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    1. Most of our first jobs were in sweeping through houses: pest control, looking for suspicious activity, that sort of thing


    2. Everyone stares at their drink, a sort of collective moment of silence for lost loved ones


    3. “What sort of irrelevant question is that? You’re here to feel better, not fish for emotional gifts from me


    4. With this sort of mind-set, retiring, changing jobs, or moving to a smaller place are not likely to significantly reduce stress levels – the stress will be there whether it is imposed externally, or whether you have to manufacture it


    5. I was a sort of surrogate mother to her in her teens and we’d stayed in touch … whenever she had a problem she would ring me


    6. you know the sort of thing?’


    7. Several people thought I should make a scene and throw abuse at them both, but I hate that sort of thing


    8. It was his dream that he would marry and have children … and Dan is a man to make his dreams reality … I think he had some crackbrained idea that he could have the wife and family along with my friendship as well … I daresay he thought I would come to terms with Joanna … after all, she was a friend of mine … it made some sort of sense


    9. They were sort of inspired by riot grrl bands like Bikini Kill, Bratmobile, and Voodoo Queens


    10. Thank goodness I went out that evening … if I had been at home on my own, I’d have been completely minus any sort of alibi …

    11. That Stephen Merrett seems a capable sort of man


    12. but what sort of mess is it going to leave my client in? She works in a school, Mum - one of those big private ones


    13. Once the event occurs our cooperation to authorities, encouraging the younger lot to provide help to the needy, taking some sort of control to prevent theft and arsons, regulate the crowd that usually collects and hampers rescue efforts and the doctors amongst us to provide urgent medical aid are some of the tasks we can take upon ourselves and thus be relevant for the society even at this age


    14. it was totally the wrong sort of gun, of course, but nobody minded that


    15. They had a load of stuff to dress the hall with … you know the sort of thing


    16. “You’re a little late, aren’t you? Isn’t this supposed to be delivered first thing in the morning? While it is morning, it most certainly is not first thing,” Ackers rambled, trying to get some sort of information out of the paper boy while confusing him at the same time


    17. ’ I said slowly, ‘He taught me how to do that sort of thing … not guns, of course …


    18. I know he sort of insinuated that he was interested in you but … oh why is life never simple?


    19. Why not? It’s sort of cute, sort of cool, and a little outdated


    20. It is not often that I see Stephen shaken by a crime – he sees too much of that sort of thing – but this has hit him

    21. ‘You could have a problem letting the house with that sort of problem, Liz


    22. Since then, he has acquired a sort of cult following which surged in the 60’s with the peace and Earth-loving hippies and has continued on into the 80’s and 90’s with New Ager’s buying the bulk of the over million bottles hand packed annually


    23. sort of


    24. ‘What sort of idea?’ he called back, amusement audible in his voice – cheeky so-and-so! ‘Oh, hang on, I’ve nearly finished


    25. ‘She’s mentioned temping though, and, as you say, it would be easier for her to get that sort of thing from here than where she is at the moment


    26. What sort of time do you think you might get here?’ I asked, mollified though not entirely convinced


    27. I say garage, it was more a sort of lean to


    28. ‘I spoke to Emma this morning … she’d got it into her head that I was in some sort of danger


    29. ‘Sort of … the annexe has its own separate entrance


    30. I was reading about it, the army are doing that sort of

    31. It remained without a name plate or any sort of reference


    32. pressure and restore myself to some sort of equilibrium


    33. ‘… sort of … he admitted that it could have been


    34. For Cat, who had never accumulated any sort of ballroom skill in her


    35. It was the sort of voice that aimed a double barrel shotgun at


    36. hands in lap pose of one who always mixed with the finest sort of people


    37. When he and Mary were together in that sort of way,


    38. What sort of information do you fill yourself with?


    39. Later that morning, with Johnny restored to some sort of order, and with firm


    40. Somehow, after my experiences of the previous day, this sort of behavior was almost beginning to feel normal

    41. accounts clerk, the sort of man who is equally hen-pecked and ignored because his


    42. ‘I’ve been thinking about trying to get some sort of live in job


    43. Despite her over the top expressions, she strikes me as being a terrifyingly efficient sort of woman


    44. What sort of hearing?


    45. Adrian seems a sensible sort of man


    46. ’ The man said … is he some sort of doctor? I think he’s wearing a white coat, though that is a bit foggy, more a sort of white blur just out of focus


    47. “Very ingenious,” said the gaoler by way of nervous conversation, “just sort of


    48. any sort of supremacy, although we numbered thousand of millions


    49. Molly didn’t seem to think that he was desperate for kids … that’s it, isn’t it? You feel you are some sort of second class woman because you can’t give the man a child


    50. Nevertheless, who knows what really awaits us after death, to the Other Side? Imagine some sort of aliens waiting there, ready to be fed with strong souls!” Alexander said at a moment, in a rather equivocal manner














































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