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[001] iends, not on my own!' he joked. Gary is making good _____ in hospital, but he will need several months to reco
[002] dly, honest, terribly proud of their country and the _____ it's made, enthusiastic, and they'll be very intere
[003] creased water supply would be the first step toward _____ and development for the village and its inhabitants.
[004] : You see, the communications industry has made more _____ than any other industry in the last ten years. I: And
[005] terary shindig, and wants to check up on his author's _____ . Around this, Chabon constructs a wonderfully teasing
[006] providing a baseline against which to measure future _____ may not be their main aim in carrying out the assessm
[007] seven, the damage may be that the child's ability to _____ is hampered.' The Independent EDUCATION 27 Article
[008] at remains untouched by half a century of educational _____ elsewhere in the world.' Children are taught by rote
[009] s of the girls teach them, like episodes in Pilgrim's _____ , to be kind, self-disciplined, sincere and, above all
[010] o read Little Women whilst ignoring all the Pilgrim's _____ stuff. Rather than want to be Jo, I felt I was Jo - h
[011] , personal sacrifice, and, most of all, The Pilgrim's _____ . At university, I had wondered why I knew the book so
[012] ome of the more 'puritanical' elements (the Pilgrim's _____ theme is rather nauseating and I notice that they le
[013] ad waste if the Government fails to realise that real _____ has been made with this particular educational polic
[014] ce, better procedures for discussing and building on _____ , more responsibility and status for older students,
[015] to form sentences of his own. At the age of two, his _____ slowed right down. He became extremely shy, and seem
[016] ther is finer. It would be sad if you could not make _____ on your book because you caught a cold, and if you re
[017] ence?' asked the Prosecutor. 'We believe that we can _____ without violence.' 'But your own words call for direc
[018] s guardian, a wealthy lawyer, who was proud of Paul's _____ and extremely bored by his conversation. For the las
[019] ,' he told a journalist who had come to report on the _____ of his surprising creation of metal and glass, is the
[020] it more cheerful than the day before. 'We're making _____ . I think we know the make of the car. A witness saw
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[001] uld experience airlessness, windows will be opened to _____ oxygen. Thank you. I will bring you more information
[002] called educational toys for pre-schoolers will freely _____ in private that the average infant needs no more stim
[003] America instead,' he says. Andrei and other students _____ they were given little idea of what to expect in Brit
[004] inese outlook did he become that he was reluctant to _____ the profound role played by Greek logic and Greek ma
[005] agon in Igoujdal with an Italian hunting gun, only to _____ to me that he didn't know where it came from because
[006] IND 03 MAR 95 / Thank heavens for bad little boys: _____ it: a bit of the runaway, the tearaway and the teen
[007] to youth. If we were being perfectly honest we would _____ that they were attractive and heroic to adults as wel
[008] ractive and heroic to adults as well, though we might _____ it only in private. Inside every fortysomething man (
[009] diced him against the place - as he was the first to _____ . The ignominy that he sensed in the attempt - sized u
[010] nd of this year, the school will lose 92 children and _____ 72 - which will take the numbers down to the size the
[011] fuse, but I've realised I'm happy here, though I must _____ that for sheer snob value I had wanted to go elsewher
[012] e things,' said Adrian. 'However, it cannot afford to _____ that it can do very little. If it did, it would make
[013] It is not in the interests of the funding councils to _____ that with less money, quality has suffered. And if an
[014] whispered her name to me. Of course, she refused to _____ it afterwards.' Jack Sangston stared at me. 'Miss who
[015] Linkworth to confess his crime. Linkworth refused to _____ his guilt. Now, on a bright September morning, the s
[016] neighbours, will you?' When Lewis returned, he had to _____ Morse had been right. 'He could only just sign his na
[017] ille could not see through them, and did not have to _____ or believe that there was another house somewhere be
[018] at? Eye witnesses often make mistakes.' Nudger had to _____ that they did. 'Talk to them,' she said. 'Find out wh
[019] ives nursing their health among their own kind. They _____ to the island only as many storekeepers and working
[020] t would be long and diicult. However, she refused to _____ defeat, and return, beaten, to London, otherwise Mrs
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[001] half price. Usually we go to the theatre. We go to _____ early these days. You know, it's not 'in' to go to al
[002] e staying warm at night, though, snuggled up in your _____ under a Swiss 'duvet,' a special thick blanket that
[003] essed, had a shower, put on his pyjamas, and went to _____ . He put his gun in the drawer of the night table be
[004] his gun in the drawer of the night table beside his _____ , and left it a few centimetres open. At 3:30 he was
[005] ok his gun from under his pillow, got quietly out of _____ , and crept slowly along the wall towards the window.
[006] bout seven or eight. Then they go out, and they go to _____ incredibly late - about one or two in the morning. I
[007] is able to sit up and feed himself. He can get out of _____ but he can't walk yet, as he is still too weak. Doct
[008] uses provide a wide choffice of accommodation. And ' _____ and Breakfast' is a form of holiday accommodation fo
[009] night? B: No, of course not. I watched TV and went to _____ early. What about you? A: I didn't study either. I
[010] d the house and removed the sleeping child from his _____ . Police are confident that the kidnappers will soon
[011] ed a boy-narrator for many of the stories in The Blue _____ (1937) and The Water Music (1944). Almost all are se
[012] ction: 'There were footmen, there was a four- poster _____ , fresh orange juice and croissants in the morning - an
[013] om school and he is a father. Only after they are in _____ does he write. 'I sit down at the computer until I fa
[014] pot for his principle chronicler. 'I very often go to _____ not knowing what happens on the next page,' says Gaim
[015] son disintegrated, and he lurched good-naturedly from _____ to
[016] to _____ before coming to rest at last with the actress Mary W
[017] ere. When it comes to 9am lectures I usually stay in _____ . It's difficult to work when there's something differ
[018] ne fits work around their social life. No one goes to _____ before 2 or 3am, so enough sleep is out of the questio
[019] ugust.' If Ben wants to talk to blackberries or go to _____ with a pile of socks, I don't really mind. The questi
[020] the British Army. Please remember that.' I made him a _____ in my study, and then went to
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[001] had guided them at every step. The size of the first _____ 's crop proved the hybrid corn's advantages. So why d
[002] summer, but I would guess there will be none in this _____ . I think the winters are fairly quiet. It's quite col
[003] way. It was mid-afternoon on a hot day in the summer _____ , and very quiet. There was no traffic on the roads. I
[004] * TO PREVENT A COLD Winter will soon be here, the _____ of miserable little diseases. Already I can hear peop
[005] ke a bank-clerk, with his sober attache- case and mid- _____ raincoat. But his Aries character shows through the
[006] irst black pounds 1m player, who scored a Goal of the _____ and became a born- again sporting icon. 'Don't give
[007] ometimes he misses. The only example he gives is from _____ of Mists, in which the Sandman plays host to ambassad
[008] day, and I didn't win many. Perhaps forty winners a _____ . I was taller and heavier than the best jockeys - a
[009] and old boy!' 'Grand,' I agreed. 5 'This is his last _____ , you know. His last race.' She spoke to the horse. '
[010] n Relgan gave us a thousand at the beginning of the _____ . Very generous.' He went back to the bar and 1 return
[011] leave. I would race, I thought, until the end of the _____ . Five or six more months. Then, in May or June, whe
[012] inter. In the Shadow Land, it was true, there came a _____ when Trilorne disappeared below the edge of the world
[013] foot often swelled up, particularly during the rainy _____ . The factory doctor did his best, and the native doct
[014] he Giens again. It was almost the end of the fishing _____ . I had taken a day off from my work, and I was doing
[015] 'Oh, yes,' he said. 'I love it. This is only my second _____ of fishing and I'm learning all the time. I wish I'd
[016] in sit, living from meal to meal. Day slips into day, _____ into
[017] into _____ , year into year. And in sit here, alone. in am Cold
[018] t and tired. 'It's a diicult time, the end of the hot _____ ,' said Bernard. 'It'll be better when the rains come.
[019] o long. You had to be careful with the sun in the hot _____ in Africa. She needed something to drink - she was ve
[020] out playing in her new white shoes. It was the rainy _____ and the road was muddy. She'd been playing with her f
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[001] den heart attack when they appeared to be completely _____ had actually taken less exercise than those of simila
[002] otball match. 'My boys are very pleased that I am so _____ again,' said Mr Young. 'I have become a real father t
[003] on my wedding dress - it's wonderful, and a beautiful _____ . Can you come to the wedding? A: I'll just check my
[004] igh- spend, high-tax Europe. We do not want a Europe _____ for bureaucrats to spend other people's money in.' S
[005] ouncil in Bangkok. I felt very rootless, and I didn't _____ in with the white expatriate people working over ther
[006] w I know I could never be a solicitor. I would never _____ into a nine- to-five routine, I'm not conventional en
[007] I first arrived, I was very concerned that I wouldn't _____ in. I wasn't happy the first term. The work was like
[008] between 25 and 35 hours long but because of having to _____ around students' working hours much of this may be ev
[009] ing runs at the speed of the student. It is easier to _____ in around the working day, and it is also cheaper: op
[010] rests. At my school, teachers have chosen to do it to _____ in with family demands. They have been experienced an
[011] dy romanticism of Britain returning to being a small, _____ , globe-trotting trader, escaping the constricting emb
[012] come to understand, and dislike, his own failure to _____ in. Very little is known about the Asperger individua
[013] the village, some people thought that Silas had had a _____ . But others, like Mr Macey, the church clerk, refused
[014] old Mr Macey, shaking his head knowingly. If he had a _____ , he'd fall down, wouldn't he? I think his soul flies
[015] up. We should not call this strange unconsciousness a _____ ,' the minister, Mr Paston, told them. No, it's much
[016] on their Sunday walks. Strangely, when Silas had his _____ at the chapel meeting, William was the only one who d
[017] e time! Why didn't I notice? Perhaps I've had another _____ . And it's already four o'clock in the morning. Why ha
[018] know that. You stole the money, while I was having a _____ , and you've blamed me for it. But perhaps you'll neve
[019] t it was. First of all, the pieces of metal would not _____ into their holes. We had to jump on them, and kick
[020] aser gun. It'll be a month, at least, before they can _____ him with a new plastic one.' What happened?' Rick ask
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[001] ght it was somebody going to a toilet, and I took no _____ . But when I woke up in the morning I found that a lo
[002] road. Now, when you are nearly at Staindorp, you'll _____ that the road divides, and I want you to branch off
[003] ked out of the garage. I can't imagine why I didn't _____ his car there. The street wasn't especially narrow,
[004] . A waiter eventually came by, but he didn't seem to _____ us! We couldn't get him to glance in our direction,
[005] land. We would be punished for this. How did we not _____ him coming up behind us? I felt as guilty as if I ha
[006] f Subtitle.) Anything can be known in depth at short _____ ; even extinct civilisations have no secrets. 'Those h
[007] Board that it hadn't given the requisite three weeks' _____ . It tried another race, and was told the
[008] . It tried another race, and was told the _____ had gone up to four weeks. Apparently the board is wo
[009] even- and eight-year-olds in our class don't seem to _____ which of us is in any more and often call me by the o
[010] ster's degree. She signed up after seeing a ad on the _____ -board at the University of Pau, where she was comple
[011] Pilgrim's Progress theme is rather nauseating and I _____ that they left it out in the film), the book has a re
[012] t side of life nowadays. Swimming babies came to our _____ in the opening sequence of George Roy Hill's film of
[013] on tight corseting, which I doubt received any other _____ in a serious publication. She admired the intellectu
[014] ars, after her pyrotechnic start, she didn't get much _____ . She was probably known to more readers through her
[015] ears,' said Miss Pole next day, very pleased. Did you _____ her dress? So inexpensive!' Signor Brunoni Soon afte
[016] g on around us and we all, even Miss Pole, failed to _____ ! I remember the morning she came to tell us. It was n
[017] anged into a shop, as agreed, and we put a very small _____ above the new door: Matilda Jenkyns, seller of tea'.
[018] mieson'. Mrs Jamieson's name was written large on the _____ . Mr Peter was sending everyone free tickets. And when
[019] Millace shook her head. 'It was dark. Anyway, I don't _____ cars much.' Then the doctor arrived. 'Don't go yet,
[020] dy's cold! He's been dead for some time! Why didn't I _____ ? Perhaps I've had another Fit. And it's already four
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[001] ramatic tension. Fame is a metaphor for the American _____ - if you have the determination you can succeed - but
[002] ion with alliteration and copious metaphor, while The _____ of Jake Hopkins (1944) includes a long poem for broa
[003] nance and respect for human rights on the world. The _____ was not matched by commitment. The post-honeymoon pe
[004] -------------- INS 12 MAR 95 / Books: Welcome to my _____ : Neil Gaiman's mega- selling graphic novels are adul
[005] o maintain a good working relationship with him. The _____ King's retirement will leave Gaiman with more time fo
[006] s spring on Gaiman's treatment of A Midsummer Night's _____ - commissioned by Morpheus and first performed in a
[007] . Career - and only in later years, children - is the _____ of the girls. They know that the division of househol
[008] n,' she said to me sadly as we sat by the fire, and I _____ sometimes that I have a little child of my own... I d
[009] " but were both true and loving...' She began to day- _____ about Mr Holbrook, and I did not stop her. I had deci
[010] d of noisy boys around him, and escape into his own _____ world of sea stories. He saw himself swimming bravely
[011] impossible world, and come to the end of his perfect _____ . His young face wore a smile that your faces will ne
[012] e ship, you mean!' He turned quickly towards me, his _____ broken and his eyes suddenly full of pain. 'You see,
[013] ees himself as a hero, as a perfect man. It's all a _____ - he can never be as fine as that. And so it is painf
[014] when he opens his eyes, to find he cannot make his _____ come true. It is terrible for4 him. But you ask me -
[015] adows of his past. 'There is only one way. Follow the _____ , and again, follow the
[016] , and again, follow the _____ , and so - to the end.' No doubt Stein was right. He h
[017] romantic than you,' I told him. 'And sometimes you _____ of a beautiful butterfly, but when it appears, you do
[018] l be faithful.' I remembered Stein's words follow the _____ , to the end. 'And there's Jewel,' he went on. 'She's
[019] had died when he was a child himself? If it wasn't a _____ , how had the child entered the cottage? But thinking
[020] hing more he could learn. He must forget this foolish _____ , this wish to Find out the Wall's secret. Perhaps the
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[001] emed to like me but my deep love for you gave me the _____ to resist temptation'. However, his wife was even mo
[002] dy. It is added to other materials to give them extra _____ . It has played an important part in our lives for ove
[003] up, I would pray 'Lord, if it is right, give me the _____ to do one more'.' The marked improvement in his perfo
[004] ly to have exactly the same specialisms; my partner's _____ may lie in maths and mine in language work; she may
[005] t of inequality on Britain's economic and industrial _____ ; Dangerous Dogs (Amendment) Bill, Second Reading. Th
[006] all her family (and possibly several children) on the _____ of her singing, teaching and other activities until V
[007] Chike was standing beside her. His nearness gave her _____ . Friends and neighbours were loudly comforting Ma Bla
[008] lying.' Okoboshi hit her across the face with all his _____ . 'You dirty animal!' he shouted. 'Do you think I want
[009] ved slowly round. He began to shake and tremble. His _____ left him, and he was unable to move a muscle. He coul
[010] t. She would look at me in a certain way and all the _____ would go out of me. And it was like that until I met
[011] the blood running down my face, and the pain gave me _____ . I fought back as hard as I could. My resistance sur
[012] but they did not have his power, his character, his _____ , or indeed his deep laugh or his gentle smile. I fe
[013] 'You are still strong, sir, and young plants need the _____ and safety of a tree to support them.' 'Jane, will
[014] e shops. Winters was surprised that she had found the _____ of mind and body to last as long as she had in these
[015] that there was a regular pattern in the weakness or _____ of your body - soul attachment. He tried when it was
[016] r, until he had finished. He ended by describing the _____ of his love for her, which, in spite of all his attem
[017] Mr Stanyer directly in the eye. She said no with such _____ , with so much anger, Mr Stanyer looked as if she had
[018] tly, reaching for her hand and holding it to give her _____ . In a very quiet voffice she started to talk. 'It's
[019] ew from his hand and landed in a tree. Maximus had no _____ left to pull it out again. The battle had ended. As h
[020] s held his father's face close against his chest. His _____ was too great; Marcus could not escape. Commodus did
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[001] in the world! Then Dad died when I was twelve. So I _____ school and started to work full-time in the market.
[002] cuts. So what did they do? They 'dropped out'. They _____ their comfortable middle-class homes and formed spec
[003] n the drawer of the night table beside his bed, and _____ it a few centimetres open. At 3:30 he was dreaming,
[004] r comfort. For the first time in her life her beauty _____ her and she put on a lot of weight. However, in 1983,
[005] y shoulder, and broke my right ankle and a toe on my _____ foot. I also had several minor flesh wounds. I couldn'
[006] on tons of it will be manufactured. *** Kathy has _____ her job as a shop assistant because she wants to ope
[007] o. I wonder if you could help me? Would you mind if I _____ my bags here just for one minute? I have to make a p
[008] time. B: It's against regulations. No baggage can be _____ in reception for security reasons. D: Is there anywhe
[009] leave them? B: I'll get a porter to take them to the _____ luggage office. D: Where's that? B: It's next to th
[010] ths? She was in Melbourne for a while but now she's _____ Australia and gone to Indonesia. She's going to spend
[011] e earth in hot- air balloons. Some of them have even _____ the earth and visited the moon. Then human species
[012] ordered the pie, the waitress told me there was none _____ . However, as I was getting up to go, I saw the same
[013] ing professionally? P: While I was still at school. I _____ school at sixteen. I was playing in a band, working o
[014] rking on Saturday evenings in clubs and pubs. When I _____ school, my only ambition was to be in a pop group. I
[015] e attitude. You should not expect to be the only one _____ out in the game of cops and robbers - and it's one g
[016] the workers, and soon there will be no shipbuilders _____ in the country. We are trying to save not just jobs b
[017] augh, or even speak unless absolutely necessary. She _____ the order at 28. My goodness was I innocent, she rec
[018] rised him to find that as soon as the foreign experts _____ the village, the two richest, most powerful men took
[019] rs have tried to put up buildings like the ones they _____ behind, because these are familiar: space settlers
[020] sman replied: Of course, madam. She said all she had _____ now were assets worth 92. She had filed her own peti