adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
apart from
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We didn’t see anyone all day, apart from a couple of kids on the beach.
coming apart at the seams (= failing completely )
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She felt as if her life was coming apart at the seams .
falling apart at the seams
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The health service is falling apart at the seams .
farther away/apart/down/along etc
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The boats were drifting farther and farther apart.
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a resort town farther up the coast
farthest away/apart etc
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She lived farthest away from school of all of us.
Quite apart from
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Quite apart from the cost, we need to think about how much time the job will take.
spaced...apart
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They used three microphones spaced several yards apart .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
blow
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As three more shots rang out, the push-chair blew apart .
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Others had been hit by pieces of trees or bomb fragments and blown apart .
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To stop the people going back, their homes are shelled, shot up and blown apart .
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Living away from each other, the extended family has been blown apart .
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Everyone on the bridge of the Raubvogel ducked as a pane of glass was blown apart .
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The old world has been blown apart .
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It was in the film to be blown apart .
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The ship had clearly been blown apart .
break
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She curled up in a tight ball as though to stop herself from breaking apart .
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Picnickers sat on the stones and they fell over; they broke apart .
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But as the temperature of the material rises thermal vibrations cause the pairs to break apart and superconducting ceases.
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Either with an-other partner might be a happy person, yet, out of fear they can not break apart .
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Quite large accretions of atoms can form, and they can crumble and break apart again.
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They frequently shifted and broke apart under the warming sun, sounding like thunder, booming cannonades and shotgun blasts.
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His religious faith, which had always been a rationalistic, brittle thing, simply broke apart .
come
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It is, however, the point where the valley comes apart , dividing into a western and an eastern branch.
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More often than not, the lashing simply came apart in my hands.
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Judi was coming apart inside her waistcoat.
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There is a general agreement of how it came apart .
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She was an idiot, coming apart at the seams, and she hadn't written a word.
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The pilot reported engine problems, and survivors said they could see the left engine begin to come apart .
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In fact, the plastic or cloth covering can come apart , exposing the foam padding.
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The glass came apart like water splashing, and the nurse threw her hands to her ears.
drift
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Later in life, Lewis and his father drifted apart , never to be reconciled.
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We grew up, went off to different places, drifted apart .
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Jabbing with the point he kept off Alexei's attack until the reaction of their mid-air collision made them drift apart again.
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If there is any twosome in a family likely to drift apart , it is a pair of brothers.
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If you do nothing, there's a danger you could drift apart .
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Amelia was still engaged to Sam Chapman, but in fact she had been drifting apart from him for some time.
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Without the cement of regular meetings or contact, they gradually began to drift apart .
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Where languages grow most unlike one another as they drift apart is in the shapes of their words.
fall
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Mukhamedov's defection two years ago, just as Communism was falling apart , will not be forgiven in a hurry.
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My grocery bag started to fall apart , so I held it under my coat.
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Conversely, political integration will inevitably fall apart if there is no financial benefit.
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I had lost her face and I felt my own features fall apart like an old brick hotel in a Frisco earthquake.
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And every so often, of course, things fell apart .
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I was able to talk with visitors offering condolences, to endure two memorial ceremonies without falling apart .
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The taxi was clattering away and I thought it would fall apart at any moment.
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Andy Hertzfeld recalls being so stunned at the defection that he felt the entire project might fall apart .
grow
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Such barrenness is the inevitable outcome where two people are growing apart and out of love.
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Instead, it was suggested the couple, who married in their early 20s, had simply grown up and grown apart .
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Work-inhibited students have not grown apart from their parents and become independent.
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Virgin and Coutts had long been growing apart .
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You grow apart from certain kind of shows.
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He said he and wife Brenda had been growing apart for at least a year.
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Just grown apart , Sam supposed.
keep
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Similarly the draw will attract as much interest for those it keeps apart as those it brings together.
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It was impossible that these two whose hearts were on fire should be kept apart .
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The Procedure Committee wanted these three categories to be kept apart .
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It was decided that Albright herself be kept apart from those discussions, since she still had to work with Boutros-Ghali.
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Until this weekend mother and children had only been kept apart by official engagements.
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The arms were kept apart , in precious and beautifully crafted silver cases.
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Keep apart from raw foods in the fridge.
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Lovers, for example, are generally kept apart by wars or political circumstances rather than by simple misunderstandings.
live
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It's usually a trouble-free procedure, but occasionally there's a problem over whether you've really been living apart .
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We have made a decision to live apart .
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But the courts will only agree that they're living apart if the husband and wife run totally different lives.
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Father and son lived apart and became estranged.
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After a short time in Johannesburg, Grace and Herbert started living apart .
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Latimer is living apart from people, divorced even from religious faith by his visions, when Charles Meunier pays a visit.
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And, of course, not sleep together, which they mustn't do if they're living apart either.
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Kathy and I have never lived apart .
pull
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But I fear we are now being pulled apart - by commercial pressures and by the changes forced upon the broadcasting environment.
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He said something, and they pulled apart and both started talking at once.
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The kill is pulled apart in a way most people would find unedifying, despite assurances.
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He succeeded in pulling apart my clenched arms and started on my legs.
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Then comes anaphase I: the quartet of chromatids are pulled apart so as to form two sets of paired chromatids.
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Does the crust separate or pull apart from itself just under the dome?
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Concrete is extremely strong when compressed but has no strength at all when pulled apart .
rip
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Most of the craft had been cannibalized and ripped apart .
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The bomb which ripped apart bus No. 18 in the capital hurled bodies as far as 50 yards.
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To produce a sail he had ripped apart his military uniform.
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Before our eyes the land is literally being ripped apart .
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Three foxes were saved from being savagely ripped apart .
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To reward him for this good behavior, I ripped apart the cedar waxwing and handed it to him in little pieces.
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The centres of our old cities have been ripped apart to make way for it.
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For one, legal training is great for teaching lawyers how to rip apart facts and legal doctrines analytically.
set
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One road is set apart for the testing of the heating apparatus, etc., on vehicles.
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Set apart from the rest of the town, the palaces were grouped near that of the Shogun.
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Light is set apart From the reality we both restored To one another.
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Three or four blackboards, two of them broken, made them seem a little bit set apart .
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This balance was what set apart the New Testament view from its Greco-Roman surroundings.
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But what sets apart Silvers' Grocery Store and others like it is the upstairs-downstairs, shopkeeper nature of the business.
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Traditionally, these days were set apart for special prayer and fasting.
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They are used in combination to set apart two main groups, the detrital and the chemical.
split
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The graduate's skull split apart into four pieces like a coconut.
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A brother and sister are split apart , and his identity gets swallowed up in an institution.
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There was a muffled explosion, and the air beside the sergeant seemed to split apart .
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Single-issue, factional politics has split apart the parties' traditional coalitions.
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After Beethoven, the two split apart .
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He felt his chest chopped down and split apart .
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In the post-war world the fireside has been split apart , indeed subsumed to the kitchen.
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But for a time in 1990 it seemed likely to split apart .
stand
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I recognized that what I liked in Dad and Charlie was their insistence on standing apart .
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He was perfectly happy to stand apart from his colleagues.
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We observe its regularities, its comings and goings through and in ourselves, yet we are unable to stand apart .
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How then do I stand apart ?
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Philippa, standing apart , knew which man she herself was praying for.
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Let them stand apart from the novel itself.
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All the farmers stood apart in groups, looking around.
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It also stands apart from leading a single initiative.
take
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We need to know how things are related, not just how they can be taken apart .
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Beginning next month, more Crissy Field buildings will be taken apart , opening more Bay vistas to hikers and bike riders.
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They were tested at speed, with weights and eventually taken apart .
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He ended up buying this austere Cistercian monastery, which he had taken apart and shipped to San Francisco.
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I had my soul, past and present, taken apart by a psychiatrist.
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He started taking apart the engineering of the scene, keeping count of the timing in his head.
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As we take apart the fight story, more and more men seem to be pushing in with their own excited commentaries.
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Every time I went through an airport security system it was me they took apart .
tear
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For those whose lives have been torn apart , Victim Support offers a lifeline.
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More water has been destroyed by ultraviolet sunlight, torn apart into oxygen and hydrogen.
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In practice instruments could not survive such a journey; they would be torn apart by the increasing gravitational field gradients.
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He ripped up grass; tore apart moss; picked up pebbles, sticks, and twigs.
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The play portrays a good marriage torn apart by external forces.
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At age eight, Ryan tore apart a broken television set and tried to reassemble it.
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They feed on large tough fruits and other vegetable matter, including bark which they can tear apart with their strong hands.
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Perhaps you tore apart a car engine and reassembled it in moments flat.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be coming/falling apart at the seams
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The country's whole economy is coming apart at the seams .
be falling apart
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I need some new shoes. These are falling apart.
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San Diego's public buildings are falling apart, but the city refuses to do anything about it.
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That car of yours is falling apart.
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But things were falling apart much earlier than expected.
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Everything was falling apart, and I didn't know how to stop it.
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How does a man even try to explain that he is falling apart because he doesn't kill people any more?
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Mukhamedov's defection two years ago, just as Communism was falling apart, will not be forgiven in a hurry.
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She liked her old apartment, but the neighborhood was falling apart.
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The 911 system is falling apart.
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The Underground seemed to be falling apart.
be poles apart
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Tokyo and Washington remain poles apart on the issue of free trade.
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I suppose that logicians and physicists normally consider themselves to be poles apart.
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Our views may be poles apart but they're not saboteurs.
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The results are poles apart in terms of character ... each room has a distinctive style of its own.
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The two feelings were poles apart.
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Their childhoods, like almost everything else about them, were poles apart.
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This is an area of human emotion so fraught with difficulty that attitudes to it are poles apart.
joking apart/aside
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Peter joking apart have the tories done themselves any good this week?
pull sb ↔ apart
pull sb/sth ↔ apart
pull sth ↔ apart
pull sth ↔ apart
sb's world/life falls apart
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When your world falls apart, do you get mad, get out or get even?
tear sth ↔ apart
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Before that you have a genetic desire to inspect everything, to tear everything apart.
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I would never have believed then, that jealousy would tear us apart.
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It allows the vehicle to manoeuvre without tearing itself apart on the back axle.
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Little Charlie and the Nightcats tear things apart tomorrow night.
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Reg tore this apart and produced wonderful cool refreshing water which revived us all.
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The protest was tearing Holy Trinity apart.
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Tigers have attacked the dummies and torn them apart without any sign of being discouraged by the sharp jolt they have received.
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Why tear the church apart sO you can see the priest say Mass?
tear sth ↔ apart
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Before that you have a genetic desire to inspect everything, to tear everything apart.
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I would never have believed then, that jealousy would tear us apart.
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It allows the vehicle to manoeuvre without tearing itself apart on the back axle.
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Little Charlie and the Nightcats tear things apart tomorrow night.
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Reg tore this apart and produced wonderful cool refreshing water which revived us all.
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The protest was tearing Holy Trinity apart.
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Tigers have attacked the dummies and torn them apart without any sign of being discouraged by the sharp jolt they have received.
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Why tear the church apart sO you can see the priest say Mass?
wide open/awake/apart
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He sat with his legs wide apart.
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It was 3 a.m., but I was wide awake.
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The door was wide open when we got here.
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After an hour, though still wide awake, I crimped the page and turned off the light.
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But from what I gathered at the arts fair, the field is pretty wide open.
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My big worry is that the Monster will come wide awake and ruin things with its gross demands.
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The doors of the Conch cafe were wide open with no sign of Huong or Anna; they had probably evacuated.
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The main door stood wide open making a through draught.
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These are still very early days and the options are wide open.
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They were certainly the first means of crossing wide open spaces that are still vast and untamed, even today.
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Turning the corner into Polly's road, Jack noticed suddenly that the door to her house was wide open.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Helen noticed one little boy standing apart from the rest of the group.
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I hate it when we're apart .
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Jo and Sam decided to try living apart for a while.
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Since the universe began, the galaxies have gradually moved further apart .
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Stand on the skis with your feet well apart .
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The National Weather Service is forecasting snow in cities as far apart as Atlanta, Boston, and Cleveland.
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The seeds should be planted a few inches apart .
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The two cities are less than 30 km apart .
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The two sets of rival fans had to be kept apart by the police.
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The two towns are fifteen miles apart .
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We were standing a few feet apart from each other.