noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cookery class/lesson
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I had basic cookery lessons at school.
a driving lesson (= in which you are taught to drive )
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Jane is having driving lessons.
a golf lesson
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I'm thinking of taking golf lessons.
a piano lesson
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I started having piano lessons.
elocution lessons
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elocution lessons
learned this lesson the hard way
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Make sure you put the baby’s diaper on before you start feeding her. I learned this lesson the hard way .
lessons learned
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the lessons learned in the Gulf War
salutary experience/lesson/reminder etc
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Losing money in this way taught young Jones a salutary lesson.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
hard
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It had been a hard lesson for some of them.
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They leave with nothing but a hard lesson .
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As the only country with first-hand experience of modern missile warfare at sea Britain will benefit from its hard learned lesson .
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But catastrophe produces spectacle; this is the hard lesson imparted by California history and geology.
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The hard and expensive lesson he learnt from the sorry business was that the game could do without him.
important
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For senior management an important lesson was the trade unions' capacity to absorb change and to become its agents.
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There is an important lesson to be learned here-a lesson in good program management.
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Their preservation could have an important lesson for nuclear waste storage.
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But solving the mystery also teaches some important lessons about the era ahead.
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Hon. Members can draw an important lesson from the hon. Lady's rise to office as a junior Minister in the Department.
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They learned important lessons about survival from the adversity they had faced.
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The most important lesson we can learn from our present educational disarray is that education is for everybody.
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When a product or service takes off unexpectedly, there are inevitably important lessons to be learned.
piano
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Individual singing lessons are also available, and a limited number of pupils can receive piano lessons at School.
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When he began taking piano lessons and identifying himself as a musician, I bought song sheets and music books for him.
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She listened, nodded, and then told me very shyly that all her life she had wanted to take piano lessons .
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Though the whole family sang, he prospered during the piano lessons he received as a birthday present at age 6.
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Wilson began piano lessons at age 9 and studied the standard classical repertoire of Bach, Beethoven and Chopin.
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Maybe if I had been sent to piano lessons instead of being sent out to play, I'd see things different.
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The children, she said, had piano lessons .
salutary
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It was a salutary lesson for me on risking rejection and on my perceived notions of status.
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Experience of reality provides the salutary lesson .
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Listening to those criticisms has taught me a salutary and humbling lesson .
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More simple salutary lessons were being learned in Britain too.
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It is extremely disconcerting, and the Madness debate provided a salutary lesson for Morrissey, as well as ourselves.
valuable
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A wide variety of valuable lessons is learned at such times when the pupils strengthen their ties with the School Community.
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He was going to teach me one of his valuable lessons .
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Indeed, it is from our failures that we learn our most valuable lessons .
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This teaches the hearer a valuable lesson: dealing in symbols is safe when compared with acting on the real thing.
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Competitive sport teaches valuable lessons which last for life.
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Watching them work, Truc and I learned several valuable lessons .
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For the undertaking m a dominant position, valuable lessons are to be learned from these examples.
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A number of them learned valuable lessons from difficult bosses-some even from bad bosses.
■ NOUN
art
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So that was why I had all those art lessons !
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Did anyone know of some one who gave art lessons ?
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His hobby is playing golf and he designed his entry during art lessons at school.
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But these boys do not have swim team or baseball or sports camp or art lessons or a list of lawn-mowing clients.
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It must have shown up in art lessons first.
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I did have one moment of triumph during that year of art lessons .
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He designed his jumper with a regular pattern of rugby posts and a rugby ball in his extra art lessons at school.
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At last, the actual art lesson began.
history
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In the middle of a History lesson we heard the good news.
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This two-hour concert was just a competent, well-structured history lesson by the king of the Armani blues.
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But Brion brings more than history lessons .
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This is not the time to talk of the end of history - more a time for some good history lessons .
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A little history lesson could be calming, too.
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In a ghost town, silent and deserted as the Marie Celeste, I gave myself a history lesson .
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A history lesson would be useful.
music
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In addition at the London course Music lessons are available at an additional £5 per year.
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They went to cultural events, they took music lessons .
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We are also offering group music lessons for a limited number of people.
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Susan meant to give music lessons , but she can't till she's better.
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Example C combines a sequence of four planned 30-minute music lessons with two longer music inputs in the integrated project.
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He must have music lessons at once.
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After this, he could be hastily driven to a music lesson , followed by a painting or a dancing lesson.
object
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It's an object lesson for all feature writers.
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She was spared the trauma of dinner, the object lesson in human dignity, and the smoke of Revolution.
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The series is an object lesson in, among many other qualities, the differences of gaze.
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The highly sophisticated broadcasting industry offers an object lesson in the inadequacy of current standards of measuring public behavior.
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The regimented society of social insects such as ants and bees is an object lesson in order and organization.
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His experience was an object lesson for young men who are considering a career in government.
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And the ride is an object lesson in suppleness and elimination of vibration.
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The parched remnants were, for Roosevelt, a stark object lesson in the need for animal protection.
plan
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Librarians have expertise to offer here and teachers are capitalising on it, often incorporating these elements in their lesson plans .
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The primary lesson plan is that learning should be fun, and that nostalgia rocks.
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The manual includes sample lesson plans , as well as guidelines on preparing and evaluating writing workshops.
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The district has also built an electronic resource for lesson plans .
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A unique feature of the Video Guide is that it offers alternative lesson plans .
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Teachers may create lesson plans , books, and other teaching materials that they wish to copyright.
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Teacher's Book, outlining the methodology and providing detailed lesson plans .
science
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We also need to encourage children to use their imaginations in science lessons .
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A month later I turned the board for a science lesson and it cracked suddenly and started to collapse all over.
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In the classroom, teachers could choose tricks to add entertainment to science lessons .
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They would be awakened before daybreak and by eight had already had prayers and a math or science lesson .
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They might be asked to contribute information to a careers programme, or technical expertise to a science lesson .
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The study sought to shed light on two questions: How do pupils experience school science lessons ?
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They complained that they were often bored by repeating the same topics during their 11 years of compulsory science lessons .
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What kind of things can help to make science lessons come alive?
■ VERB
begin
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At first I observed, then began to take some lessons .
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After passing the written test, Solomon began his driving lessons .
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I did not hope for very much when I began my Alexander lessons , because of my past experiences.
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When he began taking piano lessons and identifying himself as a musician, I bought song sheets and music books for him.
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Wilson began piano lessons at age 9 and studied the standard classical repertoire of Bach, Beethoven and Chopin.
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The teacher directs the latecomers to some seats in the front, and he begins the lesson .
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Jessica began taking flying lessons from Reid four months ago.
draw
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For if we accept the possibility of human progress, then we must accept and draw on the lessons of the past.
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As such, it is intended to draw wider lessons about the workings of pressure groups in modern Britain.
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The next morning, he smiled at me and left for work without mentioning my drawing lessons .
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Hon. Members can draw an important lesson from the hon. Lady's rise to office as a junior Minister in the Department.
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The administration drew two lessons from the experience.
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It required no elaborate analysis to draw the lesson: economic grievances could only be redressed by achieving political change.
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Dole appeared to be drawing a lesson from the last four presidential candidates who ousted the opposition party from the White House.
give
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This time he did not mention giving lessons but said it would be lovely to be able to play to me.
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On the other hand, who was I to give Leanne lessons ?
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When schools shut for lack of fuel in the winter, they gave private lessons to the richer peasants' children.
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In a phone booth, Celine gives Robert lessons in sounding demanding and ruthless in his ransom calls to Naville.
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In a ghost town, silent and deserted as the Marie Celeste, I gave myself a history lesson .
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We made it sound as if we were giving sewing lessons after hours.
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To ensure continuity, homework should be given after each lesson .
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Some guys make $ 300-$ 500 per hour for a lesson and give 4-8 lessons a day.
learn
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Should we beat them or lock them up until they learn their lessons ?
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There is an important lesson to be learned here-a lesson in good program management.
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You've learned the same lessons in different ways, which are somehow the same.
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They learned important lessons about survival from the adversity they had faced.
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But does not this suggest that we have only to learn the same lesson over again?
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They had learned an essential lesson about the intricate connection between individual and group performance.
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There is still a key opportunity for local authorities to learn the lessons from the national parliamentary mechanisms for scrutiny and accountability.
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We had a shot or two, but we learned our lesson .
learnt
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He learnt the lesson well, and has since produced an impressive and highly original body of work.
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But Bush has learnt a second lesson from Clinton.
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We learnt a few lessons on how we could have improved it but we felt very pleased with it as our first attempt.
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Trent had learnt this lesson well in his fight against it.
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The first hours of Martial Law themselves demonstrated that the regime had learnt the lessons of the 1970s.
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Businessmen called for economies, but Roosevelt had learnt the lesson of 1929.
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They claim, however, that the Bank has learnt lessons as a result of the experience.
offer
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Many schools would like to offer drama lessons , but often there is no-one on the staff to take them.
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Mrs Watt offered lessons in music, and manual training was available anywhere on the campus.
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A unique feature of the Video Guide is that it offers alternative lesson plans.
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But recollection also offers lessons that may guide future military decisions.
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And although this research is industry-specific, the hope is that it offers insights and design lessons applicable in many areas.
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Its significance transcends the boundaries of the United States, for it offers a lesson and example to peoples throughout the world.
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It offers a profound lesson about our entire relationship to nature.
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The highly sophisticated broadcasting industry offers an object lesson in the inadequacy of current standards of measuring public behavior.
provide
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Clear, easy-to-follow teaching aids Each Resource Book provides clear, easy-to-follow lesson menus for you to use in class.
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This kind of follow-through provides children with important lessons in reading strategies.
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Those who need to know should be provided with the lessons learned as soon as possible.
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Playing coevolutionary games in computers has provided other lessons .
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Experience of reality provides the salutary lesson .
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It brightens the utilitarian facade of our modern building and provides material for lessons .
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And although the particulars of their initiatives might differ, the underlying causes of success or failure will provide lessons learned.
read
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The minister read a lesson from Job, chapter 2.
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Diana would never shout out answers in class or volunteer to read the lessons at assembly.
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I hope will be happy to read the first lesson .
start
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Some people his grandmother knew had a little girl who wanted to learn the flute and Tom started giving her lessons .
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There is also the question of when to start lessons .
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Margaret had started driving lessons , was making progress with the solicitor, and spending the occasional evening with friends.
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Each time I started a Hebrew lesson , we were interrupted.
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Gina did indeed start giving lessons of a kind.
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New timetables at four Merseyside schools mean pupils start lessons at 8.30 and go home at 1.50 with just one half-hour break.
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Born and raised in Tokyo, Komuro started violin lessons at age 3 and began learning keyboards in elementary school.
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I started giving lessons to more pupils, which sometimes involved cycling to houses far out in the country side.
take
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Incidentally, brother Louis was then taking lessons on the pianoforte.
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They included taking lessons for her advanced driving test, watercolour painting and gardening.
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When he began taking piano lessons and identifying himself as a musician, I bought song sheets and music books for him.
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She escaped with some bruises but was adamant that she would never take lessons from me again.
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But they have seen the underbelly of working motherhood, and I think they have taken in all its lessons .
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He would dearly like to spend a month taking lessons from him, starting now: would that be possible?
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She has taken Singing lessons at Dakshini Academy in Calcutta.
teach
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Her Committee would teach him a lesson , she promised herself venomously, as she powdered her face.
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In the hotel lobby she continues to teach her own hard-learned lessons .
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He would teach her a lesson .
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Competitive sport teaches valuable lessons which last for life.
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The risk of inflation teaches us another lesson: Do not play it too safe.
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L teacher who has taught lots of lessons with the unit.
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A father must always teach his son the lessons he has learned.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
object lesson
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And the ride is an object lesson in suppleness and elimination of vibration.
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His experience was an object lesson for young men who are considering a career in government.
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It's an object lesson for all feature writers.
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She was spared the trauma of dinner, the object lesson in human dignity, and the smoke of Revolution.
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The highly sophisticated broadcasting industry offers an object lesson in the inadequacy of current standards of measuring public behavior.
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The regimented society of social insects such as ants and bees is an object lesson in order and organization.
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The series is an object lesson in, among many other qualities, the differences of gaze.
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There had to be an object lesson or two.
sb has learned their lesson
teach sb a lesson
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He was treating me badly, so I left - I just wanted to teach him a lesson.
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I hope a night in the cells has taught you a lesson.
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They say they beat Scott up to teach him a lesson.
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A japanese Brother and Sister A japanese myth teaches a similar lesson to that of Lilith.
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He would teach her a lesson.
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It was the old mountain teaching another brutal lesson, that the mountain and its weather does not forgive a mistake.
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The commander, as an al-Qadhadhfa and ally of the Magharba, should teach them a lesson.
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The desire to teach the experts a lesson took on manic proportions.
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The risk of inflation teaches us another lesson: Do not play it too safe.
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They need to be taught a lesson!
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Dominic will be having his first driving lesson this Thursday.
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Our experience with the fire will serve as a lesson to the entire state.
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She gives English lessons to business people in the evenings.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But solving the mystery also teaches some important lessons about the era ahead.
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It is algebra for today's lesson , my worst topic in maths.
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It was a good lesson in humility, he realized.
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Should we beat them or lock them up until they learn their lessons?
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So feel free to fill your children with lessons and morals from this story.
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The lessons which Donaldson has been trying to teach us are reflected throughout the following chapters.
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We hope that the pictures, done by Kathleen White, one of the authors, will help you in choosing lessons.