But when the power went back on a lot of us went back to our screens and permanent states of partial attention.
After working behind the scenes for the Victoria Cricket Association and the state's Institute of Sport, he went back to his country of birth where he began to weave his magic.
And physical objects need physical benefits: Paul Trowe, whose Leisure Suit Larry revival was successfully Kickstarted, is only one of many kickstartees who have told me how they tried to make as many gifts virtual as possible, to limit the ratio of funds that went straight back into the process of rewarding users.
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But in a thrilling finale Deacon went off the back of a five-metre scrum to put Gloucester back in front.
If your name was on the green sheet you went to the back of the room where managers handled your redundancy.
We went to the back of the church and called King to tell him he had to come, even if not for long.
Business plan and projections in hand, I went back to one of my lead investors, JM, an old family friend who runs a hedge fund.
"I went back to all of my old stuff that my dad and I used to work on, " revealed Woods, whose father Earl died five years ago.
During that first session, Steve went back to some of his worst memories, once again experiencing the taste of petrol, and the smell of helicopter fumes and burning.
The first-term senator from North Carolina went from the back of the pack in polls taken two weeks ago to winning 32 percent of the vote in Monday night's caucuses.
Of course only a small sliver of that went back to Kinkade, who had a fleet of franchised art galleries.
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Djokovic beat the Swiss maestro in the final of the ATP World Tour Finals in London in November as he went back to the top of the global tree, also beating Murray in their round robin group match.
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"Part of the reason I went back to work was to get out of watching television with my children, " Bernstein recalls.
But the Knicks, who finally had their offense in a nice rhythm after a postseason chockfull of inefficiency, went back to their stagnating ways in the final minutes of the quarter.
No doubt feeling mighty proud of themselves, Team Obama went back to the much more important task of trying to sell Obamacare to the American people.
After an hour and a half of discussion, we went back to the East Room to report the results of our breakout session to the President.
He went round to the back of the house, was trying to get in through the window.
When asked about his greatest achievement as a judge, Scalia went back to the foundation of his book.
The homeowner went round to the back of house, saw the man in the porch and shut him in there.
In the late kickoff, Manchester City went back to the top of the table but were held 1-1 at Stoke.
After lunch, they stocked up on coffee and went back to the house of Lee Byron', one of the designers on the project.
The physicians went back to practicing out of their own offices.
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The puck caromed off the end boards and went in off the back of Steve Mason's skate after the goalie failed to hug the left post.
The Welsh side continued to battle but the job had already been done by Munster as they went back to the top of their Heineken Cup pool.
The day I returned to work I went back to my routine of going to the gym and stopping at my favorite local deli afterwards for lunch.
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Giving evidence, Mr Goundry said an argument started and when Mr Atherton went out of the back door, those present believed he was leaving for the night.
But when the family went back to the ruins of their home, they found Shuala at last -- alive and well, and waiting for them by the rubble.
It was a dream whose time came and went riding on the back of bigotry, sectarian violence, social injustice and the civil rights movement of the late 1960s.
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And though you might want to believe that something fell off a truck or went out the back door of the factory at night, these instances are rare, Scafidi says.
After working at the Astra, Arcadia and North Wales Theatre (now Venue Cymru), all in Llandudno, Mr Parry went back to the Prince of Wales theatre, which was by then known as Theatr Colwyn.
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