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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a broken heart (= feeling very sad because of a problem in love )
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I wonder how many broken hearts Carlo was responsible for.
a broken home (= a family in which the parents have separated )
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Many of the youngsters came from broken homes.
a broken nose (= one that is not straight because the bone has been broken by a hit or fall )
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a boxer with a broken nose
a broken promise (= one that has not been kept )
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There have been too many broken promises.
a failed/broken marriage
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After two failed marriages, she was not willing to risk marrying again.
broken glass
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She cleaned up the broken glass with a dustpan and brush.
broken
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The doctor thought that I had a broken bone in my wrist.
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Luckily the bone wasn't broken.
broken/fractured
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He was taken to hospital with a broken arm.
get hurt/broken/stolen etc
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You might get hurt if you stand there.
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Mind the camera doesn’t get broken.
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My dad got killed in a car crash.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
have sth stolen/broken/taken etc
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But your partner has just broken a leg and is recovering at home.
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His neck was broken when Sigsworth hit him with a fire extinguisher.
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Of course, my friend has already broken his resolution.
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Only at this point can we begin healing ourselves and our broken world.
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Simon had broken yesterday's confidences?
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The shed windows were broken and stood out black and jagged by the reflected light of the moon.
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Vacuum cleaners were broken before they made the first one.
II. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
ankle
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Lynne Deeley suffered a crushed pelvis, multiple fractures to her leg, a broken ankle and head injuries.
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Flanker Len Dineen received a broken ankle , and no.8 Victor Donnelly knee ligament damage.
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She suffered a broken ankle and was also treated at Dryburn.
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Another man had his leg in plaster, recovering from a broken ankle .
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It was just 12 months ago that he sustained a broken ankle against Leigh tomorrow's home opponents.
arm
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This patient I have to see is a monkey with a suspected broken arm .
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He'd been hit by a car three weeks before, and he had a broken arm and pelvis.
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The schoolboy sent back to class with a broken arm .
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They stepped forward, and raised Chant by his broken arms .
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The boy with the broken arm had fainted once; now he was sitting against a wall, crying.
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Its tail dangled useless, like the broken arm of a bendy rubber doll.
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Bernice could see Thomas trying to prise his hands apart, but his broken arm proved to be a burden.
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Along with the souvenirs, he brought home a reminder of a broken arm .
body
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They had flown into the atmosphere and had carried his broken body to the other side of the castle.
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I can see the broken bodies , the gush of blood.
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The chief inspector suddenly understood that the historian's self-important but indomitable spirit was housed in a broken body .
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Another crumpled, broken body lay to one side.
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His broken body , linked to an electronic muscle stimulator, twitched involuntarily.
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Jean couldn't take her eyes off the broken body , and felt the warm tears coursing down her cheeks.
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She wore a corset to support her broken body , and she lived to be only 47.
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The oriental gazed down at the broken body of his defeated enemy.
bone
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Mr Robson suffered broken bones in both hands.
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Picture by Brendan O'Sullivan Few of us get through childhood without a broken bone or a few stitches.
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It can cope with a cold, fight off a serious illness and with time, even mend a broken bone .
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That's what a grave was: a dump for torn flesh, broken bones .
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In the 1930s top personalities from the wider sporting world took their bruises and broken bones to Highbury.
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People were impostors and children were nothing but the promise of broken bones .
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But then it took broken bones longer to heal as age crept into them.
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Gibbs and Andrew had X-rays, which revealed no broken bones .
bottle
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Plastic bags can choke animals and broken bottles can cut them.
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Under and among the brambles was litter of all kinds, half bricks, broken bottles , sodden sweet papers.
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In the worst incident, 300 yobs showered police with broken bottles and bricks then looted shops in the centre of Coventry.
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Oliffe has already admitted keeping 300 sheep in pens surrounded by broken bottles and barbed wire in Gloucester.
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As I dodged down the yard I noticed the broken bottle lying in the drain.
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He also denied having the broken bottle .
brick
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But before Rainbow can reply, a star goes nova on her near-side window, courtesy of a broken brick .
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Fraction by fraction it rose, then a dirt-streaked brown forehead appeared over the broken bricks .
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The broken bricks now lie in the living room.
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There was something sad about Spring Mill now, with its crazed windows and its broken bricks , something a bit sinister.
chair
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Some of them used broken chairs to hit people.
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While the adults sat on their forms we sat ourselves down on an assortment of broken chairs borrowed from the neighbours.
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Now old buckets, boots, broken chairs and even prams are a source of information.
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He could be content sitting cross-legged, weeding a flower bed, or repairing a broken chair .
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He moved a pile of old furniture and found a broken chair with its back missing.
end
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Rounding of broken ends was produced within 60 hours and became pronounced after 192 hours.
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Two brown pelicans flapped past as I began shaping the broken ends of Masquerade's shattered planking.
engagement
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She had told him about her broken engagement and how deeply hurt and wary she had felt after it.
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And why had he been so angry and contemptuous, so scathing about her broken engagement ?
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For the first time in weeks the thought of her broken engagement hadn't been lurking to ambush her.
finger
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The other reportedly had his skull fractured in 15 places, broken fingers and numerous stab wounds.
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First, it was his knee, then an achilles and finally a broken finger .
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Watkinson is resting his broken finger .
glass
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There was glass - broken glass I got cut ... but ... Come on.
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They're covered in broken glass .
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You gon na repay the fines, mend the broken glass ?
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You may not, however, top your wall with broken glass or barbed wire without the consent of your local authority.
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He was shovelling up the broken glass on to a piece of cardboard.
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It stuck, only a third open, wedged on broken glass on the floor.
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At eight o'clock she cleaned up the broken glass and at nine she rang Gwen.
heart
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The system caused many a broken heart over the generations.
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It was the universal panacea for a broken heart .
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Harald died three months later, I believe of a broken heart .
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This was after David had split up with Hermione and was nursing a broken heart .
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Eating never fixed a broken heart !
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Neither miscarriages nor broken hearts , feuds or fainting fits, had ever managed to extinguish the footlights.
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Some said she'd left with a broken heart .
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No broken heart , you're free.
home
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They came from broken homes and were desperate to help struggling mums.
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Helen knew plenty about broken homes , because she came from one.
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He was the product of a broken home and therefore a single-parent child.
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Over 28 years I've had two broken marriages and broken homes , family and friends.
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The majority of offenders do not come from disturbed or broken homes , and many broken homes do not produce delinquents.
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The Foundation is now dedicated to sheltering young girls from broken homes .
jaw
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He was detained in Middlesbrough General Hospital with a broken jaw and lacerations.
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She had a broken jaw and cheekbone.
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He was knocked out in a brawl at a Hollywood restaurant, suffering a broken jaw and three shattered teeth.
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The older McNab fell to the ground with a broken jaw .
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He has a broken jaw and other facial injuries and is in the neurological ward of Middlesbrough General Hospital.
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Another badger has suffered a broken jaw .
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By 4 am Gary Humphreys was dead, having suffered a broken jaw and choked to death on his own blood.
leg
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He received serious head injuries and a broken leg in the collision on the B1278 near Segefield Hospital.
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A sprain or a broken leg .
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To tell the truth, I doubt they would have noticed had she crawled into the house with a broken leg .
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His career has been hampered by injury, most noticeably a broken leg in 1983.
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But trainer Hannon said any stiffness would have had no connection with the broken leg which led to Mr Brooks' death.
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One has a broken neck and two broken legs .
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He suffered a broken leg , a displaced ankle and lacerations to his head which required five stitches.
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He escaped with a broken leg and pulled himself from the wreckage before Crowfield emergency services arrived from the club.
limb
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When the prefect learned tbat Hadrian had been baptized, he had him broken limb from limb.
line
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The surviving remnants of the eighteenth-century building are shown in solid black, the parts which have vanished as broken lines .
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In the demand drawing the broken line is pushed to a different level instead of being drawn to it.
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The solid lines of certainty gave way to the broken lines of uncertainty.
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In Figure 3.1a the organisations are shown as solid lines , and the direct payments to them as broken lines.
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The curves should be compared with the broken lines .
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On this plan, the missing link with Ingleborough Cave, since found, is indicated by a broken line .
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The figures against the broken lines correspond to the packing percentages from which a 90/10 case file has received random additions.
man
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By 1947, Fred was a broken man addicted to alcohol and the treble chance.
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He returned a few days later a broken man .
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He was for some time a broken man .
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In I771 he returned to Paris, a broken man .
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Sir Thomas Bouch died, a broken man , four months later.
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Now a broken man , Levitt is on bail until October 14.
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It was an enormous humiliation and Galileo was left a broken man , almost mentally deranged by the months of pressure.
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A broken man , pale and much given to outbursts of weeping, a man trembling on the threshold of self-murder.
marriage
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That and alcoholism and broken marriages .
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Cathy was a too-real story about inner-city squalor, broken marriages , homelessness and a shot-to-hell welfare system.
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Childless men, especially those with a broken marriage , were more likely to be ambitious, highly educated professionals.
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And I've seen too much unhappiness caused by broken marriages .
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The two broken marriages and then the obvious fact that he didn't think much of her.
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She is entitled to sympathy for a broken marriage which was not purely of her doing.
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Over 28 years I've had two broken marriages and broken homes, family and friends.
neck
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Mind you're not found lying at the bottom of the steps with a broken neck like Amy Robsart.
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One has a broken neck and two broken legs.
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Robert dived into the shallow end of the pool at Nettlebed and sustained a broken neck and back injuries.
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Both creatures collapsed with broken necks .
nose
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And while all this brouhaha was going on Richard Harris was getting up Heston's famously broken nose .
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Carwyn was flying home, Ted was working on his self-esteem, Richie was nursing a broken nose .
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He suffered a broken nose and bruising.
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He screamed in agony and fell to his knees, cradling his broken nose between his bloodied hands.
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Horrified shoppers watched as Darren Caygill was knocked to the ground, suffering a broken nose .
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Clive wanted to see the manager with a broken nose , blood on his dicky bow and frilly shirt front.
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He had one clear memory of a fight in some dive, a broken nose , a throat ready for cutting.
piece
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Lamarr jumped back dropping the broken pieces and with blood all over his hand and face.
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They picked their way through broken pieces of furniture, their feet crunching across splintered glass and wood.
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Stumbling to his feet, he fumbled with the broken pieces , trying to staunch the gas flow.
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And the rest, some on boards and some on broken pieces of the ship.
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They were fragments, broken pieces of some nonsense puzzle, adding to nothing.
promise
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Many people wonder for how long cosmetic accounting can hide broken promises .
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Aides are gambling that his broken promise of a tax cut on the middle class was never taken seriously.
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My whole life is a series of broken promises .
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Professional: The trail of broken promises at home is mirrored by a trail of broken contracts at work.
rib
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Robert Cunningham, 35, who suffered a broken rib in the fracas, admitted assault.
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A postmortem showed she had 55 injuries, including broken ribs and bruises to head, neck and body.
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Read in studio A misadventure verdict's been recorded on a man who died in hospital after being admitted with broken ribs .
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Although he had suffered severe head injuries and eight broken ribs , he was found to have died from drowning.
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Apart from a broken rib , massive bruises all over my body, and slight concussion, I was in one piece.
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And Eve's in a hospital ward with broken ribs and concussion and all kinds of things.
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He sustained a broken rib and pulled ligaments in his right leg.
rock
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The Doctor darted over to a pile of broken rocks .
tooth
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Perhaps he thought she was refusing because of his broken tooth .
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Around and among them lounged villainous men with pocked faces and broken teeth .
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I kicked my heels and ran my eye along the ruff of mountains surrounding Cuzco, like a tongue over broken teeth .
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One finger curled into her broken tooth .
window
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They were three storeys high, hardly six foot apart, with broken windows repaired with paper and rags.
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When she pushes it open, and switches on the light, she finds the breeze blowing through broken windows .
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A bird had gained entry through one of the broken windows and flown helplessly around until it collided with her.
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The building was the dirtiest I had ever seen, with broken windows and dusty doors.
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Sadly, it already had a dented side with a broken window .
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I got my own home and it ain't got a broken window .
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Jack had experienced broken windows and other similar nuisances, but nothing else.
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If I had a broken window I wouldn't put my fingers through it - no way.
wrist
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Several stitches at the edge of her eye, and a broken wrist .
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He escaped with just a broken wrist and is recovering in Wolverhampton Manor Hospital.
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The broken wrist happened in the warm up before the Sheff Utd game.
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The university's list of injuries also includes a suspected broken wrist .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"What's the time?" "I don't know, my watch is broken ."
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broken beer bottles
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a broken dishwasher
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Gary returned from the war a broken man.
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I think my ankle's broken .
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I think the doorbell must be broken - I didn't hear anything.
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In the corner of the room were a broken chair and a rickety old desk.
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One little boy had a broken arm.
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The accident left her with three broken bones in her wrist.
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The birds had gotten into the cabin through a broken window.
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The camera was broken , so none of my pictures turned out.
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The floor was covered in broken glass.
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The two students, one Chinese, the other Greek, communicated in broken English.
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This suitcase is no good - the handle's broken .
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We had months of broken sleep before the baby finally slept through the night.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Bits of broken glass sparkled in the sunlight.
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By 1947, Fred was a broken man addicted to alcohol and the treble chance.
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Half the space is taken up by a picture of a violin - ah yes, but one with a broken string.
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He grew up oppressed by the sense of belonging to a broken culture, deprived of his inheritance.
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One of them was a doctor, a large, unhealthy looking specimen with a huge warty nose covered in broken veins.
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One side of his immaculate jacket was soaked through and spiked with broken glass.
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They're covered in broken glass.
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Tossed between them like a broken toy fit only for the dustbin.