noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
large
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The Foundation was housed in a large Edwardian villa next door to the church.
roman
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The merchant stared round the ruined Roman villa .
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Found in a Roman villa at Lullingstone, Kent.
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Many Roman villas were built in the form of a rectangle - buildings on three sides and a wall on the fourth.
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It was discovered at the earlier date that the remains of an impressive Roman villa straddled the course boundary.
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The town of Brading has a Roman villa with fine mosaic floors and a medieval church.
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An excavation of a Roman villa , for example, can produce several tons of small fragments of pottery, glass and tiles.
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Rebuild the Roman villa and use it for a hydro and health farm.
suburban
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We parked in a pleasant street, lined with trees and filled with detached and semi-detached suburban villas .
■ VERB
build
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The materials used to build villas varied according to what was easily available nearby.
buy
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He has just bought a neo-classical villa in Hamburg, a few hundred metres from the house where he was born.
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The only problem is - Francisco and I are buying this villa from Mum and Dad.
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The Chicheley-Smythes have bought an absolutely super villa in Sardinia and say we could rent it if we'd like to.
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Last year his family bought a villa in a smart Athens suburb.
own
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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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Devlin's parents owned a holiday villa there.
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Meon Holidays owns a number of villas in the central village of Oasis de Nazaret.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Guy Sterne's magnificent villa stood alone, on its own private crescent of beach.
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Last year his family bought a villa in a smart Athens suburb.
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She studied my schedule and booked us into a villa in Aruba for a week.
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The materials used to build villas varied according to what was easily available nearby.
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Then Miguel himself came round the corner of the villa , dressed in a white open-necked shirt and dark fitted trousers.
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There was somebody moving around in the villa .
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Together they went back inside the villa .