How To Use Dustman In A Sentence
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• In 1989 Nicholas Ridley, the minister for the environment in the Conservative government, tried to defend the poll tax as "fair" on the grounds that "a duke would pay the same as a dustman".
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Recently he was talking about becoming a club pro, or a dustman.
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And, although shunted into the part at short notice, Michael Feast catches Alfred Doolittle's transition from happily drunken dustman to respectable middle-class morality: like his daughter, in fact, he is both victim, and beneficiary, of Higgins's caprice.
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Her argument went something like this: ‘If a dustman has a heart attack and I save his life isn't it right that he should have paid towards my training through his taxes?’
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Let me ask, What are the real feelings of a householder who is requested to hand out a present to a turncock or dustman whom he has never seen?
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Tarik Ozresberoglu was warned to behave himself by Mr Justice Bean as he called the smirking defendant an 'absolute clown' and told his lawyer Ian Bourne QC that he would 'rather be a dustman' than defend such a man.
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Each week the whistling dustman came down the back garden, hoisted the full dustbin on his shoulder, carried it up the garden and tipped the contents into the dustcart.
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The problem with the fluorry jacket is that is equipment not uniform and as such it is not designed to be worn all the time (unless you are a dustman).
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I remember Rowan falling on to a jagged baked bean can dropped by the dustman on the path, and rather envying him the drama of the dash to the hospital and the impressive bandage.
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If you were a dustman, you could make a start on that room of yours," retorted her mother.
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Formally educated white-collar proletarians commonly didn't consider themselves workers, even though they were selling their labour power to survive just the same as the dustman.
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The office is empty except for the dustman.
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He started out as a Dublin dustman and became one of the founding fathers of the resurgence of the Temple Bar district of the capital.
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When I was a dustman it didn't put me off my sandwiches.
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Doting dad Will, 22, a dustman, said: ‘It happened in the blink of an eye.’
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Then, an educated elite was seen as just as important to the running of society as collecting rubbish from the street; and just as the graduate would pay tax for the dustman, so the dustman should cough up for the philosopher.
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All our talk of the middle class these days is fine, but Dickens knew the higher and the lower, the much lower: the mudlark, the wasting orphan, the prison child, the crossing sweeper, the dun, the dustman, the shabby clerk, the street philosopher.
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Whilst working as a dustman in the late sixties Corona bottles and other 'returnables' were very much a part of our perks, sometimes producing up to £2 or £3 a week ... the age of the affluent society was already upon us when people couldn't be arsed to take them back.
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On the contrary, it seems there will be even further politicisation of HM's 'boys in blue' (or 'boys/girls in dustman flourescent/helmeted riot gear/Stasi social spies' with the front line essential responses devolved to inexperienced, under-trained and underpaid council workers).
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One dustman, who didn't want to be named, said: ‘There were some lads in tears when they heard how much they could be losing, particularly those with mortgages to pay and families to look after.’
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Her mantra was whatever you wanted to do, whether you wanted to be a dustman or a zookeeper, that was absolutely brilliant as long as you did it to the best of your abilities.
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`Well, I wouldn't expect our Caro to be out with the dustman.
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Playing "My old man's a dustman" would probably not harm anyone, might even increase the enjoyment of the cup final, but that's ntot the point - there has to be a valid reason for playing it.
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There always seems to be trouble down there these days. ' Kim grunted, `If I were a dustman, I'd go on strike for ever.
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To be sure, the complications are not strictly lexical or even lexicographical: they stem chiefly from the differences between the kind of lexical alternation of the bonnet/hood, roundabout/traffic circle, dustman/garbage collector type and the type that is sociolinguistic and meaningless without some sort of acculturative comment, like tea, which occurs in both varieties of English but means quite different things in each, the Ashes, which doesn't occur at all in American English, and back bencher,
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Each week the whistling dustman came down the back garden, hoisted the full dustbin on his shoulder, carried it up the garden and tipped the contents into the dustcart.
