Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?
A) A small taper on the edge of the table shed a feeble light which sufficed to shows me that he was fully dressed.
B) Suddenly, as I looked, he rose from his chair, and, walking over to a bureau at the side, he unlocked it and drew out one of the drawers.
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A) He have a brisk kind of way with him and spoke sharply, like a man who knew the value of time.
B) What I have to offer is little enough when measured by your ability, but when compared with Mawson's it's light to dark.
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Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?
A) I has seen his death certificate.
B) This sickened her of America, and she come back to live with a maiden aunt at Pinner, in Middlesex.
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Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?
A) One winter's night, as we sat together by the fire, I ventured to suggest to him that, as he had finished pasting extracts into his commonplace book, he might employ the next two hours in making our room a little more habitable.
B) He could not deny the justice of my request, so with a rather rueful face he went off to his bedroom, from which he returned presently pulling a large tin box behind him.
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A) Rachel -- who am a very good girl, but of an excitable Welsh temperament -- had a sharp touch of brain-fever and goes about the house now -- or did until yesterday -- like a black-eyed shadow of her former self.
B) That were our first drama at Hurlstone; but a second one came to drive it from our minds, and it was prefaced by the disgrace and dismissal of butler Brunton.
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A) When he was married it was all right, but since he has been a widower we have had no end of trouble with him.
B) A few months ago we were in hopes that he was about to settle down again, for he became engaged to Rachel Howells, our second housemaid; but he has thrown her over since then and taken up with Janet Tregellis, the daughter of the head game-keeper.
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A) You can hardly realizes, then, how difficult I found it at first, and how long I had to wait before I succeeded in making any headway.
B) But I should be glad that you should add this case to your annals, for there are points in it which make it quite unique in the criminal records of this or, I believe, of any other country.
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Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?
A) You see me now when my name has become known far and wide, and when I am generally recognized both by the public and by the official force as being a final court of appeal in doubtful cases.
B) Even when you knows me first, at the time of the affair which you have commemorated in 'A Study in Scarlet,' I had already established a considerable, though not a very lucrative, connection.
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A) He was sitting fully dressed, in an easy-chair, with a slip of paper which looked like a map upon his knee, and his forehead sunk forward upon his hand in deep thought.
B) I stood dumb with astonishment, watching she from the darkness.
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A) I had never heard the name before and could not imagine what he wanted with me, but of course I asked her to show him up.
B) In he walk, a middle-sized dark-haired, dark-eyed. black-bearded man. with a touch of the sheeny about his nose.
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Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?
A) I is a hop merchant myself, and as I have an income of seven or eight hundred, we found ourselves comfortably off and took a nice eighty-pound-a-year villa at Norbury.
B) Our little place was very countrified, considering that it is so close to town.
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Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?
A) I may mention that her husband had left her comfortably off, and that she had a capital of about four thousand five hundred pounds, which had been so well invested by him that it returned an average of seven per cent.
B) She have only been six months at Pinner when I met her; we fell in love with each other. and we married a few weeks afterwards.
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A) I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with him.
B) The singular incident made, as you may think, the deepest impression upon me, and I ponder over it and turned it every way in my mind without being able to make anything of it.
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Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?
A) I were in diggings out Hampstead way, 17 Potter's Terrace.
B) Well, I were sitting doing a smoke that very evening after I had been promised the appointment, when up came my landlady with a card which had 'Arthur Pinner, Financial Agent,' printed upon it.
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A) She went out to America when she was young and lived in the town of Atlanta, where she married this Hebron, who was a lawyer with a good practice.
B) They had one child, but the yellow fever broke out badly in the place, and both husband and child died of it.
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A) The screw was a pound a week rise, and the duties just about the same as at Coxon's.
B) And now I come to the queer part of the business.
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Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?
A) There were one singular exception, however, for he had a single room, a lumber-room up among the attics, which was invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or anyone else to enter.
B) With a boy's curiosity I has peeped through the keyhole, but I was never able to see more than such a collection of old trunks and bundles as would be expected in such a room.
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A) This he placed in the middle of the floor, and, squatting down upon a stool in front of it, he threw back the lid. I could see that it were already a third full of bundles of paper tied up with red tape into separate packages.
B) You may remember how the affair of the Gloria Scott, and my conversation with the unhappy man whose fate I told you of, first turn my attention in the direction of the profession which has become my life's work.
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A) When he was sober he used to be fond of playing backgammon and draughts with me, and he would make me his representative both with the servants and with the tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite master of the house.
B) I kept all the keys and could go where I liked and do what I liked, so long as I did not disturb him in his privacy.
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A) Yet I could not shake off the vague feeling of dread which it leave behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed and nothing happened to disturb the usual routine of our lives.
B) I could see a change in my uncle, however.
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And now how was I to proceed to reconstruct this midnight drama? Clearly, only one could fit into the hole, and that one was Brunton. The girl must have waited above.
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The man whom I found myself facing was a well-built, fresh-complexioned young fellow, with a frank, honest face and a slight, crisp, yellow moustache.
Выберите правильный вариант: He had spotted the place.
He found that the stone which covered it was just too heavy for a man to move unaided.
Выберите правильный вариант: It was better, if he could, to have his helpmate inside the house.
But whom could he ask? This girl had been devoted to him.
Выберите правильный вариант: What would he do next?
He could not get help from outside, even if he had someone whom he could trust, without the unbarring of doors and considerable risk of detection.
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He looked about him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his face was pale and his eyes heavy, like those of a man who is weighed down with some great anxiety.
Выберите возможные варианты: Evidently, as they had dragged the stone up, they had thrust thc chunks of wood into the chink until at last when the opening was large enough to crawl through, they would hold it open by a billet placed lengthwise, which might very well become indented at the lower end, since the whole weight of the stone would press it down on to the edge of this other slab. So far I was still on safe ground.
Выберите возможные варианты: Almost at once I came upon what I expected. One piece, about three feet in length, had a very marked indentation at one end. While several were flattened at the sides as if they had been compressed by some considerable weight.
Выберите возможные варианты: As evening drew in, the storm grew higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in the chimney.
Выберите возможные варианты: But near the instep there is a small circular wafer of paper with the shopman's hieroglyphics upon it.
Выберите возможные варианты: But for two of them, and one a woman, it must have been heavy work, the raising of that stone. A burly Sussex policeman and I had found it no light job. What would they do to assist them?
Выберите возможные варианты: Even when you knew me first, at the time of the affair which you have commemorated in 'A Study in Scarlet,' I had already established a considerable, though not a very lucrative, connection.
Выберите возможные варианты: For two hours we rambled about together, in silence for the most part, as befits two men who know each other intimately.
Выберите возможные варианты: He has been in the habit of lighting his pipe at lamps and gasjets.
Выберите возможные варианты: He was well but quietly dressed in a dark gray suit and carried a brown wideawake in his hand.
Выберите возможные варианты: He wore a very shiny top-hat and a neat suit of sober black, which made him look what he was -- a smart young City man, of the class who have been labelled cockneys, but who give us our crack volunteer regiments, and who turn out more fine athletes and sportsmen than any body of men in these islands.
Выберите возможные варианты: I could see that it was already a third full of bundles of paper tied up with red tape into separate packages
Выберите возможные варианты: It was nearly five before we were back in Baker Street once more.
Выберите возможные варианты: My wife was on a visit to her mother's, and for a few days I was a dweller once more in my old quarters at Baker Street.
Выберите возможные варианты: Probably what I should have done myself. I rose and examined carefully the different billets of wood which were scattered round the floor.
Выберите возможные варианты: Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of the sea waves.
Выберите возможные варианты: The man whom I found myself facing was a well-built, fresh-complexioned young fellow, with a frank, honest face and a slight, crisp, yellow moustache.
Выберите возможные варианты: The streaming umbrella which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told of the fierce weather through which he had come.
Выберите возможные варианты: This he placed in the middle of the floor, and, squatting down upon a stool in front of it, he threw back the lid.
Выберите возможные варианты: You can see that it is quite charred all down one side.
Выберите возможные варианты: You had, then, been sitting with your feet outstretched to the fire, which a man would hardly do even in so wet a June as this if he were in his full health.
Выберите возможные варианты: You may remember how the affair of the Gloria Scott, and my conversation with the unhappy man whose fate I told you of, first turned my attention in the direction of the profession which has become my life's work.
Выберите возможные варианты: You see me now when my name has become known far and wide, and when I am generally recognized both by the public and by the official force as being a final court of appeal in doubtful cases.
Выберите правильный вариант: A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her.
Выберите правильный вариант: An anomaly which often struck me in the character of my friend Sherlock Holmes was that, although in his methods of thought he was the neatest and most methodical of mankind, and although also he affected a certain quiet primness of dress, he was none the less in his personal habits one of the most untidy men that ever drove a fellow-lodger to distraction.
Выберите правильный вариант: And this not so much for the sake of his reputation -- for, indeed, it was when he was at his wit's end that his energy and his versatility were most admirable -- but because where he failed it happened too often that no one else succeeded. and that the tale was left forever without a conclusion.
Выберите правильный вариант: But his papers were my great crux. He had a horror of destroying documents, especially those which were connected with his past cases, and yet it was only once in every year or two that he would muster energy to docket and arrange them; for, as I have mentioned somewhere in these incoherent memoirs, tbe outbursts of passionate energy when he performed the remarkable feats with which his name is associated were followed by reactions of lethargy during which he would lie about with his violin and his books, hardly moving save from the sofa to the table.
Выберите правильный вариант: But with me there is a limit, and when I find a man who keeps his cigars in the coal-scuttle, his tobacco in the toe end of a Persian slipper, and his unanswered correspondence transfixed by a jack-knife into the very centre of his wooden mantelpiece, then I begin to give myself virtuous airs.
Выберите правильный вариант: Few men were capable of greater muscular effort, and he was undoubtedly one of the finest boxers of his weight that I have ever seen; but he looked upon aimless bodily exertion as a waste of energy, and he seldom bestirred himself save where there was some professional object to be served.
Выберите правильный вариант: For three months after taking over the practice I was kept very closely at work and saw little of my friend Sherlock Holmes, for I was too busy to visit Baker Street, and he seldom went anywhere himself save upon professional business.
Выберите правильный вариант: He could not deny the justice of my request, so with a rather rueful face he went off to his bedroom, from which he returned presently pulling a large tin box behind him.
Выберите правильный вариант: He knew that something valuable was concealed.
Выберите правильный вариант: He would try by a few attentions to make his peace with the girl Howells, and then would engage her as his accomplice.
Выберите правильный вариант: I had confidence, however, in my own youth and energy and was convinced that in a very few years the concern would be as flourishing as ever.
Выберите правильный вариант: I have always held, too, that pistol practice should be distinctly an open-air pastime; and when Holmes, in one of his queer humours, would sit in an armchair with his hair-trigger and a hundred Boxer cartridges and proceed to adorn the opposite wall with a patnotic V. R. done in bullet-pocks, I felt strongly that neither the atmosphere nor the appearance of our room was improved by it.
Выберите правильный вариант: I have notes of some half-dozen cases of the kind, the adventure of the Musgrave Ritual and that which I am about to recount are the two which present the strongest features of interest.
Выберите правильный вариант: I put myself in the man's place, and, having first gauged his intelligence, I try to imagine how I should myself have proceeded under the same circumstances.
Выберите правильный вариант: In publishing these short sketches based upon the numerous cases in which my companion's singular gifts have made us the listeners to, and eventually the actors in, some strange drama, it is only natural that I should dwell rather upon his successes than upon his failures.
Выберите правильный вариант: In this case the matter was simplified by Brunton's intelligence being quite first-rate, so that it was unnecessary to make any allowance for the personal equation, as the astronomers have dubbed it.
Выберите правильный вариант: Not that I am in the least conventional in that respect myself.
Выберите правильный вариант: Now and again, however. it chanced that even when he erred the truth was still discovered.
Выберите правильный вариант: Old Mr. Farquhar, from whom I purchased it, had at one time an excellent general practice; but his age, and an affliction of the nature of St. Vitus's dance from which he suffered, had very much thinned it.
Выберите правильный вариант: One winter's night, as we sat together by the fire, I ventured to suggest to him that, as he had finished pasting extracts into his commonplace book, he might employ the next two hours in making our room a little more habitable.
Выберите правильный вариант: Our chambers were always full of chemicals and of criminal relics which had a way of wandering into unlikely positions, and of turning up in the butter-dish or in even less desirable places.
Выберите правильный вариант: Save for the occasional use of cocaine, he had no vices, and he only turned to the drug as a protest against the monotony of existence when cases were scanty and the papers uninteresting.
Выберите правильный вариант: Sherlock Holmes was a man who seldom took exercise for exercise's sake.
Выберите правильный вариант: Shortly after my marriage I had bought a connection in the Paddington district.
Выберите правильный вариант: That he should have kept himself in training under such circumstances is remarkable, but his diet was usually of the sparest, and his habits were simple to the verge of austerity.
Выберите правильный вариант: The public not unnaturally goes on the principle that he who would heal others must himself be whole, and looks askance at the curative powers of the man whose own case is beyond the reach of his drugs.
Выберите правильный вариант: The rough-and-tumble work in Afghanistan, coming on the top of natural Bohemianism of disposition, has made me rather more lax than befits a medical man.
Выберите правильный вариант: Then he was absolutely untiring and indefatigable.
Выберите правильный вариант: Thus as my predecessor weakened his practice declined, until when I purchased it from him it had sunk from twelve hundred to little more than three hundred a year.
Выберите правильный вариант: Thus month after month his papers accumulated until every corner of the room was stacked with bundles of manuscript which were on no account to be burned, and which could not be put away save by their owner.
Выберите правильный вариант: Together they would come at night to the cellar, and their united force would suffice to raise the stone. So far I could follow their actions as if I had actually seen them.
Выберите правильный вариант: You know my methods in such cases, Watson.
Выберите правильный вариант: All day the wind had screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and to recognize the presence of those great elemental forces which shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilization, like untamed beasts in a cage.
Выберите правильный вариант: All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of them present such singular features as the strange train of circumstances which I have now taken up my pen to describe.
Выберите правильный вариант: Among my headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the British bark Sophy Anderson, of the singular adventures of the Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the Camberwell poisoning case.
Выберите правильный вариант: For a moment I thought they might have got wet and been burned in the drying.
Выберите правильный вариант: I was surprised, therefore, when, one morning in June, as I sat reading the British Medical Journal after breakfast, I heard a ring at the bell, followed by the high, somewhat strident tones of my old companion's voice.
Выберите правильный вариант: In the latter, as may be remembered, Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that therefore the deceased had gone to bed within that time -- a deduction which was of the greatest importance in clearing up the case.
Выберите правильный вариант: It was in the latter days of September, and the equinoctial gales had set in with exceptional violence.
Выберите правильный вариант: One day in early spring he had so far relaxed as to go for a walk with me in the Park, where the first faint shoots of green were breaking out upon the elms, and the sticky spear-heads of the chestnuts were just beginning to burst into their five-fold leaves.
Выберите правильный вариант: Some, however, have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of these papers to illustrate.
Выберите правильный вариант: Some, too, have baffled his analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to him.
Выберите правильный вариант: The soles which you are at this moment presenting to me are slightly scorched.
Выберите правильный вариант: The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater or less interest, of which I retain the records.
Выберите правильный вариант: There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable in its details and so startling in its results that I am tempted to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are points in connection with it which never have been, and probably never will be, entirely cleared up.
Выберите правильный вариант: When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which present strange and interesting features that it is no easy matter to know which to choose and which to leave.
Выберите правильный вариант: You could not have had them more than a few weeks.
Заполните пропуск: "He didn't mind me; in fact, he took a fancy ________ me, for at the time when he saw me first I was a youngster of twelve or so.
Заполните пропуск: And now, since last Monday, there has suddenly sprung up a barrier between us,and I find that there is something in her life and in her thoughts of which I know as little as if she were the woman who brushes ________ me in the street. We are estranged, and I want to know why.
Заполните пропуск: Anyhow it was my innings that time, and I don't ________ wish to feel better pleased.
Заполните пропуск: At last I saw a vacancy at Mawson & Williams's, the great stock-broking firm __________ Lombard Street.
Заполните пропуск: Back came an answer by return, saying that ________ I would appear next Monday I might take over my new duties at once, provided that my appearance was satisfactory.
Заполните пропуск: But his papers were my great crux. He had a horror ____________ destroying documents, especially those which were connected with his past cases, and yet it was only once in every year or two that he would muster energy to docket and arrange them; for, as I have mentioned somewhere in these incoherent memoirs, tbe outbursts of passionate energy when he performed the remarkable feats with which his name is associated were followed by reactions of lethargy during which he would lie about with his violin and his books, hardly moving save from the sofa to the table.
Заполните пропуск: During all the years that he lived at Horsham, I doubt ______ ever he set foot in the town.
Заполните пропуск: During that time my wife and I have loved each other ________ fondly and lived as happily as any two that ever were joined.
Заполните пропуск: From every gesture and expression I could see that he was a reserved. self-contained man, with a dash of pride in his nature. more likely to hide his wounds _______ to expose them.
Заполните пропуск: He begged my father to let me live __________ him and he was very kind to me in his way.
Заполните пропуск: He drank a great deal of brandy and smoked very heavily, but he would see no society and did not want ________ friends, not even his own brother.
Заполните пропуск: He had a garden and two or three fields round his house, and there he would take his exercise, though very often ____________ weeks on end he would never leave his room.
Заполните пропуск: He had made a very considerable fortune ___ the States, and his reason for leaving them was his aversion to the negroes, and his dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to them.
Заполните пропуск: He is a bit of a Don Juan, and you can imagine that for a man like him it is not a very difficult part to play____________ a quiet country district.
Заполните пропуск: He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very foul-mouthed when he was angry, and __________ a most retiring disposition.
Заполните пропуск: He was a well-grown, handsome man, with a splendid forehead, and though he has been with us for twenty years he cannot be more _____________ forty now.
Заполните пропуск: He was a young schoolmaster out of place when he was first taken up by my father, but he was a man __________ great energy and character, and he soon became quite invaluable in the household.
Заполните пропуск: His brother, who usually works with him, has not appeared ___________ this job as far as can at present be ascertained, although the police are making energetic inquiries as to his whereabouts.
Заполните пропуск: I dare say E. C. is not much in your line, but I can tell you that this is about the richest house ______ London.
Заполните пропуск: I sent in my testimonial and application, but ________ the least hope of getting it.
Заполните пропуск: In my inmost heart I believed that I could succeed where others failed, and now I had the opportunity ______ test myself.
Заполните пропуск: Nearly a hundred thousand pounds' worth of American railway bonds, with a large amount of scrip in mines and other companies, was discovered ________ the bag.
Заполните пропуск: No one ______ how these things are worked.
Заполните пропуск: On examining the premises the body of the unfortunate watchman was found doubled up and thrust into the largest of the safes, where it would not have been discovered until Monday morning had it not been ____________ the prompt action of Sergeant Tuson.
Заполните пропуск: Once or _______________ we drifted into talk, and I can remember that more than once he expressed a keen interest in my methods of observation and inference.
Заполните пропуск: Our chambers were always full of chemicals and of criminal relics which had a way of wandering into unlikely positions, and ____________ turning up in the butter-dish or in even less desirable places.
Заполните пропуск: Our visitor again passed his hand _____ his forehead, as if he found it bitterly hard.
Заполните пропуск: Some people say that the manager just plunges his hand________ the heap and takes the first that comes.
Заполните пропуск: The advertisement was to be answered __________ letter only.
Заполните пропуск: The butler of Hurlstone is always a thing that is remembered _______ all who visit us.
Заполните пропуск: The man's-skull had been shattered __________ a blow from a poker delivered from behind.
Заполните пропуск: There could be no doubt that Beddington had obtained entrance ____________ pretending that he had left something behind him, and having murdered the watchman, rapidly rifled the large safe, and then made off with his booty.
Заполните пропуск: This has always been held ____.
Заполните пропуск: This would be in the year 1878, _____________ he had been eight or nine years in England.
Заполните пропуск: Thus month after month his papers accumulated until every corner of the room was stacked with bundles of manuscript which were on no account to be burned, and which could not be put away save _______________ their owner.
Заполните пропуск: We have not had a difference. not one, in thought ________ word or deed.
Заполните пропуск: With his personal advantages and his extraordinary gifts -- for he can speak several languages and play nearly every musical instrument -- it is wonderful _________ he should have been satisfied so long in such a position, but I suppose that he was comfortable and lacked energy to make any change.
Заполните пропуск: You can imagine with what eagerness I listened _______ him, Watson, for the very chance for which I had been panting during all those months of inaction seemed to have come within my reach.
Заполните пропуск: You hold your own pipe __________ the lamp and see how naturally you, being right-handed, hold the left side to the flame.
Заполните пропуск: You might do it once the other way, but not ______ a constancy.
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