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The newspapers lying around (an Evening Standard, the Daily Telegraph) are all dated August 2011, the week of the Worst Scenes Since The Blitz, as the headlines described the riots after the shooting of Mark Duggan by armed police on 4 August.
So he not only created an entertainment center but also remodeled a foot doctor's office and a Subway sandwich shop into a branch of a Manhattan restaurant, Via Quadronno, that has European touches like Italian newspapers lying around the bar and a red Vespa parked decoratively outside (not to mention Euro-scale prices).
There will be newspapers lying around clubhouses, but he doesn't read them.
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Be it on the bus or the tube, or wherever, he's always tearing something out of a newspaper lying around and stuffing it in his pocket, or picking up a leaf to save for later.
Have some colored, pretty paper lying around?
Think anyone noticed what was lying around?
Would you just leave them lying around?
Who left them lying around?
The others are just lying around somewhere".
"People were lying around, nodding off".
I'd just be lying around".
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