As he was making adjustments, he said he became distracted and it collapsed.

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News 24 and Sky prepared to take it live, but the cameras became distracted by a man up in the rafters.

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But Van Barneveld became distracted in the fourth set - the last before the interval - and Fordham stepped in to reel off three straight legs.

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Do the South Africans feel unsettled, or is it that he has revenge on his mind for the hammering England handed out two summers ago when Arthur's team became distracted following the Test series?

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Then I got take out, because in all of the hustle and bustle of building the site I became too distracted to make a decision for dinner.

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The Army began the new millennium with fundamental misconceptions about what kind of threats it would face in the years ahead, and then became thoroughly distracted by wars that few of its planners had anticipated.

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Carol became one of those distracted, break-taking clerks at the city license bureau while somebody equivalently well connected in St.

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The distracted dilettante became a purposeful monarch.

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Long distracted by other ventures, Duffy became more involved as 3Ci showed promise.

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Distracted by the lawsuits and later by vague conditions and the prospect of penalties for disobeying them, Microsoft became timid, looking over its shoulder and second-guessing its decisions large and small.

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