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You know after a couple sessions I was hoping we would get into something real, but ..." These pseudo conversations are what Buffy essayists Alice Jenkins and Susan Stuart refer to as " locutionary acts ": language that is formed to have meaning but does not engage the listener.
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`` You know what they say about two deep dives in one day '', Artie went on, still twirling the snorkle and studying it intently.
`` You know '', the lawyer said, `` it's difficult to talk like this about a man who can't answer back ''.
You know Bang-Jensen was told the Committee was ' to convey its views, suggestions and recommendations to the Secretary General.
`` You do not know me '', she said in good English, `` but my mother was your governess in Philadelphia when you were a child ''.
`` You know what she likes, Winston '', he had said wearily, one evening in November when Winston was pulling off his overshoes.
Mr. Truman emphasized this point by saying, `` You fellows in the Department of State don't know much about domestic politics ''.
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`` You will stay here thirty minutes after the others go home this afternoon and work your problems ''.
When the visitors, after losing this game, rode along the village streets toward home, the youngsters who could keep abreast of them for a moment or two screamed triumphantly, `` You bunch of hay-shakers!!
`` You often hear people talk about team spirit and that sort of thing '', Benington said in a conversation after the ceremonies, `` but what this team had was a little different.
A visitor from a more peaceful country across the sea was taken to one of our amusement parks, and after he had seen it all, he said to a friend: `` You must be a very sad people ''.
`` You share a refrigerator '', Mrs. Kirby had said, and somehow, at midnight, after the long drive from New York in pelting rain, that had sounded reasonable.
In chapter four of the second Inspector Hanaud novel, The House of the Arrow ( 1924 ), Hanaud declares sanctimoniously to the heroine, " You are wise, Mademoiselle … For, after all, I am Hanaud.
In 1173 Pope Alexander III, after reprimanding certain bishops for having permitted veneration of a man who was far from being a saint, decreed: " You shall not therefore presume to honour him in the future ; for, even if miracles were worked through him, it is not lawful for you to venerate him as a saint without the authority of the Catholic Church.
The rivalry has intensified when Indians closer Chris Perez used WWE star John Cena's signature " You can't see me " hand gesture towards KC outfielder Jarrod Dyson after striking him out in a game on May 28, 2012.
You can become certified to the COPC-2000 CSP Standard after demonstrating compliance to over 30 different items of contact centre performance as outlined in the COPC-2000 CSP Standard.
George Lucas commented on the film after its five-hour-long preview, telling Coppola: " You have two films.
Four months after publishing his first article in Marc ’ Aurelio, the highly influential biweekly humour magazine, he joined the editorial board, achieving success with a regular column titled Will You Listen to What I Have to Say?
His line, after the announcer says " You should have a Harris banker " was " You should have a Hubert doll ".
Sometime after this, Dwight Yoakam appeared on the same show and after Yates told him, " You seem different from other country singers we've had on the show ," Yoakam replied, " What?
A music DVD Harry Connick Jr. — " Only You " in Concert was released in March 2004, after it had first aired as a Great Performances special on PBS.
In the spring of 1955, after a long party in Las Vegas with Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, her husband Sid Luft, Mike Romanoff and wife Gloria, David Niven, Angie Dickinson and others, Lauren Bacall surveyed the wreckage of the party and declared, " You look like a goddamn rat pack.
They offered to exchange him for Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus, who had surrendered after Stalingrad, but Stalin turned the offer down, stating " You have in your hands not only my son Yakov but millions of my sons.
Hawkins ' song " I Put a Spell on You " was central to the plot of Stranger than Paradise, while Mystery Train is inspired by and named after a song popularized by Elvis Presley, who is also the subject of a vignette in Coffee and Cigarettes.
Also present is a scene where, after Brian has led the Fifth Legion to the headquarters of the People's Front of Judea, Reg ( John Cleese ) says " You cunt !!
With the most reckless violence of manner and language, he abused the character of the House ; and, after the first burst of his denunciations had passed, suddenly changing his tone, he exclaimed, " You think, perhaps, this is not parliamentary language ; I know it ; nor are you to expect such from me.
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