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President Andres Pastrana donned the national team's blue-and-yellow jersey and told his soccer-mad nation in a televised address that the tournament would go on-that he and Colombia had put "everything on the line" and triumphed.
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A glass of whisky by preference, if he felt the taste for spirits coming on-that was where Scotland had rubbed off on him.
The Gates Of Sleep Lackey, Mercedes 2002
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The business about the documents not holding the lever we had counted on-that was the shocker.
The White Rose Cook, Glen 1985
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Ordinary life goes on-that has saved many a man's reason.
The Quiet American Greene, Graham, 1904-1991 1955
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Evelina, forlorn and sorry, and with swollen sad dark eyes, and listless exhausted step -- here again at the bars, where she had not stood since she dragged her wounded lover thence on-that eventful night two years and more ago.
His "Day In Court" 1895 Mary Noailles Murfree 1886
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"Ronald Reagan would never go into the Oval Office without his jacket on-that's how much he revered the presidency," he said.
unknown title 2011
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Does Bachmann teach her kids that it doesn't matter why you owe the money or what you spent it on-that if you owe it, you have a duty to repay it?
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"Ronald Reagan would never go into the Oval Office without his jacket on-that's how much he revered the presidency," he said.
unknown title 2011
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The argument Perry leans on-that the federal government's immigration policy doesn't work-is the same one used by the comprehensive-reform crowd.
Slate Magazine David Weigel 2011
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The conclusion, simply, is this: once politicians figure out that this is what is going on-that as a matter of principle the most dedicated Occupiers won't be working to make the most traditional of political threats: do what we want or lose your job-the political change will simply stop happening.
Crooks and Liars Rick Perlstein 2011
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