noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
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Such a big strong bloke , and such a softie.
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He's a big bloke but I think I could handle him.
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As I developed I became a big bloke and that stood me in good stead.
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He's not a big bloke .
good
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Shit, he was a good bloke .
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Elton John is probably the best bloke on the whole planet.
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He loves you, he's a good bloke , you've been together for over a year.
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In the confused laws of the cockney underworld, they were good blokes in the community they terrorised.
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So, he's - hey! - a good bloke , but so what?
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He's a good bloke he is.
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Like I said, good bloke .
nice
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Billy Norfolk was a nice enough bloke , but it wasn't much of a marriage.
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He was a nice bloke though.
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Really nice bloke , he was.
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Sheldon, who is a really nice bloke and very fond of children, was pushing an elderly lady in a wheelchair.
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The headmaster had a large store of quotations designed to show what a nice , easygoing bloke Muhammad was.
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Maura wished that she could meet a nice bloke and get right out of it.
old
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On the local news on the radio. poor old bloke !
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There were a lot of old blokes , and women, even some elderly women.
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The old bloke at reception comes out and says there's a call for Claire Parsons.
other
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The three other blokes are Noel, a guitarist, Mike, a bassist and Fergal, a drummer.
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The other bloke in this cell.
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Now some other bloke Is subsidizing Tracy and her thirst.
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What's to say two other blokes didn't get into my cab, while I was away?
■ VERB
meet
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Maura wished that she could meet a nice bloke and get right out of it.
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Their daughter would, of course, have explained that she had only just met the bloke .
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If I met Pam's bloke coming down Briggate I'd give him a wide berth.
see
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I couldn't see a bloke like Cliff spending more hours a day with her than he had to.
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I turned back to see the bloke I'd kicked.
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Did you see that bloke , man.
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I went to see this bloke play at Ronnie Scott's last night.
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If we saw two blokes coming out of a pub rolling drunk we might wait to see what develops before acting.
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From outside-we see this scrawny bloke in the frame of the doorway, in his grey underpants.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He's a strange bloke though.
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He wasn't the kind of bloke to do it on purpose.
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Only what Kate didn't know was that when that break came, Patrick would also be after the bloke .
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Some of these blokes have eight or nine houses on the go.
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The three other blokes are Noel, a guitarist, Mike, a bassist and Fergal, a drummer.
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There's a young bloke cleaning the tables.