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Goodness knows how long it is since the Leicester Water Department commandeered a field just outside Uppingham, some nineteen miles from the city; it's been either Anglian Water or Severn Trent around here ever since I've had to cough-up to pay their exorbitant bills.
Unexpected Alphabets No 3 Peter Ashley 2008
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"Like the smoker who can't give up cigarettes until he coughs up blood, the Republicans have had that cough-up blood moment."
Mayhill Fowler: That Hopey, Changey Thing Comes to the California Republican Party 2010
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"Like the smoker who can't give up cigarettes until he coughs up blood, the Republicans have had that cough-up blood moment."
Mayhill Fowler: That Hopey, Changey Thing Comes to the California Republican Party 2010
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Criminals may repeatedly offend without being apprehended and then simply cough-up with the proceeds of their crimes if and when they are caught.
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Criminals may repeatedly offend without being apprehended and then simply cough-up with the proceeds of their crimes if and when they are caught.
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"Like the smoker who can't give up cigarettes until he coughs up blood, the Republicans have had that cough-up blood moment."
Mayhill Fowler: That Hopey, Changey Thing Comes to the California Republican Party 2010
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Criminals may repeatedly offend without being apprehended and then simply cough-up with the proceeds of their crimes if and when they are caught.
Redwood is right – prison sentencing may need reform out of fiscal necessity 2010
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"Like the smoker who can't give up cigarettes until he coughs up blood, the Republicans have had that cough-up blood moment."
Mayhill Fowler: That Hopey, Changey Thing Comes to the California Republican Party 2010
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Criminals may repeatedly offend without being apprehended and then simply cough-up with the proceeds of their crimes if and when they are caught.
Redwood is right – prison sentencing may need reform out of fiscal necessity 2010
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He does not have a charter that says otherwise and he is not extorting by force of CRIMINAL law, you or me to cough-up the readies, simply for having a PC in our possession.
ALL HAIL EUROLAND 2009
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