After one of Ms. Welch's bouts, he dropped to one knee on the track and used the public-address microphone to propose to her.

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D'Avino's boyfriend was going to propose to her on Christmas Eve.

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This tradition made it to the big screen via a movie called Leap Year starring Amy Adams (as a young woman who travels to Dublin to propose to her boyfriend on February 29) and Matthew Goode.

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In a victory over some of her colleagues, Connie Hedegaard, the climate commissioner, has got the commission to agree to propose tightening up on emissions allowances in 2013-20.

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