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(This may also explain as to why men are reluctant to ask for directions when lost, why men are more vulnerable to the adverse health effects of stress, and why women enjoy a significantly longer life expectancy than men do)
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"I know, that's another reason I'm reluctant to add to the crew and another reason I wish we could move with some haste
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I don’t feel safe here any more and, reluctant though I am to admit it, I am really pleased that Molly is here with me
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He was reluctant to speak
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A buzzer sounds on his desk and he half rises, clearly reluctant to leave me on my own
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Don’t know any garages round here … there is one in the village, but I’m reluctant to try it in case they’re a cowboy organisation
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Jaseem had been reluctant to talk much about his mortal life
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There were boundaries that he was reluctant to cross
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Herndon had always thought there was a side of Ernesto that was reluctant to send the code for that virus back to the homeland
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JJ has been most unwell and I am reluctant to send him across alone
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Sighing and strangely reluctant to let it go, I hand it to Wiesse
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JOYCE: I understand you were reluctant to file the charges
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reluctant to stir, and, head bowed,
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stone, the ever reluctant stoic
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reluctant to approach women in bars or night clubs because of their connotations
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Kelvin was reluctant to give up the enemy that he knew, but after his private meeting he had come around and Thom's experiments were getting a lot more attention
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reluctant brother, who was in no hurry to emerge
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this inherited anger that was making him reluctant to
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drag the reluctant young girl towards his home as he spoke
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And teaching his reluctant son the ways of war
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A message had been received she was told by a reluctant ensign
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Ken and a reluctant Alan began to lay
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‘Found anything else of interest?’ he asked, clearly reluctant to put the phone down
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‘I’ll read it to you, shall I?’ I offered, reluctant to give it up
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Billy suddenly wants to end the conversation, but he is reluctant to let Bex flex her bright young wings
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He could have returned the needleboat on their way to the Kassikan and got more than two coppers back, but he was reluctant to do so
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reluctant to engage in much conversation, although Tom was not sure
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-Socially uninvolved -Probably stubborn and reluctant to take direction
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She had been very conscious of her health and very reluctant to take drugs when he knew her
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It took him a moment to manipulate the keys and open the message – his fingers were stiff in the chilly morning air and reluctant to work
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He could tell by the way she was so reluctant to come here and denied so vehemently that she was trying to prevent it
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He let that linger awhile, then answered, “Why you seemed reluctant to come here
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“After one sleep together,” he said, “I’m reluctant to wait a whole week before spending another with you
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The three men were clearly reluctant to leave the kitchen at the end of the meal
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Unfortunately it was some guy up beyond Chardovia and she was reluctant to go back up there and chase that down so soon
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She roots around in the cupboard grumpily, reluctant to carry out the chore … she so wants to get on with the painting
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Buttworst said, his eyes maintaining contact with the reluctant janitor
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The answer, however reluctant, is given with hazard warning lights and the whine of a transmission in reverse
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‘We don’t want to keep you longer than we have to, Mr Simthwaite, but you’ll appreciate that we are reluctant to let you disappear too soon
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Step by reluctant step, she was driven, herded almost, forced back along the corridor to the bedroom where, pushing the door open with blind hands, she had almost fallen backwards into the room
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I nodded a reluctant yes
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seemed reluctant to help
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before we surface and come to the reluctant conclusion that he really had better go back to the Vicarage
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He would not restrict his investigations to female, since Ava was reluctant enough to couple that she might have been male in the past life
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But she was not reluctant enough to couple that she might have been an electric crystal in her past life
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Roman walked in, his reluctant steps seeming never to catch up to mine
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considered approaching the man himself, but was reluctant
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Johnson inhaled a reluctant breath but said nothing
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said she was reluctant to come at all, but he managed to
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reluctant as I was to put anything in my mouth that Carl considered fine dining, I
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thought he’d have been reluctant to tell you all this
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Henri had been reluctant to
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‘And?’ Marcel shrugged and was clearly reluctant to
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We were reluctant to head north when the time
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reluctant to leave the security of our apartment and head
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Besides their speech twizz, they seemed reluctant to divulge anything about the person they were trying to find
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do), and the reluctant man bundled the unwanted
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Alfred was reluctant to answer
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They had worked for her in the past and she was part of the reason Klowa was a little reluctant to come here
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the hunched shoulders of their reluctant companions, and
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Klowa was reluctant to leave Luray to Zlifonn if she did show, but he just couldn't sit in the office for the whole day
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They were reluctant to show the visitors to
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Jacques was still reluctant to abandon his friend, but
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this God-forsaken place and he was reluctant to travel
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I could tell she had something important to say, but was reluctant
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She dreamed of reciting this to Homer, watching his haughty lips creep up with reluctant
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He was not accustomed to the physical punishments of overindul-gence and given this, it irritated him as much as it made him extremely reluctant to leave his bed
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" He looked at Griffiths, who seemed almost reluctant to accept the horrible truth, that a snitch really had infiltrated his ranks
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As I recall, you weren’t the least bit reluctant to do the same to mine
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He did not speak, but instead groaned in reluctant agreement
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Danny had to push the words through his reluctant vocal cords and out into the cold world beyond
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He was reluctant to let her go but we both saw the truth of it
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Roidon Chanley, though, did share a common view that their B’tari overseers were too reluctant to take the necessary action, hamstrung as they were by the increasingly irrelevant doctrine of the Temporal Directive
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” He pulled at a reluctant donkey
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To her amazement it switched on, the screen illuminating to show a warning prompt, informing her that it too had lost network connection, she switched it off but kept holding it, reluctant to drop it back into the salty water
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Herod was reluctant, but he had made the promise
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of stewards at the start line with a reluctant horse, but Danny wasn't moving
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I knew he was reluctant to bring foreign aid into the matter, and that he
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in a huff, dragging a reluctant Joseph with her as the piper had
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Jean was reluctant to speak with him alone, but her heart made the decision for her
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“I wasn’t reluctant to get married
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“Elizabeth thinks she’s involved and she was very reluctant to tell us
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Besides, she found herself reluctant to die to protect Hollowcrest’s anonymity
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“Surgeon Darrik was reluctant to speak his findings to you, but he confided in me
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Amaranthe darted into the establishment, suspecting her male followers would prove reluctant to step inside
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was reluctant to take from the thousand I had stashed in my sock, but I was able to
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And to make absolutely certain we jumped (whatever way we pleased as long as we held our feet nicely together to protect our crown jewels), another PT Sergeant stood beside us waiting to toss the reluctant ones off if they showed signs of not wanting to die young
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Remembering the last time that we used police dogs—an event that made defence lawyers richer than usual, we were reluctant to do the same thing again
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Soon a reluctant shuffling of footsteps grew audible
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Brock, reluctant to interrupt the Healer's private musings, watched the antics of two squirrels chasing one another up and down a nearby tree
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“Maybe a stop by the infirmary would be a good idea first,” she amended with a reluctant sigh
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Broshee shivered, reluctant to move, her courage deserting her now that it was time to leave
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I indicated to Minister Lyle that I was leaving, and Vera helped me stand up, supporting me as I had to force my reluctant body to move
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It would be the quickest way but he was reluctant to take it, especially as the sky was so overcast
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This makes us very reluctant to trust you with information for we became a bit cynical
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For example, a child may be reluctant to part (at any price) with a prized baseball card of his favorite sport hero
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Soffen was reluctant to enter its dark portal at first, but having no other way of reaching the opposite bank, was left with little choice
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Sadly, a number of priests are reluctant, it seems, to challenge modernist viewpoints for fear of alienating their parishioners leery of a church presently under indictment by the courts of public opinion
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” Sarah nodded her head in reluctant approval
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Cowl appears reluctant to endorse because of ―cultural differences‖ that have (historically) precluded a level playing field