He had a ring-side seat, in other words, while his lover wasted away.

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These are the things you could enjoy, all cast into oblivion, because when you throw away money on wasted electricity, you throw away everything you could have bought with it.

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Mr Gumpert said the defence would argue that there was no servitude, no forced labour, but rather a rough bargain which enabled men who would otherwise have wasted their lives away in drink and dependency to have meaningful lives as part of the Connors family.

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The Japanese banks wasted a decade running away from reality.

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There is a lot of discussion these days about food waste. 30 to 40 percent of all food produced in the world is wasted, we hear, and the food thrown away in the U.S. is enough to fill the Rose Bowl with food every day.

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He once said that a day away from his hometown was "a day wasted".

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Benjani soon wasted a glorious opportunity to extend City's lead, spinning away from his marker with a sublime first touch before blazing over with his second from six yards out.

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Patches of plaster had fallen away from the main walls, showing orange, wind-wasted brick.

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Inter knew that vital away goal would leave Chelsea with a huge task, and Eto'o wasted a wonderful opportunity to provide it for them after 33 minutes.

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