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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Ben Barka was then tied to a chair and injected with a sedative .
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Doctors, the suit claims, also supervise attachment of a heart monitor and might give the condemned inmate a sedative .
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He was offered a sedative for this test, too.
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In high amounts hops are such a potent sedative that Clement, working as an herbalist, offers them to dental patients.
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Our vet came out early that morning with some sedative , but we needn't have bothered.
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The news was good: minor cuts, nothing deep, anti-tetanus injections just in case, mild sedative for shock.
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This annoyed the surgeon, who began to cut before the local or the sedative had taken effect.
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Valerian root has been used for centuries as a mild sedative .