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* " She can't hardly sleep " for " She can hardly sleep " ( a double negative, as both " can't " and " hardly " have a negative meaning )
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She and can't
She helped Raymond of Capua write his biography of her daughter, and said, " I think God has laid my soul athwart in my body, so it can't get out.
He said of his mother, " She improved my love of vegetables by introducing the phrase, ' You can't go out and play cricket until you have eaten all your vegetables.
Louis B. Mayer, head of the studio, sent a telegram to Al: " She can't sing, she can't act, she can't talk, She's terrific!
She has no eyes, legs, wings, antennae, and can't eat, but she emits a strong pheromone to attract a mate.
She clarified her meaning on the difference between speculative and science fiction, admitting that others use the terms interchangeably: " For me, the science fiction label belongs on books with things in them that we can't yet do .... speculative fiction means a work that employs the means already to hand and that takes place on Planet Earth.
She wakes up one morning after a wild farewell party for a group of them to find that while drunk the night before, she married a soldier whose name she can't remember, except that " it had a z in it.
She plays piano, likes dancing and has a quirky side to her which she usually can't express in the classical parts she is asked for ”.
She had no children, once telling an interviewer, " I can't stand babies — no, I love babies as long as their parents take them away.
She said, " My lord king, you granted them permission to dwell while the moon waxed and waned ; now that's for ever and always, so you can't take it off them.
She has something of an inferiority complex which drives her to be the absolute best, and she can't tolerate seeing others better than her.
'" She was aware of it ; she was reported saying, " People can't be rude to me, this poor little old woman.
She and hardly
She is so consumed with writing the story that she hardly notices as Bruce realizes his cause is hopeless and returns to Albany.
She noted that although Ken had many relationships, " he could hardly be described as an early ' Dirty Den '", a character notable for his womanising in the soap opera, EastEnders.
She makes her farewell, repeating their aunt's maxim to Harriet that ' whenever the matrimonial alliance is broke, and war declared between husband and wife, she can hardly make a disadvantageous peace for herself on any conditions ' but Mrs Fitzpatrick contemptuously dismisses this advice.
" In her review, Pauline Kael noted that " the decisive change in the characters ' lives which the story hinges on takes place suddenly and hardly makes sense ..." She was not the only critic to question the gap in the plot ; of the scene in the hospital shortly after Katie gives birth and they part indefinitely, critic Molly Haskell wrote, " She seems to know all about it, but it came as a complete shock to me ".
She began offering us all kinds of behavior that we hadn't seen in such a mad flurry that finally we could hardly choose what to throw fish at ".
'" She went on, the " art of China-watching is imprecise at best, and hardly deserves yet to be called Sinology.
She believes that he made up his name because he is actually very nice and " doesn't scare her, hardly.
She says in her blog's introduction, " My voice hardly changes even if I breathe in the helium gas .".
She appears in the original Inverness serial, as well as Return to Inverness, in which it is revealed that she has hardly aged over the intervening years, whereas Jack, a mortal, has.
She and Lowinger take pains to establish that the Tropicana was hardly a sleazy Mob hangout but rather a world-class entertainment venue that discriminating gangsters happened to enjoy frequenting.
She had hardly been given any trial when, by chance, she was called on to create the leading woman's part in Lamartine's Toussaint Louverture at the Porte St Martin on 6 April 1848.
She and sleep
She goes to sleep unsettled, only to awake and learn that what she assumed to be haunting spirits were actually the domestic voices of the servant, Peter.
She concluded that lucid dreams were a category of experience quite distinct from ordinary dreams, and predicted that they would turn out to be associated with rapid eye movement sleep ( REM sleep ).
She cast a spell to put the dragon to sleep, enabling Jason to obtain the Golden Fleece from the oak tree.
She can ’ t sleep and loses touch with reality, as she feels it ’ s November and snaps when Robert corrects her.
She feasted on blood by seducing young men as they slept ( see sleep paralysis ), before drinking their blood and eating their flesh.
She put him into eternal sleep so he may never grow old or die and together they had fifty daughters ( and according to some also a son, Narcissus ).
She was eventually made personal secretary to company president Caleb Smith Bragg, whose frequent lengthy absences from the office allowed her to catch up on the sleep she had lost the previous night when she was out late performing at private parties.
She then uses a love potion on Zedd, who is in a deep sleep during his centennial re-evilizer, and he falls in love with her when he wakes up.
She died in her sleep of natural causes on February 27, 1993, at the age of 99 and is interred beside her sister Dorothy at Saint Bartholomew's Episcopal Church in New York City.
She concludes that the fire was most likely accidental, the result of poorly cleaned chimneys and a cook fire in the neighbouring house — a cook fire manned by Marie-Manon, the young panis slave who was the very person who started the rumours about Angélique having said that her owner would not sleep in her bed.
Such constructions are not actually redundant ( unlike " She slept a sleep " or " We wept tears ") because the object's modifiers provide additional information.
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