noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a burglar alarm
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Neighbours heard the burglar alarm and called the police.
burglar alarm
cat burglar
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
alarm
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Ultrasonics technology is used in certain burglar alarm systems which trigger on detecting the sound of breaking glass.
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We repair to the kitchen and blithely set off the burglar alarm searching for the cat to cuddle.
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She was woken early this morning by a burglar alarm .
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He said I should have more adequate protection than a burglar alarm .
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A new burglar alarm and ventilation system have been fitted.
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By the time the burglar alarms had alerted staff the birds were gone.
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It was reported, in Baberton Mains, that a special offer for the installation of burglar alarms had been made.
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Great Caesar; a burglar alarm .
cat
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Although he was to become Britain's most successful cat burglar , Peace showed no early aptitude, and was frequently arrested.
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Actually, Rutledge is a thief who employs his abused, trained ape Dunston as a simian cat burglar .
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We are softly up the stairs and into our room with less noise than a pair of cat burglars .
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Next,'s friends and colleagues dressed up as cat burglars and prowled around Telford town centre collecting money for Comic Relief.
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Auguste flashed around busily, trying to reconcile these people with Rose's cat burglar .
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Even Rose had no proof that the cat burglar was in Cannes.
■ VERB
think
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Wife - Darling, I think I can hear burglars downstairs.
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Westbourne, shaken, was in no mood to think of burglars .
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Did you think I was a burglar ?
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But just as he is leaving, Charlie thinks he is a burglar and grabs him.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
suspected burglar/terrorist/spy etc
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He was attacked in Sandbach after confronting a suspected burglar.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Police believe the burglar got in through the kitchen window.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A 79-YEAR-OLD man was struck with a hammer by a burglar who broke into his home, Teesside Crown Court heard yesterday.
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He got into bed as carefully as a burglar climbing through a window.
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One does not normally anticipate the presence of a burglar .
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Trying to find out for certain if you were the burglar , and laying a little trap for you if you were.