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‘An alley can be dark.’

[⟨det alley.n⟩ dark.a]

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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The alley was so dark, and silent, and whenever a sound was made, it echoed and echoed, like chanting.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The alley was dark but the lights guided me.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Maybe the alley was so dark it wouldn’t matter.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

If my dad cared to ask, I’d gladly tell him that what he brought home is a trial version lasting thirty days, after which the computer would be left defenceless to the evils of the Internets, just waiting to drag him into a dark alley, rob him of his money and rape him for good measure.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

And so the symbol hunter left the bar and made for a nearby alley, dark and full of shadowy figure selling Rolexes and Vuittons, to join their humble crowd.
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In Wikipedia:

On her way through Clapham Common, according to her later statements, a strange figure leapt at her from a dark alley.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Akanishi Jin? baby as a result of our late night fun in a’s dark, deserted alley? filed a case against
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

I get there, totally dressed in my’ ’ dark alley chic’ ’ outfit.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

We went into an alley (like in the movie) and the tour guide explained that in the past, at night, the alley would be very dark because there was no light, and so people would fight at this alley.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

` ` You only have three choices: run, hide or die… “Lost The alley was dark and smelled as if a million men army had used it as a toilet.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Jack said, suddenly finding the alley too dark and narrow, and heading out of it.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

All the wrong turns press on me – short – cuts through alleys dark and inviting.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

But Batman was a symbol, Batman hadn’t watched everything he loved drip into the gutter in a dark alley.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

He leaned against the rusty light pole and squinted down the dark alley.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The alley was dark, the moonlight was his only guide, however, he had studied the area thoroughly enough to know where he was going, even blindly.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The topic for week # 1 of July is “Heavy,’ ’ for which I have written the following: The alley was dark.
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In the British National Corpus:

I wouldn’t like to be stuck down a dark alley at night with whoever put the boot in here.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Although the alley is very dark, it’s very wide too, so there’s nowhere that anyone could be hiding to mug me.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Patrick was a large, burly man that, if you didn’t know better, you wouldn’t want to meet in a dark alley.
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Queried on 2013-05-18.