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That was the sum he was expected to give Mr. Pai at the end of every trip: one rupee for the dinner he would be given at around nine o'clock, one rupee for the privilege of having been picked to work for Mr. Ganesh Pai.
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During the War, Ms Chorley was part of the Women's Royal Naval Service (Wrens), and many of its recruits were picked to work at Bletchley and operate the code-cracking machines developed there.
Gear ratios are always picked to work together in harmony and shouldn't be fiddled with.
If plaques were formed, a single plaque from a successful infection plate was picked to propagate as a working stock solution for further analysis.
The male inmates, who were aged between 16 and 19 at the time, had been picked by Husband to work in the kitchens, where he would sometimes "blatantly" indecently assault them or take them away for abuse in secret.
Whatever we're picking seems to working because the rack needs to be replenished quite frequently".
An obsolete verb, "to gift" (as in "He gyfted them richely," 16th century), has been picked up and given new work to do.
The gang sees innocent younger brother Angel (played by Angel Amaral) as fresh fruit ready to be picked and works on him through violence and harassment to become one of them.
A spokesman confirmed that Qatar Airlines' 7000 female staff are only allowed to be picked up from work by their fathers, brothers or husbands.
At almost any hour of the day or night, there are a dozen or more young women with identical rolling suitcases waiting in the lobby of their dormitory to be picked up for work on Etihad flights.
"One of the images I have of my last time here," he said, "is going to that part of town and seeing black men, who were very poor, waiting in the early dawn to be picked up for work in the fields.
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