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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He was also the first sprinter in Britain to use starting blocks .
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Not crouched down into the starting blocks with her fingertips pressed so lightly on to the oven red brick track.
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The hood framed her expressive face, emphasising the grimace of determination before she lowered herself into the starting blocks .
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The race went to Amanda Beard, a 14-year-old who toted a teddy bear to the starting blocks .
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Two days before the 1986 meeting I took my starting blocks home to my flat and left them on the kitchen floor.
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Video games are increasingly the starting blocks to full computer literacy.