The European Commission organised an instant poll after the referendum, in which three-quarters of no voters said they thought the text could be renegotiated by the government, as leading no campaigners had told them.

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Next morning, instead of the usual weekly Torah reading, they acted out sections of the text in an entertaining but thought-provoking way.

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Since the speech had been authorised and the text cleared by the shadow cabinet, Mr Lilley thought he was safe.

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Mr. Rivers smiled when he thought about how he and Thomas used to text while hunting.

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Ms Marsden said the pictures in the book are thought to have been one of the main reasons it became a forbidden text.

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Before Twitter came along, who would have thought 200 million people would be interested in a product that basically let them put text messages on the internet?

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But voter after voter thought they had heard the two men admit that they did not know what was in the text.

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The point is, there are (another comment on my profile picture) a lot of distractions (Facebook message going into further detail about previous text regarding laptop) to contend with when trying to set aside time for any work that requires deeper thought than snapping off email replies. (Posting new chart on I Love Charts).

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Google's ability to place small, targeted text advertisements next to internet-search results, and on other websites, meant that many of the business models thought to have been killed by the dotcom bust now rose from the grave.

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