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He sat up in the bed and looked around.
She sat down on the bed and sighed again.

I'll be sure to send it to you.
I'll send it off to find out.

I spend my life protecting you.
Well, he did spend a lot of time with his mother.

I lose some cattle every year.
What could he do about it but lose more sleep?

How much would you pay for that pan today?
A curse on you who disrupt the master's plans; you will pay dearly when the time of reckoning finally arrives!

I only want to see whether you will let me win this ten, or beat it.
I can win him over.

Just follow the step-by-step instructions, which will guide you through the questionnaire.
One procedure for diagnosing children aged 24 to 36 months asks parents to complete a standardized questionnaire in which they check off the vocabulary the child knows and write down examples of the child's two-word sentences.

How could he do such a thing to his own children?
It was a strange thing for a man to say.

If you break it, you replace it.
Are you opposed to a break now and then?

Hopefully, she could get her job at the diner.
We can handle this job by ourselves.

I prefer to work on my terms.
"I prefer," he said with a smile.

Well, the traditional roles of men and women have changed in the last generation.
Without traditional beauty, he was still handsome in a raw, dangerous way.

I didn't get any curtains or furniture yet.
They had moved the antique furniture out of her old downstairs room and put it upstairs months before he was born.

A biography was published by Le Laboureur, Histoire du mareschal de Guebriant, in 1656.
There is no good modern biography of Maecenas.

In a few more weeks she could make a routine visit to the doctor.
Still she continued the ordinary routine of her duties and occupations.

It was totally out of character for her.
"Every country has its own character," said he.

He thanked me and went about his daily business.
There is daily steam communication (often interrupted in bad weather) with Civitavecchia from Golfo degli Aranci (the mail route), and weekly steamers run from Cagliari to Naples, Genoa (via the east coast of the island), Palermo and Tunis, and from Porto Torres to Genoa (calling at Bastia in Corsica and Leghorn) and Leghorn direct.

What causes historical events?
I see us today in a situation like those historical ones.

Pick an adjective from the title.
It is important to study the various adjective forms.

It's a very small window.
The small birds were singing softly.

He put her answer down in his note book.
Alex didn't answer and it went to his voice mail, so she left a message.

"Let me see something," he said, striding to where his desk was.
She made her way to the notebook near the desk phone.

There was shopping and packing to be done before they left on vacation.
There isn't much to tell.

She was beginning to relax when he launched the question.
Relax, I've got this.