noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a luxury hotel/home/apartment
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They stayed at luxury hotels during their trip.
an apartment block
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I met him at his apartment block in Manhattan.
an apartment complex American English
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a luxury apartment complex on Fulton Street
apartment block
home/hotel/apartment etc
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This is a friendly and comfortable hotel.
penthouse apartment/flat/suite
self-catering accommodation/apartment/cottage etc
view a house/an apartment/a property (= go to see a house etc that you are interested in buying )
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
large
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Aida's family own a large apartment near the city centre.
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Just two weeks ago, he voted to approve a rezoning to allow a paint shop next to a large apartment building.
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It was a large studio apartment at the top of a solidly built Edwardian villa tucked behind Regent's Park Road.
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This time she took him to a room in a large apartment block set near factories and oil-storage tanks.
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It was a large , first-floor apartment which had been furnished as a suitable setting for an up-and-coming superstar.
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When Peter was born a few years later, the family was living in a large apartment on Riverside Drive.
new
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More modestly, the same agents are offering six new apartments at Kingswear with views across to Dartmouth.
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An estimated 12, 000 new apartments are scheduled to be built in 1996, raising the flag about too many apartments.
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Finally my father found her a new apartment in a project on the Upper West Side.
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She took a trip around the world and then be-came involved in buying a new apartment .
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Many former barrio homeowners ended up in the new apartments .
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As we drove back to their new apartment he fell asleep across her lap.
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We sublet our New York apartment and gave up the one in Philadelphia.
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She has a new apartment , a new man, a new life.
private
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Lowtherstown Court has 25 private apartments designed to meet the needs of older people.
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They had private homes or apartments , country estates, special restaurants and shops.
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She didn't hear the murmur until she was standing right outside the door to Luke's private apartment .
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A lot of these buildings are co-housing: private apartments with communal kitchens and so on.
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There was only one other place he could be: in his private apartments on the third floor.
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Half a century before their quest was begun, an inventory was taken of the private apartments in Buckingham Palace.
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The family is staying in a private apartment loaned by Fergie's friend, brewing heir Peter Greenall.
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There are also small hotels, pensions, private villas and apartments .
small
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We have the ability to suit requirements ranging from small apartments from £200 per week to large houses from £2,500 per week.
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For 10 days, many small apartment buildings and old wooden houses had no heat.
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Vesa had been living in a small apartment in the Mids since their aunt had died a year back.
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There was a simplicity about the small apartment that I liked.
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He quotes about £30,000 for a small inland farmhouse or ruin needing restoration and about £25,000 for a small apartment .
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Then Marc Klaas drives to the small apartment he shares with his parents and sits down to write.
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The small apartment on Riverside Drive sounded as though it was already full to overflowing.
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Middle-class living standards here far surpass life in Moscow, where many still live dormitory-style in small apartments .
tiny
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Maidstone rented a tiny apartment at the top of a very dilapidated building in the Vomero.
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Our tiny apartment , it is true, is barely suited for two people, and certainly not for four.
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He is sitting in the living room in our tiny apartment in Nigawa.
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We have tiny apartments and kids and computers that eat up our spare time and money, for goodness' sakes.
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Fannie and Laura share a tiny loft apartment .
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This is a tiny little one-bedroom apartment , Bernie.
■ NOUN
block
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The joint venture is also planning a hotel and an office building next to the main apartment block .
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This time she took him to a room in a large apartment block set near factories and oil-storage tanks.
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On the outskirts of Tabor there were long rows of multi-storey apartment blocks of an extraordinary ugliness; many flats looked empty.
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Accordingly, he had indeed doubled the surveillance team, detailing two men to each side of the Eldorado apartment block .
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Marina's is an old apartment block on Putnik Street.
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A quiet street and the beard stood in the shade of an apartment block doorway.
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Damian got out, his arm around Domino, and they ran into an apartment block .
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Dozens of people were seen leaping from windows in the apartment blocks .
building
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The city is subsidizing private property managers to renovate and buy 200 city-owned apartment buildings .
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For 10 days, many small apartment buildings and old wooden houses had no heat.
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Treacherous relief replaced amusement and was followed by a great surge of pure excitement as she glanced up at their apartment building .
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It provides hot water units for apartment buildings and swimming pools.
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Television showed the apartment buildings spewing smoke and flames and chaotic scenes of paramedics treating people on the ground.
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Mr Roche was a tiny man who lived in a bungalow behind the apartment building .
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Check those apartment buildings next door-who owns them?
complex
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They encircle many of the city's apartment complexes .
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Police Sunday did not reveal whether the suspect they arrested early Sunday at an apartment complex was the man in the photograph.
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The plan calls for a three-story, 42-unit apartment complex that would also include retail shops.
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Next time, it was a man on foot who circled the fence around the eight-story apartment complex .
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Then the townhouses give way to dowdy apartment complexes with grimy windows facing the street.
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Next door, contractors Jeannine and Jack Perriseau are re-building another apartment complex that also was destroyed by the quake.
door
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Spiked cages surround baroque colonial villas; apartment doors are reinforced and guarded at gunpoint.
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The apartment door was already standing open and the hallway smelled of stale smoke.
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She had her own key to the front door of the house and the apartment door.
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It was a woman who opened the apartment door .
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Trent would then look through the apartment door peephole.
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I taught Carolyn once, and in a pinch she can open her apartment door without her keys.
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And inside my apartment door , even with the two locks to undo.
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Sherman passed apartment doors with innumerable locks, one above the other in drunken columns.
house
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I bet if you walked into any of those apartment houses or office blocks, you'd find zero.
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Seated at a small table in my room, I figured out how I would meet the expenses of our apartment house .
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There were now three official cars outside the apartment house .
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Across the street a doorman stood under the canopy of an apartment house , smoking a cigarette.
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It was Sunday and they had all found rooms in a commercial apartment house .
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This genteel neighborhood of tree-lined streets and solid apartment houses used to be the most fashionable address in Lima.
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Her apartment house was an imposing Napoleonic block which presented solid, unwelcoming doors to the street.
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On this side of the street, where he was walking, was a cliff of elegant apartment houses overlooking the museum.
studio
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Twice, Judy had been evicted from her studio apartment for nonpayment of rent.
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Vegh was the whole staff, assisted by his answering machine and his MacIntosh computer in his University Heights studio apartment .
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It was a large studio apartment at the top of a solidly built Edwardian villa tucked behind Regent's Park Road.
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We were cramped in my studio apartment , but the thought of the family being together was reassuring.
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Do you know what studio apartments are renting for in this neighborhood?
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Without discussing it with her, I found myself a small studio apartment and moved out.
■ VERB
build
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The two-year scheme involves converting the 1960s-\#built Royal Mail House building into 324 apartments across 14 storeys.
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Sketch phase of the approval process to build 408 apartments on 24.01 acres.
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Instead I built my own apartment .
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Construction workers use scaffolds today to build multiple-story apartments .
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For Charlie Swibel, building the apartment towers was coming a long way from being a flophouse and slum operator.
buy
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But now we're thinking of buying an apartment in Bombay because of this business we are starting with Keith and Doreen.
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But why would anyone buy their apartment if they now pay only 1 percent of their income for their current apartment?
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The city is subsidizing private property managers to renovate and buy 200 city-owned apartment buildings.
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Not long ago I met with a group of foreign Service officials who had been ordered to buy their current apartments .
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Want to buy underpriced apartments in a glamorous location that has few vacancies and little competition from new construction?
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She took a trip around the world and then be-came involved in buying a new apartment .
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Spiegel said Elizabeth Dole bought the apartment more than 10 years ago for $ 150, 000.
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Everyone was talking about it, exchanging the latest details: who pocketed the money, where they bought the apartments .
find
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Landlords were not pleased to find that their apartment blocks had overnight become the property of the tenants.
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I have to find an apartment somewhere.
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Finally my father found her a new apartment in a project on the Upper West Side.
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It was only by the damnedest luck I found his apartment .
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If she combed the hotels she could find him, but she could never find him in an apartment .
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She just found an apartment in San Jose.
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Fran Johnson found her the furnished apartment and helped her settle in.
leave
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She was still lying on the carpet five minutes later when he left the apartment .
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So I had been able to admire the strategic splendor of leaving me in our apartment .
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They'd left Rune's apartment almost immediately after breakfast.
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If you left fingerprints in his apartment , well, so what?
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He knew it was impossible for the Prophet to have left the apartment .
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As I recall, the trouble started Soon after we left the apartment , while we were still on our own stoop.
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By the time he left the apartment , it was raining.
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It was eighteen degrees Fahrenheit when he left his apartment this morning, it was over ninety when they arrived.
live
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Nicolas, 32, and his 31-year-old wife live in a modest apartment and friends say pride stopped them getting in touch with her.
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He had lived in this apartment for ten years, most of them with Mariah.
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Vanessa Smith and Shantel had been visiting a cousin, who lived in an apartment in back of theirs.
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Curtis Seber, who lived in the apartment where the fire began, said he returned to see the building in flames.
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Their names would not appear in the lists of people living in the shattered apartment blocks.
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Few actually will live in the apartments or homes they are buying.
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At this time Luke was living in a two-bedroom apartment on Yokum Drive.
move
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Two weeks later, she moved into his Manhattan apartment .
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But she soon split with her husband, and she and Nicolae moved into a one-bedroom apartment in Huntington Beach.
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Renters who move into a vacated apartment face the rude awakening of the market rate an owner is permitted to charge.
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Richard moved back to his apartment .
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Perhaps he would move into the apartment .
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So I married Jake and moved into an apartment a block away from my parents.
own
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Consider what happened to investors in a Los Angeles-based firm that owned a string of apartments and shopping centers across the West.
rent
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Yes, they said, her husband had indeed rented the apartment , from March 1985 to September 1989.
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In other words, when people rented furnished apartments , they were influenced by the style of the interiors.
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Maidstone rented a tiny apartment at the top of a very dilapidated building in the Vomero.
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Later, they rented an apartment to other refugees in a building they own.
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Alison rented an apartment near the hospital.
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Ellie had told me, two weeks after renting her apartment , that soon she would move out of the cabin.
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Zborowski had rented an apartment in the Rue Masséna, but Modigliani was restless and unsettled living in a constrained atmosphere.
share
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It is the place where the two writers and philosophers shared an apartment .
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I share an apartment with two others a student nurse and a sometime artist.
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Prices are based on 4 people sharing an apartment .
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Most families share their apartment with another family, or two.
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She knew a couple of friends elsewhere who lived together under the pretense of sharing an apartment or duplex.
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Prices are based on 3 sharing a one bedroomed apartment .
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Fannie and Laura share a tiny loft apartment .
stay
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Her mind was taken up with puzzling over a fact which had become increasingly clear the longer she stayed in the apartment .
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We never did stay in the apartment .
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If I stay in my apartment , or if I go home to my house, I am lonely.
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Only Mr Bumbieris stayed on in the apartments for years rather than moving to another part of the city.
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Whilst working, I stayed in an apartment only 20 minutes' walk from Times Square.
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Or you can stay upstairs in your apartment and the same thing will be true.
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The family is staying in a private apartment loaned by Fergie's friend, brewing heir Peter Greenall.
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He stayed in the new apartment for three days.
walk
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And he had seen me walking from my hotel apartment with Dana - Americano, he said disdainfully.
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Primo walks into his apartment , and sets the paper and the bottle of wine on the table.
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He walked back to his apartment in a downpour, getting drenched in spite of his umbrella.
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She was walking toward her apartment building.
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He walked into a modern apartment .
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Formerly an avid jogger and weight-lifter, Turner leans on a cane to walk around her small apartment on good days.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
next-door apartment/office etc
rented accommodation/housing/apartment etc
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Ed, who lives in rented accommodation, plans to use the money as a down-payment on a house.
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Many are trapped in the inner cores because of the unavailability of rented housing beyond the cities.
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Many potential homeowners decided to sit out the recession in rented accommodation, leaving their money in high-earning accounts.
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The group will also recommend improved access to private rented accommodation through rent deposit schemes.
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The report points out that the idea of local housing companies as landlord bodies for social rented housing originated in Glasgow.
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They remain very vulnerable in privately rented accommodation as they can often be ignorant of their rights.
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This would apply to rented accommodation, council houses, etc.
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Those in public and privately rented housing do not obtain the same sense of personal identity.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a one-bedroom apartment
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High-rise apartment buildings have gone up where once there was open land.
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Small apartment buildings filled with families line the street.
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There was no point in paying rent for an empty apartment .
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They went back to her apartment for a cup of coffee.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But she soon split with her husband, and she and Nicolae moved into a one-bedroom apartment in Huntington Beach.
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I walked the stretch of road from our apartment to the Mekong Grocery.
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Oh, they had a fantastic apartment in New York as well, and two beautiful children.
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One night, in the late 70s, a large group of people broke into Zofia's apartment while Bronislaw was away.
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Our tiny apartment , it is true, is barely suited for two people, and certainly not for four.
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Primo walks into his apartment , and sets the paper and the bottle of wine on the table.