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Walker agrees and likens it to the fact you can't remove an oily or dirty mark from clothes with just water, you need detergent too.

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When I hear the door close from their exit, I peel myself up from the warm table and marvel at the oily outline my body has left on the sheet.

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It comes with two dressings, but I usually just do the sort of lemony kind of oily dressing.

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Great British Chefs specified that tonka’s “most distinctive feature” is their “enormous potency — heady vanilla flavours, with oily clove aromas, and perfumed magnolia, sandalwood notes.”

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It slid easily under the oily meat, again and again and again.

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