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I once asked my friend John McVicar, the writer and former gangster, when he stopped smoking, and without pausing to draw breath he snapped: "I read the so-called 'Doctors' study' linking smoking and lung cancer when it was popularised in the mid-50s.
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The writer seems not to be selecting or shaping anything, or even pausing to draw breath.
And it does make one wonder why a woman who has never really paused to draw breath felt the need to add to her family once more by adopting – and not without difficulty – her youngest child, Malawi-born Mercy, last year.
Ibrahimovic pauses to draw breath but the 33 birthday candles can wait.
Without pausing to think, Sajad asked Louise to marry him.
It demonizes adulterers, without pausing to explore their motives.
Judge Hiroshi Fujisaki then orders the proceedings to begin, sometimes without pausing to say "Good morning".
He plucked bottles from their perches without pausing to check labels.
Many people filed past the exhibit without pausing to consider it.
Without pausing to look up, they scribbled their names on our score cards as they walked.
"No, she's not ill," he said, this time without pausing to think.
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