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As well as the MBE medal awarded to Mr Kirby, an engraved Tissot watch and a station style oak clock with the word Crowborough on the face were taken.
Kos RSS Feed 2010
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Enter the creepy Duke of Crowborough, who came to sniff out Mary's putative fortune and ended up snogging evil, scheming footman Thomas (at which point, even the most historically confused viewer must have stopped thinking it was a bit like Pride and Prejudice).
Downton Abbey; Whites; DCI Banks; Inspector George Gently; Horizon Phil Hogan 2010
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The Earl of Grantham, the owner of Downton Abbey, is deferential to the Duke of Crowborough merely because the latter was born higher in the aristocratic scale.
The Secret Appeal of 'Downton Abbey' Theodore Dalrymple 2012
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Also intimated by some with the Piltdown story is Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), novelist, physician, amateur detective, and ‘Crowborough kid’.
Archive 2006-01-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Children at the Jameah Islamic school, near Crowborough in Sussex, sang along during his performance, which was recorded on tape. posted by GayandRight @ 11:23 PM
Teaching children terrorist songs... GayandRight 2007
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Children at the Jameah Islamic school, near Crowborough in Sussex, sang along during his performance, which was recorded on tape. posted by GayandRight @ 11:23 PM
Archive 2007-10-01 GayandRight 2007
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Communication was fairly fast via the embassy phone and the Ministry radio at Crowborough and by this time Parkis and his team would be in Signals watching the board, but I thought Ferris would probably switch to the NATO channels and reach the Bureau through the War Office because this thing was the equivalent to a red alert and seconds would become important as the time ran out to the jump.
The Sinkiang Executive Hall, Adam 1978
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The only one they didn't get was Sinclair and that was because he took a capsule: he was on his way through to Bahrain with his head full of stuff on a Near-East network project the Bureau was going to run through Crowborough and the embassy and he obviously didn't trust himself because he couldn't stand pain.
The Sinkiang Executive Hall, Adam 1978
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He went into the routine phase of the briefing: probable access, communication modes with agents-in-place, signals facilities through Crowborough, liaison with directors in the field, fallback systems, security, suggested cover, suggested identify, so forth.
The Kobra Manifesto Hall, Adam 1976
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The moment this watertight hatch opened Ferris would have to say so, either through Admiralty Signals and Crowborough or ship-to-shore cable to Chiang in cypher, the standing contraction: Access phase open, executive in target zone.
The Mandarin Cypher Hall, Adam 1975
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