adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a burning desire (= an extremely strong desire )
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She had a burning desire to pack her case and leave.
a burning issue (= a very important and urgent issue )
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For country-dwellers, transport is a burning issue.
a burning question (= an important one that needs dealing with )
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Little progress was made on the burning question of Africa’s debt.
a burning sensation
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These chemicals can cause a burning sensation or rash.
a burning/driving ambition (= a very strong ambition )
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She had a burning ambition to become a racing car driver.
a lit/lighted/burning cigarette
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Someone dropped a lit cigarette and started the fire.
be burning with curiosity (= want to know about something very much )
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She was burning with curiosity about him, but was too polite to ask.
burning/blazing/smoking wreckage
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He managed to crawl away from the burning wreckage.
sb’s eyes are burning/smouldering/blazing with hate literary
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Then he noticed the dark eyes, smouldering with hate.
the blazing/burning sun
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Tourists trudge around in the blazing sun.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
still
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When she returned to the house, she found everything as they had left it and the fire still burning .
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Fortunately, the old man was still burning paint off the greenhouse.
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Soon I arrived at the lime-kiln, which was still burning , although the workmen had all gone home.
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He always went to sleep with his still burning , so he got through a lot more than she did.
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The lamp outside the turkey-house was still burning to illuminate their way along the front drive and into the yard.
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It was still burning , but not towards the hayfield.
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And the lights were so bright that I could hardly bear it and my eyes are still burning .
■ NOUN
ambition
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His own unashamed, burning ambition is' to make money.
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Bruce was a short, stocky man with red hair and a burning ambition .
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You see, she had this burning ambition to succeed on the stage.
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But they didn't reckon with her burning ambition to win a third time.
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It hadn't been an easy task, and in spite of his burning ambition and will to succeed.
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He had no burning ambition to climb to the upper reaches of management in those early days, however.
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It was this burning ambition that I took with me into 1986.
building
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The burning building behind him settled, and a triangular slice of wall slid out of place.
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The smell of burning buildings from the last flare-up still filled the air.
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Does it matter whether he really died in a burning building or whether he only thinks he did?
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She was rescued from the burning building by a neighbour.
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As they roared towards the burning building , Bob Wallace hit the siren to let the occupants know help was coming.
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He's got a little kid in one hand and he's walking out of a burning building .
bush
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Then there was no sound but the crackle of burning bushes .
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Her hair was loose and hung on her shoulders, a burning bush .
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Millie's hair was close to the light over the table; it looked like a burning bush .
car
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There they were tied up and pushed over a cliff in their burning car .
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Shippey, 47, was found stabbed to death in his burning car near Merstham last December.
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He contacted the fire service who hosed the burning car .
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Jury sees the spot where couple were left in a burning car .
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Billie had been roughly bundled by a group of storm-troopers away from the burning car and into the Dresden Heide.
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Police set up barricades to halt the marchers, who began burning cars .
coal
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Of course you'd expect to find fly ash at any period since people began burning coal in quantity.
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Thermal stations burning coal , oil or nuclear fuel work 24 hours a day and their output is less easy to adjust.
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And burning coal , of course, produces, carbon dioxide as well as sulphur dioxide.
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It was hung with pots and pans, and a huge range was slowly burning coal .
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After that, he ignored the hand and massaged Bobby's arm until he felt the sensation of burning coals .
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Startled, she turned to discover the dark-haired woman glaring at her through eyes that were like burning coals .
desire
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The arguments were upsetting, but they gave them a burning desire to win - to prove officialdom wrong.
house
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The room was lit by a red light from the burning houses behind it as Anne crunched over broken crockery and plaster.
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Old Mosse saved three people from a burning house in the Blitz but was a thieving rat otherwise.
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In 1955 an 11-year-old Sunbeam was presented with the Silver Cross for rescuing her three sisters from their burning house .
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And above the flames of burning houses rose up to drown out the moonlight and rush hot air into their streaming faces.
issue
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Another burning issue is unfair dismissal.
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Quality, of design and typography rather than editorial matter, is a burning issue as far as desktop publishing is concerned.
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It can also lead to the efficacy of our advice becoming the burning issue of discussion.
oil
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On some occasions, this marked cooling effect extended a distance of several hundred kilometres from the burning oil wells.
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Rubble and bloodstained corpses were scattered across the dockside, and acrid smoke from burning oil filled the air.
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The burning oil drum was a mystery, and Dunn refused to guess at the identity of the trucks.
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The coffee smelled like burning oil .
pain
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His upper body felt curiously numb, but he could feel a burning pain deep within him when he breathed.
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Aching, tearing, stitching, burning pains .
sensation
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But the thick, hardened layers of dead skin sometimes press on the nerve, causing a burning sensation when you walk.
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If there is any pain or a burning sensation , tell the doctor, just in case you have a urinary infection.
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There was a burning sensation somewhere near the pit of his stomach.
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When it started again there was a new pain a sharp burning sensation in her crotch.
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She winced painfully as a burning sensation spread across her cheek, and jerked her hand away from her face.
sun
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On a sob Ruth swallowed hard and closed her eyes to the burning sun overhead.
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As the day wore on the men stripped to the waist in the burning sun .
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The Marines suffer from burning sun and torrential rain; flares sent up at night emit an eerie glow.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be burning to do sth
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Hannah's burning to tell you her news.
be burning up
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Although it was cold and the air was running out, she was burning up.
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In the on-line world, customers were burning up the lines.
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In these circumstances, it should be roughly assumed that you would be burning up around 2,000 calories a day.
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Think about the calories you are burning up - 200 for every 30 minute walk!
be burning with rage/desire etc
sb's ears are burning
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I bet your ears were burning - Tom and I were just talking about you.
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My ears are burning in the cold, but there's nothing I can do about it.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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burning cheeks
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The two boys were rescued from the burning apartment building.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Mrs Stocks passed on the onions, neatly sliced, and went to splash cold water over her burning eyes.
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That did not matter for soon burning aircraft lit the scene as though it were daylight.