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"text": "I now realise, after years as a minister, that what I have been the whole while was a sort of semi-socialist. Now I realise that we've got to try to hand back more decisions to the people. When he came into office in 1970, Mr Heath seemed […]",
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"ref": "1999, Carrie Brown, Lamb in Love: A Novel, Algonquin Books, page 193",
"text": "A high hot color has risen into her cheeks. “Mr. Lamb—do you, would you—could you mind him while I take Jeremy to Dr. Faber's?” She says this, Norris thinks, as though he has not been here the whole while, listening to matters develop.",
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"ref": "2000, Leo Frankowski, The Fata Morgana, Baen Publishing Enterprises",
"text": "\"Anyway, after fifty years, what's a few more months?\" \"So you've been here the whole while? You never thought of going home?\" \"Oh, at first I did, but there was really no way to do it. I didn't bring a boat the way you folks did,[…]\"",
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"ref": "2012, Ginny Powers, The Legend of Black Lake, Xlibris Corporation, page 103",
"text": "Where had Hans come from? He had on a pair of worn leather shorts and hiking boots. His shirt showed stains of sweat. Maybe he had just wandered by at the right time . . . or maybe he had been here the whole while, watching.",
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