| Their only concern is giving yesterday's heroes a fitting send-off and that might yet prove their downfall. |
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| Queen Ida, landlady of the Slip Inn for 24 years, was given a grand send-off at her funeral at Milnrow Parish Church on Monday. |
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| His family and friends and work colleagues gathered at Pat Sheehan's pub in Firies last Friday to give him the send-off he fully deserves. |
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| When some people leave their jobs here at the mag they get a big send-off and a pizza party. |
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| But when his life-saving skills seemed to fail, he decided to give Fatty Neil and Slim a decent send-off with some of his favourite tipple. |
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| I had a marvellous send-off and quickly and quite happily settled into a new routine, including a part-time job. |
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| The aircraft will be raised on deck for 90 minutes for the farewell send-off. |
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| In Japan, few rituals are as tightly scripted as the send-off for the dearly departed. |
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| It is unfortunate that the government or the Sports Association do not have money to give a send-off to our athletes. |
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| Prehistoric burial sites show that the desire to ensure a suitable send-off is nothing new. |
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| The arrival of my family, friends and colleagues for the send-off was a huge boost to my morale and I am very grateful that they had all made such an effort to be here. |
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| A celebration assembly and a presentation from staff and governors at the Antrobus Arms Hotel in Amesbury also ensured Mr Ruck had a good send-off. |
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| In June, a Lab send-off was held at CFB Trenton, with a demonstration of the Labrador's flying abilities. |
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| On Friday 20th there will be a massive send-off from St. Patrick's Square. |
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| It had been an historic send-off in the medieval magnificence of the abbey's Gothic stone vaults. |
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| The Cardinal, who was nobody's fool, knew fine what kind of a send-off he could expect. |
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| When CMDR Leggatt crossed the gangway for the last time, there was no piping party or salutes, but there was a final send-off. |
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| One of our dearly loved families is moving to Calgary, so we had a baseball-and-picnic send-off for them. |
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| Nor is there much doubt that when her time comes the queen mother will get a rather grander send-off. |
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| There are places that give their dead a spirited send-off, where even ghoulish tourists will be dragged in for a dance. |
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| His next book was a zany send-off of the literary fashions of the day entitled Nonsense Novels. |
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| One of Calderdale's most colourful characters got the send-off he wanted when a barge carrying his coffin ferried him to his final resting place. |
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| We currently seem to believe that the more flamboyant the send-off, as our nearest and dearest exit stage left, the more virtuous or enlightened a breed we are. |
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| The players ensured though that the father-figure went out on a top note, by clinching promotion to Yorkshire One and then giving him a send-off to remember. |
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| Both were given a fitting send-off from friends and colleagues. |
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| During a send-off presentation she received a bird bath from staff and a family of ceramic frogs, which she avidly collects, from the company. |
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| He spends his send-off correcting the grammar of the patter song his patrons have written for him. |
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| Margaret Thatcher is to be accorded a send-off filled with pomp and ceremony in London on Wednesday. |
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| The send-off had been billed as the biggest funeral send-off in decades. |
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| A send-off occurs when a player commits a serious violation and is ordered by the referee to leave the field for the rest of the game. |
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| Now that he had given her the cheque from Sir John they could be a little more relaxed about giving Harry the send-off he merited. |
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| In that coast of send-offs and farewells, how did one more send-off matter? |
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| The medicine man gave the faithful animal a proper send-off into its next spiritual world. |
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| It now lies with us, and with the reader, to make good this send-off so that Mediterranean woodlands will be better taken into account, not just by ourselves but in public policy and in land use and development. |
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| And that is exactly what they have done as they demonstrated in their spectacular performance at their own Pan Am send-off Watershow at the Parc Olympique Pool in Montreal. |
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| On Thursday he took his final send-off in a patterned eggplant silk ensemble. |
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| Some of the players tried to heavy or sweet-talk the referee into reversing his decision, even as the threat of a send-off loomed. |
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| Stephanie Venus, 30, marries next month and came to Last of the Summer Wine country for a singledom send-off. |
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| Considering Kathy has been the drippiest character in Emmerdale for the last 12 years it's only fair that Wet Wet Wet were involved in her send-off. |
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| Samantha Scrine, 26, then forged health board letters thanking them and also gave her school a CD of songs for her funeral plus a credit card to pay for the send-off. |
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| Sheng had given me many Hami melons, and once again a cavalry of several hundred horsemen arrived for my departure, making for a spectacular send-off. |
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