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I and think
When they were finally satisfied, Jones said, `` I think he's going to give us work ''.
I have to think about it.
I remember being told it would happen so fast people would think it took place overnight.
`` I think Montero did right '', Amy said firmly.
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.
`` I think you stink, Tom Lord!!
I think you're mean and hateful and stupid, and -- louder ''??
You think that Highlands swindled you and I helped 'em do it.
But there's one thing I never seen or heard of, one thing I just don't think there is, and that's a sportin' way o' killin' a man ''!!
`` But I still think Penny's an awful nice girl, Russ '' --
`` No, I remembered reading about you in the papers and that you lived here, and when it happened all I could think of was '' -- This time she stopped the rush of words herself.
I showed her the shower and tub, and she said, smiling, `` If you really don't mind, I think I'll get clean in the shower, then soak for a few minutes in your tub.
However, when there's a job to be done, I'm a monstrosity of grim determination, I like to think.
I worked for my Uncle ( an Uncle by marriage so you will not think this has a mild undercurrent of incest ) who ran one of those antique shops in New Orleans' Vieux Carre, the old French Quarter.
If I even hint at it do you think it will matter that you are his nephew -- and not even a blood nephew ''??
`` I don't want to be thrown out and I don't think I will.
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.

I and best
As best as I could determine, we were some 700 miles west of New Guinea, in the Bismark Archipelago.
I leave out of account the question of the best interests of the children, the question of what their best interests really are.
There is probably some significance in the fact that two of the best incest stories I have encountered in recent years are burlesques of the incest myth.
Here Wright gave a slight sigh of weariness, and continued, `` It means more long years lived across the social grain of the life of our people, making shift to live in the face of popular disrespect and misunderstanding as I best can for myself and those dependent upon me ''.
Supposing you or I were being accused in this manner, and yet we were doing our level best to carry on our work.
Sighting a line from the bridge to a small field directly to the side, I pitched the tent that evening on the stateless `` line '', digging a small trench around it as best I could with a toy spade donated by a neighborhood child.
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.
He felt as I felt about this best of all my books, that it was `` really tops ''.
I should have replied, `` I probably know something about the best part of you ''.
If it proclaims that the best is yet to be, it always arouses, at least in the young, either a suspicious question or perhaps the exclamation of the Negro youth who saw on a tombstone the inscription, `` I am not dead but sleeping ''.
I think we have the hardest working, best representative in Congress.
I will send you the best the quarter has to offer ''.
( Music often sounds best to me when I can dress informally and sit in something more comfortable than a theatre seat.
After lunch, in the arcade on my left just before reaching the street I found a pastry shop that sells some of the best baklava -- a sweet, flaky cake -- in Istanbul.
`` Of late years, I find that I like best to work out-of-doors.
`` As for materials, I use the best available.
After selecting a sheet and inspecting it for flaws ( even the best sometimes has foreign ' nubbins ' on its surface ), I sponge it thoroughly on both sides with clean, cold water.
Even though I have always had a genius for `` throwing myself '' into every role and `` playing it for all it's worth '', no actress can be expected to do her best work when her fortune, her reputation, her livelihood, her home and her nation itself are all imperilled.
a lovely Epiphany party at Errol Flynn's, on which sacred occasion Letch stole away with an unknown `` starlet '', leaving me `` high and dry '' to get home as best I could.
This theory has been put so clearly and precisely that it deserves criticism of the same kind, and this I will do my best to supply.
This way of escape is theoretically possible, but since it has grave difficulties of its own and has not, so far as I know, been urged by positivists, it is perhaps best not to spend time over it.

I and bet
This combined experience, on a foundation of very average, I assure you, intelligence and background, has helped me do things many well-informed people would bet heavily against.
I bet.
`` This is moving day '', Winston reminded her, `` and I bet you left things every which way upstairs, your clothes all over the floor and the bed not made.
I'll bet he wouldn't be pleased if a rumdum like me were to ask his daughter for a date -- I mean, after I'm out of the hospital, a month or so from now ''.
I'll bet she told you I was puny, too.
All artists do work that comes out of the unconscious mind and later on you can analyze it and say the symbolism may mean something, but artists don ’ t think that way and I would bet my life that James Whale would never have had such concepts in mind.
Ian's just split with his missus and I bet she's hit him for a few quid.
I bet there are a lot of comedians around today who are sorry about that.
If I think the share price is going to go up, I might bet £ 10 a point ( i. e., £ 10 per penny the shares moves ) at 411p.
Thus, in the example, if Lloyds TSB are trading at 411p, then for every day I keep the bet open I am charged finance cost to be 7 % (( 411p x 10 ) * 7 % / 365 ) = £ 0. 78821 ( or 78. 8p )
If at the end of the bet Lloyds TSB traded at 400-401p, I need to cover that £ 4110-£ 400 * 10 (£ 4000 ) =
In March 2007 during an interview on The Dan Patrick Show on ESPN Radio, Rose said, " I bet on my team every night.
I didn't bet on my team four nights a week.
I bet on my team to win every night because I loved my team, I believed in my team ," he said.
This piece came from a challenge from one of his sons, who pointed to a Mickey Mouse comic book and said ; " I bet you can't paint as good as that, eh, Dad?
James wrote " I would characterize the evidence that Rose bet on baseball as ... well, not quite non-existent.
when I bet my $ 100, creating a $ 300 pot, my opponent was getting 3-to-1 odds
Note that the verb " see " can often be used instead of " call ": " Bob saw Carol's bet ", although the latter can also be used with the bettor as the object: " I'll see you " means ' I will call your bet '.
She originally seems unimpressed by Jim, saying in a sarcastic tone, " I bet you're a real yo-yo.

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