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Do you see how those four words: can't, always, never, and try, start out as thoughts in your head and then they become real because you say them, you declare them and you bring them into existence
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It appears as though plant fats have plenty of health benefits
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’ He said in a matter of fact voice, as though he were telling me there were no more biscuits
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Instinctively, I reach out as though to take it … drawing my hand back swiftly as I realise what I am doing, and clasping it with my other hand as though it had been burned
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’ He said, pausing as though collecting his thoughts
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’ He said slowly, looking at me over his spectacles as though assessing what he saw
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I see the Inspector look at him as though weighing him up
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’ He stares at the wall behind my head as though trying to work something out
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Odd, I can’t see him as a family man … but Stephen says he was desperate for children … so terribly sad about the baby … who could shoot a pregnant woman? The thought makes me shiver suddenly; there’s someone out there who took a gun, loaded it and shot Joanna Sadler in the back deliberately and then tried to make it look as though Liz Wynell had done it
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Stephen is hovering as though he wants to make tracks
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’ I said, feeling just as though I have woken up after a bad dream … all shaky and unsure of what is real and what is not
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He pauses for a moment as though debating with himself before answering
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· Dharma includes all external deeds, as well as thoughts and other mental practices that tend to elevate the character of a man
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’ Stephen went on, almost as though he is working it all out in his own head
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Stephen materialises just after eleven looking as though he slept in his clothes
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warp of the fibres as though they were pores, and David shivered with delight
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Stephen stares at the screen as though completely immersed in the subject under discussion
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There was a pause, as though she was answering him, and then he replied, “I
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He always hated being told but, invariably, by the time we had argued it through a couple of times, he came round to my suggestion, pouncing on it as though it was a new idea he had just had
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felt, now that she was voicing her private thoughts, as though the weight of the world
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’ He replied, straightening his back and glaring at me as though I have insulted him
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It was as though he were the child and I the hard-nosed
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Ajarn was one of the best there was and while he handled his mai sak and khem sak, the bamboo and metal ritual tattoo sticks, as though he were about to commit murder with them, the designs were as perfect and fine as medieval calligraphy
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exposed wood shaving floor of her tin cell yard, feeling as though she ran under the
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Cat felt as though she was being lifted
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as though he’s a moron, why not lighten the load, free your mind and spirit, let loose
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‘Makes it sound as though it was deliberately planned
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The Garda took the small laminated card and held it far away from his eyes, peering, as though at a mystery
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not to be affected by people’s reactions; call things that are not as though
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who could charm the stars into existence as though he were dressing a Christmas tree
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Thicke stopped in the tiny entrance as though wedged into place
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looked as though they had been left untended for a century
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things that are not as though they were
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He sat and made stupid faces for a moment or two, as though manually grinding the gears in his head
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What trouble could Peter have been in? But he was half smiling, his head turned a little to one side, looking at me sideways, as though willing me gently to come clean, to myself as well as to him
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’ He said frowning as though trying to get the facts right
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‘Looks as though you have scraped the door on something sharp
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Whoever was banging on the front door of my house sounded as though they wanted to bash a hole in it
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How odd, he thought, it sounds as though I’m being locked in
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He hesitates for a moment as though uncertain whether he should go on with whatever it is he is planning on saying
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’ I answered firmly, but she looks across at me as though assessing how true my statement might be
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It was though all
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It’s almost as though she’s waiting for the next blow to fall
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do not exist as though they did
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’ I replied, biting back the rude retort which is on the tip of my tongue … how dare he make it sound as though I yo-yo all over the place! ‘At least that is my intention
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’ He said, pursing his lips as though this is a disadvantage
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The Countess appeared to hesitate, looking around the taverna as though
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Gradually, I turn the conversation and she tells me about the meal she had with Stephen; sounds to me as though my son was doing his best to divert her from what she says
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‘It’s not as though nobody knows where I am … I’ll have my mobile with me
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Aston Martin swept spray and stones out from under its wheels as though the driver
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‘Mrs Wynell … is Sadler in the house?’ Inspector Ditton asked, materialising as though by magic at my side
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little specimen, as though they were joined by an invisible umbilical cord
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They’ve taken him down to the station now but it looks as though there’s a pretty good chance he’ll be declared insane
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“It’s not as though it makes any
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Stephen is silent for a moment as though annoyed about this
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There were some fresh, raw Sak Yant markings protruding from under his wide, upturned collar and he moved a little carefully as though still in pain from the work
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the town, as though the imminence of winter was more profoundly announced away
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seemed almost frail, as though it could not carry the burden of terror that forever
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“It is not as though you are alone, Michael”, they had said
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Smith had what we might recognise as thoughts, but He had no
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As though things weren't bad enough I had to deal with that as well
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I see Emma watching him closely as though weighing him up
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Emma was a bit cagey with Stephen when she first got here, as though she was weighing him up – not surprising really, she’s very protective of her mother – but she seemed reasonably happy by the time she left
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The question was though, would the heavy come back with his boss, with a baseball bat, or with both? Either way it wouldn't be easy
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looks as though someone up there is on Liz’s side at any rate
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’ Stephen says quietly as though reading my mind
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‘Looks as though Harvey might get landed with the job of defending him
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Exodus 5:2 as though he was the supreme monarch of the universe and there is no
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The night was long and we were young and this was an occasion for a special bottle or two, for the saved and revered whisky, a drink that I had slowly grown accustomed to during my residence, and one that always left me feeling as though I had spent the night with my head next to a camel’s rump
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I felt rough fibres catching at the corners of my mouth as though I were being force fed a winding sheet, and then, as stars started to explode across my eyelids, I realised with a flood of relief that my head and shoulders were still covered by the sacking
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It felt slightly greasy, as though other heads had lain upon it
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The guard spoke with a slight burr, as though he had been chain-smoking all night
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Now that I was outside of the cell he seemed palpably nervous, as though my movement across the threshold somehow threatened his safety
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It seemed to me as though all the other lads were off having adventures and there was me, stuck at home
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No matter how tired I was though, the play of image, anger, self pity and bleak determination ran unremittingly through the hours
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It felt as though Smiler was going to push the gun barrel right through my skull
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He delighted in nudging me in the side as he helped me back from the shower, as though he were a five-year-old boy prodding a caged animal with a sharp stick
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Goodness knows where I drag it from, but I muster a smile and go in to chat to them as though nothing at all is wrong
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I feel a little better after this emotional ‘cleansing’, as though I have buried the whole thing with Andy and can move on
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I felt as though the air that he and I breathed together in my small cell was somehow sanctified, was in some way more fresh and sweet than at other times
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At one point, I am nearly tearing my hair out as it looks as though we are going to have three speakers appearing on the same day with nothing for the rest of the month of February … however, in the end, by dint of a lot of pleading and a little manipulation, I get it sorted out
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He didn’t stand in the doorway as though he might catch some ideological disease from the infidel
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Through those repetitions of days with Smiler on duty, I sat on the mattress and watched the world spin away from me as though I were floating above a stage set
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‘Sounds as though you need a day off, especially after the last couple of days
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There were no external points of reference in my life any more I felt as though I was the dumb-struck aboriginal grasping desperately for meaning as the explorers walked up the beach, taking their first colonial steps towards empire
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My life is balanced on the tip of a pin and she just runs the box past her scanner as though it was a bag of onions … it is almost funny
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He looked as though he might be mid-thirties, clean-shaven, short brown hair
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He says he has thought a lot during these seven months we haven't met, he has changed his way of life, and he wants to see me again
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As though in confirmation of his words, he makes a point of hanging around at the end of the session to clear the chairs for me – for which I am grateful
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I lit a candle and a cigarette and lay with my ear to the pipe, feeling as though I were worthless
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‘You sound as though you regret the …
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‘Get used to the idea, Kate – it’s not as though we were going out with each other and you were unfaithful to me – this Andy situation predates us
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At times I felt as though I could burst through the fabric of the building, but I always came back to the same singular realisation
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He seemed to be taking much longer about his duties this morning while I felt as though I had a piece of phosphorus in my trouser pocket
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My universe was quiet again, an unholy quiet, as though gravity had flipped out of existence
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I thought it a form of madness at first, a splitting of myself across an endless coastal landscape: as though I was drifting in and out of the range of my own muffled hearing
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I was, to be frank, a pain in the arse, a wet blanket of the dampest order, and I felt as though there would never be an end to the digging of the shallow grave that held what was left of my worthless life
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Aban ignored his cell-mate and continued to speak as though Beniamin was not really there
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The Man helped Robbie to his feet and dusted him down, as though nothing untoward had happened
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The girl visibly gathered her courage together, fiddling with the spoon in her saucer for a moment as though rehearsing the words she wanted to say