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I hadn't been doing as much work as I used to in Westfield and I felt funny about that and wanted to work harder than ever.
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If I hadn't got Nate stopped when I did, my duds'd all be shot plumb to hell!!
`` I hated the war '', he said, `` but thought I ought to go because I was, perhaps, one of those who hadn't done enough to prevent it ''.
`` Baby, I saw a lot of old friends I hadn't seen in a long time '', he told me, his eyes bright.
I sat down to wait, and I watched Tessie Alpert, who hadn't moved or said a word but kept staring out of the window.
I'd have been more impressed if I hadn't remembered that she'd played Hedda Gabler in her highschool dramatics course.
I don't know what we would have done if Pat O'Dwyer hadn't come to town.
She'd found one and she hadn't said a word while Big Hans and I had hunted and hunted as we always did all winter, every winter since the spring that Hans had come and I had looked in the privy and found the first one.
Suppose I hadn't brought along enough money??
I thought you hadn't come in yet ''.
It was almost one and I hadn't had lunch.
Attending the life class was my idea -- or rather, Askington's idea, but I was ripe for it, and the other two wouldn't have gone if I hadn't talked them into it.
I hadn't done a serious picture in almost a year.
I hadn't chosen medicine -- it had chosen me.
After a few hours, Life hadn't showed, and I was crocked.
It's really rotten to drink good cognac like that, but I hadn't cared before.
We finished the bottle -- I hadn't had a lot out of it earlier -- not speaking much to each other, and we stayed sober.
And hadn't I rescued him from Lucille Warren??
She'd have gotten him, if I hadn't stopped her.
I and been
`` I've been mucking in a mine in the San Juan, but I used to work on a ranch.
I had for some time been hoping, in vain, for one of the dim figures to pass between the fan vents and myself.
Although I had been inside it I had not yet seen it functioning.
No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.
We've been starving and I don't like to starve ''.
At once my ears were drowned by a flow of what I took to be Spanish, but -- the driver's white teeth flashing at me, the road wildly veering beyond his glistening hair, beyond his gesticulating bottle -- it could have been the purest Oxford English I was half hearing ; ;
There had been a good second or two during which my muffler had been blowing out, and now I was certain I'd seen her somewhere before.
Neither of them, I understood, had been present at the filming session earlier.
If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied on what to do, and now I understand why they are classics ; ;
My new Aunt was perhaps three or four years older than I and it had been a long time since I had seen as gorgeous a woman who oozed sex.
I felt that he looked at me coldly and appraisingly and seemed to be uncertain what his attitude towards me should be, but he did not say one word which might indicate that he had been told of advances to his wife.
There had been classroom guffaws which quickly subsided as Professor Griggs said dryly: `` I see your point, Pauson.
From L'Turu, I heard that until about 1850 the people of this island -- which was about the size of Guam or smaller -- had been of both sexes, and that the normal family life of Melanesian tribes was observed here with minor variations.
She's been hangin' around me a lot here lately, and I figgered I might as well's try it.
Besides I heard her old uncle that stays there has been doin' it ''.
I been riding train for a ways now ''.
and if a poll had been taken immediately following the dispatch of troops to Little Rock I believe the majority would have been for the Old South.
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I and doing
It's bigger than it has to be, though I don't see where it's doing any harm.
I knew that three or four of them were almost always present in the hall, but what they were doing, and exactly where, I could not tell.
I was just doing my job, just following orders, and for that he's going to kill me.
Supposing you or I were being accused in this manner, and yet we were doing our level best to carry on our work.
I asked one day what he was doing.
`` I had natural sock '', he says, ' as a storyteller and was precociously good at description, dialogue, and most of the other staples of the fiction-writer's trade but I was bugged by a mammoth complex of thoughts and feelings that prevented me from doing more than just diddling the surface of sustained fiction-writing ''.
A few days before I saw your mention of what Texas Liberals were doing to promote `` Louis Capet '' ( The Week '', June 3 ), another analogy had occurred to me.
Meanwhile, I reloaded my gun, as the other men were doing.
Stirring, he said: `` I am sorry that my work prevents me from doing anything with you today ''.
I want to get my kit in tomorrow morning -- would you mind doing them while I cook the dinner ''??
I guess fooling Hans and me took doing.
`` I don't know what you think you've been doing about my clothes '', he said.
I admired their easy way of doing things but I couldn't escape an uneasiness at their way of always doing the right things.
I made plans for the afternoon -- doing the breakfast and luncheon dishes all at once, making the beds, and then maybe painting the kitchen.
`` This time '', Arlene said, and she even kept on wiggling a little bit while she was just talking, `` you're going to tell me what I am and what I'm doing.
Many years later ( on August 3, 1915 ), Lucy Upton wrote Winslow's daughter soon to be graduated from Smith College: `` While I love botany which, after dabbling in for years, I studied according to the methods of that day exactly forty years ago in a summer school, it must be fascinating to take up zoology in the way you are doing.
One has to talk confidentially with some of the directors of vocational high schools to realize that a boy cannot just say, `` I want to be a plumber '', and then, by doing good work, find a job.
In a far distant part of the United States, I was talking to an instructor about a boy who in the twelfth grade was doing special work.
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