noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bin/dustbin bag British English
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Use the black bin bags provided by the council.
bin liner
bread bin
litter bin
loony bin
pedal bin
rubbish bin
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a rubbish bin
sin bin
wheelie bin
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
waste
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But then, with an exclamation of self-mockery, she went into the galley and brushed the hairs into the waste bin .
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She also suggested the unit should house in a large slide-out waste bin .
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Bodie upturned the waste bin and sorted through the small pile of chewing-gum wrappers, empty cigarette packets, and cigarette butts.
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Lily put them, unhesitatingly, in the waste paper bin .
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The shit went into a waste bin , and Lucy went into the Wardrobe room to wait.
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He was burning the Fax message in a metal waste bin or my name was Roylance Maclean.
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William I mean-today's newspapers will be lining tomorrow's waste paper bins .
■ NOUN
bread
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Laura took a large plain loaf from the bread bin , and began slicing it.
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She went to the bread bin and seemed to be preparing to make herself a piece of toast.
liner
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They had to pass round bin liners so that people could throw in their sodden tissues.
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In the end, to draw matters to an unhappy conclusion they all agreed that it had probably been a bin liner .
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Buy products made with recycled paper or plastic,such as bin liners , toilet tissue or kitchen paper.
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Stash old plastic or paper shopping bags near the rubbish or garbage bin and then you can re-cycle them as bin liners .
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He shoved a bin liner of the stuff over his head, it stuck to his hair and he collapsed.
litter
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The mess of pizza fragments, uneaten chips, beer-cans, papers, had been swept into the litter bin .
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Eventually I threw up into a litter bin attached to a crowded bus shelter on St George's Road.
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He remembered Woil staying by the bench and the litter bin where the Men could reach him.
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And when I pretended to be a horse I got so excited I bumped into this litter bin and fell over.
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The worse for drink, he lurches away, staggering to a litter bin where he is sick.
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Amid the clattering trams and the hurrying crowds at the Hackescher Markt, the golden litter bin stands out.
rubbish
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Yesterday we found a baby that some one had thrown into a rubbish bin in the street.
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Oracle has denied knowledge of the detective agency's methods, which included sifting through rubbish bins .
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Logic insists that Sebastian should have set a match to this vile document and consigned it to the rubbish bin .
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Even the rubbish bins were empty.
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The flakes of mud would have been carefully removed and put in the rubbish bin in the kitchen.
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Beneath the window is a bilingual rubbish bin with a spelling mistake.
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Most people think of waste as being the contents of the domestic rubbish bin .
sin
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Leonard was sent to the sin bin .
trash
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Near their back porch, they said, rats scamper about, and maggots slither near trash bins .
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The second blast went off near a trash bin in the parking lot.
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Law enforcement agents and reporters were standing within feet of the trash bin where the second blast occurred.
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Instead of routinely tossing frequent-flier program newsletters into the trash bin , peruse them for upcoming bargains.
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They checked culverts, trash bins and washes.
■ VERB
go
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And the answer so simple: what is not wanted ... goes in the bin .
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Rella was going through the bins .
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She went to the bread bin and seemed to be preparing to make herself a piece of toast.
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The shit went into a waste bin , and Lucy went into the Wardrobe room to wait.
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The piles of pamphlets and the hand-outs went in the bin .
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It may as well go straight in the bin .
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Sometimes you chuck summat away by accident and then you have to go looking in bins to find it.
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It was a waste of time, they were so bloodstained they went to the bin anyway.
put
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The flakes of mud would have been carefully removed and put in the rubbish bin in the kitchen.
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Male speaker I put their bins out, change light bulbs, they're not afraid to ask.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A large wooden bin with slatted sides and a removable front is easy to make from timber.
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But then, with an exclamation of self-mockery, she went into the galley and brushed the hairs into the waste bin .
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Instead of routinely tossing frequent-flier program newsletters into the trash bin , peruse them for upcoming bargains.
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Several cities set up drop-off bins.
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She had been left covered by a black bin bag.
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Some designs have no control group comparison at all; these are referred to as quasi-experimental bins.
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The vast majority of people in Thurrock took my advice and put the silly leaflet in the bin .