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Even so, Nishikori can swot up on the Scot's game with his coach Brad Gilbert, the father of a former room-mate and more significantly, Murray's coach for 16 months between 2006 and 2007.
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Working with me were the 21-year-old Sam Shepard, a young playwright from the midwest, and his room-mate, Charlie Mingus Jr.
John Brockman: the man who runs the world's smartest website 2012
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Recently a student at Rutgers University committed suicide after his room-mate broadcast one of his gay sexual encounters over the internet.
US shaken by sudden surge of violence against gay people Paul Harris 2010
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One or two small glitches … the gender of the narrator was not obvious until we got to her putting on a dress (a room-mate could be either gender, right?).
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My room-mate was even worse … he once took so many caffeine pills during finals just to stay up and study that the whites of his eyes turned a faded yellowish, gray color and he was shaky and lethargic as hell.
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Alongside Chris Ashton, his Northampton sidekick and World Cup room-mate, Foden will sustain the wise-cracking which might yet haul England out of the despondency following their miserable defeat in a friendly against Wales last Saturday.
Ben Foden: 'England happy to play pantomime villains at World Cup' | Donald McRae 2011
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Ben Foden, Ashton's room-mate and a fellow member of the back three, stressed not just the work rate and the eye for openings that enable the wing to pop up on the shoulder of a colleague but the ability to absorb lessons in how to cause damage at the highest level.
Six Nations 2011: Chris Ashton makes light of his killer instinct 2011
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The player's room-mate Gonzalo Sorondo, previously of Crystal Palace and Charlton, would tell him about life in London.
Sandro: 'I told my brother: I'll be the player we should both have been' 2011
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Fifteen days ago, on 19 July, Payne won the 10km open-water race at the world championships, and a gold medal for Britain that was eventually matched by her room-mate in Shanghai, Rebecca Adlington, who triumphed in the 800m freestyle.
Keri-Anne Payne on the perils of the long-distance Olympic swimmer 2011
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My room-mate was even worse … he once took so many caffeine pills during finals just to stay up and study that the whites of his eyes turned a faded yellowish, gray color and he was shaky and lethargic as hell.
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