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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bore...malice (= did not feel any malice towards her )
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James bore her no malice .
bore...the stamp of (= had )
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The speech bore the stamp of authority.
full bore
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Kate took a huge slice and was going at it full bore.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
down
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The Wolf of Kabul bore down upon him.
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His eyes bore down on me out of a somewhat hawklike face, and I immediately became flustered.
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An icy wind howled and a great wall of snow bore down upon them.
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Her great white face bore down on mine.
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She bore down on the hybrids and, with her claws, she killed them almost before they realized.
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He bore down again, pressed himself against my back.
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Five or six men, horsed, masked and well-armed, burst from a clump of trees and bore down on them.
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How Linda fell on to the track and he tried to pick her up just as the train bore down on them.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bore sb silly
bore/scare etc the pants off sb
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He wasn't interested in the heavy political stuff which bored the pants off most people.
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It took ten minutes to reach Honey Cottage, with Yanto trying his best to scare the pants off Mary.
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Lovely people who scared the pants off him.
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The tests scare the pants off many managers.
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Though, mind you, it scares the pants off poor old Crumwallis.
bored/scared/worried stiff
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And I was scared stiff about having lied to Mel about being single when he hired me.
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Cis, who knew about it, was scared stiff .
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He was scared stiff , thought a ghastly mistake had been made.
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He was very naturally scared stiff of using up all his remaining petrol and making a bad landing.
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Mabel was by now scared stiff and frozen cold.
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Poor kid, thought Alice, he's scared stiff .
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We looked at each other, scared stiff , but we followed Mrs Bullivant upstairs.
crashing bore
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At worst, a crashing bore.
deadly serious/dull/boring etc
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And at a time which - surely it was obvious - was deadly serious.
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He's a deadly dull little man as far as I can see.
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He was deadly serious and I knew it.
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His companion chuckled at the jest, but Gravelet, whose stage name was Blondin, was deadly serious.
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It was now clear, however, that the position was becoming deadly serious.
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Suppose, for example, you regularly attend a weekly meeting which tends to be deadly dull.
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The noise level was high in both languages; all faces were deadly serious.
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The primary indicator is Attempts to be deadly serious invariably result in unintended comedy.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Am I boring you?
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Being alone with a baby all day bored her to tears.
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He bores everyone with his stories about his girlfriends.
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Poetry bores me.
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The machine they used to bore the tunnel is the size of a two storey house.
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The mining company bored a 5000 foot hole.
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They had to bore through solid rock.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And it is not true that a girl decides in junior high that math is, like, so boring.
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I will tell you frankly the word Marxism is very boring to me.
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It bore out the warnings received from MI6.
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Not just resistant to the pitter patter of bored kiddie feet but immune to assaults from the outside as well.
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There would be nothing more boring than the landslide that everyone predicted.
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Those with earnings just above the tax threshold bore the heaviest burden of the flat rate tax as a proportion of income.
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Twin towers bore the arms of the railway companies emblazoned upon them.
II. verb
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bore sb silly
bore/scare etc the pants off sb
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He wasn't interested in the heavy political stuff which bored the pants off most people.
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It took ten minutes to reach Honey Cottage, with Yanto trying his best to scare the pants off Mary.
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Lovely people who scared the pants off him.
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The tests scare the pants off many managers.
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Though, mind you, it scares the pants off poor old Crumwallis.
bored/scared/worried stiff
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And I was scared stiff about having lied to Mel about being single when he hired me.
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Cis, who knew about it, was scared stiff .
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He was scared stiff , thought a ghastly mistake had been made.
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He was very naturally scared stiff of using up all his remaining petrol and making a bad landing.
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Mabel was by now scared stiff and frozen cold.
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Poor kid, thought Alice, he's scared stiff .
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We looked at each other, scared stiff , but we followed Mrs Bullivant upstairs.
deadly serious/dull/boring etc
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And at a time which - surely it was obvious - was deadly serious.
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He's a deadly dull little man as far as I can see.
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He was deadly serious and I knew it.
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His companion chuckled at the jest, but Gravelet, whose stage name was Blondin, was deadly serious.
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It was now clear, however, that the position was becoming deadly serious.
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Suppose, for example, you regularly attend a weekly meeting which tends to be deadly dull.
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The noise level was high in both languages; all faces were deadly serious.
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The primary indicator is Attempts to be deadly serious invariably result in unintended comedy.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And it is not true that a girl decides in junior high that math is, like, so boring.
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Not just resistant to the pitter patter of bored kiddie feet but immune to assaults from the outside as well.
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There would be nothing more boring than the landslide that everyone predicted.
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Those with earnings just above the tax threshold bore the heaviest burden of the flat rate tax as a proportion of income.
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Twin towers bore the arms of the railway companies emblazoned upon them.
III. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
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But she can also be the biggest bore when she piles on endless details about her childhood stomping grounds.
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Power will be provided by a big-bore V-twin.
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Whereupon the media, denied the excitements that they had trumpeted, declared the whole event a big , irrelevant bore .
wide
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This process can be hastened by gentle pipetting of the egg masses through a wide bore glass mouth pipette.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a 12-bore shotgun
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At parties she always gets stuck with some bore who wants to tell her the story of his life.
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Washing the dishes is a bore .
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Winston is such a bore !
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Gluck was armed with an incredibly heavy musket, a single-shot museum piece with an octagonal barrel and a smooth bore .
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It was in the direction of Temple Bar Creek and the Mereenie water bores.
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Solitons are solitary waves; the Severn bore is a good example.
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Whereupon the media, denied the excitements that they had trumpeted, declared the whole event a big, irrelevant bore .