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Examples
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Watching the fishermen pulling their dug-outs ashore, my story came alive again.
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He became "hungry" after two years away from dug-outs, taken by the "long-term objective" and recognising the need to be "more patient" after an ill-starred spell at Derby.
In-form Crystal Palace seal away win to steal Ipswich Town's mantle | Jeremy Alexander 2011
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And although the walk across the pitch to the dug-outs at Craven Cottage can be a gauntlet, particularly for new managers, even the turncoat of the Midlands, McLeish, received an ovation before and after this match.
Aston Villa's Shay Given thrives on return to action at Fulham 2011
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While Ferguson and Quinn will surely cast interested eyes in the 18-year-old's direction tomorrow night, South American interest may be focused on the dug-outs where both Brazil and Argentina have changed coaches since the World Cup.
Carlos Alberto says Qatar is place for World Cup and Neymar the player Louise Taylor in Doha 2010
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Some of them even in dug-outs had their clothes blown off.
The Last Empress Hannah Pakula 2009
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I recall some of my relatives talking about their parents having lived in dug-outs, and I know someone who grew up in a sod house in Kansas.
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Their weapons are kept in the houses/huts of their supporters, in the caves in the mountains spread out throughout the country and in dug-outs.
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Uniforms were everywhere, but their wearers generally looked like dug-outs or office fellows.
Greenmantle 2005
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I was much surprised with the extreme neatness and cleanliness outside the houses; “model villages” they are in these respects, with no litter lying in sight anywhere, nothing indeed but dog troughs, hollowed out of logs, like “dug-outs,” for the numerous yellow dogs, which are a feature of Aino life.
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004
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Many of these people have “dug-outs” or other boats on the adjacent river, some have bathing-sheds, and others padi plantations.
The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004
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