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I and didn't
I didn't understand why, Clay.
I didn't catch a wink.
He said in a studied voice, `` I didn't do it for you.
I almost didn't tell you ''.
I said that it didn't make any difference to me either, as far as I knew.
You thought I was a Mexican, didn't you, buddy ''??
`` I didn't know.
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.
`` Why '', he went on, `` when Rob asked me if he could make his dive on this trip, I didn't think twice about it.
I didn't mean to pull so hard ''.
Dr. Lalaurie and I didn't even know he was in the house until the night of our ball when he came down the stairs ''.
`` I didn't know I was gonna have company in this car ''.
I really didn't know what he meant.
Like the cowboy in Stephen Crane's `` Blue Hotel '', we run around crying, `` Well, I didn't do anything, did I ''??
A special guard was posted at my end of the bridge to make sure I didn't cross, the ludicrousness of the situation being revealed fully in that everyone else -- men, women, and children, dogs, cats, horses, cars, trucks, baby carriages -- could cross Kehl bridge into Kehl without surveillance.
When I informed her that I didn't, she said she would borrow her brother's and bring it to me later that evening.
In describing it to Professor Baker after it had been chosen for production, he defended his great array of characters by declaring that he had included that many not because `` I didn't know how to save paint '', but because the play required them.
I wanted to wipe my flint, but I didn't dare to, the state my hands were in, just as I didn't dare to do anything about the priming.

I and hurry
`` I must hurry to catch my train ''.
Her presence only made Letch more distant and irritable and, in the hurry of buying Chateau Belletch, I had neglected to consider a room for Baby-dear, so there was no place to put her, anyhow.
`` I know you wrote this in a hurry, but, Cady, Dave was only acting president of the student forum for a few days.
" I cannot tell you, dear Colet, how I hurry on, with all sails set, to holy literature.
In a later interview Hawks commented " It isn't my type of stuff, at least I got it over in a hurry.
I hurry in the clothes I have now got on, trousers and ragged jacket ; the bald place upon my head is made by thrusting the corves ; my legs have never swelled, but sisters ' did when they went to mill ; I hurry the corves a mile and more under ground and back ; they weigh 300 cwt.
; I hurry 11 a-day ; I wear a belt and chain at the workings, to get the corves out ;" ( Patience Kershaw, 17 years old, coal-bearer, testimony gathered by Ashley's Mines Commission 1842 )
One story runs that " in 1720 Sir Robert Walpole was returning from seeing George I at Kingston and being in a hurry to get to the House of Commons rode together with his servant to Putney to take the ferry across to Fulham.
: I hurry amain to reach the plain,
: I hurry amain to reach the plain,
He asked if the rumor was true and when told it was not, he replied, ' Well, I had better hurry in any case or she will get engaged to someone else.
I read the approaching fate of the Constitution in his sullen expression, in the imperfect manner in which the oath was administered, and in the strange and general appearance of hurry and concealment.
After the death of Mary I in 1558, Foxe was in no hurry to return home, and he waited to see if religious changes instituted by her successor, Elizabeth I, would take root.
Actor David Sheiner, who played James the Elder, quipped in an interview about the snowdrifts: “ I thought we were shooting Nanook of the North .” Stevens was also under pressure to hurry the John the Baptist sequence, which was shot at the Glen Canyon area – it was scheduled to become Lake Powell with the completion of the Glen Canyon Dam, and the production held up the project.
But I plunged on through the year, for since I was older than the average freshman, I must hurry, hurry, hurry.

I and though
It's bigger than it has to be, though I don't see where it's doing any harm.
I could consult this personage on any weekday morning, though not before ten o'clock.
`` But knowing you, I know that you're glad to be alive, and grateful -- and sorry because I killed the snake, even though I had to.
Father Murray goes back to the Declaration of Independence, too, though I may add, with considerably more historical perception.
Yet this passion for passion, now that I look back on it with passion spent, seems somewhat overblown and operatic, though as a diva Miss Millay perfectly controlled her notes.
A year ago, when I met with you, the nation was emerging from an economic downturn, even though the signs of resurgent prosperity were not then sufficiently convincing to the doubtful.
I wouldn't hear of it because it meant giving up the `` line '', though I realized I was in poor shape physically.
In `` My Song's Young Virgin Date '', for example, Thompson wrote: `` Yea, she that had my song's young virgin date Not now, alas, that noble singular she, I nobler hold, though marred from her once state, Than others in their best integrity.
There is a mediocre restaurant at Sounion and I fed a thin little Grecian cat and gave it two saucers of water -- there was no milk -- which it lapped up as though it were nectar.
I felt very flattered to be included in the protection of their company even though I had nothing to be protected from.
At about the age of twelve I became a Spencerian liberal, and I have always considered myself a liberal of some kind even though the definition has changed repeatedly since Spencer became a reactionary.
I would, however, like to suggest that, wrong though I may be, the tendency to see dilemmas rather than solutions is one of which I have been a victim ever since I can remember, and therefore not merely a senile phenomenon.
Just as I know I would make a bad soldier even though I cannot sincerely call myself a pacifist, so too I would not be either a hangman by profession or, if I could avoid it, even a member of a hanging jury.

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