noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
military
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Most of the reported deaths, however, were due to torture in both military barracks and police stations.
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The four were taken to the Aucayacu military barracks on 15 October.
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Suchinda had resigned on May 24 and had subsequently sought sanctuary in a military barracks in Bangkok, the capital.
■ NOUN
army
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Climbing the hill together. we stopped for a moment to look at the army barracks on the edge of town.
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The only teacher-training school in the country has been converted into an army barracks , exacerbating the educational crisis.
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Lord Apsley was nearly four times over the legal limit when he arrived for a function at an army barracks .
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Dissident republicans tried to bomb an army barracks at Ballykelly, Co Londonderry, last week.
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In Bechar, we took a wrong turning and drove to the gates of an army barracks .
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Civilian activists are positioned around army barracks , tracking army units' movements and reporting to special emergency headquarters.
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Hundreds of other families were sheltering in government buildings, police stations and army barracks .
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Now, with this new director, everything is going to the army barracks .
■ VERB
live
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They live in those barracks like animals.
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Like other internees, they lived in hastily built barracks with little privacy or basic comforts.
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We lived in a barracks in the End, barely saw the inside of the tube for ten weeks.
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This camp, unlike the four earlier camps where I had lived , consisted of barracks rather than Quonset huts.
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They live in barracks ... and are allowed a shilling a day upkeep.
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They will live in barracks , eat food from local butchers, bakeries and dairies, and visit town on furlough.
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Troops are encouraged to live outside the barracks .
return
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As he was one of our Corporals, the Military Police had sought him out and made him return to barracks .
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At midnight, the servicemen returned to their barracks , while civilians continued the violence.
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After this brutal episode, Woolridge returned to his barracks .
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On Sunday evenings we would return to barracks in London and head home.
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They agreed to return to their barracks after the government undertook to pay them their January and February salaries.
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Guei had initially promised he would not run and would quickly return soldiers to their barracks .
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Soon afterwards, the radio broadcast a message from Eyadema himself, calling on the soldiers to return to barracks .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Climbing the hill together. we stopped for a moment to look at the army barracks on the edge of town.
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He ordered two barracks torn down and a fountain constructed on the cement base of a latrine.
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Most of the reported deaths, however, were due to torture in both military barracks and police stations.
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New barracks are rising where dilapidated Navy quarters had been.
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Then another car, this time stopping so occupants could stare at the U. S. Air Force barracks .
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Western diplomats said army chief General Melvin Khanga permitted his chaplain to read the letter in barracks .
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With these exceptions, troops lived in barracks , and certainly the officers were rarely posted to their home territories.