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[001] pity Oliver, a poor hungry boy, with nothing to eat _____ a bowl of thin soup every day. And we are angry with
[002] woke from a long sleep. There was nobody in the room _____ the old man. He was boiling some coee for breakfast.
[003] s and wrote everything down. Mark told her everything _____ what Romey had said about the body. An hour after th
[004] if she still lived there or not. No one was at home _____ for the rats who looked at Yury boldly before running
[005] s was not always peaceful. There were often wars too. _____ in Sparta, Greek armies did not have professional sol
[006] thout him. Alexander died with no close male relative _____ his brother Arrhidaeus, who had learning diiculties.
[007] 0,000. He can't explain exactly what made him do it, _____ a general fear that Old Town was deteriorating beyond
[008] Gober's installation is symmetrical, serene and dark, _____ for theatrical lighting designed by Jennifer Tipton.
[009] uced. Radar detectors remain legal across the U. S., _____ in Virginia and the District of Columbia. Radar is a
[010] d talked about it so much I couldn't be more pleased. _____ ...
[011] ... _____ what do you know about your old hometown when you hav
[012] lantan Leo Frank was included in a lot he had bought. _____ for the body hanging from the tree, the scene could
[013] e door shut. In one room, there was nowhere to wash _____ a broken wash- basin. Another had a kitchen sink in
[014] of the rooms provided a place to hang your clothes, _____ one room we looked at, that had three nails in the
[015] is London houses has the biggest garden in the city, _____ for Buckingham Palace. With all this, is he a happy
[016] public demonstrations. They were always out of work, _____ , of course, that they weren't looking for work. Som
[017] allowed to take any cash out when you leave Egypt, _____ coins for souvenirs. The best place to try the local
[018] that his wonderful power had not helped him at all. _____ to teach him that it was impossible to please his wi
[019] ol. I was five and everyone in the school was white, _____ for one Chinese boy and me, and the others called us
[020] afraid. And we don't allow any pets in the house - _____ birds, so long as they stay in their cage and don't
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[001] o,' 1 said. 'If we don't stay and help him, we'll all _____ .' 'I don't want to help him. I want to go home. ' 'T
[002] ilt it well. 'I was right again,' he said. 'I couldn't _____ if I tried!' Then one day the water lifted us up, an
[003] d her head from the pillow. 'Let me see the child and _____ ,' she said. 'Oh, you mustn't talk about dying yet,' s
[004] 'No, dear,' said the old woman. 'You are too young to _____ .' The young woman shook her head and held out her han
[005] . 'Don't say anything about her to me.' 'What did she _____ of.' asked Noah. Of a broken heart, some of our old
[006] kind words. Without these, Oliver imagined, he would _____ on the road. Early on the seventh morning, Oliver wal
[007] ou through the head.' 'Oh, please let me run away and _____ in the fields,' cried Oliver. 'Don't make me steal.'
[008] he thought. 'And if they don't, it will be better to _____ near people than in the open fields.' Oliver pushed o
[009] f the summer birds. It was impossible that Rose could _____ when everything was so glad and happy. When he went
[010] ke up, she would either get better or say goodbye and _____ . At last Dr Losberne came out of the bedroom. 'How i
[011] no!' cried the doctor, with great feeling. 'She won't _____ .' The old lady fell on her knees and prayed. It was a
[012] him. Many men had sat in that small room, waiting to _____ . This was his last night alive. Silence was broken o
[013] fice,' don't say that now, when you are soon going to _____ , Tell me where the papers are. You know that Sikes is
[014] last moments. A crowd of people waited to watch Fagin _____ . Our story is nearly over. After Fagin's death, Charl
[015] ughed. 'Here,' he said. 'Take the whiskey, son. Let's _____ together.' Mark took the bottle and pretended to drin
[016] 'He was born here,' said McThune. 'Maybe he wanted to _____ where he was born. He left a note,' he added, pickin
[017] Mark put on a very sad face. 'He's probably going to _____ ,' he said. 'No!' 'Yes,' said Mark in a small voffice
[018] hing was confused after that. Nobody wanted a boy to _____ in prison. When the ambulance came the guards signed
[019] gone into the front of her head, but she would not 20 _____ . She could not speak yet, however. The doctor didn't
[020] OD Those words are only used when someone is going to _____ ! Then I knew that Dr Watson and I must come to Norfol
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[001] and to the peasants and would make everyone in Russia _____ . Unfortunately, the agreement was not worth the paper
[002] ple of what a human being should be, a man who had no _____ . She said that your sincerity was beyond question and
[003] college. There is also a Lifetime Learning tax credit _____ to $1,000 a year-rising to $2,000 after 2003-to help
[004] well as others in the former Soviet Union-is roughly _____ in size to Norway. My friend Ann and I are standing
[005] s knights sat at a round table so that they were all _____ - nobody was sitting at the head of the table. Many
[006] n are so well behaved? G: Oh no - there are roughly _____ numbers of boys and girls in every class, at least th
[007] chnics, seemed to think they would instantly rank as _____ with, but different from, existing universities. He w
[008] m that even now all former polytechnics are entirely _____ with older universities. You don't build up a great,
[009] immediately followed by another paragraph, of almost _____ length, about civilian killings by the Russians. Its
[010] emory was strong); pupils were expected to read with _____ attention. But he also possessed another quality inv
[011] standard it used to be.' He admits all degrees are not _____ . 'We are trying to set standards. But widening acces
[012] y, so that they face the white man believing they are _____ .' And now the crowd did react, with loud, steady clap
[013] ld a South Africa worth living in. A South Africa for _____ men - black or white. A South Africa as beautiful as
[014] r on the Bible, he stood tall and proud, the physical _____ of anyone in the court. His intelligence was going t
[015] will be, when all men are judged as human beings, as _____ members of God's family!' This time the crowd began
[016] u. It is my spirit that speaks to your spirit! We are _____ in the sight of God!' 'We are!' repeated Mr Rochest
[017] 'Jane,' he said, 'I ask you to be my wife. You are my _____ , Jane. Will you marry me? Don't you believe me?' 'N
[018] gry as you were last night, when you told me we were _____ .' Well, I pretended to love Miss Ingram to make yo
[019] itance, and so the legal steps were taken to transfer _____ shares to all of us. A voffice from the past I promi
[020] id Mr Darcy politely, holding out his hand. But with _____ politeness Elizabeth refused again, and turned away.
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[001] old gentleman and the two boys played a very strange _____ . The old man placed a silver box in one pocket of his
[002] an felt a hand in his pockets, he cried out. Then the _____ began again.' They played this
[003] began again.' They played this _____ many times, but it ended when two young ladies, Bet a
[004] s out of handkerchiefs. Sometimes, too, he played the _____ with Fagin's pockets. At last he began to want fresh
[005] her?' Gronke said nothing. He was tired of Muldanno's _____ . 'What about his lawyer?' 'Why do you want to kill h
[006] had played in what they figured was their 40th or 41st _____ of the summer. They lost badly - the opposing team m
[007] is one of the climaxes of the suspense thriller "The _____ ," which opens on Sept. 12. The teaming of Mr. (Michae
[008] has been making movies for more than 25 years, "The _____ " is just Mr. Fincher's third film; it follows the box
[009] nerations, the star and the director approached "The _____ " as a genuine collaboration. They eyed each other war
[010] er players. It didn't work. Last year the team won 1 _____ and lost 15. There was one brief burst of glory in 19
[011] anceled trips to Kenya's white-sand beaches and wild- _____ parks this month as accounts of armed gangs wreaking
[012] y, most of the political violence had not touched the _____ parks and beach resorts that attracted most of the 7
[013] r. The Liberty locker room was quiet before today's _____ and silent afterward. The players did not have the w
[014] rty's first season. Houston's one-woman show scored a _____ - high 25 points and lifted the Comets to victory, 65-
[015] ory, 65-51, in the inaugural W. N. B. A. championship _____ . The Comets, playing before a sell-out crowd of 16,2
[016] econd half behind Cooper, who added the championship _____ m. v. p. award to her growing list. Tina Thompson sc
[017] was ruled a home run and allowed the Yankees to tie a _____ they won in extra innings. Ten days later, they were
[018] s in 17 of his last 18 appearances, came in with the _____ tied in the fifth inning and allowed two runs to abso
[019] re in only 3 of his 19 appearances since the All-Star _____ break. Davey Johnson agrees, not hesitating at all w
[020] ce a 2-point conversion by the Wolfpack that put the _____ on the line. As North Carolina State lined up for th
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[001] laves, so landowners and businessmen rarely wanted to _____ paid workers. The shipping business was a possibility
[002] ts, say, an airport or a bridge or a hospital. They _____ a consultant engineer to design it and prepare all t
[003] ies have taken advantage of cheap communications to _____ data-entry clerks in Barbados, paying them $2 an hou
[004] future a British firm in for example, London, might _____ clerks in Belfast, or a Paris company could have the
[005] ace prejudice, but is aware of t he abilities she can _____ to overcome this handicap. Likewise, Shola is hardhea
[006] n't know what I'll do after the inquiry. Nobody will _____ me as an officer again. I haven't any money to go an
[007] laves, so landowners and businessmen rarely wanted to _____ paid workers. The shipping business was a possibility
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[001] chest, his head lay on his other arm and his hair was _____ over the pillow. They looked at him in silence. Then
[002] East and West for the first time, and after his ideas, _____ more freely between countries. Although he lived more
[003] was more diicult abroad. When news of Philip's murder _____ around his empire, the tribes in the north and the ci
[004] n prisoner and sold as slaves. The terrible news soon _____ around Greece. No other city- state was interested in
[005] port when thunder and lightning filled, the sky. Word _____ among his soldiers and the local people: Alexander, w
[006] he king. In this way, their dangerous views could not _____ to other soldiers who were still loyal to Alexander.
[007] After Alexander Although Alexander's achievements had _____ Greek customs far into Asia, the Greeks in Europe wer
[008] ed. The crisis began in Thailand this spring, and has _____ throughout Southeast Asia, felling currencies and mar
[009] ld from the pre-quiz days. The pub-quiz tradition has _____ from Ireland to a number of American cities where imm
[010] eal for borrowers, because of a practice called yield _____ premium pricing. Yield
[011] premium pricing. Yield _____ premiums are payments brokers receive from many lende
[012] r, the lender may compensate the broker with a yield _____ premium. And while the amount of the payment varies
[013] es on large lots. Moreover, a freeway- based view of _____ -out Los Angeles gives an impression that one is neve
[014] es and a dog run made up its 'garden.' The 2 1/2-acre _____ was so devoid of character, in fact, that Nagelmann
[015] cartoons, funny stories about their cat and a photo _____ of hunky Brendan Fraser from 'George of the Jungle.
[016] ner promptly adopted. Since then, his interests have _____ to video, where he has amassed an impressive array o
[017] continue the violence. Having ended its mission to _____ revolution abroad, Cuba's military is undertaking a
[018] bery of a Ramada Inn in late July. Word of the arrest _____ quickly, and investigators from several police agenci
[019] To work, comprehensives need to attract a reasonable _____ of pupils of different backgrounds and abilities. In
[020] rental dissatisfaction with all-in comprehensives and _____ children of different backgrounds more evenly throug
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[001] garage behind Jerome Cliord's house,' she said. '886 _____ Brookline.' 'Thanks, Reggie,' Trumann said, suddenly
[002] in London.' 'What do they know of the diseases of the _____ ? It was while I was trying to find a man who used med
[003] ere in London, and that he had never once been to the _____ . And even stranger for him to catch the disease after
[004] e the city, soldiers going to the battlefields to the _____ and typhus victims who had been pushed out of the hos
[005] ade a good bargain? There were several men travelling _____ for the labour gangs in each carriage, including the
[006] elped to drive the Whites, led by Kolchak, towards the _____ . The Forest Brotherhood were known for being untradit
[007] here?' demanded Yury. 'He says he is going to the Far _____ . He has been given a very high position in the new go
[008] nds stretched from Greece in the west to India in the _____ , conquering nearly two million square kilometres. But
[009] s lost their lives because of Alexander's great march _____ . In many lands, he is remembered as a bloodthirsty mu
[010] r's empire did not, in fact, last long. But he joined _____ and West for the first time, and after his ideas, spre
[011] rgy into increasing his power. He conquered the lands _____ of Macedonia, which were rich in gold. With this gold,
[012] s away with the army. Soon after this, a tribe to the _____ of Macedonia started to cause trouble, and Alexander
[013] r country in battle. The Persian army grouped on the _____ bank of the River Granicus. When Alexander heard the
[014] est there was beach and the Mediterranean Sea; to the _____ there were mountains. The fighting area was too narro
[015] een, one of the most powerful countries in the Middle _____ , but in 525 BC it had fallen under Persian rule. Its
[016] usical concerts. Then finally the Macedonians marched _____ . By burning the Euphrates valley, the Persians forced
[017] orced Alexander to take the only other possible route _____ . This brought him to Darius's choffice of battlefield
[018] governors. The next great city on Alexander's route _____ was Susa. The climate there was so hot, it was said t
[019] to go back to Europe. Instead he continued to march _____ , and it is a sign of his extraordinary skills as a le
[020] there was a tribe of one-footed men; and that to the _____ of India lay the Eastern Ocean, the edge of the world
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[001] ies and gentlemen sat down to enjoy a special musical _____ . The musicians were the best in the city, but the mus
[002] owing more and more discontented. A serious political _____ seemed to be just around the corner. Yury's dreams -
[003] w. But in all of this excitement, the most important _____ for Yury was meeting his son. Yury had been called in
[004] said that he was concerned about disrupting both the _____ and his own three-week vacation here on Martha's Vin
[005] nd straight. Posters of Xena adorn the walls for the _____ , and die-hard fans of Ms. Lawless's woman- warrior c
[006] . Billed as "singing bonfires, " Water Fire is an art _____ that waits for nightfall, then seizes onlookers' sens
[007] in Jonesborough, Tenn. But in more central ways, this _____ is evolving into an indigenous form, fitted to its ow
[008] st and is devoted to educating the public about that _____ . It achieves that task through its permanent and chan
[009] Bayreuth Festival in Germany; the recording of this _____ , which has been available continuously for 40 years,
[010] s mushroomed into South America's most important art _____ , a world-class show rivaling those in Italy and Germa
[011] t suits the style's philosophy, which holds that the _____ is more important than the performer. It also helps b
[012] , home from the war, drove the family into Wales (an _____ that planted the seeds for the lush Welsh setting in
[013] ill front three ensembles during the first week of the _____ , which begins Friday, 'because we don't have the easi
[014] and Ruben Blades ('The Capeman'). CNN will cover the _____ . Ask most writers what they like most about writing
[015] altogether. Night matches - unique to this Grand Slam _____ - seem made for his brand of tennis theater. So he's
[016] he reason why a marriage breaks down. It's really an _____ that brings out the reasons why a marriage has alread
[017] d something he had done or said, he could repeat the _____ in the light of experience. He could undo anything
[018] don Marathon has become the biggest British sporting _____ - overtaking the boat race and the Derby in the num
[019] ber tubes to force food into them. The most shocking _____ was on Derby Day in July 1913. A suffragette called
[020] tely anti-Broadway. Broadway has now become entirely _____ -driven. Because prices have been relentlessly driven
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[001] e boat, tied the pipanto on and started up the Patuca _____ . Guampu 'Allie, we should go to the coast,' Mother s
[002] ght!' Father asked them if there were any villages up _____ . 'Wumpoo. How far away is that?' 'Two days.' 'Then I'
[003] ng a month or a year. I'm going until there's no more _____ .' On the boat, Father said, 'Did they say Wumpoo? I t
[004] ter, in the late afternoon, from around a bend in the _____ , we heard singing. It was church music. 'Who's singin
[005] his eyes. He brought the boat over to the side of the _____ . 'They have real houses,' April said. 'We'll see abo
[006] r said. He drove the boat to the opposite bank of the _____ , to keep us away from the village, and ordered us to
[007] to us all the time. I'm going home. I'm not going up _____ in that boat!' I said, 'Emily, we're in bad trouble.
[008] heard the sound of a shot from the other bank of the _____ . Father fell heavily back into the pipanto. 'Allie!'
[009] can't love. ' The current began to take us back down _____ , towards the coast. Scavengers When morning came, w
[010] heard the sound of a shot from the other bank of the _____ . or his legs. He just lay there with his eyes half op
[011] was a hot summer evening. Mr Bumble went down to the _____ . An old woman was with him. 'The place must be near h
[012] g to do with this jewellery.' He led them down to the _____ .' There.' said Monks, throwing the bag into the
[013] .' There.' said Monks, throwing the bag into the _____ . 'That is the end of that! And you two will say nothi
[014] he public road.' They went down the steps towards the _____ . 'This is far enough,' said Mr Brownlow. 'Why have yo
[015] guess that the dog is with me.' He came near a small _____ . Picking up a heavy stone, he tied it to his handkerc
[016] his master's face. Sikes went down to the edge of the _____ . The dog did not follow. 'Come here!' cried Sikes. T
[017] friend, that everything is lying at the bottom of the _____ . The jewellery that would help Oliver. A ring that yo
[018] of Sikes Jacob's Island was in the Thames, where the _____ ran through one of the lowest, dirtiest and poorest p
[019] ied Sikes. 'The water is low so I can get away on the _____ . Give me a rope, Toby, a long rope. The people are al
[020] ed over. The level of the water was very low, and the _____ was just a stretch of mud. The crowd outside shouted