get the picture
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Salzburg got the picture and directed his eyes back to me.
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Dury said it was a "battle against time" to get the picture, which he captured using a wide lens.
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“Thirty,” she said at—well, you get the picture.
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But it took a lot of weeding for me to get the picture of Holt Nickerson riding off in his long Johns out of my mind.
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She paused midsentence to giggle at her saturation joke as she kicked up one boot to make sure everyone got the picture.
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