noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a birthday gift
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The camera had been a 21st birthday gift from his parents.
a birthday party
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They met at her sister’s 18th birthday party.
a birthday present
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Thanks for the birthday present.
a birthday/anniversary celebration
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He is planning a very special 40th birthday celebration.
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It was the college’s 150th anniversary celebration last night.
a birthday/Christmas/wedding cake (= a special cake for a birthday etc )
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Lucy had twelve candles on her birthday cake.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
happy
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I always regarded that as my Birthday present, of course my happy birthday only lasted about anther hour.
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But the man himself was still standing, swinging happy birthday to himself.
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And, happy birthday Mr Boulting.
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So happy birthday to the lion as winter nears.
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She says she can't give him cards or wish him happy birthday and it's sad.
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So. Happy birthday , my sweet.
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And have a very very happy birthday , birthday bear.
■ NOUN
boy
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Also celebrating today is birthday boy Nathan Buckingham.
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At some point in the evening, we all moved into the living room where the birthday boy opened his presents.
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But good news for birthday boys and girls - the popular Birthday File will still appear from time to time.
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After a while, the birthday boy or girl is summoned for a private audience with the Great Mouse himself.
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And of course the birthday boy should always get the biggest slice of cake.
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But birthday boy Wright was waiting to break the deadlock with the goal he had been seeking all night.
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First, however, we had to let the birthday boy have his fling.
cake
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A break-in at a house in Emley Moor Road resulted in a birthday cake being stolen.
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The Poole family, grouped rather self-consciously round the birthday cake on Earth, lapsed into a sudden silence.
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Caterers from Lexington were providing a banquet, and the local bakery had designed a huge oval birthday cake .
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Were birthday cakes , wishbones, wells and fountains, or churches better than or equal to stars?
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A willingness to learn and perseverance are much more important than candles on a birthday cake .
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Vivid memories of her childhood holidays go on and on about birthday cakes , pumpkin pies, fruitcakes, and homemade candy.
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Make more loops around the birthday cake and the base of the cake.
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Some of the world's most beautiful women have also cut more birthday cakes than Clinton.
card
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Would a line in positive birthday cards sell?
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I liked thinking about him and his two daughters, about the birthday cards and telephone calls.
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Little girls love flowers just as much as big girls, and you can make an excellent birthday card for a child.
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Mr Haq was open for newspapers, for cigarette papers, for birthday cards and diet Cokes.
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In addition to the parcels were seven birthday cards .
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Herself handing over the tickets and the hotel reservations tucked into one of those extra-large birthday cards .
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Thora keeps all the birthday cards she receives.
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Then she realized that books were really only a sideline to his stationery business; he sold more birthday cards than books.
cards
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Would a line in positive birthday cards sell?
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I liked thinking about him and his two daughters, about the birthday cards and telephone calls.
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Mr Haq was open for newspapers, for cigarette papers, for birthday cards and diet Cokes.
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In addition to the parcels were seven birthday cards .
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Herself handing over the tickets and the hotel reservations tucked into one of those extra-large birthday cards .
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Thora keeps all the birthday cards she receives.
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Then she realized that books were really only a sideline to his stationery business; he sold more birthday cards than books.
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The postman usually delivered bills, not birthday cards !
celebration
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But Kiwomya had the last word, capitalising on a slice of good fortune to make his birthday celebrations complete.
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This Sunday afternoon in late summer, I accompany my parents to Mr Berzins's ninetieth birthday celebration .
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Teenager Jamie Pollock hopes to start off week-end birthday celebrations with a win.
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But they've a rather shorter run planned this birthday celebration .
gift
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And there, framed in the open left-hand doorway of the stalls, was the T'ang's birthday gift to his son.
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Joan has also 194 established policies for buying birthday gifts and so forth.
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You can do one of two things when it comes to your subsequent birthday gifts .
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I spent a half-hour recently putting together the ultimate birthday gift for my 5-year-old niece.
girl
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Next up we would like to wish birthday girl Fiona many happy returns.
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Some one else had taken Gabby home around two, and Zack had promised to drive the birthday girl home himself.
greeting
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The members wanted to visit the lady to pass on birthday greetings .
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These days they hung on for their hundred-year-old birthday greetings from the White House.
party
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So this was what a birthday party was like.
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Olivia, rem ember your fiftieth birthday party ?
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I would have to have my tenth birthday party in the rumpus-room with the girls.
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After Jasper died, Abigail told me what he said to her at a birthday party he gave me.
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Just a few weeks ago, Sefton was enjoying his thirtieth birthday party .
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The birthday party is, appropriately, in Philadelphia.
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Other opportunities Tea parties - birthday parties in particular.
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In all its inanity, another birthday party for another young acquaintance.
present
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She remembered shopping with her father in that shop for a twenty-first birthday present .
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Suppose your favorite uncle proudly tells you that your birthday present is a subscription to the Salmon of the Month Club.
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She had made up her mind that her delayed birthday present to her daughter was to be a proper, shop-bought frock.
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The numbers contain a second birthday present .
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And it was a birthday present .
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In the other are his birthday presents .
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Bottom: A beastly birthday present !
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He watched her shop for his birthday present .
suit
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Some wore swimsuits, others used birthday suits .
■ VERB
celebrate
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Make a note in your new Letts/CAMRA diary and come and help celebrate our 21st birthday .
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Meanwhile, in May, Darlington Camra will be celebrating its tenth birthday .
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Read in studio Welcome back: Next year the Gloucestershire Regiment celebrates its three hundredth birthday .
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It is five years since the settlement was established, and they are celebrating the birthday .
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Read in studio Next week, the Royal Air Force will be celebrating its seventy-fifth birthday .
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Mrs Selman celebrated her eightieth birthday just last week.
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She enjoyed it so much that she fancied celebrating her next birthday with a Concorde flight to New York.
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However, most February 29 babies celebrate their birthdays on February 28.
forget
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I did not forget the darling's birthday .
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You know I never forget your birthday .
mark
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To mark its fiftieth birthday the Oxford-based charity Oxfam has been holding a fashion show with a difference.
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The night before the election, a party was held to mark Mr Page's birthday .
reach
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He was yet to reach his thirtieth birthday , Magee thought, but ravaged beyond his years.
remember
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Never mind that I hadn't remembered my birthday either.
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You remember what birthdays are like when you're small?
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You always remember things like birthdays , somehow.
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Does Hammett remember his mum's birthday , and does he drive a nice medium-sized Ford?
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I've had them for over three years now and they haven't remembered a single birthday or Christmas.
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She brings as many of these children to her home as she can and always remembers their birthdays .
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They were from various aunts and cousins, and she was pleased they had remembered her birthday .
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But it was a few days before my birthday , and he has always remembered my birthday.
send
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His family sent him birthday cards, but he never received them, he was already dead.
wish
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Next up we would like to wish birthday girl Fiona many happy returns.
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She says she can't give him cards or wish him happy birthday and it's sad.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Happy Birthday/New Year/Christmas etc
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A Happy New Year to you.
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After midnight neighbours go outside and wish everyone a Happy New Year.
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But bookings still rose 41 % from the $ 3. 41 billion posted a year earlier. Happy New Year.
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Let's hope that a wet spring will bring green shoots for Roberts and the economy alike. Happy New Year.
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That is what Britain needs as we move into what we all want, a really Happy New Year.
birthday/Christmas etc greetings
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People's voices, exchanging Christmas greetings echoed on the clear air.
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The members wanted to visit the lady to pass on birthday greetings .
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These days they hung on for their hundred-year-old birthday greetings from the White House.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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It's my 18th birthday next week.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Here the bridge between us is the Society of St Peter Apostle, whose hundredth birthday we celebrate this year.
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In this case she went back to her third birthday .
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It is five years since the settlement was established, and they are celebrating the birthday .
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Of about half a million foundlings christened in workhouses after 1728, only 40 percent survived to their second birthday .
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On my birthday in November we again lobbied the guards to have the radio for the day.
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Or rather, they photograph you only on formal occasions: birthdays, weddings, Christmas.