I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a coach tour
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How about going on a coach tour around Europe this year?
a concert tour (= a journey made by musicians to perform in different places )
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This year we did a concert tour of the United States.
a cricket tour (= a trip to a different country to play cricket )
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England's cricket tour to the West Indies
a lecture tour (= a trip that someone takes to many different places to give a lecture )
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He’s on a lecture tour of the US.
a tour of duty (= period of working in another country as a soldier, government officer etc )
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He became a General, and his tours of duty included Korea and Vietnam.
a tour of inspection (= an official visit to inspect something )
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Morris took off on his tour of inspection.
a touring/travelling exhibition (= one that moves from place to place )
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The touring exhibition is scheduled to be in Dallas from March until June.
go on a trip/tour/cruise etc
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My parents are going on a cruise.
grand tour
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They took us on a grand tour of their new house.
guided tour
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You will be taken on a guided tour of the palace.
mystery tour
package tour
tour de force
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His speech to the Democratic Convention was a tour de force.
tour guide
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a tour guide
tour of duty
tour operator (= company that arranges holidays )
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Julian travelled with Caribbean Connection, the UK's leading Caribbean tour operator .
tour operator
walking holiday/tour etc (= a holiday on which you walk a lot, especially in the countryside )
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
current
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Perhaps some were just following the current fashionable tour .
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The current tour is on the road for 11 weeks before a London season.
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The Seattle-based singer stunned fans when nodded off on stage at a packed stadium on his band's current U.S. tour .
grand
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Come on, Miss, the grand tour .
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Make a kind of grand tour on my own, take the waters and cure what ails me.
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The world with Palin is armchair travel on the scale of the grand tour , in the company of an agreeable guide.
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The market place can be confusing but Trader Horn picks his way through the mire Going for the grand tour .
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Travel: Grand tours with great commentators Which cultural holiday?
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The rich also visited Madeira in their private yachts as part of a grand tour .
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Edouard, at Isobel's suggestion, took her on a grand tour .
guided
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She was most meticulous in her guided tour , opening every door.
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National Trust Gift Shop, educational facilities, light refreshments and guided tours are available in the Summer.
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Cost is £3.50 a person - or £8 for the family - and the guided tour holds a hidden bonus.
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A variety of holidays in locations at home and abroad including guided tours have been arranged for them annually for many years.
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For women alone, it is not advisable to go sightseeing at night unless it is with a guided tour of nightspots.
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Salzburg is a fascinating city too, and the guided tour is by far the best way to get your initial bearings.
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Underground Works: Take an audio guided tour of these fascinating tunnels and works that date back to 1216.
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Don't let the ultra-sophisticates put you off the guided city tour .
national
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Meanwhile, it is launching into an impressive national tour .
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Seibel has exclusive rights to play the late, witty illustrator, and comes to Tucson as part of a national tour .
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They're working an intense 8-hour day, 5 days a week in preparation for a national tour in March.
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Throughout the next two decades, she ran Buffalo Booking, organizing national tours for its clients.
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All the brothers are attending the opening nights of the show, which is seven weeks into a national tour .
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The Alley dancers went back out on the road in May to continue their national tour of mostly one-night stands.
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The show, premiered last night, is beginning a national tour .
recent
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Won't Pay! in from a recent tour and directed by Romy Baskerville.
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During a recent three-year tour of duty as a newspaper correspondent in the Middle East I found abundant cause for both.
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A recent study tour found the use of video and screens had reduced as children were better empowered.
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During a recent pickup truck tour , Frank Sharp drove along a section of fence on the northeastern edge of the property.
short
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In the spring of 1989, the augmented Wedding Present line-up completed a short tour to promote the record.
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In Part Five, I provide a short tour of the history of economic thought.
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In the short term the tour management may feel bound to stick with the hairline decision they took before the Galle Test.
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Lindford are planning a short tour of Kent in May.
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Afterwards there was gloomy talk that short tours by Home Unions might not have much appeal for either country in the future.
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A short guided tour of the workplace, with explanations and a chance to ask questions may come first.
■ NOUN
bus
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She says we went on a bus tour and learnt about the architecture and colleges.
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Also, bus tours of Historic Los Angeles are available.
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A two-hour bus tour takes in the main sites and ends at a peak overlooking the city.
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Group bus tours are, for the most part, great ways for seniors to travel.
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Jesse Ventura will visit northwestern Minnesota next week as part of a two-day, 12-city bus tour .
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On Thursday and Friday, Dole will resume his bus tour , traveling in Ohio.
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After that, a quick bus tour of Managua.
company
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More widespread are the commission arrangements with theatre agencies and tour companies .
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Nearrecovery came after a lobby conference with the tour company manager, who agreed to replace our guide.
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Now Butlins itself is struggling, its customers lured overseas by the package tour companies .
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You know, I have my own tour company .
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Even the tour companies themselves include a range of different brand names under their umbrellas.
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The taxi driver who approached us outside the terminal was fluent enough to say he had been sent by the tour company .
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That could drive some tour companies out of business, they said.
guide
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He likes his new life as a tour guide better, he says, because he likes people.
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Was I expected to take time off from work to play tour guide , as our host in New Zealand had?
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The official tour guide , a close-cropped ragga called Garfield Logan, asks us to leave our shoes outside.
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This act of gross indecency provoked stern disapproval from the tour guide .
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The tour guides say it took a year to sculpt each ceiling.
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Most of these groups are missing from both hipster tour guides and the colonial archive.
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Hostetler served as tour guide , supervising an offense that shed its lingering turnover habit.
operator
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Accommodation Eleven years as the principal tour operators in Nidri enable us to choose the best accommodation in town.
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Need help in checking on the reliability of a travel agency or tour operator ?
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And resorts, tour operators and shops can not afford to advertise if they are on the breadline.
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These should be confirmed with travel agents or tour operators .
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Ask your tour operator where the water in your hotel comes from.
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Euro Disney claims that one of its tour operators has sold 70 percent of its first three months of Euro Disney allocations.
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It has become such an attraction that local tour operators are beating a path to its door.
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Alternatively, use Air Miles to get generous discounts on holidays with leading tour operators .
package
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The package tour was not dead, it had gone up market and further afield.
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Now Butlins itself is struggling, its customers lured overseas by the package tour companies.
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Finally, when choosing an overseas package tour , do not skimp.
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The air inclusive package tour holiday requires a certain amount of compliant behaviour in order to work.
world
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This lunch-hour world tour ends with a jaunt to Baja.
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I was only sixteen; they wouldn't let me go on a world tour .
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The federation was irate because it had wanted to send them on a world tour after the World Cup.
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After 18 months in the studio they feel a little extra help is needed to prepare them for their world tour .
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Her two Los Angeles performances were part of the first leg of a world tour that will last eight months.
■ VERB
arrange
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To keep the supporters out of mischief during the morning, Chapman arranged tours of a local factory and brewery.
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Pressplan Travel has arranged a special inclusive tour to cover the first three days of the fair.
begin
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Khatami arrived in Shiraz Monday morning to begin a four-day inspection tour of the province.
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Wade, begins a two-month speaking tour this month, says the Advocate.
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Speaker Gingrich is scheduled to begin a nationwide fund-raising tour this week.
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Now, he looked at them, shrugged, and began a quick tour of the house.
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Our visit began with a tour of the house, which was more like a museum than a house.
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They began a tour of inspection and almost immediately discovered the wrought-iron crypt gate swinging open.
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As Joe and Rex looked on doubtfully, I began an inspection tour of the entire raft.
conduct
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His company, Motherland Connections, conducts tours of the sites in New York state.
follow
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Yorick had wanted the Hammersmith Odeon for his comeback concert, followed by a nationwide tour of Britain's major cities.
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There will be an introduction to the company, giving the history and manufacturing processes, followed by a tour .
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Perhaps some were just following the current fashionable tour .
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This is followed by a tour of the National Stud.
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The course would be followed by a world tour .
give
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He founded a school, which he had to finance by writing journalism and giving exhausting lecture tours in the United States.
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They give a proud tour of the five-bedroom country home set way in the back of a gated development.
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You will be given a guided tour and then return via the Lech valley.
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As the director gave us a tour , searing winter winds funnelled through the hallway.
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The civic visitors were given an extensive tour of the showroom, factory, visitor centre and museum.
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It was while being given an introductory tour of Grove House.
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So, at a convenient time during your weekend stay, we will give you a personal tour of our exquisite homes.
include
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The visit will include a tour , a demonstration and a visit to the shop.
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Stock companies included Navasota on their tours , performing there on Friday nights and Saturday afternoons.
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The Jockey Club Rooms, hung with many famous paintings of important horses, can also be included in these stimulating tours .
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Short tours as well as package deals that include a tour, a gourmet dinner and a show are available.
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In some schools the children's toilets are included in the conducted tour for potential new parents.
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The itinerary includes a one-day city tour highlighting the history of the tango.
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In addition, many major tour operators include tours of Far Eastern islands in their long-haul programmes.
lead
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This is due to the very experienced local guides who will lead every tour .
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Other tours: Park Service rangers lead a number of tours to undeveloped caverns inside the park.
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Many employ highly qualified environmentalists to lead their tours .
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Textile artist Beth Kellman will lead the tour .
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They led me on a tour of the preserve one recent afternoon.
offer
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It would be no good us offering just tour operator packages.
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It offers recommended tour itineraries and includes money-saving coupons.
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She did not offer us a tour of the house.
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When local schools start this fall, the museum will offer tours for students, he added.
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First, ski-guiding - now widely offered by tour operators.
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Country Boy Mine offers underground mine tours 10 a. m.-5 p. m. daily, except Mondays.
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Volunteers cheerfully offer small tours and short history lessons.
take
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In the morning Henry introduced me to the exam candidates, and I was taken on a four-hour tour of the hospital.
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People of all types take this tour .
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At a school in Kent pupils beginning Key Stage 2 were taken on an exploratory tour of a certain street.
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The company still gathered there to board the buses that would take them out on tour .
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After mass a lay brother offered to take us on a tour of the church and other interesting sights of the abbey.
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Union representatives will also take part in the tour .
walk
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But there were groups arriving from Bicester, Banbury and Amersham for a walking tour of London.
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On the day before we left, we joined a Friday afternoon walking tour devoted to the film.
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Walking history: Several companies operate walking tours in the Old Town.
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On Sunday, free walking tours explore El Presidio and surrounding downtown neighborhoods.
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Adventures on a Shoestring has been offering a variety of 90-minute weekend walking tours of New York City for 34 years.
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He wants to make it a walking tour .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the grand tour
whistle-stop tour/trip
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In twenty-four hours she has been on a whistle-stop tour of three countries.
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No more whistle-stop tours of the newest shopping centre in Nuneaton to look forward to.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a bicycle tour
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a three-year tour in Germany with the Army
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Did you see Bruce Springsteen on his last tour ?
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Norton is on tour promoting her new children's book.
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Package tours that include tickets to Olympic events have sold well.
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The tour includes stops in Salzburg and Vienna.
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The last leg of the tour will take the team to Dallas.
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The prime minister has left for a three-week tour of South America.
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They like to take package tours because they hate dealing with details.
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We took a bicycle tour of Tuscany.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Baltimore Mayor Kurt Schmoke is putting up a crab cake dinner, and a tour of Baltimore.
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Half its resorts have snowshoe tours.
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It was the latter's first innings of the tour .
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Naturally there's plenty of wine-tasting tours, visits to the huge cellars and between June and October wine festivals are held.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
extensively
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Steve and Maggie have toured extensively and together present a unique blend of traditional and Tilston material.
round
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A bit later on, I saw you touring round with the army recruiting drive, giving demonstration bouts.
■ NOUN
area
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Jonathan's father owned a villa close to St Tropez, and she and Jonathan had toured the area extensively with friends.
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Jesse Ventura may tour flood damaged areas during his bus trip next week to northwestern Minnesota.
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About forty-seven bands had competed in Uppermill in 1984, but there were ninety-four bands touring the area .
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When Vice-President Nixon toured the area in 1958 he was pelted with rotten eggs and jostled by angry demonstrators.
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The vehicles will be given to the National Association of Boys' Clubs and will tour run-down inner-city areas .
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He had been touring in the liberated areas trying to get agriculture going again.
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Otherwise, devote a Saturday to touring the area .
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A military police patrol asked that he tour the area with them to find his friend.
band
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About forty-seven bands had competed in Uppermill in 1984, but there were ninety-four bands touring the area.
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By now the band were alternating their touring and recording schedules at a hectic pace.
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Indeed, some bands are unable to tour without their record company's financial support.
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And few bands tour as incessantly as the Spin Doctors.
company
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The company has been touring the play around Gloucestershire encouraging their evening audiences to give their reaction right after each performance.
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So successful were these plays that the company toured them to the 1987 Los Angeles Festival.
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So Joel Hall, whose Chicago-based company is currently touring an evening of jazz-derived choreography, might have proved a useful model.
country
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With alternating success and failure in various new plays Philip Drew once again toured the country .
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The group of about 30 actors has toured the country and conducted summer workshops.
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This year he toured all Opec countries to invite them to the summit.
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She was touring the country with schoolmates.
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The man behind the craze is currently touring the country in a one man and his puppets show.
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As they toured the country showing the fruits of seismic tomography, they fanned the flames of interest in this new technique.
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The firm is now touring the country teaching vicars the value of increased security.
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They would tour all over the country for wages of a few shillings a week.
group
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About 20 groups toured the plant, stopping at strategic points for an explanation of the process.
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If you arrive after the introductory talk, please feel free to join an escorted group or to tour the School unaccompanied.
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A group of senior industrialists toured the new site with a view to using the facility.
summer
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In 1961 he spent the summer vacation touring with blues singer Sam Cooks.
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A summer tour awaits the band.
world
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My choice in life would be to tour the world on a £10,000 Harley-Davidson or fill my garage with motorcycles.
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He seemed to be touring other worlds .
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Thereafter she toured the world with formidable endurance under often gruelling conditions of travel, climate, and work.
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And his hits continue to tour the world .
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I think she's toured half the world by now.
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Since 1997, her remains have been touring the world , drawing crowds wherever they go.
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A show of his, including both paintings and films, is currently touring the world .
■ VERB
begin
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As the company grew it began to tour abroad.
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Sukarno began to tour Java, addressing massive crowds on the theme of the awakening of national consciousness.
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Fort Sumter, where the Civil War began , can be toured after a boat ride from the city.
continue
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And his hits continue to tour the world.
record
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He was also in the huge orchestra which recorded and toured performing Charles Mingus's monumental composition Epitaph.
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The guitarist-vocalist duo has been recording and touring as a team for nearly 11 years.
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He also had a recording and touring career.
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John Paul Jones recorded and toured with Diamanda Galas last year.
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They recorded and toured together, raising a ruckus as well as awareness about violence toward women.
spend
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In 1961 he spent the summer vacation touring with blues singer Sam Cooks.
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A very pleasant day can be spent touring the Fylde villages with their market days and craft exhibitions.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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For our summer vacation this year we're touring Spain in a camper.
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Haynes recorded with Charlie Parker and toured with Sarah Vaughan in the 1950s.
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Sosa toured the world with an Afro-Cuban jazz band.
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The team is currently touring Australia in a series of friendly games.
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The theatre company will tour later this year.
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We shall tour the city for two hours and then meet back at the bus.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He seemed to be touring other worlds.
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Lots of boats and ferries tour the islands, and many excursions are available.
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Relentless international touring was to keep the company afloat financially for three years.
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Steve and Maggie have toured extensively and together present a unique blend of traditional and Tilston material.
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The following morning there will be an opportunity to tour some of the local cultural attractions in informal groups.
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The man behind the craze is currently touring the country in a one man and his puppets show.