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For example, if the testator never knew English but has the will drafted in that language, then it can be contested on the basis that the testator had no idea what he/she was signing
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With that he raised his own glass and toasted the young English couple
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signed copy was in Italian, but his was translated into English
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The secret of writing good English lies in a good match between nouns and adjectives
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And we should not study an English word singly
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An English word must be learned together with other words at the same time
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Stephen’s heavily into the healthy option … we haven’t had a full English for years now
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He switches from Arabic to English
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I thought I heard some foreign, you know? Like east European or something, but then I heard a voice that sounded English so I can't really tell you
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They don't give a dime if I know perfect English and Italian, as well as very good German and Spanish
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As the heat in my soul rose to a combustible level I forgot the rudiments of the English language, reverting to a lingua franca that combined the best of the gutter from East and West
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I tried to speak in my best and most recently learned English accent
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He speaks English and one of his disciples translates his words into Greek
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“I only hope I am not the one who caused this,” he said, and then he tried to make me feel better by revealing to the class that “Yvonne is an unselfish person indeed: she was willing to translate ''Self-knowledge and Metaphysics'' from Greek into English free of charge, she did her best and finished it within a month!”
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Just as I started to get the image into some sort of focus, at the critical moment when I started to remember details about the garden, their clothes and the house, right then the truck would bounce or shake over rough English roads, and these carefully assembled pieces of the picture puzzle would break and scatter
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I called myself every name under this weak English sun, and slapped my face hard to restore full alertness
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Of all the nights that I had spent sleeping under the English sky, this was, I think, the most relaxing
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I remembered a passage from an early English novel, one that I studied at university
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Once the euphoria of the meeting subsided a little, we four settled into the habitual comparisons that dominate male conversation, sharing our stories of capture, and gabbling away ten to the dozen in a mixture of Arabic and English about our shared experiences in the hostage hotels
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What would I have done in this or that situation? How would I react if I found myself facing similar choices? Would I have been as bold as Menachem and entered into a passionate affair with an English woman, a civil servant, just as he had done? Would I have dared to chase a French politician through the streets of Paris to ask that one final question, a question that resulted in Aban spending three days in a French gaol?
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is Professor of English and Creative
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in the cold greyness of a rainy English dawn
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I gave her a wide smile and touched my forehead hoping she would recognise this as an apology and said sorry, in the hope she might speak a little English
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With one arm raised and her head held high, she announced in unexpected, but excellent English, 'This one is good
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but only the English
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I found myself remembering my holidays from boarding school and how Uncle Pantelis would rattle on, telling tales, pointing things out and singing some moody love song or other, mixing Greek and English in the same sentence
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Look at me! I used to teach English there and now I drive this damned van
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1 refer to Ardha-Matsendrasana, called in English the SPINAL TWIST, not a very poetic name for what you will see is a Yogic poem of graceful movement
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It too is English
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He was open and animated, a natural Master of Ceremonies who asked lots of questions about Britain and the Irish, the Welsh, the Scots and couldn't quite understand why everyone with the same language was not English
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'That was taken by English Staff Sergeant in the war
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There were even some in English
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’ He replied – in English this time - the Welsh lilt to his voice charming to hear
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Always nice to hear the English accent way up here in the mountains
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As I approached their table one of the ladies gave me a wide smile and asked loudly, 'Just wondering, how do they say “Thank you” in Greek? My husband said before I left that I aught to bring a phrase book, but you'd think they'd all speak English here, wouldn't you?'
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But first, we must find English donkeys,' he sucked the brandy from his moustache, his otter eyes fluttered closed and his voice fell to a whisper
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He explained that, although new to them all, it was clearly a hybrid from the equatorial regions, a masterful admixture of the new world and the old ways of the English garden
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‘There’s some maths and I have to get started on the English essay as well
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What is also reassuring is that everyone, but everyone, speaks English
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Access to the grounds of the villa is via a pair of wrought iron gates which look very impressive but to be honest the place is slightly run down in the way that Mediterranean properties tend to be – I don’t know if it is the heat or just a cultural difference but they don’t take the pride in their properties that the English do
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“I’m really sorry, I have no idea what you’re asking,” she said in English, then repeated the same statement in Kassidorian
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She noticed the word ‘wooo’ drawn out meant the same in this language as it did in English
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With apologies in English and Kassidorian she crawled back to her seat on the boat
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As they walked to the parking garage, the thirty percent of the ads that were in English told Ava that this had become in some ways the Las Vegas of Europe
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Half the people spoke Minoan, a third spoke Greek, half could speak English, a third could speak French or German, quite a few could speak Russian and quite a few could speak Turkish
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old ways of the English garden
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Someone else appeared at the door, someone who also knew English because he used that to say, “I must be late for the meeting, the discussions have already started
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She must have had the tea things all ready, because she is back within a matter of minutes and we go through the very English social game of pouring the tea and passing the biscuits
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He looked at her like maybe English wasn’t his native tongue
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If it comes off, there may be other commissions … there are lots of organisations like the Foundation which were established through the blood, sweat and sheer determination of individuals, it’s a rather English thing, I think, though I may be wrong there
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She is growing to love his oddly cultured yet innocent use of the English language
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Allcock added a package which contained the American Dictionary of the English Language, Webster-Mahn, Unabridged
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letters in the English and Lyndesfarne alphabets
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the one of the English coast
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When I last had word from a mutual acquaintance of ours as to the current rates of tuition, books, uniforms, room and board, and travel for an English education
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English, Yise had assumed that Tom’s understanding of the other
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Tom knew that the words just used by Briz were the English
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Except this wasn’t English and x and y together don’t
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’ Ben said, ‘As I said, it’s Old English … gone out of use
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One in English and the other in the
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has one copy and its in English
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the idea was that we would learn shorthand (in both English and French), typing (ditto), business law, office practice and, in our spare time so to speak, translate the French equivalent of White Papers for a bit of language practice
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Write the verses in English, please
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He was, truth be told, very much looking forward to his first English Christmas---with Boxing Day, Carols, Crackers, Father Christmas, and at Clive House, Hogmanay
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He desperately wanted to write down the English equivalent but he worried that Desa might still get a look at that sheet sometime
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While she understood little of the written old English, it was clear that the letter was from her parents, and went so far as to point out the tradition by which she’d inherited the items included with the money
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In plain English, I'd like to see you and we have plenty of time to spend together
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He spoke in old English, and the clothing he wore looked a lot like the pictures she’d seen of the Amish
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screams came over the monitor, some of them in English and some in Arabic
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They sent me an additional questionnaire asking all sorts of personal questions – like how often we write? how often we phone?, do you speak English?, what do my parents think of the idea?, when we got engaged?, and would I be willing to live in Hong Kong? I answered all the questions without telling them it was none of their damn business and I resented our privacy being invaded
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They were high school girls and the students in this program are University level students mostly from Saudi Arabia who come here to go to Incarnate Word University and learn English as a Second Language
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I told Pat I'd prefer to have a student who is going to go to Incarnate Word University to study English
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His English was very good and I told him I'd be happy to have him come out and see if he would like living in my house and see if I would like him living in my house because it has to be a 50-50 proposition
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His friend I believe whose name was Mohammed called me and said that Faheed from Saudi Arabia would like to come out and see my house and would it be all right if Mohammed and his cousin came out with them because Faheed did not speak the best English
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Aziz from Saudi Arabia and Mohammed who basically was doing some translating for Aziz from Saudi Arabia because his English is not quite as good as Mohammed's said they would talk it over with Pat, remember the lady was in charge of the home stay program? Pat was also Aziz of Saudi Arabia's teacher so I guess Pat also teaches at the English as a Second Language Program at Incarnate Word University which I didn't know
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So I am thinking what the heck is going on here? I call my wife and I said I'm still waiting over at Jim's for student from Saudi Arabia who was interested in staying with us while he's attending the English as a Second Language Program
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I'll drive the three of you, Abdul was there to translate for his friend that didn't speak English as well as Abdul and then their cousin came along
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With headsets on and in flawless English the team went about their duties
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They pay for living in your house when they're at the English as Second Language Program and the extra money would really help me because my daughter and my granddaughter and other people spent a lot of my money
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What a horrible, mean sadistic, use of the English language by Sister Alice to me that day that hurt very, very deeply
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How does a child learn English? They listen to it until it makes sense
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of English, but was friendly and patient with my awful
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If his other languages were as good as his English,
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English, and the same would have occurred even if we’d
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presumed that the man spoke no English and was
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explained - in broken English – the history of the
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medical term and a word of English
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astonishing, given that the man spoke no English and
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This, perhaps, is nearly the present state of Bengal, and of some other of the English settlements in the East Indies
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But English corn must be sold dearer in Scotland, the country to which it is brought, than in England, the country from which it comes; and in proportion to its quality it cannot be sold dearer in Scotland than the Scotch corn that comes to the same market in competition with it
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The quality of grain depends chiefly upon the quantity of flour or meal which it yields at the mill ; and, in this respect, English grain is so much superior to the Scotch, that though often dearer in appearance, or in proportion to the measure of its bulk, it is generally cheaper in reality, or in proportion to its quality, or even to the measure of its weight
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The great property which they possess both in French and English funds, about forty millions, it is said in the latter (in which, I suspect, however, there is a
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‘So the English army’s nearby, eh?’ said Jean as they
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His father, Charles Altamont Doyle was English of Irish descent, and his mother, born Mary Foley, was Irish
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Although the school was situated in buildings that were in excess of five hundred years old, it was a model of the modern private school or, as the English called it, a public school
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Unlike the usual English public school, Biggleswich promoted freethinking and a more modern approach to discipline
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It was a fine silver cased English pocket watch about eighteen fifty with a lovely enameled landscape on the reverse side
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What is there called the quintal, weighs from a hundred and fifty to two hundred Paris pounds, or a hundred and seventy-five Paris pounds at a medium, which reduces the price of the hundred weight English to about eight shillings sterling; not a fourth part of what is commonly paid for the brown or muscovada sugars imported from our colonies, and not a sixth part of what is paid for the finest white sugar
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Both Patrick and Dom left the room and, less than a minute later, the banshee like howl of an old Second World War air raid siren shattered the clear English air
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The English sun was low and feeble, the rays washing the foliage of the surrounding forest with subtle yellows and oranges
