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Simple sentences
The thin man paused in the shade with his knees a little bent.
John has a natural bent for tennis.
The bough bent under the weight of the snow.
I bent over to pick up the pen.
Uncontrolled, these forces may be dangerous and destructive, but once mastered they can be bent to man's will and desire.
He bent over the girl and kissed her.
She bent over the child.
She bent down.
She bent down and picked up the coin.
She bent her head in shame.
She is bent on becoming a lawyer.
The bamboo bent but did not break.
Lead is easily bent.
He watched as the doctors bent over her.
The doctor bent over the sick boy.
The branch bent but did not break.
Jim dropped his pen and bent to pick it up.
He bent down and picked up the ball.
He finally bent to my wishes.
He is bent on getting the driving license.
He bent over to see insects in the flowerbed.
He bent over backward to please his wife.
He has a natural bent for music.
He is bent on becoming a vocalist.
He bent his back.
Movie subtitles
While Richard is bent on adventure in foreign lands.. itisourdutyasNormans to preserve the realm.. bygivingloyalsupport to Prince John.
The sun heating your head, and you all bent over, your bones creaking, going on and on, not seeing where, the sweat streaming into your eyes.
That he harkened to such evilness, That he bent his will to another's will.
That he harkened to such evilness, That he bent his will to another's will!
You bent it.
How can a pilot aim with his head bent down?
Then there are strange cases of domestic contagion, where you have a husband and wife, or a brother and sister, bent over nightly in the lamplight, writing poison-pen letters.
The pins are bent.
The barque is ready, the wind sets fair and everything is bent for England.
Any special place you're bent on going?
If you're bent on going, I can't stop you. but you'll have to leave the baby behind.
They can get awful bent out of shape, can't they?
How old was my father the first time he bent this bow? You appear to be skilled at this work.
It must be bent, broken if necessary.
While Richard is bent on adventure in foreign lands it is our duty as Normans to preserve the realm by giving loyal support to Prince John, the only true defender of the Norman spirit.
Now, chin up, elbows bent. Up on your toes.
I would like to hear that your daughter had married her young man and that your son had been permitted to follow his own bent.
Look at him, he's all bent over.
She stretched, the bough it bent.
But in an arcade like this people are bent only on pleasure and will instinctively disregard any deviation from the normal that doesn't immediately concern them.
I bent down and stroked its back.
Don't you realize there's a monster at large in the city bent on destruction?
Brick! Got a bent strut and shaft on the port side. -You check your planking?
Would've been a shame to kill him, but what could I do? He was bent on murder.
As far as the body goes, why, she's all bent on the side and the rear end is way out of line.
Maybe it's a thousand years, my son, perhaps even more, I do not know, that our ancestors have bent their backs stood in the water and treaded the water wheel.
PLEASE TO REMEMBER, WE'RE NOT BENT ON PLEASURE, HENRIETTA.
All night long, our dear Gabriel has bent over his printing press in the cellar to make these for you, Monsieur, and for you, my dear nephew.
He bent over my bed and kissed me.
For now I am bent to know, by the worst means, the worst.
You seem bent on destroying the flowers and cultivating the weeds!
I bet he slept through the show then bent your ears about Dow Jones averages and profits taxes.
He is within, with two right reverend fathers. divinely bent to meditation. and in no worldly suit should he be moved. to draw him from his holy exercise.
But they were still in the frame, fastened by joints which bent my spoon.
Suddenly, she dropped something. She bent over and picked it up.
News and current affairs
America's business scandals showed how accounting rules can be bent and abused to provide a misleading picture of what is really happening in a company.
The Bush Administration, not to be left behind, has shown how public accounting rules can be bent so as to provide a misleading picture of what is really happening in a national economy.
States with balanced-budget frameworks are forced to cut spending as tax revenues fall - an automatic destabilizer that Europe seems mindlessly bent on adopting.
This failure reflects the same dynamic at work in the breakdown of global climate-change conferences in recent years: a few cynical countries, whose cooperation is needed to save the planet, fuel the madness of those bent on destroying it.
Not only are key issues such as Jerusalem and Palestinian refugees insoluble without an all-Arab consensus, but any country that is left out of the peace process is bound to persist in its role as a revolutionary power bent on regional destabilization.
It, too, did not have much success, except perhaps in the case of Finland, which ultimately bent its policies to gain relief from sanctions imposed in 1958.
Were America less bent on pursuing unilateralist policies, in pushing against an international rule of law, this might not make much of a difference.
Juncker's Commission risks losing its authority from the start if the rules can be bent or broken to accommodate the larger member states' domestic political priorities.
This would be expensive fiscally for Europe and the world - and current fiscal targets would have to be bent appropriately in the eurozone and globally.
Faced with a country whose leader is bent on acquiring nuclear weapons, the EU's leaders are simply dithering, fearing that the fire next door in Iraq could somehow spread.
MELBOURNE - Is Iran really hell-bent on becoming a nuclear-armed state?
They believe that America is bent on undermining Iran's security and compromising its national interests.
It almost seems as if Japan is bent on self-isolation in Asia.
It was a straightforward betrayal, resisted only by a few senior officers with an Islamic bent.
If it does not, we should make clear that we will lead the free world to avoid the senseless slaughter of any more Libyan citizens by a madman bent on maintaining power.
It also explains why journalists in those countries have so often bent over backwards to apologize for individual transgressions, rather than stand in defiance.
Its election campaign took on a vilifying tone, charging that the opposition was bent on destroying ethnic groups through genocide.
Faced by a United States bent upon bloody vengeance, Pakistan's military establishment scurried to join the US-led coalition and take up arms against its own creation, the Taliban.
Only a few senior officers with an Islamic bent resisted this straightforward betrayal.
Only a few senior officers with an Islamic bent resisted this straightforward betrayal. They were soon marginalized, drawing praise from Washington.