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I've never asked and hope to be able to refrain.

But it was not in me to refrain from going.

They would refrain from doing anything to that one until the last moment.

"Can they refrain from making that program available for use in religious schools?"

What was this man to her that she should refrain?

The only thing to do was to refrain from seeing too much of him.

"I would say they should refrain from any sexual activities."

Simply refrain from talking and review what happened in your mind.

Another is to refrain from making more of something until you've sold what's on hand.

He was strong enough to refrain from taking that final step and making her his.

And there are some others who only had to refrain from writing a particular book.

She said, "I hope you will have enough sense to refrain from telling what you've just seen and heard."

For the time being, I had to refrain from asking questions until we were in a place of power.

I must refrain from things my father and all the rest of them might take me to task for.

So many things you refrain from asking that you'd love to know.

A moment before I would have refrained if she had asked.

Refrain from telling people where you are at any specific time.

He would refrain from eating for up to eight days.

But if the question was in his mind, he refrained.

Men must not only refrain from buying sexual services themselves.

Yet, for some minutes longer I refrained and stood still.

But the only way to save is to refrain from spending all you make.

In a gathering more professional than social, I would refrain.

It is very easy to refrain from acting because others are doing nothing.

"Or if at least she had refrained from using it again."

As the refrain goes, children understand a lot more than they let on.

However, he could not think of a good idea to make the refrain part.

This was to become a common refrain over the next few months.

Oh how many times are we going to hear this refrain?

For years, the refrain has been the same: if only government were run like a business.

"I have no idea" is his refrain when asked whether he might run.

It was going to become something of a refrain in the next few days.

This led me at once to a single word as the best refrain.

It is a refrain American officials are happy to hear.

Just wait, went the refrain, the best is yet to come.

It is a refrain that can be heard across the country.

"Back to work," was the refrain from the President on down.

But the most common refrain is simply, "What took so long?"

It was a kind of refrain that seemed to mark his life at the moment.

I found interesting to make him work on a music that has no refrain.

But from many of the women, there was a familiar refrain.

That is a common refrain in cable news these days.

"Not a moment to be lost," was their common refrain.

Among local social service providers, the refrain is the same.

"The same thing happened to me" is a refrain among the posts.

Often heard was a refrain: now again, but speed it up.

By the time he reached the refrain I was nearly in tears.

The refrain was taken up by sirens outside the house.

The frequently heard refrain is: What does he need it for?

I've been chosen, was the refrain that kept running through her mind.