I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a front/rear tyre
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I bought a set of new front tyres.
a rear door (= a door at the back of a vehicle )
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The kids opened the rear doors and climbed in.
rear admiral
the back/rear wheel
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The rear wheels of the bus got stuck in a creek.
the front/back/rear seat (= in a car )
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Never leave bags on the back seat of a car.
the front/back/rear/side entrance
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There is a long drive with steps leading to the front entrance.
the front/rear/side exit
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When the lights dimmed, she slipped out by the rear exit.
the rear window (= the back window, especially of a car )
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The car's rear window had been bashed in.
the rear/front brakes (= for the rear/front wheels )
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The rear brakes were ineffective.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
end
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Tricia kept me up-to-date on the increasing soreness of her rear end .
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He wiggled his rear end in emphasis, and we both laughed at his joke.
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Both of his big hands were open on her rear end .
■ VERB
enter
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Property was stolen from a residence entered by forcing a rear door.
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Cash was stolen from a business entered through a rear door.
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A residence was entered through a rear door.
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Telephones, keys and a vehicle were stolen from a residence entered through a rear door.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
front/rear/back wheels
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Get up off your rear end!
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A small porch at the rear can be used for other small items, although access is only from inside.
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That's all, apart from the domestic quarters at the rear .
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They glittered like the backs of scarabs caught in torchlight at the rear of a tomb.
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We need that certain dunk, that certain kick in the rear , and he definitely gives it to us every game.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
up
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Suddenly the drive ended in a gravel sweep and the house reared up on the left.
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Cut loose from its eyes suddenly, the mind will rear up , spin, retreat.
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A rider's horse reared up before her.
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Florida rattlers would rear up and bite a man too blind and tired to kick before reaching down.
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The Worm turned and reared up at them, and there was something in its sightless head that they knew showed satisfaction.
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It is a daunting task in a crowded, segmented marketplace where magazines rear up and expire as quickly as fruit flies.
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The beast reared up on its hind legs, screaming with blood showing at its lips and teeth.
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I was on a new pony who suddenly reared up and fell back on me.
■ NOUN
child
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Furthermore, the conditions under which child rearing occurs frequently makes it difficult for women to really enjoy that experience.
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Black psychologists crushed the notion that child rearing was the same, regardless of cultural background.
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Most children are reared by their natural parents and most are cared for well.
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Equally important, my parent had no one with whom to discuss child rearing or domestic crises.
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The child they had reared until some solution could be found.
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Polygamy is prevented by wives who resent sharing their husbands lest they also share his contributions to child rearing .
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Any partnership requires love, whether it is for child rearing , for economic reasons, or for any other mutual project.
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At Hubbard Woods Elementary an even more graphic example of the troubled world our children face reared its ugly head.
head
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A small worm of self-disgust reared its blind head within his belly.
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In addition, politics has reared its ugly head , all institutional efforts not withstanding.
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At this point another problem reared its head .
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It rears its ugly head every time a similar shooting occurs at another school.
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It reared high above their heads and made the river market into a town of ants, the meaningless scurryings of insects.
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At Hubbard Woods Elementary an even more graphic example of the troubled world our children face reared its ugly head .
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The question of remarriage and the provision of an heir to the unstable throne was inevitably rearing its head .
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One troublesome objection rears its head whenever we address this situation.
horse
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A rider's horse reared up before her.
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The roan horse reared once more, pawed at the air, forcing the other men away.
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The horse reared , Southgate pitched out of his saddle and was dragged along, one boot still caught in the stirrup.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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cattle rearing
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She's reared a large family.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Hamsters reared in the laboratory can be made to have female-biased litters by keeping them hungry during adolescence or pregnancy.
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If the quail have been reared with siblings, both sexes prefer to mate with first cousins.
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Reclamation in 1987 stopped generating power during critical salmon spawning and rearing months.
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Reports about the costs of rearing children are more than we can take in.
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Riven hung on to his mount's bridle grimly whilst it bucked and reared in a desperate effort to get away.
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The Worm turned and reared up at them, and there was something in its sightless head that they knew showed satisfaction.
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They all reared and exploded inside her - touch, smell, taste.
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Women who dropped out temporarily to rear children found themselves professionally penalized for the rest of their lives.
III. adjective
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■ NOUN
axle
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Replacing a Range Rover's ball joint which joins rear axle to A frame Military or civvy?
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I wonder if you could tell me who could supply parts for the output differential to the second rear axle .
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If we had to cite a bad point, it would be the hard-to-reach drain plug on the rear axle housing.
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I argue that rear axle radius location arm must be out of true.
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This increasing castor thus compensates for any inclination of the car on the rear axle .
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Third provides direct drive and fourth an overdrive, driving through a new two-piece propshaft to a 3.07:1 rear axle .
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Wheelbase is the horizontal distance between front and rear axle centres.
brake
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The brakes consisted of two inefficient rear brakes and one transmission front brake, usually full of oil.
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He's now heavy on the front brake , while his right foot strokes the rear brake lever.
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Do the test again with the rear brake .
bumper
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Using black trimmings, shape the front and rear bumpers and a rectangle for the radiator.
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Old Chao showed them the spare tire, which rode in its own metal case on the rear bumper .
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Somebody yelled and threw a can at the cab, hitting it on the rear bumper .
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Almost immediately, Sprague tags a braking Rezendes in the rear bumper , nearly sending Rezendes into a 180-degree spin.
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MacLane was still hard on our rear bumper .
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When the car arrived I noticed a large dent in the rear bumper and immediately lost my temper.
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I have unsuccessfully been searching for a set of military rear bumpers .
door
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Silver-topped flasks conveniently placed inside the rear door of the Rolls-Royce.
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He knocked twice, then once, on the rear door .
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Secluded rear doors are especially vulnerable: they are often forced open with a simple well-aimed kick.
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He kept watching out the window of the rear door .
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If a would-be burglar was standing outside your front or rear door , how many neighbours could see him?
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He sat by the rear door of the hearse with a gun in each hand while Jack bled and bled.
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When Ruth and Miss Beard arrived at the rear door of the house, the carriage was already waiting.
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He also throws open the rear door , revealing a video screen.
entrance
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The nearest rear entrance belonged to a home bakery.
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From there, a quiet backstreet led to the rear entrance of her apartment block.
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I got dressed and went into the barn and looked for the old wooden trunk near the rear entrance .
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They did however have the convenience of a rear entrance .
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She garaged her car and thought briefly of entering the apartment block by the rear entrance .
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Beside it was an alleyway which provided rear entrances to a row of Botanic Avenue shops.
foot
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The advancing foot of the walker must make contact with the ground before the rear foot leaves the ground.
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As a rule of thumb, always use a rear foot kick after a feint.
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Then thrust off your rear foot , driving your open hand across the opponent's leading guard.
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The rear foot is used because it has the forward thrust of the body behind it.
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The tiger has five in each of its front feet and four in its rear feet.
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Jump diagonally forwards with the front leg and pick the rear foot up for a high roundhouse kick.
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Jump diagonally back with the rear foot and perform a front foot roundhouse kick.
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From the natural stance, the front foot moves a little farther out from the body and into line with the rear foot.
garden
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Externally, both front and rear gardens have been landscaped.
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There is a pleasant rear garden .
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When Beth first came to the house, the rear garden was derelict.
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Doors to conservatory and rear garden .
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It benefits from a large detached garage and an enclosed 90' rear garden .
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Features include mature rear garden in addition to a detached garage approached via a shared driveway.
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Each house had its own private rear garden .
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The property benefits from two separate reception rooms, stripped doors and woodwork, off road parking and a 90' rear garden .
guard
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Try to scoop the outstretched foot with your rear guard hand.
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He informed us that our brigade was to be the rear guard of the army, which was in full retreat.
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Slide diagonally forwards, catching the opponent's front kick with your rear guard hand.
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As feminist symbols, they are in the rear guard .
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As before, the rear guard hand must never cross the body's centre-line.
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Let your rear guard hand move forwards slightly as you do this.
leg
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However, this area is tender, so be gentle. 2 Work upwards when brushing the rear legs .
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This is done as he lifts his rear leg to kick the attacker.
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Repeat the exercise but kick with the front or rear leg as soon as the stance switches.
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The two pairs of rear legs end in bristles.
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Front and rear legs are thrown neither in nor out, as the imprint of hind feet should touch that of forefeet.
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You can easily see the effect by placing a telephone book under each of the rear legs of a ordinary kitchen chair.
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From a forward fighting stance, the student swings his rear leg forward and upward until the knee comes to shoulder height.
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The rear leg bends at the knee, supporting all the body weight.
mirror
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In his rear mirror he watched his father struggle with the doors and manhandle the basket on to the ground.
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He could see her in his rear mirror , standing on the pavement looking wistfully after him.
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But all the time he found his eyes fixed to the rear mirror , looking for a sign of pursuit.
seat
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The two forward seats distorted, but remained attached to the floor rails, and the rear seats were undamaged.
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Aide Julie Hart noted that most safety experts have said children usually are safer in the rear seat in a crash.
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He climbed into the rear seat of the ford.
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He rode with Kirilenko in the rear seat of a black Volga.
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Impossible to see who the passenger in the rear seat was.
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Both are welcome, but the rear seat still is no place for an adult on a long trip.
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Within seconds Harry was sitting in the rear seat , searching for his next words.
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He saw that in the long rear seat he had cornered some one.
tyre
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The team chose a wet front and an intermediate rear tyre .
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By forcing down on the upper, outside footrest the rider obtains exceptional feel for rear tyre grip.
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At the moment, a wider rear tyre is the main clue to the bike's extra power.
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Fork truck rear tyre soft. 25.
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Suddenly I had a lot more feel for what the rear tyre was doing, or not doing for that matter.
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Guessing what the dispute was over, Fenn swung in towards the vehicle's rear tyre and stopped.
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An hour later a rear tyre blew.
wheel
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The motor drives the car's single rear wheel by means of a chain.
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Turn your front wheels in the direction of the skid, the direction in which the rear wheels are sliding.
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I think it was Zonta and I hit him on the rear wheel .
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Most often this occurs when you are braking a front-drive car and the rear wheels lock up.
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And use the extra money to get those rear wheels working for a living.
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Both are still on show in Niagara, complete with the rear wheels .
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Roll angles and braking forces also cause a controlled toe-in of the rear wheels for improved stability.
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After further processing, hydrogen is delivered to a stack of fuel cells energizing electric motors that drive the rear wheels .
window
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Minutes later the owner returned and found the rear window of the car smashed and the case stolen.
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He dives in and helps two children out the open rear window of the car.
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An old Ford, with straight back and matchbox rear window , laboured up the avenue.
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A bullet went crashing through the rear window , shattering the glass behind me.
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From here you are looking into the rear windows of Whitehall.
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On the way home, she kept looking over her shoulder through the rear window to their cargo.
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However, £200 damage was caused to a rear window .
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The children would gather in a noisy clump at the rear window to shout encouragement and offer coaching tips to their pursuer.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Go around back and knock at the rear entrance.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A bullet went crashing through the rear window, shattering the glass behind me.
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A police spokesman said the stolen car was in poor condition with a broken rear passenger window.
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He sat by the rear door of the hearse with a gun in each hand while Jack bled and bled.
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Headroom abounds; rear legroom is good.
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Silver-topped flasks conveniently placed inside the rear door of the Rolls-Royce.
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The rear foot is used because it has the forward thrust of the body behind it.
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The captain and rear admiral, viewing the aircraft-launching operations from the island, are blinded by the flash.
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Then he opened the rear door and painfully eased himself out to stand, swaying, alongside the car.