I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bare floor (= not covered by anything )
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Father Murphy led me to a tiny room with a bare floor and a simple bed.
an absolute/bare minimum (= the very least amount )
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He paid in five pounds, the bare minimum needed to keep the bank account open.
bare essentials (= the most necessary things )
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We only had the bare essentials .
bare rock (= not covered by soil )
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Here there was only bare rock and gravel.
bare wood (= not painted or covered )
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The floors were of bare wood.
bare your teeth (= show them, especially in an angry or threatening way )
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The dog bared its teeth and snarled.
bare (= not covered by clothes )
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She wore no stockings and her arms were bare.
bare (= without any socks or shoes )
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The marble floor felt cold under his bare feet.
bare (= not covered by trees or grass )
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There were no flowers or grass, just bare earth.
bare
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The sun beat down on her bare head.
bare (= not covered by clothes )
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The workmen all had bare chests.
stripped bare
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The apartment had been stripped bare .
the bare facts (= only the basic general facts of a situation )
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We know the bare facts of his life, but nothing about what he was really like.
the bare outline (= one with no details at all )
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The paragraph gives readers only the bare outline of Milton's life.
the basic/bare necessities
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A lot of families cannot even afford to buy the basic necessities of life.
with your bare hands (= without using a tool, weapon, machine etc )
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With his bare hands he forced the doors apart.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
arm
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It was easy enough to hang around in the courtyard enjoying the soft splash of sunlight on her bare arms .
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A drop of water fell on her bare arm and she jerked, a little bitten-off exclamation.
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Tonight ... The cool air caressed her bare arms , and Folly shivered and turned back towards the house.
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The sun was blazing hot, the skin of my bare arm beginning to burn.
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It's advisable not to have bare arms or legs though, because the matting can burn your skin if you fall.
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His fingers felt warm and strong on her bare arm .
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The blanket settled over her shoulders and around her cold bare arms .
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She was thin and her bare arms were muscular.
back
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They worked with a will, luxuriating in the feel of the sun on their bare backs .
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The sudden appearance of her bare back made him cough.
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Gallagher brought his arm back and over and laid the lash across Luke's bare back.
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His bare back began to look very red an d he kept waving his arms at the insects which he was disturbing.
bone
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The strength of this book is that it puts flesh on the bare bones of this argument.
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But Forbes' state organization can still be described as bare bones .
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Rip Rig created a heady hybrid out of the bare bones of jazz improvisation, dub-funk rhythms and punk attitude.
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The above is the bare bones of the arrangement.
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To clothe these bare bones we have to find other material.
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We have outlined only the bare bones of the B &038; B method.
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With blood pouring from the bare bone he made it to a pub near Loose, Kent, where regulars called 999.
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Many different lines of evidence may be used to flesh out the bare bones of the fossils.
branch
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The wind passed over them and rustled the bare branches of the trees and they still stood.
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Surely those green leaves are hiding bare branches .
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She hopped clear and opened her wings and in one sudden jump was up on the bare branch .
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The outermost limits came first - the sky, with a pale shine of overcast through the bare branches of the trees.
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When the winter wind whistled through the bare branches , the fragrance of this spicy cake was comforting.
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A mist was already descending and clung to the bare branches of the trees.
chest
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His almost bare chest and the high, curved horns he wears accentuate his height and his slender build.
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When Clark Gable removed his shirt to reveal a bare chest , sales of undershirts plummeted.
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Her hands spreading over my bare chest .
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Five workmen stood near the heat, bare chests sweating, shoulders goose-pimpled.
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His bare chest was bronzed and lightly coated with dark hair, darker than that on his head.
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After what seemed like hours, the chief leaned forward, necklaces rattling like dice on his bare chest .
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As they answer she leans back, and her nightdress brushes against my bare chest and tickles my hair.
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The little hand resting against his bare chest was suddenly ice-cold.
earth
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The floor was of bare earth , and a ring of wooden poles supported the roof.
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There is nothing to be seen on the spot but bare earth .
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Over the winter the distinctive bare earth is ground up and massed into sharp ruts by tractor tyres.
essential
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Learn how to distil large quantities of information into their bare essentials . 7.
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Reduced to the bare essentials , the divergent internal performance patterns looked like the figure on page 264.
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Despite a lifestyle stripped to the bare essentials , they are also some of the most visually arresting animals in the desert.
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Her bag was light now, only packed with the bare essentials .
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Yet Gloria herself never seemed to hold on to more than the bare essentials that they had in their two paper carriers.
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Now, she was stripped down to the bare essentials of her person, trying to deal with her knowledge.
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But even with only the barest essentials , the list is as long as my arm.
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So it pays to cut it down to the bare essentials - the minimum you feel is necessary.
fact
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Loretta peered at the bare facts of Puddephat's life.
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After relating the bare facts of the suicide decades later, Dan looked away, shuddering to keep his composure.
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He was without doubt the very worst kind of news reporter, taking a few bare facts and embroidering them into a story!
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And in some one as private as Langford, I find the bare fact of this confession remarkable.
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There is only room here to outline the bare facts about cuts and the main lines of argument that surround them.
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The bare fact is that the clerk did not look for the purse.
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And you define yourself by the words you use, in my case words that seek to present bare facts .
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The bare facts about Brimmer, complete with hard evidence, were ready to hand over.
floor
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The salute and stamp of boot on bare floor were smarter than normally as a consequence.
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He heard only forks against plates and shoe leather against bare floors , as if the Grill were observing a wake.
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Those having no money were forced to give up their clothes and sleep on the bare floor , often with fatal results.
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Brother Mariadas led me to a tiny office with a bare floor , a simple desk and a couple of chairs.
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Her footsteps were little explosions of sound on the bare floor .
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Diagonal designs, whether painted on bare floor boards or woven into carpets, will always seem to push space out.
foot
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She inspected her bare feet and started to paint the toe-nails.
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Beloved put her fists on her hips and commenced to skip on bare feet .
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She wore impossibly high heels, yet she was still only eye to eye with Virginia in her bare feet .
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Her bare feet were silent on the drive.
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But he was in overalls and bare feet .
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She was exhausted and her bare feet were stinging cruelly, but to stop would have been fatal.
ground
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Mosses and lichens provide much of the patchy ground cover, forming mats rather than carpets with bare ground between.
hand
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He was capable of killing a man with his bare hands .
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Going by feel, I needed bare hands to find, fasten and tighten the leather bindings.
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Hundreds of parishioners were working with bare hands , shovels and harrows, extending the church by burrowing out a crypt.
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Either you go down there of your own volition or I strangle you with my two bare hands .
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The shaman broke the bones with his bare hands , and used the jagged edges to scratch at his bark.
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They were freed after 30 rescuers had clawed away rubble with bare hands in temperatures of 100F.
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With their bare hands , they fought to save the man who had an ear ripped off in the attack.
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The novices empty vats of mutton scraps into the dustbins and pack them down with their bare hands .
leg
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She was in her nightdress, bare legs and large slippers.
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He ran a finger up her bare leg .
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He didn't even begin to caress her bare leg .
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The rain fell steadily; wet bracken brushed her bare legs .
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The hot car seats stung the children's bare legs and made them cry out in protest.
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A girl with bare legs , black eyeshadow and purple lipstick?
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Their bare legs pump bicycle pedals, they clatter on wooden-soled sandals into the dazzling light over the work benches.
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His gaze moved from her startled face down the length of her body and lingered on her slim bare legs .
minimum
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The bare minimum required to keep the account open.
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Leaders like that get only the bare minimum of effort and never rouse employees to cooperative activity.
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The role of government in macroeconomic management had to be pruned to a bare minimum .
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Or Sally Jessy, bare minimum .
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It is generally sensible to limit the additional capabilities that the new desktop publishing product will give you to the bare minimum .
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Challenge it and challenge it again until it's at a bare minimum .
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With the underfloor heating at a bare minimum , it gave out considerably more heat than wood, and I loathed it.
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In Alabama's West Jefferson Prison inmates are kept in tiny cells, with the bare minimum of furniture.
necessity
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Although many people in Esarn are poor, most have the bare necessities .
outline
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For the purposes of this appeal the barest outline is sufficient.
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The bare outlines and graphic shorthand of Botticelli s drawings leave more space for the imagination, and speak more directly.
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It is necessary in his judgment to relate the facts only in the barest outline .
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These brief examples are given, in bare outline , to indicate some possible procedures.
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That is the bare outline of the Pilmay and Scott story, a tale that could be told in much more detail.
rock
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One little plant grew at the foot of an old, bare rock .
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The body that had been photographed with a definite cometary tail in 1949 was now a bare rock .
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Most of Lewis is acid peat bog, and much of Harris bare rock .
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It had taken three months to excavate down to the bare rock .
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As the tank lurched away the shape ignited on a surface of bare rock , blasting it to pieces.
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And if we examine the bare rock at the base of the grassy hill we discover carved spirals.
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With so much tree growth over the years it is impossible to identify the bare rocks of the engraving.
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But in places the bare rock is showing and the joints have been enlarged by chemical solution.
room
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Upstairs, feeling utterly suicidal, Perdita looked round her tiny bare room .
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Moments later, we knocked and were admitted to a small bare room .
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I was shown into a bare room where paper spilled from the desks then taken back round the main hall.
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I was left in the apartment with Trudy, in the bare rooms in which we circled each other.
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A large, bare room with big trestle tables in the centre and benches along the walls.
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In that small bare room , it seemed not to matter, even if I was a shade scared.
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After three months in prison he entered the bare room listlessly, shoulders drooping.
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Perdita cried unashamedly after they left, fleeing to her bare room and hurling herself down on the pink counterpane.
shoulder
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Now her arms rested loosely on his bare shoulders , skin against skin.
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Out came the jewels and bare shoulders , the silk georgette and gold tissue.
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She shuddered, then slipped the shirt around her bare shoulders before heading towards the landing.
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Rufus threw his cigarette away and from behind her laid his hand lightly on Mary's bare shoulder .
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Rachel moved her hands over his bare shoulders , kissed his chest, buried her hot face in the black hairs there.
skin
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Thinking about hands, Pete's hands on bare skin , his lips touching bare skin.
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A large white crane with black wing-tips and conspicuous white plumes; legs, bill and bare skin on face red.
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The shock of her bare skin against his took her breath away.
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He liked to wear his fleecy tracksuit next to bare skin .
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He felt the inch of bare skin above his socks as two cold metal bands.
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She would not bathe away the smell of him, and slipped an overall over her bare skin .
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Kalchu, wearing only his loincloth. let the rain course over his bare skin .
toe
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Spilt drink stuck to my bare toes , and when I tried to wipe it off, it changed into blood.
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He looks under the table and sees a bare toe rubbing the toe of his sneaker.
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He lay perfectly still, brows arched in surprise, bare toes quivering as the blood drained out of him.
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The sight of her bare toes made him feel slightly religious.
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She had lost one of her shoes; broken glass had cut her bare toes .
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She watched her bare toe rub against the whitened concrete of the balcony.
tree
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For the dark lines of bare tree branches Martin uses a pen loaded with paint.
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The bare trees were silvered in the moonlight.
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We followed a path through the bare trees .
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A pair of. sullen punks from the East Village were talking quietly beneath a bare tree .
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In daylight in winter through the bare trees you can see odd corners of the ornate Victorian glasshouses.
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They looked across the lines of houses and the blocks of flats towards a distant handkerchief of park with tall bare trees .
wall
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I had a hundred men in there, dismantling the place back to the bare walls .
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After fifteen or twenty minutes, the big classroom with the bare walls was empty.
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What wouldn't burn still remained: bare walls muffled with incongruous tapestries, flooring tamped over with carpets.
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All around me, the bare walls expanded and converged into a relentless stretch of white.
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The chill from the bare wall seemed to penetrate to her bones.
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As the train pulled out, she saw gleaming white, bare walls slide past the windows.
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Perhaps he could be persuaded to commission the muralist to cover some of the acres of bare wall which Matthew had described.
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Inder Lal looks at my bare walls .
wood
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Make sure the frame is dry, and prime bare wood before applying new putty.
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Then there was another thud, followed by the noise of scuffling shoes on the bare wood floor.
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Stencilling is an easy way of producing a complex decoration that will add interest to any area of bare wood .
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I woke to the sound of voices, the shuffling of shoes against the bare wood floor.
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Then prime and undercoat the bare wood and put on one top coat to finish the job.
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Here, all timber was decorated with Weathershield Exterior Woodstain, which needs no undercoat unless applied to new or bare wood .
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A bare wood staircase led up to the first floor, which comprised a bathroom and two bedrooms.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
lay sth bare/open
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Krushchev laid bare Stalin's crimes.
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New bricks were removed, laying bare the old foundations.
the bare bones
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GUIs provide the padding to the bare bones of the system.
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Many different lines of evidence may be used to flesh out the bare bones of the fossils.
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Rip Rig created a heady hybrid out of the bare bones of jazz improvisation, dub-funk rhythms and punk attitude.
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The above is the bare bones of the arrangement.
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The strength of this book is that it puts flesh on the bare bones of this argument.
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These are the bare bones of a long and distinguished scientific career.
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This is boxing stripped down to the bare bones .
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We have outlined only the bare bones of the B & B method.
the cupboard is bare
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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bare -chested men
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bare and treeless hills
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bare feet
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a bare -looking room
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Paint the bare wood with a primer.
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The dress tied around her neck, leaving her shoulders bare .
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The measure passed by a bare majority of votes.
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The room was completely bare except for a bed against the wall.
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Using her bare hands, she smears paint on the canvas.
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We spent a long time walking through the bare rooms, remembering the games we used to play there.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He placed the towel on the bed under her bare foot.
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He skipped into sight in his bare feet.
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In winter, rice fields were bare and brown, but there was the anticipation of spring planting just around the corner.
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Opponents argued that Prop. 140 was passed in an off-year election by a bare majority-52 percent-of the voters.
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Rostov felt as if there was a bare exposed place between his shoulder blades.
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The strength of this book is that it puts flesh on the bare bones of this argument.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
soul
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With their banshee wails, squalling guitars and naked aggression, they are baring their souls and they are angry.
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Marie had never understood how women could bare their souls with such ease, exposing themselves so shamelessly to one another.
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I don't have to stand here baring my soul in order to make you feel better and less of a victim!
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No parent is going to bare their soul to an uninterested, cool, busy professional.
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Some bare their souls on their feet and some bare their souls in the bars.
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The legislation gave the Government generally and the Home Office in particular an opportunity to bare its liberal soul .
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To bare one's soul to a member of my profession, Mr Barnett, is no small hurdle to surmount.
tooth
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But Bulldog has his teeth bared and ready to sink any rival.
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Harold was flexing his muscles for the perfect balance, teeth bared , knife poised over his head.
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With his yellow teeth bared , he looked like a cornered man about to break and run.
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He usually hit the chest, and our teeth bared as the hilt of the bayonet quivered in the dummy.
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Adam turned, his eyes clenched, his teeth bared .
■ VERB
lay
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Nicosia, not a veteran himself, clearly admires the tough-minded, bluntly articulate activists who laid bare their pasts for him.
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Yo, they complain, has once again laid them bare .
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Critical work like that of Jo Spence and Valerie Walkerdine lays bare the trauma of an ordinary childhood.
strip
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The chassis and car body were stripped to bare metal, mudguards re-made, and woodwork repaired.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the bare bones
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GUIs provide the padding to the bare bones of the system.
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Many different lines of evidence may be used to flesh out the bare bones of the fossils.
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Rip Rig created a heady hybrid out of the bare bones of jazz improvisation, dub-funk rhythms and punk attitude.
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The above is the bare bones of the arrangement.
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The strength of this book is that it puts flesh on the bare bones of this argument.
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These are the bare bones of a long and distinguished scientific career.
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This is boxing stripped down to the bare bones .
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We have outlined only the bare bones of the B & B method.
the cupboard is bare
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The dog bared its teeth.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As if she stood naked before him, her very soul bared.
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But after he bares his fangs, she wobbles as if the blood had been sucked from her veins.
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He bared his teeth in the kiss and he nipped at her mouth.
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He promised to bare all before a committee of experts chosen by the board.
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They stare back defiantly at the crowds, menacingly baring their teeth, and grabbing candy trays with nimble speed.