But players were lapping it up and spending huge amounts of time and money on the game.

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Because the mainstream media are lapping it up.

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We know each other so well as a team, the quiet ones were left to their own devices on the coach on the way to the Millennium Stadium, while us louder ones were lapping it all up.

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He added that some oil could be seen lapping up against one of the booms, but it was being held in place.

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Europe likes to believe that it is distanced from the recession that is lapping up against the shores of the United States.

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Using sensor information, it will spring to life at the sight of its master and express the anticipated emotion -- lapping up affection and retreating when scolded.

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