I was invited to appear, under my hastily improvised pseudonym, in a London heat in mid-May. |
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I hastily kit up, armed with my trusty Nikon RS, dive buddy, a ski pole and a dash of fish-oil on our wetsuits for good measure. |
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Writing fees are paltry and scripts are poorly researched, hastily developed and under-rehearsed. |
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An order was hastily placed with a local chippie for 55 haggis and chips and was almost met, falling just two suppers short. |
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In return, her two children went to hastily organized sleepovers that will spill into today, which allows her to return to work today. |
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He knew where the meeting area was to be, and hastily rolled up the map and slipped it back under the folds of his mantle. |
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Her face whitened and she put it back on the table hastily, slopping a little of the liquid out. |
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And then, almost as if on cue, the doorbell rang, and hastily placed her bookmark in the book and jumped up to answer the door. |
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This gave me time to bop him on the nose to get him off me and hastily escape before he came back for more. |
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He glanced at the screen and then did a double-take, hastily opening the comm channel to Air Command. |
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Joe nodded hastily and snapped his goggles back over his eyes, covering the two rings of unsoiled flesh they had left when he first lifted them. |
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Canvas tents and hastily assembled lean-tos disappeared in favor of nylon tents complete with metal poles and nylon stakes. |
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He threw his binder into his locker and hastily locked the combination lock back on. |
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She stood up, too hastily, all of a sudden interested in neatening the bed she had left unmade for days. |
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As he held the classified section toward me, I noticed a hastily drawn line circling one of the ads. |
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When the fighting died down, the Confederates hastily constructed breastworks to protect their gains. |
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Now it is a frontier town, a burgeoning collection of tents and hastily built breeze-block cantonments. |
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She snatched her housecoat off the hook on the back of her door and hastily slipped it on. |
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Beth hastily pulled on her nightdress, while Louis frantically rummaged around for his pyjama trousers. |
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And thus ends my hastily improvised day, which I couldn't have planned any better. |
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So literally, four Dutchmen turned up, and beds were hastily set up in a disused Nissen hut on the site. |
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He held out a package wrapped hastily in brown paper, and she pulled up the edge and peeked inside. |
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All of a sudden bubbles were flying everywhere as James jumped out, grabbed a towel and wrapped it hastily around his waist. |
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He splashed the liquid in the container over the couch and hastily returned to his car. |
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Brianna suppressed a choke of laughter as the two boys stumbled into the room and hastily shut the door. |
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Such layering makes the painting inaccessible to anyone responding to it hastily or superficially. |
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Schilling hastily stuffed a box full of items for her to auction at the tournament. |
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I pulled out the piece of paper from my pocket where I had hastily stuffed it. |
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He went to his locker, snagged some of his things and stuffed them hastily inside his large duffel bag. |
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Young and the others hastily stuffed a purifier into each nostril and inhaled some much needed fresh air. |
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I hastily stuffed three more forkfuls in my mouth, waiting for him to answer. |
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I asked Sarza as she hastily stuffed water bottles, napkins, and granola bars into a tote bag. |
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She hastily scribbled something down, and then stuffed the pad into a drawer in the kitchen. |
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Exhausted, he slowed to a walk, hastily knocking tree limbs out of his way and gasping for air. |
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Several times we had to hastily rise up our feet as the raging bull was getting too close for comfort. |
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A battle-ravaged legion could have only two maniples, a hastily reorganised one could have ten. |
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A young, arrogant veterinarian unable to concentrate on the needs of animals hastily euthanizes an ill horse. |
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She packed up her books and hastily stuffed them in her bag, walked out the hall and headed straight for the door. |
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But the victims moved into hastily built shelters nearby and caused him aggravation for at least four years. |
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Charging for waste disposal was one idea he threw out before hastily saying that that was not Tory policy. |
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Cale waved sadly as Biorman reboarded the ship and the hatch hastily closed. |
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He lingered in the doorway and waited as she hastily fastened the laces and tied the anklet around her heel. |
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The hastily lowered ladder leaned at the back, looking as though it would come crashing down at any moment. |
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I hastily finished laying the fire before going down below the stairs to the kitchen. |
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Colbert hastily collected the old men and boys of the tribe, and ambuscaded the Creeks so successfully that not one of them escaped. |
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Norfolk died in January 1476, and John the Elder hastily moved to reoccupy Caister Castle, as a letter from John the Younger indicates. |
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I beamed and hastily, but gently, slipped on the engagement ring onto her ring finger. |
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The product was hastily withdrawn from the market and all 2,000 copies had to be pulped. |
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When the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, a new leadership hastily jettisoned the Party's name, and soon began to repudiate most of its past. |
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Lucas hastily stuffed his drawings back into their folder and the folder disappeared into his backpack again. |
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A sob caught in her throat and she masked it, hastily dragging on the cigarette in quick, short puffs. |
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Improvising hastily, the papal legate Guala is said to have crowned the new king with a chaplet of flowers. |
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Therese curtsied, oblivious to Hannah's searching gaze, and hurried to the kitchen, hastily retying her apron, and adjusting her hair. |
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At Harrogate, the hosts were put in to bat on a new strip hastily prepared because the intended pitch had been flooded by Friday's deluge. |
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He hastily recited his life insurance policies and employee bonus programmes. |
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They backtracked hastily and asked simply to be able to publish a prompt response. |
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Mary finished her porridge, swallowing the mush hastily before grabbing her overcoat and heading for the door. |
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The train approaches platform three, and I have an opportunity to hastily grab a photo before it stops. |
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They hastily gathered three bishops to lay hands on the archdeacon as his successor. |
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Emma felt uneasy under the close observation of those pale blue orbs and hastily looked away. |
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Hearing voices in the entrance hall, Beth hastily tugged down her nightgown and crept into bed, arming herself with a book as an effective prop. |
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At a hastily arranged briefing in Brussels, the document's authors appeared to row back. |
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In the popular Revolution bar and club on Belmont Street, a hastily extinguished cigarette was lying on the floor in the ladies' loos. |
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When the tub was full, Alicia hastily stripped off and sank down into it, savouring the sensation of hot, clean water prickling her skin. |
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Apart from hastily built apartment blocks, there is no real sense of community in any newly gentrified city area. |
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Tairesu winced slightly at his brother's tone and packed his daypack more hastily. |
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Snatching my hand away from his hastily, I quickly composed myself to stand up. |
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Central to the work is a big fir tree defined by hastily applied daubs of paint. |
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What is obvious at present is that the committee seems to be acting too hastily. |
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Keen to dampen down any rumours and to reassure staff that all's well, he tapped out a hastily written memo to his staff using his Blackberry. |
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In December he had sat stunned at a hastily organised and crowded press conference at Heathrow airport. |
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She rushed to the nearest telephone booth outside that infamous university and hastily dialed Matt's number. |
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However, they've just been hastily reinstalled pending further legal decisions. |
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That was rather garbled and hastily thrown together, but we will return with him. |
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He almost choked on his meat but managed to stifle his sudden reaction to her statement with a hastily gulp of water. |
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The marines had been hastily deployed to evacuate British nationals from the anarchy. |
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That morning, Nick had woken him at five thirty exactly, forcing him to wolf down a hastily made power breakfast. |
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Luke took Hailey's hand in his, and the two hastily flew down the stairs and out of the lighthouse. |
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The bedclothes fell away to reveal a soft, flannel nightgown, and she wondered hastily where her evening gown was. |
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He hastily scribbled an apologetic note and left it on Pierre's sleeping form. |
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I opened it and found a hastily scribbled note smudged in places by water droplets. |
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After the collapse, I hastily bowed out and retired for a mug of hot, milky, sugary coffee. |
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The show was put together rather hastily, in a bid to raise moral and material support for the artist who is ailing. |
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Cory hastily drained the bottle, recapped it and laid it in the barrow, then seized the handles. |
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Her eyes went round as saucers at that thought that came out of nowhere, and hastily ducked her head, hoping her hair covered her flaming cheeks. |
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Some of the villagers went into a panic, and hastily threw some clothing on and tried to run. |
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But he also argued it would throw Myanmar into confusion similar to that in Indonesia now if democracy movements were pushed for too hastily. |
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I hastily pulled its deep plum colored wool around my shoulders and clasped it as I ran down the stairs. |
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The pilots in the briefing theater stood hastily, all battle fatigue now gone. |
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The bluff was called and it was game back on as players hastily deserted favourite watering holes. |
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But I know that moving in a universe operating on Balkan time, no question should be answered too hastily, and without deep contemplation. |
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Quickly scanning the table in front of me, I began hastily withdrawing serviettes from the dispenser to my right. |
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Instead it gives the audience small doses of emotion and hastily toughens up the typical abused young woman. |
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However, as it turned out in practice the hastily drafted law leaves many problems hanging in mid-air. |
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I yelled as the freezing water soaked me, and I hastily scrambled out, toweling myself dry. |
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The park was dotted with children in uniforms, running from pillar to post, hastily jotting down squiggles in their little notebooks. |
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The column was probably produced hastily, perhaps during what may have been a bibulous Christmas Day. |
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I do not know whether any members have picked up off the table his amendment in hastily scrawled handwriting. |
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Hence the Cambodians were hastily moved to remote Port Hedland, with overflow facilities at the even more remote Curtin airbase near Derby. |
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The rebels had even hastily built a shipyard station to repair damaged ships. |
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The more polite inflictor of this mildly embarrassing situation will usually hastily strafe away in a breakneck fashion. |
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After stripping off his shorts and undershirt, Adrian rinsed himself off and dried off hastily. |
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Deciding that I didn't have time for a shower, I simply washed my face with cold water and then hastily applied fresh makeup. |
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It's the result of a messy political process, reflecting a bitterly divided Congress and hastily crafted compromises. |
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The vehicles park side by side, the brides are hastily exchanged, and the cars head home to the waiting grooms. |
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I thought that I must be mistaken, that they were blown by the wind, but again I bent to touch one, and saw it hop hastily away. |
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Every one scattered and began hastily pounding on the rock walls with their picks. |
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Unfortunately, the problems Mike has had to deal with are skimmed over in a hastily produced final chapter. |
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She was met at the entrance of her rooms by her maid, who gasped in shock at the sight of the slight figure in her ghost-white nightgown, and hastily forced her back in. |
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Most had been sketchily catalogued, but many of the boxes seemed to be hastily packed jumbles of everything from cocktail napkins and concert programs to medical reports. |
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The meeting was hastily arranged because time was of the essence. |
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And while there now are blood reserves lining hospital shelves, Dudley said the nonprofit is hastily approaching a crisis. |
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They dressed hastily, got their weapons and hastily repacked their bags. |
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Chen was hastily assigned a public defender who didn't have time to familiarize himself with Chen's case. |
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Earth and timber fortifications were hastily erected, whether in motte-and-bailey or in ringwork form, in new areas during the eleventh and twelfth centuries. |
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With his rust bucket still sputtering in neutral, he marched up and down the dirt parking lot, hastily stapling surf-film posters on wooden electricity poles. |
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Finally reaching an empty table by the window, she sat down hastily. |
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It sails smoothly throughout the majority of the running time but by the last few tracks, there is a feeling that things were wrapped up too hastily. |
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This week Weiner addressed the new revelations at a hastily called press conference. |
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Faces half covered, long curving scimitars sheathed at their sides, they walked along the narrow, trodden path, from which all onlookers hastily cleared. |
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With the pitch already booked but no one to play, word reached the Lashings pub, where a scratch team was hastily put together among staff and regulars. |
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He hastily scrawls a message on his class schedule and sends his letter. |
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I had left her a hastily scrawled note about Ginger being sick. |
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He began to drink heavily, left London in 1914, and spent the rest of his life roaming around Ireland, living off meagre earnings from hastily scribbled articles and stories. |
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As Mom drove and rattled on endlessly about how wonderful her high school years were, I studied my class schedule which I hastily scotch-taped to the cover of my binder. |
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He turned round hastily and made a beeline straight for the door. |
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He hastily opened the missal and started the opening prayer. |
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She tacked up Hope hastily and led her quickly to the mounting blocks. |
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A hastily and unscientifically convened focus group of 14-year-olds at a youth centre in the Pilton area of Edinburgh confirmed the experts' view. |
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But in spite of the good intentions of the workers, the structure was unsubstantially and hastily constructed on low moist ground and without good cement. |
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His shirt was untucked and messy with the buttons done hastily. |
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They hastily crept through the halls, towards the bridge of the ship. |
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She slid her nail along the top to open it and pulled out a single sheet of paper with a drawing and a sentence hastily scribbled along the bottom. |
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In a panic reaction, the government placed a hastily drafted bill in the assembly which was passed soon after with a voice vote without any discussion. |
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In addition the Normans reused existing defensive works such as the ruinous Saxon Shore forts, and also hastily constructed earthworks around camps and forts. |
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They are out of date and should be hastily consigned to the scrap heap. |
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The strength of local feeling was such that they were hastily withdrawn. |
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I hastily stuffed the blouse and skirt into the plastic bag Terry brought. |
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I copied down the words and hastily stuffed the paper in my pocket. |
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Guided by popular media reports, we may hastily conclude that doctors, by overprescribing antibiotics for people, are solely to blame for growing resistance. |
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The meeting was hastily summoned to resolve the dispute over the promotional rights of the tournament when two Cape Town promoters vied to stage it. |
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On second thought, I carefully ripped out the very last page that had no indents in it and hastily scribbled what I'd first intended as a note, but ended up as a letter. |
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He hastily boarded the bus and found the nearest vacant seat, flinging his bag on the window seat and plonking himself on the aisle seat, his favourite spot on the whole bus. |
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If those clubs are out of Europe by then it would be no surprise to see a hastily arranged tour of the Far East after Christmas to fill in the gaps in the fixture list. |
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I sprung for the corridor thankfully and hastily when the doors hissed open, my head still fizzing with the annoying sound of their girlish chatter. |
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With 24 hours to go, our flat-pack kitchen was hastily assembled. |
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Something else clattered to the floor along with his floss, and Alice drew back into the room just in time to see Gary hastily tuck it back into his bag. |
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Dima was moving hastily up the street as he followed at a slower pace. |
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He hastily straightened his gleaming bronze cuirass and cuisse, settled his sword sheath and gauntlets more comfortably upon his belt, and entered the audience hall. |
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Clifford hastily rang the owner, who curtly told him that he had the legal papers in front of him, and all he had to do to sell the painting was sign them. |
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On the day of lift-off, Wan, splendidly attired, climbed into his rocket chair and forty seven servants lit the fuses and then hastily ran for cover. |
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Parliamentary procedures are being hastily drafted to give it some effect. |
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We hastily examined the despatched message to check that an obscenity or profanity had not somehow slipped in, or that a word could have been misinterpreted. |
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We dig in immediately, hacking a shallow shelf in the steep slope, hastily surrounding it with blocks of snow and throwing up our laughable A-frame pup tent. |
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In the meantime, 9,000 police and a hastily raised force of 20,000 special constables were the first line of defence for the country's rubber estates and tin mines. |
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At the moment, this necessitates ripping out the necessary HTML and PHP from one of my existing pages, and hastily tapping something out in Notepad. |
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Parker hastily organized his defences and placed Nelson in command of Fort Charles, which covered the approaches to Kingston. |
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I did not like to propose an adjournment thither too hastily, but patiently endured the prosings of my cicerone in the interior of the church. |
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Nelson hastily organised the evacuation of the Royal Family, several nobles and the British nationals, including the Hamiltons. |
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The French blacklisting of the island had to be hastily revoked when this was pointed out. |
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Some men build hastily and quickly so that their work serves only its transient purpose, and is soon forgotten. Others build for the ages. |
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I took umbrage with this hastily compiled hypothesis because I do, indeed, own a hole punch. |
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Vitellius hastily arranged a peace with Antonius, but the Emperor's Praetorian Guard forced him to retain his seat. |
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She was proclaimed queen throughout her realms and the royal party hastily returned to the United Kingdom. |
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I hastily fireproofed my clothing somewhat by pouring a bucket of water over myself before dashing into the flames. |
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However, says David Jones of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, researchers shouldn't hastily give up on pharmacogenomics. |
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The Nut Job is a poorly paced, 1950s-set computeranimated adventure festooned with hastily sketched, one dimensional characters. |
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The Nut Job is a poorly-paced, 1950s-set computeranimated adventure festooned with hastily sketched, one dimensional characters. |
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Some were in tears, some retired from the crowd and paced hastily up and down the road, some seated themselves by the side in silence. |
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The annual makeshift tarmacadam tennis court, hastily drawn in dimensions roughly resembling Wimbledon's Centre Court. |
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One hastily Googled the word from the menu, seiche, then showed me the result on her phone. |
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The cake was scrapped and a flunky was hastily dispatched to buy a Lottery ticket from the nearest shop. |
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The viceroy retreated hastily to the hills when defeated by a small British force. |
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Brayder introduced them to one or two of the men, hastily and in rather an undervoice, as a thing to get over. |
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The Sinhalese army hastily returned and surrounded the capital, but they were repeatedly defeated in battle against the invading Chinese troops. |
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Recceswinth's code was edited by Braulio of Zaragoza, since Chindasuinth's original code had been hastily written and promulgated. |
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This hastily ensorcelled collection of body parts is channeling raw magical energy. |
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The prison at Omsk, which had known Dostoyevsky, was not like any old Gulag transit prison, hastily knocked together from matchwood. |
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Crassus marched to the Dentheletae's assistance, but the Bastarnae host hastily withdrew over the Haemus at his approach. |
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The King himself set off that night with two hastily prepared standards of St Margaret and St Andrew. |
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The Scots rallied hastily, and battle was joined at a bridge which Clarence attempted to cross. |
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Claudius hastily married King Hamlet's widow, Gertrude, Hamlet's mother, and took the throne for himself. |
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Lamb hastily recruited a staff of about 125 reporters, who were mostly selected for their availability rather than their ability. |
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The oil rig had been hastily converted in an effort to quickly start drilling operations after the North Sea was opened for exploration. |
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On March 17, 1948, Truman addressed European security and condemned the Soviet Union before a hastily convened Joint Session of Congress. |
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Seven artists were recruited, among them Valentine Prinsep and Arthur Hughes, and the work was hastily begun. |
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Meanwhile, the Germans hastily assembled a motorized force, whose lead elements arrived in Tripoli in February. |
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The dogs by the River Nilus's side, being thirsty, lap hastily as they run along the shore. |
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Both expeditions were hastily arranged, and both disappeared. |
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Tom Parisi, a spokesperson for Bankers Trust, said when the fire was discovered the building was hastily evacuated and people left without pausing to sign out. |
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But these deprecators, were they so inclined, could all identify such behaviours even among fellow colonials, if not quite in such a hastily damning mode. |
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It's the euro that appears flimsy, with what look like new-fangled video-game images designed by a 20-something and hastily downloaded onto brittle paper. |
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It was hastily withdrawn after only a few copies were published. |
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He was decapitated by an American cannonball, and the shattered remains of his head were left on the battlefield while his comrades hastily carried his body away. |
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It misbecame him to appear in the character of a mediator of peace, in a quarrel, the futility of which he had presumed to judge and hastily condemn. |
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On the first day only 7,669 Allied soldiers were evacuated, but by the end of the eighth day, 338,226 of them had been rescued by a hastily assembled fleet of over 800 boats. |
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Many of the men were armed only with revolvers and had to scavenge for rifles from those dumped on the quay by personnel hastily departing for England. |
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During the Battle of Montcornet Germans hastily improvised a defence while Guderian rushed up the 10th Panzer Division to threaten De Gaulle's flank. |
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She hastily deleted the tweet and pulled down that recriminating photo with an apologetic tweet about those girls being her sister and her best friend. |
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With Bridgend's cricket pitch under torrents of water from monsoonal overnight rain, Awali Camels hastily arranged an intra-club fixture at nearby Cowbridge. |
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Post-surgery care was administered in an improvised neonatal intensive-care isolette, which Colonel Schank and her team hastily constructed from boxes. |
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His three columns consisted of 5,000 redcoats, a volunteer corps of carbineers, and a hastily trained Natal Native Contingent, with himself commanding the center column. |
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Who, I wondered, was included among the et al.? I hastily turned to the jump page and saw that, sure enough, along with eighteen others... there was Goldman Sachs. |
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Should we forgive the misspelling of our name On hastily written cards that never seemed to hit the target, accepting that it was a rush job and be thankful for the market? |
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