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Examples of doormat


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Two rooms even have doormats in front of them.
Bills that are two, three and four times the previous size are now hitting the doormats.
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The parents were unaware of those huge bills until they dropped on their doormats.
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Criticism of them rises at an even faster rate than does the rise of the rate demands that drop on the nation's doormats.
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Many of them feel, particularly in relation to education officers, that they are being treated little differently from doormats.
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In fact, metering has been introduced in a dozen or so areas and the bills are now hitting the doormats.
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Although we may curse the ever larger quantities of such post that lands on our doormats, it is a highly profitable part of post office business.
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As council tax bills land with a loud and disappointing thud on people's doormats, we should reflect on the failure to increase take-up of council tax benefits.
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Things are beamed into their living rooms or delivered on to their doormats, so the bonding in society that is often a precondition of voting does not take place.
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To show a misogynist and surround him with such walking doormats has the effect, intentional or not, of justifying this behaviour.
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A "facility" might be a doormat or it might be a common entrance which was divided two feet inside the building.
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A bill for a £15 a week increase will arrive on the doormat at the same time as the poll tax bill.
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He has not actually received it, but doubtless it will be sitting on his doormat when he gets home or wherever it should be.
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Is £100 any compensation for what might happen to a family when a letter accusing a man of fathering a child arrives on the doormat?
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Is it not indefensible that there is no link at all between consumption and the bill that lands on the doormat?
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Two years later, a letter arrived on her doormat from her ex-husband's solicitor, asking for contact.
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Every time that she hears something drop on the doormat she fears the worst.
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Regrettably, in its production, it came out not so much a doormat as a cowpat.
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However, anyone who wants to borrow money simply waits until an offer lands on the doormat.
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He may be consulted before, but he is seldom even on the doormat when the crucial decisions are taken.
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In other words, they have replaced megaphone diplomacy with doormat diplomacy.
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The altar-cloth of one age indeed becomes the doormat of the next.
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He is finishing up as a doormat to a dictator.
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No doubt there are marriages which are reasonably happy where one is completely selfish and the other a "doormat", but those are exceptions.
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The election material of all parties at the last election is probably still on the doormat of some of them.
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An envelope dropping on to a doormat, backed up by extensive local publicity and all the relevant agencies, must be the right way forward.
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The rate demand arriving on the doormat, demanding payment in two global sums, is clearly identifiable and appears to hit much harder at the pockets of individual families.
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You are on the doormat.
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He will be on the doormat!
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Can no one in government understand the bitterness which is potentially generated in the second family as a result of the assessment landing on the doormat?
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Hair mats, the size of a doormat, acted as sponges to soak up spilled oil.
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In addition to performances by eye-catching cutlery, plates, a tablecloth and napkins, the musical number featured a show-stopping routine from a dancing doormat.
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The doormat test is very good at detecting moisture vapor emanating from under concrete slabs that are missing a sub-slab vapor barrier.
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They discovered a key under the doormat, but then realized it wasn't needed because the door was unlocked.
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The third wolf ended up as a doormat and disappeared.
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After he is defeated, they retrieve the last battery and find the last key under the doormat and use it to open the safe.
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