adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a house-to-house search (= a search of every house or building in an area )
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Police are conducting house-to-house searches in the area where the girl disappeared.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
collection
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The street collection raised £255.41 and the house-to-house collection realised £2,928.
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Another was a newcomer to our church and to our city, doing an Edinburgh house-to-house collection for the first time.
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We will be making street and house-to-house collections during Battle of Britain Week.
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But there were no authorised house-to-house collections , said a spokesman.
search
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Peacekeeping troops set up road blocks and conducted house-to-house searches .
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It was Major Volpi who had been given responsibility for putting up road-blocks and carrying out house-to-house searches .
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Some 200 militants were arrested in house-to-house searches beginning on April 13.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A minute earlier he had been feeling sorry for the men who were still out on house-to-house questioning.
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Culley ordered a house-to-house in the area.
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Detectives yesterday carried out house-to-house enquiries in the hope of tracking the gang.
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He found Kersey, sitting at the desk in an upstair, borrowed office surrounded by house-to-house reports prepared on the premises.
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It was Major Volpi who had been given responsibility for putting up road-blocks and carrying out house-to-house searches.
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Peacekeeping troops set up road blocks and conducted house-to-house searches.
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Road blocks were set up and a helicopter brought in from Manchester as police began house-to-house inquiries.
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The Pearl has a 6,500-strong sales force which collects insurance premiums and arranges policies by the simple expedient of house-to-house calls.