• When they crossed the Potomac that humid August morning, its banks were ablaze in yellow and red blossoms, Lady Bird Johnson's lasting floral bequest to the nation before she and her husband had left the capital, disillusioned, with the country mired in an unwinnable war.

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  • They certainly knew she had spied for Russia, and questioned her before she left.

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  • On what would prove to be the morning of his death, Ms. Stinebrickner-Kauffman said, the couple had a tickle fight before she left for work.

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  • Ms Andrews admitted she knew Mr Cressman was dead before she left their home, although she initially told police she had had no idea what had happened.

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  • She had lived in that country with an abusive husband, whom she left before the war broke out and the Japanese captured her.

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  • Though she had been specifically picked by Mr Breivik (who called her the murderer rather than the mother of the nation), she had fortunately left the island before he got there.

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  • She had no idea what she was getting into when she left Hawaii no idea that only months before she arrived Indonesia had suffered a failed but brutal coup and the killing of several hundred thousand people.

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  • Metropolitan Police officers believe she had argued with another woman driver and got out of her car before she was hit and left injured in East Barnet Road.

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  • Before she left Washington, senior members of Congress had urged her to come down hard on Mr Arafat.

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  • In May 2004, just a week before her wedding, she had developed a melanoma metastasis in her left lung.

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  • "Only his mother appeared before the judge to say that she had lost control of her son after he left the house at about age 11, " the prosecutor, said.

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  • She was our maid, and had been since before I was born, before my parents left our country and moved to Egypt.

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  • Finally, she was able to call him to say she was safe and that her group had left the finish line just minutes before the blast to walk to a cafe for lunch.

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  • Police say Angelly and Anchondo initially provided false information before she admitted that they knew the child was left in the tub unsupervised and that she had placed him in the tub to wash him off after he soiled his diaper because they had run out of clean ones.

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  • She had left a friend's house at about 04:00 GMT, before police were called following reports of a domestic disturbance at her ex-partner's house, at about 04:30 GMT.

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  • She changed the direction of British politics more than 20 years after she left office, the Labour Party continues to sound more moderate than they had before her presence in Downing Street.

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  • Diana would think of her last sight of me, that same morning, when she pulled up to the station and slammed on the brakes, and I got out of the car and, before closing the door, leaned in with a cryptic smile to say goodbye she would think that I had left her from that moment.

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  • Patrick almost left before it got started, angry that senior Bank of America bankers had come to a meeting she thought would consist only of lawyers.

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  • Had Miss Suu Kyi left to see her husband before his death, or to attend his funeral, she would probably have been consigned to lifelong exile.

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