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1  He says you have his daughter here.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
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2  You'll come regularly to see your daughter.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
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3  You have put it to me that you want your daughter.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
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4  Doolittle: you have brought your daughter up too strictly.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
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5  He takes the place left vacant by the daughter's retirement.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
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6  I'll adopt you as my daughter and settle money on you if you like.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
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7  As a daughter she's not worth her keep; and so I tell you straight.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
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8  You can adopt her, Mrs. Pearce: I'm sure a daughter would be a great amusement to you.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
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9  Mrs. and Miss Eynsford Hill are the mother and daughter who sheltered from the rain in Covent Garden.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
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10  The daughter has acquired a gay air of being very much at home in society: the bravado of genteel poverty.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
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11  Your daughter had the audacity to come to my house and ask me to teach her how to speak properly so that she could get a place in a flower-shop.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
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12  It had prevented her from getting educated, because the only education she could have afforded was education with the Earlscourt green grocer's daughter.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
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13  With a look of dignified reproach at Higgins, he comes slowly and silently to his daughter, who, with her back to the window, is unconscious of his approach.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
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14  Pedestrians running for shelter into the market and under the portico of St. Paul's Church, where there are already several people, among them a lady and her daughter in evening dress.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
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15  And it is notable that though she never nags her husband, and frankly loves the Colonel as if she were his favorite daughter, she has never got out of the habit of nagging Higgins that was established on the fatal night when she won his bet for him.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
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