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Examples
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The beck-and-call service approach isn ' t for everyone, however.
Living in the Lap of Luxury Tara Loader Wilkinson 2010
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Don't denegrate her by thinking she's just a child at her mother's beck-and-call.
"Not many 21-year-olds start their Monday with a personal breakfast with Chelsea Clinton, as Rae did this morning at the student union..." Ann Althouse 2008
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If Hillary does end up winning this, it speaks extremely well of the get-out-the-vote organization she has at her beck-and-call.
Let's talk about the New Hampshire primary. Ann Althouse 2008
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Daddy Muthah, played by Dirty Harry's nemesis, Andrew Robinson, with a southern accent and a whole bunch of military trancers at his beck-and-call for superhuman, trancerized soldiers they do get killed real easy...
Review: Trancers 3: Deth Lives (1992) platyjoe 2006
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Daddy Muthah, played by Dirty Harry's nemesis, Andrew Robinson, with a southern accent and a whole bunch of military trancers at his beck-and-call for superhuman, trancerized soldiers they do get killed real easy...
Archive 2006-06-01 platyjoe 2006
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He was just a go-fer, after all, a yes-man, a beck-and-call boy who only implemented the decisions made by the people in authority.
A Taint in the Blood Stabenow, Dana 2004
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She was the only person in whom he would confide, and she was at his beck-and-call 24 hours a day.
Sinatra The Man Behind the Myth Taraborrelli, J. R. 1997
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Now that I am at the beck-and-call of small, intemperate despots, I've had a change of heart.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2012
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The vocal chanting at the end rules me, I'm at this song's proverbial beck-and-call.
Latest reviews @ Progarchives.com, the ultimate progressive rock music website 2010
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Detroit in dire straits ... so what city official sees nothing wrong with a city car and driver at beck-and-call for late-night dinners, a little clubbing and gambling the night away on a regular basis?
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