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The extremely big question was what, and he'd been banking on a little more than the duration of a tea-break to answer it.
It's October, 1956. Shelagh Power-Chopra 2010
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Even as I read that Leo should attend to family matters, or her travel plans are well starred I know that it is nonsense – even if the stars aren't slapped together during a tea-break, but are compiled by a true believer, I know that they are designed for the weak-willed and unhappy.
Superstition: my comfort in credulity | Morven Crumlish 2010
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Chairman Zhang strolled without formality or entourage into a tea-break room where I was sitting, slapped me on the back, and spent the next half hour grilling me, through an interpreter, about … airplanes.
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One lot, on tea-break, are reading tiny copies of The Sun.
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His tweed jacket, buttoned against the chill, is a bit informal for a businessman on a tea-break, and his inspection of the defunct IXL Jam Factory on the opposite quay too sustained for a local stroller.
Hunting the Thylacine Geoffrey Fox 2009
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Chairman Zhang strolled without formality or entourage into a tea-break room where I was sitting, slapped me on the back, and spent the next half hour grilling me, through an interpreter, about … airplanes.
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One lot, on tea-break, are reading tiny copies of The Sun.
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His tweed jacket, buttoned against the chill, is a bit informal for a businessman on a tea-break, and his inspection of the defunct IXL Jam Factory on the opposite quay too sustained for a local stroller.
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One lot, on tea-break, are reading tiny copies of The Sun.
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Chairman Zhang strolled without formality or entourage into a tea-break room where I was sitting, slapped me on the back, and spent the next half hour grilling me, through an interpreter, about … airplanes.
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