• Or whether I was, had reference to the fact that if she kept the door open to the Oval Office, because it was always -- the door to the hallway was always somewhat open, that she would always be able to hear something if anything went on that was, you know, too loud, or whatever.

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  • During his cross-examination, defence lawyers pointed out he had made no reference to this perceived fight in his police statement.

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  • Mr Trimble said it was too early to tell what had caused the outbreak in a direct reference to a suggestion from Mr Campbell's predecessor as regional development minister that it had been caused by a human rather than an animal.

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  • We had to go to court as a reference point but the administration has now been rubber-stamped.

    BBC: HMRC drops Portsmouth administration challenge

  • Barwick had earlier made enthusiastic reference to Capello's successful stint at "Joo-ventus".

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  • Mr Cameron said he had "secured a specific reference" to his proposal in the conclusions of EU documents.

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  • The competition watchdog said "there are competition problems in the audit market", and added that it could ask the Competition Commission to conduct a detailed investigation, because the "statutory test" for a reference to the Commission had been passed.

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  • She was seeking to become the first woman rider to win the race, but caused controversy in the buildup when she claimed it would have been "a lot worse if two jockeys had lost their lives" in reference to the two fatalities at last year's Grand National.

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  • Eastern Pakistan is a reference to Bangladesh, which had been part of Pakistan until it became an independent country in 1971.

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  • It's a reference to Florida where Dondero had lived for a time.

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  • That had been a "chilling and intimidating" reference to capital punishment by the electric chair, he added.

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  • He said the Education Minister had recently commissioned research into pupil absenteeism with specific reference to deprived areas.

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  • The story in the final edition of that day's paper had far fewer details, making only one passing reference to a phone message.

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  • Worsley, who came on as a second-half replacement at Twickenham, joked that Lewsey "may have had altitude sickness or something" - a reference to his training for Everest.

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  • However, Mr Buffett said he had reloaded his "elephant gun", a reference to a previous comment in 2011 that he was using such a weapon to look for acquisitions.

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  • He said, pointedly, that he didn't fall into "the category of people who had no recollection of" - a clear reference to Gordon Brown's City fixit woman Shriti Vadera who was resented at the Treasury.

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  • Speaking at the inauguration, Mr Mandela said that the project was a continuation of the co-operation South Africa and Mozambique had forged in the struggle for liberation - a reference to the support given by frontline states like Mozambique in the struggle against apartheid.

    BBC: News | Africa | South Africa and Mozambique launch road project

  • However, she carried the thought one stage further, wondering if a preference for a black versus a brown leg, assuming it existed, might be instilled in a young and impressionable female by reference to the sort of males she had met before she was, shall we say, truly interested in such matters herself.

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  • The ownership of the remaining 51% of PTC is currently at the centre of a legal dispute, with Deutsche Telekom saying it had an option to buy Elektrim's stake without reference to Vivendi.

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  • People like Thomas Jefferson, who drafted the Declaration of Independence and became the third president of the United States, had to rely on Xenophon's Cyropaedia as a reference for the life and leadership of the Persian king.

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  • His wife Clementine had begged him to leave out the "odious" Gestapo reference and Attlee seized on it, saying Churchill was showing the difference between being a great leader of a united nation and being leader of the Conservatives.

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  • Grab a cup of coffee (if there is a cafe) and acquaint yourself with the myriad services to be had, and the mental capital of the reference librarians.

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  • "I was just thinking as Alan and I walked up the stairs, how nice it would have been if one of us had come up in a stairlift, " she said, in reference to an advertisement Dame Thora starred in.

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  • Although the report makes no reference to an actual arrest, it is better than I had hoped.

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  • Some saw this as a reference to allegations that a few of MAN's employees had paid bribes to win contracts, and that by leaving Mr Samuelsson would allow a clean break with the past.

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  • He added there was "more evidence that my phone was hacked than John Prescott's phone was hacked" - a reference to claims by the former deputy prime minister that he had been targeted by reporters.

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  • It admitted it understood Minogue was "motivated to talk about" the milk because of her commercial deal, but added that producers had given "clear advice" to the singer that "only a passing reference" to the product could be made.

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  • Bush had a reason to avoid beauty contests for the next two years and a handy reference for lowering expectations.

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  • Mr Davies said at the time with reference to the timing of the sale of the Lisvane land that talks had begun about a year before the sale was completed.

    BBC: Wales politics

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