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1  He was also sort of a nasty guy.
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2  I was beginning to sort of hate him.
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3  I sort of put my hand on his shoulder.
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4  I sort of wished he'd cover up his bumpy chest.
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5  The minute I went in, I was sort of sorry I'd come.
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6  He sat up more in his chair and sort of moved around.
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7  I sort of closed one eye, like I was taking aim at it.
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8  He didn't say it just sarcastic, but sort of nasty, too.
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9  "Well, I sort of glanced through it a couple of times," I told him.
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10  After I got across the road, I felt like I was sort of disappearing.
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11  His door was open, but I sort of knocked on it anyway, just to be polite and all.
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12  I was feeling sort of tired from the trip to New York and all, and I started yawning.
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13  She hung up my coat in the hall closet, and I sort of brushed my hair back with my hand.
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14  I sat next to her once in the bus from Agerstown and we sort of struck up a conversation.
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15  The funny thing is, though, I was sort of thinking of something else while I shot the bull.
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16  She had a big nose and her nails were all bitten down and bleedy-looking and she had on those damn falsies that point all over the place, but you felt sort of sorry for her.
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17  I mean if a boy's mother was sort of fat or corny-looking or something, and if somebody's father was one of those guys that wear those suits with very big shoulders and corny black-and-white shoes, then old Hans would just shake hands with them and give them a phony smile and then he'd go talk, for maybe a half an hour, with somebody else's parents.
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