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chipped

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Past of chip

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Hibs, meanwhile, chipped in with one of the best goals scored in Europe this season.

When I asked Sarah why she thought she hadn't made any money after being a member for five months, for example, she hesitated before Robert chipped in to say "it means she is not performing well".

Imagine if you had Mickey Mouse or a superhero being unmasked every time, you start to have the magic of the show chipped away at," Bennett told Victoria Derbyshire on BBC Radio 5 Live.

Paint and brushes were handed out, and several dozen chipped in to decorate the banner with its anti-austerity message.

Coming in shortly after lunch, Alastair Cook's long innings having ended in the first over of the session when he chipped a return catch to David Wainwright, Monty was run out for a duck, seeming dozily slow to respond to the call of his captain James Foster for a quick single to cover.

Cameron's claims that the cuts will be fair will be chipped away by the kind of hardship stories that housing benefit cuts are already generating.

Instead of settling Gonzalo Pineda's pass, Martins chipped the ball with his left foot over San Jose goalkeeper Jon Busch and just inside the far post.

Thomas Muller was supposed to run over the ball and dart in behind the Algeria wall to, presumably, volley home a ball chipped over said wall.

Tim Bresnan chipped in with a couple of wickets and there were two for Jimmy Anderson as well, beginning with Watson, who biffed his usual 20 or so at the start before getting his pad in the way yet again, the 10th time he has been lbw in 18 dismissals by England.

"We had to get a lot of things wrong to lose today," said Mats Hummels, who chipped in with a couple of clangers himself.

At the end of the longest exchange of the morning, with 32 near-perfect groundstrokes and after being chipped by Murray, he was ready to ignite the grunt-machine.

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