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Examples
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The crowd broke into a supermarket, off-licence and pawnbroker's and then set fire to the library.
A fire lit in Tottenham that burned Manchester: the rioters' story 2011
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Kay laughed when she recalled what happened when she stood outside the pawnbroker's.
A fire lit in Tottenham that burned Manchester: the rioters' story 2011
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In Octubre Clemente, known in town simply as "the pawnbroker's son" lives a life of hookers, solitude and money lending.
E. Nina Rothe: Octubre's Diego Vega on Miracles, Family and Fake Money E. Nina Rothe 2011
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It made the pawnbroker's halfway down it shine as if it were really that Mountain of Piety that the French poetic instinct has named it; it made the mean pseudo-French bookshop, next but one to it, a shop packed with dreary indecency, show for a moment a kind of Parisian colour, wrote Chesterton in his entertainment The Ball and the Cross 1909.
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The world he sees is sometimes bleak or terrible, but it is always also full of promise no less real for being inexpressible: "The only thing I want to say glints out of reach, like silver in a pawnbroker's."
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In Octubre Clemente, known in town simply as "the pawnbroker's son" lives a life of hookers, solitude and money lending.
E. Nina Rothe: Octubre's Diego Vega on Miracles, Family and Fake Money E. Nina Rothe 2011
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In Octubre Clemente, known in town simply as "the pawnbroker's son" lives a life of hookers, solitude and money lending.
E. Nina Rothe: Octubre's Diego Vega on Miracles, Family and Fake Money E. Nina Rothe 2011
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As it was, when I had spare moments I spent them playing chess, or going with nice girls who were themselves students, or in riding a bicycle whenever I was fortunate enough to have it out of the pawnbroker's possession.
Chapter 21 2010
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In Octubre Clemente, known in town simply as "the pawnbroker's son" lives a life of hookers, solitude and money lending.
E. Nina Rothe: Octubre's Diego Vega on Miracles, Family and Fake Money E. Nina Rothe 2011
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"Search me," would come the pawnbroker's retort, accompanied by an incredulous shrug of the shoulders.
CHAPTER XII 2010
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