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• You dobbed me in!
  • I never did!
• I’ll dob on you if you break in.
• Students often claimed that an act of informing was just ‘dobbing as a joke’ and therefore ‘not really dobbing’.
• The deceased “dobbed” him in about drugs to police on two occasions. This resulted in police seizing some of his drugs. She “dobbed” him in because he would not give her amphetamines. He may have told people that she “dobbed” him in.
• Alex was concerned that if others thought he had dobbed, things would get even worse for him. Dobbing was the worst thing a student could do.
• We all dobbed in for a gift when he retired.
• He′d never take payment in cash for tracking, but when they dobbed in for presentations such as the fridge he accepted them shyly, abashedly,[...].
• The miners had all dobbed in to buy a few bottles of beer which they left in the creek overnight to cool.
• I arrived just after the meeting had started and found myself dobbed in to take the minutes.
• Writing reviews reminds me of the time I got dobbed in to be the judge at the Poochera sheep dog trials. It′s easy they said, sinking beers in the shade of the lean-to, just watch the dog.
• Those who moved into organisational roles sometimes did it unwittingly, even unwillingly, as they were ‘dobbed’ in for tasks, succeeded and so it went on.
• Put a dob of butter on the potato, please.
• ‘Consequence will be, O Tegumai,’ said the Head Chief, ‘that we will make them understand it with sticks and stinging-nettles and dobs of mud; and if that doesn't teach them, we'll draw fine, freehand Tribal patterns on their backs with the cutty edges of mussel-shells.[...]’
• I used to get through the dibbing and dobbing all right but during the howling I usually rolled over backwards.
• Why were there 212 fatalities at the first boy scout camp? There wasn't much dybbing and dobbing at Robert Baden-Powell's first scout camp as the camp in question was in Mafeking and took place during a particularly nasty siege[...]