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The Longitude Prize 2014 was a $10 million prize fund to help solve one of the greatest issues of our time. |
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people were invited to vot for one of the six challenges. |
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flight - how can we flight without damaging the environment? |
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dementia - how can we help people with dementia live independently for longer? |
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parAlysis - how can we restore movement to those with paralysis? |
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antibiotics - how can we prevent the rise of resistance to antibiotics? |
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water - how can we ensure everyone can have access to safe water? |
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food - how can we ensure everyone has nutritious, sustainable food? |
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vote on the top three ideas in your group. |
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which ones should get the most support? |
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listen to other students' ideas and take notes. |
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then vote on the top idea. |
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the environmental group Ocean project has projected that sea levels will rise one metre in the next fifty years. |
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fortunately, malaria has decreased in recent years, and the decrease is due to the use of nets and pesticides. |
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when a major charity appealed for donation to help the deaf, their record was broadcast mainly via radio. |
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bonnie tyler recorded her song Total eclipse of the heart in 1983, and in 2008 it set a record for the most popular karaoke track ever. |
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tourists in a well-known site were given permit to take photos, but they were not permitted to take in their cameras. |
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which country imports more japanese used cars than any other? canada, brazil or russia? |
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in india, which colours are unlucky to wrap a birthday present in? black and white, red and green or purple and yellow? |
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which fruit do some plant experts suspect was the earth's first? the apple, the banana or the pear? |
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which is the largest subtropical desert? the arabian, the kalahari or the sahara? |
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research shows what percentage of hommade dinners in the usa include vegetables? 43%, 63% or 93%? |
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how old was michael jackson when he recorded his first hit, i want you back? seven, nine or eleven? |
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which of these products is not among italy's top ten exports? machinery, pasta or furniture? |
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how many grams of honey does a worker bee produce in its lifetime? 50%, 80% or 95%? |
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how long did the shortest war on record last? 38 minutes, 38 hours or 38 days? |
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what is the aim of the organisation? how does it want to achieve it? |
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which of these ideas 1 - 8 are connected to the environment and which are connected to personal and social development? |
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in 2004, a small london-based community organisation called we are what we do published a book, change the world for a fiver. |
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it contained fifty simple actions which ordinary people could do to make the world a better place. |
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now it's a global movement with a lively website, millions of active participants and more than 130 ideas for actions. |
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its motto is: small actions x lots of people = big change. |
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use a biro from start to finish. |
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smile and smile back. |
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do sth you think you're unable to do. |
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buy fairly traded products. |
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remember people's names. |
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turn off the tap when you brush your teeth. |
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say "no" to plastic bags whenever possible. |
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learn one good joke. |
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in the 2008 olympics, usain bolt set three world records including the 100 metres. |
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if you stay in spain for more than ninety days you need to apply for a resident's permit. |
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cctv cameras have been successful, with a huge decrease in incidents of violence. |
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police have launched a nationwide appeal for help to find a missing sixteen-year-old. |
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the national gallery is planning to project gigantic images of picasso paintings onto the outside of the building. |
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the water for you scheme is a project to give hundreds of people access to clean water. |
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researchers have recorded South American river turtles talking to each other underwater. |
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the amount of ice at the south pole has been decreasing significantly over the last ten years. |
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students are permitted to work and study in this country. |
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environmentalists appeal to supermarkets to reduce the amount of food waste. |
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have you read this article? which one? |
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this is really shocking. this, look, look at this about surveillance techniques, on page three. oh yeah, yeah i did have a look. |
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there's gonna be absolutely no privacy for anyone. |
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what you mean like C, the CCTV camera bit? yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly that. |
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well i'm glad they're there actually. why? |
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well, not long ago a friend of mine he was, um, he was robbed at a bus stop, and, and they got the guy because of CCTV, they captured his image and um all the people who did it were arrested. ok. so i think it's, i think it's a good thing. |
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weel it's good if it's used for that, but don't you feel nervous about the fact that whatever you do, wherever you go, whatever you're doing, someone is watching you and recording what you're doing. |
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but i haven't got anything to hide so it's not really a problem. |
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anyway, that's not the point though is it, it's an invasion of privacy. |
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look, i think statistically more crimes are solved because of cctv than not. |
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right, what about that, that look - this one on page two -- cctv facial recognition did you see that bit there at the bottom? yeah, i didn't really get that bit. |
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right ,so basically, just imagine you're walking down the road and the camera, a cctv camera takes your picture, yeah. |
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and then a computer programme can then find your name, all your personal information, based on recognising your face. |
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so where you shop, where you live, what you, what you like, what you buy, who your friends are. |
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and there's nothing you can do about it. |
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that can only be a good thing, 'cos it's gonna catch criminals, isn't it? |
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and if you've got nothing to worry about then you know it's never really gonna be an issue for you. |
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if it's for that, yeah i get your point. but.. if you haven't done anything wrong. |
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no, no, absolutely, but.. |
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the thing that really bothers me though is, is the way that marketing, marketing companies can target you, um, because of microchips in, in food packaging and stuff. |
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so people get an idea of, of your shopping habits. |
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i don't want to be sent adverts from companies that i don't know. |
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but we're being sent stuff all the time anyway, from companies, that we don't know. |
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i wouldn't mind being sent adverts from, you know uh companies that i don't know if it's sth that i want to buy. |
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yeah, it's a little confusing really the way, i feel about the whole thing. |
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because you know on the one hand i'm pro using the technology to you know catch criminals or whatever. |
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i mean serious criminals. but then on the other hand i occasionally drive a little bit over the speed limit. |
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occasionally. and you know i've been given quite a few fines over the years because my number plate gets recognised. |
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and i you know i think more money should be spent elsewhere to be honest. |
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i take your point, but i do actually think, although i'm really anti the amount of kind of you know filming and information they have. |
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when it comes to speeding, i do actually think that's quite sensible that they can clock what people are doing. |
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you're going to read about a course that trains people to be spies. |
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despite recent developments in surveillance technology, a camera is no substiture for the human eye and there will always be a need for that most secretive of professions, the spy. |
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in the bbc3 series, spy, a group of eight volunteers took a two-month crash course in spying. |
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their trainers were former spies and experts in fields such as psychology and body language. |
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before they joined the course, the would-be spies were allowed to tell only one person what they were really doing. |
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for everyone else, they had to invent a believable cover story to explain their two-month absence. |
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a couple of them immediately got into trouble when their story of a two-month job in new york resulted in friends promising to visit them. |
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as soon as they arrived at headquarters and before they had time to unpack, the eight 'spies' faced their first challenge. |
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they had just ten minutes to talk their way into the flat of a complete stranger and be seen by their trainers drinking a glass of water on the balcony. |
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it's a great task and one often used by real spy agencies to test their spies' abilities to act under pressure and think up plausible reasons to gain access to places. |
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the recruits learnt about surveillance techniques including how to 'go grey' and dissapear into a crowd and also how to organise a surveillance operation on a house. |
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this meant breaking into a property, planting secret cameras and bugs and fixing tracking devices to cars. |
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another week, the recruits had to go undercover, adopt new identities and take temporary jobs in a gym, a clothes shop and a barber's. |
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they had to convince their co-workers that they were genuine, gain their trust and finally persuade one of them to do sth wrong, for example to lie or to sign a false document. |
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at the end of experience, what qualities did they think were important for being a spy? |
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a spy needs to be a quick thinker, work well under pressure and be able to blend in. |
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it helps to be a woman: "sandy, our female trainer, loved to remind us how women made better spies." |
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so if you're a tall male it's probably not worth applying. |
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and were any of the participants keen to become a spy? |
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certainly not one married candidate. |
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a service insider told me that there's an exceptionally high divorce rate in the spy business with a lot of agents marrying their secretaries - the only person they can confide in and trust. |
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i had to get right underneath and it was difficult to fix it on securely. |
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i'm a location manager for a tv company and we need a place to film. |
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i'm going on safari and i'll be back in two months. |
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it's just another thing that girls do better than boys. |
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i used to work at a men's clothing store in soho - that's how i got this job. |
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i decided to do this because i hate it when people forget my name, like at schools the teachers who don't know your name. |
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they don't give you so much attention. |
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so anyway, i looked on some websites to find out the best way to do it. |
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apparently there are two important things: first is that when you're introduced you really pay attention and look at the person and try to find a way to remember the name. |
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for example, i recently met a woman called keira and she had curly hair. |
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so keira, curly, sounds similar, you see what i mean. that was easy. |
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then, secondly, you need to repeat the name as often as possible, say it to yourself several times and use it when you're talking to the person. |
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you just have to be careful that you don't sound really strange. |
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anyway, the result's been good. |
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somehow people seem friendlier and i feel a lot more confident about chatting to people. |
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the only problem is someone told me it made people uncomfortable because they couldn't remember my name. |
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it was quite difficult at first. |
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i mean you actually have to stop people trying to give you one. |
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i didn't realise before i started how many are given out all the time. |
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i thought this was a good thing to do because apparently it can take up to a thousand years for one to decay and about thirteen billion are given out each year in the uk alone. |
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and it's not only the pollution but animals and fish can get caught in them. |
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anyway, i invested in two shopping bags and i've been using them for the past three months. |
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the only problem is i keep forgetting to take them out of the house or i leave them in the car, which is very annoying. |
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my solution has been to get one of those fold-up bags that you can carry in your pocket or bag. |
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i've got all my friends to do the same and now our local shops are going to become a plastic-bag-free zone. |
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at least that will make me remember to take a bag. |
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i thought this was a good one to try because everyone always looks so bored or miserable, especially on public transport. |
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so the next time i was sitting on a train and someone sat opposite me i looke up and gave them a big smile. |
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they looked a bit surprised but smiled back at me, then buried buried their face in the newspaper. |
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i got the impression they were a bit embarrassed. |
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anyway, i continued and kept smiling at all sorts of people during the day. |
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to be hones, i got a mixed reaction, but the kids and older people seemed the friendliest. |
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oh and i found out later that one woman in the office thought i was flirting with her. |
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i decided two combine two of the ideas. |
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i've always been hopeless at telling jokes. |
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i'm sure it's not because i don't have a sense of humor. |
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it's sth about the timing. |
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and i know that jokes are great for building relationships and good for me personally as i often have to give business presentations. |
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and a funny story really helps build rapport with the audience. |
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one of the best things about doing this was that i asked all my friends to tell me their favourite jokes. |
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and we had lots of laugh-out-loud times together. |
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and i'm getting better, though i did have one very embarrassing moment at work when i told my joke to my boss. |
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and he just stared at me like i was an idiot. |
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you want to hear a joke? sth short? |
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what do cows do on saturday night? they rent movies. |
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which company is he working for now? do you know which company he's working for now? |
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how long did it take you to make their wedding cake? can i ask how long it took you to make their wedding cake? |
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have you ever flown in a helicopter before? i was wondering if you'd ever flown in a helicopter before. |
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who gave you that beautiful necklace? do you mind me asking who gave you that beautiful neckalce? |
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what time does the film start on screen one? could you tell me what time the film starts on screen one? |
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how much did you have to pay for your car? i'd be interested to know how much you had to pay for your car. |
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i haven't seen any interesting wildlife documentaries on television recently, have you? |
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he's studied more so far this fortnight than he's done all year. i wonder what's brought on this sudden change? |
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although she's always loved reading, she only started trying to write her first novel last month. |
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he worked as a shop assistant for five years before he became a manager. |
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can you believe that i've taken my driving test five times so far and still haven't passed it? |
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she's never been one for sorting things out around the house and up to now, hasn't even learnt how to change a lightbulb. |
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it's better not to talk to eddie when he gets up until he's had at least one cup of coffee. |
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you know he's not much of a morning person. |
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she's not shy but she likes to keep herself to herself and spends a lot of her free time doing her own thing. |
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richard's such a people person that i'm sure he'll make a wonderful teacher and maybe in the future, even a head teacher. |
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we always have great fun when we go out with philip and sheila. |
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they're both such a good laugh. |
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what i love about christopher is that he's so very sensible and down-to-earth. |
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no one was surprised when mel said she was going to start her own software company. |
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she's always been such a computer geek. |
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the pressure of the exams had been really intense and after finishing the final one, i was so relieved that i started crying. |
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when the comedian asked me to come up onto the stage, i truly wished the earth would swallow me up. i had never felt so embarrassed in my life. |
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when i heard i'd won the writing competition, i was completely over the moon with happiness. |
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i decided not to go to the party as i knew it would be awkward seeing jim, my ex-boyfriend. |
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although i was scared out of my wits, i knew i had to make it to the top of the mountain. |
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although i was really nervous and was shaking like a leaf, my first jump from the diving board into the pool went well. |
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