noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
front door/garden/porch etc (= at the front of a house )
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We walked up the front steps and into the reception area.
sun porch
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
back
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The guitarist's back-porch folksiness shows its best hand on the affecting finale, Travels.
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Near their back porch , they said, rats scamper about, and maggots slither near trash bins.
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Ilsa's house was dark and we padded through to the back porch like conspirators.
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It was still goo, so she put it out on the back porch for the cat.
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Then he gave a little nod, an apology for interrupting, and leaned the bike against the back porch .
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Looking up the hollow from our back porch , the mown field was the only sign of human endeavor.
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Sometimes she sits in a lounge chair on the back porch and stares off into space.
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Sounds like just the ticket for a shady back porch , cool glass of sun tea and thou.
front
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We used to have a family of martins nesting directly over our front porch , just under my bedroom window.
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He glared at Yanto with genuine dislike as he stomped through the front porch of the pub.
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So Johnny Appleseed lay down on the front porch and went to sleep.
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The front porch which has various door openings gives excellent room for cooking and storing the rest of your gear.
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She was on the front porch , with Oxie and Fogarty still on the sofa.
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The front porch has various door openings with room to shelter when cooking and to store gear.
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She was sitting on the front porch , waiting, with gloves in her lap.
■ NOUN
church
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For details, see the poster in the church porch .
light
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He could not, at first, unlock the door, though the porch light was on; the keyhole kept moving.
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They are some of the largest and most spectacular moths that visit our porch lights in the summer.
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I walked to the front door, checked my watch, and flicked the porch light on and off three times.
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In the glow of the porch light , he saw her eyes turn that mesmerizing shade of periwinkle.
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He did it now, dragged his chair out under the leafy fig tree, beyond the glow of the porch light .
south
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The façade and south porch are now Gothic and the interior and cupola were transformed in the eighteenth century.
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For some reason, no one knew why, he had for the last four months taken to sleeping in the south porch .
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There are only three to the south porch .
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There were only two cars parked outside the south porch .
sun
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We occupy the sun porch , a windowless living room with a fake marble fireplace and a dining room behind glass doors.
■ VERB
come
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The back door swings open and Felicia comes out on to the porch .
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When he came on to the porch , she stood up from her wicker chair and kissed him on the cheek.
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Glover came on the porch to call Paul in for lunch and found the boy helping in the yard.
leave
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Not until it was dark did they leave the porch .
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But Mr Teal had finally left the porch with a great deal of poise.
sit
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Sethe opened the front door and sat down on the porch steps.
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They sat on the porch after dinner and talked.
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In the evening he sat on the porch , thinking.
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In summer, we sit on the porch Like birds on a telephone wire.
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He sat down on our porch and eagerly showed us how his equipment worked.
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I sit on the porch with a glass of wine and watch the sheep.
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Before Paul D came and sat on her porch steps, words whispered in the keeping room had kept her going.
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Win sat alone on the porch .
sitting
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Betty was sitting in the porch of the cottage peeling potatoes.
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She was sitting on the front porch , waiting, with gloves in her lap.
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At the Dixie Dude, I spent my time between riding in the hills and just sitting on the porch doing nothing.
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I am the one scrambling eggs for dinner and sitting on porches with friends while the kids roam the neighborhood on bikes.
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We were sitting on the porch after Sunday dinner.
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It was like sitting on the porch with your family, when nobody feels that they have to make talk.
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Our entertainment was sitting on the front porch .
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Angela is sitting on the side porch as I pull into my driveway.
stand
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I stood in the porch to drink it.
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She saw through the screen that Tony Angotti was standing on the porch .
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Juliet stood in the porch , her finger to her lips, still feeling that last, tender kiss.
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Tony Angotti was standing on the porch .
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She stood in the porch and rang the bell.
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Hughes stood motionless on the porch .
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I stood on that porch listening to the silence, watching the white clouds in the dark blue summer sky.
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Reva was standing on the porch , staring down at us.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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They were sitting on the front porch drinking beer.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For details, see the poster in the church porch .
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I went right up the front walk, mounted the porch steps and rang the bell, then rang it again.
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Running the length of the forward strut was a ladder for the astronauts to descend from the top porch to the surface.
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She showed him to a little room off the kitchen porch .
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So Johnny Appleseed lay down on the front porch and went to sleep.
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Some children even go into the yard and on the porch of the house.
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The bay that formed the hall would have an entry porch to act as an airlock on the road side.
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The western porch below, surmounted by its rose window, is sculptured.