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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But the advent of the computer game generation and the recession has consigned Roy of the Rovers to football's wastepaper basket .
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Draft after draft was relegated to the wastepaper basket .
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Getting up from rummaging in the wastepaper basket , she bumped her head, very lightly, on the sink.
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He got up, looked around, and kicked his wastepaper basket as hard as he could.
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She dropped it into her wastepaper basket .
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She stomped around the room with a wastepaper basket , collecting the obscene dolls.
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The documents travel from printing press to wastepaper basket in one uninterrupted motion.