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[001] BULLIES AT SCHOOL - Please help me, because I'm in _____ trouble. There are bullies at my school who hit me a
[002] so she won't notice that I have her perfume on. It's _____ - she'll kill me if she finds out. How long until the
[003] dit cards, but insist on cash instead. This can be a _____ problem, especially on the week-ends when banks are
[004] The condition of the beds in these cheap hotels was _____ . Most of them were completely worn out; one was so
[005] us catch a criminal, or even better help us prevent a _____ crime. Help us stop trouble before it happens. 5 Wom
[006] nearly a quarter of the workers lose their jobs - a _____ thing that they would not allow. They did not trust t
[007] ry pretty, she makes me laugh a lot, um... she tells _____ jokes but I like the way she tells them. She's a bit
[008] cross the Channel, froze to death all night, it was a _____ crossing with thunder and rain and people being sick
[009] any. We could only get that powdered coffee with the _____ taste. And they don't serve it in a proper cup and s
[010] et a tear in my eye whenever I think of him. It was a _____ time for Mummy and me. Fortunately, I was at home wi
[011] erous place for a young girl. I worry that something _____ has happened to her every time I pick up the phone.
[012] nown that many young girls from the country get into _____ trouble in London. We're very, very fond of Jackie a
[013] Well, one disadvantage about them is that they are _____ drivers. There are a lot more accidents than in Londo
[014] the street. But I still like them in spite of their _____ driving. I: There's a a subway train like London's f
[015] the accelerator. The next thing I knew there was a _____ sound of crunching metal. I was so surprised! I had
[016] rite is secretarial stuff - I find it a pain. I'm a _____ typist, so if I have to use the typewriter I go craz
[017] checker! The worst job is when I have to repair our _____ photocopier, which breaks down about twice a week. I'
[018] ury London police couldn't get to the bottom of some _____ crime, they called on Holmes. Holmes used his extra
[019] but things hadn't changed thatmuch. He still got into _____ messes and expected you to help him out of them. He w
[020] sponsible. Meanwhile, there is a description of the ' _____ suffering, such as the world no longer considered pos
[021] of the people who ran Auschwitz, complains that the ' _____ crimes . . . besmirched the reputation of the German
[022] ch he believed created a possible alternative to the _____ solipsism of modern consciousness; he wrote satirical
[023] emarkable how Needham's resilience survived even this _____ blow. In his later years Joseph Needham was greatly i
[024] The man of letters continued non-stop, and it was a _____ blow in the mid-Seventies to be laid low by a stroke
[025] gree of any academic standing. The whole thing was a _____ disappointment.' The deputy vice- chancellor at Luto
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[001] haracterizes a novel as a 'clumsy but sometimes funny _____ between two people in which one of them is doing all
[002] in which one of them is doing all the talking.' This _____ , mostly uninflected by literary gamesmanship, wholly
[003] day in their fight to obtain a lawyer's notes of his _____ with Vincent W. Foster Jr. about the dismissals at t
[004] g. She takes her breakfast in silence - no radio or _____ is allowed. She has coffee from Harrods, toast, and
[005] he turned the clock back a few minutes and tried the _____ again. This time when his wife expressed her suspici
[006] enly a man arrived among us who broke off everyone's _____ by the simple means of raising his hand for silence.
[007] strolling past and joined us again. 'Welcome to the _____ ,' he said. 'Among the topics we shall be covering th
[008] hal, that most readable of French authors, and in his _____ and writings one felt something of the caustic wit,
[009] He jumped up on a little table and said: 'There's no _____ in this city, you don't need much language to get by.
[010] ng and, most difficult for Pratham, to hold a simple _____ . His family, first- generation city-dwellers who made
[011] open house for a wide circle of their friends, whose _____ was the only pleasure he allowed to interrupt his da
[012] miniscences, its eye as sharply amusing as he was in _____ , bringing to life the great and those who simply mill
[013] ay of Angela's would be preceded by a long telephone _____ in which each of us would throw in every joke we cou
[014] the next sailor we spoke to, and we had quite a long _____ about the weather. Then, suddenly, the men stopped ta
[015] he trays came back with a little more food, there was _____ . After a while Captain Brown began to talk about book
[016] me to fetch Dr Johnson's Rasselas, and read us a slow _____ , full of long words, between Rasselas and his teacher
[017] y Glenmire for ordering more of it, and a comfortable _____ developed. Soon the ladies were playing cards happily
[018] turbans,' she said sadly. But we had no time for more _____ . The Grand Turk rose and said he was Signor Brunoni.
[019] at my father sent his best wishes, then I changed the _____ . What time should we go to see the fashions?' I asked
[020] e and the ship's owners. During the inquiry I had a _____ with him, which I remember especially well, because
[021] fast to catch up with him, and started a breathless _____ . By now his self-control had returned, and he apolog
[022] s bitter as that noise. All around us on the veranda _____ stopped. People stared at him. After a while he cont
[023] 't run away.' Neither of us knew how to continue the _____ . I stood up at last, saying, 'I had no idea it was
[024] but still respected and trusted him. Although their _____ was diicult for me to follow, I understood that Jim w
[025] n Cornelius hates you,' I said, remembering a recent _____ with the Portuguese. 'He thinks you've stolen everyt
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[001] th lots of natural light, comfortable banquettes and _____ of elbow room between the tables. The gleaming stainl
[002] think earlier assessments, and to allow there is still _____ of life in the body of organized labor. While nearly
[003] unskilled laborers are desperate for jobs, there are _____ of sad stories about men and women who are tricked i
[004] been retired now for nearly five years, so I've had _____ of time to adapt to it. Well, obviously my life has c
[005] upper while we're listening to the music. I: Mmm. So _____ to do on a Saturday. H: Mmm. I: Uhm ... What about
[006] person I knew well did die immediately after a jog. _____ of people told me I was crazy to start running. Rea
[007] football can be enjoyed in nearby Newcastle. There's _____ of city entertainment, if that's what you prefer, like
[008] trol, or in case you need car repairs. And there are _____ of places where you can hire vehicles of various ty
[009] ph when he passed us and ordered us to stop. He took _____ of time slowing down. Finally he pulled into the sid
[010] a period (1980) when he was only half slick. There's _____ of hi- tech on display, but the basic armature of th
[011] . Do they seem busy, happy and purposeful? Are there _____ of books and somewhere comfortable to read them? Is
[012] she detested. She hoped the film would also bring in _____ of money, which it didn't. After the American success
[013] rong. The family house was warm and welcoming, with _____ of room for Jim and his four older brothers to play i
[014] for me, but I knew I had no imagination. And Jim had _____ . People with imagination often go further than others
[015] aiting to speak to you.' Well, you young people have _____ of time,' answered the Squire. We older ones have to
[016] And if you don't like Godfrey Cass, well, there are _____ of other young men. Come, let's go downstairs now.'
[017] s no trouble,' she said. I get up early, so I've got _____ of time. And I can bring you some of Aaron's old baby
[018] world?' On no - you couldn't live here. But there are _____ of planets like Earth in the universe, and we've fou
[019] o do that,' replied Williams. You see, there has been _____ of time since I looked at it last night for the creat
[020] quite rich, I believe. He has a comfortable home and _____ of time to spend on his hobbies.' I only meant that
[021] nge. Squire Bowles was quite a rich man; he received _____ of money from his land every year, his lawyers were h
[022] ed. He thought for a moment and added, 'I hope we get _____ of money for Aku-nna.' They both laughed as they bent
[023] to become a manager of the oil company, and they had _____ of money. Aku-nna was not always happy, however. Some
[024] to have a baby,' he said. 'She must stop work and eat _____ of good food. Mr Ofulue, your wife is very young and
[025] e said to Aku-nna. 'Read as much as you like, and eat _____ of good food.' Chike's eldest brother, who was a doct
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[001] upset eighth-seeded Anke Huber, 6-3, 6-4. It was the _____ of the day, one that shoved Mark Woodforde's upset o
[002] to reassure them. They'll probably be suffering from _____ , so just stay with them until expert help arrives. It
[003] le their house is rebuilt. *** HEADLINE: MAN GETS _____ A man received a severe electric
[004] A man received a severe electric _____ at his home in Solihull, Birmingham. Mr Ian Taylor,
[005] pean diplomat recalls that when everyone got over the _____ of seeing Lady Thatcher handbagging the Brussels bur
[006] ave been recruited, too. 'Perhaps the biggest culture _____ for the French is the emphasis the British system pl
[007] Boutdra and his little army of peasants had quite a _____ when they shot dead Si Mohamed Mustafa in the wadi be
[008] hich he assumed in tutorial argument was sometimes a _____ to undergraduates who had been used to gentler treat
[009] been so profitable. There is nothing quite like the _____ of an establishment that has done very well by keepin
[010] inking economy, inflation, wages - the country was in _____ . The harsh climate and the demography of Mongolia -
[011] ing the young man who was inside the room was one of _____ -
[012] - _____ that he was so much more like Simon than Patrick had
[013] . 'I have something to tell you that will be rather a _____ to you. But a nice kind of
[014] to you. But a nice kind of _____ ,' she said. And she went on from there. Patrick had n
[015] sn't Patrick,' repeated Simon angrily. 'I know it's a _____ for you, Simon, my dear,' said Bee. 'But I think you
[016] uit, but looking at himself in the mirror had been a _____ . How had he got himself into this situation? How coul
[017] d round and in the mirror he saw the sudden, terrible _____ in Simon's face. But Simon recovered quickly and tur
[018] dropped to the grass beside him. 'My, you gave me a _____ . But I know who you are. You're the long lost broth
[019] that the death of his parents had been a very great _____ to Patrick, but that he had taken it well and seemed
[020] ay his pleasure in the countryside. He remembered her _____ when she found he was not Simon. She had come there
[021] rdest jobs in my life. She was still fresh from the _____ of knowing that Simon had been killed. I didn't look
[022] p and found that all his trees had been cut down. The _____ hurt the old man badly, and he was sure that Okoboshi
[023] oee shop and drank a cup of hot chocolate. I'd had a _____ and I needed a hot drink and sugar. Slowly I began t
[024] hicago.' I was too tired to feel anything - surprise, _____ , anger. 'Guy have bright red hair?' 'He had red hai
[025] s waiting for her by the door. It gave Leila quite a _____ to see how old he was; he ought to be on the stage wi
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[001] , there are really two Acapulcos along the six- mile _____ that is one of the world's great natural deep-water p
[002] siss, who has just staged the drama for the intrepid _____ Street Theater here, the woman's Lear-like fury and
[003] he has, in fact, just wheeled him to the lobby of the _____ Street Theater from the nearby hotel where he has been
[004] n smuggled out of the U. S. naval base in Guantanamo _____ . Ortega knew that defection would mean abandoning hi
[005] supplied, Earl Peattie of Mortgage News Co. in Morro _____ , Calif., made the following calculations: Your monthl
[006] he home six years ago on 12 acres with a view of the _____ from the Oakland side. The home has six bedrooms in
[007] made the town famous still thrive in the surrounding _____ , the seafood industry is no longer the sole basis of t
[008] ide St. Edmund's Roman Catholic Church in Sheepshead _____ as skirling bagpipes played "Amazing Grace. " Office
[009] opolis, which will stand right in the middle of Tokyo _____ . Over 300 thousand people will live in it. It will
[010] in the little church at Lochranza in a beautiful grey _____ half a world away from his native Queensland. For ne
[011] eamen in the Western Pacific. From Cape York to Eden _____ he was famous for cheating, robbing and murdering; he
[012] to the west. Lora's father, who was the Mayor of Palm _____ village with its 572 people, proudly led the way, si
[013] isitors and walked out into the single street of Palm _____ . The villagers all seemed to be in bed and asleep, w
[014] g smile. It was impossible in a small place like Palm _____ to keep anything secret. Her second meeting with Leo
[015] ooked out over the sea. Lora, with the 571 other Palm _____ villagers and several thousand other Thalassans, came
[016] stop at Pittsburgh, then Detroit, then on to Thunder _____ . She won't be back in Chicago for two weeks.' I than
[017] more3 than one carrier. For example, I found Thunder _____ to St Catharines on 15 June via Grafalk Steamship L
[018] ne and found out that the Lucella would be in Thunder _____ - Canada's westernmost port on Lake Superior - on T
[019] flight from Chicago to Toronto and then on to Thunder _____ that afternoon. I packed jeans and a shirt, and my
[020] modern airport, I boarded the small plane to Thunder _____ . We arrived at ten p. m. We were a thousand kilometr
[021] And what about Martin Bledsoe?' 'They're in Thunder _____ this morning. They won't be back until late afternoo
[022] red the figure swimming away from the ship at Thunder _____ . That was the person who had planted the explosives.
[023] on it. Sault Ste Marie is even smaller than Thunder _____ . A few private planes, Cessnas and the like, stood a
[024] r plane?' 'I didn't. Cappy says I phoned from Thunder _____ and told him to fly someone back to Chicago. But I
[025] rove to the lake. Instead of turning south on Green _____ for Lake Blu, I went on to Sheridan Road and turned l
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[001] and. He calls out a name, grabs a small clear plastic _____ and a man in a T-shirt and drooping shorts follows hi
[002] ts and begins urinating into the toilet, then into the _____ . Positioning himself so he has a clear view of the ac
[003] one last test to check its authenticity. He grips the _____ and feels for the 98. 6 degrees a fresh
[004] and feels for the 98. 6 degrees a fresh _____ of urine should put out. This Labor Day weekend we
[005] ng competitive sailing's biggest prize, the America's _____ . Now a bona fide captain of industry, Turner rarely s
[006] entire crew hadn't been together since they won the _____ aboard 'Courageous' in September 1977. On Saturday t
[007] second twice in races featuring two other America's _____ -winning skippers and even a boat skippered by Turner'
[008] oing on today,' Gordon said. 'Of course, the Winston _____ championship is No. 1 for all of us, then there's th
[009] offered to anyone bold enough to win three of Winston _____ 's four 'major' races in the same season, Elliott sco
[010] hool I finally managed to ask a girl I like to have a _____ of tea with me. I put some sugar in her tea started
[011] k on delivery arrangements. Oh, and Anita I'd love a _____ of coffee if that's at all possible. Secretary: Oh y
[012] terrible taste. And they don't serve it in a proper _____ and saucer, but in one of those awful paper cups. We
[013] is the number of people you want in your life. The _____ is your idea of love. The more beautiful and valuable
[014] our idea of love. The more beautiful and valuable the _____ , the more important love is in your life. You are a
[015] life. You are a romantic person. The contents of the _____ show what your experience of love has been so far. The
[016] pers delivered, and we just sit in the garden over a _____ of coffee, with maybe a continental breakfast and re
[017] ing I do, and I do this deliberately, I make myself a _____ of tea, and I sit outside my van because I think it,
[018] ng and getting a meal ready. But I do try to get my _____ of tea in first. I: Not only are you a woman, travell
[019] ry him out. He finished his meal with a steaming hot _____ of chocolate cocoa. Then a helicopter took him to the
[020] s a plate of sandwiches and cakes, and, of course, a _____ of tea. 'Cream teas' are popular - you have scones (
[021] es for absolutely everything are very, very steep - a _____ of coffee can cost as much as 3! We had big audiences
[022] kettle on to boil and we'll talk about it over a nice _____ of tea. *** A: Hello? B: Hello - is Betty there? A
[023] invoffices, stuffing envelopes, fetching somebody a _____ of tea, answering the phone and trying to be polite
[024] s Tottenham into into number four position for the FA _____ . Another such victory would make them unbeatable. W
[025] visit each other at home. Quite often it's just for a _____ of tea, because that means you can be tete-a-tete. Re
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[001] d and more competitive - suddenly there's a lot more _____ for the top marks. There are about forty pupils in
[002] eatable. Wolverhampton is now officially out of the _____ . *** HARROD'S Harrod's of Knightsbridge, London, i
[003] s a shift in the attitude of the churches to sporting _____ . The sort of Evangelical churches that support Wingfi
[004] es in areas such as comparative accounting, European _____ policy and marketing across borders. 'Our distinctive
[005] more fashionable now than Britain), they do well in _____ with the children of more liberal western education
[006] ce to Eton, where he also won a place. In Delhi, the _____ might have been more fierce. This article is based o
[007] sands of disappointed parents have since discovered. _____ for places at the most popular schools has intensifi
[008] e like people. We don't think that life is an endless _____ .' Woods laughed, and Biko responded with a smile. 'Y
[009] onday he found he enjoyed the office politics and the _____ for new business - it made him feel alive and at the
[010] only single people in the group, and that we'd be in _____ with each other, 'Aunt Rose lives on the other side o
[011] rian that I did not understand. In one way we were in _____ , but we were also good friends. And on that Sunday mo
[012] nough now to know why. I had beaten him twice in fair _____ . On the cricket field I had made the catch which vanq
[013] ue now. I did not think of Lord Trimingham as serious _____ . I did not see him as an ordinary person; he was on a
[014] celebrated in poems by writers like Pindar. But the _____ between Greek city-states was not always peaceful. Th
[015] inalists in last year's Westinghouse Science Research _____ . An Aug 17, 1997 article about living in Montclair
[016] d and more competitive - suddenly there's a lot more _____ for the top marks. There are about forty pupils in
[017] eatable. Wolverhampton is now officially out of the _____ . *** HARROD'S Harrod's of Knightsbridge, London, i
[018] s a shift in the attitude of the churches to sporting _____ . The sort of Evangelical churches that support Wingfi
[019] es in areas such as comparative accounting, European _____ policy and marketing across borders. 'Our distinctive
[020] more fashionable now than Britain), they do well in _____ with the children of more liberal western education
[021] ce to Eton, where he also won a place. In Delhi, the _____ might have been more fierce. This article is based o
[022] sands of disappointed parents have since discovered. _____ for places at the most popular schools has intensifi
[023] e like people. We don't think that life is an endless _____ .' Woods laughed, and Biko responded with a smile. 'Y
[024] onday he found he enjoyed the office politics and the _____ for new business - it made him feel alive and at the
[025] only single people in the group, and that we'd be in _____ with each other, 'Aunt Rose lives on the other side o
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[001] ative book review. FAR FROM the suburban sprawl and _____ malls of modern- day North Carolina, an aging army v
[002] s 13-member board? He has backed state legislation to _____ the board of high-profile politicians and to replace
[003] d Pasadena. Soon the homes will give way to suburban _____ malls, spacious parks and family restaurants, and th
[004] restaurants, and then, as the bus begins to fill, the _____ malls will give way to shuttered crack houses and clu
[005] ns. 'We need to keep the town from becoming either a _____ mall that looks like any other place or from becoming
[006] Atlanta Exposition Center. Along this town's gaudy _____ of wedding chapels, trinket shops and video arcades,
[007] ions in Prince George's County, particularly along a _____ of funeral and cemetery enterprises on Suitland Road.
[008] raph of Williams diving for the line in his Springbok _____ appears in an evangelistic booklet produced by the I
[009] ed-in countries of Shervane's world lay in the narrow _____ between burning heat and terrible cold. In every coun
[010] he table his hand searched for and found a long, thin _____ of paper. He ran his Fingers along the paper
[011] of paper. He ran his Fingers along the paper _____ , then joined the two ends together so that the
[012] , then joined the two ends together so that the _____ had the shape of a circle. The scientists of the Fir
[013] the other only by moving through the thickness of the _____ . Do you agree?' Of course,' said Brayldon, still puzz
[014] face. Again Grayle brought the two ends of the paper _____ together, but now he had given it a half-turn so tha
[015] touches like the Bordeaux butter slathered on satiny _____ steak topped with frizzled onions or a mass of meltin
[016] almost half of them in women. The shopping centers, _____ malls and Interstate highways that ring Old Town had
[017] ative book review. FAR FROM the suburban sprawl and _____ malls of modern- day North Carolina, an aging army v
[018] s 13-member board? He has backed state legislation to _____ the board of high-profile politicians and to replace
[019] d Pasadena. Soon the homes will give way to suburban _____ malls, spacious parks and family restaurants, and th
[020] restaurants, and then, as the bus begins to fill, the _____ malls will give way to shuttered crack houses and clu
[021] ns. 'We need to keep the town from becoming either a _____ mall that looks like any other place or from becoming
[022] Atlanta Exposition Center. Along this town's gaudy _____ of wedding chapels, trinket shops and video arcades,
[023] ions in Prince George's County, particularly along a _____ of funeral and cemetery enterprises on Suitland Road.
[024] raph of Williams diving for the line in his Springbok _____ appears in an evangelistic booklet produced by the I
[025] ed-in countries of Shervane's world lay in the narrow _____ between burning heat and terrible cold. In every coun