I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a car/bus/train etc ride
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The resort is a short bus ride away from the hotel.
a car/plane/bus etc journey
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the six-hour train journey to London
a coach/bus/boat trip
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They took a boat trip to see the seals.
a night train/bus/flight
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I took the night train to Fort William.
a railway/train/bus timetable
a taxi/bus/truck etc driver
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Car drivers face a new daily charge to enter the capital.
a train/bus/coach ticket
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I’ve lost my train ticket.
bendy bus
bus lane
bus pass
bus pass
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You can buy a cheap one-day bus pass .
bus passengers
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Bus passengers are facing higher fares.
bus shelter
bus station
bus stop
bus/coach/car etc travel
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The price is £98, inclusive of coach travel.
bus/train/air/cab fare
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Air fares have shot up by 20%.
by car/train/bus/taxi etc
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They travelled to Chicago by train.
come by car/train/bus etc
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Will you be coming by train?
courtesy bus/taxi/car/phone etc
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The hotel runs a courtesy bus from the airport.
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Most reviewers receive a courtesy copy of the book.
crash a car/bus/plane etc
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He was drunk when he crashed the car.
ferry/bus terminal
go by bus/train/car etc
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It’ll be quicker to go by train.
miss the train/bus etc
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I overslept and missed the train.
passengers get on/off a bus/plane etc
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The bus stopped and half the passengers got off.
ride a bus American English
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Ann rides the bus to work.
shuttle bus
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A shuttle bus operates to and from the beach of San Benedetto.
the school bus
walking bus
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
local
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The project is a good example of co-operation between a preserved railway and a local bus company.
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Convenient for the local bus service, shops and bars.
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Two of the 16-bit slots have local bus extensions.
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Its capital is Tetouan, eleven miles from M'Diq and reached by local bus , taxi or excursion coach.
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They found their local bus service a poor substitute.
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The stations will be rebuilt with high-level platforms, new buildings and convenient interchange with local bus routes.
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He also became a great favourite with the occupants of the local school bus , which passed his garden gate twice daily.
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Recently, my wife was on a local bus with a lot of teenage girls coming home from school.
■ NOUN
company
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The project is a good example of co-operation between a preserved railway and a local bus company .
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In mass transit, private bus companies spend considerable sums to influence legislatures, to get and keep their contracts.
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Since 1987 it has emerged as the number one buyer of privatised bus companies , picking up operators from Inverness to Hampshire.
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The case studies will be undertaken to establish how a bus company operates from the viewpoint of its management and organisation.
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So will local authority bus companies .
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Councillors are desperate to attract the supermarket chain to a site in Grange Road occupied by the Caldaire bus company .
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Many bus companies provide advantageous fare tickets especially for tourists.
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Amendment No. 4 would limit to two companies the number of bus companies which one purchaser could buy.
depot
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Many urban homeless were seeking refuge in subway stations and bus depots .
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Projects under negotiation include the Manggarai Integrated Terminal, a giant inter-city bus depot south of Jakarta.
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There is a bus depot at the rear of the terminal.
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Twenty-eight Brethren worshiped there, in a large bare rented room on the second floor of the bus depot .
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The supermarket scheme will force Caldaire to move the United bus depot to another site.
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His interest was in opening the nightclub next to the theater, in the abandoned Trailways bus depot .
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Transport Organise trouble-free transport to and from the railway station, airport, or bus depot .
driver
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Accusations have been made that bus drivers already flout speed limits on the estate.
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This bus driver has driven us to the promised land.
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After several decades of cyclists being terrorised by the bus drivers , the seeds of a counter-movement are taking shape.
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The bus driver was late picking up the team from the hotel.
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Public transport in Caracas was not affected after 35,000 subway conductors and public bus drivers voted not to join the strike.
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State and local governments hire teachers, bus drivers , police, and firefighters.
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The bus driver washed the windows as a classical music tape played from his dashboard.
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Also patron of bus drivers , motorists, porters, travelers, truck drivers; he is invoked against nightmares.
fare
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A computer is the only way he could weigh up the effect of the bus fare factor.
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Through his twice weekly plasma sales, Willingham has helped Scheard and others buy clothes and food or pay bus fare .
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Their bus fares are paid, but I suspect that they walked.
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She will come to Indianapolis later, as Soon as there is money enough to pay for bus fare .
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She would walk, in lashing rain, a howling wind, rather than pay a bus fare .
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She could not afford the bus fare to see a doctor, much less his fee.
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Unable to afford bus fares , she walked to interviews.
journey
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The bus journey alone is eloquent of class inequality.
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Sixteen of us flew into Delhi - and a fifteen hour bus journey took us up into the mountains.
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One of my own compensations is the bus journey into town.
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Iron rations were issued for the train or bus journey .
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The evidence of the bus journey , however, painted a totally different picture.
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Another, on his first bus journey , noted down the name of a shop as a landmark for the return trip.
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Unfortunately, the 12.35 a.m. tram journey on route 16/18 was not replaced by a corresponding bus journey from Westminster to Purley.
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To pay for their four-day bus journey to the south, her parents had to sell everything they owned.
lane
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A report by development services director Stephen Tapper says bus lanes produce considerable time savings by allowing public transport unrestricted access.
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We don't want bus lanes on motorways and we don't want traffic jams.
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They spent their time hiding behind low stone walls and leaping out at motorists travelling in bus lanes .
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Extensive bus lane and priority traffic signalling is approved for Manchester.
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The successful firm will also have to provide a contraflow bus lane for the authority.
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Because the council has turned the whole damn place into a bus lane and you can't move any more.
pass
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I can't even get a bus pass .
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They may soon be getting free bus passes but they know how to rock.
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I got a social worker and she suggested I get a bus pass , so I could get to town.
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Townspeople are being asked to sign a petition to help save the bus passes of Langbaurgh's 22,000 pensioners and disabled.
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All the aggravation about replacing by bus pass , credit cards and library cards etc, all because I was thoughtless.
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Free bus passes offered to parents in return for acting as supervisors.
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Bus pass reprieve: Langbaurgh pensioners' free bus passes have been given a reprieve until the end of April.
passenger
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Analysis of accidents involving bus passengers in future years will be undertaken.
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In the past year the first phase of the analysis of bus passenger casualties highlighted in the 1991 Plan has been undertaken.
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Without scaremongering, we fear very much for the needs of bus passengers .
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I hope that Hon. Members will confine themselves to talking about bus passengers .
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Reductions in bus passenger and car rear seat passenger casualties have contributed in large degree to this decrease.
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The changes would have a detrimental effect on bus passengers .
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The evidence is that when free concessionary travel was withdrawn fewer trips were made and there were fewer elderly bus passenger casualties.
ride
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It was a rare family that even bothered to take the short bus ride to the sea.
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Some have long bus rides to and from school, and are exhausted by the end of the day.
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But on the bus ride home he resolved to do one thing.
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It also gave Catholic a chance for its first bus ride to a game when it plays at Widener.
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The larger town of Keszthely, on Lake Balaton, is a short bus ride away from Heviz and easily reached.
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He is working with filmmaker Aaron Yamaguchi on a documentary about SlamAmerica, a poetry bus ride across the country.
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No one carries more than about $ 1, enough for a train or bus ride and a phone call.
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They will fly to Buffalo, then take a two-hour bus ride to Olean.
route
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It was thoughtful of Rufus because it's on the bus route .
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There will be interchange here with Vogtlandbahn services and two bus routes .
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Which of them is nearest to a bus route ?
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Pre-war poster for Circular bus route 22, which replaced the Layton and Central Drive trams in 1936.
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But as shopping habits changed many traders shut up shop and moved out blaming recession, traffic restrictions and fewer bus routes .
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The stations will be rebuilt with high-level platforms, new buildings and convenient interchange with local bus routes .
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No previous experience is required although an interest in bus routes and cold soup would prove useful.
school
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The shop assistant, staring idly through his shop-window, saw the school bus approaching its stop, through almost blinding rain.
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A field of enormous white microwave dishes, each large enough to cradle a school bus , is set on a hill.
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School route: Durham county council has reminded school bus drivers that they should not use the narrow Roundhill Road route.
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Despite the day, a school bus was lined up in front of the museum.
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The school bus was late, so Anna was on time.
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The camp rented a school bus and drove them home north along the Blue Ridge Parkway.
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On Tuesday he had a temper tantrum on the school bus and then kicked the school secretary.
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They reminded me of three little schoolboys I had just seen earlier this morning, waiting for the school bus .
service
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However, a bus service offers an alternative if the going proves too taxing.
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The Metro-North railroad said it was operating bus service on its Bainbury branch.
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Since deregulation of bus services some routes may have been altered or replaced.
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There is an hourly bus service during the day from the Airport to the Transport Interchange in the city centre.
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At the regional scale a much more varied picture of bus services emerges.
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The role of the bus becomes much more important if rail services disappear and are to be replaced by bus services.
shelter
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A bus shelter feet away was blown to bits.
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Damien writhed in anger as he stood penned in the bus shelter like an animal, with this herd of obnoxious Cockneys.
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When they're still young, girls hang around bus stations, leisure centres, bus shelters or each other's doorsteps.
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We will, however, investigate the options for altering the layout of the present advertising bus shelter .
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We propose to have a meeting with Adshel with respect to the two bus shelters .
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The traffic had started to move more freely now and he walked to the bus shelter at the roadside, and waited.
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It was starting to rain, so the three of us sat in a bus shelter .
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At a quarter to three I was in position behind the grime-sprayed glass of a bus shelter on the Banbury Road.
shuttle
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A daytime shuttle bus operates 6 days a week to the village.
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C., will deploy a fuel cell-driven shuttle bus using methanol as a fuel.
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The hotel is air-conditioned and offers a complimentary shuttle bus to the nearby Equador beach.
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A courtesy shuttle bus runs to and from the Ally Pally.
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Parmenter took the Agency shuttle bus back to Langley.
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Use the free shuttle bus to the show.
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Private vehicles are prohibited in the area, which is served by a shuttle bus .
station
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The 1770s house had become a boarding house and the eighteenth-century garden paved over as the city bus station .
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Police are also checking bus stations and airports.
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She was headed for the bus station , I thought, and from there back to the Amtrak station in Denver.
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Buses departing from the present bus station to be to the south only.
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I went to sit in the bus station and think this over.
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The bus station was similarly desolate, while the cinema, cultural centre, public baths and a hospital have closed.
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The bus station was crowded to the doors.
stop
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At Wandsworth, it was a seven-minute walk from the bus stop to the end of Varney Street.
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A handful of zealots at bus stops manipulates Belfast workers who are freshly aware of possible bombings on urban streets.
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I navigated Jan and Darren to the bus stop .
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The bus stop was only across the street.
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Mike ran down the road to the bus stop .
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Additional troops would be stationed at bus stops and in public places, especially in Jerusalem.
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At the bus stop he looked hopefully for Gabriel.
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One child was cuffed for misbehaving at a bus stop .
terminal
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Hotel St Raphael A superior first-class hotel close to the airport bus terminal .
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After she had rolled the empty barrels back into the garage, she went inside and called the bus terminal .
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The east shore of the bay had no airport landing strip, no railhead, no long-distance bus terminal .
timetable
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Eventually I managed to find a page torn from a local bus timetable which showed the Province of Parma.
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Much of the information they sent back came from the newspapers and, in one case, the Miami bus timetable .
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We have no need to theorise about bus timetables in order to catch a bus into town.
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Please note that these itineraries are suggestions only, and are subject to bus timetables and accommodation availability.
tour
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Relief watch us from their tour bus .
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A few yards way on the nearest path, another tour bus stopped and unleashed its clientele.
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They can't even tear up the hotels on this tour because they're sleeping on the tour bus .
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Marcos and the rebel leadership rode ahead in a tour bus , with a fleet of police vehicles and helicopters in escort.
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And he was just crossing over the dual carriageway to reach the northbound lane when the StatusQuo tour bus ran over him.
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I made the decision to get a tour bus big enough for me and my family this time.
trip
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We stayed at Dassia, six miles and a 45p bus trip from town.
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Jesse Ventura may tour flood damaged areas during his bus trip next week to northwestern Minnesota.
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But the school budget is too tight to afford a lot of bus trips .
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He took a six-hour bus trip to Oneonta for the funeral.
■ VERB
board
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Two Pinochetistas immediately board the bus and furiously upbraid and threaten her.
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A black serviceman boarded a city bus and sat in front, remembers Chauvin, who lives in Hayward.
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Many Clutton players and supporters were still stunned by Royston Marley's brilliant brace of goals as they boarded the bus home.
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She knew that she must board a bus .
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They demanded to see her identification before she could board a bus to New York City.
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Phillippa Addai, 13, of Islington, north London, was last seen boarding the school bus with friends.
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First, she boarded the wrong bus and then she got lost, even when she was on the right one.
catch
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And I've got to catch the team bus at twelve-forty-five.
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He saw her getting up and going home, taking a suitcase and catching the noon bus tomorrow.
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We caught a late bus out of Bordeaux and arrived in darkness.
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She was trying to catch the bus that was greedily gobbling up passengers at an angle across the street.
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Had set off to catch the bus .
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One cool March morning we hiked over to the Mendoza road and caught the twice-weekly bus to Temuco.
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I can catch a bus and make a visit.
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I used to catch the bus to get there.
drive
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I drive a bus to the front door.
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He still drives his school bus , and, with each stop, he has a story to tell.
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On June 10 Kouao met Manning while he was driving his bus .
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He drove a city bus crosstown to pay off debts.
get
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I can't even get a bus pass.
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Jurors will not get off the bus when they visit the body site Friday.
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I didn't know him when he got on the bus .
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I made the decision to get a tour bus big enough for me and my family this time.
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Try getting off the bus a stop early and briskly walk the rest of the way.
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They may soon be getting free bus passes but they know how to rock.
miss
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On one occasion when he was late for work I questioned him and he said he had missed the bus .
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Rich Brooks looked like a guy who missed the last bus to work.
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I suppose to a 12-year-old kid, missing the bus is a pretty big deal.
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Anfield defender Mark Wright will travel to join his team-mates later today after missing the team bus travelling to Crystal Palace.
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One chilly evening at a crossroads gas station I offered a ride to a young woman who had missed her bus .
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Luke Bouverie missed the last bus out of Woodborough to Loxford, so he thumbed a lift.
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Their own daughter had lingered at home and missed the bus which she normally would have taken to her job last Sunday.
run
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Before the war, a man called Tommy Oliver ran a bus service for the people of Baldersdale.
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He looked beautiful on a tennis court; he was a pleasure to look at running for a bus .
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Sometimes you catch them laughing their heads off, running for a bus , meeting an unexpected friend.
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Dozens of people lined the route, some running alongside the bus , others taking pictures and some throwing things at it.
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She left them, running for her bus , fed up with her responsibilities.
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Later I would run breathless from the bus stop, expecting to be murdered, beaten, raped.
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And just then the policeman saw another man, who was running to catch a bus .
take
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It was a rare family that even bothered to take the short bus ride to the sea.
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Uncle Shim and I took the bus .
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I remembered Father Dmitri's invitation to call at his church and took the bus there during the Sunday midday break.
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She had a job in Frisco; she had to take the Greyhound bus at the crossroads and go in every day.
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I have also taken the bus to the University, about 8 miles away, where the courses are being held.
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We were going to take a bus to Bakersfield and work picking grapes.
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I take the bus to Santa Ana, the second city of El Salvador.
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He did not have enough money to take the bus .
travel
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Adelaida Parra coordinates seven literacy groups each week spending long hours travelling by bus between the distant shanty towns.
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I used to travel by bus a lot, so I had a season ticket.
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They spent their time hiding behind low stone walls and leaping out at motorists travelling in bus lanes.
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Ian and Libby and Joshua will be travelling by bus or car; it might suit Avocado Gerry, though.
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The children travel by school bus to Howden, and social events are held in the old school.
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Within a few days of term ending, the Roberts travelled by bus to Heathrow.
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Some parents say they won't allow their children to travel by bus until the law is changed.
wait
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Half past eight comes and it is time to stand outside and wait for the bus .
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At least 16 children who had been waiting at the bus stop were questioned by investigators.
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I went to Westminster one night in mid-March, and was waiting for my bus just outside the Abbey.
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One by one, silently, they head out the door, across the lobby and into the waiting chartered bus .
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I had to wait for the bus .
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They reminded me of three little schoolboys I had just seen earlier this morning, waiting for the school bus .
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It was the kind of place where you waited for a bus that never came.
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Well, perhaps Warner had seen her waiting for a bus or hitchhiking to the inaugural and generously gave her a lift.
walk
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Alida had been shocked, seeing him with Florence Ames walking from the bus stop towards Dorothea's house.
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She walked over to the bus stop and leaned against the bus-shelter glass.
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The traffic had started to move more freely now and he walked to the bus shelter at the roadside, and waited.
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Mami walked her to the bus stop for her first month at her new school over in the next parish.
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In the rich world the equivalent is the husband who drives a car with a wife who walks or catches the bus .
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She was walking to her bus stop.
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I remember walking through the bus station on my way home.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bus load/car load/truck load etc
bus/tram etc depot
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His interest was in opening the nightclub next to the theater, in the abandoned Trailways bus depot .
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Many urban homeless were seeking refuge in subway stations and bus depots .
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Projects under negotiation include the Manggarai Integrated Terminal, a giant inter-city bus depot south of Jakarta.
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The supermarket scheme will force Caldaire to move the United bus depot to another site.
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There is a bus depot at the rear of the terminal.
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Transport Organise trouble-free transport to and from the railway station, airport, or bus depot .
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Twenty-eight Brethren worshiped there, in a large bare rented room on the second floor of the bus depot .
catch a train/plane/bus
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I should be able to catch the 12:05 train.
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Kevin catches the bus home on Mondays and Wednesdays.
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After the debate, they dined on hamburgers and talked sports at a local joint before catching a train back to Washington.
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Chris and Patrick had caught a train to London and taken a taxi straight to Richie's flat.
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He caught a plane last night.
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I could catch a bus back into town.
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Maybe she had caught a train to New Rochelle.
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Peter arranged a taxi to Victoria for me to catch a train to Gatwick and the last flight to Edinburgh.
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The second time I caught a bus to the coast.
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They returned to their hotel, packed their bags, and left for Penn Station to catch a train for Washington.
express train/coach/bus
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And the brakes feel like they could stop an express train.
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He took the ball like an express train and burst through the midfield defence.
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It still sounded like an express train in the confines of the small garage.
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It was perfect for low-fare express coach services.
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The subway trip seemed endless, even on the express train.
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Transfer to the Kobe line and catch the 8: 20 express train.
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Visitors have to take a local train to visit Delft; the express trains speed by.
hop a plane/bus/train etc
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Elated, Daley and Sis hopped a plane for a vacation in the Florida Keys.
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He would just hop trains and stuff.
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Receiving assurances that there was no ethnic dimension to the role he had been offered, Hoch hopped a plane headed west.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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the bus to the airport
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I didn't know him when he got on the bus .
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New security measures, including video surveillance cameras, come into force on the city's bus fleet this week.
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Or you can nominate friends, acquaintances, bartenders or bus drivers.
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Rich Brooks looked like a guy who missed the last bus to work.
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We are sitting in the bus only.
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Which of them is nearest to a bus route?
II. verb
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bus load/car load/truck load etc
bus/tram etc depot
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His interest was in opening the nightclub next to the theater, in the abandoned Trailways bus depot .
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Many urban homeless were seeking refuge in subway stations and bus depots .
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Projects under negotiation include the Manggarai Integrated Terminal, a giant inter-city bus depot south of Jakarta.
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The supermarket scheme will force Caldaire to move the United bus depot to another site.
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There is a bus depot at the rear of the terminal.
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Transport Organise trouble-free transport to and from the railway station, airport, or bus depot .
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Twenty-eight Brethren worshiped there, in a large bare rented room on the second floor of the bus depot .
express train/coach/bus
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And the brakes feel like they could stop an express train.
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He took the ball like an express train and burst through the midfield defence.
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It still sounded like an express train in the confines of the small garage.
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It was perfect for low-fare express coach services.
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The subway trip seemed endless, even on the express train.
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Transfer to the Kobe line and catch the 8: 20 express train.
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Visitors have to take a local train to visit Delft; the express trains speed by.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In 1989 the town had voted down a petition to close the school and bus the seventeen Granville students to Rochester Elementary.
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Mitchell probed the leftover debris on the plates Adrian had bussed.