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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He liked making and mending , had a marked instinct for understanding things mechanical.
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Her father left things with her for mending , like a sheep leaves its wool on a fence, in passing.
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I went to my room and calmed myself with some invisible mending .
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She can also turn her hand to mending and spotting.
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Sometimes, indeed, we both sat at the table doing our mending or writing letters.
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The housekeeper was in charge of mending and looking after all the linen from the various parts of the house.