noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bonfire night
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
night
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Firework displays thrill thousands on bonfire night .
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As a result, bonfire night 1991 saw the lowest accident figures for 20 years.
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Mum Debbie ran for cover cradling her baby as the firework sent a shower of fire towards bonfire night revellers in Litherland.
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The tyre warehouse burned down on bonfire night last year but hundreds of tyres were left buried under rubble on the site.
■ VERB
light
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If insects, worms and snails could scream, would you still light that bonfire ?
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They then began to light bonfires , expressing their delight.
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The beacon was lit , and answering bonfires spread the happy news throughout the Maclean lands.
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Somebody had lit a bonfire and we sat round it chatting until we had dried our clothes.
make
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Ken must be making a bonfire .
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Firebug torches a building as if he were making a bonfire for his father to jump over.
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I tried to make a bonfire with them on the lawn.
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Then they made a bonfire of his father's music and his collection of imported Deutsche Gramophon records.
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It was a cool night and some one had made a bonfire on the sand.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Dad had a bonfire going behind the garage.
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The bonfire will be lit at 7.00 p.m., with fireworks starting just 15 minutes later.
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They piled up scrap wood, boxes and other junk and made a big bonfire .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A bonfire blazed inside a small circle of stones.
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Bees flying into a bonfire ... Troopers fought troopers.
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He dug his thumbs into the eyes, a red bonfire blazing at his chest, and heard an underwater bubbling squeal.
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In the middle a large bonfire had been constructed.
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On the dunes Angus had put a match to the bonfire which crackled, spat, and flared up.
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Saying a prayer, she flung herself into her captors' bonfire .
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Somebody had lit a bonfire and we sat round it chatting until we had dried our clothes.
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They then began to light bonfires, expressing their delight.