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I and can
`` I can take care of this.
I don't know what makes you think you can get away with this kind of business, and I don't care about that, either.
So I can hear you while I'm checkin' the car.
Print it in real big letters, an' I can cipher it out later ''.
`` Yeah, I can see that '', the friend was forced to agree.
Now turn around so I can see your face ''.
`` Got a lot to tend to, but I'll get back quick as I can '', he assured her.
I can see Dan.
Besides, 'tain't no more'n right for me to follow with my black oxen, so's I can unhook and pull up fast if either of you get in a pinch ''.
`` I've got her as neat as I can '', Donovan said, as he dropped the straps of the Seton harness over Greg's shoulders.
I could show what I can do ''.
It'll probably be at least an hour or two before I can check back with you.
Even as I said it I realized that an education can be invaluable.
`` I know what we can do '', I said.
I think I have a way so we can carry on without his suspecting us ''.
and now I think we can use the knowledge they passed on to us.
To this meek conjugation Nicolas had replied, `` O.K. I can use this blanket.
I can never pronounce it ''.
`` Or do you want to see if I can stand fever, too ''??
`` I suppose '', he muttered, `` I can sell the outfit for enough to send you home to your folks, once we find a settlement ''.

I and fix
`` Know what I had to fix fer Ole Him ''??
Yes, well, it's a pity to spoil your girlish figure -- which all those kittens would do anyway -- but I think when you've raised these we'll just have the vet fix it so there won't be any more.
Arthur Phillip quoted " The living conditions need to improve or my men won't work as hard, so I have come to a conclusion that I must hire surgeons to fix the convicts.
It was by his advice and that of a contemporary Turkish statesman that the celebrated corps of Janissaries was formed, an institution which European writers erroneously fix at a later date, and ascribe to Murad I.
Paine wrote that " the people of France were running headlong into atheism and I had the work translated into their own language, to stop them in that career, and fix them to the first article.
" One thing a Southern boy will never say is, ' I don't think duct tape will fix it.
In 1788, George Washington said, " No colony in America was ever settled under such favorable auspices as that which has just commenced at the Muskingum ... If I was a young man, just preparing to begin the world, or if advanced in life and had a family to make provision for, I know of no country where I should rather fix my habitation ...".
Buscemi, in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, is adamant about not altering his teeth saying " I've had dentists who have wanted to help me out, but I say, ' You know, I won't work again if you fix my teeth.
I was then able to fix a few parts I thought were a bit weak and add a few extra parts to it that I thought were important-the guitar and the female vocals in particular.
I attribute it to the induction of a habit of intense abstraction, or concentration of attention, and maintain that it is most readily induced by causing the patient to fix his thoughts and sight on an object, and suppress his respiration.
* Rohl also asserts that the record in the Ebers papyrus of the rising of Sirius in the ninth regnal year of Amenhotep I, which is used in conventional chronology to fix that year to either 1542 BC or 1517 BC, has been misread, and instead should be understood as evidence for a reform in the Egyptian calendar.
:' The reasons that led me to fix Adelaide where it is I do not expect to be generally understood or calmly judged of at present.
Temporary facilities, to include 129 " I dormitories ", were hastily erected as a quick fix to replace tents cities housing recruits.
" The issue of economic sanctions is a moot point now and I will encourage national organizations I'm in contact with to come and lend a hand-not just economically, but to help us begin to educate people about how we need to fix this broken system.
In the interview, he was asked why he came to Iraq, his reply was " I come to fix broke stuff.
Later versions of the Pegasos I came with a hardware fix which was designated " April ".
Ali al-Ridha was angry and annoyed and said, " I have always told you that when you employ someone for a job first of all fix his wages.
Robert Kaleski, of Moorebank, a young associate of Harry Bagust, wrote " in 1893 when I got rid of my cross-bred cattle dogs and took up the blues, breeders of the latter had started breeding ... to fix the type.

I and him
I believed him.
Next to him was a young boy I was sure had sat near me at one of the trading sessions.
In my sights I watched him looming bigger and bigger.
Now under me I could see him for what he really was, a boy dressed up in streaks of paint.
`` I know him.
Once, pressing him, I learned that his job was only part-time, in the afternoons when nothing went on in the hall.
With distaste I saw him assume a pompous air.
At last, when I put it to him directly, the clerk was forced to admit that the delay in my case was unusual.
When I asked him what, if anything, I could do about it, he surprised me by referring me to the director of the hall.
I was at once disappointed, although just what I had expected him to look like I could not have explained.
`` I never saw him.
`` I can't leave him there.
Donald Kruger would like nothing better than to hold him as hostage, and I wouldn't entrust a snake to his tender care.
But, by gosh, I want him and I'm going to have him!!
I meant him no harm.
I've got to take Danny away from Clayton before I lose him altogether.
I heard o' Texas cattlemen wrappin' a cow thief up in green hides and lettin' the sun shrink 'em and squeeze him to death.
`` I don't know nothin' about him ''.
`` So help me, Crouch, I'd like to kill you where you stand, but, before I do, I'm going to hear you admit killing him.
`` I ain't ragging him ''!!
I didn't get a good look at him at all, his back was to me, and I was so scared It was just somebody in a man's suit.

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