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1 Lynn McCool from Strabane did so when she and her partner Eileen Rose Power turned five up on Andrea Dunne and Julie Thomas and went on to win six and four .
2 Hysterical screams from Symms drowned out Keith 's words ,
3 It 's been talking to OSF about just these kinds of things , and would ( of course ) , like to do more than simply participate in such an effort if it could , though the smoke signals from OSF read simply ‘ message received , ’ for the present .
4 He stood against the wall as sixteen pairs of eyes from faces pressed up against the office windows scrutinised him and saw , he knew only too well , a small , scrawny creature with spots breaking out over his face .
5 The author traces the lively thirteenth-century silk trade , as contacts grew with China and traders from Genoa bought ever greater quantities of Persian silk , much of it used to embellish the homes of a prospering merchant class in Europe 's expanding towns .
6 Then , right after he and Mr. Mendez left , a mustered-out soldier from Thomas came in looking for passage to Bisbee .
7 The two men with whom he had shared the compartment from Moscow stood away from him , as if by choice .
8 Although air units from Malta had not participated in the action , this day ( 29th. ) a 69 Squadron Maryland was despatched from Luqa to reconnoitre the area .
9 It required servicing approximately once a month and usually three electricians from Scunthorpe carried out the work .
10 At least the Scots were able to bid their farewells from Suva in better heart when the result from Dublin filtered through , John Jeffrey even suggesting that the air fare back to London to appear as a pundit on television 's Rugby Special might just be worth paying to hear the reaction of some of his English chums !
11 The data from WIRS did not always show that establishments where trade unions were recognised or where union density was high were also less likely than others to use temporary workers [ see Table 3.9–10 ] , but there were good reasons to explain this — not least the absence of a question in the survey on employers ' use of casual workers .
12 A chapter from Harrogate came down to do battle in Bedale .
13 A telegram from Stanislaus arrived shortly before curtain up ; Babs was over the moon .
14 The refugee from Glasgow saw through , and stood up to , some famous middle-class progressives , was asked to spy on student Communists , was asked , by a girl at a party , to ‘ do something !
15 Fire fighters from Stockton put out a fire in a potting shed at a house in Bishopton Road , Stockton .
16 He said yesterday that there was studies of harm from alcohol varied greatly , and the basis for 14 and 21 was ‘ not all that solid . ’
17 Perhaps their escape from Germany felt as miraculous as that of Jonah from the whale .
18 If the dispute had ended there , the exchange of words would have passed into football folklore as further evidence of Gallacher 's greatness , but the bad boy from Bellshill had only just begun .
19 And , receiving another encouraging nod from Karl pulled out her list .
20 The £700,000 transfer from Charlton went through only 48 hours after Lee rejected the chance to link up again with his former boss Lennie Lawrence .
21 The following data , assembled by Easterlin ( 1974:105 ) , however , examined the relationship across various countries from surveys conducted around 1960 ; the personal happiness rating was the average reply to a scale where 0 indicated that respondents were very unhappy and 10 that they were very happy .
22 Could it possibly be mere chance , I asked myself , that this manna from God knew where just happened to be my absolute favourites bar none ?
23 It seems once the ice was broken and egos calmed , getting down to the eight key tasks with help from outsiders did not seem so bad after all .
24 Crosses from Sharpe set up all three goals after United were , astonishingly , three down .
25 Like any man who turns a grudge into a crusade , Joyce 's alienation from reality grew more pitiful .
26 Whether they had been worked at some preceding date is a matter of no little conjecture but is unlikely and it seems that the miners from Keswick started there in 1599 .
27 After a week 's crash course in teaching English to foreign students , she and a girl from Lincoln went out to Cracow , Poland 's second largest city , to work in a school for the blind and partially sighted .
28 Windows in the street were broken by the blast and fire crews from Grangetown put out the blaze .
29 Huguenot refugees from France settled here in what became one of London 's ghettoes in the eighteenth century , and brought their weaving skills with them .
30 And they listened on the telephone from Nottingham did n't even mention it !
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