noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a beer festival
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the famous Munich beer festival
a wine/milk/beer etc bottle
beer belly
beer gut (= unattractive fat stomach caused by drinking too much beer )
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Phil has a huge beer gut .
beer mat
beer mat (= a mat for putting a glass of beer on )
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a beer mat
beer money
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The job was never going to make me rich, but it kept me in beer money for a while.
ginger beer
keg beer/bitter British English (= beer served from a keg )
root beer
water/air/beer etc pump (= for moving water, air etc )
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
cold
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It may not go with a tableful of curry, but a mug of cold beer is not what I need.
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That and fries and a cold beer and you have got yourself some serious fun.
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The Boston bar put the towels on as the last cold beer fell into the frosted glasses.
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Good pub fare, cold beer , plus a father-and-son team playing a single piano jammed into a corner.
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Having rinsed and stowed the fishing gear in the after locker, he reached into the icebox for a cold beer .
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This is fun, unfussy, honest fare that calls for a glass of cold beer .
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Riven downed a great gulp of the cold beer and felt it alternately chill and warm his gullet.
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Then pause for a cold root beer in a turn-of-the-century saloon.
ginger
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Just like drinking ginger beer really.
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The friend bought for Mrs. Donoghue a bottle of ginger beer , manufactured by Stevenson.
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It had been hard to convince the Imperial's sommelier of the necessity for the presence of porter and ginger beer .
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When appealed to for her support over the ginger beer , Araminta had laughed.
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I've made some ginger beer .
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Forcing a smile on to her face she poured out two glasses of ginger beer .
good
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Selection of blended and malt whiskies. Good selection of beers , homemade pub grub lunches.
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Bill Strachan, its second owner, is keeping up the policy of good beer .
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This is the stuff from which good beer is made as it is hard and has absorbed a tangy flavour.
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We had two pints apiece, and they were the best beers any of us had ever had, ever.
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It might be the best bottle of beer he had ever drunk.
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Yet beer - good beer - is a highly complex product and one that arguably needs greater skill to produce than wine.
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The real clincher was that it made better tea and beer than the pump muck.
small
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Golf: Only small beer for leader.
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The air was scented by the hoppy smell of the small Ridder beer brewery, the only industrial site in view.
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Both of these, however, were small beer .
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On Whitsunday 1658 a stranger called at his house and begged for some small beer .
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The health and safety line has been ill-received by drinkers, who also rejected the offerings as small beer .
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Anderson seemed to be the only person at home; he sold them jugs of ale, small beer for the children.
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Nevertheless this was small beer for him.
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This would bring about a de facto prohibition that will make drug prohibition seem like small beer .
■ NOUN
belly
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So even two-player matches are like watching two top pros playing, albeit without the glorious sight of their beer bellies !
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The contractor was a tall man with a beer belly and a cowboy hat.
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The kite refers to a beer belly .
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Costner, with his easy grin, incipient beer belly , thinning hair and bright devilish eyes, plays broken-down convincingly.
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Both had skinhead haircuts and both wore identical grey tracksuits that hugged their large beer bellies .
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She was grizzled old woman with a beer belly and voice to match, and she knew something about justice.
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He had a beer belly that hung over the top of his filthy jeans.
bottle
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The incident leading to the court case had been sparked by a beer bottle being thrown at him the previous night.
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But they had a bucket of beer bottles and everything was fine.
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She trailed around the room picking up beer bottles , looking oddly like a bee with broken wings.
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Zhu had a metal pail, Zheng carried three empty beer bottles , and the policewoman held a ladle.
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Needless to say, she was not in the chorus as she had legs like inverted beer bottles .
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The beer bottle played in his big hands like a thimble.
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Intellekt claims that any old beer bottle fits the description.
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I hear a scraping of a beer bottle base across a wooden surface.
can
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Football fans came crowding up the hill toward the football ground, singing and shouting and throwing empty beer cans .
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It fires beer cans stuffed with concrete and dynamite detonators.
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His dock was strewn with beer cans , oil drums, fishing nets.
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I took the subway home at two in the morning, the car littered with beer cans and streamers.
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Beyond the gazebo was a pond fringed with willows; dead leaves and beer cans floated on the surface of the water.
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Check the graveyard for beer cans and butts from the teenagers.
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A trolley was heaped with beer cans and plates of half-eaten burgers.
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The area around his home was littered with beer cans .
drinker
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If you're a beer drinker , there's only one place to be this weekend.
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Of course, Tesoro offers plenty of choices for the beer drinker as well.
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Later workers found that the urine of beer drinkers gave the best yields.
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He saw the potential of the railway town of Swindon with its growing population of beer drinkers .
keg
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Should they market keg beers under national brand names or should they return to localised brewing and brand names?
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It is estimated that keg beer is twice as profitable as cask beer, lager four times as profitable.
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Not all keg beers are pasteurised.
market
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The joint operation, Carlsberg-Tetley, will have an 18% share of the beer market .
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The beer market has doubled in the past four years.
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Guinness' share of the beer market stands at 10%.
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With little promotional support, cask ale sales are rising and now account for 20 percent of the total beer market .
mat
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She sat crumbling a beer mat between her fingers.
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The Samaritans has tried to target men by advertisements on beer mats and in changing rooms.
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Penguin has produced a beer mat to help promote it.
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It was more like a saucer or a small beer mat .
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My eyes glued to the beer mat I tried to take in what was being said.
root
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He said his uncle kept him too busy with the root beer concession.
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After the 30-minute play, the audience is invited to meet the cast over root beer floats.
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Alice Hawthorne sold ice cream cones and root beer floats to the people of Albany, Ga.
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Then pause for a cold root beer in a turn-of-the-century saloon.
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This week I got root beer .
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She dropped ice cubes into a glass and poured in root beer .
■ VERB
brew
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The Technical Committee looks at all aspects of brewing and serving beer .
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It monitors new developments in brewing and serving beer .
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A sign over the door proclaimed that the hostelry still brewed its own beer .
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If a woman brewed a better beer than her neighbours her house became the favoured one in the locality - the local.
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Those who wished to brew beer for their own household could use the abbey brewery - again upon a proportional payment.
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They brew as much beer in a day, as Morland produce at Abingdon in a week.
bring
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He had more than an hour to fill in before the meal: he had a maid bring him beer .
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So bring on the Lite beer .
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He brought us beer and sandwiches out, no charge.
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The fathers will rotate the weekly responsibility of bringing beer .
buy
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We're going to pass the hat round later, buy some beer and go back to their place.
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You could buy a glass of beer for 5 cents, or a schooner for a dime at the Reno.
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Pub customers do not just buy their beer .
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I bought him a beer , and we went out to the patio in back.
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The driver says he bought a beer .
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He makes barely enough money delivering handbills to businesses and homes to pay his rent and buy food and beer .
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Whitbread said the lessees of its pubs can keep buying its beer but have no obligation to do so.
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He bought a beer and left a dollar tip.
drink
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The court was told the airman had drunk seventeen pints of beer .
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It was a community that drank out of the beer pail and ate out of the lunch bucket.
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He himself had drunk one quick light beer before excusing himself for an early night.
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To avoid a league suspension, Favre was prohibited from drinking beer for an indefinite period.
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He smokes and he drinks a lot of beer .
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Second, Favre was drinking a nonalcoholic beer Monday night.
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Stalin sat at the table, drinking a can of beer .
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During the season, Favre appealed to the league, requesting the chance to drink a beer or two after a game.
finish
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It was only when I had finished my beer that I noticed something very odd.
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When the sergeant finished his beer , he returned to the station and got back behind the desk.
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Bunny had finished his beer and the two ladies were still in the Ladies, or had escaped without him seeing how.
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Hicks finished a beer and looked into his glass.
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He finished the beer and asked for another.
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Lettie asked, deliberately putting her half finished beer can on the table.
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He stayed for as long as it took him to finish his beer .
like
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She liked a glass of beer and thought I should too.
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You like a beer , sweet thing with a birthmark?
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People are absolutely not going to like ordering their beer from a doctor.
order
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He is confident the event should prove popular and has ordered more beer to meet the expected high demand.
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He moved back into the dimness and ordered a beer , keeping an eye to the street.
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People are absolutely not going to like ordering their beer from a doctor.
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We walked inside to the darkness and coolness of a bar-restaurant and ordered a beer and a steak each.
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We all agree and order more beers .
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She ordered a cold beer in a tall glass, and sat quietly, watching the rainbows in the fountain.
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The youth ordered a beer in a New York accent and drank it with a pill.
pour
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In a large saucepan, pour the beer that you warm for 5 minutes.
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He smiled, sitting back again, and poured us more beer .
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We can forgive Maxine's snoring and smelly feet, but pouring good beer down the sink?
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Will pouring beer on the stone promote growth of new moss? &038;.
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She dropped ice cubes into a glass and poured in root beer .
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She poured his beer , got him more bread and butter, and other little things.
produce
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The aim is to produce beers that are sterile, have a long shelf life and are highly profitable.
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Some one quickly produced a can of beer for her.
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Penguin has produced a beer mat to help promote it.
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Fagin produced some beer , and as the fight appeared to be over, everybody sat down.
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A new brewery is producing its first beer this week.
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Branches produce newsletters, local beer and pubs guides and run beer festivals.
sell
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He aims initially to sell the beer within a 50-mile radius of the brewery.
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Recently it started selling beer , wine, coffee and white flour.
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By all that's holy, I'd almost forgotten we were in a place where they sell beer .
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Beer makers such as Anheuser-Busch complained two years ago that the county was selling beer past its expiration date.
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It usually sells 10 barrels of beer a weekend.
serve
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The Technical Committee looks at all aspects of brewing and serving beer .
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There were guys coming in almost every night, groping and pawing me just because I served them a beer or two.
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It monitors new developments in brewing and serving beer .
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In some pubs fake hand pumps serve gassy beer .
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Inside, bartenders wearing leather harnesses serve beer in cans to an assortment of brutes, heathens, and opera buffs.
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The bars specialise in serving cocktails with beer being among the least favourite drinks.
sip
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She was so extraordinarily beautiful that I nearly laughed out loud ... She sipped some beer and went back to her book.
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Back at Turnhouse, after a light lunch, Carrington and Benson sipped beer .
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Lang sipped some of my beer and leaned back in his chair, looking proud, as if he owned the place.
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One of them was an old man, sipping slowly at a beer .
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I sat there, feeling whole and good, sipping at a beer .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
I could murder a beer/pizza etc
a beer/song/food etc fest
bottled water/beer etc
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But if you are having difficulties, I suggest you drink only bottled water and avoid salads.
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Enjoy with your Tandoori special fine wines, draught or bottled beer.
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Hasn't anyone told Mrs Thatcher that bottled water can cost a thousand times as much as water from the tap?
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It was supposed to be bottled water, but Converse knew for a fact that the porter filled it from the tap.
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Only drink bottled water - check the seal hasn't been broken - and use it to clean your teeth.
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Others chat about the supposed late-night spotting of a large rat dragging a six-pack of bottled water across the warehouse floor.
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People are paying more for bottled water than they are for gasoline.
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Wide range of wines, whiskies and continental bottled beers.
cry into your beer
kill a beer/bottle of wine etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a bottle of beer
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Want a beer , Pete?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An extensive selection of whiskies and draught beers, real ale.
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Boscuen which means rabbit of the forest, a dry beer and one he particularly enjoys.
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Hicks finished a beer and looked into his glass.
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That silly Bud Bowl, with beer bottles coming to life like the brooms in Fantasia.
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The bartender put two more beers before them and they drank a while.
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Throwing beer bottles through the window.
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You can still taste and smell the beer in your mouth.