] d nothing as people came and went. He sat by Gareth's _____ until it grew dark. When Huw came in to say goodnight
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[001] companies. She also teaches some students at home. We _____ on the Pest side of the city, not far from the Danube.
[002] ube. The old part of the Thirteenth District where we _____ is an area of narrow streets full of small shops, bar
[003] bo's family, I think,' I replied. 'Perhaps they still _____ in the building. ' 'Don't say "we",' she said. 'I to
[004] now?' he asked, in an ugly voffice. 'Did your family _____ in this flat at the end of the war?' I asked. 'It's n
[005] e died five years ago.' 'I'm sorry,' I said. 'Did you _____ here during the war?' 'Yes, we did,' she answered. 'W
[006] 'He was never the same again. . He stopped wanting to _____ . In the end he died fighting in the streets in 1956.
[007] all thought he wanted to die. He had nothing left to _____ for.' Problems at home I'm not sure how I walked bac
[008] very unsure of myself. 'Well, sir,' he replied, 'you _____ nearby, so why don't you go home and wait there? I've
[009] nged in the village: since Tom and Marina had come to _____ here. Well, that was not quite true. There was a new
[010] e had given up her job six months ago and had gone to _____ with a group of Buddhists in Nepal. 'I've had enough
[011] sometimes makes me shake, know what I mean? We can't _____ without that, can we?' Marina was not sure if Tracy wa
[012] Marina was not S0 sure. It was certainly possible to _____ without sex for some time. Even for quite a long time
[013] the sea. I mean, I know the Loch Ness monster doesn't _____ in the sea but... you know what I mean, they were...
[014] hen I was about four. Anyway, he's asked us to go and _____ with him. He says he'll send the money for the boat.'
[015] but if you I do, I am still Megan Jenkins and I still _____ at the same address in Tredonald Best wishes Megan H
[016] your daughter?' replied Mike. 'You'd never be able to _____ with yourself.' 'And Megan, too,' said Huw. 'I do wan
[017] othing to do here, nothing to see really.' 'I used to _____ here many years ago,' said Huw. 'Did you now?' The b
[018] what he felt any longer. 'Do you feel that you can't _____ without him? Are you happy every time you see him or
[019] other expensive apartment building for rich people to _____ in, but the building workers lived in their own tiny,
[020] of the lakes." Wow! You can write! Is this where you _____ ?' 'My father was working in Beijing before we came he
[021] ang's mother before she died. When Aunty Wang went to _____ in America with her new husband, she had given the ri
[022] p. 'Anyway, it's probably time you got o home. Do you _____ far away?' 'In Ome. It's an hour away on the train,'
[023] dered what his life was like, back in Zambia. 'Do you _____ in the capital?' she asked. 'No. I come from the nort
[024] the time - sometimes we eat the western way.' 'Do you _____ with your family?' he asked. It was the first personal
[025] king of his home. 'How about you?' she asked. 'Do you _____ with your parents?' 'No, my parents are very old. The