All along the coast, in the small harbours, a lot of pleasure-boats a bit sophisticals are bobbing up and down beside the fishermen's boats.
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Gesturally, adults sharplybobback their heads or nod rhythmically to infants, again presenting an exaggeration of head movements that conventionally signal affiliation in adults.
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Now, the link to resolution is presented tobobbut not to tom, asbobhas understood unification, while tom has not.
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They danced alone or with a partner, weaving and bobbing across the floor.
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It bobbed and rolled its eyes, unfolding giant fins.
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The syllablebob/p also spoken as sequences of isolated pronunciaoccurs in the parallel vague word deeleebob/p, tions of individual words.
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Outside, only leisure craft bobbed about in the harbour.
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To resolve this last goal, the fact exercise2(bob, 6.5) is added to the program, but not permanently.
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The loss of time is also the loss of memory, where the unusual lyrical use of the hexameter exchanges strife on land for a directionless bobbing about at sea.
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Memthing + you + may +bobyields thing + ye + bers of older generations born, say, in the last ma + bob, which ultimately produces thingacentury would surely know many more vague mabob.
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They are people to whom an extra fewboba week may well come in handy, as nobody will deny.
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He was not prepared to come down on either side, simply weaving and bobbing for the statutory half-hour.
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They have given 60 years of their lives to industry and commerce, and the reward for such service is the paltry sum of tenbob.
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If we have a tea party costing about twoboba head, that is extravagance at the expense of the ratepayers.
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They feel very intimidated by all the legal dignitaries bobbing up and down on behalf of the county council and others.
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