• There is another snoozing spot on the outside edge of the structure, and the men recently placed a thick piece of plywood in a top corner, giving the option of making a loft bed there too.

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  • Earn My Keep helps her differentiate between acts we do as members of a household (making the bed, setting the table) and acts we do to earn a living.

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  • When Miss Sayer and her former partner returned, all three had another argument which ended with the ex-boyfriend leaving and Miss Sayer going to bed after making a cup of tea.

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  • One morning I forgot to take it out of sleep mode and the Smart Alarm went off 15 minutes after I got out of bed and was making a pot of coffee.

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  • The Butterfly Suite offers private space for parents and has been equipped with a double bed, sofa, fold-down chair bed, tea and coffee-making facilities, a TV and an en-suite washroom.

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  • Banks are reluctant to lend money to start-ups unless they are already making a profit, so if you want to expand your business, getting into bed with a multinational is often the only game in town.

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  • However Mr Drew added it was very much a plan in the making and needed time to bed down.

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  • Each morning, a senior nurse walked through the unit, clipboard in hand, making sure that every patient on a ventilator had the bed propped at the right angle, and had been given the right medicines and the right tests.

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  • These efforts are making a difference: In less than a decade, we have sent more than 6 million anti-malaria bed nets to Africa, helped to reduce global polio cases by 99% and helped to decrease measles mortality by 74% worldwide.

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  • Making her debut in the second episode, Esther was a carer for her bed-ridden mother, and kept an eye out for the street's younger characters, including Christine Hardman, Ken Barlow and Lucille Hewitt.

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  • Or it is a generalised, defensive fear: globalisation, say, or the arrival of Europe's single currency, are changing the economic landscape and making firms' lives more uncertain creating a strong incentive for the insecure to leap into bed with one another, the better to prevent their beds from being taken away altogether.

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