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literal | bring | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2384 | β Did you bring that boat here? β | I persevered. |
|
literal | said | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
5,
9
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16861 | So I said, you can go in there when we are, when we done the shopping. | So she said, mm. | So I said, if you are a good girl you can choose a cake. |
literal | burned | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
64,
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2523 | In a cottage on this site lived Agnes Poley, Protestant martyr, burned at Ipswich, 15th August 1557, aged 32 years. | ||
metaphorical | struck | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
12,
18
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19479 | Then Oldham struck. | They held their line and competed hard in midfield, damping down Oldham's initial verve and preparing themselves for more of the same in the second half. | |
metaphorical | evolved | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5953 | Scott was so pleased with the style he had evolved at Battersea, a treatment that humanised industrial forms without denying their function, that he also used it on the Guinness Factory at Park Royal, west London. | At Battersea, Scott could not alter the basic design of the building and he much disliked the β upturned table β appearance created by the four corner chimneys. |
|
literal | seemed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17897 | A few months ago even, this would have seemed improbable. | The account he gave just after his release was that the threat had been that a British soldier might β accidentally β shoot one of the women. | You might have assumed this was the police bluffing and bullying. |
literal | help | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
50,
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9438 | If your father agrees, would you like to come and help with the table like you did last month? β | Alice Mair said: β I'm giving a dinner party on Thursday evening. | |
metaphorical | conceived | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3780 | It will be a further challenge to Israel's occupation, conceived in the image of earlier challenges of the Intifada. | Rather, it is a challenge. | But it will also be a challenge to us, Palestinians, summoning us to work more energetically towards the idea's fulfilment. |
literal | heard | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9330 | Anyway I asked her if she'd heard from your dad, and she has heard from your dad apparently on Friday he went to the consultant | So your dad sent a cheque. | |
literal | give | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7718 | if I give you that four. | ||
literal | means | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13085 | Yet this is by no means the only plan which the Community has in relation to the environment: Directorate-General XII (that for Science, Research and Development) has published details of an extensive R&D programme (CEC 1990a) and the Commission as a whole (CEC 1990b) has made public its plans to develop regular official statistics of the environment. | It seems certain to have major and growing effects upon environmental monitoring and prediction in Europe and on the policies of component governments. | |
literal | answer | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1163 | Although the raster displays are very crude it is simple to answer spatial queries concerning the locations of people (for instance, particular age groups) within certain distances of toxic hazard sites. | More closely linked to GIS is work by McMaster and Johnson (1986) who perform a very detailed inventory of hazardous materials (both stored and transported) in Santa Monica, California. | We have data on some hazardous sites (e.g. those regulated by CIMAH) in the UK but a much more comprehensive approach should be adopted, especially if we are serious in the search for environmental associations with chronic diseases. |
metaphorical | made | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
48,
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12375 | If the complaint is proved, a nuisance order is made requiring the defendant to get the necessary work done. | If the person in default fails to comply with an abatement notice the local authority is obliged to make a complaint to the magistrates. | Effectively the sequence is that the person in default is told what is wrong and is required to put it right. |
literal | standing | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19116 | Elinor peered at the photograph of the new owner, a motor-racing hero, standing with her sister-in-law, Marjorie. | β I doubt that . β | |
literal | wish | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22738 | In contrast to our previous example we shall now investigate a cylindrical beam consisting of two kinds of charge carriers: negative electrons and some positive particles, which I do not wish to be more precise about at the moment. | We shall assume that the two kinds of particles have equal densities and move in opposite directions. |
|
literal | using | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21772 | A major worry has been the threat posed by groundwater pollution and some research has been conducted on using GIS to monitor this (Merchant et al. 1987; Barringer et al. 1987; von Braun 1988). | The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) legislation of 1980 (β Superfund β) requires the cleaning up of the worst landfill sites, of which some 800 had been identified by the Environmental Protection Agency by 1986 (Foresman 1986). | This is an important topic since 95 per cent of rural households in the USA consume only groundwater, while half the US population consumes at least some groundwater (Merchant et al. 1987). |
literal | phoned | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14238 | Finally, after the third month passed with no rent received, Debbie phoned the tenants, asked them to pay her directly, and sent Landlords a recorded-delivery letter, which was returned, and finally one by ordinary post stating that Landlords were no longer employed as the managing agents. | She repeatedly phoned Landlords, but was either unable to get an answer or told that manager Howard Keizner was unavailable. | Because they hadn't done any management, Debbie felt Landlords were entitled only to the 10 per cent tenant- finding fee and therefore owed her Β£2,400 (3 months' rent plus the deposit). |
metaphorical | mentioning | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13176 | Two other potential sources of data are worth mentioning. | First, attention should be drawn to the new directive from the Department of Health to regional and district health authorities to review the health of the population. |
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literal | left | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11533 | Theresa gave him a brief, pitying smile, dragged the plastic bags from beneath the seat then expertly freed her brother and settled him on her left hip while, with the other hand, she collapsed the pushchair, with a single vigorous shake. | The solid uncooperative bundle was surprisingly heavy; it was like trying to manoeuvre a firm and rather smelly poultice. | Dalgliesh took the baby from her while Theresa helped the children into the Jaguar and commanded with sudden fierceness, β Sit still . β |
literal | disbanded | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5110 | β The Lucy Ring was disbanded in 1943, after being responsible for some invaluable work. | I won't go through all their successes, but it was substantial. |
|
metaphorical | blossomed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2136 | Annabel was determined to get a grip on herself and do as Scott advised: remember 1965 as the year she stopped having to go to auditions and 1966 as the year in which she blossomed into a successful young New York hostess as she met Andy Warhol, Lenny Bernstein, Baby Jane Holzer, and all the other gossip-columnist fodder. | By July, Annabel was a Junior Friend of the Metropolitan Museum, a Friend of the Museum of Modern Art, and a patron of the Bronx Zoo. |
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literal | reported | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16121 | β Somebody will likely have reported her missing . β | β We'll identify her, though, β he said, reassuringly. | He stopped, abruptly, as he remembered a conversation earlier that week, and lit a cigarette, thinking furiously. |
literal | stood | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19329 | A man stood on the porch, his hands in the pocket of his beige mackintosh. | ||
literal | use | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21599 | He reckons there are no shortages of possible uses β farmers can use it to do their accounts, women with child-care responsibilities can work in their own time on the word processors, publicity material for local craftsmen can be produced and so on. | People mustn't think that because there's a computer, they've got to think of a use for it . β | |
literal | collected | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3325 | The data volumes collected are often voluminous even by the standards of contemporary computing facilities; | ||
literal | spoke | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19030 | No one spoke. | No one asked where he was taking them. | Adam had Hilbert's old golf-bag stuck between his legs and Rufus guessed the gun was inside it. |
literal | peer | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14163 | Second, the worker had an alternative peer group of under-fives workers who were key figures in controlling access to all other under-fives facilities. | There was an expectation but not a contractual obligation that the postholder would work closely with the Beacon Nursery. | Third, the worker was committed to the idea that treatment of a medical or disabling condition should not take precedence over the child's social, emotional and cultural needs. |
metaphorical | follow | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.6776 | In his characteristic phrase, " I am their leader, I must follow them " β but he determined to follow them from the front. | His strategy was rather to canalize the enthusiasm of the diehards into party channels, to articulate their views, and to create unity from the sense of movement. | As a result of this he was labelled as a diehard and a bigot, when he actually distrusted the diehards and was himself distrusted by the bigots. |
literal | wanted | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22292 | Timothy wanted the whole dear | ||
metaphorical | holding | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9573 | The right-hand half of the room was a well-equipped kitchen with a large gas stove and an Aga, a butcher's chopping block, a dresser to the right of the door holding an assortment of gleaming pots, and a long working surface with a wooden triangle sheathing her assortment of knives. | It was, he judged, almost twenty feet long and obviously served the triple purpose of sitting room, working place and office. | In the centre of the room was a large wooden table holding a stoneware jar of dried flowers. |
metaphorical | shifted | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18386 | As his eyes focused he realized he was looking at a hideously swollen human body, and just then, as the light breeze shifted, he caught the stomach-turning odour of decay. | He saw a leg, uncomfortably wedged between sapling trees, swollen grotesquely, and gazed at it, stupidly, wondering if it was plastic. | He was a sensible and capable boy, an eldest child, so he moved closer, trying not to breathe, and stood steadfastly looking until he was confident of what he had seen: a body, must be a girl because it was wearing a skirt, lying face down, head towards the bottom of the embankment as if she had dived off the top. |
literal | continued | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4076 | β I knew there was one here, β he continued, meaning Liberal Democrats. | But, like all the best soapbox orators, Major had prepared his repartee in advance. | There were, in fact, about a score. |
literal | stood | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19343 | Large boulders stood out beside the path as grey blobs in the featureless sheets of pale grass, and flat stones had been placed as bridges across the burns, their backs hollowed by the tread of feet through the centuries. | Following these now disregarded signs of past activity along the old path, I traversed the hillside and came down to a crumbling stone sheepfold with the roofless remains of a shepherd's hut built into one wall. |
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metaphorical | came | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2712 | How did you feel as you came to the end of your working week yesterday afternoon? | Boy, I had a thirst. |
|
metaphorical | plans | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14339 | It plans to issue a protective writ but is hoping to achieve a settlement. | ||
metaphorical | appear | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1205 | In parliament he was wont to abandon an argument half-completed if he sensed that his point had been made; the speeches that appear in Hansard were touched up by his staff, and his speeches in the country were given to the press in advance. | As an extempore speaker he was able to tailor his words to his audience's reactions and so convey the impression of personal conversation even when addressing thousands. | In debate he was a formidable opponent, and one that Asquith was never able to master, for all his forensic skills. |
literal | continue | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4058 | Manchester Dispatch: I hope you will continue this form of enterprise. | You fully know as an old pressman the difficulty of dealing with a big speech late at night β¦ |
|
metaphorical | financed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.6568 | Another was the transformation of many such bodies, already heavily subsidized from public funds, into de facto agencies of the state, which financed them and indirectly determined their policy. | One result was the triumphant expansion of some charitable organizations, which rejoiced both at their new-found importance and at the Government's munificence. | Nowhere was the impact of this clumsy sleight of hand more evident than in the inner cities, where voluntary organizations had been most active, and where the Government was most anxious for them to mop up unemployment. |
metaphorical | stripped | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19462 | So much of its beauty had been stripped from it by the whipping winds. | And by the neglect of the long hot summer. |
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literal | paying | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14145 | Punters often try to avoid paying. | β Whoever they are β and only you know that β these people are serious. | Examples often have to be made. |
literal | got | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.8707 | I think a lot of people died in the making of those weapons, before they ever got launched and blew up half of London . β | Used slave labour. | |
literal | intended | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10118 | The user is intended to behave exactly according to their instruction. | By definition and design intention routines are inflexible. | No great skill or intellectual effort is required, which is one way of saying that the human operator is being under-used, but the purpose of a routine is usually to avoid common human error such as omitting a step or reversing steps. |
literal | know | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10840 | No I know. | ||
metaphorical | fall | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.6318 | John Mantley, producer of Gunsmoke for CBS for 11 years, says elements of the old story began to fall apart. | β We all read Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. |
|
literal | keep | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10435 | to keep them | ||
literal | make | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12667 | β Sit down here, Jamie, and I'll make some tea. | She did so, casting an experienced eye over him. | Mummy will come back in a few minutes, won't she, for Susie? β |
metaphorical | assume | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1615 | It would be unduly optimistic to assume that management skills have risen to a level such that costs undertaken can be assumed to be equivalent to value. | The first does attempt to obtain a value, the second remains essentially a cost and not a value. | A less direct measure which is applicable only to the most senior management is to observe the fall or rise of the share price when a particular executive leaves or joins a company. |
literal | sell | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18158 | β Many people have suffered from sales falling through and from house-buying chains, and some of our vendors feel that now's as good a time as any to sell . β | β From the vendor's point of view, the house is actually sold once a successful bid is made, β says Graham Harrison, director of Bristol and West Property Services. | |
literal | got | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.8712 | I think you've got enough there haven't you? | Hurry up cos he wants the margarine, can he have the margarine while you're spreading on? | |
literal | holding | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9574 | They fell asleep in the early hours of the morning, holding hands. | ||
literal | lived | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11917 | Well I have a brother-in-law living in He's lived there, he retired there some what, ooh fifteen years ago, more than that. | I've been pushing for a long time but erm down here? | He'd been pressing me to come down here for a long time. |
metaphorical | informed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10024 | These ideas were informed by a paper which had already been produced by an active member of the local Mencap group, who had previously tried to generate the debate within the Community Health Service through the Mencap committee. | The findings were documented in a report A Place For All Our Children (CCUF 1983) and an analysis was prepared of the practical and bureaucratic problems in gaining an ordinary childcare place for a child with special needs, with suggestions for how these might be overcome. | |
literal | obliged | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13672 | Daily Express: I am much obliged to you for the precis of Mr Bonar Law's speech last night. | It was a great help to us. |
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metaphorical | stood | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19341 | It was but er the market was so low that he decided not to well I don't think he could get a buyer actually, it's just stood there so he he he let it out rather than have it stood there with the option for us to buy it but I say now the prices are lower he's not keen on selling it at that price. | Ours is actually a new house. | And I'm not prepared to go on paying three thousand a year renting it to give to him when I could be buying one myself. |
metaphorical | following | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.6825 | The following morning, Clare's playgroup was ordered to close. | ||
literal | threw | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20868 | As he was leaving he turned around and threw a small box on to the bed. | He finished dressing, then came and held her by the shoulders, kissing her lightly on the mouth. | |
metaphorical | takes | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20094 | These factors are worthy of emphasis because in practice they are still dealt with very badly in many organisations and yet it takes little trouble or expertise to make an enormous difference. | Morale and motivation are influenced more by conditions of work in the sense of work variety opportunities and attitudes of management. | for example, very few senior managements take the trouble to keep workers fully informed about policies and likely changes. |
metaphorical | welcomed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.22538 | The club owners, the casinos, and the multinational bookmakers knew which professional gamblers successfully played games that contained an element of skill β such as backgammon and poker- and they preferred to have nothing to do with them; ideally, the house welcomed inexperienced, rich idiots. | He stiffened as he recognized a man move upstairs with a distinctive, boneless saunter: he had better send someone up to check the backgammon room. | |
literal | think | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.20621 | People mustn't think that because there's a computer, they've got to think of a use for it . β | Mr Dobbs, who is chairman of Telecottages UK, warns possible users not to get bogged down with the technology: β The equipment is a tool to overcome what needs to be done. | He reckons there are no shortages of possible uses β farmers can use it to do their accounts, women with child-care responsibilities can work in their own time on the word processors, publicity material for local craftsmen can be produced and so on. |
literal | confused | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3893 | And he said I was completely confused and I couldn't, he said I was trying to shout my wife and erm and, er, you know my mouth wouldn't work, he said, but she said fortunately she looked through the window and er found him and they took him to hospital. | I was gardening and he said er er I bent over to do something and he said I just went dizzy, he said, and I fell over he said and then I realized my right side was paralysed. | And they were saying, they were saying that, you know, you associate strokes with older people, but there's a hundred young people a week have strokes! |
literal | believe | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2037 | Their respective positions explain this in part: as ex-Prime Minister and a considerable figure in his own right, Balfour had the confidence to believe in his own judgement even when isolated from the bulk of the party; as the tertium quid in the recent contest, Law had neither the weight nor the confidence to take such a detached view. | Law conceived of the role of the leader in an exactly opposite sense from Balfour: he sought to foster unity by placing himself at the head of the discordant elements where Balfour had thrown the leadership on the side of restraint. | His strategy was rather to canalize the enthusiasm of the diehards into party channels, to articulate their views, and to create unity from the sense of movement. |
metaphorical | pushed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15116 | It was now light, the lamps on the gangway giving murky yellow pools that barely pushed back the inky blackness of a starless night. | ||
literal | looked | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12087 | It was a magnificent fightback and such was Welsh distress that they never looked like preventing it. | In the third quarter Bridgend had little difficulty in wiping out an 11- point deficit, Huw Bevan supporting Aled Williams's break for their second try. | |
literal | sit | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18691 | β I would say, just sit down and tell a good story, and to hell with the morality, β Allan Ahlberg declares. | With that characteristically strong statement, he puts his finger on the secret of the Ahlbergs' phenomenal success with adults and children alike. |
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metaphorical | gave | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.7180 | β If she took her poor child back to his father and gave her husband a second chance, she wouldn't need money . β | ||
literal | touch | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21126 | Some of the refugees originally refused to touch East German territory again, but were reassured when two of the West German diplomats said they would accompany the train, to ensure that the rules were followed. | The East German government's decision to let the refugees leave across their own country came as a surprise to many, including some West German diplomats. | |
metaphorical | got | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.8860 | Well you haven't got the choice | ||
literal | know | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10897 | So I said well it's only when you've just had a baby like, you know, like cows. | What do you mean milk comes out there? | |
metaphorical | ran | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
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] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15366 | And to Clare's delight, she sold the lease of the apartment in which she ran her playgroup β for a profit of twenty-three per cent. | The radio reported that the missing H-bomb had been located on the Atlantic seabed. | |
literal | issue | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
23,
28
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10301 | West Germans will then issue new ones. | During the journey, East German officials will enter the train, and collect all East German passports. | Legally, the refugees have been expelled from East Germany, meaning that under current rules they cannot return. |
literal | inspired | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
80,
88
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.10074 | All were spontaneous outbursts: none, contrary to some claims, were politically inspired or orchestrated (except in Northern Ireland where urban problems existed on a grander, more devastating scale, and where there was a unique heritage). | In the early 1980s, at a time when manufacturing industry was collapsing and the outlook for the unskilled looked particularly bleak, frustration boiled over in a series of riots in London, Bristol, Birmingham, Liverpool, and elsewhere. | Many had an β ethnic β dimension, in the sense that many of the rioters were black. |
literal | see | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
43,
46
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17662 | I mean, I'll, I'll, I'll be interesting to see how they they start next week with a a load of er bands on Thursday nights. | ||
literal | said | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
6,
10
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16653 | Brian said, we'll make it tomorrow night, eight to eight thirty. | A plate for Charlotte. | So, cos he had an early, erm, what do you call it, early estimate. |
metaphorical | bash | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
72,
76
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1809 | And then in the first place you're getting enough money you can you can bash it away and that'll pay for your furniture. | ||
literal | caused | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
10,
16
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2971 | The shock caused by Balfour's going thus did something to steady the party and it certainly produced a real determination to settle the affairs of the party with less friction than had been fashionable of late. | A great many crocodile tears were shed, for, since Unionists had such an elevated view of the principle of leadership, they were unable to accept that they had just driven their own leader from office. | |
metaphorical | disguise | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
107,
115
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5170 | The seemingly random and jagged-edged pattern of blue, black, silver, green and white had been designed to disguise a boat's shape from the prying eyes of U-Boat captains, so it seemed somewhat fanciful to thus camouflage a pleasure boat in the Bahamas. | There was nothing wrong with the boat's lines, which were sleekly functional, but her long powerful hull, her upperworks, and even the interior of her capacious working deck had all been painted with a wartime dazzle paint. | This boat was called Dream Baby, and she was clearly an expensive infant for rods and whip- aerials and outriggers splayed from her upperworks like the antennae of some outlandish insect. |
metaphorical | feel | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
95,
99
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.6387 | He said the NHS should address itself more to the needs of cancer patients so that they do not feel they have to go outside the system. | They should be offered relaxation therapy and stress management, and advice on diet and exercise, he said. |
|
literal | curled | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
170,
176
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4415 | It was a distinguished face with the deep-set, widely spaced eyes beneath straight brows, a well-shaped, rather secretive mouth and strong greying hair swept upwards and curled into a chignon. | In her publicity photographs she could, he recalled, look beautiful in a somewhat intimidating, intellectual and very English mould. |
|
literal | shook | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
26,
31
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18421 | The back of Lawton's head shook, his radio-projected voice crackling. | ||
literal | suggest | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
160,
167
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19603 | In no way, however, does this invalidate the need for microscale studies β for instance, while global data sets may indicate the extent of algal blooms and may suggest causes of them, only detailed study of the algae themselves can provide understanding of why the bloom is occurring. | Thus, to understand some local and many regional, national and continental and all global environmental events, we need to have a global perspective and hold global databases (Rhind and Mounsey 1989; Mounsey and Tomlinson 1988). | |
literal | estimated | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
151,
160
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.5934 | The Department of the Environment alone by 1988 was spending half a billion pounds out of an Action for Cities total, involving most Home departments, estimated at Β£3 billion. | Indeed, while with one hand trying to hold down expenditure by local authorities, the Government found itself by the late 1980s involved with the other hand in massive ear-marked spending on inner urban areas. | Perhaps a Labour government would have spent even more: it would certainly have spent it in different ways. |
literal | say | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
75,
78
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.17501 | β It's not that I don't want to say anything but I just don't know what to say, β John Ryan, the Welsh coach, sighed. | His plans in ruins, he is now reduced, Micawber - like, to hoping something will turn up before his players face the All Blacks in five short weeks. |
|
literal | deserved | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
52,
60
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4860 | β He could have blamed this and that but he said we deserved it. | β George was brilliant, β he said. | The manager's attitude shows why they are champions. |
literal | rain | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
30,
34
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.15324 | aren't we, yeah it's going to rain as well, look at that, we're gonna have to put our coats, our rain coats on | ||
literal | turned | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
8,
14
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.21398 | Delaney turned to Nell. | ||
literal | crumbling | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
119,
128
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.4393 | Following these now disregarded signs of past activity along the old path, I traversed the hillside and came down to a crumbling stone sheepfold with the roofless remains of a shepherd's hut built into one wall. | Large boulders stood out beside the path as grey blobs in the featureless sheets of pale grass, and flat stones had been placed as bridges across the burns, their backs hollowed by the tread of feet through the centuries. | |
literal | form | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
144,
148
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.6913 | This is a typical β coal shale β; shales and silts occurring between productive coal seams often contain impressions of the plants that went to form the coal. | 53 Fossil lycopod bark, Lepidodendron rimosum, Carboniferous, Newcastle, England. | The plant material itself is converted to black carbon. |
literal | consisting | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
80,
90
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.3963 | In contrast to our previous example we shall now investigate a cylindrical beam consisting of two kinds of charge carriers: negative electrons and some positive particles, which I do not wish to be more precise about at the moment. | We shall assume that the two kinds of particles have equal densities and move in opposite directions. |
|
literal | rests | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
37,
42
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.16269 | The small light beneath the receiver rests showed that the line was working. | Nell ran to the wall telephone, and pushed the digit for engine room. | |
metaphorical | maintain | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
74,
82
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12469 | Many developers use business analysts to ensure that the development team maintain a proper focus on business requirements. | But this can be counter-productive, as it cuts off communication between the systems analyst and the user. |
|
literal | catch | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
28,
33
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.2900 | I said catch it, you didn't catch it,. | Catch it, one two three catch it, one two three. | |
literal | asked | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
42,
47
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.1514 | β What kind of a trip have you had? β she asked instead. | ||
literal | hesitated | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
3,
12
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.9503 | He hesitated. | β Make it sound interesting if we talk occasionally . β | β Good luck . β |
metaphorical | set | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
100,
103
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18247 | Don't think you can get away with it just because you've always got away with everything, since you set that nursemaid's apron alight . β | So for God's sake, pay up, you stupid shit! | |
literal | switched | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
32,
40
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.19856 | It's not been on, no, I've just switched it on. | ||
literal | smoked | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
40,
46
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.18791 | You could pay your mortgage on what you smoked! | money? | |
literal | needed | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
131,
137
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.13529 | In 1912 ordinary subscriptions still brought in only Β£12000 a year and it proved difficult to raise them to anything like what was needed. | To pay for this outpouring, a great drive was mounted for additional income -by Farquhar and Steel-Maitland. | The method adopted was to canvass for capital donations that could then be invested to bring in a regular income, and both Balfour and Law were used to raise the wind. |
metaphorical | pieced | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
11,
17
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.14285 | Daniel had pieced the story together from the radio: " with throat wounds. | The day of the hearing of her second case she had been found dead. | Foul play was not suspected, " and from conflicting newspapers. |
literal | looked | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
3,
9
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.12070 | He looked at George, wondering if the sound had come from him. | A hissing, We gas escaping, ending with a funny little squeak. | |
literal | let | VUAC_ShT_Tr1_ORIGSPLIT_WITH_VAL | [
130,
133
] | VUAC_Tr1.o_val.11587 | I was calling Sweetman's bluff, confident he would not dare pull the trigger, and equally confident that my marine training would let me turn him into mincemeat. | The gun's threat had not stopped my advance. | I was also half drunk, and thus filled with the Dutch courage offered by Mama Sipcott's worst white wine. |
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