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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As the country is at present face down in the mire , such a development could only have positive benefits for us all.
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His enemies had made false accusations against him and wanted to drag him through the mire .
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I was sinking fast in the mire of soft money.
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It will take a political Houdini escape trick to keep him from being sucked further into the mire .
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No one who had ever struggled in the mire as she had, could fail to understand.
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One outstanding local example was the Broyle in Ringmer, 2000 acres of scrub and clay mire , an old deer park.