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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He could not avoid it, he took a lungful of the diesel fumes from the taxi as it pulled away.
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He went to the front door to collect the milk, eager for his first deep lungful of fresh morning air.
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I let go a lungful of air, slumped back against the parapet and lit another Capstan.
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She gulped in a lungful of air and forced her eyelids open.
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Sucking in a lungful of cold air, Piper moved once more down the corridor.
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Sucking in a deep lungful of smoke, he looked back at the fiercely blazing funeral pyre for the first time.
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Teal Green was coughing up a lungful of smoke when the Base was plunged into darkness.
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The old man rose, walked to the back door, pushed it open and inhaled a lungful of air.