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1  She was a pretty nice girl, though.
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2  He said it pretty tough, too, for him.
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3  I had a pretty good half nelson on him.
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4  I was pretty sadistic with him quite often.
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5  they'll be pretty irritated about it, I said.
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6  He was at least a pretty friendly guy, Stradlater.
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7  It's pretty hard to knock a guy out, except in the goddam movies.
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8  Well, you could see he really felt pretty lousy about flunking me.
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9  It's a pretty good book and all, but I wouldn't want to call Somerset Maugham up.
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10  I didn't care, except that it's pretty disgusting to watch somebody pick their nose.
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11  So finally I said, "You're back pretty goddam late if she only signed out for nine-thirty."
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12  It looked pretty as hell, and we all started throwing snowballs and horsing around all over the place.
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13  It was just before dinner and it was getting pretty dark out, but we kept chucking the ball around anyway.
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14  The arms were in sad shape, because everybody was always sitting on them, but they were pretty comfortable chairs.
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15  It was pretty nice to get back to my room, after I left old Spencer, because everybody was down at the game, and the heat was on in our room, for a change.
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16  I'll just tell you about this madman stuff that happened to me around last Christmas just before I got pretty run-down and had to come out here and take it easy.
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17  In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them.
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