noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
dark
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He paid, walked down a dark corridor and pushed through a curtain into a deep pool of sound and flickering light.
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Sometimes they peel off a long, dark corridor to the right and left.
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On the landing a soft light shone into the dark from the corridor , as in memory.
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Going down the outside steps he entered the dark basement corridor and listened.
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She spun around, searching the shadowy dark corridor .
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Lucien walked down endless dark corridors .
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Pale-faced doctors and nurses hurry along dark corridors .
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Distant creaks and groans echoed eerily along dark corridors and seemed to expand into the circular chamber.
endless
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Bernice continued to walk through the endless corridors .
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The huge structures have endless corridors , barren hallways like tunnels that turn back upon themselves, leading nowhere.
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Along corridors , endless corridors, with doors on either side.
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It is easy to get lost in the endless corridors of its administra tive offices.
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They are depressing, alien environments, made more dismal by drab walls and endless corridors .
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Lucien walked down endless dark corridors .
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Clare had led Carolyn along endless humming corridors , whose walls were punctuated by closed doors.
long
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When she was a young woman, she could hear distant laughter down long corridors , as she lay in her bed.
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Hence all the turbulence, all the restless energy, the endless traveling along streets and long corridors .
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The paused at the entrance to the long corridor .
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I made my way through a long corridor toward the emergency room.
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They walked down a long corridor with heavy doors on both sides.
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The woman leads us down a long corridor of unvarnished cedar boards worn smooth by centuries of slippered feet.
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He had a good view of the long shadowy main corridor .
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On most Fridays, friendly greetings echoed down the long , gleaming corridors .
main
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He had a good view of the long shadowy main corridor .
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It came from a tributary passage that lead off from the main corridor at a curious angle.
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From then on there were two grandfather clocks at either end of the main corridor , one wood and one metal.
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He crept slowly towards the main corridors .
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Then the angry dancing glare of fire lit up the darkness from further back along the main corridor .
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They had reached the main corridor when a hand touched her shoulder.
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With the blood specimen in his left hand ... he started along the main corridor on his way toward the stairs.
narrow
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She led them down a narrow corridor and into a comfortable lounge.
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The stewardess came walking up the narrow corridor to the right of the closely spaced seats.
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They travelled by a short stairway from the morning room, up into a narrow corridor carved with horses' heads.
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He nodded their way and walked past into the narrow corridor that led to his section.
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A long narrow corridor ran down the middle of the building with doors leading off it.
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Beyond the door was a narrow corridor that led off to the right.
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Lungs pounding out torrents of frozen breath, we speed down narrow forest corridors , then burst into dazzling clearings.
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Suddenly, two girls fall laughing out of the Ladies into the narrow corridor .
wide
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Upstairs the bedrooms ranged either side of the wide straight corridors .
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We passed through an archway to the right and into a wide corridor with rooms opening off at intervals.
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A marble staircase leads to wide corridors of bedrooms, which are comfortably furnished and equipped with modern bathrooms.
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They banished all visitors or divided them from campers with a wide corridor set off by ropes.
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From this time we can probably date the development of Banbury Lane as a road rather than a wide corridor .
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The end of the wide corridor was guarded by double doors with a warning symbol on either side of them.
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Exhibition mounted in a wide corridor adjacent to the hall.
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She went outside to the wide corridor .
■ NOUN
hotel
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I open the door into the hotel corridor .
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Doors slam along hotel corridors and bathrooms fill with steam.
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William coming along the hotel corridor .
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Smoke detectors installed in hotel corridors have an alarming ability not to detect smoke.
wall
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The wind caught Creed and the girl and slammed them back against the corridor wall .
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Before he could think, I spun junior around, pushed him against the corridor wall , and frisked him.
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A devilish Maxwell put this cartoon on a corridor wall .
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The corridor walls are covered in photographs; barrel-bellied women with scrunched-up faces strain to deliver, post-birth beatific smiles radiate satisfaction.
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They collided with the corridor wall , Cardiff still hanging on to Rohmer's wrist.
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Quickly they moved out of sight, flattening themselves against the corridor walls to either side of the short passage.
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She was leaning against the corridor wall , stunned.
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Something was trying to pull itself of the corridor wall .
■ VERB
follow
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He beckoned Corbett to follow him along whitewashed corridors to the herb scented chamber of Brother Thomas.
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He followed Tammuz up the corridor into his office and accepted a plastic cup of lukewarm killer coffee.
hurry
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On impulse she hurried down the corridor to her daughter's room and carefully opened the door a fraction.
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He hurried down the corridor to the music-room.
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The next instant, dizzy with the excitement that possessed her, she was hurrying along the corridor towards his office.
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At a nod from the chaprassi, he hurried away into the corridors within.
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Pale-faced doctors and nurses hurry along dark corridors .
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As if to avoid meeting her, Agnes hurried out into the corridor .
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The little girl, in shorts and a shirt, hurrying down the corridor .
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As she hurried down a long corridor , her mind groped backwards over the events of the previous night.
lead
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It led into a corridor , lined with doors.
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She paused in the doorway leading to the grey corridor that ran across the back of the house.
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He led them along corridors and walkways until they came to a double set of metal-barred gates.
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He led me into a corridor .
move
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Sucking in a lungful of cold air, Piper moved once more down the corridor .
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She opened the door and watched him move off down the corridor .
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They moved up the corridor , their footfalls against the bare boards sending out hollow echoes.
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I moved down the corridor , as instructed, and rounded the elevators to the bank on the far side.
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He moved down the corridor and around the corner, where two more armed guards stood, alert, against either wall.
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I asked, moving into the corridor .
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Each was a hi-tech header from Nigel Mottashed, moving through the central corridor .
pass
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From their conversation, as they passed down the corridor , they were well pleased with the advice they had received.
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When he passed Stella in the corridor she could smell scented soap.
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Finally, they passed into a carpeted corridor and then through a regular wooden door into a small office.
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Thereafter, if I passed him in the corridor or on the staircase, those eyes registered no recognition.
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They passed each other in the corridor soon afterwards, and each could see that the other had been crying.
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Do you remember a male nurse you passed in the corridor .
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We could have passed in the corridor .
run
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Being told to do things like not run in the corridor , or stand up when the governor comes in.
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Before Bernice could reply, Ell had walked past the red paralysis and had started to run down the corridor .
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I ran out into the corridor .
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Leonore ran down the corridor to the kitchens, slamming through the double doors in a panic.
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They raced up the steps, reaching the first deck, wheeled round, and ran down the corridor .
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She ran back into the corridor and back towards the service lift.
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Catherine heard that Henry was praying in the royal chapel so ran screaming down the corridor .
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The guard was running in the corridor .
stand
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We weren't hurting anyone or upsetting anyone, it wasn't as if we stood in the corridor kissing and cuddling.
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The door closed, and I stood in the corridor , trying to look inconspicuous.
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She was standing in the corridor , crying and alone.
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The three were standing in a corridor when police arrived.
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He stands in the corridor for six minutes.
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But on the other hand she couldn't stand out in the corridor indefinitely.
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They were standing listening in the corridor .
stride
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Rohmer and Duvall strode away down the corridor with Gilbert close behind.
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He heard her mocking laugh as, arm in arm with her sister, she strode off down the corridor .
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Cardiff strode down the corridor towards them, followed by Lawrence.
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A triumphant smile lit his perspiring face as he strode along the corridor to the kitchen.
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She stood looking after him as he strode down the corridor towards the opposite end of the house.
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She could hear footsteps striding along the corridor behind her.
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She thought, in a moment he will be gone, striding along the corridor , out of sight.
walk
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Bernice continued to walk through the endless corridors .
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He walked the corridors past enormous paintings of Heroes of the Soviet.
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Normally, when you're walking along the corridor , and you meet me, you see my face, right?
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I told him how important it is to get up once or twice each day, to walk in the corridors .
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They walked down a long corridor with heavy doors on both sides.
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The stewardess came walking up the narrow corridor to the right of the closely spaced seats.
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But of course, I told myself as I walked along an echoing corridor , it never did hurt nowadays.
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I still felt nauseated, both sweating and shivering, as we walked down the corridor to my room.
wander
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He missed wandering about the corridors but the thought of walking made his feet throb and ache even more.
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At six, I wandered out into the corridor .
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He wandered along the brighter corridors near Nettles looking for a good place to plant his seeds.
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He shakes his head again in horror and wanders back along the corridor in silence.
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It seemed Blunset was still wandering through the corridors and Endill looked forward to their next meeting.
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So I wandered round the corridors of Hampton Court.
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The Doctor had wandered along a shadowy corridor .
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Could I really be replaced so easily, I wondered as I left the toilets and wandered out into the corridor .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A corridor led from the old schoolrooms to a modern building.
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The Northeast corridor from Washington to Boston is Amtrak's busiest region.
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This industrial corridor connects Queretaro with Mexico City.
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We were led down a long corridor in the airport terminal.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Desmond Fairchild and Dotty Blundell were heard arguing in the corridor , though no one could be sure what was at issue.
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Once properly tagged and escorted, the visitor passes the initial checkpoint and walks along a corridor into the Headquarters Building lobby.
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She kept giving lifts to boys in the corridors and provided chairs for those standing in the queues.
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The twin doors sighed open, and Manville stepped slowly out into the corridor .
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They moved up the corridor , their footfalls against the bare boards sending out hollow echoes.
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You will not believe how many elevators you will go lip, how many corridors you will walk down.