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Asked how he had monitored whether Mama was using the warrants he gave him - which were effectively blank cheques - properly,
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HIV-positive people in poor African nations to be treated properly,
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SPENCER: That is correct, the entire manual recount was never completed properly,
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The police in these areas had not been behaving properly,
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Fitting-in the taper pins is performed pin by pin so that the firm fit can be checked properly,
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Satisfied that everything was being handled properly,
Best Kept Secrets Brown, Sandra, 1948- 1989
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All dyers know that dead or immature cotton will not dye up properly,
The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics Franklin Beech
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We were at _Hangö_, and within five minutes the _Isvoschtschik_ stopped before a pavilion where music was jingling inspiriting tunes; up the steps we were hurried, and at the top found ourselves, travel-stained and tired, in the midst of a wild and furious Finnish, or, to speak more properly,
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And he might have coupled with this line that which he has coupled with another, I think, less properly,
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If the inmates be courteous, and good liquors flow like the conduits at an old coronation, if they can talk sensibly and feel properly,
Studies in Literature and History Alfred Comyn Lyall 1873
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