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  • I lay palpitating in the dim lodge, wondering if when next they fed me I'd get a chance to yell for help-and what good it might do if I did-and what were the chances of Terry and Gibbon's little army arriving, and what might happen then.

    Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

  • She did-and somehow the new meanings came through even though the actual pronunciation of the words had not changed.

    Labor Policy John Dermot Woods 2010

  • Kids today on average ingest far less lead than their parents did-and they don't seem to have suffered an epidemic of lead poisoning.

    Lead And Your Kids 2008

  • Indeed they did-and now a new race is underway to see who can continue to speak to those middle-class fears.

    Knowing When The Party's Over 2008

  • Filmmaker Charles Ferguson, a former Brookings Institution fellow, takes a hard look not just at the administration's reasons for going to war, but what we did-and didn't do - in the aftermath.

    John Farr: The 10 Best "Abuse of Power" Movies 2008

  • The 700 Harvard students in the audience did-and gave a rousing send-off for Cuomo's tentative, noncampaign campaign.

    Now It's 'Don Quixote' Cuomo 2008

  • I liked that sound; everyone did-and took a careful sip.

    'Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It' 2008

  • So I called up some people who did-and they were as befuddled as I was.

    American Beat: The Unforgettable Friendship 2007

  • The indications are in what they said and did-and also in what they omitted.

    A Half Step Toward Peace 2007

  • He couldn't find the damn spoon-it would probably show up eventually, most things did-and so he fed the kid off the end of his finger.

    Blaze Bachman, Richard 2007

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