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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After completing three rounds of the Barkhor we left to return to the nunnery separately.
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Due to some unexplained back story, Royer-Collard has been keeping a young orphan girl locked away at a nunnery .
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Monasteries and nunneries were relatively safe from attack until the Dissolution and would have no need for elaborate and impractical tunnels.
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On the way, the ruins of an old nunnery can be seen on the left.
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Or to a nunnery on Iona.
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She fell in love with him but, on discovering he was already married, she retired to a nunnery .
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We believed there was a secret tunnel between rectory and nunnery .