adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a beautiful building ( also a fine/handsome building British English )
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The old station was a fine building, but has sadly been demolished.
a beautiful/fine/sunny morning
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Outside it was a beautiful morning.
a beautiful/lovely/glorious day (= with very nice weather )
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It was a beautiful day yesterday, wasn’t it?
a beautiful/lovely/magnificent setting
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The event takes place in the magnificent setting of Bramham Park.
a beautiful/magnificent creature
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The buffalo is a magnificent creature.
beautiful
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She had beautiful brown skin.
beautiful/lovely
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The scenery was beautiful and the people were really friendly.
beautiful/stunning
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The countryside between the Alpine villages is stunning.
excellent/beautiful manners (= very good manners )
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Her children have excellent manners.
glorious/beautiful/perfect
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It was glorious weather, so we decided to go for a picnic.
good/lovely/beautiful
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He wrote, in his lovely handwriting, a letter asking Ramsey to visit him.
lovely/pretty/beautiful
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They admired the lovely flowers in the garden.
pretty/beautiful/handsome etc
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Her face was beautiful in the morning light.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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My parents remembered her and often spoke of her, saying that her flight was as beautiful as an autumn sunset.
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I never saw anything as beautiful as that stone you were carving.
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Big is no longer seen as beautiful .
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She was as beautiful as ever.
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The mountains are at least as beautiful as he suggests.
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The sheds were as beautiful as I remembered them.
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Nothing as beautiful as this could be wrong, he told himself.
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Megan Wai-la was as beautiful as the elegant Jennifer Sung-ah, but was poorly dressed.
how
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I can not tell you how beautiful is Tacita Dean's film of this house she found by accident.
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He was there, on campus, an hour early. How beautiful it was!
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Gazing down, Luke thought how beautiful she was despite the tear-stains and the swollen eyelids.
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Just think about how beautiful it is there, full of angels and lovely light.
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He wanted to make people aware of how beautiful the fish were and why they should be nurtured.
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First time viewers of such work will be astonished by how beautiful they are.
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Sometimes it's so they can moon around and say how beautiful it all was and pretend they're still lifers there.
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The hungry wolf pointed out how beautiful the forest was and suggested she slow down and look around.
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And if we're wicked and shouldn't be seen, why are we becoming more beautiful ?
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She was smart and probably more beautiful than wise, a woman who saw passion as life itself.
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Far more beautiful , replied Léonie.
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Therefore I find them incomparably more beautiful than the domesticated varieties.
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As he went into the garden, Nick thought she had never looked more beautiful or more desirable.
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The next day, Ashputtel went to the festival again and looked even more beautiful than ever.
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Earth was more beautiful than she could have imagined; it didn't seem fair when everyone was out to kill her.
most
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It was without doubt the most beautiful thing she had ever owned, or ever would.
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The Goddess of Love and Beauty knew very well where the most beautiful woman on earth was to be found.
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You have been allocated to one of the most beautiful planets created.
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It was just beautiful the most beautiful night of my life.
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Fortunately, the easiest species to start with are also among the most beautiful .
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You are the most beautiful golfer this club has ever seen.
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She was the most beautiful girl in the entire school.
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This must surely be one of the most beautiful forms of propaganda.
really
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We started off at Saffron Walden which has a castle some really beautiful old buildings.
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And come up with an elegant, really beautiful solution that works.
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She hardly looked to be thirty; she looked beautiful , really beautiful.
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They are really beautiful and I really think he should have them.
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In the process we may find that bald is really beautiful after all.
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Three really beautiful evening dresses, each individually wrapped in the black tissue-paper.
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What I had chanced upon was a mile race of six glorious runners, a really beautiful thing.
so
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No city she had ever walked in was half so beautiful .
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It's so beautiful it's sort of scary - you know, feeling so excited at the lights.
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On television she was so beautiful and glamorous, and here she looked so tired and almost old.
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And the scenery here in Yorkshire is so beautiful !
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He was dead and Apollo kneeling beside him wept for him, dying so young, so beautiful .
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It struck me that there was nothing there half so beautiful as the vision just presented by its derelict predecessor.
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The entire disc swings to the rafters with that special Monk oddness -- oh so beautiful , oh so unique.
very
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I found them very beautiful , and so those weeks with Chris set the cast of my life.
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For the first time she saw that he was no longer ugly or misshapen or grotesque, but very beautiful .
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One was a very beautiful blonde and the man with her was tall and fair too, almost as fair as Mitch.
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It was a very beautiful morning for flying.
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There is nothing to suggest that she was very clever, very holy, very gifted or very beautiful .
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I was beginning to feel very beautiful .
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Ducks are very beautiful , a riot of colour.
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The song is haunting and very beautiful .
■ NOUN
city
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This beautiful city of parks and flowers boasts one of the most impressive parliament buildings in the world.
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Tourism will increase in an aesthetically and ecologically beautiful city .
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Prague before 1939 was a beautiful city .
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The beautiful city of Norwich, and Peterborough with its cathedral and excellent shops, are both within 50 miles.
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The trip provides seven hours in one of the world's most beautiful cities .
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The beautiful city of York is 40 miles away.
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It isn't a particularly beautiful city in the sense that Paris, London or Dublin are.
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But, seriously, to me Cork is a beautiful city .
country
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Recommended to anyone keen to delve beneath the stock images of this troubled but beautiful country .
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He shared a popular corporate dream: Opening a restaurant in some beautiful country town.
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Take a little tour in our beautiful country - sit in the sunshine - drink some wine.
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Fine people; a beautiful country .
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The emphasis there is not on staying indoors, but on learning how to enjoy a sunny, beautiful country and survive.
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Would you like to see our beautiful country , Mrs Harland?
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The roads are sinuous but almost empty, and they will take you through some of the most beautiful country in Provence.
creature
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His doe's a beautiful creature , too.
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Dominic remains, I would say, a preposterously beautiful creature .
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The Copper Beech Naiads were the most beautiful creatures any of them had ever seen.
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To me, Dominic was always a beautiful creature .
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It is the same with visual responses to light and darkness, to summer and winter, to beautiful creatures or plants.
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They were beautiful creatures with red legs, black head and thorax, and black white-ringed antennae.
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Even if I break your cage, I can't reach you, beautiful creature !
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At the sight they forgot the goddess and turned in pursuit of the beautiful creature .
day
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It was a limpid, beautiful day , and she was a little bit in love.
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It was a warm and beautiful day for hitchhiking.
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When I first saw Moila it was on a beautiful day in the last week of June.
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Did I mention that it was a beautiful day ?
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It was such a beautiful day and suddenly he became aware of a surge of relief not to be in London.
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A great heat wave descended; it was a beautiful day , the sun turned red at three.
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It looked like another beautiful day out there.
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It was a beautiful day , and the junk was absolutely full of all her old friends.
face
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Photography is 80 percent casting, and with Kate it was something more than a beautiful face .
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I first saw him when he was about eight, a child with a beautiful face and long, black eyelashes.
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Dame Agatha was waiting there, her beautiful face pale, eyes concerned.
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A beautiful face was far more important then than a good figure.
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Lucy's beautiful face was agonised.
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She has a beautiful face , and enormous dignity.
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Apart from Maeve's, he had never seen such a beautiful face .
garden
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She stared at the beautiful garden beyond the terrace, fighting the inclination to weep.
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I am pretending that I am creating a beautiful garden .
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Using the evidence of extensive archaeology, a remarkable and beautiful garden has been created.
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It was served outside in the most beautiful garden I have ever seen.
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Every beautiful garden has its secrets.
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The once beautiful gardens were nothing but dry brush, and the chicken coops were broken and falling down.
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Lesser known are its beautiful gardens in Stanley Park.
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Alton Towers, 10 miles away, is the largest leisure park in the country and combines a mini-Disneyland with beautiful gardens .
girl
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Now with the beautiful girl as naked model he works again - and disrupts his life.
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What they usually hoard and guard in this way are beautiful girls and treasures of gold.
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A very beautiful girl , an honest, country girl.
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From a variety of angles, the movie makes its point about beautiful girls , without ever hitting us over the head.
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There was a beautiful girl , a prince and a wicked uncle.
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Come to me, My beautiful girl .
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He had never seen such a beautiful girl in all his life.
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Around a pine table sat a beautiful girl with two men.
house
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That large estate and this beautiful house - all to be yours one day.
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It was the most beautiful house I had ever seen.
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We were extremely well looked after by Per Sorum, a sprightly 70-plus year old who had a beautiful house in Aasen.
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The streets were lined with beautiful houses all built of green marble and studded everywhere with sparkling emeralds.
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He lived in beautiful houses , travelled the world in the greatest of comfort, and wanted for nothing.
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But before she died, she had the most wonderful visions visions of a beautiful house , visions of her deceased grandmother.
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I have a beautiful house overlooking St Ives Bay.
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There were lights in some of the beautiful houses on either side but all of them were upstairs.
people
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Quite apart from that, we want to see beautiful people that are pleasing to the eye.
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A lot of beautiful people are stupid.
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The nightclub was dark and exclusive and filled with beautiful people .
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Buy the car, become one of the beautiful people , the ad suggests.
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I knew then that I could not let these beautiful people see me.
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There are fewer beautiful people out there who want to get up close and impersonal with us.
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We want to see beautiful people we can be envious of, not ordinary folk who remind us of ourselves.
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There is a reason that beautiful people are attractive.
place
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Unfortunately, as with so many beautiful places , there is a civil war going on there at the moment.
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Two centuries ago, the Catskills were a beautiful place and they still are.
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It's a very beautiful place where the friendly feel of the climbs reflects the gentle scenery.
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You find yourself in one of the most beautiful places in the world.
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The faith is in the belief that women, left to themselves, would make the world a beautiful place to live.
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We stayed in a sixteenth-century palace in the ancient walled city of Mdina, a beautiful place .
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Ownership by the Trust is often the surest way of guaranteeing the preservation of beautiful places of national importance.
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Sometimes doubling over in anguish, Vega described her murdered cousin as a beautiful person who has gone to a beautiful place .
things
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But I'd like to be involved in creating beautiful things .
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Are you fancying that there are all sorts of wonders up there, cities of the gods full of beautiful things ?
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Really they are the most beautiful things in the world.
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All things in heaven and earth were mysteriously linked with the divine powers, but beautiful things most of all.
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And snowflakes were huge beautiful things that were hung from the ceilings on bits of thread.
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Fenella's first thought was that the Robes were the most beautiful things she had ever seen.
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We love it for all the beautiful things that the police can neither offer nor take away-particularly a superb concept like rahma.
woman
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The Health Secretary posed for the lens of the famous photographer of beautiful women , Terry O'Neill.
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There were soldiers who died bravely, and beautiful women who fell in love.
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Rapunzel herself became the most beautiful woman in the world.
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One of them was a strikingly beautiful woman in her mid-thirties.
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And it helps to know it happens to beautiful women , too.
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Co-star Jeff Bridges is a hapless Columbia math professor who turns to jelly in the presence of beautiful women .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be a (beautiful/strange/frightening etc) sight to behold
beautiful/stupid/adorable etc creature
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Dominic remains, I would say, a preposterously beautiful creature .
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Drank five margaritas and waxed poetic about my screenplay to some adorable creature .
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His doe's a beautiful creature , too.
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I was there till I was eighteen: marriage would be fun; husbands were adorable creatures .
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It is the same with visual responses to light and darkness, to summer and winter, to beautiful creatures or plants.
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The Copper Beech Naiads were the most beautiful creatures any of them had ever seen.
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They were beautiful creatures with red legs, black head and thorax, and black white-ringed antennae.
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To me, Dominic was always a beautiful creature .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"Do you like the house?" "Like it? It's beautiful !"
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a beautiful bird with bright blue feathers
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a beautiful catch
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a beautiful woman!
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a restaurant with beautiful views over Sorrento and the Gulf of Naples
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Cornwall has some of the most beautiful stretches of coastline in Britain.
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Florence is such a beautiful city.
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How did two people like Sara and Rob have such beautiful children?
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Karen was even more beautiful than I had remembered.
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Parents always believe that their baby is the most beautiful baby in the world.
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She has a beautiful smile.
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Standing in the doorway was a beautiful woman with long black hair and green eyes.
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That's a beautiful dog. What kind is he?
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The scenery was incredibly beautiful .
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You look beautiful tonight.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And she was wearing a beautiful pair of sapphire earrings Zack had bought her in London.
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Big can be beautiful , and surprisingly few of the buildings here display the empty pedantry conspicuous in contemporary paintings and sculpture.
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It reminded him of his homeland, his beautiful land of mountains and lakes.
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Now she was under a Christmas tree, the most beautiful and best-decorated tree she could imagine.
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She found it practical as well as beautiful .
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The mountains and the lake were calm and beautiful , and at last Elizabeth and I were together.
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Their beautiful movement and artistic sign language adds a new dimension to the production.