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Examples
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I did a quick double-take this afternoon when I glanced at the market closing reports.
Traditionalists are Everywhere John 2009
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I did a quick double-take this afternoon when I glanced at the market closing reports.
Ss Petri & Pauli John 2009
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The idea of double-take is further explored in her sculptures of pizza boxes and plants covered by plastic bags, again seemingly the real thing, yet obviously hand made.
ArtScene: Current California Exhibitions You Should See ArtScene 2010
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Nonetheless, today's pic made me do a little bit of a double-take.
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He did a double-take as a man in uniform, knife handle protruding from his back, brushed past him.
Actor-Activist vic fortezza 2011
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I had to do a double-take at WHERE this event was taking place: Copenhagen?
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It needed a double-take around the dressing room at Goodison Park last Saturday for Tim Howard to appreciate how bare Everton's bones had become.
Tim Howard remains positive despite season of 'what ifs' for Everton 2011
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I thought she was someone sitting on the curb tying her shoelace, but something in me ole scavenger brain made me do a double-take.
Archive 2009-05-01 The Curious Holts 2009
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James Bond does a double-take when he sees the Goya work in supervillain Dr. No's lair.
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In comparison with the red-carpet, cosmetic advert, gossip-column figure she cuts now, the Jennifer Aniston in the Friends pilot episode has the vulnerability of a baby picture, and Sky Atlantic's rescreening of ER creates the same double-take with George Clooney.
Television re-runs: only 235 episodes to go | Mark Lawson 2011
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