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1 He could have borrowed a motorcar, using the excuse that he'd missed his connection.
2 She no longer sat at the dining room table with the tenants, using the excuse of morning sickness.
3 Lantier soon left, using the excuse of informing the family and filing the necessary declaration at the town hall.
4 Roaming the hillsides, she had felt like a girl again, using the excuse of looking for Iza's medicinal plants to explore.
5 He comes pottering round the engine, using the excuse of saving my soul, and I don't let on that I see through him.
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