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  • You sit at sky-blue tables on lawned or cobbled terraces there's a covered pavilion for wet days; the food is fresh, hearty and cooked to order by farmer's wife Nikki Exton – who manages to juggle gardening with lambing, growing herbs and salad leaves, making chutneys, baking cakes and dishing up crowd-pleasing meals.

    West Dorset's top 10 budget eats 2011

  • The Earth has been lawned with life for something over 3.5 billion years.

    The Real End of the World 2011

  • At the end of the meeting, a gentleman came up to me and said no lie I live on the Arbutus Line and if they put a lawned and shrubbed tram line on the route, I really would not have an objection.

    Bond shies away from major TransLink reforms « Stephen Rees's blog 2010

  • I did my little song and dance about LRT, but with something different which TransLink did not show – the lawned rights-of-way.

    Bond shies away from major TransLink reforms « Stephen Rees's blog 2010

  • This includes lawned rights-of-ways, parks, shrubbery, bike lanes and sculptures.

    Want One Port Mann Bridge, or a Light Rail Metropolis? « Stephen Rees’s blog 2009

  • Perhaps C17th gardens in northern Italy really did have lawned spaces where commedia dell'arte troupes played.

    Archive 2009-07-01 Hels 2009

  • Perhaps C17th gardens in northern Italy really did have lawned spaces where commedia dell'arte troupes played.

    Garden Design: Cloudehill Hels 2009

  • Mr. DiCaprio and Ms. Winslet play Frank and April Wheeler, a young couple who seems to have it all: genetically blessed looks, charm, adorable children, a sweet, green-lawned house within commuting distance from the city.

    Can Love Survive? 2008

  • One evening two weeks ago a group of employees was leaving by bus from the Iraq Hunting Club, a green-lawned retreat once occupied by Ahmad Chalabi, the Pentagon's former favorite exile leader.

    Hell to Pay 2007

  • We arrived too late to get a good seat and had to make do with a table in the rear room that gives on to the terrace that leads on to the lawned area at the river's edge.

    Ye Olde Black Bear Inn, Tewkesbury 2007

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