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3R16PJFTS3W35Q0AJ51UW810V7W4KK | think | The shadow was in the form of a vast spaceship resting near ours, and the last thing it looked was shadowy. The surface was gleaming with pure white and even purer gold. | no meteor shower no space dust had ever touched that brilliance | You might have thought that no meteor shower no space dust had ever touched that brilliance. | CI | modal | present | [
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3ZQX1VYFTDANEI8RT0J0K1YEHY28OF | think | At the sight of him I would smell the dust of the confessional and remember the mixture of boredom, shame and relief as I said my penances. I was familiar with the view that the priesthood is beyond shock, being entirely cognisant of the whole sum of human folly and evil from the outpourings of the penitent, but I wasn't convinced. | he admitted to fornication | I also had a feeling that my mother would never forgive me if she thought I had admitted to fornication and worse to a person who came to her house and drank her sherry. | conditional | present | [
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3ZQX1VYFTDANEI8RT0J0K1YEHY28OF | feel | Joseph spat and spluttered blood. | the two teeth on either side were also loose | He had lost the two centre top teeth and with the tip of his tongue he could feel that the two on either side were also loose. | AB | modal | present | [
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322ZSN9Z5GP289QXDEFMXZOWF14T4V | tell | Nick rolled his eyes upwards. ``Not so bad, then.'' | Mr Evans hadn't stolen the Will after all | She wished she could tell him that Mr Evans hadn't stolen the Will after all but Nick had never thought that he had so there was no point in it. | DE | modal | present | [
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3R16PJFTS3W35Q0AJ51UW810V7W4KK | notice | ``I just want to show you something.'' He took her protesting hand, and laid it on a thick roll of tablecloths between their bodies. | the thick roll of tablecloths was there | She had been so busy avoiding touching him she had not even noticed it was there. | negation | past | [
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3L2OEKSTW9FZ8WCTZNSYMSWGWPIY8W | think | You really don't know anything about me, do you, despite all that wallowing in my mind? | she is the right person to lead humanity into the future | As it happens I don't think I'm the right person to lead humanity into the future no. | negation | present | [
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3R16PJFTS3W35Q0AJ51UW810V7W4KK | say | Perhaps I should apologize for my tears. As a rationalist, I had but to snap my rational fingers, it might be argued, and the devil would fade away in a puff of smoke. | he had spent too many years in his capacity as church architect investigating the fossils of a dead faith not to have imbibed something of the old superstitions | To which I might say that rationalist or not I had spent too many years in my capacity as church architect investigating the fossils of a dead faith not to have imbibed something of the old superstitions. | CI | modal | present | [
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37SDSEDIN972IQ1QNYLP85L6ONS18L | think | You could have both gone direct to England from New York. But you wanted to come up this way. | this is cold | If you think this is cold you wait till we hit Greenland. | conditional | present | [
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3R16PJFTS3W35Q0AJ51UW810V7W4KK | suspect | Still missing. Found dead. | the headline had already been selected | Charlotte could almost suspect the headline had already been selected the outcome already determined. | CI | modal | present | [
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3ZQX1VYFTDANEI8RT0J0K1YEHY28OF | think | She gazed at him through her thick lashes. | by giving them some space Maria Luisa would get Steve out of her system | Perhaps he thought that by giving them some space Maria Luisa would get Steve out of her system. | EP | modal | present | [
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322ZSN9Z5GP289QXDEFMXZOWF14T4V | say | The Paris to Rouen railway was being extended to Le Havre, and the line cut straight through Dr Flaubert's land. Part of it was to be compulsorily purchased. | Gustave was shepherded into creative retreat at Croisset by epilepsy | You could say that Gustave was shepherded into creative retreat at Croisset by epilepsy. | CI | modal | present | [
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37SDSEDIN972IQ1QNYLP85L6ONS18L | say | At this time of year not much, it's been a dryish summer, and there's not a lot of water coming down. Say half a knot - and that's probably an over-estimate. | a freely-floating body moves down on the ebb at an average of a bit under two knots | If you say that a freely-floating body - and the weights would help a bit there because they'd keep it under water and out of any wind - moves down on the ebb at an average of a bit under two knots you'd not be far wrong. | conditional | present | [
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3L2OEKSTW9FZ8WCTZNSYMSWGWPIY8W | realize | Ruth found herself in his arms, her face against his broad chest - as if she were a little girl again, in the time before she 'd known he was crazy. | Ruth remembered that time | She hadn't realized she remembered that time. | negation | past | [
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37SDSEDIN972IQ1QNYLP85L6ONS18L | say | I should think that just about everyone was having a go at everyone else by the time it ended. | it was a war that needed fighting | But I suppose you could say that it was a war that needed fighting. | CI | modal | present | [
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322ZSN9Z5GP289QXDEFMXZOWF14T4V | suppose | I shall not waver even at this supreme moment. Nor shall I again urge the objections cited above to the ``murderous conspiracy'' theory. | he and Karen Parsons embarked that afternoon with the intention of drowning her husband | I simply wish to point out that if it is supposed that Karen Parsons and I embarked that afternoon with the intention of drowning her husband why did we wait till we had reached a point where our criminal acts were overlooked by at least fifteen witnesses? | conditional | present | [
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3L2OEKSTW9FZ8WCTZNSYMSWGWPIY8W | mean | Jeff Dudley. The Edwardian informed me recently that he 'd been appointed trade attache in one of our Central American embassies. | Jeff Dudley is a spy nowadays | Perhaps that means he's a spy nowadays. | EP | modal | present | [
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3L2OEKSTW9FZ8WCTZNSYMSWGWPIY8W | see | ``You 've heard something like that before. Haven't you, Jimmy?'' | Jimmy was unprepared to show he had been shaken | Jimmy had been shaken by those sounds more shaken than the others for good reason but Cardiff could see that he was unprepared to show it as he pushed himself away from the reception counter. | AB | modal | present | [
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3L2OEKSTW9FZ8WCTZNSYMSWGWPIY8W | forget | Methodically, he replaced the screwdriver in a toolbox in the garden shed, though he was not known as a tidy man. When he unwound the rope from the cleat the bell rang once. | the bell would ring | Perhaps he had forgotten that the bell would ring or he hardly cared whether it rang or not. | EP | modal | past | [
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322ZSN9Z5GP289QXDEFMXZOWF14T4V | tell | Charlotte told me those things, much later. I know Maria did not tell me that the food was often burnt and uneatable, or that they could not sleep because the beds were too cold. | the poor hungry children had to wash with ice in the morning | She did not tell me that the poor hungry children had to wash with ice in the morning and walk through wet snow to sit for two hours with icy feet in a cold church on Sundays. | negation | past | [
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3R16PJFTS3W35Q0AJ51UW810V7W4KK | think | Perhaps I might have recognized my own hypocrisy, if it had not been for Richard's behaviour in the next months. He brought me flowers, took me out to dinner and the theatre, and was generally attentive to me, as if I were his mistress and not an old married woman. | Richard's solicitude was the sort of tender kindness you might show to someone utterly dependent and helpless | If at any point I thought that his solicitude was the sort of tender kindness you might show to someone utterly dependent and helpless - a prisoner or a caged bird - I was ashamed at once and re-doubled my efforts to be a good wife asking Nonni to teach me how to cook the elaborate dishes Richard liked and taking care to change my dress before he came home in the evening. | conditional | past | [
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3L2OEKSTW9FZ8WCTZNSYMSWGWPIY8W | imagine | It's true - Peter can be infuriating, she registered. And, to someone with Marc's undoubted ambition and sheer grit, he probably seems hopelessly in need of a helping hand. | Marc could change what was deeply ingrained in Peter's nature | She almost felt sympathy for Marc if he imagined he could change what was deeply ingrained in Peter's nature. | AB | conditional | present | [
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3L2OEKSTW9FZ8WCTZNSYMSWGWPIY8W | know | He asked to be put through to Alexandra's desk and was disconcerted when the voice wanted to know who was calling. ``Uh - Matthew Prescott, Cadogan's, Art Dealers,'' he said, too flustered to give a false name. | the person calling was Matthew Prescott | He hoped he at least sounded businesslike as though it were not a private call and realized immediately that Alexandra would refuse to take the call if she knew it was him. | conditional | present | [
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322ZSN9Z5GP289QXDEFMXZOWF14T4V | notice | She wouldn't shed tears over that... that brute. He didn't deserve her love - he was utterly hateful. | Water Gypsy was no longer under way | Immersed in her misery her fight for self-control she didn't notice that Water Gypsy was no longer under way. | negation | present | [
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3ZQX1VYFTDANEI8RT0J0K1YEHY28OF | prove | My reading might be pointless in terms of the history of literary criticism. But it's not pointless in terms of pleasure. | lay readers enjoy books more than professional critics | I can't prove that lay readers enjoy books more than professional critics. | negation | present | [
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3R16PJFTS3W35Q0AJ51UW810V7W4KK | tell | She said good morning to Alice and Alice said hallo. She was thin and rather tall with a very lined gentle face and hair that was white but which Alice could see had once been blonde. | this was Tina's mother | She could also have told this was Tina's mother before Mrs Darne went off down the passage that led to the Headmaster's Flat. | AB | modal | past | [
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37SDSEDIN972IQ1QNYLP85L6ONS18L | know | And what she had said, and went on saying quietly, calmly, efficiently, was that she loved Maggie. She paid attention. | Maggie's grandmother was famous | At eight Maggie had not known that her grandmother was famous but she had seen that people had something in their manner when they looked at Rachel. | negation | present | [
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3R16PJFTS3W35Q0AJ51UW810V7W4KK | say | And Sarah knew, while Peter didn't. It amazed her that she should find it difficult to tell him. | it would be almost beyond Sarah's powers to tell Peter of Nona's death | If anyone had said to her yesterday that it would be almost beyond her powers to tell Peter of Nona's death she would have laughed. | conditional | past | [
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322ZSN9Z5GP289QXDEFMXZOWF14T4V | find | Nothing yet. Except that I will not detain you in prison or expel you from Scotland, on one condition. | it was murder | You will tell me if you find it was murder and give me the name of the murderer. | conditional | future | [
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373L46LKP7BT88JVMCOY2AQJD5JJKP | remember | For a while the notion gripped him, and he prowled the many floors of Hamleys looking for toys. He bought a magic set for Sebastian (although his ideal present for the kid would have been a brand-new name) and a marionette for Louise. | there was an age for puppets and magic | He could remember that there was an age for puppets and magic just as he could remember the time that he 'd spent trying to fan a deck of cards or sitting in front of a mirror trying to get the hard consonants down like a real ventriloquist. | AB | modal | present | [
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373L46LKP7BT88JVMCOY2AQJD5JJKP | notice | Now that he knows it's himself he can't help noticing the slightly ridiculous and embarrassing qualities - the way the young man frowns importantly as he talks about his job, and waves his arms about when he gets stuck for words. And the way he smiles insincerely at Howard from time to time, and looks straight into his eyes in an effort to demonstrate that he is interested in Howard as well as himself. | Howard is himself | But since he never even notices that Howard is himself Howard takes this with a pinch of salt. | negation | present | [
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373L46LKP7BT88JVMCOY2AQJD5JJKP | forget | I also see that we're about as alike as chalk and cheese, because I would never sell out a whole species for the wrongs of one group. | the Efik were among the most notorious slavers on the slave coast | Have you forgotten that your tribe the Efik were among the most notorious slavers on the slave coast? | question | present | [
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373L46LKP7BT88JVMCOY2AQJD5JJKP | tell | ``You married?'' ``No.'' | Duncan would never marry while he was a serving officer in the SAS | Duncan didn't tell him that he would never marry while he was a serving officer in the SAS. | negation | present | [
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373L46LKP7BT88JVMCOY2AQJD5JJKP | notice | I didn't really like the way the other boys treated him. I was new at the school and still observing, still beginning friendships. | he did not ridicule Alec as the others did | Perhaps Alec noticed that I did not ridicule him as the others did. | EP | modal | past | [
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3S1L4CQSFXA7RTODRVKOTYVVJITAFF | think | A: The flavor is better I think in between. B: Oh, in between the size wise yeah, A: Yes, yeah. B: yeah. A: Uh-huh. My mother, B: | they have any flavor the way he cooks them | Well, my mother doesn't think they have any flavor the way I cook them. | negation | present | [
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3DTJ4WT8BDKGMNWP8CGHS914G2IEZZ | think | A: Not that they won't appoint them but there is no budget for them, I guess. and the courthouse that goes with them and the bailiffs and the uh, court clerks. B: Huh. Yeah. Whatever. A: So it seems, uh, no, I do not think I would change it. | she would want to change the system | The more I verbalize it, I do not think I would want to change the system. | negation | present | [
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373L46LKP7BT88JVMCOY2AQJD5JJKP | suspect | However, I will let the gynandrous renegade stay here under one condition. If Penumbra questions either of us, we will not lie. | Crevecoeur is here | If she suspects Crevecoeur is here and asks we let him go back. | conditional | future | [
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3EHVO81VN5QVB12JQ2FVLIE5R6IH1G | tell | Dam the leaks? If I do that, the Company doesn't have to know I've been interfacing data when I shouldn't. | he got scent of it before the system went down yesterday | I could tell the tutor I got scent of it before the system went down yesterday... Then everyone will think I'm some kind of spy anyway because it's hardly going to fit in with my cover of being a moron. | AB | modal | future | [
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3DTJ4WT8BDKGMNWP8CGHS914G2IEZZ | know | A: Where are you from? B: I'm in Raleigh, North Carolina. A: Oh, my goodness. | they did it long distance | I didn't know they did it long distance. | negation | past | [
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3MWOYZD5WVT8HPVVZ28J2YO948LNOU | say | She stood lighting a cigarette and looking at my mother out of the corners of her eyes. My mother was again plunged into a version of that dilemma common to all divorced wives. | Derek was the biggest fool the world had ever seen | Either she could say that Derek was the biggest fool the world had ever seen - in which case she would stand self-confessed as an even bigger fool for having married him in the first place. | AB | modal | present | [
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3HUR21WDDUUPNXD17V4Q2RD9QEPYX1 | think | A: And I haven't quite figured that out, if they figure they have got it won or if there's no real hurry because the first three quarters or, uh, uh, if something happens that that adrenalin starts flowing. They say, hey, we got to do something now. And then start playing the game the way the game should be played toward the last few minutes. B: Yeah. A: So, I don't know I'm looking for a good year. I guess we're always looking for a good year. B: | they're going to do anything in the playoffs to make it to the Super Bowl this year | So, obviously though, do you think they're going to do anything in the playoffs to make it to the Super Bowl this year | question | present | [
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3PMR2DOWOO60N7F7CIXOUJII2EJ54G | think | B: Yeah. Well, that's the guy that counts. A: Yes. But, maybe we'll get your guy. B: | Jim Kelly is about to be swayed away from the Bills any time | Oh, I don't think Jim Kelly is about to be swayed away from the Bills any time. | negation | present | [
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3DTJ4WT8BDKGMNWP8CGHS914G2IEZZ | say | B: No, I always vote. A: Well, I have absentee voted in, uh, New Hampshire, and it is a fairly complicated process where you have to go pick up the ballot. B: Oh, really. A: | absentee voting is that complicated | I do not say that it is that complicated, | negation | present | [
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3MNJFORX8B9ALNCWWZT7LNF9N5V5F5 | suggest | ``Sidacai has not been condemned in order that we may be served, but to satisfy the Yasa,'' Artai responded, bridling.'' - And yet maybe his death should serve you,'' Burun said. | Artai was a fool | No one had ever suggested that Artai was a fool. | negation | past | [
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3PMR2DOWOO60N7F7CIXOUJII2EJ54G | believe | A: and I guess I would like, I don't know, the European countries certainly, uh, none of them have capital punishment and they don't have a crime problem either. B: Oh, really. A: No, you can't, they don't execute anybody in Britain or France | they execute anybody in Germany or Italy | and I don't believe they do in Germany or Italy either. | negation | present | [
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3MWOYZD5WVT8HPVVZ28J2YO948LNOU | learn | He would be furious, of course, and rightly so. But, even if she could find the nerve to admit to her deception, she couldn't own up to a thing - Cara was depending on her! | Fabia had deceived Ven | Fabia was seated beside Ven in a taxi when she realised that furious would be an understatement for what Ven would be if he ever learned that she had not only deceived him but to add insult to injury allowed him believing her to be someone else to house her and feed her into the bargain. | conditional | future | [
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3CMV9YRYP364SE1D7C0ZHA3Y25OJLS | remember | I spent just over an hour with Patterson which, I found out later, turned out to be another first. Time is money in the City and few people are worth an hour unless it's over lunch and only then if you're involved in a takeover bid. | Patterson had a meeting with his door shut and nobody got fired | It was also I learned one of the few occasions anyone at PKB could remember that Patterson had a meeting with his door shut and nobody got fired. | AB | modal | present | [
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3JGHED38EDWV8I7API0S8S0LKPSY7S | hope | ``I hope you are settling down and the cat is well.'' This was a lie. | the cat was well | She did not hope the cat was well. | negation | past | [
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3PMR2DOWOO60N7F7CIXOUJII2EJ54G | think | B: I understand we are doing care of the elderly, right? A: Yes. B: And how do you feel about putting someone in the nursing home? A: | some of her relatives would really like to go there | Well, I don't think that uh, any of my relatives would really like to go there. | negation | present | [
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3JGHED38EDWV8I7API0S8S0LKPSY7S | see | It was dark and well stormy by the time I got to the Aurora Corona Rest Home and the residents were probably battened down for the night. I parked Armstrong on the road and walked down the short drive to the impressive Gothic porch around the front door. | the residents used extra thick curtains | That at least had a light showing and at first I thought the rest of the building was in total darkness but as I crunched gravel and got closer I could see they used extra thick curtains maybe left-overs from the Blackout. | AB | modal | present | [
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373L46LKP7BT88JVMCOY2AQJD5JJKP | notice | Now that he knows it's himself he can't help noticing the slightly ridiculous and embarrassing qualities - the way the young man frowns importantly as he talks about his job, and waves his arms about when he gets stuck for words. And the way he smiles insincerely at Howard from time to time, and looks straight into his eyes in an effort to demonstrate that he is interested in Howard as well as himself. | Howard is himself | But since he never even notices that Howard is himself Howard takes this with a pinch of salt. | negation | present | [
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373L46LKP7BT88JVMCOY2AQJD5JJKP | notice | I didn't really like the way the other boys treated him. I was new at the school and still observing, still beginning friendships. | he did not ridicule Alec as the others did | Perhaps Alec noticed that I did not ridicule him as the others did. | EP | modal | past | [
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3EHVO81VN5QVB12JQ2FVLIE5R6IH1G | think | Then a man at the back of the hall began to clap, and someone else joined in. Soon the clapping became fierce applause. | the Collector had just sung an aria | Such was the enthusiasm that you might have thought that the Collector had just sung an aria. | CI | modal | present | [
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3DTJ4WT8BDKGMNWP8CGHS914G2IEZZ | think | B: Uh, which I am pro capital punishment except that I don't like the way it's done. A: Uh-huh. Uh, yeah, uh, uh, I guess, I hate to see anyone die, uh B: Uh-huh. A: | these people that go around and kill children women and everything else without any remorse deserve to live | but, uh, I guess these people that go around and kill children and women and everything else without any remorse, uh, I don't think they deserve to live and be supported by us the rest of their lives. | negation | present | [
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3CMV9YRYP364SE1D7C0ZHA3Y25OJLS | tell | Nick rolled his eyes upwards. ``Not so bad, then.'' | Mr Evans hadn't stolen the Will after all | She wished she could tell him that Mr Evans hadn't stolen the Will after all but Nick had never thought that he had so there was no point in it. | DE | modal | present | [
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3JGHED38EDWV8I7API0S8S0LKPSY7S | find | He 'd gone. Philip had to get them back. | Philip had taken them | His Dad would kill him if he found that he 'd taken them. | conditional | past | [
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3HUR21WDDUUPNXD17V4Q2RD9QEPYX1 | say | B: All right, well. A: Um, short term, I don't think anything's going to be done about it or probably should be done about it. B: Right. | speaker A doesn't think anything should be done in the short term | Uh, are you saying you don't think anything should be done in the short term? | question | present | [
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3S1L4CQSFXA7RTODRVKOTYVVJITAFF | think | B: And, I, we're big broccoli fans. A: Uh-huh that's what I've got. I've got steamed broccoli down on mine. B: | someone can go wrong with something like broccoli | Well, I just don't think you can go wrong with something like that. | negation | present | [
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3HUR21WDDUUPNXD17V4Q2RD9QEPYX1 | think | A: Um, yeah, that's for sure. That's for sure, do you have any feelings as to the trends that you see? B: Well, it lo-, o-, the one trend I would say is that with so many more women choosing professional careers, there are fewer of them home in the afternoons, A: Uh-huh. B: | it needs to be the mothers | and I don't think it needs to be the mothers, | negation | present | [
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3HUR21WDDUUPNXD17V4Q2RD9QEPYX1 | believe | B: Yeah. Those are pretty. A: Number one turned out just great, | they know that she had done it in the colors that they had decorated the nursery | and the lady said she couldn't believe that they know that I had done it in the color that they had decorated the nursery | AB | negation | past | [
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3MWOYZD5WVT8HPVVZ28J2YO948LNOU | know | Only Mr Jemps accepted. Red lit one for himself. | Red smoked | I had not seen him smoke before and did not know he did. | negation | past | [
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3MWOYZD5WVT8HPVVZ28J2YO948LNOU | say | Modify the arachnids, said the researchers. Change their bodies and conditions, and you could get fibres like glass, still monofilament, but with logarithmic progressions of possibilities of strength and flexibility, and the ability to resonate light-particles or sound-waves undistorted, scarcely weakened over thousands of miles. | arachnids had to be totally organic | Who said the arachnids had to be totally organic? | question | past | [
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] | Modify the arachnids, said the researchers. Change their bodies and conditions, and you could get fibres like glass, still monofilament, but with logarithmic progressions of possibilities of strength and flexibility, and the ability to resonate light-particles or sound-waves undistorted, scarcely weakened over thousands of miles.</s>Who said the arachnids had to be totally organic?</s>arachnids had to be totally organic | BNC-2490 | 3,298 | AC5UD8N187QD6 | -2 | 6-2
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373L46LKP7BT88JVMCOY2AQJD5JJKP | remember | For a while the notion gripped him, and he prowled the many floors of Hamleys looking for toys. He bought a magic set for Sebastian (although his ideal present for the kid would have been a brand-new name) and a marionette for Louise. | there was an age for puppets and magic | He could remember that there was an age for puppets and magic just as he could remember the time that he 'd spent trying to fan a deck of cards or sitting in front of a mirror trying to get the hard consonants down like a real ventriloquist. | AB | modal | present | [
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3MNJFORX8B9ALNCWWZT7LNF9N5V5F5 | know | ``Rather a long shot, wasn't it? Twenty years?'' | the baby was born here | How do you know the baby was born here? | question | present | [
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3DTJ4WT8BDKGMNWP8CGHS914G2IEZZ | think | B: That's true. A: So. B: Uh, the other argument is that the death penalty is a deterrent and I really don't, uh, agree with that. I don't think anyone who would commit uh, a crime that would get them the death penalty would stop at the moment and say, well, I was about to kill and dismember this person but, oh, if they catch me they're going to kill me so I better not do it. I just, don't think uh, that it works that way. A: Yeah. | it's done | I don't think it's done. | negation | present | [
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3MNJFORX8B9ALNCWWZT7LNF9N5V5F5 | know | It is all very well, in these changing times, to adapt one's work to take in duties not traditionally within one's realm. But bantering is of another dimension altogether. | at any given moment a response of the bantering sort is truly what is expected | For one thing how would one know for sure that at any given moment a response of the bantering sort is truly what is expected? | EP | question | present | [
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3EHVO81VN5QVB12JQ2FVLIE5R6IH1G | say | I WAS really only a bystander in the tragedy of young Mr and Mrs McLeod. | she had known Mr. and Mrs. McLeod for most of their lives | It was not really my business although it could be said that I had known them both - had seen them about - for most of their lives. | AB | modal | present | [
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3PMR2DOWOO60N7F7CIXOUJII2EJ54G | think | B: And also I just think it gets a lot, I'm a big, uh, supporter of personal freedoms and personal privacies, and I think that it just moves down along a line that I really would find bad if most people went down that line into regulating employees' lives outside of work, you know, there's already talk of people, well, we're not going to hire you if you smoke. Well, you know, I can see how they can say in the work place you don't want them to smoke, but when somebody leaves work, I don't think that it's the employer's right to regulate their life style at all. A: | it should be illegal for an employer to do this | Well, do you think it's, should be illegal for an employer to do this | question | present | [
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3HUR21WDDUUPNXD17V4Q2RD9QEPYX1 | know | A: That, so that's, and I don't know, you know, I think about, well, the dress code they have for the kids, you know. Are they put one on the parents, or the teachers and say the men have to wear ties and there can be no blue jeans worn and, because some of the teachers I know wear, uh, dress up jeans, not sloppy looking jeans but tapered jeans that they've had dry cleaned so they have got the crease B: Uh-huh. A: and, uh, you know, they'll wear it with a nice top. | that looks bad | and, uh, I don't know that that looks that bad. | negation | present | [
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3MNJFORX8B9ALNCWWZT7LNF9N5V5F5 | know | She produced another scroll. ``I have here a petition and I want you all to sign it to show those men in power that the women and children of this country think that slavery is wicked and wrong!'' | one of Mr. Harker's relatives was keen to disrupt the cotton industry | Sam wondered what Mr Harker would say if he knew that one of his relatives was so keen to disrupt the cotton industry. | conditional | present | [
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3EHVO81VN5QVB12JQ2FVLIE5R6IH1G | think | Children aren't real people, in the sense that they are not small males and females but a separate species which will (probably) grow into one or the other in due time. Younger children in particular, before the insidious and evil influence of society and their parents have properly got to them, are sexlessly open and hence perfectly likeable. | Esmerelda's name was a bit soppy | I did like Esmerelda (even if I thought her name was a bit soppy) and played with her a lot when she came to stay. | conditional | past | [
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3S1L4CQSFXA7RTODRVKOTYVVJITAFF | say | A: Sure. Oh, great. That is wonderful. B: So, A: Yeah. Well, Dallas, uh, we lived in Minneapolis. Uh, we moved here about ten months ago. And Dallas is pretty, uh, well, we live in north Dallas which is near a suburb called Plano. So we are out of the city, but uh, it is bad everywhere in terms of, uh, you know, the handgun situation, um, the number of rapes, the number of muggings. | Dallas is not as bad as New York | Just, it is, I would not say it is not as bad as New York, | CI | negation | present | [
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3S1L4CQSFXA7RTODRVKOTYVVJITAFF | feel | A: How do you feel about that. B: I don't really, I more, I don't know about the government as much as, uh, the people, uh, I wouldn't consider to be a threat at all | the Soviet Union itself is a threat still | and I really don't feel much like the Soviet Union itself is a threat anymore. | negation | present | [
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3PMR2DOWOO60N7F7CIXOUJII2EJ54G | think | A: The one thing I sometimes wonder about, um, in civil cases is, uh, whether, especially sort of in, uh, maybe like product liability, or medical malpractice, where there's, um, sort of a very technical decision to be made sometimes B: Yes. A: you know, it's not just a matter um, of, you know, did this guy rip off this guy, and it's just a matter of interpreting a contract, it's sort of a matter of, um, you know, sometimes getting into very technical issues, and I wonder um, if the system works adequately in educating the jurors about, uh, whatever, um, you know, issue is under discussion. B: | they educate the jurors enough to really know what's going on | I don't think that they educate them enough to really know what's going on. | negation | present | [
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3HUR21WDDUUPNXD17V4Q2RD9QEPYX1 | think | A: Because, I know that now there, they want the armed forces to recognize that women can serve in combat roles. B: Uh-huh, uh-huh. A: And the only, uh, branch in the armed services that seems willing to do that is the Air Force. And, uh, I spoke because women were flying missions uh, in the Persian Gulf war. B: Huh. Yeah, yeah. A: | women are capable of doing the job | But I know some of the other services do not think that women are capable of doing the job. | negation | present | [
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3MNJFORX8B9ALNCWWZT7LNF9N5V5F5 | mean | He thought of ringing Frances, but something deterred him. She had spoken of meeting the following weekend and going down to Juliet's. | Frances had something else on this weekend | That possibly meant that she had something else on this weekend. | EP | modal | past | [
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3EHVO81VN5QVB12JQ2FVLIE5R6IH1G | say | But to make matters worse the usual comfort a father has in these situations - that is, the notion that his son gave his life gloriously for king and country - was sullied by the fact that my brother had perished in a particularly infamous manoeuvre. Not only was it alleged that the manoeuvre had been a most un-British attack on civilian Boer settlements, overwhelming evidence emerged that it had been irresponsibly commanded with several floutings of elementary military precautions, so that the men who had died - my brother among them - had died quite needlessly. | the manoeuvre caused something of an uproar at the time | In view of what I am about to relate it would not be proper of me to identify the manoeuvre any more precisely though you may well guess which one I am alluding to if I say that it caused something of an uproar at the time adding significantly to the controversy the conflict as a whole was attracting. | conditional | present | [
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3CMV9YRYP364SE1D7C0ZHA3Y25OJLS | say | The Paris to Rouen railway was being extended to Le Havre, and the line cut straight through Dr Flaubert's land. Part of it was to be compulsorily purchased. | Gustave was shepherded into creative retreat at Croisset by epilepsy | You could say that Gustave was shepherded into creative retreat at Croisset by epilepsy. | CI | modal | present | [
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3HUR21WDDUUPNXD17V4Q2RD9QEPYX1 | think | A: yeah, it's kind of l-, B: It was kind of funny. They were doing some, uh, ozone testing, uh, the EPA and they were just screening some candidates, | she would do that | and I don't think I'd ever, you know, do that, | negation | future | [
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373L46LKP7BT88JVMCOY2AQJD5JJKP | tell | ``You married?'' ``No.'' | Duncan would never marry while he was a serving officer in the SAS | Duncan didn't tell him that he would never marry while he was a serving officer in the SAS. | negation | present | [
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3MNJFORX8B9ALNCWWZT7LNF9N5V5F5 | see | Then the silence in the Zoo became complete. Woil stared around him and then suddenly with a push of his wings raised himself into the air, turned, and landed ten feet away on the back of a green bench. | Woil was afraid | Creggan could see that he was afraid and that his fear was making him terribly uncertain. | AB | modal | present | [
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373L46LKP7BT88JVMCOY2AQJD5JJKP | forget | I also see that we're about as alike as chalk and cheese, because I would never sell out a whole species for the wrongs of one group. | the Efik were among the most notorious slavers on the slave coast | Have you forgotten that your tribe the Efik were among the most notorious slavers on the slave coast? | question | present | [
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3CMV9YRYP364SE1D7C0ZHA3Y25OJLS | tell | Charlotte told me those things, much later. I know Maria did not tell me that the food was often burnt and uneatable, or that they could not sleep because the beds were too cold. | the poor hungry children had to wash with ice in the morning | She did not tell me that the poor hungry children had to wash with ice in the morning and walk through wet snow to sit for two hours with icy feet in a cold church on Sundays. | negation | past | [
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3HUR21WDDUUPNXD17V4Q2RD9QEPYX1 | think | A: yeah, getting a lot of breaks between quarters and that, and having a lot of vacation. B: Right. it really, um, I don't think most of our teachers, now I'm not a teacher, I am a secretarial executive assistant, | the teachers could stand the stress all year long | but I don't think the teachers could stand the stress all year long frankly. | negation | present | [
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3S1L4CQSFXA7RTODRVKOTYVVJITAFF | think | B: it's also a way of relieving stress. My wife kind of laughs, at me that anytime I get stressed out I just go out in the garage and we've got more book shelves. A: Well, I'll have to come and see them. That sounds like a good idea. I, you know, and that is right, it is out of necessity because lot of the things uh, well, we can't be able to afford, but also I sometimes think that, uh, I enjoy doing that and I like to get out and, uh, to work with my hands and, uh, sounds like you got some real nice tools, too. | speaker B would be able to do some more if he had more tools and different tools | Do you think you would be able to do some more if you had more tools and different tools? | question | present | [
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3EHVO81VN5QVB12JQ2FVLIE5R6IH1G | know | Tess used to rest her head on the cow's body, her eyes fixed on a distant field. The sun shone on the beautiful lines of her face. | Clare had followed Tess around and sat watching her | She did not know that Clare had followed her round and sat watching her. | negation | present | [
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3DTJ4WT8BDKGMNWP8CGHS914G2IEZZ | believe | A: Yeah, that's crazy. B: and then you come here in the Dallas area, um, | people should be allowed to carry guns in their vehicles | I don't believe that people should be allowed to carry guns in their vehicles. | negation | present | [
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373L46LKP7BT88JVMCOY2AQJD5JJKP | remember | For a while the notion gripped him, and he prowled the many floors of Hamleys looking for toys. He bought a magic set for Sebastian (although his ideal present for the kid would have been a brand-new name) and a marionette for Louise. | there was an age for puppets and magic | He could remember that there was an age for puppets and magic just as he could remember the time that he 'd spent trying to fan a deck of cards or sitting in front of a mirror trying to get the hard consonants down like a real ventriloquist. | AB | modal | present | [
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373L46LKP7BT88JVMCOY2AQJD5JJKP | notice | Now that he knows it's himself he can't help noticing the slightly ridiculous and embarrassing qualities - the way the young man frowns importantly as he talks about his job, and waves his arms about when he gets stuck for words. And the way he smiles insincerely at Howard from time to time, and looks straight into his eyes in an effort to demonstrate that he is interested in Howard as well as himself. | Howard is himself | But since he never even notices that Howard is himself Howard takes this with a pinch of salt. | negation | present | [
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373L46LKP7BT88JVMCOY2AQJD5JJKP | forget | I also see that we're about as alike as chalk and cheese, because I would never sell out a whole species for the wrongs of one group. | the Efik were among the most notorious slavers on the slave coast | Have you forgotten that your tribe the Efik were among the most notorious slavers on the slave coast? | question | present | [
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373L46LKP7BT88JVMCOY2AQJD5JJKP | tell | ``You married?'' ``No.'' | Duncan would never marry while he was a serving officer in the SAS | Duncan didn't tell him that he would never marry while he was a serving officer in the SAS. | negation | present | [
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373L46LKP7BT88JVMCOY2AQJD5JJKP | notice | I didn't really like the way the other boys treated him. I was new at the school and still observing, still beginning friendships. | he did not ridicule Alec as the others did | Perhaps Alec noticed that I did not ridicule him as the others did. | EP | modal | past | [
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3L4YG5VW9NX8RGDTKZG0VZ0GSAUDDX | know | B: Anyway, I dealt with two or three kids today that are going to end up where somebody making a decision what to do with them. A: Um, yeah, I guess that's not an easy solution. there's no easy solution for that. B: Uh-huh. | there is an easy solution | I don't know that there is an easy solution, | negation | present | [
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3L4YG5VW9NX8RGDTKZG0VZ0GSAUDDX | believe | B: I don't know how my parents did it. A: Yeah. B: I mean, there were five of us and I don't recall, you know, wanting anything in particular. Uh, but I don't know how my father did it. He worked at a truck line and he just didn't make that kind of money with five children. But we did okay. We had a house and a home and, but now, my wife and I both work | he and his wife have as much as his parents did | and I don't believe we have as much as my parents did. | negation | present | [
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3L4YG5VW9NX8RGDTKZG0VZ0GSAUDDX | think | A: I don't think it's done. I don't think we run it as a deterrent. I mean people say that, but, I mean, if it was really a deterrent, I mean I think like horse thieves in the old west, you know, they saw other horse thieves hanging by the necks every once in a while. B: Uh-huh. A: And if it was really seriously going to be a deterrent, I would think that it would be public. | it would be this private thing | I mean I don't think it would be this private thing because nobody ever sees it. | negation | present | [
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3PKJ68EHDN126IINGRL1PIARM4VJHY | notice | Now that he knows it's himself he can't help noticing the slightly ridiculous and embarrassing qualities - the way the young man frowns importantly as he talks about his job, and waves his arms about when he gets stuck for words. And the way he smiles insincerely at Howard from time to time, and looks straight into his eyes in an effort to demonstrate that he is interested in Howard as well as himself. | Howard is himself | But since he never even notices that Howard is himself Howard takes this with a pinch of salt. | negation | present | [
"1",
"2",
"-1",
"0",
"3",
"2",
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"2",
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] | Now that he knows it's himself he can't help noticing the slightly ridiculous and embarrassing qualities - the way the young man frowns importantly as he talks about his job, and waves his arms about when he gets stuck for words. And the way he smiles insincerely at Howard from time to time, and looks straight into his eyes in an effort to demonstrate that he is interested in Howard as well as himself.</s>But since he never even notices that Howard is himself Howard takes this with a pinch of salt.</s>Howard is himself | BNC-1675 | 1,936 | A2CJYS92WX7HN6 | 0 | 00
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3L4YG5VW9NX8RGDTKZG0VZ0GSAUDDX | find | B: Oh, yeah, it's been beautiful this last week but, A: I could do with a little less wind, but I think the temperature has been pretty good so far for working outside. B: Yeah. A: | speaker B does most of her crocheting or knit work around Christmas time | Do you find you do most of your, uh, crocheting or your knit work around Christmas time? | question | present | [
"0",
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3PKJ68EHDN126IINGRL1PIARM4VJHY | forget | I also see that we're about as alike as chalk and cheese, because I would never sell out a whole species for the wrongs of one group. | the Efik were among the most notorious slavers on the slave coast | Have you forgotten that your tribe the Efik were among the most notorious slavers on the slave coast? | question | present | [
"3",
"3",
"3",
"3",
"3",
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] | I also see that we're about as alike as chalk and cheese, because I would never sell out a whole species for the wrongs of one group.</s>Have you forgotten that your tribe the Efik were among the most notorious slavers on the slave coast?</s>the Efik were among the most notorious slavers on the slave coast | BNC-2244 | 2,931 | A2CJYS92WX7HN6 | 3 | 33
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3PKJ68EHDN126IINGRL1PIARM4VJHY | remember | For a while the notion gripped him, and he prowled the many floors of Hamleys looking for toys. He bought a magic set for Sebastian (although his ideal present for the kid would have been a brand-new name) and a marionette for Louise. | there was an age for puppets and magic | He could remember that there was an age for puppets and magic just as he could remember the time that he 'd spent trying to fan a deck of cards or sitting in front of a mirror trying to get the hard consonants down like a real ventriloquist. | AB | modal | present | [
"2",
"3",
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] | For a while the notion gripped him, and he prowled the many floors of Hamleys looking for toys. He bought a magic set for Sebastian (although his ideal present for the kid would have been a brand-new name) and a marionette for Louise.</s>He could remember that there was an age for puppets and magic just as he could remember the time that he 'd spent trying to fan a deck of cards or sitting in front of a mirror trying to get the hard consonants down like a real ventriloquist.</s>there was an age for puppets and magic | BNC-947 | 5,306 | A2CJYS92WX7HN6 | 2 | 22
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3L4YG5VW9NX8RGDTKZG0VZ0GSAUDDX | think | B: Oh, well that's good. A: but she really doesn't. | she would adjust | Nobody thought she would adjust, | negation | past | [
"0",
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3L4YG5VW9NX8RGDTKZG0VZ0GSAUDDX | think | B: Although they've got, uh, Meals On Wheels, Which I understand is a really good, you know, way to handle that so that at least they eat. A: Yeah. Uh-huh. So as a family you all just visited nursing homes or probably in College Station there wasn't a whole lot of choice. B: No, | there was a whole lot of choice | I don't think there was. Um, | negation | present | [
"-2",
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