I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bog roll
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
garden
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The extra amount of liner needed to make the bog garden must be allowed for at the planning stage.
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A bog garden is a natural extension of a pool in which moisture loving plants can be grown.
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However, if a plastic or fibreglass pool is used a small independent polythene lined bog garden will have to be constructed.
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Caltha palustris, the marsh marigold her in its single and double-flowered forms, brings sunny colour to the bog garden .
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It is reached by stepping stones over the lawn and a small bridge crossing the bog garden and two linking fish pools.
peat
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She remembered watching peasants clear the unworked peat bog .
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He found a few others: a sphagnum moss peat bog can repel the invasion of pine trees for thousands of years.
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The one piece upper has kept my feet dry even when walking through peat bogs .
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Of the original 34,500 hectares, only 500 hectares of pristine peat bog now remain.
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Old jagged roots dug from peat bogs are especially good.
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Most of Lewis is acid peat bog , and much of Harris bare rock.
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And for our next trick - the peat bog nappy?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As we walked up the river and got closer to Umbagog Lake, we entered a bog .
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But the red maples at the bog already had a red tinge.
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Comments: A very hardy plant which, though essentially a bog one, will adapt well to submerged conditions.
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For example it might be forced into a river, bog or straight through a wall.
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Like oil, gas and coal fields, peat bogs act as vast carbon stores.
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Peat bogs, nearly all of which occur in northern latitudes. are some of the most important environments for wetland archaeology.
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Suddenly it swooped down towards something in the bog and vanished from sight.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
down
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If the images in Myst bog down your screen, pony up the bucks for more memory or a faster video card.
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When the referees begin calling the plays and deciding who gets in the game, the entire system begins to bog down .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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If the images in Myst bog down your screen, pony up the bucks for more memory or a faster video card.
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If the necklace is bogging me down, then those things are doing it too.
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They were told to bog off.
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When the referees begin calling the plays and deciding who gets in the game, the entire system begins to bog down.