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The cottage was a nice little house, she decided as she tidied up the curtains in the front room
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We tidied up and were walking between the boats along the jetty with our catch when a tourist whipped out his digital and took a flash photo of the local fishing folk coming home after a long day hunting the fish
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While Chrissie cleared up and tidied the room generally, they sat at the table
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While they cleaned and tidied up, White Feathers and his father chatted
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She chatted to me as I tidied up the lounge and then helped me carry the ironing up stairs
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Tidied his rooms and toted the luggage to the entry door
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” He got up, tidied his clothing and brushed a hand through his hair
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The rubbish bins she tidied up every week were askew amidst floating bits of rubbish and broken glass
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He tidied up the bits of broken crockery and ornaments on the floor and heaped them on the table
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Jon also tidied ropes as no one wanted the captain to trip over one
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Had they tidied up everything, left no loose ends, so they could
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Gretchen having tidied up the
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Trevor blew dust from his computer screen, tidied his pencils and papers, then sat back in his chair and studied the grandfather clock
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As they tidied up the table, their men
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It was past eight o'clock by the time that the children had finished their meal and tidied up
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It must have been hidden beneath the rubbish, and was only now visible after the yard had been magically tidied
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He scraped everything out, tidied up the ragged edges, doused it with peroxide and sewed it back together
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He said he’d love a cup of tea, but the dishes had been washed and the kitchen tidied so she suggested a glass of cold water would be better, setting it down on the table with unnecessary force before retiring to her room
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After dinner had been eaten and the dishes washed and put away and the kitchen tidied up, they went to Chris’ room where his sound system was
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After everything had been cleared away and the kitchen tidied up, the three of
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The property - now owned by the Cabinet Minister, was in the process of being tidied up by a team of gardeners from a well-known Gardening Service
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As they tidied up, she remembered something
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He parked the excavator back in its original spot and tidied the area
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After Carla had attended to the drip and tidied up, Max disposed of his scrubs and went to find Habib
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She changed the sheets and tidied the room
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She tidied the room a bit before she went down to breakfast, which was a buffet affair offering everything you could wish for
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His hair had been tidied up a bit too, and the parting shifted to the other side
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Clayton tidied up, and walked across to the Headquarters to see the duty Corporal in the Transport Office
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Two or three weeks before the conference was due to start, somebody from the client’s procurement department phoned the hotel and suggested that there were a couple of points in the contract that needed tidied up and one of them (it turned out that it was the only one!) was the price
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Chef Luc suggested that they end there and get tidied up; for, the following day they would begin to put everything into practice as he waived the notes in front of Charlie's face
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I went over to him, took them from him, tidied them into a neat bundle and put
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to empty their waste bins and hastily tidied their rooms
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” She got up, tidied her long robes and her long hair, then she began to dance madly under the moonlight
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He cleared his throat and tidied up his clothing to look slightly more professional
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The spot she was in was tidied up; there was even a soft bed of leaves covered by a thick blanket for her to rest upon
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The cleaner has been in and has tidied everything up
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and tidied his hair
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Once the kitchen was tidied up, Nick became businesslike, and suggested that they (indicating Henri, Falcon, Conrad, Joel and Kathy) adjourn in the living room, while Jack oversaw the security team shift changes and assigned new duties
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Isha came back upstairs after a while and found the room tidied up
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Barnes came and tidied them
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He had made the path; he had paid to have it tidied and adorned; and he required of it in return that it should keep quiet and be useful
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After breakfast, they tidied up
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The cares and pressures of the week largely put aside, she tidied up (marginally) after a steaming shower, and they set off for the Restaurant
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But, of course, it did not happen and I relaxed into my efforts, losing all track of time as I moved stones, cleared more weeds and generally tidied up
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At the corner, he tidied Davies’ appearance as best he could,
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He decided it would be fun to cook together, so he tidied up and lit some candles and put the groceries away, liberating the lobsters into the sink
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While Thompson was out, Smith tidied up a bit; Thompson was a bit of a slob
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At the end of this period, you will have tidied up two irritating jobs which have been bugging
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I knew I wouldn’t have time to get changed into civils so I just washed my face and tidied up my school skirt and blouse
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She lit the fire and gave the children their tea - there was still some coal and food left of what had been bought with the three shillings obtained from the Board of Guardians - and afterwards she tidied the house
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Edy began to get ready to go and it was high time for her and Gerty noticed that that little hint she gave had had the desired effect because it was a long way along the strand to where there was the place to push up the pushcar and Cissy took off the twins' caps and tidied their hair to make herself attractive of course and Canon O'Hanlon stood up with his cope poking up at his neck and Father Conroy handed him the card to read off and he read out Panem de coelo praestitisti eis and Edy and Cissy were talking about the time all the time and asking her but Gerty
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After the doctor was gone, Mary Linden stayed with her during the hours that elapsed before Easton came home, and downstairs Elsie and Charley - who were allowed to stay up late to help their mother because Mrs Easton was ill - crept about very quietly, and conversed in hushed tones as they washed up the tea things and swept the floor and tidied the kitchen
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Fortunately, the family had been up since sunrise, and had washed and dressed and tidied the place
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Somebody tidied up my desk during my absence
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She filed the Booker lawsuit against Top Market Solutions, paid the filing fee with a check drawn on the clinic, and filled out the paperwork to execute service of process on the defendant, and when everything was tidied up she left the clerk’s office quite proud that her first lawsuit was now on the books
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Jeff was at least as cute as his older brother, had the same dark eyes and long unruly hair, though Donovan had tidied up a bit for his jury
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“He didn’t want any traces of evidence to be tidied away
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As it brewed, she tidied up the kitchen, emptied all the wastebaskets throughout the place, and straightened magazines in the reception area
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‘You tidied up!’ she said, with a little exclamation, as if I had done it just for her
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One morning, between seven and eight, returning after a sleepless night, he sent for embers, changed his rain-soaked underclothes, said his prayers, drank tea, got warm, then tidied up the things on the table and in his own corner, and, his face glowing from exposure to the wind and with nothing on but his shirt, lay down on his back, putting his arms under his head
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When they came in to tea, having taken off their outdoor things and tidied themselves up
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‘But how? Are we to take him up to her? The room there has not been tidied up
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’ Glancing indolently and indifferently at all the prisoners, he ordered the officer in charge to have them decently dressed and tidied up before taking them to the marshal
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She tidied herself up, looked at her watch, and went to investigate the kitchen
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They had traveled millions upon millions of miles; Earth was far away, her system and her sun forgotten, her system settled and investigated and profited on, and other systems rummaged through and milked and tidied up, and now the rockets of these tiny men from an impossibly remote planet were probing out to far universes
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I couldn’t believe the clutter—it looked as if it hasn’t been tidied up—ever! There was food left out in the kitchen and on plates in the living room
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the drawing room and bring him coffee, while she tidied herself before seeing him
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The other rooms, especially the drawing-room, had been scrublx-d and tidied up with extra care
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“But how? Are we to take him up to her? The room there has not been tidied up
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” Glancing indolently and indifferently at all the prisoners, he ordered the officer in charge to have them decently dressed and tidied up before taking them to the marshal
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She efficiently helps me drink some more water and tidies the bed
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‘She who tidies up’, no doubt
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There are wonderful tidies on the chairs, and gay mats on the floor, and books and cards carefully arranged on a round table, and vases of dried grass on the mantel-piece
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if she helps with the dishes or tidy up their toys
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He would understand that they were just getting settled into their lives together, and during this phase there might be some loose ends from previous lives to tidy up
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While Emma obtains our refreshments, I tidy up the cups and saucers on the table, piling them onto the tray left beside one of the chairs
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While I get dinner organised, Stephen goes off to see what, if anything, is said about the incident at the house on the TV news while Liz goes up to tidy herself up
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Will was trying to tidy up the broken pieces of our family portraits, shards of glass and broken dishes
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As I tidy the lounge, I remember to send up a prayer of thanks
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You put me to shame really, with my little ways and my tidy ledgers…bar one fact
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It was far too tidy for him
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telling the ashes that you forgot to tidy away
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His cabin is as tidy as ever
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To my surprise, the cabin is tidy … I had expected Joris to be one of those men who leave things wherever they drop, but I was wrong
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I'm just here to help tidy up the loose ends
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To make things run as smoothly as he could, the businessman bought the cottage from the couple, which, given that they never had a mortgage in the first place, meant that they pocketed a tidy little sum
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When at last I caught up with the others, they were on the lip of a wide plateau of sandy rock and there, emerging from the wiry scrub, stood a tidy cluster of stubborn ruins and dry stone walls that seemed determined to stand forever
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The kitchen is very tidy – Alastair obviously cleared up after I had gone to work
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“We came to tidy the master bedroom, my Lady
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had a mortgage in the first place, meant that they pocketed a tidy
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I tidy up the papers and pile the files neatly on one side of the table
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him tidy it up and found a photograph in the process
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She’d been touched by the earnestness of his feelings for the dead woman and done her best to tidy up the corpse, dressing it in the clothing Mickey had selected from Sheila’s limited wardrobe
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As she worked, she thought of Billy – she’d never considered it before but he must do all the housework at the house … maybe next time she went there she would offer to help … there was something strangely satisfying about making things clean and tidy
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Just as well that he’d given Ozzie and Chrissie sufficient time to get away … with a bit of luck, they’d have left the place clean and tidy – Chrissie seemed to be particular like that
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It was tidy and clean – obviously Chrissie had straightened it up after Kev left
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The door opened and they went in - again, the room was tidy and clean, though it caused comment when Mrs Brown discovered Mickey’s clothing in the cupboard
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That is so tidy a prospect
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” With that she mounted the last steps and hurried to her room to tidy up for supper
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But for David, it was unexpected and sudden, no time to say anything or tidy anything up
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Sometimes I get tired of lying down, I do some shares of his things and tidy up his flat and he does appreciate it very much
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Dingle does like a tidy garden as much as you like apple and blackberry pie" said Granny as she packed the last of the plates and cups into her enormous hamper
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The catch being that they’ve left you to tidy up after the fact
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until the last minute to clean up the yard and tidy up the house
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The Elf reached to unknot the tidy little bow and ribbon around the box, its only adornments
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But as he was scanning round in her room the thought occurred to her that she hadn’t bothered to tidy up before leaving that morning in a hurry for work
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He pulled on his jacket, ran his fingers through his hair in a vain attempt to tidy it a little, and then set off to the medical centre, grabbing his overcoat as he went out into the icy night air
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Torbin’s room was unusually tidy since he had brought nothing with him, only the tablet to relay his projected thoughts
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It was tidy enough except for the stains on the wall and the wine on the rug
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Then he led her out patio doors through a small courtyard, down steps and a concrete walkway to a tidy barn
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A Halfling of my means can’t be choosy, especially when one drops a tidy pile of silver coins on my counter
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Just when I had things all wrapped in a tidy little ribbon, Mr
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It was a very tidy desk
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The apartment was very comfortable, simply furnished, clean and tidy
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I felt my attraction to him every time he was near, and he would still fit well into the rest of my life that was still laid out in its tidy map, if only the cancer would go away
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As late as 1955, my upright Aunt Mona, preparing for grocery shopping, would slide a pearl-capped hatpin into her black straw hat, perched neatly over a tidy cornucopia of braids
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John would never have left them in that state, for he was anal about being tidy
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After moving their things aboard el Tiburón Limon and familiarizing Beth with its workings, he left her to tidy up while he went out to shop for supplies – or so he told her: perhaps he had been overly hasty
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"She is a bit tidy though isn't she?"
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You can fix the bugs when we get back to Earth, and it won’t take us long to straighten out the furniture and get things tidy
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The neighbours' children, frequent visitors, were enthralled at this unconventional room that looked like nothing they’d ever seen and didn't have to be kept tidy
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consideration to tidy up before she ran away-which she usually did on the almost
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Anyhow, DO try and keep the house a little tidy
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the clouds are tidy, and relationship between
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tailored uniform tidy over his slim build
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Kubo told his daughters to tidy the house and put the spare futons in the living
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This will keep your items tidy
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You do not tidy up a dark room
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How do you do that? Have your children exited about rewards they will get if they clean up their rooms, keep the house tidy and do their chores
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And later, on the right, there came a huge house, set back in a tidy lawn
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Tidy spring that aplenty does care
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tidy that's the problem
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“I have,” her grandmother said, laughing, as she tried unsuccessfully to tidy her hair
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The office or jobsite that is calm, tidy, and as free
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tidy out of the wall
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This one change will keep your pantry tidy and uncluttered – meaning you’re far less likely to waste food and far more likely to keep the pantry organised
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The emperor had assigned a competent foreman and supplied it’s operating costs for the last year and a half, and it had recently returned to a marginal profitability, though in the future it should provide ‘a tidy income’, provided the foreman agreed to stay on
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I suppose it would be a tidy way for me to wind this whole
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I kicked a can and it made that empty tin rattle that you associate with deserted streets, or Stop It and Tidy Up
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There is something to be said about a neat and tidy house when
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The hundreds of thousands settled in trusts and municipals provided by his parents yielded a tidy monthly income
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It didn’t take long to tidy Annyeke’s home
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landing pages it could mean the difference between making a tidy profit and suffering
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See his clothes are cleanedd and you can tidy up
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He felt obligated to maintain a tidy bar with selection and sources to other countries
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You are expected to keep your room tidy and the housekeepers will provide clean linen when you need it
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For such a stone, he might be willin’ to arrange passage into the Empire along with a tidy sum of money
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It was neat and tidy Peter was by no means an untidy bachelor
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The house was very tidy with a vase full of flowers on the kitchen bench
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When they entered the house Amanda was struck by how clean, tidy and well furnished the house was
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Amanda could see that that Claire was a wealthy tidy woman
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“Good to see they’ve kept the house nice and tidy,” she said with a frown
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I’d have to tidy the place up a bit
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It was small and neat and tidy and very proud of its bristles (which had an interesting pattern like a crocodile's teeth)
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If he was going to see McGregor he would have to look clean and tidy and be as sharp as a whip
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The rooms were always spotless and tidy, the bed made, sheets changed and fresh towels in the bathroom
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The house seemed eerily tidy and unnatural to them all
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But they did the general things like keep the compound tidy and clean the main rooms once in a while
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When he felt her fingers touch his cheek, he shut his eyes and tried to imagine their future together: Angela, her body once again slender and beautiful; the house clean and tidy, the way she’d kept her old apartment; a child crawling around with a toothless smile, calling him Daddy
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A CALM HEART IS A TIDY HEART
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without effort, but is putting away a tidy sum each month for his future security
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which not only prevented others from cutting themselves, but built up a tidy
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Sonia glared at Olivera and shrugged her shoulders, “Okay, if you will give me a moment,” she began to tidy the frames on her desk
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He was lead to a dormitory with six beds in it, a screw turned to him and shouted, “Turner, this is your bed and your locker, make sure they are clean and tidy at all times… Did you hear me Turner?”
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I had to promise to tidy it up and then leave immediately in the morning
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immaculate—too tidy for a house that had just been moved into
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I was shipped to the NSW prison system with my life and relationships in tatters but I took comfort in the fact my mate V had my back and once released I would return to the world with a very tidy sum of money and a business to run
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�When you've told her, tell her I need to borrow her car later on, I'm gonna tidy the garden a bit
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“Very tidy,” Greg remarked
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The stitching he had done looked neat and tidy and he glues some of Martin's hair on top of it to cover the scar
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The two rooms with the beds were just as neat and tidy as the lounge / diner
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Emma and Liz insisted on clearing away all the dishes before they left so there is nothing to be done in here bar a small amount of tidying up
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After terminating the call and feeling irrationally pleased with herself that she knew how to, she pottered around the house, cleaning and tidying … it was satisfying
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’ Gilla said, straightening the covers and tidying the bed generally
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‘Yes … um … I gather that he and his wife have been living separate lives for some years now and are just tidying up the situation now that Alastair has – um - has formed a relationship with Jo Symons
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We spend the afternoon in the garden, cutting the grass as short as we dare and tidying up the borders
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’ I told him, tidying up the diaries scattered over the table so that we can have enough space to eat
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I was thinking that I need to be back at the house tonight – with Mum and Dad coming for dinner tomorrow, I’ll need to do a bit of tidying up and top up the old food stores
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As I lift the mug to carry it into the lounge, a thought hits me … if I feel like this when I am moving on to something exciting, how on earth did Bunty feel, tidying up the ends of her life
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"Not much”, he says, adding, “but he did say something about tidying up this morning, but not where or when
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I’d busied myself putting the phone down and tidying one or two papers on the heap … trying very hard to behave as though it was a perfectly normal occurrence for me to have phone conversations with men arranging dinner dates … I failed
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Dingle beamed and rose to join the rest of the group busily tidying up the equipment and replacing the turf where the pegs had been
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They were indeed courageous, as their name suggested, since as a part of their total-body, tidying up services, they would even head in and out of the hippo’s mouth with their dinky tooth brushes and dental floss to leave him with a glistening, bright smile when they were all done
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“There that should set you up so get it down you and then you and Bert can go for a smoke while Mabel and I clear away the things and get some tidying up done
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I shouted a warning to Detective Inspector Grunt, who was out tidying up the flowerbeds and seeing us, he jumped clear, laughing loudly when we careened into the old horse-trough, coming to a juddering halt
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But as she reached the stone wall once more and dropped to rest on its smooth surface, wiping her forehead and tidying her ponytail, she could not help but remember the feelings the dream had roused in her
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David had spent the rest of the day in the garden, pottering about and tidying
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Annyeke paused in the middle of her frantic and unnecessary tidying and leaned her forehead against the cool glass of the window
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Now, as the sun rose higher, he should be back at the village well, tidying his belongings, preparing to trade with the first of the women
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I’m still here tidying up before the realtors come through
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“Well, the good thing is we’ll see a lot more of you,” she said, tidying her hair back to where it was as best she could
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I thought about it for a moment while I was tidying my apartment
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The war, according to the Allied commanders was already won and virtually over, victory was assured, it was now only a question of tidying up
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There was little more for Rudolph to do around the place with Jazz and Peg Green tidying up the edges
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” Once the washing-up was done, she pottered around doing some tidying up
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She said nothing and went back to her routine of clearing the table and tidying up the kitchen
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The Doctor was tidying up the clinic and said over his shoulder
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printer must have jammed as he was tidying away some pieces of crumpled, ink-spattered paper
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He then finished tidying his station then placed the dish on the designated spot ready to be judged
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The three boys all climbed into Chef Luc's van, as she watched them carefully drive away before she returned to tidying the kitchen, then headed back to the warmth of her bed for a little more sleep
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Tgthiem was busily tidying it all up, and Mischia instinctively began to help, only because doing something helped her take her mind off the panic threatening to consume her
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and tidying up the room
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Sorry, but Robbie’s tidying his room this morning
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“I just said I was tidying up a bit, and—”
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few seconds, he briefly entertained the thought of tidying up a bit before the
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She helps out in the studio once a week, tidying up and stuff
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Sunaina stood there for a minute and then went back to tidying up her home, trying to forget about the instance
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Tidying them up
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Two servant girls entered and began the process of tidying up
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I splashed some water on my face, managing to clean up the worst of the makeup, then quickly ran my fingers through my hair, tidying it as much as I could
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And two or three days later, when Wemyss had again hired a car to take them for an outing to Windsor, while she and Lucy were tidying themselves for tea in the ladies' room of the hotel she turned from the looking-glass in the act of pinning back some hair loosened by motoring, and in spite of having a hairpin in her mouth said, again suddenly, 'What did Mrs
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Just before half-past seven, while she was in her room on the other side of the house tidying herself before facing Chesterton and the evening meal she had reduced it to the merest skeleton of a meal, but Chesterton insisted on waiting, and all the usual ceremonies were observed--she was startled by the sound of wheels on the gravel beneath the window
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It would be idle to pretend that she wasn't very much perturbed,--she was; and the brush with which she was tidying her pretty grey hair shook in her hand
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He sat out on the platform and watched the children go about their tasks of collecting water and firewood and generally tidying up
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Dad was fairly hopeless tidying up and I only glossed over the real dirty bits
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Sophie did some tidying and worked through some notes on the specials for the rest of the week
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I went to her and held her hand because a nurse was in the room tidying her
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1974, thoughts of tidying the campus were remote at best
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She seemed pre-occupied and spent several minutes hovering by the kitchen table, randomly touching objects and tidying papers without any real purpose
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After tidying the kitchen, she picked up her phone and placed a call
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The whitesmocked priest came after him, tidying his stole with one hand, balancing with the other a little book against his toad's belly
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Marker, the housekeeper, had been in there tidying not very long before—about a quarter of an hour, she says
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Lucy, who was making her bed and tidying her room later than she should have been, heard him stop his car under not driven up to the house as usual
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went into her bedroom, where Annushka was tidying the
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His method of tidying was peculiar, he simply swallowed all the flies and spiders in the boxes before I could stop him
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Then he ordered a birthday luncheon for eight guests and gave instructions for tidying the house, and he tried so hard to manage better than she did that before noon he had to capitulate without a trace of embarrassment
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And then, as if that had been a signal, there was chattering and chirruping in every direction, and then a moment of full song, and within five minutes the whole wood was ringing with birds' music, and wherever Edmund's eyes turned he saw birds alighting on branches, or sailing overhead or chasing one another or having their little quarrels or tidying up their feathers with their beaks
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The strap, a long one from our trunk, had been lying about all that mouth where we could see it; only yesterday morning I had been thinking of tidying it away
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Martha did absolutely nothing towards tidying the place and robbed him besides, but he didn't care, he liked to be alone in the house
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At times a long depressing stillness prevailed in the flat, a sign that the lodgers had all gone to the office, and Semyon Ivanovitch, waking up, could relieve his depression by listening to the bustle in the kitchen, where the landlady was busy close by; or to the regular flop of Avdotya's down-trodden slippers as, sighing and moaning, she cleared away, rubbed and polished, tidying all the rooms in the flat
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Leaving the flower garden Volgin entered the avenue of lime trees, hundreds of years old, which peasant girls were tidying and sweeping with spades and brooms
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Nastasia, who had to cook and clean for the whole house, was not sorry to see the lodger in this state of mind, as it diminished her labors: she had quite given up tidying and dusting his room; the utmost she did was to come and sweep it once a week
