He had heard of someone who had been given an owl as a birthday present, but did not want it.

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"There were teenage girls crying outside, " said financial analyst Louise Cooper, who had taken her 9-year-old daughter to the gig as a birthday present.

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Ms Harrington even got tickets to tour England's Highclere Castle, the real-life setting for the show, in July as a birthday present from her husband.

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My friend paid for the name change as a birthday present.

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Some five years ago, he went into an upmarket Lagos store to buy a doll as a birthday present for his young niece, but left disappointed.

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He says he can't stop thinking about the new phone the brothers had planned to buy their sister as a birthday present in May to replace her battered handset.

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He had brought his son to the game as a 10th birthday present.

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Today's Switched On's first birthday, so as a present we gave Ross his very own banner.

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