noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a hotel bill
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He paid the hotel bill by credit card.
a hotel chain
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Hilton is an international hotel chain.
a hotel reservation
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I canceled my hotel reservation.
a luxury hotel/home/apartment
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They stayed at luxury hotels during their trip.
a resort hotel
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There are plans for a major resort hotel and golf course to be built.
an exclusive hotel
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With its marble columns and crystal chandeliers, the Crillon is one of the most exclusive hotels in Paris.
book a room/hotel
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Ross found a good hotel and booked a room.
boutique hotel
freebie holiday/hotel/flight etc
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A waiter was handing round freebie glasses of wine.
home/hotel/apartment etc
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This is a friendly and comfortable hotel.
hotel facilities
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Make use of the hotel facilities, which are excellent.
hotel register
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Have you signed the hotel register ?
hotel/theatre/cinema etc foyer
the hotel/hospital/museum etc entrance
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Our taxi pulled up outside the hotel entrance.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
comfortable
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Older or better-heeled visitors have a choice of comfortable hotels , where rooms go for about $ 50 per night.
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This is a well-equipped and comfortable hotel , offering good value for money.
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AH4 Grades: Highly recommended, comfortable 4 star hotels , offering a higher standard of facilities.
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Villanova Hotel D Comfortable friendly hotel .
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It's a friendly, comfortable welcoming hotel with good rooms, all of which have facilities and balconies.
large
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A large hotel with several floors would have a density chart for every floor.
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At some of the larger hotels the amount was said to approach six thousand.
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The company says it is already the largest hotel group in the region.
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It supplies about a hundred pubs, and three large hotels in Skegness.
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They put up at taverns, boarding houses, and, in the larger towns, hotels .
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There are no longer any large functioning hotels and there are no conference centres.
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It had the proportions of a very large grand hotel such as the Plaza-very bulky and very low.
luxury
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He began to read a piece about the proposed transformation of a disused mill into a luxury hotel .
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Accommodation varies from luxury hotels to farmhouses.
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More recently, this was made into a luxury hotel for the top brass of the Communist world.
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Floirat also owned luxury hotels , the principal concern of the new conglomerate Matra-Hachette.
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Today it is a luxury hotel about 15 minutes walk from the centre of Florence.
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This luxury hotel is located a little way out of town, past Reid's, on the road to Cãmara de Lobos.
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The item states' Guests at a luxury hotel were poisoned by cyanide in the swimming pool yesterday.
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Buses were destroyed and a luxury tourist hotel burnt to the ground, although no holidaymakers were injured.
modern
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Hotel am Thielenplatz A modern hotel situated right in the city centre and only 300 metres walk from the railway station.
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Two modern hotels at Willerby offer superior services over a large area, in addition to several public houses dispensing their brands of hospitality.
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Detail some of the features of modern hotel communication systems. 15.
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This modern three-star hotel is conveniently located in the city.
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This modern 3 star hotel has proved very popular with our guests and is well recommended.
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The system has been designed and developed specifically for use in today's modern hotels .
new
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The les fortunate guests had to come daily from the new hotel on Persepolis or even form Shiraz, forty miles away.
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He wore well-pressed fatigues and had the distant look of a doorman in a gold coat outside a new hotel .
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When the 28-bedroom Sundial opened it was the first new hotel in the town for 240 years.
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We made a date to meet at a New York hotel anyway.
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The Sheraton Hotel Edinburgh's newest luxury hotel .
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Last year, commissioners approved the concept of three new or expanded hotels in the south Embarcadero.
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Suarez predicts that new hotels , new signs and a new consciousness will be ready in a year or two.
small
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My companion and I walked towards a small , nearby hotel that we knew.
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It was your basic small , upscale hotel room.
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He could still be here, staying at some small hotel .
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Running a small , intimate hotel was his dream.
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An additional number-primarily owners of small hotels and motels-were self-employed.
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She had slept so badly in the small hotel .
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Like Kimpton, Conley believes that the small tightly run hotel is often the better route to profitability.
star
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It's a three star hotel patronised by many different nationalities.
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AH4 Grades: Highly recommended, comfortable 4 star hotels , offering a higher standard of facilities.
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One lucky reader and a friend will stay in a 3 star hotel in the heart of New York.
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Utell launched Summi International Hotels, a new consortium specialising in deluxe and five star hotels .
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Bed and breakfast or half-board. 3, 4 or 5 star hotels can also be arranged on request.
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There is now a modem three star hotel if you wish to spend the night in Ribeira Brava.
■ NOUN
accommodation
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We chose Bedford as it was almost the only place in the locality where hotel accommodation was available.
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Included in the cost are round-trip airfare from New York, hotel accommodations , kosher breakfasts and dinners, sightseeing and transfers.
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The first prize includes return flights London-Delhi, half-board hotel accommodation and all transfers.
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After the war everything cost more: gasoline, buses, hotel accommodations , and musicians' salaries.
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An allowance is made for unused hotel accommodation in Bangkok.
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The price of your fly-drive holiday includes both car hire and hotel accommodation vouchers.
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The hotel accommodation is provided by the Friendly Hotels Group.
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The company also paid for one week's hotel accommodation for the employee and spouse to house hunt in the new location.
bar
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Rather than stop him, we drain it and then decide to order more -- at the hotel bar .
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Though Manhattan sports any number of bars capable of making a great drink, the grand hotel bar is a rare breed.
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So it's come to this; sitting in a hotel bar in New Orleans partaking in solvent abuse.
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In our quest for experiencing the ultimate New York hotel bar , we must pare down the prospects.
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But I digress ... We are all somewhat the worse for wear after a long night in the hotel bar .
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But what is it doing in a grown-up hotel bar ?
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We're in the hotel bar after the second show, when we hear the bad news.
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The tale: A business traveler meets a seductive woman in a hotel bar .
chain
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Average room and car rates based on averages from 10 leading hotel chains and six car-rental companies.
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Its strength and abrasion resistance have made it ideal for shoe cleaning cloths, as provided by most hotel chains .
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The group would continue to manage its various hotel chains , which include Sofitel, Mercure and Novotel.
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Acorn would provide us with a ready-made hotel chain ripe for further expansion.
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We worked with one hotel chain that avowed to the point of dementia its commitment to customer service and comfort.
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But although he now runs a hotel chain with 160 properties in 47 countries, he has never actually managed a hotel.
lobby
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Bodie had arrived in the hotel lobby just after Lin Foh had left his room.
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In the hotel lobby she continues to teach her own hard-learned lessons.
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I am unaware that any of this is going to happen as I enter the hotel lobby on my way to dinner.
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Dominic had met one person in the hotel lobby , in Paris.
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Rachel is inside the hotel lobby , waiting for me to walk her upstairs and round off our meal.
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We left the vast ballroom and headed for the bar in the hotel lobby .
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As I walk through the hotel lobby in Manila I know that something is up.
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Time-share hucksters lurk in many hotel lobbies .
restaurant
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By comparison with the cold cobbled alleys, the hotel restaurant was a scene of throbbing gaiety.
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He glanced at the two doors of the hotel restaurant , automatically looking for police.
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Shall I go down and eat in the hotel restaurant , or shall I go out?
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She agreed, and the next day she and a girlfriend met Garcia for lunch at a hotel restaurant .
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They competed to see who could eat most in the hotel restaurant and gorged themselves on Cornish cream teas.
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Going Upscale For lunch-goers with an expense account, two classic hotel restaurants offer lavish possibilities.
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They had dinner at the hotel restaurant on their first night.
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There isn't a hotel restaurant , but when it comes to eating out in Stuttgart you're spoilt for choice.
room
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He sat on the edge of the bed in his hotel room and waited for the phone to be answered.
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That afternoon the phone rang in my hotel room .
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They finished chatting in the afternoon, and the researcher went back to her hotel room .
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It was your basic small, upscale hotel room .
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Mac had a girlfriend and a baby with whom he lived in a Bayswater hotel room provided by Westminster Council.
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Visitors have already booked every hotel room within 80 miles of downtown Atlanta.
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Every hotel room in a 40-mile radius was booked.
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In that hotel room in Carlsbad, I wondered what I would want in their shoes.
suite
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The morning visit to Victor's hotel suite would be a waste of time.
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There's not a Pringle sweater to be seen in his hotel suite .
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He'd been living in a £500-a-week hotel suite in Nottingham, spending £2,000 a month on clothes.
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The two paid a call on former President Bush and his wife, Barbara, at their hotel suite .
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She left the track without a backward look, intent on hiding in the hotel suite until Ace returned to rescue her.
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The Harrick hotel suite was bustling in the early morning of April 4, 1995.
■ VERB
book
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Visitors have already booked every hotel room within 80 miles of downtown Atlanta.
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No one knows how many are coming; the fully booked hotels say perhaps 100,000.
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You needn't, but I thought ... tonight ... I booked into a hotel and we can go if you like.
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After leaving the letter in a drawer she had gone to a nearby town and booked in at a hotel .
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Instead of booking a class, the passenger booked different forms of sleeping arrangement rather like booking a hotel room.
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After booking into a London hotel you will get the chance to relax and meet the other finalists over lunch.
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They drove to Bologna and booked into a hotel .
build
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If you want to build an hotel in an attractive location how attractive does it have to be?
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To make the country even more civilized the railways were embarking on building great hotels by their stations for the first time.
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Each hotel will cost between $ 5. 4 million and $ 15 million to build .
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Conway is building the shops and hotels in the graveyard.
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We are basically now committed to building a major international hotels business.
check
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Said she could check with the hotel if she wanted to be sure.
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Margarett would come to New York and check into a hotel .
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The police could then check the hotels for that day.
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Transfer to Kaprun and check in at the hotel .
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When he stays out of town, he frequently checks into deluxe hotels that charge hundreds of dollars a night.
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How many people take the trouble to check their hotel or restaurant bills these days?
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So check with your hotel or corporate sponsor in advance about possible child-care arrangements.
include
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Delegates will include senior executives from hotel and catering companies and leading academics.
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Cost: $ 2, 300 per person, double occupancy, including hotels , most meals, ground transportation and sightseeing.
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These include flights, hotel with private facilities, breakfast, taxes and entrance to the fair.
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Some private employers, including hotels and news organizations, have the opposite problem.
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Like most package holidays, this includes breakfast at the hotel , but any other meals are additional to the quoted price.
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Quikbook. com, which includes detailed hotel descriptions but no photos.
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Settings include the airport, hotel , restaurant, and doctor's office.
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Accommodations include several hotels and small inns, guest houses, farmhouses and self-catering units.
leave
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The same desk clerk was on duty when Kragan left the hotel two hours later, at nine in the evening.
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Lining the road are hundreds of what look like workers leaving hotels .
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Today he'd left that hotel .
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Police said the players had taken their passports and baggage and left their hotel .
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By the time she left the hotel Duncan was in bed, the light and television both switched off.
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A friend and I, by chance leaving the hotel , stopped to watch the candidates greet the crowd.
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Your travel case reminded me of it when we left the hotel .
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A Las Vegas police report says Paganelli was leaving a hotel when a police officer stopped him and asked for identification.
return
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Within the hour the show is cancelled and everyone returns to the hotel to drown their sorrows.
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They returned to their hotel , packed their bags, and left for Penn Station to catch a train for Washington.
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When I return to the hotel room Lucker is checking the room numbers of the band.
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I returned to the hotel hoping to find a message.
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Tories more famous than he had come nasty croppers in the past at conference time, returning tight to their hotels .
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The teams will return to those hotels Sunday night after the game.
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The female Lionisers left the rest of their hollands untouched and began to think in terms of returning to the hotel .
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Yesterday, having recovered sufficiently to return to his hotel , he attempted to withdraw from international judo by offering his resignation.
run
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Its interests run to hotels , construction companies and dabbling in currency futures.
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He was such a gracious host, it was remarked that in another life he might have run a great hotel .
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Charity runs a couple of hotels there with her husband Luiz Santana.
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Are we running a penitentiary, or are we running a hotel ?
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If they were caught it was Leonore who was running the hotel .
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Like Kimpton, Conley believes that the small tightly run hotel is often the better route to profitability.
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His campaign is being run from a Darlington hotel .
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It was a small, unpretentious, privately run hotel , with small rooms where conversations were not likely to be overheard.
stay
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He could still be here, staying at some small hotel .
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I wanted to stay in a hotel .
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There are also two-day tours involving overnight stays at country hotels as well as delicious food.
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You are staying at a hotel ?
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Characteristically, Adam decided to stay at the best hotel in Dresden.
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He stayed in a local hotel and had the boys join him on weekends.
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We were all forced to stay in hotels and eat in hotels and sign for it.
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On the second last day Dilip drove to Jodhpur to stay in a hotel .
walk
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Only here and there, as I walked past the seafront hotels , I could see the occasional lighted window.
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Masses were ending everywhere in Dublin, and I walked back to my hotel through streams of home-going worshippers.
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I told him how it was and he left, walking over to the hotel .
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They walked back to the hotel in a silence that was becoming unhappily familiar.
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I had walked into a hotel and saw Eddie in a coat and tie across the lobby registering at the desk.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the hotel/tourist etc trade
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A plan, already under way, seeks to manage the tourist trade .
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And with it, the sudden fear of what it could do to the tourist trade .
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But environmentalists have long claimed that the scheme has been underfunded, badly run and above all exploited by the tourist trade .
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His attempts to corral the tourist trade at the Falls had failed.
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Neither Bradford nor Birmingham regrets entering the tourist trade - the industry waits with bated breath to see how Swindon fares.
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Prospective customers should always be on the look-out for good communication skills and an in-depth knowledge of the hotel trade .
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They say so-called home improvements can kill off the tourist trade .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At dock, the operation would be supported with a Westernthemed entertainment complex and a 300-room hotel .
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Despite the lack of gas and electricity, the hotel coffee was hot.
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Don't phone home from your hotel .
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He took all meals in his room, owed money to the hotel , expected a visit from an assistant manager.
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Its strength and abrasion resistance have made it ideal for shoe cleaning cloths, as provided by most hotel chains.
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Police raided its founding conference at a Casablanca hotel , where 40 people were arrested and cautioned.
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Tents and marquees have traditionally been used in the grounds of hotels and country clubs for special functions such as receptions and parties.
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The hotels and restaurants failed to prosper.