noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a dinner/lunch/breakfast menu
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There is an extensive dinner menu, and seafood is a speciality.
bed and breakfast
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Is there anyone who does bed and breakfast round here?
breakfast cereal
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a bowl of breakfast cereal
breakfast television
buffet breakfast/lunch/supper
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The price includes morning coffee, buffet lunch, and afternoon tea.
continental breakfast
cook breakfast/lunch/dinner
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Kate was in the kitchen cooking dinner.
dinner/breakfast table
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Will you clear the breakfast table?
eat breakfast/lunch/dinner etc
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What time do you usually eat lunch?
English breakfast
serve breakfast/lunch/dinner
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Breakfast is served until 9 am.
the wedding breakfast British English (= the meal after a wedding, usually in the afternoon )
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
continental
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Room service is available for continental breakfast and daytime drinks and snacks.
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Prices range from $ 59 MondayThursday to $ 179 weekends and holidays. Continental breakfast weekdays; candlelight brunch weekends.
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Eating out is convenient and economical. Continental style breakfast from any cafe just over £1; try yoghurt and honey too.
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A continental breakfast , with cheeses and meats, is served and dinner is four courses and consists of good home cooking.
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Price includes full english, vegetarian or continental style breakfast .
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The continental breakfast is supplemented by cheese and ham, and dinner is three courses.
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Noise might prove to be a nuisance. Continental breakfast is included in the price.
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Each voucher pays for a room with private bath or shower, continental breakfast , hotel service charges and taxes.
early
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The sky was cloudy when Giles set off after an early breakfast .
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She rises early to prepare breakfast .
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The combination of early breakfast , exhaust fumes and nerves is a potent cocktail!
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Invite her to an early breakfast .
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As far as Liz can remember the idea came upon them rather more casually, one Saturday morning in early November over breakfast .
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The cooks were up at 0500 hours, preparing the usual early breakfast for men condemned to hard work.
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To fit everything in here you have to be up for an early breakfast .
full
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Double rooms with full breakfast are £40 per person per night; dinner is from £20 per person.
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The delicious full hot breakfast , complete with cafe lattes, was served in our room.
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Then he had gone off to have a full breakfast in the canteen.
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The rate also includes full breakfast daily, hotel service charges and taxes but not airfare.
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Today, our lifestyles have become more busy, and only 10 percent of us eat a full cooked breakfast .
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The cost of your ticket, plus overnight accommodation and full Yorkshire breakfast , will be £28.50.
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Restaurant serves an excellent three-course meal for about £11; full breakfast in the large cafeteria is £3.75.
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The attic rooms are especially spacious and comfortable. Full continental breakfast .
good
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Leaving his personal belongings in the room he walks down to enjoy a good breakfast before continuing his journey.
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The first thing she did was fix him a good breakfast .
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Your private beach Enjoy a cool aperitif Can you think of anywhere better for breakfast ?
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I always eat a good breakfast in the morning, especially before exercising; now I knew why.
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Kippers, kedgeree, kidneys - what a sturdy sound all these good breakfast dishes had.
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The Hotel Haselsberger provides a good breakfast supplemented by cheeses hams and cereals.
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After a good breakfast at about eight o'clock, I informed the switchboard staff that I was leaving.
hearty
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For dining, resort cafeterias often serve hearty , inexpensive breakfasts .
late
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All the same, she was late for breakfast .
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The girls were late at breakfast , but Mrs Roberts did not mind.
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Ernest and Uncle Matthew, back from the top field, were taking a late breakfast .
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Surkov, in a Yale T-shirt, was sitting alone at a table when I went down to a late breakfast .
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On my return I saw a fully recovered James Dalton, who invited me to join him for a late breakfast .
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All the Marcus night nurses were late for breakfast .
light
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The volunteers fasted overnight, or for six hours after a light breakfast if the study was carried out in the afternoon.
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An evening snack and light breakfast are included.
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The race morning East a light breakfast , but don't starve yourself.
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There is a small lounge and a light modern breakfast room.
■ NOUN
accommodation
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The authority spent £18,500 on bed and breakfast accommodation because its existing hostel was full.
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Families favour the Arts Centre over bed and breakfast accommodation because it offers a greater privacy.
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For an increasing number of them, bed and breakfast accommodation is all that can be found and many stay there indefinitely.
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Sixty-five National Trust tenants offer bed and breakfast accommodation in beautiful areas of countryside protected by the Trust.
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Has reduced the number of families in bed and breakfast accommodation .
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Last night 100 families were being housed in bed and breakfast accommodation the first time the total has reached three figures.
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Last February, fewer than 50 families were in bed and breakfast accommodation in the town.
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We will fund the provision of short-term rented housing to reduce the use of bed and breakfast accommodation .
bar
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Dining chairs surrounded the breakfast bar table which was covered with the debris of a champagne breakfast.
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Sitting on a red vinyl padded stool at the breakfast bar , she told us the sad news.
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There is a well-known breakfast bar in town.
buffet
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The hotel's restaurant serves a buffet breakfast and a substantial and well-prepared choice of meals at other times.
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The restaurant serves a buffet breakfast and dinner with a choice of menu.
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The price includes dinner, bed and buffet breakfast .
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A splendid buffet breakfast , and a four course dinner plus salad buffet are served in the rustic style dining room.
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There is a buffet breakfast and a wide choice of main courses at dinner, plus a salad buffet.
cereal
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Advertisements for breakfast cereals may present a happy, harmonious family in a sunny bright kitchen.
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Some products that bear freshness dates are cheeses, breakfast cereals , bakery products, and mayonnaise.
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An extra tablespoon sprinkled over the breakfast cereal can help control irritable bowel syndrome, piles, appendicitis and bowel cancer.
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It was when I went on breakfast cereals that liquor got me.
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The week's snow has become crusty and it yields underfoot, with a crunch like breakfast cereal .
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Eaten with milk or cream, they made an acceptable breakfast cereal .
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Some foods, such as breakfast cereals , are also fortified with B group vitamins.
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Euell Gibbons once claimed on my living room television that some breakfast cereal tasted like hickory nuts.
room
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Lovely blacked-up range in the breakfast room .
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Breakfast is served in the first floor breakfast room .
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Guests may use the small breakfast room at any time for playing cards or as a lounge.
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There was a breakfast room set aside for the train party where a piece of the mystery would unravel each morning.
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Main meals are served at Villa Maria although the Giordano does have its own breakfast room .
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Public rooms include a spacious reception with comfortable lounge and bar area and a fresh, spacious breakfast room.
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Clear the breakfast room , Ada.
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The Lido Palace facilities include comfortable lounges, a breakfast room , a spacious dining-room and a well-stocked bar.
table
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She timed this operation very carefully, applying the glue just as her father was getting up from the breakfast table .
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Many parents will admit that before the takeoff they read Jessica stories to their kids over the breakfast table .
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As usual the Benn women were having an argument over the breakfast table .
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She and Jack were Pyramus and Thisbe for the world and no breakfast table was without them for at least a month.
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They left it there, and went back to the breakfast table , to their unfinished bowls of caféaulait.
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Do you like to lounge in bed on weekends reading the newspaper or would you rather have coffee at the breakfast table ?
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It is all white, with maximum workspace and minimum cupboards, and has a built-in breakfast table and matching chairs.
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The Gnomes sat together at the end of the breakfast table and waited anxiously for the verdict.
television
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Jamie Blandford broke his silence after two jail terms and an estranged marriage, to appear on breakfast television .
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The year before, 70 % in a breakfast television poll voted against it.
time
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An extra novelty in the 1980 - 1 franchise competition was the new breakfast time contract.
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At breakfast time Matilda sat quietly at the dining-room table eating her cornflakes.
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Yes, he should probably call her - later, around breakfast time in Rostov.
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He was incapable of entering any room quietly, especially at breakfast time .
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It was lunchtime for the world, breakfast time at the manor when I arrived.
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Brian did not see the two of them until breakfast time the next morning.
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Normally, Sunday breakfast time spent reading the papers in bed was one of Kelly's favourite moments, but not today.
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At breakfast time in Vancouver, London's office workers began travelling home.
wedding
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Before me were the remains of an impromptu wedding breakfast .
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It was almost certainly the first wedding breakfast that particular Lyons' teashop had provided.
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Gradually the wedding breakfast was breaking up.
■ VERB
bring
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So now there's no excuse not to get healthy. Bring back breakfast !
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Dad was to bring Mama her breakfast , since that required a minimum of skill to prepare.
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Sam brought Quinn his breakfast in bed.
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I will introduce you to a Kaika who can train a camel to bring breakfast in the mornings.
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Lily brought her breakfast in bed.
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When he brought her breakfast , he lingered and spoke softly to her through the bars.
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Linda brought him breakfast in bed.
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Ordered him out of bed and impatiently interrupted his exercises to bring him downstairs for breakfast .
cook
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Soon I saw a small hut where an old man was cooking his breakfast over a fire.
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When I rose at five Peter had already finished cooking both breakfast and lunch.
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I haven't cooked a large breakfast .
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Aida, our maid, arrived to cook me breakfast .
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It would take a time to catch and then she could heat the water &038; cook Alisdair's breakfast .
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When guests awaken, Hodges will be at the ready to cook breakfast .
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She went down to the kitchen and cooked herself a large breakfast .
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Ordinarily, he would have been down in the kitchen at that hour, cooking breakfast and preparing to start the day.
eat
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You will be eating grape-nuts at breakfast next.
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What bliss not to have to eat a huge fried breakfast to please a bacon-happy landlady!
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I would rather have boxed than ate breakfast .
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Today you are allowed to eat an egg for breakfast if you wish.
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While we ate breakfast , I heard the bees.
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Neither she nor Nan ate a cooked breakfast .
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She said she was coming in here to eat some breakfast .
eaten
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He'd eaten his pencil for breakfast !
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He had not eaten since breakfast early that morning.
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I had been out all day and I had eaten nothing since breakfast .
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These were baked on Good Friday and eaten hot for breakfast .
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It is usually sliced, fried and eaten for breakfast .
finish
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We were expecting a visitor at half-past ten, and I wondered whether Holmes would finish his breakfast before our visitor arrived.
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When I rose at five Peter had already finished cooking both breakfast and lunch.
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Quite unaware that he had a month's redundancy money coming, Cornelius finished his breakfast .
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Waiting and more waiting, thought Claudel as he finished breakfast .
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Bowman finished his breakfast in silence, while Poole toyed with the empty coffee container.
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When she went down she was surprised to see that Luke was still in the dining-room, finishing his breakfast .
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We've just finished a breakfast that makes you realise Cleese must have really researched Fawlty Towers.
include
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The price includes bed and breakfast .
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The fare, $ 290, includes breakfast and three-course lunch.
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Price includes bed and breakfast , however evening meals may be taken at the Leonetto for a supplement.
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Rates for double rooms range from $ 290-$ 550, including breakfast and dinner.
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Like most package holidays, this includes breakfast at the hotel, but any other meals are additional to the quoted price.
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Rooms during foliage season are $ 110 and up, including breakfast .
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Left: the Raven range includes breakfasts , lunches and diners.
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The registration fee is $ 75, which includes breakfast , lunch, prizes, complimentary beverages and golf.
offer
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Tony offered to make breakfast , an event so rare that there was a chance parliament would reconvene at Þingvellir.
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The best it can offer is bed and breakfast .
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Sixty-five National Trust tenants offer bed and breakfast accommodation in beautiful areas of countryside protected by the Trust.
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The handsome restaurant offers ample buffet breakfasts and elaborate evening meals.
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The restaurant offers a buffet breakfast , excellent service and appetizing food all personally supervised by the resident proprietor.
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To the best among them he offered opulent breakfasts ending with stronger drink than coffee.
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The restaurant offers a sumptuous buffet-style breakfast each morning and a wide choice of dishes at dinner.
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She owns this hotel offering Bed and breakfast accommodation and 4 private houses for families.
serve
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The hotel's restaurant serves a buffet breakfast and a substantial and well-prepared choice of meals at other times.
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Lunch and tea are served aboard; breakfasts are at the hotels.
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The restaurant serves a buffet breakfast and dinner with a choice of menu.
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But have her wake up to the smell of cooking bacon, then serve her breakfast in bed.
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She slept, woke up at nine to find out her second mistake: that all hotels everywhere serve breakfast .
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For dining, resort cafeterias often serve hearty, inexpensive breakfasts .
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They have to serve a cooked breakfast here to meet some kind of official standard.
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This trout recipe is served for breakfast at the inn but works well for a homey dinner.
sit
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He sat over breakfast in a cafeteria for a long time, reading the Sunday papers.
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They come upstairs and sit around the breakfast table.
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The mail arrived early and he opened his letters as he sat at the breakfast table.
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For weeks we sit down to breakfast and dinner with these chopped heads on top of us.
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She thanked him for saving them and sat down to breakfast , after which they started again upon their journey.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a breakfast bar
eat sb alive/eat sb for breakfast
make a dog's breakfast of sth
power breakfast/lunch etc
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The perfect hit, the literary equivalent to a high-octane power lunch.
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Whether it's a power lunch or a romantic dinner, a meal at Cicada always feels like a special occasion.
working breakfast/lunch/dinner
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Gannon explained recently during a working lunch downtown.
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He has working lunches with his team to discuss and develop their approach to managing people for profit.
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The afternoon rehearsal started late because Meredith was at a working lunch in Rose's office.
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The real business gets done at working lunches and small dinner parties.
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You might then have a working dinner with a business speaker.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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After breakfast we went for a walk on the beach.
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During breakfast , I usually read the paper.
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George was having his breakfast when the phone rang.
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What do you want for breakfast - cereal or toast?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A lavish breakfast buffet, included in the room rate, is served on a patio overlooking the beach.
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After breakfast I ventured forth, and was at once overwhelmed by the beauty and the scale of the buildings.
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He had breakfast in the kitchen with Campbell, while Bonita got her through breakfast and ready for school.
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I have been waiting two hours for breakfast , and I am dripping wet.
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It would take a time to catch and then she could heat the water & cook Alisdair's breakfast .
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The best it can offer is bed and breakfast .