It was called a fire alarm, and when one came along you had to drop everything.

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If you could make something like that, you would drop everything else and do it.

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What am I supposed to do, go home and drop everything to take care of my girlfriend?

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If I hear my village is at peace, I will drop everything and go home with my children.

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So I decided to go into full battle against the resistance this weekend and drop everything to hit the great outdoors.

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If that happens, I may drop everything and fly to New Orleans.

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The most effective way to delay the future is to drop everything and go about the business of solving today's problems, real or imagined.

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Bennett told his employees to drop everything else and make tents.

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After seeing the Carousel of Nostalgia campaign playing on TV or on your favorite content site on your iPad, will you drop everything and run to the store?

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Grtchen Roberts and her husband, Derek, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, want their 2-year-old daughter to know that they're not always going to drop everything when she wants their attention.

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So, drop everything and trade the IMX?

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Drop everything you're doing.

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But at the same time, he said that Sept. 15 is not "the drop dead date" by which everything should be completed.

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So, we decided to bury our heads and listen to fallacious arguments that it is a temporary drop in the housing market and everything will be ok when the market steadies.

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According to everything I am seeing, a substantial drop over the coming months is not something that many investors are prepared for.

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Politicians with bad news announcements or scandals to drop will invariably do so during the Olympics because they know everything will be buried beneath the avalanche of athletics.

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Although there were times when the three-time Australian Open champion could only stand and watch the aces go by or send a drop shot return into the net, he largely had an answer for everything Roddick could send his way.

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