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1 It always made her feel tense when they talked about having children.
2 The atmosphere became tense when the students arrived carrying bottles and stones.
3 I notice that he uses the past tense when talking about my grandmother.
4 Her face was always tense when she spoke to me.
5 However, the atmosphere in the town is palpably tense when conversation turns to the conflict.
6 She had always felt tense when he was around.
7 So I tend to tense when it rasps.
8 It is particularly helpful for musicians, many of whom are unknowingly far too tense when they play.
9 People who are perfectly healthy get frustrated and tense when walking around town is such a strain.
10 Her stomach became tense when the man placed his hand on the forehead of her youngest son.
11 But Cochrane braced himself, and his stomach-muscles were tense when the rockets stopped again and stayed off.
12 If you're tense when you fall, that reinforces the connection in your brain between falling and fear.
13 Witnesses say the event got tense when supporters of the home team were insulted by an al-Ahly banner.
14 I'm always ridiculously tense when we shop, as I have no idea how she is going to behave.
15 She still wavers between present and past tense when talking about her son, who was 18 when he died.
16 I get tense when I see the shift worker nodding off and beginning to lean towards the stranger's shoulder.
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