noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
business person
cost sth per person
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There’s a one-day course that costs £80 per person.
displaced person
first person
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a first person narrative
hardly the time/place/person etc (= a very unsuitable time, place, person etc )
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This is hardly the place to discuss the matter.
missing person
no less a person than
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The message came from no less a person than the prime minister.
second person
the last person/thing etc to do sth
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Anna was the last person to see him alive.
third person
trans person
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
elderly
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Frequently a crisis is precipitated by some sudden change in health or behaviour, of the elderly person or a carer.
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Recurrent pale loss of consciousness in an elderly person suggests this diagnosis.
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Medicare is a federally administered program of health benefits for elderly and disabled persons .
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This can sometimes be sensed in elderly persons who are approaching the end.
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About 70 percent of those elderly persons living with younger people are severely disabled.
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There are three main reasons for taking care of an elderly person .
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In many cases this care can continue with adjustments in the amount of support until the elderly person dies.
old
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No older person should ever ask you to keep a kiss, hug or touch, secret.
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The oldest person to get a license is 92; the youngest was 22.
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Defining abuse can allow the relative power of the carer to take precedence over the plight of the older person .
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You may prefer to ask an older person to do this for you. 8 Place the baking tray into the oven.
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There, he would be another old person elbowed and nudged by the hordes in their restive wildebeest migration in search of gratification.
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These are part of the agenda for any discussion and the old person needs reassurance that such experience is recognised as important.
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Furthermore, the fact that the old person is alone, especially at night, is a constant source of anxiety.
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At 88 years of age, Andrew Rome was again the oldest person present.
only
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Eliot was a lonely man, and Hayward was the only single person he knew with whom he could share a flat.
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Because you were the only person capable of doing it?
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She wanted to come across as the only significant person in Jett's life.
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And you are the only person apart from Pepe who knows my secret.
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The only person to flash the sustained F7c was Lancashire's Ian Vicers - not bad for a sprog of only 17.
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The organisers hope the recipient will be the only person that doesn't remember the Wiltshire Festival.
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Do you know, sometimes I feel that the only person he really cares for on this earth is the Begum.
other
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Most companies, but not all, extend the cover to a spouse or other named person with a good driving record.
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Provision needed to be made for dowager widows, and for younger sons and for daughters, and perhaps for other persons .
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Remain aloof and don't touch the other person .
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The other person was a man who could actually speak for hours about his reading, which was extensive.
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Some of us are reserved good listeners who see our prime function in conversation as encouraging the other person .
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She desired that the legacy should not be in any way altered by the pope nor any other person .
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The initial three-year sentences on two others was confirmed while the other person was freed.
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I had imagined that friendship meant giving up privacy, and closeness meant complete submersion in the other person .
right
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An officer who deals with adults every day is not the right person to deal with teenagers.
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He found just the right person for his newly created slot of research associate.
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And I know I haven't yet met the right person .
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Are you the right person for this position?
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Send them to the right person at the right address for payment and include the following information: 1.
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Your whole business might ride on finding the right person .
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Advertisements for Harvard dealers pointed out demurely that remuneration was no obstacle for the right person .
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Either way, the problem is to find the right person to advise you, some one who can be objective.
single
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The figures are costed for a single person .
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It was more subtle than the other outcomes, turning on no single moment, person , or place.
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It produces five billion food packets every year; that's one for every single person on earth.
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Friedman argued that no single person , even a Nobel laureate, could make a pencil.
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I did not see a single person in Bill, Wyoming.
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Therefore, 75 percent. of the tax is payable if a single person lives there.
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Almost at once he experienced what most religious innovators of his type suffered: not a single person joined his worldwide movement.
young
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The younger a person is when he or she starts smoking, the greater the risk of developing lung cancer.
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They require a substantial commitment on the part of a young person .
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How can a child or young person immediately grieve for some one who denies their existence in that way?
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It was an extraordinary time for a young person like Alvin, black and a dancer, to arrive in New York.
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But it failed to discuss how consent should be interpreted where children, young persons and the mentally backward are concerned.
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All subjects included in the study were healthy young persons without any symptoms related to the oesophagus.
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Is it morally right to sentence a young person to a period in custody?
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
as the next man/person
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After a while, everybody will have the technology to make a movie look as cool as the next person.
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All you need to know about Flaubert to know as much as the next person!
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Now Glover himself was as female as the next man, keeping an eagle eye on boys.
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She figured the guys could see for themselves then that he could be as vulnerable as the next man.
be no respecter of persons
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She was no respecter of persons and never thought before she spoke.
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Unfortunately they are no respecters of persons or property as car owners find to their dismay.
every second year/person/thing etc
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Dalziel was well known, hailing and being hailed by nearly every second person they passed, it seemed to Pascoe.
in the third person
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Better rewrite it in the third person.
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He writes of himself in the third person.
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Hint: He often refers to himself in the third person.
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I was angry to hear Steve talk about me in the third person.
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She speaks of herself not only in the third person, but in generic terms.
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She was following the family pattern of talking about children in their own presence in the third person instead of addressing them directly.
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Tennyson talks for Tithonus in the third person.
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With a fictional character, described in the third person, there is nothing that may not be said.
professional person/man/woman etc
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A mature spinster, a professional woman, might.
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About 80 percent of its clients are business and professional women.
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As far as childcare is concerned, professional women have to rely on paid care.
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Glossy, high-powered soap opera about four black professional women helping one another through a bad year in Phoenix.
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Of those executive and professional women who did marry, most chose not to have children or deferred them until very late.
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The result is that the practical definition of obscenity has been decided by middle-aged-to-elderly professional men.
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There may be a willing volunteer or a professional person specially appointed, but this may not be easy to find.
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These are very well-educated professional women in Fog Bank who felt insecure about investing.
sb's kind of person/thing/place etc
the first person
the last person/thing
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Chad's the last person I would ask for advice.
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The last thing we wanted was to go into debt.
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And you were the last person to see her.
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He was the last person a nerve-racked trader wanted to see.
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I already had two children, and the last thing I wanted was a third.
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I know you had a terrible time and the last thing I meant to do was to upset you.
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Kris Johnson will be the last person to wear Marques' No. 54.
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So the last thing I want to do is watch somebody else do it.
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You know, in your heart, it is the last thing that charlatan wants.
the third person
there's no such person/thing etc as sb/sth
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He says there's no such thing as a citizens arrest.
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Raymond runs the exclusive Manoir aux Quat Saisons in Wheatley, where there's no such thing as a free lunch.
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To the professionals who work with troubled couples, however, there's no such thing as the wronged spouse.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He's the only person I know who can speak Chinese.
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I think Sue's a really nice person .
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If you're asking me about Latin, you're asking the wrong person .
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Kevin's not an easy person to get to know.
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Police are looking for the person or persons responsible for the fire.
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The person who finishes first gets a special prize.
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The club does not allow any person under the age of 21 to enter.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A person can be amazingly happy on the Great Plains.
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About 70 percent of those elderly persons living with younger people are severely disabled.
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Forms of particulars of claim are supplied by the court office to parties in person .
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I look forward to meeting the person who has mastered this strangeness.
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In practice if not always in law, a married couple became one person , that person being the husband.
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It would have to be an evil-beneath-the-surface person who seems to be trustworthy.
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Power does not necessarily make a person happy.
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The rate varies according to the experience of the person dealing with the work.