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John checks the number, answers it
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Dave checks their provisions
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He pulls on his pants, goes to the window, checks out the view
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As always, Berndt is practical and sensible – it is he who locates our bags and checks that they are as they should be and he who oversees the ggs being settled in the stable
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‘And what was this monumental thought?’ he asked, watching as Joris checks the coast is clear before edging out along the line of the stone wall
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Joris goes and checks over his handiwork, tutting a little as he sees some signs that the wound is still bleeding
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While Berndt and I stand in the shadows out of sight, Joris crawls forward to the edge of the road and checks it out
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She was running netlist checks on all his signals, making sure there were no extra inputs or outputs
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Oblivious, he checks I’m settled in my seat and drives off down the lane
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He checks the surrounding area for scraps of torn clothing, for personal items, but finds nothing other than puddled boot prints and the tracks of a wheelbarrow tyre
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He checks out the room, approaching the tables in the centre of the room on which the sachets are being stored, all the while watching the far end of the laboratory and the bathroom door
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Billy checks the bar again and then heads down to the kitchen, but he finds nothing there except a load of cutlery on the floor
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" She checks with her Dad
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She inspects the bar, checks table layouts and reservations, and spends an hour with chef
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Jock checks his watch
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The screen saver disappears and she checks bookings
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Billy always checks her before he turns in
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Before they leave the house Bex checks to make sure that she has the cab fare and her mobile
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Shaun skips up the metal staircase and checks out the two girls leaning over the balcony
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He checks his pockets
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The second man returns to where Bex is sitting and checks that the oxygen mask is still secure
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When the ECG fails one of the nurses double checks by feeling for a carotid pulse
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A nurse appears in the doorway, says hello and checks charts and displays
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Double checks and signatures
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– checks were carried out on newcomers, and exhortations for extra
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Dave checks the slip way and nudges the car out of the car park
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Alex sits back and checks out the canteen
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It's Sunday but he checks an old kitchen table in the hall for post
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Alex checks the layout downstairs; two flats, one either side of the hall
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He checks the landing
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The officer checks behind him but sees no one
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Carol is repeating her daughter's name over and over again, burying her head in Dave's shoulder as medical staff run checks and ask questions, moving Bex into the first stage of waking
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The sound of dishes rattling about in the kitchen, told her Beth was still hard at work, as well, adding to her determination to finish the checks on time
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After laying the checks on the small kitchen table, that Beth had rounded up to give the stainless kitchen a touch of home
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Large almond shaped blue eyes, that were twinkling at that moment, studied Kit's face intensely, with a warm smile, and rosy checks, that lied about the health of the sweet thing
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Just whistling a few notes to himself off the sky, like maybe he's a sound man going thru some final checks, gradually collecting it into a melody
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"Some preliminary checks that might help you catch something trying to modify your mind internally
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He stops at each window, checks it
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The 5 Checks For a Great Niche
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The further checks completed, Alistair took the single parking space marked ‘A’
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In this security climate, it would make it very difficult for Sloan to get through Security checks
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That minister had unfortunately embraced all the prejudices of the mercantile system, in its nature and essence a system of restraint and regulation, and such as could scarce fail to be agreeable to a laborious and plodding man of business, who had been accustomed to regulate the different departments of public offices, and to establish the necessary checks and controlls for confining each to its proper sphere
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” which was quickly replaced by “Diagnostic checks
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“She checks out as healthy in every other way
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His credit chip certainly checks out, and he provided your address
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Last time he checked the monitor AI it was only able to run checks of its own caretaker systems; certainly there was no sign any ability for outward communication – unless one of the programmers had found a way to enhance its evolutionary rate
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someone checks out the site and buys through your link,
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It was as some consolation she seemed to be enjoying her life; he suspected L-Seven-Six ensured Tanya had all she wanted from TIAR, knowing Gerrid would be keeping tabs, or at least making occasional checks
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there’s a bulletin board there, and she checks it
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What happened to the checks and balances designed to prevent such a horrific abuse of State power? The answer is simple
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And with the inbuilt sense of justice that every Englishman, it seems, is born with, the lack of checks and balances (human rights charters) had never been a problem in England
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The absence of sound reality checks, a condition common among dysfunctional households,
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However, your BIOS checks whether there are any bootable CDs or floppies, just in case
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Pampered and spoiled beyond their parent‘s willingness to control or muster the required checks that separate rights from privileges (inevitably) gave rise to increasingly selfish attitudes common among a growing generation of young men and women accustomed to having their own way
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Its real-time protection only checks files that could be infected, so that it doesn’t waste system resources, and scheduled daily scans will ensure that your computer stays healthy
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Tired as he was, it was probably better than having the old guy cruising the streets at twelve kilometres an hour, with RIDE checks all over the place these days
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It is axiomatic, perhaps, that most (reasonable) people should favor ―means testing‖ and thorough background checks to ensure, inasmuch as possible, that hand guns and other firearms don‘t end up in the wrong hands
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” Herminia’s pleas for mercy and horrifying shrieks of agony reverberated in Beth’s head as other questions about log barges, kilos, Boston and forged checks, all of which she had no answers for, were fired at her
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She says he’s a big-time trafficker with hundreds of kilos coming in every three months on log barges – and that ain’t all! Then she says that your boyfriend’s brother cooked up a plan with George Dearling to rob him using phony checks! Don’t look at me like that, I ain’t making this up
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Not like some of the rattletraps that persisted despite clean air tests and safety checks mandated by the Ministry of Transportation
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She told me he started in bragging about his brother being a major drug smuggler, you his assistant and himself as the one who pays off the police and politicians, and that he and the guy we had dinner with want to rob Gordon’s money with forged checks
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Why would she enter those checks in her book and not write them out? Strange,� remarked Steve as he chewed on his pencil a little bit
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He wrote the checks for the purchases, paid her and made all the shipping arrangements, something she used to do but, with her commissions unchanged, who was she to complain about having less to do? Previously, she had avoided Mike as much as humanly possible while maintaining an amicable relationship with his mother
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They were cursory checks through her handbag and overnight, not much in the way of searches, but they were there, nevertheless
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George followed Leon up to his suite more to humor him than anything else, but once there, the sight of numerous payoff checks, in addition to a semi-cryptic receipt from a downtown bank for eleven million dollars in cash ‘Ed’ claimed he had just delivered, all of which appeared authentic, sobered him
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Well aware that George was an intimate to San José society, he offered as additional proof a glimpse at his list of checks with the names of their corresponding recipients
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Dumbfounded, he sat at the desk, pulled a goose-neck reading lamp close and put a second pair of glasses over the first to study anew the checks and the paper they were printed on
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“Because I’m the one with the idea and with the checks, that’s why
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Early the following morning, the checks were scanned into George’s computer, and they agreed to meet a week later to inspect his handiwork
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To save tax dollars all around, he had been paid from an offshore account at Royal Caribbean Bank in the Cayman Islands with two checks written to him for three hundred thousand dollars each
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His bank said that they would accept the checks for deposit, but as they were not certified, refused to acknowledge them as payment of the sixty thousand needed to halt foreclosure and without payment in full, that action would be taken the following day
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Brian could help an old friend immensely in his time of need and earn a two percent commission, a full twelve thousand dollars, if he would deposit the checks into his account and give George the cash when they cleared
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The checks were good as gold and he could verify for himself that the account had sufficient funds
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Brian flipped the checks back and forth, shrugged his shoulders and rumbled a laugh
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He wasn’t for long: Royal Caribbean Bank had called his bank an hour earlier to report that the two checks for three hundred thousand US dollars each that Brian had vouched for were forgeries
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He needed to clear himself of any involvement with forging checks especially since he was hiding from Canadian warrants, but he couldn’t take sixty thousand of the casino’s cash without it being noticed and any irregularities in the casino’s balances could cost him his license
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“What is it, Brian? Are the checks cleared?”
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And when the bank told Gordon about the checks, he’d know right away that it was him
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He could have Dearling forcing his way into his room… seeing the payoff checks and threatening him – with a gun
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Walston? Had he said that? Walston hadn’t been part of the story, except as the guy who was supposed to cash the checks
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The problems of money and checks had been solved easily enough: all that had been necessary was an inquiry before calling the president of Walston’s bank
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Then, a thinly veiled reference to his shuffling of data to keep hidden the propriety of certain loans won his complete, undivided attention and an overwhelming degree of cooperation which sufficed to wipe clean the trail of the checks and ignore any interest on the loan
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The checks were gone and Walston was silenced
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He’s also the one Herminia said was going to rob Gordon’s money with forged checks! Don’t let it be that you told Gordon Edward about that and that’s why this has happened! Maybe she made up the whole thing! He was a nice guy, Truman; really: he loved his wife and his daughter
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George had in his possession two checks for three hundred thousand dollars each that he said he had received from investors, but his bank wouldn’t accept them as payment and he was unable to cash them
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Brian agreed to help George out of this bind by depositing the checks in his own account
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He intended to repay it in full when the checks cleared, so he felt secure about handing over such a large quantity of cash, then the checks turned out to be forgeries
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One was the part concerning the forged checks
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Notes were found among Dearling’s possessions that referred to $600,000 he anticipated receiving when two certain checks cleared, but investigators couldn’t understand what had become of them
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The bank, however, had neither record nor memory of any such checks
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Another area that couldn’t be independently confirmed concerned the sixty thousand US dollar loan Brian Walston was supposed to have received from his bank and given to George Dearling as an advance on the missing checks
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He charged the police to investigate more thoroughly the holes in their case and those related to the missing checks, and present their findings at Mr
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“Our investigators are trying to locate two checks for three hundred thousand US dollars each, payable to George Dearling,” he said, folding back a page in his notebook
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Dearling do with those checks?”
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“Did George Dearling speak with you about the checks or the six hundred thousand dollars he expected to receive?”
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Oh, how she wished he would stop going on about those checks! “No,” she answered quickly
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“Maybe you don’t know anything about the checks
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“I told you, I don’t know anything at all about his money or those checks
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“Did this six hundred thousand dollars come from illegal drug sales or from money laundering?” he persisted, unwilling to move off the subject of the checks
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She was to call a number they gave her, in the event that she could supply additional information relative to the murder of George Dearling or any information at all about the checks