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1 Lindsay Kemp : ‘ David Bowie struck me from the very beginning as being very versatile and very ‘ up-front ’ and not in the least bit naîve .
2 French President François Mitterrand dissociated himself from the statement because of a passage which , praising Soviet moves to democracy and " economic liberty " , said that market economies should be created in the Soviet republics .
3 She had the sensation that if she looked over her shoulder she would find Rohan Saint Yves watching her from the shadows …
4 Jane Brompton called me from the Betty Ford clinic last night and it 's absolutely 100% sure .
5 Will Vern notice me from the drive when he comes out of the hospital ?
6 Or the planet gets it ! ’ our jolly NME team jive us from the inside back cover of a recent ish .
7 Mr. Brakspear dissociated himself from the report saying ‘ the error in truth having arisen from the fact that they ( he and Mr. Fryer ) were the only two who went round the links with reporters ’ .
8 Mr. Ennals got one from the Prime Minister 's son during his visit here on behalf of the British Government .
9 When Mr Heath sacked him from the Shadow Cabinet in 1968 after he had paraphrased Virgil 's Aeneid and with foreboding claimed to see ‘ the River Tiber foaming with much blood ’ he began a journey into the wilderness .
10 So the Old Parsonage remained until the American Mr Stucley bought it from the church in the 1930s , thereafter leaving it to the National Trust .
11 Adele Duncan raised herself from the pillows .
12 Several Conservative MPs repudiated the Group and Mrs Thatcher dissociated herself from the critical remarks .
13 The contents of the paper apparently horrified some ministers and , under some pressure , Mrs Thatcher withdrew it from the Cabinet agenda .
14 As Mrs Burrows took him from the hall she said to Eva " You 'd better finish the service " .
15 The March plenum expelled him from the MPRP and withdrew all his titles .
16 The Brydges family had owned the property since 1428 , when their ancestor Symon de Brugge bought it from the two daughters and co-heiresses of Richard de Ley .
17 When he realized that he was unlikely to receive satisfaction on either score , de Gaulle distanced himself from the negotiations by flying to Brazzaville in Central Africa .
18 Captain Meredith observed her from the open door , as did Miss Jarman .
19 A –rain of plastic sailed stunters , with tubular tails trailing to follow the flight path , as that great showman Peter Powell steers them from the sunroof of a moving car .
20 As soon as he learned of the rebels ' withdrawal from Derby , he sent orders to Field Marshal Wade to intercept them from the west while his own army set off in pursuit from the south .
21 Booms stayed on standby at the mouth of the Hamble River to protect it from the slick .
22 She squeezes again , and this time a great glob of Teint Naturel extrudes itself from the narrow aperture on to her middle finger .
23 And so it was that Osman Abdelal took me from the gas station and up to a small Arab village called Mazraa , clustered round the ruins of an old Roman aqueduct .
24 When Benny and Eve came out of Healy 's Hotel , they saw Sean Walsh watching them from the doorway of Hogan 's across the street .
25 " Now in 1849 both companies supplied virtually the same water … the Lambeth Company got theirs from the Thames close to the Hungerford Bridge ; the Southwark and Vauxhall Company got theirs at Battersea-fields .
26 Consecrated in Winchester by the legate Henry of Blois [ q.v. ] on 20 June , Bishop William excused himself from the consecration of Fitzherbert in late September because of difficulties in his bishopric , where Cumin was maintaining his position by force and guile .
27 SOUTHAMPTON manager Ian Branfoot substituted hardman Terry Hurlock to save him from the red card .
28 TWO years to the day after Chernobyl blew up , Valeri Legasov hanged himself from the balustrade in the stairwell of his Moscow house .
29 ( In 1940 there were only four entries so it was cancelled ) , but presumably this arrangement was unsatisfactory for in 1952 John Chalcraft bought it from the Club for £15 .
30 Once the Abbey Road studios were like a big family with pictures of Otto Klemperer and Christa Ludwig welcoming you from the walls .
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