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I and wouldn't
Donald Kruger would like nothing better than to hold him as hostage, and I wouldn't entrust a snake to his tender care.
Finally Hernandez said, `` I could offer you advice, Tomas, but you wouldn't heed it ''.
I would have foregone my romantic chances rather than leave a friend sweltering and dusty and -- Well, at least I wouldn't have shouted back a taunt.
I wouldn't have known the difference.
I wouldn't have the stuff in the house.
`` I might have starved, but at least I wouldn't be fried to a crisp and soaked with dirt ''!!
Of course, males play a role there, but believe me when I say you wouldn't enjoy yourself one bit on Eromonga.
I felt a queasiness in my own stomach but it wouldn't do to show these girls that we were afraid.
I wouldn't hear from him for a couple of weeks, then he'd come around with the completed lyric ''.
`` He's a wrong-o '', said Runyon, `` and I wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw the Statue of Liberty ''.
Somehow I think that Watson paid more attention to me than he otherwise might have because his foe, Colonel Van Hamm, wouldn't touch me with a ten-foot blue pencil.
This man, Tom said, had the play shut up in his desk, I believe, and when Tom sat down, he pulled it out and apologetically told Tom that they wouldn't be able to use it.
I remember him pointing out of the window and saying that he wished he could live to see another spring but that he wouldn't.
I worked on the Schuylkill Expressway and if it had not been for the big trucks carrying rock and concrete there wouldn't be an Expressway.
You wouldn't have me throw the poor boy out on the street '', Eileen said when I needled her about it.
`` I promised him I wouldn't ''.
As I say, I wouldn't want to begin a day like this, but I often wonder what the dead would have done.

I and hear
So I can hear you while I'm checkin' the car.
`` 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 just wanted to hear you say so ''.
As I went out, I could hear water pouring in the shower.
His first inaugural address speaks of `` my country whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love ''.
but I hear the thunder roll ; ;
I could hear Alfred's voice a few words behind Meltzer's like a counterpoint, punctuated by sobs of sorrow and resignation.
I was anxious to hear about those dazzling days on the Great White Way.
In news broadcasts I consistently hear the foreign volunteers fighting in the Katanga Army referred to as mercenaries.
The monk who opened the door immediately calmed his worries about his reception: `` I speak English '', the old man said, `` but I do not hear it very well ''.
I hear the whole bunch is croakin out in the snow.
Now, if you don't mind, I should like to hear my own piece performed ''.
`` I stopped to say goodbye, Mrs. Lattimer, and to tell you how sorry I was to hear about your baby.
`` I don't hear the music.
I thought she'd gone upstairs and expected to hear she had.
I never thought I'd live to hear people chuckle and say `` zounds ''!!
I myself hear it said constantly -- in drawing-rooms.
I am very pleased that quite a number of you found ways to communicate to me your desire to hear of our reactions and experiences in the U.S.S.R..

I and because
I lived in a state of suspense because of it.
I had come to New Orleans two years earlier after graduating college, partly because I loved the city and partly because there was quite a noted art colony there.
My Uncle and I were not too close socially because of the difference in our ages.
I dismissed these feelings as wishful thinking but I could not get it out of my head that we had a strong physical attraction for one another and we both feared to dwell on it because of our relationship.
`` 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.
You hate me, you hate my guts, because I like to hunt.
You actually hate me -- and we both know it -- because I killed that filthy snake.
and I have heard many say that they are content to earn a half or a third as much as they could up North because they so much prefer the quieter habits of their home town.
Sometimes I guessed it was because the rain squall had changed direction.
`` I suppose because it saves them some loss of body water.
The persistent horror of having a malformed child has, I believe, been reduced, not because we have gained any control over this misfortune, but precisely because we have learned that we have so little control over it.
I knew that a conversation with the author would not settle such questions, because a man is not the same as his writing: in the last analysis, the questions had to be settled by the work itself.
I suggested that one must let it in because it is the truth, but Beckett did not take to the word truth.
And if I have gone into so much detail about so small a work, that is because it is also so typical a work, representing the germinal form of a conflict which remains essential in Mann's writing: the crude sketch of Piepsam contains, in its critical, destructive and self-destructive tendencies, much that is enlarged and illuminated in the figures of, for instance, Naphta and Leverkuhn.
`` 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 ''.
At the same time, I am aware that my recoil could be interpreted by readers of the tea leaves at the bottom of my psyche as an incestuous sign, since theirs is a science of paradox: if one hates, they say it is because one loves ; ;

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