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Warner Home Video has finally gotten with the program and made many films from their chin-deep classic film library available on made-to-order DVDs.
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Already chin-deep in a conversation I should never have encouraged, I asked, Why do you think your neighbor was robbed?
Lita Smith-Mines: Giving It All Away Lita Smith-Mines 2011
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Warner Home Video has finally gotten with the program and made many films from their chin-deep classic film library available on made-to-order DVDs.
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The city is chin-deep in California's trickle-down misery, and last week Richard Riordan, who was L.A. mayor from 1993 to 2001, coauthored with Alexander Rubalcava — an investment adviser — a Wall Street Journal column declaring the city's fiscal crisis "terminal."
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The black-and-white images in the exhibit also show King kneeling at Raj Ghat, Gandhi's memorial in Delhi, and draped chin-deep in marigold garlands upon arriving in the capital.
King of India Amy Yee 2009
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My quondam doer had ensconced himself chin-deep among legal trenches, hornworks, and covered ways; but my two protectors shelled him out of his defences, and I was at length a free man, at liberty to go or stay wheresoever my mind listed.
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Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe played best friends who found themselves respectively chin-deep in handsome private detectives and not-exactly-stolen diamonds.
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The presence of these matlametlo in the desert in a time of drought was rather a disappointment, for I had been accustomed to suppose that the note was always emitted by them when they were chin-deep in water.
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Razka crouched chin-deep in the water as he backed slowly toward the rest of the strike team.
A Time to Kill David Mack 2004
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Razka crouched chin-deep in the water as he backed slowly toward the rest of the strike team.
A Time to Kill David Mack 2004
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