noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
barn dance
converted barn (= barn changed into a house )
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a 19th-century converted barn
Dutch barn
house/barn/loft etc conversion British English (= when you change the use of a house, barn etc, so that it becomes apartments, a house, a room etc )
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
converted
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The heat and stench of the converted barn was suddenly unbearable.
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The guest accommodation is an attractive converted barn attached to the main house.
large
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This procedure naturally produced very large barns .
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The size of the smelter looks on par with several large barns , and at least eight houses are visible.
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The large barn , supported by stone buttresses, may have been the charcoal store.
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The large barn was converted into a studio 30 years ago by its former owner, the late artist Eric Sloane.
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A MacDougall &038; Co. had erected a large malt barn and brick stalk.
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There was a large barn behind the gallery and originally a door at each end, one leading to the house.
old
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She kept a Tiger Moth at the time, housed in an old barn , using the South Meadow as an airstrip.
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Tom and I were left alone in an old barn .
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Getting people to the old barn won't be difficult, if we need to do it.
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About 200 yards from his mansion, in an old barn , he even kept an armored personnel carrier.
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That old barn belongs to Daddy.
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These offered wide-open vistas of rolling farmland, old wooden barns and silos, all surrounded by stunning foliage.
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He made his way to the old barn on the corner of their three acres.
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His uncle owned the Music Box, an old barn converted to a dance hail on their apple farm just outside Hollybush.
■ NOUN
conversion
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On it lay plans for a barn conversion .
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This barn conversion had about two acres of totally untouched field surrounding it.
dance
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This will be followed by an evening barn dance .
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Central Birmingham Group held a barn dance which raised £200; door-to-door the group collected £1,300.
door
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He would still be mending that barn door .
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Beyond - the shadowy barn doors , closed.
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But as I get closer to the barn door , I become apprehensive.
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Improbable because compared to the plump, leather-lined Bentley, a barn door has the frontal area of a postage stamp.
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Would I defend him if some shooters walked through the barn door ?
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The old barn door was open.
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On the range Morenz could not hit a barn door .
fire
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We told them to get out.Three deny they left twins to die in barn fire .
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Read in studio Farm animals have been killed and thousands of bales of hay destroyed in a barn fire .
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Sheer panic: Accused describes the barn fire that killed twin sisters.
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In Central News tonight: Open verdict: Family of barn fire victim say it rules out suicide.
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Left to die: Court hears of twins' death in barn fire .
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Marc died in a mysterious barn fire in Stroud almost nine months ago.
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Cylinders of acetylene were believed to have gone up in what was originally reported as a simple barn fire .
hay
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Following the demise of the canal, the old wharf buildings found a new use as hay barns for the adjoining farm.
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Time allowed 01:25 Read in studio Police are hunting arsonists who're targeting hay barns at the height of the harvest.
owl
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I hope to rear another barn owl like Dawn some day, from the egg to the jesses.
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The king snake and the barn owl are natural predators.
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After a century of population decline, only 4,000 of Britain's estimated 25,000 pairs of barn owls live in the wild.
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These values contrast with correlations between the barn owl and kestrel samples of r 0.189-0.355.
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Fig. 2.1 Comparison of mandibular lengths of four barn owl prey assemblages.
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Once poison has temporarily reduced rat populations to almost zero, predation by barn owls can slow the recovery.
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And barn owls are very inquisitive, as I discovered later when I began to take Dawn out into the fields.
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Road fragmentation kills vulnerable species, e.g. barn owls .
tithe
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Take the horses out and lead them over to the tithe barn .
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The tithe barns , the Rectory, the toll bridges no longer controlled daily life, but they still punctuated the landscape.
■ VERB
build
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Until you have time and money to build a barn , a rick-yard may be the only alternative.
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It all began in 1978, when he was hired to build the barn in which he is now seated.
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In the eighteenth century it seemed impossible to build a barn without creating a work of art.
convert
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I visited one farm that obtained permission to convert a barn for use as a place to pack boxes.
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Have you converted a barn into a comfortable home?
die
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We told them to get out.Three deny they left twins to die in barn fire.
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Marc died in a mysterious barn fire in Stroud almost nine months ago.
go
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The rest had followed Hazel when he roused them and, without explanation, told them to go quickly outside the barn .
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Ellen, you want to go to the sheep barn or to the hogs?
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I got dressed and went into the barn and looked for the old wooden trunk near the rear entrance.
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All five had gone to the barn after an evening in the pub.
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She goes to the barn to milk Marilyn.
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The twins and three men had gone to the barn after an evening in a pub.
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The men who went out to the barn came in soaked to the skin.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Also houses, barns and trucks.
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Chuck Moxon and his partner took the suspect barn .
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He's got a big loft empty in one of his barns.
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I chased him with the pitchfork and he ran in the barn .
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Inside a yellow barn set in rolling green hills, 10 Sufis spin like synchronized tops across the wooden floor.
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The men who went out to the barn came in soaked to the skin.
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There had been a pair using this barn , but, as so often happens these days, they deserted their nest.
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There were a few Commandos resting in the barn , they looked up as I entered but showed no recognition.