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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But what Kenneth really wanted was to be where the action is, on the footplate .
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He ran the company as if he had suddenly and unexpectedly found himself on the footplate of a runaway engine.
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Kenneth Leech spent his hundredth anniversary on the footplate of a restored engine from his beloved Great Western Railway.
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Several deputy editors and the press had footplate rides.