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Examples
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He shot Chipps at the insistence of the policeman's wife, Carol.
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Malgas, who was at that stage living with the Chipps family, was found guilty of shooting the policeman in the head while he slept.
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"Whatever became of Jameson, what was took off by Andrews?" he asked Chipps.
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The motor then made a start, but after a few paces it stopped, and Mrs. Frewin put her head out of the window and shouted to Chipps some instructions with regard to the nurses 'evening collation, which, in view of Mr. Frewin's state, she feared might be forgotten.
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Chipps, being an elderly man and a little deaf, did not hear her voice distinctly, so he ran up to the motor, and she repeated her instructions to him.
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When she was quite ready she met Chipps on the landing, who had just come up to tell her that the motor was at the door.
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You see, the actual time when the miscreant must have sneaked into the room had now been narrowed down to about an hour and a half, between the time when Mrs. Frewin finally left in her motor to about an hour later, when Chipps turned the key in the door of the library and thus undoubtedly locked the thief in.
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What Detective Inspector Hankin had gathered was this: While John Chipps saw his mistress into the motor, the front door of the house had, of necessity, been left wide open.
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"Give these to Chipps, and tell him to put them in the library."
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The burglar, whoever he was, must have sneaked into the library some time before Chipps closed the door on the outside, since it was still so found by Emily the following morning.
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