noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a chocolate cake/biscuit/pudding etc
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For her birthday he made a chocolate cake.
cheese and biscuits
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After the meal we had coffee with cheese and biscuits.
digestive biscuit
water biscuit
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
digestive
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Miss Devenish, obviously used to these interruptions, offered Dougal another digestive biscuit .
sweet
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Coconut, sweet or cream-filled biscuits .
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The company makes plain and sweet biscuits and soda crackers.
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And when I went to play occasionally near to their house, Mrs Thwaites would bring out large sweet biscuits for me.
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Some say-he has said, in fact-that he sold sweet biscuits in boxes by the roadside.
■ NOUN
chocolate
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Wagers of chocolate biscuits were signed before the event: - would the Treasury beat the Felcourt girls?
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And I hope you like chocolate biscuits .
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Fenella offered to make her some hot sweet tea and fetch some chocolate biscuits from downstairs to comfort her.
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All those goodies from pork pies to chocolate biscuits had to be atoned.
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And it may tempt you into a mid-morning snack of chocolate biscuits or worse.
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Automatically, his hand went out for a chocolate biscuit .
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Chosen her as she sat drinking tea and eating chocolate biscuits and enjoying her small triumph.
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He came across her having a cup of tea and a chocolate biscuit in the canteen.
tin
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And as for that little Crispin, when he comes here he never has his hand out of the biscuit tin .
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Thérèse clasped the biscuit tin in the crook of her arm.
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During the afternoon he'd made a small quantity of Recipe 179 - enough to fill three biscuit tins .
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Fill the glass with water, then place the biscuit tin lid over it, lip uppermost.
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Going to the kitchen window, the biscuit tin still in her hands, she saw an extraordinary sight.
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The biscuit tin supported the open recipe book.
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Henry was rooting about among some old biscuit tins in the pantry when the phone rang in the hall.
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Jars of boiled sweets, rusks, biscuit tins and chocolate boxes are on view.
water
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Duncan carried his soup mug and a half-eaten packet of water biscuits into his sitting-room.
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Eat water biscuits or oatmeal biscuits - without butter.
■ VERB
eat
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She forced herself to eat some more dry biscuits and chocolate, washing them down with a small amount of water.
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I came across Gandhi in the early morning sitting by the roadside eating a regulation army biscuit .
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Jimmy ate a biscuit , then went back to his work.
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I used to eat Bourbon biscuits and Custard Creams in similar ways, though they were just poor substitutes for custard tarts.
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The quarrel had started over something as petty as who could spit furthest after eating half a ginger biscuit .
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She often eats biscuits or some kind of sweet dessert after each of her two main meals of the day.
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She eats biscuits and drinks a lot of water so she has to keep nipping along to the bathroom.
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He took the opportunity to stretch his legs and eat some biscuits and bananas.
take
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I took some extra biscuits from the table.
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That morning Doreen's absence meant that I had to make the coffee and take in the biscuits to Mr Hutton.
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She took a biscuit and pulled off its black top.
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Clive Anderson O, while the mighty Sultans take the biscuit .
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This really takes the biscuit !!
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Now this just took the biscuit .
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She wants to take biscuits from the kitchen but she doesn't because she knows she will get into trouble.
want
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You want to nibble every biscuit in the tin, and nothing will ever change you!
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She wants to take biscuits from the kitchen but she doesn't because she knows she will get into trouble.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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biscuits and gravy
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All those goodies from pork pies to chocolate biscuits had to be atoned.
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Disadvantages of the stuff are that it attracts fluff, hair and biscuit crumbs.
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He dipped one of the biscuits into the tea and ate it in one.
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June unwrapped the flimsy tissue paper from one of the almond biscuits and rolled it carefully into a tube.
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Molly had buttoned up the braces on Jacqueline's trousers and found her youngest child a biscuit when she heard the screams.
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There's sweets and biscuits as well as nuts and fruit.
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When I get home Mrs Marsh has polished off half the biscuits in the tin and the teapot is all but empty.