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stepped up
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Brinsley stepped up to the passenger side of the patrol car, raised a silver Taurus semi-automatic pistol and began firing.
But when the time came you stepped up to the plate just like George W. Bush did.
But King just stepped up to the podium and delivered one of the finest speeches of his life.
Now criminal investigators all over Japan have stepped up operations to push for the dismantling of the Kudo-kai.
Sicilian seaports that will facilitate the shipment have already stepped up security measures, especially on incoming vessels.
Here the train-hand who overheard the talk, stepped up, and inquired, "Have you lost anything?"
One day while walking across the country road, I stepped up to a farmer and said: "When do you go to the war?"
He noted that Sssuri had stepped up the pace, passing into his sure-footed glide which made Dalgard exert himself to keep up.
He had been three days in the town when a man stepped up to him as he finished a job and asked him to go home with him.
Edward stepped up to the table, and very quietly took up the paper and read it.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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