noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
central
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The extension is built around a central courtyard which enables ventilation as an alternative to air conditioning at a much lower cost.
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The new station will have a central courtyard , which will be landscaped, plus a prisoners' exercise yard.
cobbled
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London's most famous riverside pub with a flagstone floor, a cobbled courtyard and great views.
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There was no phone number listed for the old seminary that opened on to a cobbled courtyard above the Praia Grande.
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They walked through the barbican of the Rorim into the cobbled courtyard beyond.
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Two great doors stood open in an arched entrance and they came out into a cobbled courtyard .
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Its cobbled courtyard and centrepiece - the thirteenth-century Knights' Hall - are open to the public.
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Lunch could be had in the inn's cobbled courtyard .
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The car rocked to a standstill in the walled and cobbled courtyard , outside the modern red-brick Stanford Park Hotel.
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In half an hour a dozen or so cars would drive into the inner courtyard and the morning shift would take over.
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In the inner courtyard around the altar were the women and children and one man, the old King.
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Amid apologies, he was ushered in, and led to a familiar inner courtyard to wait.
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There is a high, upper gallery that encircles the inner courtyard of the main house.
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The original cloisters are now a charming, shady walkway around an inner courtyard , the monks' cells now luxurious bedrooms.
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They agreed that they must seal off this inner courtyard and all within it, and sift through the trapped folk.
large
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At King Saud Mosque, Jeddah, we covered a large courtyard with an opening lightweight metal roof.
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The lane had opened out into a large paved courtyard .
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The large courtyard building, mentioned above, was never completed.
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The two offices faced each other across a large internal courtyard entered through low archways from Downing Street and Charles Street.
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This third and largest courtyard , St George's Square, is in a uniform neo-Classical style by Pacassi.
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The first, and larger courtyard , is the Archbishop's Court, but the smaller Canon's Court is the better.
little
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Slowly Shelley started the engine again, and drove the jeep into the little paved courtyard .
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The noise was deafening as we reached the little courtyard and stooped to enter the main room of the temple.
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The sports program was intramural softball in a little courtyard .
small
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High railings guarded the small courtyard gardens, the gates of which were usually protected by push-button security-code entry locks.
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The parlour opens into a small courtyard , where there is constant activity.
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At the far end was a place where the backs of four high buildings came together to form a small courtyard .
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I was in a small courtyard where the animals were kept at night.
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There is a small , garden courtyard .
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Following the service, she is the center of attention in the small courtyard that abuts the church.
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There are three windows on the side of the house, which look down on to a small courtyard .
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Jenna pulled up in the small courtyard and sat for a moment looking at it.
■ VERB
build
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The extension is built around a central courtyard which enables ventilation as an alternative to air conditioning at a much lower cost.
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The palazzo is built around a courtyard with a truncated tower at its base.
enter
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As he entered the paved courtyard the rain came whipping in from the sea, lashing against the car and obliterating everything.
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I was visible for a sweep of sixty degrees and anyone entering the courtyard would get a full view.
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Making her way through large hooked-back wooden doors, she entered yet another courtyard .
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Finally, after failing to wake anyone at the third home, I entered the courtyard anyway and disrobed at the well.
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They are entering the courtyard , walking toward the door.
look
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She swung her legs over the edge of the bed and went over to the window to look down at the courtyard .
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I stood before the gate awhile and looked into the courtyard , breathing in garbage and sewer odors and another indescribable smell.
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Sarella looked down into the courtyard where Peter was busily taking off his skis.
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Not realising how clearly she could be seen against the light, she looked down into the courtyard .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Our hotel room faced out on to a lovely courtyard .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And on the evening of December 9, there is jazz in the museum courtyard .
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In the courtyard is the Madonna of the Mouse, so called because of the mouse sitting on the shoulder of the baby.
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She heads across the courtyard towards casita 6.
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Suddenly patches of pink sandstone were again visible in the courtyard .
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The Glen-Gery New York offices are in a nineteenth-century brick house, overlooking a tree-shaded courtyard .
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The scene in the courtyard was one of utter devastation.
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They walked through the barbican of the Rorim into the cobbled courtyard beyond.
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Thus, their solicitor drew up a document detailing joint responsibility for communal maintenance of roofs, courtyards and external paintwork.