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Examples
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In one shop I over-heard the clerk or shop-owner say "Hello" to my daughter who was across the room from me.
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It was only months later that they finally realized: Mansour was in fact just a Pakistani grocer with no more links to the Taliban than your local shop-owner.
Johann Hari: The Troops in Afghanistan Really Are Being Betrayed -- By the Politicians Who Keep Them There Johann Hari 2011
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It was only months later that they finally realized: Mansour was in fact just a Pakistani grocer with no more links to the Taliban than your local shop-owner.
Johann Hari: The Troops in Afghanistan Really Are Being Betrayed -- By the Politicians Who Keep Them There Johann Hari 2011
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But no parent or shop-owner could match the scares offered at a Republican rally in the city's main square.
US midterms: Americans driven to the polls by fear in the Halloween elections Paul Harris 2010
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Summary: Boy breaks piggy-bank, buys prostitute, is abandoned by uptight father and adopted by the old shop-owner across the street who teaches the boy about life and the Koran and then dies.
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Boy grows up to be shop-owner and thus the cycle continues.
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It has a mayor called Sweater (nothing to do with woollies), a shop-owner called Didlum and an unreliable workman called Slyme.
Spur of the Moment; Pygmalion; The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist; The Magical Menagerie 2010
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"People are so spooked by the oil spill that tourists are abandoning us," the shop-owner said.
Brenda Peterson: Shining in the Dark: Finding Some Good in the Tragedy of the Oil Spill 2010
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In one shop I over-heard the clerk or shop-owner say "Hello" to my daughter who was across the room from me.
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"All of the corrupt officials should be rounded up," exclaimed Mr. Li, a Beijing shop-owner.
Alexander Davenport: Blagojevich and Beijing: Political Corruption in China and America 2009
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