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1  Like somebody'd just taken a leak on them.
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2  Anybody else except Ackley would've taken the goddam hint.
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3  I probably wouldn't've taken her even if she'd wanted to go with me.
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4  I'd already taken off my hunting hat, so as not to look suspicious or anything.
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5  I probably would've told her what really happened, but it would've taken too long.
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6  She knows the whole goddam movie by heart, because I've taken her to see it about ten times.
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7  You'd have thought they'd taken baths in the same bathtub or something when they were little kids.
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8  I should've taken a subway or something, because I was getting slightly low on dough, but I wanted to get off that damn Broadway as fast as I could.
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9  To get to where the mummies were, you had to go down this very narrow sort of hall with stones on the side that they'd taken right out of this Pharaoh's tomb and all.
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