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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Here then the first mate and the captain are diametrically opposed.
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It was like a shipwreck, where the resourceful child passenger becomes the first mate .
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She must be mated again, and the first mate has to guard her or risk his groundwork going to benefit another.
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Starbuck and Ahab almost communicate with each other as the first mate pleads with Ahab to repudiate this vengeful mission.
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The captain read the funeral service and the first mate raised the plank and tipped the small bundle into the water.
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This, his first mate , is known as the primary female.
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Three times he watched his first mate get blown to bits.