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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
car
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Then there was the time he forgot his briefcase in a subway car .
station
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Many urban homeless were seeking refuge in subway stations and bus depots.
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He heard tourists go past his door talking about the sights, the beautiful subway stations , amazing bronze and marble sculpture.
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We went into the lounge bar of an old hotel beside the subway station .
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The renewal of the subway station , for example, presented a series of problems only hinted at here.
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The brief lull that had cheered my walk home from the Fernhill subway station was over.
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Across the street was another subway station as Dadaistically set amid suburban grass and trees.
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They leave together and Primo walks her to the subway station on Delancey Street.
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Candy bars, bought at the Picadilly Circus subway station , had to suffice for dinner on the bus.
system
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The only reliable mode of mass transportation was the subway system .
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Rumours circulate of bombs in New York's subway system , and the poisoning of water wells.
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Mitchell visualized a hormonal flow chart that resembled a metropolitan subway system , all lines headed for the downtown station.
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Mira Sorvino stars in this dim-witted, dimly lit monster flick about gigantic cockroaches living in the New York subway system .
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Near the window, he put up a framed map of the New York City subway system .
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The map of the New York City subway system was pinned to the wall above his bed.
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The Metro subway system was operating only a limited schedule of trains, on portions of its system that are underground.
train
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Then the subway train was held up for twenty minutes.
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A speeding subway train startled them as it roared out of its tunnel like a metal earthworm.
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It had begun with a strange episode on a speeding subway train .
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The unlucky or unwary freeze in the streets or are hit by passing subway trains .
■ VERB
ride
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He rides the subway , rubs shoulders with the crowd, feels himself lunging towards a sense of the moment.
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When he rode the subway business types and blond women in pretty office wear would move away from him.
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He rode the subway up to Inwood, out to Sheepshead Bay.
take
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They took the subway out of that world every morning and returned to it every afternoon.
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I took the subway home at two in the morning, the car littered with beer cans and streamers.
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I skipped the bar and took the subway home.
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Now I had to take the subway home, and my mascara was running.
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I flew to New York and took the subway up to Harlem to view her at the funeral home.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I legged it over to Broadway and caught the subway .
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I wish I could work out how to use the subway .
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If he remembered our meeting in the subway or my relationship to my aunt, very correctly, he gave no sign.
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Mira Sorvino stars in this dim-witted, dimly lit monster flick about gigantic cockroaches living in the New York subway system.
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One of my Hope patients was married to one of the subway workmen.
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The renewal of the subway station, for example, presented a series of problems only hinted at here.
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The vision of unity I saw on that subway begins here to extend beyond humanity to the whole natural world.