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  • Aided by network television and the internet, news from Littleton even made it to rural Africa.†   (source)
  • Or maybe they'd realized I got my essay on Tom Sawyer from the Internet without ever reading the book and now they were going to take away my grade.†   (source)
  • We didn't know what he was talking about, but one of the girls looked him up on the Internet, and that's when we read what happened to him.†   (source)
  • Do it on the Internet.†   (source)
  • Langdon had never seen any evidence of the pendant, nor could he imagine how it could possibly reveal the Holy Grail, and yet Grail aficionados still discussed it ad nauseum on Internet bulletin boards and worldwide-web chat rooms.†   (source)
  • He smiles at my dad and says, "We kept cruising the Internet and the trades looking for a deal.†   (source)
  • "I can get on the Internet and find stuff for school and type up all my homework," she's telling the group around her.†   (source)
  • How do you think I got Internet access?†   (source)
  • I already tried the Internet.†   (source)
  • If I'm sent by the state of California to foster care in a remote location with no Internet and no books and no vegetables, where I will live with a family who secretly worship Satan and only eat canned meat, then so be it.†   (source)
  • TruYou changed the internet, in toto, within a year.†   (source)
  • And adverts are pictures or television programs to make you buy things like cars or Snickers or use an Internet Service Provider.†   (source)
  • My dad was all mad because he'd been trying to get through for hours, only Michael was on the Internet answering fan mail for his webzine, Crackhead, so my dad kept getting a busy signal.†   (source)
  • The fact that only Ali knew about Ian ...Trying to shake it off, she sat down at the computer, adjusted the waistband of her navy blue Wolford patterned stockings, and logged on to the Internet.†   (source)
  • He moved to his desk, still wearing his pajama bottoms, sat down, and logged onto the Internet.†   (source)
  • We've never had access to the internet, cell phones, or even a television because she believes technology is the root of all evil in the world.†   (source)
  • Alma LeFay Peregrine still resided among the living, but Internet searches turned up nothing.†   (source)
  • Seventy hours ago, I gained clearance to search the Internet and found out as much about Day as I could.†   (source)
  • All those things you found out on the Internet, I know they hurt you.†   (source)
  • Maybe I'll just check the Internet and see what's out there, he thought.†   (source)
  • He went back to Internet porn, found it had lost its bloom: it was repetitive, mechanical, devoid of its earlier allure.†   (source)
  • She posted her request on the Internet.†   (source)
  • Martial law, sit-ins at the UN, parades, rooftop parties, endless Internet chatter, and 24/7 coverage of the Arrival over every medium.†   (source)
  • No more answering shady Internet requests, and certainly no more consorting with the sons of European crime lords.†   (source)
  • I researched coins on the Internet—at sites like David Hall Rare Coins and Legend Numismatics—and recited what was being offered as well as the latest prices.†   (source)
  • IT'S HARD TO IMAGINE A WORLD WITHOUT planes or cars, a world where people spent most of their lives in the same region and rarely traveled more than a few miles from their village, a world without the Internet or even the telephone.†   (source)
  • On the Internet I'd seen footage of a hotel blown up in the desert, where the honeycombed rooms at the moment of collapse were frozen in just such a blast of light.†   (source)
  • And do you know who wrote much of the software that allows you to access the Internet?†   (source)
  • Jasman loves to accompany her mother downtown on Sundays to the Axdi-Cell Internet, where they can dial Enrique more cheaply.†   (source)
  • If it ended up on the internet, or in a newspaper, it would make finding me much easier.†   (source)
  • Blame the economy, blame bad luck, blame my parents, blame your parents, blame the Internet, blame people who use the Internet.†   (source)
  • I hated using the Internet here.†   (source)
  • The wireless internet access in the room was spotty, which was exasperating because I was still combing the Web, looking for images.†   (source)
  • The question is whether newspapers will still be relevant at a time when readers are flocking to the Internet and our most solid core of subscribers is slowly dying off, with newsroom cutbacks keeping pace.†   (source)
  • He needed to use the caf's wireless Internet connection; he had names he wanted to look up: Doctor John Dee, Perenelle and especially Nicholas Flamel.†   (source)
  • A couple of months later, my dad bought her a kitchen witch on the Internet and hung it over the stove.†   (source)
  • I wouldn't want to die in a cage of starvation or have my head cut off for some video to be shown around the world on the Internet.†   (source)
  • Except for the hour each evening that he enabled the browser on his phone and disappeared down the byways of the internet.†   (source)
  • Science calls her HeLa and she's all over the world in medical facilities, in all the computers and the Internet everywhere.†   (source)
  • I scoured the Internet and there was no news of an arrest, either, so I imagine he just ignored my email.†   (source)
  • An Internet search for "Oher" yielded nothing on him.†   (source)
  • I once walked into the comms center, and he was trying to order a leopard-skin coat on the Internet.†   (source)
  • If not for the internet, I don't think I would have been able to educate the girls at the level I did.†   (source)
  • How are their children going to feel in a few years when their friends in school know all about their parents' personal lives, and their parents' bad behaviors are archived forever on DVDs and the Internet?†   (source)
  • He immediately recognised Henrik Vanger from the photograph posted on the Internet.†   (source)
  • I'm sure my mom will eventually allow me access to the Internet and we'll be able to IM again, but it won't be enough.†   (source)
  • For weeks I did a lot of research in books, magazines, on the Internet, and at the nearby GNC store, putting together what I believed was a well-thought-out and articulated presentation.†   (source)
  • Ruth looked up from her notes on her phone conference with the Internet Spirituality author and reminded herself of all the ways she was lucky.†   (source)
  • Ten minutes later the computer secured a dial-up connection to the Internet, and I typed "angel wing scars" into the Google search bar.†   (source)
  • Wireless Internet; digital photographs, smartphones, Facebook, YouTube ...†   (source)
  • Finally, the internet closed and reopened a second later, but his Sent folder was minus one mysteriously unread message.†   (source)
  • The information warp was due to the Internet, and to 47 those of us at Base Camp it was nothing less than surreal.†   (source)
  • This, combined with the CIA-grade parental controls set up on our Internet access, pretty much ensured I'd be far more concerned with how my stuffed animals were arranged on my bed than the possibility of dying before my tenth birthday.†   (source)
  • I'm due at the studio to lay down a few final guitar tracks for some Internet-only version of the first single of our just-released album.†   (source)
  • She opened a bottle of wine while Grace took Joe and the twins off and sat them on the floor in front of Annie's computer where soon she had them surfing spellbound on the Internet.†   (source)
  • Getting my driver's license when Grandma left me her obnoxious (but mint) '75 LTD. 4) Jake, sharing his Internet research on fetal development.†   (source)
  • The Internet has become another powerful tool for assembling data about children.†   (source)
  • A few days after Nate and Mike were killed, a letter written by someone calling himself The Angry American began to circulate around the Internet.†   (source)
  • The Americans funded an English teacher at the school and arranged for an Internet connection for e-mail.†   (source)
  • I picked a computer that sat on a nice big desk and clicked into the Internet.†   (source)
  • The Internet doesn't distinguish between names of the living and names of the dead.†   (source)
  • Set up an Internet company.†   (source)
  • Just go to the Internet and log on to: www.PrincessBrideBook.com.†   (source)
  • He ended up at an Internet college bookseller— VarsityBooks.com.†   (source)
  • I steal illegal music off the Internet.†   (source)
  • I need a computer with Internet.†   (source)
  • It had electrified trolley cars, and five competing Internet providers.†   (source)
  • The Internet happened.†   (source)
  • The room was full of homey welcoming touches, and provided high-speed Internet access.†   (source)
  • HOW TO MAKE A FIRE WITHOUT MATCHES I did a search on the internet for Alma Mereminski.†   (source)
  • It's all photography and the electric internet.†   (source)
  • For Internet auction fraud.†   (source)
  • The Internet.†   (source)
  • They own some Internet start-up, and apparently they're very interested in Hollis, think he's really got his finger on the pulse of their American target audience, so he went along.†   (source)
  • "Do we have Internet access?" he asked Kara at six.†   (source)
  • They always have a working fax and a fast Internet connection.†   (source)
  • Intranet for an internet that's private to a company.†   (source)
  • Some kids say he belongs to some satanic internet group, and he took a vow to kill Christians.†   (source)
  • The weird thing was that Sherm's flag-on-the-moon theory was all over the Internet: Bridge had looked it up.†   (source)
  • Not one of his teammates had seen him since high school, and Internet searches for him proved fruitless.†   (source)
  • It was much larger than other houses in the area and didn't have a telephone or an Internet connection.†   (source)
  • All essayists, those we invite to write for our series and also those whose essays are chosen from Internet submissions, are edited for radio—sometimes a little, sometimes a lot—until everyone is content.†   (source)
  • After I chatted about nu shu in an e-mail with Michelle Yang, a fan of my work, she very sweetly took it upon herself to look up and then forward to me what she found on the Internet about the subject.†   (source)
  • The problem was, the only Internet access he had at home was via a dial-up modem.†   (source)
  • I pull up the internet and wait for my start page to load.†   (source)
  • When he dumped some girl named Zoe on Labor Day weekend she blasted a disrespectful description of his man-parts all over the Internet.†   (source)
  • I can only imagine her family's surprise when they went on the Internet and found out whom she was really living with!†   (source)
  • It didn't take me long to find Junior's address and phone number on the Internet.†   (source)
  • He became involved in the business side of the company, expanding our Internet operations (Korie's dad, Johnny Howard, was selling our merchandise through a catalog and online before she and Willie bought the operation) while also landing us new sponsors and endorsement deals.†   (source)
  • He'd been born and raised in Mississippi, graduated from LSU with a master's in computer science and, after applying five times at NASA, ended up working for an internet backbone center in Atlanta.†   (source)
  • Believe me, it was a dark day in the universe when the Internet started letting people research their medical symptoms.†   (source)
  • This was something, I'm told, that boys used to do before the Internet.†   (source)
  • I know from the internet there are 133 "places of worship" in this tiny town, but it seems odd that Finch would choose one for the last wander.†   (source)
  • He removed a laptop computer from his attache case and connected it to the hotel's wireless Internet system.†   (source)
  • Why don't you want me accessing the internet?†   (source)
  • Sometimes I'm thankful I don't have access to the internet like everyone else.†   (source)
  • "Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's why they invented the Internet," Tab said.†   (source)
  • Not having internet access wouldn't have been a big deal in high school a few years ago, but now it's pretty much social suicide.†   (source)
  • You don't have internet or TV.†   (source)
  • "And internet," I add.†   (source)
  • Half the techies here play it on the Internet.†   (source)
  • She was about to take a break from the internet when something caught her attention.†   (source)
  • Phone calls, texting, even browsing the Internet—all these things can attract monsters.†   (source)
  • Emmett can get a clerical license off the Internet.†   (source)
  • If she is still alive, it may not prove too difficult—this Internet is a wondrous tool.†   (source)
  • With the Internet, Facebook, YouTube, there's no such thing as an unbiased jury anymore.†   (source)
  • If we could find some evidence that she was checking her e-mail or anywhere on the Internet.†   (source)
  • What she had managed to collect was mostly press cuttings and articles downloaded from the Internet.†   (source)
  • A teacher in Texas, he said, had pulled a syllabus off the Internet for him.†   (source)
  • She was trying to get onto the Internet but couldn't make it work.†   (source)
  • From the Internet I learned about the cancer that had been discovered on Bob Marley's foot.†   (source)
  • She feels inhibited in the Internet store.†   (source)
  • If this video were released, Langdon knew it would become an Internet sensation over night.†   (source)
  • First I type in Metias's hack that allows me to access the Internet.†   (source)
  • For a few hours, she searched the Internet.†   (source)
  • We wept secretly for our smartphones, our cars, our microwave ovens, and the Internet.†   (source)
  • So technology companies purposely want an insecure internet?†   (source)
  • People on the internet are saying the same thing.†   (source)
  • From Coach O, Sean learned about the Internet courses offered by Brigham Young University.†   (source)
  • We have internet now and I haven't checked the news since Florida.†   (source)
  • So then the internet happened, and here and there some geniuses set up cameras on the beaches.†   (source)
  • On the Internet, the talk about Scott is horrible, the theories wild, disgusting.†   (source)
  • She knew I was preoccupied, heading to the Internet to research possible medical treatments.†   (source)
  • Ted, the Internet Spirituality author, had been right.†   (source)
  • Most people got it—I read about it on the Internet.†   (source)
  • The spare hours I did have I had started to spend in the library, looking things up on the Internet.†   (source)
  • Internet connectivity was suspended as well.†   (source)
  • If it's not on the Internet, it'll be in their newspaper files.†   (source)
  • A big-screen television with satellite and high-speed Internet.†   (source)
  • While the class worked on the review sheet, Mrs. Rasmussin surfed the Internet.†   (source)
  • Then find a secure non-IOI-controlled Internet connection and get back online.†   (source)
  • A normal person would certainly understand the basics of the Internet.†   (source)
  • If only I were as good at life as I am at the internet.†   (source)
  • Only last month, Master Fowl had purchased a cine-camera over the Internet.†   (source)
  • Cameras, videos, phones and the Internet make it so much harder to remain hidden nowadays.†   (source)
  • Guess what the most popular Internet computer game in America is right now?†   (source)
  • Mobile, landline, Internet ...it doesn't seem to matter.†   (source)
  • I couldn't imagine how my aunts knew anything about the Internet.†   (source)
  • And the story had blown up on the Internet.†   (source)
  • He is sometimes called the Edison of the Internet.†   (source)
  • I used the infernal Internet of yours to follow the Indianapolis obituary notices.†   (source)
  • Maybe he'd finally figured out who'd been running up his Internet bill.†   (source)
  • My mom has reinstated my Internet access but only during the school day.†   (source)
  • Heaps of dead fish, and bad Internet connection.†   (source)
  • I'll look things up on the Internet at the library.†   (source)
  • You think you can just put all this information out over the Internet.†   (source)
  • Like you said, it's textbook—it's made up from an Internet search.†   (source)
  • The trolls, who had more or less overtaken the internet, were driven back into the darkness.†   (source)
  • It saves money, but now everything can be attacked via the internet.†   (source)
  • Maraa Isabel dials from the Internet store.†   (source)
  • Well, I'm glad you've used your internet detective skills to determine that Davis is sweet.†   (source)
  • She thinks they're the only thing the Internet is good for.†   (source)
  • He knew where to post ads on the Internet to solicit college football players.†   (source)
  • He searched the Internet for Parrot, Parrot Brand, Parrot Inc., Redparrot.†   (source)
  • We won't have the internet here until the morning.†   (source)
  • It was from Randy that I first heard of the Internet.†   (source)
  • She spent that night on the Internet, reading articles and theses on the psychopathology of sadism.†   (source)
  • There were too many access routes to the Internet.†   (source)
  • There are pictures of almost everyone on the Internet these days, and I wanted to see his face.†   (source)
  • I didn't know it was heroin until I looked it up on the Internet.†   (source)
  • When she reached him, she began with the demands of the Internet Spirituality author.†   (source)
  • An article pulled off the Internet gave a snapshot guide.†   (source)
  • The worldwide internet had slowed to a crawl, bringing business and communications down with it.†   (source)
  • "It does feel like the internet already contains plenty of information," Davis allowed.†   (source)
  • It hadn't been hard to find out about the Front Runner, thanks to Internet chat rooms.†   (source)
  • I looked him up on the Internet; He's based on Regent Street.†   (source)
  • "So you really bought pills off the Internet?" he asks.†   (source)
  • I play video games and surf the internet.†   (source)
  • I scanned the Internet and saw Punch's line: That's the way to do it!†   (source)
  • Tell me something that isn't wired into the internet and uses Chinese parts.†   (source)
  • The Internet is packed with quizzes for free.†   (source)
  • The manual for the process was on the Internet.†   (source)
  • Ridiculous stories that made me smile when I stumbled across them on the internet, nothing more.†   (source)
  • I can print directions from the internet.†   (source)
  • Most of it's legacy equipment, built before the internet existed, and it's nearly irreplaceable.†   (source)
  • In early October Salander read an article on the Internet edition of the Hedestad Courier.†   (source)
  • If they built them before the internet, shouldn't they be immune from it?†   (source)
  • Salander spent several days combing the Internet.†   (source)
  • It's too bad your mother won't let you have internet.†   (source)
  • When the last bits are in place, the programme is integrated with his Internet browser.†   (source)
  • Something I thought was lost on this generation of internet fiends.†   (source)
  • Answer me this—who's in charge of the internet, this thing that our lives depend on?†   (source)
  • I don't have internet access," I explain.†   (source)
  • The New York Times tech group says the internet is totally infected from top to bottom.†   (source)
  • But we invented the internet, didn't we?†   (source)
  • "The internet, did you manage to get on this afternoon?" asked Rory from across the counter.†   (source)
  • Everything is accessible via the internet.†   (source)
  • What I really want to know is, why didn't they just make the internet more secure?†   (source)
  • Because a truly secure internet wouldn't serve a common interest in freedom.†   (source)
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