noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
military
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We saw the big white bird bank over the town, and then land at the new military airfield .
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She would leave for the Potsdam military airfield on Saturday morning.
■ VERB
take
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But it was unlucky 13 when he took off from an airfield in Yorkshire in a Halifax bomber.
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Among the more unusual jobs Amelia took on at the airfield was decorating the public rooms.
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Its number was 4224 painted white underneath, and it was taken to Marshall's airfield at Cambridge to be assembled.
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Male speaker I took off from an airfield near Stroud and flew to Basingstoke.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A few days later a 69 Squadron Maryland approached the airfield , looking for all the world like a Ju88.
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But it was unlucky 13 when he took off from an airfield in Yorkshire in a Halifax bomber.
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During 9 March numerous single aircraft appeared overhead to strafe Takali airfield .
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Graf von Kageneck is helped into his parachute harness by his ground crew on a Sicilian airfield in May 1941.
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That burst finally convinced somebody in airfield defence.
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The result in the vote against the development and for the retention of the airfield was unanimous.
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Trying to exit the airfield after the show ended resulted in large queues of vehicles all trying to get out of one gate.