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  • United kick-off, my God the turf's kicking up on the sidelines.

    Chelsea 1-3 Manchester United – as it happened 2010

  • (Maybe -- I don't know how the turf's laid out in this Administration.)

    Richard (RJ) Eskow: After Summers, Which Path Will the President Take? 2010

  • Eastern Washington made sure to play up the novelty with a live stream of the turf's laying and an online poll for fans to nickname the ground.

    Heard on the Field 2010

  • The piles of documents he gathered, however, did not include a federal report that might answer widening concerns about toxic chemicals found in the ground-up tires that provide the turf's cushioning.

    This week in safety: Pet food recalls 2009

  • The piles of documents he gathered, however, did not include a federal report that might answer widening concerns about toxic chemicals found in the ground-up tires that provide the turf's cushioning.

    This week in safety: Pet food recalls 2009

  • My turf's overgrowing, my beard's down to my knees and my kids have grown up and still no sign of you!

    AWOL Serf 2007

  • It was well built with turf's and stout timber, and was impressive enough as a temporary stance, but the young Britons, ignorant of warfare and accustomed to the great Roman-based permanent structures of Caerleon and Segontium, looked about them with disappointment and contempt.

    The Wicked Day Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1983

  • Trafford sat down by them, stroking the turf's green blades, and gazing at the warm-hued flowers through tears.

    Culm Rock The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught Glance Gaylord

  • Says you, when ye go home and see him wi 'nobody aboot, says you:' Jock McGilp was saying the turf's in and the gull's a bonny bird. '

    The McBrides A Romance of Arran John Sillars

  • "There's just the two roads, you see, the shore road and the hill road, and a strange foot carries far, and there's aye a lad on the watch when the 'turf's in.'"

    The McBrides A Romance of Arran John Sillars

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