• Hardly anything in this saga of an English family that gets separated and then, amid much suffering, struggles to get back together matches the frightening splendor of the disaster.

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  • And as a student he had worked during the holidays in various factories belonging to the Fiat group: on a car-production line in Poland, in a dealership in France and in a component factory in the English Midlands, where he boarded with a very ordinary English family.

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  • English is, in truth, a family: American English and British English are siblings from the same parentage, neither is the parent of the other.

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  • This was in 1919, when his father was Polish ambassador to the Court of St James, but the connection with Britain went back to his grandfather, who had served in the British army, and continued through the English governess who accompanied the family back to Poland and brought him up.

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  • Here the Ashbridge family lovingly nurtures native English breeds such as Gloucester Old Spot and Saddleback pigs, and Longhorn and Dexter cattle, the latter known for its creamy yellow fat and the marbling in its meat.

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  • Mr. Unsworth was born in 1930 to a family of miners in a small English village.

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  • Three of the trapped miners are Mexican nationals, and their family members don't speak English.

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  • In one moment I was at home with family and friends dreaming of studying English, of becoming a schoolteacher.

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  • It was once part of the collection of Valda Virginia Vaughn Scott, the daughter of an English diplomat and a member of the Alessi family.

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  • The rugs were rolled, the art was taken down from the walls, her needlepoint chairs whatever she valued, he told her her English fabrics, the china, even her family Bible: it was all to be packed up and carted to Milledgeville and thence put on the train to Savannah, where John's cotton broker had agreed to store their things in his warehouse.

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  • Cases of criminal law and family law are matters reserved for the English courts alone.

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  • Currently governor of the Bank of Canada, Mr Carney, his English wife and four children live in a large family house a short distance from his office in Ottawa.

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  • The next day we talk to an Afghan general, Sayed Malook, who says he is heart-broken by the killing and wishes he could speak English so he could tell Captain Barrie's family how deeply sorry he is.

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  • The release of the photograph, along with details of his appearance and scant possessions at the time of his discovery, is part of an effort by German authorities to unravel the mysterious identity of the boy who speaks English and a little German and what is his family background.

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  • Seated around one of the tables, Eva Berro and her family chat in the mixture of Arabic and English.

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  • His mother's family were from the Middle East, his English great-uncle designed the original Mini, which Rover has only recently revamped.

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  • The release of the photograph, along with details of his appearance and scant possessions at the time of his discovery, was part of an effort by German authorities to unravel the mysterious identity and family background of a young man who spoke English and a little German.

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  • The hotel is a converted English-style mansion, initially built in 1932 as a family home for toffee tycoon Sir David Duncan.

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  • It was a little over a century ago that my grandfather first came to America to work as a houseboy for a family in the state of Washington in exchange for English lessons.

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  • The plot brings the cultured and rather high-minded Schlegels in contact with a very different sort of family, the Wilcoxes, who appear to represent English values at their most infuriatingly solid and complacent.

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  • After a career in Hong Kong that earned him a cult following for work such as The Killer, A Better Tomorrow and Hard Boiled, he packed his bags in 1992 and set off for Hollywood with his family, an embryonic reputation, a smattering of English and a savvy production partner, Terence Chang.

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  • He moved to Reading with his family when he was nine, where he first adopted an English accent to avoid bullying.

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  • Some, like Ahmed, haven't seen their family for months, but, to fill the time, is learning English whilst being cared for.

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  • The broadcasts include unbiased news reports, call-in shows, English lessons, music, commentary on Chinese affairs and feature programs on everything from health and family matters to economics and the American way of life.

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  • The categories range from "Pain Free", which tries to find who is making shopping online as straightforward as possible, to Best Family e-Business, which targets smaller online retailers such as hotel chain Elegant English Hotels and pharmacist Allcures.com.

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  • In 2002, a survey by the Pew Hispanic Centre and the Kaiser Family Foundation found that over 90% of second-generation Hispanics were either bilingual or mainly English-speaking, split equally between the two.

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  • It was Richard's tragedy that after being betrayed by the turncoat Stanley family at Bosworth, he then had to contend with the greatest poet-playwright in the English language spin-doctoring against him on behalf of the incoming regime.

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  • Kent's current director of cricket, Graham Ford, has left the county due to family reasons, and will join South African franchise the Dolphins as coach at the end of the English season.

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  • Born in Madrid to a wealthy family and the owner of a group of businesses, Mr Rato, who is 55, speaks excellent English thanks to his time studying at the University of California in the 1970s.

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  • Prof Mills, who has worked in Cheshire for the last 30 years, says he was surprised at how little his English friends knew about the explosion until he showed them photos taken on the day, which he inherited from a family friend.

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