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He has a mobile but doesn’t tend to give the number out to all and sundry, preferring to keep a bit of freedom from the perpetual messages that so many of his colleagues have to field as a result of being more profligate with their own mobile telephone numbers
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imagination, preferring the simple sureties of cash in his pocket and the reassurance of
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Smiler rarely ventured down into the burrow world of rabbit Marwan, preferring to leave others more attuned to the rhythms of nature to tend the sick foreign heathen in the basement
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preferring to confine the infinite in a spark, a match head
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One part of the man withdrew, preferring to believe
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ran scared of the whiplash, preferring the safety of distance,
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preferring to confine the infinite
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He shared his home but not his time, preferring, when not down at the pub watching Manchester City flatter to deceive in wide screen glory, to lock himself away in his room with his computers and his cable links to a very private world of digital opportunities
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Ken found company difficult, preferring the routines of parenthood, work and horticulture to the efforts and strains inherent in the pursuit of conviviality and social exchange with his peers
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Jake has a small glass of wine but Katie refuses it, preferring water
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For the last few weeks he had shut out the sounds of life, preferring the solitude of personal contemplation to the banality of human contact, but here in the soft tawny light of the lounge bar at the Red Lion those trivial voices broke through on the back of an ethereal sub tone that slowly built up throughout the evening until, towards closing time, Ken realised that he was listening to the same song being played over and over again on the jukebox
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occupants clearly preferring to use carrier bags, cigarette butts and
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preferring the possibility of death by a thousand cuts to the
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public protest prior to this, preferring to comment quietly from the
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entire weekend with his folks, much preferring the company of his
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preferring to bury himself in his diligent duties at work
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He shared his home but not his time, preferring, when not down
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preferring to listen to the hubble and bubble of rapidly boiling
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had shut out the sounds of life, preferring the solitude of personal
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the smashed set in the living room, preferring the certainty of
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Shaun lives a twilight life, moving through the rock pools and shallows of the Atlantic coast line, selling directly sometimes, but usually preferring to move the merchandise on quietly through his own network of club and playground contacts
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Sometimes it seems to Maggie that he cares more for his Glaswegian protégés than he does for her, but she lets it go, preferring to move another pawn into position
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He hits the main light switch, smothering the bed-sit in darkness and as his eyes adjust slowly, he fumbles for a lamp on top of the fridge, preferring soft shadows at this time of night
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Libby Barrett had no interest in playing Rugby, much preferring the calmer activity of assembling jigsaw puzzles
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angry look, preferring to do this at his own pace and in his
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refused to accept them, preferring the ballad
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They focused the demon wind on speed and strength, preferring to get up close to their opponents and rend them to pieces with their hands
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In his quest for happiness one must always keep an open mind, taking care not to shut off doors preferring one way over the others
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Mercer ignored it, preferring to chastise
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By preferring the support of domestic to that of foreign industry, he intends only his own security ; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain; and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention
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Those systems, therefore, which preferring agriculture to all other employments, in order to promote it, impose restraints upon manufactures and foreign trade, act contrary to the very end which they propose, and indirectly discourage that very species of industry which they mean to promote
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After that day, she was all purrs and affection, preferring to share the attention than to rough it on her own
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Even the birds weren’t chirping much, preferring to nap in the cool tree foliage
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He was a cat man, always had been, preferring their independence to a dog’s need for a pack leader
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This plan was adopted as a compromise between political factions favoring the Popular Vote (states with larger populations) and others preferring a proportionate voice in government or (states with smaller populations)
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When he had suggested his plan to the Elders, they were less than enthusiastic, preferring instead to wait for the Preceptor to attack them and hope that they could negotiate with him
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For this reason, conventional wisdom is oftentimes likely to avoid controversial subjects considered incompatible with the customary and accepted practices of an increasingly sensitive, overly cautious society; preferring to play it safe, instead, by providing pat answers or formulaic responses to difficult questions rather than expressing a ―truthful‖ opinion
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The unending noise in Roller Alley was so bad that some Rollers deliberately deafened themselves, but he’d never had the courage to do that, preferring to stuff cotton wads in his ears instead
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Jacob was of a milder nature, preferring camp life to wildlife
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still avoided Orphenn’s intense eyes, preferring to stare at the crest on his
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The sorcerers never came out to fight him, preferring to send their slaves to do it, but none of them could hurt him
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things preferring dissolution rather than to see the place defiled
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Why would I want to live like Sisyphus: pushing a boulder to the top of the hill, just to find that the boulder has rolled back down to the bottom of the hill, and then pushing the boulder back to the top of the hill, just to find it at the bottom again, and then repeating this cursed cycle forever? A rational being who rejects faith and hope would see the pointlessness of these actions and stop acting, preferring instead nothingness (death?) and an end to the senseless activity
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Preferring to be alone, she passed the path leading to the shelter, deciding instead to go to the boulder overlooking the upper pond
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children, it was noticeable just the same that he didn’t spend very much time in close contact, preferring to discuss the forthcoming dinner party with his wife
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discouraging, she never actively encouraged them, preferring to spend the next eight years or so in a form of social isolation
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Rom 12:10 Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;
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Preferring to live
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again, blatantly lying about what she'd done to me, preferring to
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But despite this settling in, it is interesting that over the years my parents did little shopping in Ithaca, preferring New York City for purchases and medical care
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But Jeannie had lived through enough of our cold winters in the Northeast and passed up acceptance at an Ivy League school, preferring to head south, preferably to University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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their backs to the ring, preferring the company of their
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always did, preferring the convenience of not having to
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He said that with a certain intensity, implying that we will wait while strongly preferring not to, and also implying that we may not wait that long
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29 Not the men only but the very walls and floor seemed to sound out; all things preferring dissolution rather than to see the place defiled
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“Thank you,” he said to the figure next to him, preferring to use the spoken word rather than any form of mind-link
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Instead preferring to be lazy
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Preferring to run and hide
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Always he has been vacillating in his commitment to the stars and gods of Lammas, preferring the clarity of war and known plans to the mysteries Simon has clung to
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Preferring the one-sided phone presided
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she’s curled up on Chantal’s bed, preferring to have as little contact with anyone else unless
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Jacob had never married preferring to take his pleasures wherever he found them and never committing to any relationship on a long term basis
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Master seldom uses those, preferring to kill idiots in the daylight
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The Emperor, his lover and the two Mages quietly left them to it, preferring not to be around when the Empress discovered she was bald
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The headmaster had impatiently refused the offer of a chair, preferring to remain standing awkwardly at one side of the room, gazing in bored abstraction through the open windows to where a game of soccer was in progress
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There could be a case made for preferring amphetamines to that
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with the body, but generally pays but little attention to it, preferring to wait until it has reached a stage where it is more responsive to his efforts
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He passed on eating that evening, preferring a liquid meal instead
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Matthew hated working outside the city, preferring to catch the Underground train and travel independently, but you had to take the work as it came
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They still lived mainly by the chase, since their wilds swarmed with game of all sorts, and the rivers and sea with fish, but they had learned how to plant grain, which they did sketchily, preferring to steal it from their neighbors the Bossonians and Zingarans
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Can gritted his teeth and held his hand out to Elise but she ignored this overture preferring to crawl to a small bush to help herself up and ignored his grunted encouragement
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preferring to stay close to her husband, Rashi
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The off duty guard sat attentively beside May Ling and he refused to eat or drink, preferring to rely on his own supplies, but the young co-pilot was happily mixing with the younger members of the village
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While they were polite to the photographers and occasionally posed for them, they did not answer any questions about their travels preferring to let the reporters draw their own judgments
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preferring the higher canopy of the forest
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forested areas but preferring secondary forests to primary
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He and Lyndon Johnson knew each other and García voted for him, even preferring him to JFK in the 1960 election
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“Okay…” said Joey, still preferring blowing something up
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preferring to stay on the dark side, as if that was going to
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Shirl didn’t want to spoil her bay and wouldn’t allow Murray to shoot at the trees so he gathered together some driftwood and showing Shirl how to load they fired their first cartridges, Murray was stunned by the devastation caused by the sawn off and soon found that the further away you were the less destructive it became, Shirl found that she had very good hand-eye co-ordination and gloried in her new found skill, she soon discarded the sawn off preferring the ten shot automatic, Murray sat on the sand and watched her with the automatic shotgun, after every shot she stepped back a couple of paces and fired again, nine out of ten shots sent driftwood splinters flying in the air, to Murray this was nothing short of amazing and later he told Shirl so
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It was six days later that one of the actors returned with mixed news, two of their company had been killed with throwing spears, but the ruse had worked to such an extent that the warriors would not retrieve the two perfectly good spears preferring to lose them rather than approach the diseased ones
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Then mother put me in the care of our manager, Xsuno, to learn how to cast a spear with the use of the atlatl, which was a length of wood with a spike on the end on which you placed the spear to make your arm longer thereby casting the feathered shaft further, I was impressed by how far I could hurl the spear with the help of this simple device, but try as hard as he could, Xsuno had no success in improving my accuracy and I resigned myself to the fact that I would remain a bowman not a spear thrower, a fact which my mother acknowledged by smacking me on the side of the head and telling me to stop fooling around and concentrate, this was the first time Mother had ever slapped me and the shock of this first taste of discipline concentrated my efforts to win back her praise, after long weeks of scolding and practice, watching in awe the skill displayed by Xsuno, I achieved a modicum of skill with the spear but I was never comfortable with the weapon always preferring my bow
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Soon he was involved in moneymaking schemes, never the front man, preferring to plan and organize others
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So far, they had not seen her, preferring to keep their light away from their eyes, so as not to spoil their night vision
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preferring to accept the lie that they were being properly rectified,
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As per her habit, Nancy ate only moderately then and had only one cup of wine as alcoholic drink, preferring instead to concentrate on socializing with the other guests and their host
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in, preferring to wait in the car
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Harris had his own agenda, preferring to operate in isolation and in total disregard of Allied strategy
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The polite whispers could only betray the true nature of their arrogant comments even though they largely refused to glance in Wickland’s direction, preferring to ignore him and his presence
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mouth to speak but then shut it, preferring this, preferring to be invisible
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However, Roosevelt's service advisers were dubious about its practicability preferring an early and more direct attack against Hitler's Europe
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They were of the view that this diversion to the Mediterranean would only prolong Allied efforts; preferring an early cross-Channel attack to be launched by August or September 1942
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He prided himself with the production figures of the German armaments industry, which he had boosted to an amazing extent; preferring to overlook the fact that the enemy's armaments figures were immensely higher
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It was the type of place that Wickland may have enjoyed in his younger days, but now he was totally turned off by the scene, preferring something quite different as he had grown older
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Third-party support, on the other hand, was slower in coming; game designers, used to the conventional gamepad control sets, had difficulty adapting popular franchises to the heavily motion-based Wii controller, and some didn't bother, preferring instead to concentrate on what they felt to be their core audience on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3