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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Even more telling is the example of Ralph Snaith, the bailiff of Pontefract.
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For the rest, the bailiff pretended to consult him, then did as he thought best.
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One shop visited by the bailiffs, and still in business, blames a huge drop in predicted turnover.
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Sending in bailiffs was the last straw.
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The bailiffs are due in just eleven days.
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The arrival of a bailiff can easily lead to confrontation, and most people don't know their rights.
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The lawyers, policemen and bailiffs grinned, along with the clerk.
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Thereafter he was allowed only six boatloads of brushwood a year, to be taken out under view of the bailiff .