Soon, gris-gris in the form of roosters' heads began to appear on his doorstep. |
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Mr Newton was not to know that the builder on his doorstep had a string of convictions for deception and misleading customers. |
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He should have gone up to London and camped on the doorstep until he got the document. |
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It's amazing how you can be completely oblivious to something on your own doorstep. |
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My friend had met Mr Dowd before when he had turned up at her doorstep canvassing for votes. |
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They are interrupted by a knock on the door and Val is horrified to find a bailiff officer on her doorstep. |
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Now it seems issues can start in the sticks and land on Westminster's doorstep, fully formed. |
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Every once in a while, it's a good idea to turn away from world events and take a look at the issues on one's doorstep. |
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We spoke on the phone once or twice and the next thing I knew she landed on my doorstep. |
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The following morning brought Savadini to their doorstep, complete with several carpet bags and a number of spare robes. |
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I'm hoping that my cartoon strip will inspire readers both young and not-so-young to find out more about the history on their doorstep. |
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Meanwhile, young families in York and its outlying villages have little hope of buying a home on their doorstep. |
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There is an area of outstanding natural beauty right on the doorstep and it is blocked off because of the dangerous stepping stones. |
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Using my psychic power, I opened the door, expecting another village chit to be standing on my doorstep, shivering with more than cold. |
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Just the thought of fresh bunches of coriander, basil, chives, spring onions and mint at my doorstep makes me all giddy with excitement. |
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Woodhatch residents no longer need to travel to Redhill for advice as an outreach surgery will be operating soon on their doorstep. |
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Send her to the doorstep with the sweeties on Hallowe'en and she'll scare the bejaysus out of the kiddies. |
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The Government has pledged to crack down on unscrupulous doorstep salesmen who swindle vulnerable pensioners out of thousands of pounds. |
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But pawnbroking, cheque conversion and doorstep loans have been booming in recent years, feeding off poverty and inequality. |
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It's in peak condition and with a facility like this on our own doorstep, it would be a pity not to use it. |
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Horse-drawn coaches heading for Scotland have been replaced by commuters on the A1, which is right on the doorstep. |
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When we arrived, Jill was waiting right in the coatroom for us, and flung open the door to greet us before we even reached the doorstep. |
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She was close to collapse but noted that the young, smartly dressed woman on her doorstep didn't physically help her. |
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Unfortunately this will make people wary about donating to genuine charities which use doorstep collections as a way of raising money. |
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Maybe because they knew too many rabid fangirls would arrive at the guy's doorstep, asking for autographs. |
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It means little more than inclusivism, a lowering of the doorstep that the Pharisees had set too high. |
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Also, living in the New York area, she began to encounter some of the incomparable rare book collections on her doorstep. |
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Whether it is global catastrophe or death on our doorstep, compassion fatigue can overcome us. |
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Do they campaign against the assorted injustices in the city and challenge politicians on their doorstep? |
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Here we have on our doorstep a way of bringing to account those people who commit heinous crimes against our innocents. |
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This has been as much a part of British life as the cup of tea cooled by the doorstep pinta. |
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But now, as more people than ever line up at his agency's doorstep, Owens finds himself struggling to fill the need. |
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People on the doorstep were positive about us but the demographics conspired against us. |
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The idea is to make it easier and more convenient for companies to access training on their own doorstep. |
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Elderly people were targeted by doorstep tricksters and cowboys charging extortionate sums for gardening work. |
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My mother was an orphan hedgewitch, healer, and midwife of small means until one of my father's horses foundered nearly on her doorstep. |
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Jack Shanahan watched as the guard crossed his name off the list at the doorstep of Belle Henderson's three story home. |
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Living in Cape Town I am lucky to have white sharks, southern right whales, Cape fur seals, and African penguins on my doorstep. |
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Now vulnerable people can feel more at ease knowing that recruits are signing up to stop doorstep con-artists. |
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When it comes to milk, dairy farmers receive only a quarter of the average 36p which you will pay in the shops or on the doorstep for a pint. |
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If not, it will only be a matter of time before there are gangland killings on our doorstep. |
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Costco workers were the very first responders to the predawn tragedy on their doorstep. |
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Charities now press us for our cash by post, over the phone, on the street and on our doorstep. |
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Rogue traders who prey on York's elderly residents could face court as city councillors step up their campaign against doorstep crime. |
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While I am out at work, a neighbour's dog defecates on my doorstep with alarming regularity. |
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Detectives have been called in after a three-year-old girl made a grisly discovery on the doorstep of her York home. |
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It was the scoop of his life and Harry is still dining out on it, but only in the very few restaurants which allow him over the doorstep. |
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She certainly gives me a shock when she shows up on my doorstep later that night, dressed in a black evening gown and matching heels. |
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Dinners appeared miraculously on our doorstep every day, in a cooler, with instructions for reheating. |
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Cowboy traders and dodgy doorstep salesmen are prowling around, ready to pounce on the unsuspecting or the plain gullible. |
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When I did eventually tear myself away from my padded pleasure dome I found everything I wanted on my doorstep. |
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He always met Bryan and me at the doorstep of their house with a teary eye and a happy hug. |
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Ideally there should be easy access between the kitchen and the doorstep or main entrance of the house. |
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I smiled hesitantly at her and she grinned back as she stepped over the doorstep and into our house. |
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Finally, after ten minutes of coaxing, she got me to the doorstep of my house and hesitantly I pressed the doorbell. |
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He came upon the doorstep of his next door neighbour's house, and rang the doorbell. |
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If you don't lay that at the doorstep of the White House, I don't know where you lay it. |
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When I take my first step off of the doorstep, I hear the door behind me open and I can feel his eyes on my back. |
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He was sitting on the front doorstep with the door open and called me to him when I passed by. |
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As he was recognized the following morning at the doorstep of his house, the family's horror turned into jubilation. |
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His servant had said at the doorstep of his house that her master was down with a cold and was not liable to come out and play with them. |
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He reached the farm, and found a path of dirt that led him to the doorstep of the main house. |
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We knew that the canisters of sweet tea and boxes of doorstep sandwiches would soon be on their way. |
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Relieved of the obligation to doorstep politicians for a quote, she seems content merely to bat the breeze with her guests. |
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There are probably thousands of people around here who don't even know there's a lido on their doorstep or, like me, assumed it had closed too. |
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The simple reason for this is that these ores weren't all conveniently excavated from quarries on his doorstep. |
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It's not directly on my doorstep like last time, although it sounds awfully close. |
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Having the convenience of the full range of Council services on your doorstep will make life easier for people. |
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We are within easy access of the airport and we have catering facilities on our doorstep that we could utilise. |
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The thing about good gastropubs is that they are very handy to have on your doorstep, but you do not cross the metropolis specially. |
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This home near town would suit those seeking the conveniences of modern living on their doorstep. |
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The centre will be a huge convenience to commercial vehicle owners, who will now be able to access the service right on their doorstep. |
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It has stunning views down the River Necker and was on the doorstep of easily accessible attractions. |
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Well, your son came to my rescue when I appeared on his doorstep looking like a drowned rat. |
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An unexpected Christmas present in the form of an abandoned boy was left on the President's doorstep on Sunday. |
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Her story begins more than 40 years in the past, when a 9-year-old boy delivers an abandoned baby to the doorstep of a beauty shop. |
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The single mum-of-three never knows if she will wake up to yet more damage and destruction on her doorstep. |
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Carl arrived home early on Wednesday morning for a tearful reunion with Kim on the doorstep. |
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I remember moving into a new home and receiving a Welcome Wagon basket on my doorstep. |
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At one point the farmers got to fighting on the doorstep when one of them tried to jump the queue. |
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She opened it to find Tyler on the doorstep, dressed in khakis and a yellow polo shirt. |
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The holy relic is believed to protect the 25 sq. km. former Portuguese colony, on the doorstep of China, from natural disasters. |
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And when the ladies' lumbering land yacht runs out of petrol, they coincidentally find themselves at Bradley's doorstep. |
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A lot of the surrounding countryside has been classified as National Park, and is great amenity to have on the doorstep. |
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The town of 3,000 inhabitants are resigned to the bear sanctuary on their doorstep. |
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No respectable gentleman or lady would ever be seen dead darkening the back-street doorstep of a pawnbroker. |
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With its river beds, attractive hill ridges and stunning mountains, it provides city dwellers access to nature right on their doorstep. |
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I do, however, have visions of him rocking up on my doorstep and that thought mostly horrifies me. |
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For all the excitement of modern life on your doorstep, city centre living cannot be beaten. |
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Flat cap in hand, the foreign secretary strides from doorstep to corner shop, greeting many voters by name and asking after their fathers. |
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In his defence though, he did say that strong winds could cause problems, and that there was a vicious looking low on our doorstep. |
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As Formula One fans bay for his blood after he axed the British Grand Prix, Bernie Ecclestone, the boss of F1 has a new problem on his doorstep. |
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He turned up on her doorstep that evening with a bottle of wine and takeout cartons of Middle Eastern food. |
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During her speech, Mrs Hewitt also launched a major consultation on new powers to tackle dodgy doorstep salesmen. |
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I could have smashed the bottle on the concrete front doorstep, but the rain was teeming down and I would get wet again. |
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Never buy off the doorstep or as the result of an unsolicited telephone call. |
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Interstate visitors commented that we who live here take it all for granted, alluding to clear days, balmy nights and the Ranges at our doorstep. |
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For those who live within easy reach of Glasgow, there's a perfect venue right on your doorstep. |
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He went to the door to speak to him and while he stood on the doorstep, some boys fired a BB gun at him. |
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A white cat with bright eyes was curled upon the doorstep, meticulously licking its little paws. |
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Arnaz phones the night club, has Stack paged and asks him to go home and read some scripts that are being messengered to his doorstep. |
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The main topic of conversation on the doorstep was the European election campaign. |
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The smaller one, the one who sits on our doorstep and mewls for treats is Beardy as seen here. |
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It has lobbied against proposals to toughen the law on cold calling and doorstep selling. |
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Older people on fixed incomes don't have any extra sources of revenue to fall back on when inflated bills drop on the doorstep. |
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These children from a British Midland school were having their picture taken on the prime minister's Downing Street doorstep. |
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But gone are the days when fresh milk was served at our doorstep with the milkman's knock at the door waking us up everyday. |
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I thought I had better do something about it now before it really gets going, because I would not want something like this on my own doorstep. |
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They are expected to cite the fear that shipping wine from California to a consumer's doorstep will boost underage drinking. |
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When they play trick or treat, they throw broken eggs all over your doorstep if you don't give them something. |
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The mobile service is designed to bring the marriage bureau to the doorstep of the customer. |
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It would have been a mockery of the British way of life to stand by and let a man like him terrorise me on my own doorstep. |
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Similarly, as soon as I crossed the doorstep, the June hordes of bloodsucking blackflies and horseflies left off their hot pursuit. |
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Windows were cleaned, grates were blackleaded, furniture polished and the front doorstep and flags were whitened. |
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They arrived on the doorstep too, in undreamed of numbers, from all parts of Yorkshire and beyond. |
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Sarah is too smart to be taken in by the humble doorstep salesman, too cynical to fall for slick advertising patter. |
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When the teen reached the doorstep to the house, she heard a loud smack, and a child crying. |
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Sheffield is known as the green city, with the nationally acclaimed Peak District on its doorstep. |
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He then progressed to sitting outside on the back doorstep, sniffing the air and surveying the territory. |
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I am still facing totally vindictive charges relating to that little incident with that chap who invaded my doorstep peddling household goods. |
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You might even spare a thought for those whose whole existence was the scratch of dirt at it's doorstep. |
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Rob was still poised uncertainly on the doorstep, held at bay either by Kim's urgent stare or Bill's bullhorn. |
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So I bombed out of the office, jumped into a cab and whizzed home, to find two burly men in overalls on the doorstep. |
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But when it comes right to your doorstep and bursts your bubble, well that's a different story. |
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Blame for the subsequent chaos would then be placed squarely on the doorstep of Number Ten. |
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When we were first starting up, we virtually camped on the doorstep of a business until they said yes to us. |
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With the booming city of Kilkenny less than a 90-minute train journey from Dublin, the makings of a hen party to remember are on the group's doorstep. |
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I am therefore surprised to arrive at Hotel Galapagos on Santa Cruz, an hour or so later, to find one draped across my doorstep like a novelty draft excluder. |
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Just one month ago, Caterina Bayes was so afraid of dirtying her spotless Colchester home, she refused to let relatives and friends across the doorstep. |
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Sometimes, all too often in fact, you only realise the real richness of what you have on your own doorstep when someone else brings it to your attention. |
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For evening meals, there were literally hundreds of bistros and restaurants on our doorstep, although it was a struggle to find anywhere that catered for vegetarians. |
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The precious cargo of two dozen gutta-perch balls, three woods, three irons and a putter arrived at the doorstep of John Reid's new home in Yonkers not a day too soon. |
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Her voice held no hint of surprise, and mother, always the lady, acted as if the Prince suddenly showing up at her doorstep was not an inconvenience. |
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The latter are obviously on the fringes of the law, but it is very difficult to turn them away hard-heartedly when they land up at your doorstep with a cheerful namaste. |
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Despite doing nothing to get the man of her dreams, he arrives at her doorstep as if she Ubered the heartthrob. |
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When I reminded him that that could mean hundreds of offspring showing up on his doorstep, he didn't flinch. |
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From their perspective, as long as ISIS sits on Baghdad's doorstep, political change can wait. |
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With Mount Royal on his doorstep, it was only natural that the monadnocks stretching eastward from Montreal across the Saint Lawrence valley would attract his attention. |
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They would jump out from behind the bushes and scare the girls and we would scream in exaggerated fright and run to the doorstep of the next house on the block. |
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I should hope to receive your rejoinder, post marked with the utmost haste, delivered upon my doorstep and stamped with your signet within the fortnight. |
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But one particular species had the expert twitcher frantically flicking through the ornithology books when it was delivered to his doorstep this week. |
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On summer evenings, us children would sit on the front doorstep with our supper, which would often be Dutch cheese, spring onions and Dutch plum tomatoes. |
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You need a loaf of fresh bread, a doorstep of cheese that you could stand on to clean the ceiling with and a few spicy pickled onions with this beer! |
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And I was cutting the cheddar into pretty thick slices figuring I would make a proper doorstep sandwich and maybe smear some Branston pickle on the cheese, yeah? |
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In a neighbourhood overrun by gang warfare, violence lurks constantly beneath the surface, frequently spilling over to the doorstep of the Macleans' cramped apartment. |
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For her birthday, her father hired a band that would show up at her doorstep to serenade her. |
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No one wants a colliery on their doorstep or a coal mine under their home. |
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It was used by my grandmother and her mother before her as a means of chalking decorative patterns and designs upon the slate hearthstone and doorstep. |
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Chefs and nutrition experts say Scots are wasting a prime source of healthy and tasty food on their doorstep by failing to support growers of soft fruit. |
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The reaction on the doorstep has been very positive and the Green Party is hopeful it will pick up on what it says is a backlash against the Government parties. |
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Her mother put her on a plane to Paris to spare her from the genocide spilling up to their doorstep in Phnom Penh. |
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With a nip in the air and holiday's on the doorstep, customers often like nothing better than warming their hands and their insides with a hot drink. |
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I could see them from the doorstep of the house where I grew up. |
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His wife had snatched the child out of his arms one day as he sat on the doorstep crooning to it a song such as the mothers sing to babies in his mountains. |
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Biohazard is so goofy, so downright daffy in its illogical cohesiveness that you'll wonder why it hasn't crossed your psychotronic doorstep before. |
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The likes of chives, basil and marjoram are ideally suited to being grown in a pot and will happily sit on the kitchen windowsill or spend the summer on the doorstep. |
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An important feature of modeling is that it has brought the rigor and analysis of mathematics to the doorstep of our fellow scientists in the natural and physical sciences. |
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I fear that there are people who have it in them to be compulsive gamblers but do not know it, and could become addicted if there was a casino on their doorstep. |
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The press camping on my parents doorstep was a bit of a novelty for them. |
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With the cold weather on the doorstep, it could be time to start planning a road trip just to make sure that the variegated fritillaries down south are ok. |
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One morning a few years ago, the editor left his apartment to find an ax stuck into a log on his doorstep. |
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From a dark courtyard came a sound of oaths and blows, followed by shrill screams, and, huddled upon a damp doorstep, he saw the crook-backed forms of poverty and eld. |
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Back home I'd be away from all of that, but realising all of a sudden that I was so close to it all, that it was happening on my doorstep, was scary. |
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When I started, acid house and Britpop happened on my doorstep. |
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Equestrian stars frequent horse trials staged on our doorstep, while sporting royals are among those taking part at polo events at Ansty and Tidworth. |
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It was pleasant now to sit on his own doorstep and smell the delicate perfume of the roses and the balsamy odors from the woods behind. |
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After leaving the usual bumper crop of zucchini on the neighbor's doorstep, she crept away. |
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You had a bad fall last winter because you did not notice that the doorstep was icey. |
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The Russians and the Austrians were determined to reduce the power of Prussia, the new threat on their doorstep. |
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Spruce up your doorstep or patio containers with water-wise succulents and trailing sedums. |
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A large number of brain-damaged children arrive in that condition on our doorstep. |
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Reach for a doorstep from the breadbin, crunch into a ball and wipe over the floor. |
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Pogge had put his glove down to freeze a shot by Jay Leach, but the goalie just missed it and Loprieno was right on the doorstep to poke it home. |
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But anyone who doesn't mind leaving their dignity on the doorstep might enjoy practice nights with the Banchory Morris Dancers. |
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Oprah, when she came, found a legion of her fans on its doorstep. |
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And if Nicholls is desperate to go for a plunge, can we suggest a free, uncrowded alternative that's right on his doorstep. |
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The Americans try and talk trash in the days and months before the fight but I shut them all up when I show up on their doorstep and beat them. |
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It will help transform lives from our doorstep in Grangetown, Cardiff to Namibia in south-west Africa. |
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We get the best of both worlds on Merseyside from beachscape to countryside on our doorstep. |
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The decision was a blow for dog pound owner Marty Burrell, who took the dog in after he was found abandoned on a doorstep in the town. |
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A FARMHAND abandoned a newborn girl in a bag on a shocked priest's doorstep. |
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He is slain in turn by hobbit archers, and the War of the Ring comes to its true end on Frodo's very doorstep. |
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She's seen washing the doorstep, like a good 1950s woman, going shopping, having tea and pictured artily from behind a street display of prams. |
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Caerphilly council is urging residents to be aware of doorstep scammers circulating in the area. |
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Dai and Debbie's two up, two down was scruffier than ever, the pavement and doorstep smeared with mud. |
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There's also a nice twist when the real-life human used as the model for the terminators turns up unexpectedly on the Connors' doorstep. |
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During this time Bunyan, whilst on his travels as a tinker, happened to be in Bedford and pass a group of women who were talking about spiritual matters on their doorstep. |
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Travelling to India and working with fellow Rotarians illustrates how important it is to be involved in community projects that are not just on your doorstep. |
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Just half way through its 20-year plan, a phenomenal amount of work has already been done to create a digital super cluster right here on our doorstep. |
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He later joined the company full-time as a roundsman, 10 years later became a trainee manager and was appointed retail sales director in 1994, controlling doorstep rounds. |
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As a solution, Clean Undie Club provides a monthly subscription through which a brand new pair of underwear will be dropped at the subscriber's doorstep every month. |
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The theory is that the dynamiters put the bomb on the wrong doorstep. |
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Sofer said France had close links with Gulf Arab counties, who are growing increasingly nervous at the prospect of a nuclear Iran on their doorstep. |
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Projects carried out in previous years include Bogus Babes from Stokesley who launched an anticrime initiative to warn people about bogus doorstep callers. |
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And with Moksh Direct now bringing its unique taste to your doorstep, 2010 looks certain to see the restaurant strengthening its position at the top of the Welsh curry tree. |
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I remember when we had a ski slope right here on our doorstep. |
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We were getting cold talking on the doorstep, so I asked him in. |
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Now Crosby Homes' completed Westgate development stands to show if it's all true, with values and saleability feeding off the comforting presence of a deli on the doorstep. |
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