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He stayed on the backbenches throughout Thatcher's premiership and engaged in a number of activities, including participation in the re-launch of TV-am ( where he was involved in an incident in which broadcaster Anna Ford threw her wine at him to express her outrage at both his behaviour and the unwelcome consequent transformation of the TV station ).
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our elders stayed in the dark house or sat fanning on the front porch.
When Blackman emerged from the bedroom, everyone was gone except the tolerant Lord Thomson, who stayed and chatted with him for half an hour, and then Blackman lay awake most of that night, despairing of what he must expect on the Continent.
Rachel stayed on after the doctor had gone.
When they got home Harold was grateful for the stillness in the apartment, and thought how, under different circumstances, they might have stayed on here, in these old-fashioned, high-ceilinged rooms that reminded him of the Irelands' apartment in the East Eighties.
They stayed in their own world on the bluff, waiting for letters and the peddler, bringing the news.
Whole platoons were taking up new positions on the steps, arriving and departing, while I stayed glued, like a signpost, to one spot.
I stayed on the car for a few minutes until, turning right, it entered a huge square, Bayezit, with the Bayezit Mosque on the right and the gate to the university just beyond it.
In Nara I stayed at the hotel where the Prince and Princess had stayed on their honeymoon.
But Hoag had not stayed on the front steps when Griffith disappeared into the building.
`` I think the big thing about the game was that our kids for the third straight week stayed in there pitching and kept the pressure on.
He took a midnight train out of Cleveland Saturday, without an official word to anybody, and has stayed away from newsmen on his train trip across the nation to Reno, Nev., where his wife, former Olympic Diving Champion Zoe Ann Olsen, awaited.
Miss Burke, a graduate of Miss Hall's school, stayed on in Florence as a career girl.
Looking unto God, the Prophet Isaiah wrote these blessed words almost three thousand years ago: `` Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee ''.
My own earliest memories are of exiles: my three brothers and I were taken often to the United States `` to visit relatives '' while my father stayed on to fight the dictator Machado.
Night after night he stayed with Gunny in the dead of winter, rubbing her with quarts of expensive liniment, fussing over her bran mash as the cook did over charlotte russe, tracking manure on the pretty new carpet when he did come to the house.
So they stayed quiet and hung not on what he said but on how he said it, not listening exactly, but rather, feeling.
Bairnson played on all albums and Paton stayed almost until the end.
David, in fear, carried the Ark aside into the house of Obed-edom the Gittite, instead of carrying it on to Zion, and there it stayed three months ( 2 Samuel 6: 1-11 ; 1 Chronicles 13: 1-13 ).
The rest of that people stayed at the centre of the Angle homeland in the northeastern portion of the modern German Bundesland of Schleswig-Holstein, on the Jutland Peninsula.
I stayed on longer than I should have ," he admitted, adding that he couldn't breathe anymore.
As the batsman started to walk back, captain Rahul Dravid declared the innings when confusion started as the umpires were not certain if the fielder stepped on the ropes and Dhoni stayed for the umpire's verdict.
It was a combined music, talk show and documentary program which was a major hit during the 8 years it stayed on air.
stayed and backbenches
After returning to Singapore, Marshall stayed on the backbenches before quitting the ruling Labour Front party and as a member of parliament in 1957 and founding the Workers ' Party of Singapore.
stayed and throughout
According to the WMUR / Granite State Poll conducted by the University of New Hampshire, just three months after taking office in January of 2005, Lynch's approval rating surpassed 50 % and has stayed upwards of 55 % throughout his tenure.
CD players had a steady decline in popularity throughout the 2000s but stayed prevalent in most vehicles, while cassette tapes became virtually extinct.
Knox and the other galley slaves continued to Nantes and stayed on the Loire throughout the winter.
Charlotte, who travelled widely and met many prominent geologists through her work with her husband, helped Anning build her network of customers throughout Europe, and Anning stayed with the Murchisons when she visited London in 1829.
They officially stayed in Buckingham Palace throughout the war, although they usually spent nights at Windsor Castle.
Though the arrangement of the theme music stayed the same throughout the entire series run ( although there are subtle differences between the themes in various seasons-especially the closing themes-and Whatever Turns You On used a completely different theme song ), the opening animation itself changed in different ways.
While the use of sea-level as a datum is useful for geologically recent topographic features, sea level has not stayed constant throughout geological time, so is less useful when measuring very long-term processes.
Thomas Trollope joined them for a short time before returning to the farm at Harrow, but Anthony stayed in England throughout.
The Lebus Land stayed with Brandenburg throughout ( as Electorate within the Holy Roman Empire until 1806, as Prussian Province of Brandenburg since 1815, with Prussia as part of the new Empire of Germany since 1871 till its end.
The club stayed in the top six throughout the rest of 2007, and were third throughout October and November, but fell to seventh on 12 January 2008 after winning only one of their previous five games.
It is rumored that the " Swede " was Frederick Law Olmsted ( Central Park Fame ) who stayed at Sebastopol House in Seguin, Texas during his travels throughout the southern US.
The railroads stayed busy transporting their products throughout the Midwest.
Although little is known of the people who stayed or visited Chiswick Villa in Lord Burlington's lifetime, many important visitors to the property are recorded as visiting throughout its history.
Ozu remained single and childless throughout his life and stayed alone with his mother who died less than two years before his own death.
Smith stayed healthy throughout his junior season in 1989 and found success again.
Nine stayed strong throughout 2004 but was hit hard when Seven introduced a new line-up in 2005, even though Nine won the year.
With six straight wins, Molde stayed in the top two positions of the league throughout the season, but eventually finished second 15 points behind Rosenborg.
Despite this, the characters do not seem to harbor ill feelings toward each other for any extended period and the cast has stayed stable throughout the show.
In his own words, Darby experimented throughout much of the 1950s and 1960s and it wasn't until 1963 that an improved sailboard with a conventional stayed sloop rig sail arrangement made it more stable than the one built in 1948.
New Orleans felt a general depression in business, and its money market stayed in bad condition throughout 1843.
An early feature on the Spice Girls coined the famous " Spice " nicknames for each member ( Baby, Ginger, Posh, Scary and Sporty ) that stayed with them throughout their career as a group and beyond.
The spirit of ecumenism with other denominations stayed strong throughout the decade, culminating in 1968 when the Canada Conference of The Evangelical United Brethren Church joined the United Church.
They later moved to Paris, while the Princess stayed throughout Europe with her extended family.
Despite the calamities of World War I, Russian Civil War and throughout 1920s, their love affair caught and stayed in public attention, possibly because she did not divorce her husband.
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