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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As he reached the foot of the bleak stone steps, a single gunman opened fire from the parapet around the stairway.
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Choir and audience wave to each other when the singing is over, some of the little boys leaning perilously over the parapets.
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Corrigan watched the parapet above them.
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I got up and went to the corner of the parapet , from where I could see in three directions.
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I shifted unobtrusively, to crane a look over the parapet .
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Once you put your head above the parapet these people clearly shot at it.
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The double-decker smashed through a fence and ended up perched precariously on a bridge parapet at Brighouse, West Yorkshire.