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English Sentences with Audio, Sorted by Syllable Count
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887209	She hired him as an interpreter because she had heard that he was the best.	CK	1
1027668	Yesterday, when Tom was backing up his car, he ran over Mary's bicycle.	CK	1
1095821	Tom attracted a crowd of children as soon as he started playing his bongos.	CK	1
1069612	The only thing that mattered to Tom was that we weren't impolite to his boss.	CK	1
2736124	Tom and I had dinner together when you and Mary were visiting Boston.	CK	1
2957298	Tom is the only one in our family who has ever been to Boston.	CK	1
1094962	Tom decided that it wouldn't be sensible to try to cross the old rope bridge.	CK	1
953566	I only eat meat from animals that I have personally killed and butchered.	CK	1
2335875	Tom usually wears a cowboy hat, but today he's wearing a baseball cap.	CK	1
296217	He failed to see the stop sign at the intersection and hit an oncoming car.	CK	1
1040526	Tom was afraid that Mary might poke her eye out, so he told her to be careful.	CK	1
1025942	Tom doesn't think it'll rain, but he plans to carry an umbrella just in case.	CK	1
3148324	Tom has two brothers. One lives in Boston and the other one lives in Chicago.	CK	1
1029655	Tom asked Mary to tell him about the house she had lived in when she was a child.	CK	1
62793	Tom broke his right leg and was taken to hospital a few weeks before Christmas.	CK	1
387472	Make your airplane reservations early since flights fill up quickly around Christmas.	CK	1
1027340	Since it was getting even hotter, Tom peeled off another layer of clothing.	CK	1
1027025	Tom began to look for a job three months before he graduated from college.	CK	1
1027412	It doesn't make much sense to me, but Tom has decided not to go to college.	CK	1
1095149	Tom couldn't catch up with the other students after he came out of his coma.	CK	1
2210754	Why don't you guys go on into the living room and make yourselves comfortable?	CK	1
1027947	Tom thought it would be difficult for Mary to get a ticket to that concert.	CK	1
1960900	I thought there was a possibility that Tom was going to break the contract.	CK	1
2042874	One thing you definitely don't want to do is to go out alone after dark.	CK	1
2318251	I don't know if you've noticed, but Tom seems to have fallen in love with your daughter.	CK	1
898563	He decided to feed his dog the rabbit that he had shot earlier that day.	CK	1
1026385	Tom didn't have the faintest idea what he was going to do the next day.	CK	1
1202235	Tom thought the teacher had given him way too much homework to finish in one day.	CK	1
1898352	Just be patient with Tom. I'm sure he'll eventually make the right decision.	CK	1
1990351	Tom sometimes has trouble understanding other people's motives and desires.	CK	1
1838113	Tom is usually the last to leave, but last night Mary left after he did.	CK	1
953346	How many times do I have to tell you not to eat candy just before dinner?	CK	1
1027481	I was just wondering if Tom has ever been over to your house for dinner.	CK	1
1095217	Tom copied all the files on his internal hard disk to an external hard disk.	CK	1
1030187	Tom thinks Mary should apologize to John for not doing what she said she'd do.	CK	1
1029215	Tom doesn't always get up early, but he always gets up before Mary does.	CK	1
898570	She sold all of her furniture, so she could afford to feed herself and her dog.	CK	1
1109237	Tom hated to bother Mary so late at night, but it was an emergency.	CK	1
1204325	I think that maybe I won't be able to make myself understood in English.	CK	1
2955983	Tom asked me if I knew anybody who could translate from French into English.	CK	1
1029906	Tom and Mary are having a house-warming party this coming Friday evening.	CK	1
1094366	Tom doesn't need to worry about a thing. Mary will take care of everything.	CK	1
909519	Don't forget to spend a little time looking over your notes before the exam.	CK	1
1038009	It took Tom fifteen minutes of googling before he found what he was looking for.	CK	1
1045084	I didn't want to spend any more time trying to convince Tom to study French.	CK	1
1214981	I'm reading things like famous novels which have been rewritten in simplified French.	Chrikaru	1
1867887	Tom stared at the envelope in Mary's hand, wondering who the letter was from.	CK	1
1028388	Tom laughed at some of Mary's jokes, but he thought some of them weren't very funny.	CK	1
2042893	I understand how much you want to go to the party, but I can't let you go.	CK	1
73281	In the 1960's, Japanese college students demonstrated against their government.	CK	1