I fancied the fight and fancied him to beat him.
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And I said, 'Well I've always fancied swimming the channel.
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Even George Lucas of "Star Wars" fancied himself a rebel.
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Yet SNL has never fancied itself exclusively a political satire machine.
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She fancied an orange so I threw it in her direction.
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I was painfully aware I fancied her, but never mentioned it.
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It isn't the first time Neymar has fancied himself a singer.
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Architecture is just one of the many professions Mr. Costanza fancied.
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Always fancied a private bolthole for vacations away from the city bustle?
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It was also, apparently, fancied by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.
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Before Skrillex was Skrillex, he was Sonny Moore, and I fancied him.
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Chinese companies have a slew of advantages over their more fancied rivals.
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You can't believe you fancied someone who only showers twice a week.
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If you've ever fancied a date with Hello Kitty, here's your chance.
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New York City has long fancied itself the center of the universe.
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Obama and his national security team always fancied itself a professorial group.
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I fancied Tyson to stop him before the fight at the weekend.
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"I had fancied myself a songwriter when I was young," he says.
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Samy Fox: I was 16 and fancied this guy from my neighborhood.
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I fancied some of them but even the ones I didn't were nice.
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When I was very young, I fancied myself a fairly good baseball player.
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Ever fancied getting away from the hustle and bustle of the big city?
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As we're all fully open, if I fancied someone else, I'd tell them.
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I fancied a whisky and ice and eyed several bottles on the shelf.
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By 1899, it was already being fancied up in response to successful tourism.
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I just shouted back if he fancied sponsoring me for 500 pounds ($661.10).
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At the time, Dean fancied himself a serious artist and embraced Marxist politics.
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What if people thought I fancied them because I blushed in their presence?
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Before the season, the Astros and Yankees both fancied themselves World Series contenders.
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"I never in a million years fancied myself playing a superhero," the actress said.
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I asked a few matches if they fancied being the Harry to my Meghan.
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Other highly fancied challengers fell short in Pennsylvania, Indiana, North Carolina and even Wisconsin.
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We got approached by them and fancied the idea of it so we agreed.
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It also meant the majority of interactions with girls that I fancied were online.
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"My partner and I had always fancied ourselves two servants of justice," he says.
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Several features would be playing on a loop, and you could choose whichever you fancied.
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The American retired from boxing undefeated but has long fancied himself as a basketball player.
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Summer: I really fancied a boy in my class when I was in Year 6.
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Charles-Donatien pulled down a sample that he especially fancied, though Wang hadn't used it.
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He was also a fractious man of "unrepentant multiplicity," and once fancied himself the Messiah.
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It's the old vagina dentata scare show, this time fancied up with art-house pretensions.
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"I can walk over to work in my slippers if I fancied it," he said.
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About the same time, Peter Oundle, the boy Julia has long fancied, falls for Cassie.
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If you've ever fancied having Nefertiti's likeness on your shelf at home, it's now eminently achievable.
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Among the most-fancied candidates, Mr Hunt's plan is the least bad of a dire bunch.
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The four of us fancied ourselves as the twentysomething versions of the four main SATC characters.
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I fancied him the moment I met him, but he wasn't interested in me at first.
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Scott Walker (R) Many people fancied Walker's chances as the 220006 GOP field was first forming.
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Some fancied they had seen him disguised as a woman; others said he was in Dubai.
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I was a fraud, sure, but I fancied myself the hapless kind, not the evil kind.
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Jamala was pitted against the strongly fancied entry from Russia in the Eurovision contest in Stockholm.
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Before Uber, Travis Kalanick fancied himself a "fixer" and idolized Winston Wolfe from Tarantino's 'Pulp Fiction.
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Then, Papadopoulos recalled, Halper set up a meeting at a swanky London club fancied by diplomats.
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"The fancied impregnability of the position turns out to be a sham," a newspaper correspondent wrote.
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He sold titles to anyone who fancied being a duke, an earl or a Polish count.
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Manson fancied himself as a songwriter and even wrote a Beach Boys song the group recorded.
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Germany and Brazil are the pretournament favorites, and France is fancied behind them with a young roster .
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None of these outdated touchstones struck me as off-kilter, as I fancied myself the adaptable type.
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If you've ever fancied working alongside a Game of Thrones star, you might well be in luck.
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A hundred percent she wrote that herself cause she fancied you and wanted to measure your response.
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Huawei's also launching an accompanying Porsche Design Huawei Mate RS, which is a fancied-up P20 Pro.
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And these FEMALES fancied the naughty boys, the ones with good chat who would break their hearts.
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Veteran Springbok wing Bryan Habana was, however, overlooked for a place in the fancied Rugby Sevens side.
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Brilliant musicians came and went, covering whatever they fancied, joining forces with each other wherever they wanted.
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Styled by Alastair McKimm IT WAS FRESHMAN year of college and I fancied myself someone, well, fancy.
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Interestingly, when we first moved in one of the other guys in the house really fancied Georgia.
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Two years on from their World Cup win, Alf Ramsey's side fancied their chances at the continental contest.
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Lech was a temperamental moderate who fancied himself a statesman-intellectual; Jaroslaw was the wily back-room operator.
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The only team with a winning record that is not fancied at all to win the title is Washington.
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It is possible the ex-PM, who once fancied himself as EU president, wants to spearhead such a campaign.
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The great thing about X-Files is that if you didn't fancy Gillian Anderson, you probably fancied David Duchovny.
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Let's face it, most of us have fancied joining the Mac family at some stage, and now you can.
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So we have nudged last night's spectacle across the threshold of the fantastic, and fancied a debate in song.
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His great-grandfather, a maharajah famous for his taste in stones, fancied ornate turban pins and ropes of pearls.
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Kushner, who fancied himself a de facto Secretary of State and peacemaker, lost access to the power of information.
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This means contrarian investors are looking to less fancied markets such as Turkey and Brazil for the biggest bargains.
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He fancied himself a leader and yet spent the season sniping at the young players he purported to lead.
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Here was something at once rousingly far-out and reassuringly accessible, throbbing with what could be fancied Russian soul.
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It fancied itself so far out, according to the menu, that a customer who ordered espresso was considered square.
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However, the U.S., Russia and Canada will be among the less-fancied nations also competing in the 20-team tournament.
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If you've always fancied yourself as having secret ninja skills, you're in luck: Ninja Warrior is finally coming to Australia.
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Republicans had also fancied that they could flip the West Virginia Senate seat held by Joe Manchin, a conservative Democrat.
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But as with most girls I fancied in my wanton youth, I doubt I'd like her if we met today.
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With much left to the imagination, my younger self who fancied herself the next Nancy Drew kicked into high gear.
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The company has long fancied the Apple Watch a fitness nicety, and that impulse has only grown in recent years.
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They were in the world of money and business and we fancied ourselves in the world of literature and art.
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Mr. Schatz always fancied himself a singer and at 21, decided to drive to California to pursue a singing career.
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I just remember admiring this guy I'd fancied for such a long time, and watching his face as he came.
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"Chris fancied the chance to go over there, it's a new experience, new adventure," Solskjaer told the club's media channel.
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His successor, Gerhard Schröder, who fancied himself God's gift to TV screens, then embraced the American debate format in 2002.
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Just in case a foreign owner fancied shaking up this cosy club, overseas operators are not allowed to operate domestic routes.
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What started with one pissed-off DM who fancied Venice ended up driving a fresh approach to game writing and design.
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While he earned critical acclaim and amassed a devoted fan base on "Night Court," Mr. Anderson never fancied himself an actor.
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The Panthers are coming off a Super Bowl appearance while the Buccaneers fancied themselves an up-and-coming team in 2016.
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In the process you debate your life choices and wonder why you fancied someone who now earnestly shares posts from LadBible.
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Much of the population is made up of optimistic Peruvians who fancied their luck striking it rich in the gold mines.
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But he also caught "the tail end of the Ramones," he said, and fancied himself a bit of a punk rocker.
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Textual representations of laughter go back at least to Chaucer, who fancied the onomatopoeic "haha" to convey merriment in his writing.
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You'll probably get to sit slightly too close to someone you've fancied for ages while steadfastly refusing to speak to them!
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Payne admitted – shamefully – to "emotionally cheating" on Peazer with Smith – having "fancied the pants off" Smith even while he was with Peazer.
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He asked me if I fancied going to Padella (a very popular, very delicious pasta restaurant in London) with him that week.
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When first elected as Peru's president in 1985, aged just 36, he fancied himself an anti-imperialist lion like Cuba's Fidel Castro.
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Prince was a black man who played any kind of genre he fancied from rock music to funk, to gospel, to soul.
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However, two less fancied candidates, Francois Fillon and Jean-Luc Melenchon held mass rallies on Sunday, making it an increasingly tight race.
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He's the politician who asks if we've ever fancied being a candidate, then insists we meet somewhere very private to discuss it.
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They were making beaded bracelets for boys they fancied, an idea they had bastardized from the American teen-agers on our televisions.
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I like a bit of painting and stuff like that, so I fancied going out there and seeing a bit of wilderness.
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He said he fancied his chances of beating namesake and compatriot Zach, not because of the world rankings but because of his form.
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Resuming on six under, McIlroy, 26, must have fancied his chances of reeling in Sullivan, but the Northern Irishman struggled with the putter.
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The key difference for Beats right out of the gate, however, is that the company has always fancied itself a broader lifestyle brand.
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She was cozying up to Chief Vickery because she knew he'd never look into a woman he fancied — or a woman at all.
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Anyone who has ever invested in stocks has at one time fancied that they can time the market as exquisitely as Livermore did.
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"It was a bit weird because this was a guy who had always ignored the fact that I fancied him!" she says, laughing.
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Plus I fancied one of the guys in my group, so it was super humiliating to have done that in front of him.
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I never fancied myself a contrarian, because I always really thought that everybody was doing the same project — just trying to be better.
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Not because he fancied her or anything, but because she already lived in his house and he couldn't be arsed to go out.
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Like countless Paris expats, I fancied myself the antihero of my own romantic narrative, the great cathedral serving merely as a picturesque backdrop.
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"I always fancied a job within the television industry and broadcasting, so hopefully that's something I can explore later in life," she says.
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That's why Gerard Lyons, a pro-Brexit economist who advised Mr Johnson when he was mayor of London, is now the fancied outsider.
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It was introduced in World War I, first by the Germans, who fancied it a clever way to save fuel for the war effort.
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I've always quite fancied doing a live music video and this was never really meant to be that, but it kind of is now.
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He told me he had dreamt (dreams are very important in his culture) of me telling him I liked him or, rather, fancied him.
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In total, 41 sharks visited the board with the cow's blood, four visited the fish oil, and none fancied the urine or the control.
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The last time we found ourselves ruled by a man who fancied himself this far above the law, his name was King George III.
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Success is even harder than usual when — as at Snap, which fancied itself a camera company — the boss wastes time and resources chasing whims.
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Several of the city's mayors have fancied themselves as the governor of New York, as its United States senator or as the American president.
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Bush had a bloated faith in his gut and his charm, while Obama fancied himself the smartest, most soulful person in almost any room.
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I also fancied a change of scenery; I'd never been to the U.S. before and was excited at the prospect of spending time there.
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Afterwards he said the new format, with ties consisting of three rubbers rather than the traditional five, made things dangerous for the fancied nations.
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While some investors have turned wary amid growing concerns over the sustainability of India's once-fancied start-ups, Byju's has managed to steer ahead. How?
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Elizabeth Warren's gravitation from right to left, and the use she is making of it in her increasingly fancied presidential campaign, is another telling case.
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It also made minor celebrities out of figures like Goldberg, self-proclaimed guardians of true conservatism who fancied themselves warriors in a battle of ideas.
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Reports emerged this week of an unnamed man who fancied himself a Louis Vuitton don and gifted his grandmother one of the exorbitantly expensive bags.
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Adams, it seems, fancied himself an entrepreneur — he ran the social media company "State Snaps," which he founded in 2015 while attending Iowa State University.
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Image: Google EarthSecureTeam claims to be "your source for alien & UFO related videos, leaks and information," but in this case they've clearly fancied themselves as geologists.
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Architects, who fancied themselves as visionaries like Howard Roark, the "hero" of Ayn Rand's "The Fountainhead", competed to create concrete temples for the masses to occupy.
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Overall, the uncertainty in their predictions suggested that four or five of the most fancied qualifiers would normally be packing their bags after the second week.
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The heavily-fancied Cue Card, ridden by Paddy Brennan, provided more drama with a nasty fall three jumps from the finish while challenging for the lead.
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It is also fancied by some birds, including the wild turkey, American robin, Northern bobwhite, Eastern bluebird, mockingbird, white-throated sparrow, Carolina wren and European starling.
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So I was free to tell my own story: that I was amazing, and that if I fancied girls, then fancying girls must be amazing, too.
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As we were a bit early, I asked her if she fancied a ride to Dalston to meet a young Nasir Mazhar, and she was game.
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The surprise 2012 champion had no problems finding the big red cross target on Friday as, for the second Games running, she upstaged more fancied Chinese rivals.
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The tactics initially paid dividends as Japan opened up a 2-0 lead over the fancied Belgians before the strength of the European side brought them level.
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He will be heavily fancied to take his third medal of the Games in Saturday's medley relay, having set an Olympic record in winning the 100 backstroke.
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When Greenspan and Trollip found a tree they fancied they would "tag it" with a locking yellow tag, so that nobody else — like Apple — could get it.
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He also fancied using the stolen cash to fund his plastic surgery and got himself a membership at the exclusive Whitney Oaks Gold Club in Rocklin, California.
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If you fancied yourself an insect collector but couldn't stomach the ickiness of the real things, then this assortment of polygonal versions could be a good alternative.
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Austin is a favorite track for the 34-year-old and he will also be fancied to round up his Texan win tally to six on Sunday.
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He fancied himself a suitor in the Grecian style, dispensing a sentimental education to his charges, assistants, protégés, and students—but hungering for mutuality and lasting love.
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Having brushed aside Canada and Senegal in their opening two games, Australia took a 216-224 lead against the more fancied Lithuanians late in the first half.
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" As Stone explains, they "fancied their title as 'agricultural explorer' — a term so whimsical, so obvious, that it came out of their mouths at the same time.
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The water was blanketed with a yard-deep layer of frilly khaki seaweed so thick that I fancied I could walk across it, and was insultingly, violently cold.
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Justin Scrutton, the owner of a chauffeur company, bought the wrecked old Volkswagen Golf because he fancied driving something that he didn't mind if his two dogs ruined.
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Born into a family of professional Australian Rules football players, Hewitt also fancied a career in the rugged indigenous sport which prizes courage and toughness above all qualities.
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We're in the back of the van and Kevin Cahill who was the CEO of Comic Relief says, 'Is there anything you've ever fancied doing that's sporty David?
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As Tzuo tells it, he had fancied a job as a product manager, but when Benioff saw his Oracle background in sales, he wanted him in account development.
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Global Soccer LONDON — If there is a dark horse outside of France, Germany or Spain to win the European Championship, Belgium is fancied to be that outside bet.
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Branzino gets fancied up with a ring of mussels, lobster sauce and melting fennel, while gnocchi with roasted mushrooms and tendrils of arugula proves a more straightforward pleasure.
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Kuvée, which fancied itself the "Keurig of wine," began two years ago as a little IndieGoGo that could, exhausting pre-order supplies within a matter of three hours.
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I loved watching her comb her Afro, and how her skin would get ever so slightly pink when she was in the presence of a girl she fancied.
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A Word With Before he caught the acting bug, Geoffrey Rush fancied himself something of a cosmologist, obsessed by space exploration and diligently studying math, physics and chemistry.
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Zverev, who will compete in the doubles final later on Sunday alongside his brother Mischa, had beaten much-fancied second seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in his semi final.
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They then knocked out 2010 World Cup winners Spain on penalties in the round of 16 to set up their quarter-final match against the much-fancied Croats.
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A bit called "The Nap Song," about sleeping platonically alongside a man she fancied, helped land her a spot at the Montreal comedy festival as a young performer.
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A bit called "The Nap Song," about sleeping platonically alongside a man she fancied, helped land her a spot at the Montreal comedy festival as a young performer.
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Justin Scrutton (pictured), the owner of a chauffeur company, bought the wrecked old Volkswagen Golf because he fancied driving something that he didn't mind if his two dogs ruined.
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Hemingway told the CBS Miami he believes his choice of wearing a wool, cream-colored turtleneck sweater, similar to one Ernest fancied, put him over the top this year.
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And regulators have cowed swashbuckling businessmen, from Wang Jianlin, a property mogul formerly China's richest man, to Wu Xiaohui, an insurance magnate who fancied himself the next Warren Buffett.
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The player himself may not have fancied his chances of making the roster under new coach Chip Kelly, or securing much game-time if he did make the cut.
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One night in Rio, a good friend, a local Carioca who fancied himself the spiritual descendant of Brazilian F1 hero Ayrton Senna, got us lost in an iffy neighborhood.
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In the spirit of this past week—of Valentine's Day and love and not being alone—we looked up our school crushes to see if we still fancied them.
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Having earlier booked a place at the 2016 Olympics in Rio, Serbia were joined by Montenegro who beat the more-fancied Hungary and Italy teams to reach the final.
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Wearing one on top of another shirt lets you get more mileage out of your more delicate tops — sort of like a fancied up version of the Strong Arm.
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I'd drag a barbecue down to Bar Story and do Thai salads and amazing grilled stuff: salt-crusted fish, Thai-style grilled chicken, pork … anything I fancied cooking, really.
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DJ Finchy, I don't want to know where you're from or what you dream of at night or which member of Hearsay you fancied most as a pre-teen.
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Mr. Buatta had fancied that style since he saw it on his first trip to England on a study program sponsored by the Parsons School of Design in Manhattan.
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Mr. Banks has always fancied himself something of an outsider, having spent much of his childhood in England but frequently visiting his father, who managed sugar estates in Africa.
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Should Mr. Cheney have fancied a trip down memory lane, Representative Charlie Crist of Florida — the former Republican governor turned Democratic congressman — would have been the man to see.
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But having gone unbeaten in qualifying and won friendlies in March against World Cup-bound Iran and Costa Rica, they will be fancied to beat Group G's other team Panama.
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"It was something I've always fancied doing," Richard says before the two embark on their adventures, which includes flying a helicopter, driving a race car and riding a roller coaster.
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Their less fancied compatriot Stephanie Brunner was the nation's top performer of the day with a fifth-placed finish as Bernadette Schild finished 17th after a huge second-leg error.
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Four years ago, Smith and Thompson teamed up with Matthew Brittain and Sizwe Ndlovu to dash the home hopes of Britain's fancied team and win South Africa's only rowing gold.
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MUMBAI (Reuters) - Oman celebrated their first appearance at an International Cricket Council event by stunning more fancied Ireland by two wickets in a World Twenty216 match in Dharamsala on Wednesday.
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But even though the experience was entirely hers and she had every right to cope using humor (or anything else she fancied), Giertz is thoughtful about finding humor in darkness.
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Clearly, the man put too much stock in his own press — and the heroism depicted in the "True Life of Carlos Ghosn" manga series — and fancied himself a corporate king.
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To start with, it was quite time-consuming and there were some moments, especially after late nights, when double-cleansing was the last thing I fancied doing before hitting the hay.
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Red Bull had fancied their chances in Hungary before the weekend but rain in qualifying dented their hopes, with 20-year-old Verstappen starting seventh and Daniel Ricciardo back in 12th.
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" He fancied himself as a sort of polymorphous-perverse William Randolph Hearst," said Glenn O'Brien, who joined Rolling Stone in 1973 and quit after what he said were Wenner's unwanted advances.
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That being said, a pair of R70x and a really good amp like the $399 Schiit Jotunheim still cost less than many fancied-up headphones that don't sound nearly as good.
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The last of the heavily-fancied British boxers to fight, the 20-year-old from Bury - home town of 2004 silver medalist Amir Khan — Ali had been waiting for his moment.
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France came closer to ending that run in their sixth encounter and fancied their chances, but to beat a U.S. team still not firing on all cylinders will take something special.
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Having earlier booked a place at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Serbia were joined by Montenegro who beat the more-fancied Italy and Hungary teams to reach the final.
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Palmer didn't win a seat but purportedly swung votes behind the conservative, and largely pro-coal Liberal-National coalition, which pulled off a surprise victory over the more fancied opposition Labor Party.
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The Flying Dutchmen came crashing down to Earth with an 8–2 loss, but having beaten two fancied teams and ended up in fourth place overall, it put in a big performance.
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As they showed in reaching the quarter finals of Euro 2016, Iceland, he noted, were capable both of using their significant height advantage and of punishing more fancied opponents on the break.
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Tampa Bay Buccaneers This time last year, I fancied the Buccaneers a sleeper team; they went on to improve from a league-worst 2-12 record to a competitive 20143-10 finish.
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Much in the same respect that Shakespeare pitched himself first and foremost to the groundlings, Bondarchuk fancied his work something closer to a prestigious binge-watch than a lofty high-culture object.
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The final pairing in this round was iBP against the much-fancied Flipsid3 Tactics, and in a portent of what was to come, it took five closely fought games before iBP squeaked through.
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I did a second take, this time offering to do a Middle Eastern accent, because I fancied myself pretty good at accents and assumed I had license as someone of South Asian descent.
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A photo of all five Spices together emerged recently, which of course must mean they're reuniting, and not at all that they're five old mates who fancied a bit of a get-together.
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" Acheson fancied himself a pragmatist who, like his director of policy planning, George Kennan, viewed Mao's victory as the result of "tremendous, deep-flowing indigenous forces which are beyond our power to control.
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He started a foundation called the Barack H. Obama Foundation (named for their father), collected somewhere between three and 22015 wives, including a teenage girl, and fancied himself a future president of Kenya.
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Second, she argued that a bigger majority would give her greater leverage as she negotiates the specifics of her nation's departure from the EU. Third — and perhaps most importantly — she fancied her chances.
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I would regale my friends with tales of cross-eyed cats perpetually on the verge of death, ailing chickens convalescing in the house or a paraplegic possum that fancied scrambled eggs for dinner.
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The year before, shortly after he was named deputy crown prince, Prince Mohammed was vacationing in the south of France when he fancied a magnificent yacht with two swimming pools and a helicopter.
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According to Bellos, Wraxall, a historian who fancied himself an expert on Waterloo, did not hesitate to alter the meaning of Hugo's novel whenever he disagreed with passages pertaining to Napoleon Bonaparte's downfall.
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At times Ulbricht seems to have fancied himself a real-life Walter White — he adored Breaking Bad — but other times he just wanted to run away with a girl and start a new life.
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As someone who fancied them both, I am therefore less upset that David Duchovny's solo career is still going, and that, for some reason, he is performing at the Google Campus with his band.
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A glance at the betting odds could raise your hopes, as England are fourth favourites to triumph in France, with only the hosts, Germany and Spain more fancied to win Europe's quadrennial international tournament.
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Farah, who is expected to defend his Olympic 5,000 and 10,000 titles in Rio de Janeiro in August, had been fancied to target Dave Moorcroft's long-standing British record of 7:32.79 in Glasgow.
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Austin is a favorite track for the 34-year-old and he will also be fancied to round up his Texan win tally to six on Sunday although he is taking nothing for granted.
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Nikitin will fight Shakur Stevenson of the United States, a heavily fancied fighter Mayweather is keeping a close eye on as a future professional prospect, who secured the second U.S. medal of the tournament.
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Ms. Streep plays the title character, a real-life figure who was a patron of the arts in New York in the first half of the last century but also fancied herself a singer.
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All divisions between people, the national and the sexual included, might be fancied as obsolete, though of course they persisted—and intensified, even—in the American triumphalism and the masculine pathos of Abstract Expressionism.
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Even the stickler audio reviewers have fancied themselves impressed by the sound, earning them 4 out of 5 stars on CNET, 4.5 out of 5 at TechRadar, and a Technology X Editor's Choice Award.
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Croatia has been caught up in soccer fever after the Balkan nation of 4.2 million people swept aside more fancied opponents to reach its first ever World Cup final, which Russia is hosting this year.
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Nikitin will fight Shakur Stevenson of the United States, a heavily fancied fighter that Mayweather is keeping a close eye on as a future professional prospect, who secured the second U.S. medal of the tournament.
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Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum's team has secured five entrants in the field of 224 at Flemington Racecourse for the famed two-mile handicap, including favorite Hartnell (183-218) and the highly fancied Oceanographer.
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It is possible, too, that he simply fancied spending some time in the glamorous world of Formula 1, that he dreamed of strolling the grid with royalty and A-listers at the Monaco Grand Prix.
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However, the clash of the fancied South Americans and Belgium's 'Golden Generation' has given the most casual of analysts reason to feel smug that, at least, they got one thing right in their scenario plotting.
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"I'd just chip in with the odd joke here and there, and if I fancied speaking seriously then I'd do that, but I'd know that on other days Liam would chip in," he'd told me.
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Maradona, who watched his side eliminated 4-3 by France last weekend in Kazan, was asked if he fancied another shot at the job – even though current coach Jorge Sampaoli has a contract until 2022.
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"I have never fancied myself any kind of entrepreneur... but what I have is a voice, and I have a lot of passion about the things I was writing about on my blog," she says.
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A minute later Team Melli came close to sealing their first spot in the last 16 and knocking out their much-fancied opponents but Mehdi Taremi could only hit the side-netting from close range.
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In 1880, Charles Guiteau, a little-known lawyer from Illinois who fancied himself a Republican political operative, distributed a few hundred copies of a speech he had written in support of James Garfield's presidential candidacy.
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They couldn't see me and I couldn't see them, but in the explosive clamor of snorting and hooves, I fancied I was caught up in some colossal bestial panic that would crush me to death.
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What's notable about the whole mess is that the very Republicans in Congress who fancied themselves avatars of business certainty could strip Trump of his power to weaponize chaos in Obamacare, but have so far declined.
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Harper, a square-jawed 49-year-old whose friendly, measured tone belies his background as an enforcer of party discipline under ex-prime minister David Cameron, is the bookmakers' least-fancied candidate to get the job.
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In the late nineties, Bey and El-P were label mates on Rawkus Records, which fancied itself a cornerstone of independent hip-hop, though one of its silent backers was the Fox media heir James Murdoch.
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She is highly fancied to win the 200 meters in Brazil after success at last year's world championships in Beijing and having recorded the best time of 2016 with 21.93 in Oslo at the start of June.
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Goffin, a highly-fancied 25-year-old, was the first to take a set off Kyrgios in the whole week at Tokyo and was successful in blunting the Australian's monster serve early with a crisp returning game.
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Before you buy playoff tickets, consider that like the Rangers, the Orioles' run differential is weak, third in the division behind the highly fancied Blue Jays and the Red Sox, who are each only two games back.
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Iguodala is a widely respected veteran who, as a budding college star on the way to becoming the No. 218 pick (by Philadelphia) in the 222 draft, fancied himself as the next Scottie Pippen, not like Mike.
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"I didn't really enjoy myself if I compare my match today and the match with Kristyna," the big-serving world number three who will be one of the fancied players at next week's Wimbledon championships, told reporters.
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" Americans fancied him too: He earned a Drama League nomination for his 2006 Broadway debut in "The Vertical Hour," directed by Sam Mendes, who is reuniting Scott and Cumberbatch in his coming World War I drama, "1917.
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Also included in the line: wooden clogs called incompiuto, or unfinished, which resemble a shoemaker's last but with a thick elastic band at the arch, and simple Roman-style leather sandals fancied up with an angled toe.
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Some six months later he was netting key goals for the north Africans as they surged past the more fancied Ivory Coast in their qualifying group to book a place at the World Cup finals in Russia.
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It wasn't a show by any traditional definition, except in that to a certain extent we are all on show all the time, whether or not we're fancied up in a collection no one else has seen.
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The Welsh national football team wowed audiences across Europe, surprisingly exceeding the expectations of most by earning a berth in the Euro 2016 semi-finals—defeating the highly fancied Belgium team en route to the final four.
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The French are favorites to win the World Cup when they take on the Croatians at Luzhniki stadium but Deschamps is well aware they were also fancied to beat Portugal in the Euro 2016 final, which they lost.
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Tsitsipas, in particular, was highly-fancied to have a long run at the All England Club having reached the Australian Open semi-final this year but lost 6-4 3-203 6-4 6-7(8) 6-3.
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When Needy Lesnicki (Amanda Seyfried) jumps through the window to kill Jennifer—her ungodly best friend and a girl she's secretly fancied for years—she swings a hammer and buries it deep into Jennifer's Fall Out Boy poster.
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I realized that the Vision Jet would fly itself if I let go of the joystick, but in the few minutes that I fancied myself a student pilot, the video game-like guidance made immediate sense to me.
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Following victories for Benoit Paire and Lucas Pouille in Friday's singles, Benneteau and Mahut, who won both their previous Davis Cup rubbers when teamed together, were fancied to finish the job in front of an enthusiastic home crowd.
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That created a kind of free-for-all atmosphere in which senators who have little expertise in health care fancied themselves experts and put forth proposals that were destined to fail, said Senator Roy Blunt, Republican of Missouri.
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After his initial brainwave in September last year, Stuart started the search for a local brewer who fancied the challenge of creating a bready beer, which led him to Jon Swain, the co-founder of the Hackney Brewery.
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RENNES, France (Reuters) - Kosovare Asllani and Madelen Janogy scored late on as fancied Sweden labored to a 2-0 victory over women's World Cup debutants Chile in their Group F encounter at Roazhon Park in Rennes on Tuesday.
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Being at a school that was predominantly Black, there wasn't any othering because of your hair, but the prettier and more popular girls who the boys fancied were usually mixed race or light skinned and had straighter hair texture.
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"Grime was super popular in my area and everyone wanted to be an MC. But I just did it because I really fancied some of the boys who were fit, and I wanted to impress them," she recalls, laughing.
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In an interview with Forbes (conducted while driving in a convertible), Musk says he bought the Jaguar early on in his career because he fancied the car in a book of classic convertibles he got when he was 17.
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I always felt better about myself when I had a boyfriend, but the sexual experiences—even when I really fancied them and the sex was great—didn't turn me on in the same way they did with that girl.
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Reno's sister, Harmony, flies in from Portland expecting Auntie Vic to find her sister, but V. I. already has her hands full working on the murder of an archaeology student who fancied himself a latter-day Lawrence of Arabia.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - The more familiar shock of falling seeds added to the ructions caused by allegations of tennis corruption as former champion Rafa Nadal and highly-fancied Simona Halep both departed in the first round of the Australian Open on Tuesday.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgium hammered the final nail into Egypt's halting World Cup warm-up campaign with an assured 3-0 win in Brussels on Wednesday that settled some nerves among the fancied hosts, who lacked injured defensive linchpin Vincent Kompany.
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"Before I met her and we worked together, I had read somewhere that if she fancied a guy she would imitate his walk behind his back and I turned around one day and she was doing that to me," he said.
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"Heracles, as the largest parrot ever, no doubt with a massive parrot beak that could crack wide open anything it fancied, may well have dined on more than conventional parrot foods, perhaps even other parrots," Archer said in a press release.
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I totally have faith in a front office that fancied itself a contender seven months ago when it gave Kevin Shattenkirk a gigantic contract and is now announcing to the world it will sell anyone that is bolted to the ice.
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The U.S. pair of Rickie Fowler and Jimmy Walker shot 70 to grab a share of second with France and China at the rebooted tournament while highly fancied hosts Australia, anchored by world number seven Adam Scott, disappointed with a 74.
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The company has long fancied itself the "premium" brand of VR, but at its annual developer conference it was tasked with showing off features that showed the company had more to offer than middle-of-the-road products with premium prices.
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Togo's tussle with a fancied Ivorian side, strengthened by Wilfried Zaha but without Yaya Toure (retired) and Gervinho (injured), is followed by Morocco versus the Democratic Republic of Congo, who were third at the last Nations Cup two years ago.
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In 2016 he broke through the "blue wall" that the Democrats fancied themselves to enjoy in the upper Midwest, winning three states with large populations of white voters without college degrees—Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania—that had not supported a Republican for decades.
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Look, I know that's not exactly a polite thing to do, but it's a situation that's happened to me multiple times, especially when I've fancied eating at anywhere even remotely trendy, which in some areas of Brooklyn, is basically every other restaurant.
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I couldn't tell you the first song I heard by Bright Eyes, or the first time I saw a picture of Conor Oberst—the band's founder, primary songwriter and inadvertent posterboy for navel-gazing kids in hoodies and the people who fancied them.
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I scoured the internet for illegal episodes of Made In Chelsea and The Only Way Is Essex when I was in college, but fancied myself above Love Island after it debuted in 2015 as a revival of 2005's failed Celebrity Love Island.
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Like many famous women from that time, Kahlo fancied Revlon makeup — the brand of which her gently-used blush, lipstick (in her favorite shade, "Everything's Rosy"), nail file, and, yes, ebony eyebrow pencil will be on full display in its original packaging.
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The Fixed-term Parliaments Act got rid of the power that prime ministers had previously enjoyed to call an election at any time, thus reassuring the Lib Dems that the Tories would not cut and run as soon as they fancied their chances.
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A prime minister who two years ago looked almost invincible has been slowly bled dry of authority, starting with her calamitous loss of the Tories' majority in 2017 in an election which they had been fancied to win with a landslide (see article).
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Froome had been fancied for victory on a hilly 54.5km circuit that looked made for the Briton, but Cancellara, the man they call Spartacus, was in a league of his own as he nailed the last time trial of his 16-year career.
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But, sharing photos of what I had for lunch or the post-work cocktail I'm drinking just aren't going to be appealing to the girl I met in a hostel in Madrid one summer or the boy I fancied when I was 13 years old.
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The cat named Nala travelled with Freeman and his wife Chelsea, and she fancied sitting between the two of them right behind the arm rest — with her paws crossed politely in front of her (look closely and you'll see pink nail caps over those claws!).
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I was an absolute amateur (I still am) but I fancied myself smart for even having memorized the complicated rules and the meanings of each tile's symbols—for being able to competitively converse in this visual language that none of my friends could understand.
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At least it's memorable, which is more than can be said for the $25 jumble of smoked wild mushrooms held together by a wafer-thin one-egg "omelet," or the $38 chicken "à la Queen," which is like chicken cacciatore that's been fancied up.
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While Balzac fancied himself more of an art lover than critic, and effectively an observer on the outside looking in, Zola, a childhood friend of Cézanne's, came of age entrenched in the world of painters — specifically among a group of contemporaries known as the Impressionists.
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The sleek, retro bottle has always looked cool to me, "The Champagne of Beers" slogan always cracked me up, the slightly-bubbly liquid hits the spot, and I always fancied the "Girl in the Moon" on the label (even dressed up as her one Halloween).
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The one place that aspect didn't really work for me was in the climax, where I just didn't properly feel the threat coming off this handful of ships flying out of Wakanda, and getting shot down video-game-style by fancied-up drone pilot Martin Freeman.
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I am so glad I wasn't a teenager in 1999 because I certainly would have fancied this greasy Californian Ville Valo with the word "CHAOS" tattooed across his stomach who definitely looks like he would have had one of those big inflatable aliens in his bedroom.
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But he stressed the importance of having fresher legs when they come up against the highly fancied Belgians, referencing his nation's two previous last-16 exits in the World Cup to Turkey in 2002 and Paraguay in 2010, when they lost 1-0 and on penalties respectively.
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When I was a kid, it was only 250,000 and they even came up with apps on your phone—you'd see a girl in a bar you fancied, and you'd say 'Hey, here's my phone, we can Bluetooth each other and we'll see how related we are.
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Though there is much to enjoy here — I very much fancied Paolo Visentini's "Murder's Chewing" (2016) GIF based on the Moholy-Nagy silver gelatin print "Mord auf den Schienen" (1925) hanging nearby — the show's opportunity for online open access and interpretation of established artworks is nothing new.
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I really fancied you and saved up some money to take you on a nice date; as it didn't work out I'd be grateful if you could send along something to contribute for the drinks I spent on you thinking I'd at least get to see you again.
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Dan Jarvis, a much-fancied MP and former soldier, gave a leader-like speech on the party's future on March 10th, while a "shadow shadow cabinet" of moderates offers the sort of incisive opposition from the backbenches that Mr Corbyn and his team fail to offer from the front.
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You've probably heard the saying not to buy anything unless you can picture yourself wearing it three different ways — and, well, this fancied-up blazer will look just as good with a pair of oversized trousers as it will with a midi-length floral dress or a pair of vintage Levi's.
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It seemed wiser to keep quiet, even when one of my first editors at The Economist, who was married and much older, concealed a letter in my bag, declaring, in a revelation guaranteed to puncture what little confidence I'd acquired, that he had hired me only because he fancied me.
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As celebrated as The Strokes were in their time by writers who fancied themselves as having more culturally refined palates than Hoobastank fans, it's easy to forget that the band was also met with critical backlash, the harshest of which gets glossed over or omitted from Meet Me in the Bathroom.
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" Conway, who fancied herself to be on fire, then tried her hand at another quip about the comedy classic Pink Panther, saying, "If [Nadler] knew what the charges were, if they were clear and convincing and digestible to the public, we would already know what were in the articles of impeachment.
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According to food writer Fiona Ross in her book, Dining with the Famous and Infamous, the renowned screwball surrealist Salvador Dalí fancied his protégée and muse Amanda Lear so much that he'd showcase his love for the woman he said "had a beautiful skull" by sharing with her bowls of cold fruit soup.
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Bettors nonetheless fancied the well-funded Jeb Bush and smooth-talking Marco Rubio for most of the lead-up to the primaries despite their lacklustre poll numbers, wrongly presuming that Mr Trump's polling figures were bound to deflate just like those of the 2012 outsider candidates Herman Cain, Michelle Bachmann and Newt Gingrich.
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As someone who spent their days and nights buried in the pages of magazines like Electronic Gaming Monthly and GamePro, my framework was Graphics, Sound, Gameplay, FunFactor, and Challenge—actual ratings in GamePro years back—and that remained true for a long time, even as I fancied it up with better rhetoric.
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Just like he did in the 1990s when he first made his name on the nation's mafia landscape, he fancied the finest threads, expensive cars and jewelry, frequent high-end steak and cigar dinners and trips to trendy nightclubs and bars with his ever-expanding entourage—all with no visible means of legitimate income.
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A wily political veteran, she is seeking a third term in a state that once fancied itself as America writ small but that has taken a sharp turn to the right in recent years — making her one of the most vulnerable of the 10 Senate Democrats up for re-election in states Mr. Trump won.
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" In her memoir "You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again," she recounts the pitch she fancied herself delivering to Columbia's head of production: "Anyone who has ever dropped acid and looked up at the sky for a while or smoked a joint and watched the Watergate hearings on TV is waiting for this movie.
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Having reviewed the mayoral debates from Bloomberg's three terms as mayor in New York (2001, 2005, and 2009), David von Drehle of The Washington Post concluded that Bloomberg probably fancied his chances against his rivals, who've so far not shown the rhetorical gifts that might turn the Democratic debates into must-watch political spectacles.
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Walk along Northumberland Avenue, from the fake arch down to the river Thames, turn left, and eventually you'll come across Cleopatra's Needle—an actual ancient Egyptian obelisk, 3,500 years old, dug up from Alexandria and shipped halfway across the world, all because some Victorian imperialists decided that they quite fancied plonking it down in their capital.
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Lowery said, "We never finished this song," and proceeded to play "Eurotrash Girl" from the beginning, an eight-minute number, as one final fuck-you to the L.L. Being a drunk idiot who fancied himself an anti-establishmentarian, but who was actually a wet-behind-the-ears school newspaper editor, I shouted along gleefully and went home happy.
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MGA finally reached a California district court in 2008—the year that Judge Kozinski, who, if the stories told about him are to be believed, appears to have fancied himself a "like your tits in that top" sort of boss, was the subject of a judicial inquiry for posting pornographic images to his public Web site, alex.kozinski.
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"This governor has fancied himself as a sort of fiscal hawk but willing to deal with other issues from a more moderate or liberal perspective," said Blair Horner, the executive director of New York Public Interest Research Group, citing Mr. Cuomo's conservative-minded moves, like the property tax cap, and his more progressive policies, like same-sex marriage.
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Wanderlust Back when Georgia — a country bordered by the Black Sea and the Caucasus Mountains — was behind the Iron Curtain, it was fancied the California of the U.S.S.R. Slightly smaller in size than South Carolina, but with impressively diverse terrain, this fertile country had a reputation for producing exceptional fruits and vegetables, superb wines and talented filmmakers.
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"Heracles, as the largest parrot ever, no doubt with a massive parrot beak that could crack wide open anything it fancied, may well have dined on more than conventional parrot foods, perhaps even other parrots," said Mike Archer, study author and professor from the University of New South Wales' Palaeontology, Geobiology and Earth Archives Research Centre.
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" One driver, Rafael, fancied himself as a sort of "crisis entrepreneur" and explained that "Uber and Lyft are doing this because they fucked up by hiring too many drivers, but they'll fuck [up] again and cause too many drivers to leave, meaning people like me will be there to eat when there's too much demand and not enough supply.
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I remember the power in angrily singing the mantra crushcrushcrush; to destroy boys I fancied, parents who only had bile in their throats for each other, the sexual power I suddenly had over older men who I was both enamored with and disgusted by, enemies real and imagined, my body running on next to no sustenance, and my mind, already regulated by antidepressants.
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"I fancied making something as a break from the game I'm making, and was going to make a sort of silly 'kick a ball against the wall' simulator, but it all just took off in the most ridiculous way and now it's somehow ballooned into a proper football game with all the rules made up and I have no idea what I'm doing," he explained.
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Throughout my teen years, I was crippled with insecurity about my BFG-esque stature: I towered above the boys I fancied, was over half-a-foot taller than all of my friends, and my gym teachers always assumed I would be the best in my class (I hate sports and breaking a sweat, have minimal to no athletic abilities, and subsequently disappointed a lot of people).
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It's fair to say the smartphone camera has become the digital tool of most use, rendering the average person's camera roll essentially a memory buffer where carefully composed photographs rub up against snaps of receipts, funny stuff you saw on the street and fancied sharing with friends, and, sometimes, snippets of text you came across in a (paper) book and wanted to make a note of.
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It was 1967 — after the Pierre had become a co-op, with full-time residents purchasing their apartments and hiring the first in a series of hospitality companies to manage the restaurants, ballrooms and transient-room operations — when the artist Edward Melcarth gave the Rotunda Room its trademark mural: a Renaissance loggia peopled with mythological characters and, seemingly, whomever else he fancied throwing in.
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What would happen if I, the most average of all Joes, decided to take on 8,000 calories of McDonald's—not as a reward for any type of abstemiousness, because the only thing I've abstained from is doing the actual exercise this kind of meal is meant to be a reward for, but just because I quite fancied seeing what 2388,220 calories would do to me physically and mentally?
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Let's also not forget that, in early April, Facebook quietly confessed to a major security flaw of its own — when it admitted that an account search and recovery feature had been abused by "malicious actors" who, over what must have been a period of several years, had been able to surreptitiously collect personal data on a majority of Facebook's ~2BN users — and use that intel for whatever they fancied.
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On paper I really like her, but in reality I've never gone further than buying the best of from Woolworths a decade ago, and even then I only ever really listened to "Hounds of Love" (and preferred the Futureheads cover) and "Running Up that Hill" and truth be told I only bought the CD because a girl I fancied off MySpace used to talk to me about Kate Bush quite a lot on MSN.
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