noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a boarding school (= a school where children also live and sleep )
boarding card
boarding house
boarding pass
boarding school
boarding/quarantine kennels
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The puppy, which may have rabies, is at a quarantine kennel.
kite boarding
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
house
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The 1770s house had become a boarding house and the eighteenth-century garden paved over as the city bus station.
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He is now on probation, living in a boarding house in another part of the town since his arrest.
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It was still parked across the road from the boarding house .
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Gainsborough had 44 hotels, inns and taverns, 9 beerhouses and 4 eating and boarding houses .
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Con had run out of an alley near the boarding house when he'd heard the noise.
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I backed the car into the garage and walked round to the front door of the boarding house .
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The recognized way of doing this was to own a boarding house and take in summer guests.
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When we dash from the street into the hallway of the boarding house , some one calls my name.
school
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I was eight when I went to proper boarding school for the first time.
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He sent me to a Jesuit boarding school .
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Once she told me about sending her kids to boarding school and asked me what I thought.
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Lucy had the decency and zest of a boarding school prefect, the kind the Lower Third would swoon over.
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She looked after some children in their last year before they were packed off to boarding school .
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That's really why Aleena, who's only thirteen, goes to boarding school in Sanderstown.
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He was sent away to boarding school at Ampleforth and from there went to Trinity College, Cambridge, to read architecture.
■ VERB
go
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She even took your photograph when she went away to boarding school.
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I was eight when I went to proper boarding school for the first time.
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That's really why Aleena, who's only thirteen, goes to boarding school in Sanderstown.
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The better pupils then went off to a boarding school.
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We moved around a lot, until we were old enough to go to boarding school.
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I went to boarding school and so am used to living in close quarters.
send
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Once she told me about sending her kids to boarding school and asked me what I thought.
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He was sent away to boarding school at Ampleforth and from there went to Trinity College, Cambridge, to read architecture.
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Thomas was sent to £2,500-a-term boarding school in Norfolk, where with specialist help he has made an enormous improvement.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be boarding
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People were boarding and I elbowed my way into line.
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The other option to consider will be boarding kennels.
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There was more to this, when Sammler was boarding in the tomb.
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They want a meeting, they intimate, and are boarding for that purpose now.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Ladies and gentlemen, boarding will begin in just a few minutes.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Con had run out of an alley near the boarding house when he'd heard the noise.
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He collected his boarding card and found a seat in the cafeteria that allowed him to look down on the concourse.
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He was sent away to boarding school at Ampleforth and from there went to Trinity College, Cambridge, to read architecture.
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On Monday afternoon and evening Toby once again enjoyed undisputed sway in the boarding annexe of Burleigh.
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Only some sailors in blue jerseys who appeared as the Shirley chugged alongside the boarding pontoon.
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Therefore, they would not have to meet any boarding expenses.