noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
see
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It's really weird seeing yourself on telly .
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These people wanted to see the Skeldale House they saw on the telly .
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You see it on telly , it goes down in sections and crumples in a huge cloud of dust.
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She's like one of them underwater swimmers I seen on telly - you know, all slow and graceful like.
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I saw it on the telly before I was banged up.
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She had seen him on the telly - he had been on the early evening news tooting his trumpet.
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I saw them on telly at my mate's house.
turn
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Once inside No. 23, David turned on the telly .
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Crilly turns off the telly and puts on a Billie Holiday record.
watch
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But what would we watch on telly when bowlers finished matches early?
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Why do we want to watch traffic jams on telly ?
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Do the bottom shuffle while watching telly .
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I stay there a bit watching a telly programme with this man doing stuff.
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It seemed like she wasn't really watching the figures on telly though.
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She just carries on watching the telly .
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The shift finishes at 2.30am, just as Britain is washing up or settling down on the sofa to watch the telly .
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They wanted to get home to watch telly .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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It's true, I saw it on some show on the telly .
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We've just bought a new telly .
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You can watch telly after you've done your homework.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And the only man in a dress on telly was Les Dawson.
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But what would we watch on telly when bowlers finished matches early?
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If he didn't become a telly millionaire turning out musical trash they could be flogged for a few pounds.
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If they think of history, it may be hard not to see it in dressing-up terms from telly watching.
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It was back to square one: telly 24 hours a day.
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That Aussie on the telly championing the Outback is merely praising its warm-weather virtue.
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There was a lovely picture of him on telly last night peering woefully over the fence dressed in snazzy suit.
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They work so well in most of his sharp, documentary-style insights on the telly .