| About 13 or 14 years ago, I copped off at a friend's party with a really cute bloke. |
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| It also copped on to the fact that real global power is measured by how far you can project that power. |
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| Eventually the Romans copped on to the unifying power of currency and circulated their coins widely throughout the empire. |
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| He still had to wait out a countback with Jim Munns, the B Flight winner before he knew he had copped the big prize of the day. |
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| But it wasn't just Gladstone who copped the remonstrative hand of the Queen. |
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| Convict captain Ricky Ponting copped one through the visor of his helmet that laid his cheek open. |
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| Any bird of prey that happened to fly over one's urban air space copped a barrage of sticks and boondies. |
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| We've all copped a lungful of black exhaust belching out of a diesel truck. |
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| Down on the main street is the Number Ten Saloon where Wild Bill copped a bullet in the back from a hired varmint named Jack McCall. |
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| Then, as you know, I copped a Blighty while standing on the ground, if you please. |
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| One of its distinguished principals, designer Peter Minshall, copped this country's first Grammy Award, albeit for work done abroad. |
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| Williams also copped the award for Academic Excellence and subject prizes for Biology and French. |
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| If they get caught and copped, if they get nicked and weighed-off, fair enough. |
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| He was the top sprinter at the recent National Championships and copped the MVP award. |
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| On February 20, it copped the audience award for best feature film at the Belize Film Festival. |
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| He copped the award for the Most Outstanding Academic Performance, while Jeremiah Bishop received the Principal's Spirit Award. |
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| I've copped my fair share of nicks and cuts, but they haven't been serious wounds. |
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| Morris copped a feel again this afternoon, shoved his hand right down my uniform. |
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| When he went to the Poisons Centre, he discovered that it wasn't the margarine, but that he'd copped a dose of ciguatera poisoning. |
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| Until today that is, when he copped a plea in U.S. District Court in Concord. |
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| Anybody else in this industry would have already copped a plea, and that's just what the government wants. |
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| A third guy, who copped a hefty fine and a community-based order on a burglary charge, wandered in wearing an old pair of trackie daks and a tatty old jumper. |
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| He copped a lot of criticism, which is not nice for anybody to take. |
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| You know, obviously the troops were the ones who copped it most. |
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| What a difference three years makes, Johnny copped it big time. |
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| He copped several A-level awards, including best all round student. |
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| I went and copped some dope, then got on a methadone program. |
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| Dad sprung from his chair like greased lightning, copped hold of the impudent young whippersnapper and bent him over his knee for a ceremonial thrashing. |
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| It didn't break, but George was bleeding and had copped a bit of a shiner. |
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| But those were the days when a policeman was a respected, perhaps even feared, guardian of society, who would give you a clout round the head if he copped you scrumping. |
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| I know when we travelled to the UK, to South Africa, to India, we copped it. |
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| I've copped a fair bit of stick but even through that time I had a lot of support from family and close friends. |
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| In 2008 it copped another €899m penalty for failing to comply with the commission's ruling in that case. |
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| A string of former city vendors, subcontractors and administration insiders, who had all copped pleas, testified to the bribes. |
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| Big banks have copped to heinous crimes that have cost citizens billions of dollars. |
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| The bad news for him is that others have copped on to his game. |
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| But those were the days when a bobby was a respected, perhaps even feared, guardian of society, who would give you a clout round the head if he copped you scrumping. |
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| He copped a blighty over in Flanders and he was sent over here to recover. |
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| The inference was clear. You Irish were all very naughty and it's time you copped on and grew up. |
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| Peace to everyone who copped Take Home Tes. |
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| I didn't know what to expect and copped out pretty early on after some of the comments started saying horrible stuff directed towards my family, whom I'd mentioned in passing a particular piece. |
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| Bankers have clearly copped a lot of flak in recent years. |
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| I copped some Thai-stick once, from a stash one of my neighbors' kids stole from his dad back when I was around 10 or so. |
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| Beck copped to resetting the computer system, and was fired. |
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| But Guan was the one who copped the full force of the rulemakers after English referee John Paramor informed him of his penalty on the 17th hole. |
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| While Dylan doubtlessly copped a song or two or some vocal mannerisms from, say, folkie Dave Van Ronk, Van Ronk has had decades to prove himself Dylan's equal and failed. |
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| Today's wet-behind-the-ears Mansonites are fueled by the spirit of betrayal, the sense that somewhere along the line the Woodstock generation copped out. |
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| I already copped to the murder. What else do you want from me? |
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