| After the conference speeches are over, I drift around the hotel bars earwigging on conversations. |
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| In the above situation it is quite appropriate to look the other way whilst earwigging and they will pretend you can't hear their conversation. |
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| Like most writers, Dewar is a good listener, earwigging on other's conversations. |
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| Sometimes, as in the text just quoted, A Scattering makes the reader feel they're shamefully earwigging on a private conversation. |
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| You get an ear for dialogue by earwigging other people on buses and trains. |
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| We listeners are like the waiters at a grownup dinner party, earwigging on the high-end conversations. |
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| In the interim, rest assured that Mr. Atherstone is by no means your friend, for he was perpetually earwigging poor Sir Rowland. |
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