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1 I nodded; she continued, adopting the tone a teacher uses when directing her student.
2 He talked of himself incessantly, sometimes in the coarsest and vulgarest Hampshire accent; sometimes adopting the tone of a man of the world.
3 Most will, however, not be adopting the tone they would use when remarking on a new star or a previously unnoticed wild flower.
4 Adopting the tone of argument, he said: 'She writes that letter.
5 She is matchless, colour her as you please.' Adopting the tone of argument, he said: 'She writes that letter.
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