• Every once in a while, when I was at home, the phone would ring and I'd be jolted by music until he came on.

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  • Police say they visited Castro's house twice in the past - once in 2000 when Mr Castro reported a fight in the street and again in 2004, after he left a child unattended on a school bus - but had never entered the residence.

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  • " That fuzzy line between authenticity and the reproduction can rankle purists, who see in the democratization of taste a profusion of tasteful items "devalued, " as Paul Goldberger once wrote, in a piece about Friedman when he was at Pottery Barn, "by their very accessibility.

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  • Andy Falconer made the "once in a life time discovery" when out searching with fellow treasure hunter Rob Farrer.

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  • Even the business of catching adulterers in the act, once a dependable income stream for private eyes, dried up when a change to marriage law in 1973 meant the party seeking a divorce no longer needed to prove that a spouse had cheated.

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  • Outside the party, the ageing Mr Paisley, once a formidable debater, drew derisive audience laughter in a television discussion when he lambasted the Ulster Unionists for contemplating going back into government with Sinn Fein, without explaining the intentions of his own party.

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  • The breaking straw was when once, in a management review, we met with the oldest head of a business.

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  • It has been a while, but once again I was carded today when buying a beverage in a restaurant in the Orlando airport to help me get through the usual two-hour plus flight delay.

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  • She said he delivered on a promise to provide her with her own bedroom when she visited him once in New York during a break from law school.

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  • It makes me crazy once in awhile when I see us on a Google page with someone who is totally third rate.

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  • In fact, Cisco seems destined for a rebound in its core business once the current financial crisis subsides, when those big buyers find they cannot put off technology upgrades any longer.

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  • Under Gatland Wales have used cryogenic technology once before, in 2008, when they visited a health and fitness centre near Wexford in Ireland.

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  • Once a single mother on welfare, Ms. Sayeg got her start in 2005, when she put a knitted cozy on the door handle of a boutique she co-owned.

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  • It took them a while to hit their stride but when once they did, Chelsea imposed themselves on the game in a manner that has eluded them, to costly ends, in recent matches.

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  • In the batting department, England's top four laid a formidable platform but once again the middle order failed to keep up the momentum when a score in excess of 350 looked on the cards.

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  • The first occurred in 1970, when Benny Binion, a colourful cove who was alleged once to have been a bootlegger in Dallas, started the World Series of Poker at his Horseshoe casino in Las Vegas, where it is still played today.

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  • Then there is his response to a tale told at the bank, that a BritArm employee once sat politely silent as a couple had sex in his train car, then objected only when the couple lit cigarettes.

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  • And its lock-screen album art came in handy once or twice when I wanted to know the name of the podcast I was hearing in a quick glance.

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  • The Roman bath revival began 15 years ago in Spain, when Grupo Aire opened Aire of Sevilla in a 16th century palace, once home to actual Roman baths.

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  • Apparently, there was once a time when Jill Clayburgh danced around in her underwear.

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  • She didn't leave my side for two years and when I was given a once in a lifetime trip to New York for my birthday, I trusted Ben to look after her.

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  • So far this year, the troubled continent has already weighed on sentiment once when fears of a political stalemate in Italy prompted selling in the region, which was another reminder that Europe is still able to rattle global markets.

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  • One setback after another kept him from realizing his athletic potential at McKay and his star-crossed athletic career seemed in jeopardy once again early this spring, when a hamstring injury delayed the start of his final high school track season.

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  • But you see in stories I read in the New York Times, the LA Times, as well as the Washington Post, that every once in a while a servicer tries to work with the people in order to help them hold onto the house when they're in a tight situation.

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  • Monaco has won only once in their four meetings, when Nadal retired hurt during a hard-court event in 2007, but he showed his mettle against big-serving Canadian Milos Raonic on Saturday as he came from behind to triumph 6-7 (5-7) 6-3 6-7 (5-7) 6-3 6-4.

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  • Shirley Muldowney's nitro-fuel dragster once had a front tire blow in Montreal and she broke both legs when it crashed.

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  • When I lived in Rochdale I was once in a queue in a chip shop behind the then Cyril Smith MP.

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  • When Mr Kagame, once a top officer in Mr Museveni's guerrilla army, was sworn in as president of Rwanda in April, Mr Museveni was notably absent.

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  • Rochelle Peachey, a woman who makes her money by convincing people they should not be single (aka she founded an online dating site), was once busted when her phone started ringing in the middle of a fake conversation.

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  • In fact I was a man weighed down with disappointment, a man for whom things had not worked out the way he had once imagined, a quiet man, cautious in his life, timid when you came right down to it, though content enough to drift along through the little rituals of his day.

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