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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Being Ymor's right-hand man was like being gently flogged to death with scented bootlaces.
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He had sorted the boxes of patent medicines and stacked them in one corner away from the cartons of collar studs and bootlaces.
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His hands were tightly bound together with what felt like bootlaces.
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It had a small, dandyish white shirt with a bootlace tie.
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Peter ambled after them and joined other fathers who would doubtless have to help with bootlaces.
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The cook stood there like a shrivelled bootlace , tight-lipped, implacable, disapproving.
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The Mark Hateley of suit and silk tie is a polar opposite to the Mark Hateley of shorts and bootlaces.