James Freyn, the narrator, is 106, a dropped-out philosophiser, reminiscing into Cowley's tape-recorder about a trip he made in his 20s into the interior of a god-forsaken British colony in South America, to collect two horses from a French-Swiss religious nutter worshipped by robotically obedient natives.

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It has for the most part forsaken extra-parliamentary activities in favour of working within Bangladesh's democracy.

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"People are trying to get out of this god-forsaken city, " she said, "and you are planning to come back!"

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It is plugging the multimedia power of its Pentium II processor with demonstrations of 3-D Web sites such as Virtual Arsenal - a tour of the Premier League champions' ground, the forthcoming Legal and General estate agency site which lets visitors tour homes inside and out and the Internet-enabled game Forsaken.

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These were hard-nosed men who would have forsaken their spleens for a couple of victories.

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Obviously, the conversion of a forsaken oil silo into a proper home starts off with a super-thorough detox.

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But Correa stressed that the knowledge of how to work with the environment, climate and materials had long been available - but modern architects had "forgotten and forsaken" it.

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But at Cannes euro-zone leaders made plain that family members could be forsaken, even disinherited.

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