1.
He looked too stunned to speak, it was Ava who said, "But you wore those sandals, I couldn't have lost an aluminum there, even if I had been carrying one around, and I don't think I've ever carried an aluminum on my person," Ava said
2.
Jorma didn't either, he couldn't guess whether that was five thousand miles from here or ten
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He had, but he couldn't now
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He couldn't tell her, he found the house empty
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He couldn't believe she had ditched him like that
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He couldn't believe Herndon was right about her, that she had been raised only to follow Ava on the trail of that cargo
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He couldn't sell this place, he could sell his old one
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He couldn't take it now
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Ava laughed, "Don't bet the lives of the crew on it," Ava said, "Because I couldn't
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She looked like she couldn't picture it at all
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If she couldn't have her villa on the Carribean beach, this was certainly the next best thing
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There was a wide bench in the back of the boat, but from down on that she couldn't see over the cabin
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She knew as he said it that he could not have said that to a native, they couldn't comprehend it, it was like saying Fort Knox had disappeared to a 20th century American or Wall Street was missing to a 21st century American
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It—what used to be James—snapped at her fingers but was pinned by the wreckage and couldn't lean in to bite her
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Her shin bone was probably in pieces, too, but her brain couldn't wrap itself around the pain
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"I thank you for knowing you couldn't go full-out in the dark
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Larorlie couldn't root in this sandy soil but the rails were hung with a summer's growth of blue noonbloom that was just opening
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"I was just thinking we may be too late, they couldn't have made all these improvements without quite a bit of money
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Ava couldn't tell if she was just being chatty to cover her tracks
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"I couldn't sleep anyway," he said over the steaming cup
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Another asset is YES we can "spoil" them with things that we couldn't afford for our kids when they were small
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I couldn't do his job
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Serpent couldn't help but feel the need to get closer to Woman
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doostEr hadn't really signed up for this responsibility with Estwig, in fact the boy did crimp his style at times, but he couldn't help feeling the responsibility
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It's not really very heavy for its size, it couldn't be a treasure chest, all metals are much heavier than that, it's lighter than a section of tree trunk that size and I've moved them with the rockosaur
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He could not find an amount for Ava, so it couldn't be enough to get a detective interested, that would mean it was likely less than a dozen coppers a year
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But on the other hand, he couldn't afford to be without Mirielle's information
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"If I was with you I couldn't talk about it
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Tahlmute couldn't keep the red from his face
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Fear would never have stopped him, but this? He couldn't move
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He couldn't call up one scene from that time, he only hung onto the fact that he had been there
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The text on my wife's phone was short enough that I couldn't not but read it all in one go
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I couldn't blame personal problems, I wasn't allowed to mention the recession
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I had lived there continuously for thirteen years but of course, I couldn't go back in time and go to school in the local Christian Brothers in order to be fully accepted by the natives of Darklow
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"And you know I couldn't have anyone on the payroll here who has problems with the law
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He spent most of Nightday and all of Dawnsleep with her and doostEr couldn't blame him
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I know the name of the village by rote, but couldn't find it if I had to
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You couldn't have more than ten years left
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This couldn't be real
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" I couldn't process it
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Well, I did have Vic around for awhile because this station was named in her honor and she takes up so much less veron space, but she couldn't take it in here so I had to back her out again
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I couldn't bear it
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Michael just went out after a while, but I couldn't
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Meaning, I couldn't walk out of there
45.
I realized that I couldn't do anything to help my family
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When I woke up I couldn't move
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His place was one you couldn't get into if you couldn't pilot your boat
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"So suddenly Sammy couldn't be reached
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"Well, they said they couldn't help us unless a crime had been committed and so far none had
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I ended up sitting on the bench for hours, afraid to move, terrified for my family, trying to connect up the dots, but it seemed like suddenly my brain just couldn't form clear thoughts any more
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She couldn't swear by anything he said, but she couldn't swear against it either
52.
At one point she couldn't manipulate it with the android's limbs but had to call bots in and Ava only had the bare minimum here on the station
53.
Glenelle couldn't respond because she thought she might as well dare tip this shot back and found it was like biting down on two hundred twenty volts AC
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But something in him just couldn't believe that Theo wouldn't be looked for, intensively, if he went missing
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Why couldn't it be this guy? But there was a mark on the forehead of the guy in the picture, a crescent shape
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"Not to Rocco it couldn't
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"You're kidding me? And we couldn't detect that this planet had a data system?" she asked
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Nevertheless, somehow she had thought that this time, just maybe, because he was a policeman too, it would make a difference He would understand the crazy career, the obsessions, the dark humor, the dark lows and the soaring highs of success that couldn't be shared with anyone else
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She had the kind of looks you couldn't ignore; statuesque, blonde, athletic figure and dressed to kill
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Why couldn't someone just be nice to her? She wiped her eyes, took a deep breath and stood up to face the mirror on the wall next to her locker
61.
Glenelle saw Ava bring up a few more screens in the air in front of her that she couldn't see from this side
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Her arms were twisted painfully over her head in a submission hold she couldn't imagine and didn't want to
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She couldn't tell if it was concussion or not but there was an eerie electronic glow coming from underneath the girl's shirt
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Why she had expected it to be more, she couldn't say
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Where before she had no qualms, no doubts, no goals, no obstacles, where she had been free and easy and almost always happy, almost always laughing, now she felt incomplete, that she couldn't rest without a plan
66.
I couldn't take my eyes off the big, ugly, monstrous spider web tattoo on his neck
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Glenelle certainly couldn't hack their way out of it, other than turning off enhancements
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Things weren't adding up and I couldn't make any sense of it, but whatever the explanation, I just couldn't watch her cry
69.
One mind had decided to go back but couldn't say why
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Leonora couldn't guess, and Ruby couldn't tell her, exactly what was in the large, oddly shaped crate, but it took four hands and two backs to maneuver it out of the truck and into the garage of the grateful recipient, who gave them each an extra cash bonus as he rubbed his hands together with unseemly delight
71.
Marianne couldn't raise anything
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I couldn't leave them like this
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A sick game, but a game nonetheless and one I couldn't escape from
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It was developed by the previous generations of machines developed by machines that in turn had been developed by machines that humans couldn't understand
75.
Why do they open the shop, then? Later, I spent some time with Alice and our cousin Niki but I couldn't avoid the usual boredom: These two are married with children, respectable persons in society; they don't even bother to conceal their contempt for me
76.
This afternoon she couldn't contain herself and burst out before everybody, complaining that Lisa and Nina are always giggling and acting the giddy goat, annoying the rest of the pupils
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They couldn't be sure what condition the planet would be in when it did recover
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She couldn't possibly, rationally blame this on him, he thought, but she was
79.
When he offered to give me a ride to St Tryfon in his car, I just couldn't refuse
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After welcoming me, he began to complain about “a woman who left Janus three years ago, without even explaining the reasons for leaving; she left because she couldn't find a boyfriend, but neither away from Janus did she find a boyfriend; maybe it's her karma, maybe its her idiosyncrasy
81.
He knew he couldn't do it alone but he would like to be of any assistance he could to Jarome
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Of course, they couldn't be Angels without technology, but even the Haadij didn't seem to know that Paradis is an electronic simulation
83.
He tried to follow it into the veron store and couldn't find the connection
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He couldn't find even a block diagram with the female veron store in it
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He couldn't feel them with the pain he was already in, but he dreaded the thought
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He brought up a diagnostic screen, Diam couldn't see them from his direction, and Bahkmar tried to be as attentive as Diam said, without preamble, "It has been brought to my attention that you are not in favor of the council's decision?"
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“Who, me? When did I insult you, Yvonne? What are you talking about, are you crazy?” Helen protests and looks at me aghast, as if she couldn't understand what I was saying
88.
He also remembers how Antonia said Misery was accused of crimes against the Corsair but yet, they couldn't identify her
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But they couldn't ignore the asteroid for long, in another Earth year at most, the natives will notice the direction it will emerge from its close encounter with Cynd and become alarmed
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You couldn't read it until after you drink some of it
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' She said he couldn't avoid an issue that could mean the death of himself and his children as well as what might be the only remnant of the human species remaining
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The belt was helpful indeed, but this couldn't go on for ever
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Alfred couldn't see who he was pointing at
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No matter what happened, he couldn't stop it going to the log and his palms began to sweat
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Why couldn't we have found this out Tuesday?"
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The only crew remaining alive were those who'd found a corner to strap themselves in where they couldn't be taken overboard or battered with hunks of rigging still attached to the hull
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They couldn't move me
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I was in a position where I couldn't see the remainder of the ship
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I couldn't see them behind the mast I was bound to, only hear them, the crunching and tearing and their wet snorts and sputters