I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a camp fire (= a fire that you make outside when you are camping )
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In the evening we sat around the camp fire.
a camp/camping site
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First they had to look for a camp site.
a camp/camping site
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First they had to look for a camp site.
a skiing/camping/walking etc holiday
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They went on a camping holiday in France.
an army base/camp
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the local army base
boot camp
camp bed
camp follower
concentration camp
day camp
death camp
fat camp
holiday camp
labour camp
prison camp
refugee camps
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refugee camps
sporting/camping/skiing etc equipment
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Can you help me load the camping equipment into the boot, please?
summer camp
transit camp
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
base
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Berry arrived with his party at base camp where he ran into the Kazakh climber Valeri Krishchaty by chance.
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The sad thing about it was that most of us felt more at home out in the field than in base camp .
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Nearby was the base camp for the New Zealand Division that was away fighting in the front line.
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We made it back to base camp , but the machine ran out of fluids just moments after we touched down.
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After a while, they dusted me off to base camp .
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Consequently, our club got a big play from any and all officer personnel on the base camp .
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We walked into this uncovered base camp .
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Jim Murphy witnessed the disorder: I remember the sapper attack on the base camp quite well.
military
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The family were then living in the military camp at Harmoumou.
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Behind the sound board, completely unseen by the audience, were rows of tents that appeared not unlike a military camp .
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Similar scenes were reported in provincial towns in the vicinity of military camps .
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Every military camp has a pit, where prisoners are held.
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During the Second World War, Rise had a large military camp .
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Salisbury, with its great military camps on the Plain is, above all others, the Army diocese.
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Schellenberg's office at Prinz Albrechtstrasse had a military camp bed in one corner for he often spent the night there.
■ NOUN
bed
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Even the March sun looks changed as it splinters off the chrome on the fold-away camp bed .
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His Halloween programme Ghostwatch so scared my children that I have had to sleep on a camp bed in their room.
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He slept on a camp bed in a room full of the cardboard boxes he had filled with books.
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Many men bought their own solar shower bags and camp beds .
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Schellenberg's office at Prinz Albrechtstrasse had a military camp bed in one corner for he often spent the night there.
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We could actually sleep on the camp bed between the midnight and 6am observations.
boot
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The men I worked with called it academic boot camp .
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Corps officials say initiation into their ranks is difficult enough without mixing men and women in boot camp .
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Beetle Bailey will go through boot camp again and again, never to be promoted above private.
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However, about 25 percent of those who finished boot camp have had problems while on parole.
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For Dunbar, 19, who cried during the ceremony, finishing boot camp was the high school graduation he missed.
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Navy doctors say the new shoes have cut blister problems in half since the boot camp started issuing them last July.
concentration
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He lives almost entirely in the past, remembering life before the war and during his hellish time in a concentration camp .
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Anybody who was in a concentration camp as a guard could use that argument.
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Would you eat that, unless you were starving to death in a concentration camp ? 2.
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One character is in the Resistance, another witnesses Hiroshima, another goes to a concentration camp , others stay at home.
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It's not like a concentration camp .
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Even though it was against Danzig law, these people were all sent to the Reich, presumably to concentration camps .
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And we kept another hundred and twenty thousand between 1945 and 1954 in Hitler's old concentration camps .
death
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In the spring of 1945, the four girls were transported to four more death camps , once by death march.
detention
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More than 13,000 boat people in three Hong Kong detention camps demonstrated against forced repatriation on Nov. 11-12.
fire
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Like steam coming at you from a cooking pot over a camp fire .
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Flagg denied there were any fires Tuesday, other than normal cooking or camp fires.
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In the evening there is a barbecue dinner around the camp fire , followed by a presentation of Meo dances.
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They had warm days and clear, cold nights when they sat round the camp fires or stood guard over the horses.
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More than 20 died in a camp fire in 1992, and 50 police were injured during a mass breakout in 1996.
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Somewhere a camp fire was lit and we were drawn towards it instinctively.
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Making camp fires is still one of the most popular of scouting activities.
follower
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There's a lot more to Jefferson Airhead than rent-a-baggy camp followers .
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Generals, recognizing this, turned blind eyes to the excesses of their troops and were sure to provide camp followers .
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Banks, accountants, advertising agencies and many other providers of professional services are the camp followers of the multinational army.
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The camp followers however caused problems with the authorities.
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Much of the hidden diversity of the ancient camp followers remains, silent and unaltered, within the stocks of today.
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The majority of the camp followers were however, good honest women who were the wives and sweethearts of the troops.
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Whether neighbour, camp follower or convenient snack, the wolves changed little as their owners were transformed.
holiday
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Like a holiday camp it was, endless teas and lectures and displays of magic all afternoon.
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Some of these studios are like holiday camps .
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This was a major provider of not only walking holidays but also package holidays and holiday camps .
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There are already cluster holiday camps .
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Sir Billy Butlin was the first to deal with the problem of the straying guest in his original holidays camps .
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The warning follows tests of pools at schools, hotels, holiday camps and leisure centres in 196 local authorities.
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It's absolutely horrifying - makes Holloway look like a holiday camp .
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It was in fact the Butlins train, that runs on summer Saturdays to serve the Butlins holiday camp at Pwllheli.
labour
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The labour camp itself was supplied from the straits.
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In the rush not to be left behind, scruples about starvation and labour camps are forgotten.
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A forced labour camp , they call it.
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn held much of his work in his mind while he was in a labour camp .
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The bleak prospect of the labour camps , slavery in Siberia?
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Before you know it, you're freezing your boots off in a Siberian labour camp .
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It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps.
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Thousands of members have since been detained in labour camps .
prison
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I was in a friendly country and was less effectively guarded than I ever would be in a prison camp .
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In prison camps , cigarettes frequently reach that status.
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All the Luftwaffe crews who've ended up in Ireland have been put in prison camps .
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This is nothing like the bucolic prison camp where his half-sister Carmella is held.
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Generally, short hair is associated in the public mind with convicts, prison camp inmates and the military.
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Conditions in Farc prison camps were highlighted last year when television showed the captives in barbed-wire compounds in the jungle.
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People don't go out and spend millions turning their homes into prison camps unless there is real fear in the air.
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I should wait until I had got to the prison camp and then escape.
refugee
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We wanted compensation for what a half-century in refugee camps has done to their lives.
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He returned to the refugee camp where his family has lived since 1948.
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Villagers from El Barillo ended up in a church-run refugee camp in Calle Real.
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Our neighborhood looked like a refugee camp , bursting its seams.
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In the Gaza refugee camp of Rafah soldiers shot dead 11-year-old Mohammad Jarbou.
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Nurses' housing in the refugee camps was the first step toward what would soon become women-only villages.
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As a way of encouraging them to return, food aid to the refugee camps has been withheld since last summer.
site
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But luckily for golf this was cancelled when the land was ear-marked for a camp site instead.
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Ancient camp sites are still used by people eager to relearn old ways.
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There are good fish restaurants and a recently opened camp site with full facilities.
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As for Dorrainge's complaints, the camp site they had chosen was very good.
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The travellers said that as gypsies the council was obliged by law to give them a camp site .
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They also patrol camp sites and parking and picnic places.
summer
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Allen said that he called Previn at summer camp in 1991, using the name George Simon.
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For Olajuwon, the Dream Team experience has been like a summer camp at a very exclusive boys' club.
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Sigua was reported to have fled to the rebel headquarters in a Komsomol summer camp outside Tbilisi to avoid arrest.
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This year, too, the Pillow experience was like summer camp for the dancers.
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It was running like a well-oiled machine, instead of like a slightly out-of-control summer camp .
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Also, the West Coast is where my family, summer camps and friends are.
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The Sea Cadets had a summer camp in the naval base at Aultbea with good facilities.
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The question of whether children were safe at summer camp or not made for much parental discussion and anxiety.
training
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They would go to training camp on Friday or Saturday, still no Maradona.
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Perhaps it would have been better for them if they had gone straight to hostels or agricultural training camps .
transit
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The hideous transit camps are emptying.
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While they waited, the Joint put them up at a transit camp just outside Vienna.
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While in the transit camp at Lowestoft he was offered a choice of hostels in Belfast, Leeds or London.
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The decision, following a public inquiry in February, clears the way for a controversial gipsy transit camp .
■ VERB
break
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The first days of the war saw the Saltash Territorials ordered to break up camp at Exeter and proceed to Falmouth.
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Reaction to the report Thursday broke roughly into two camps .
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Violent rioting has broken out in the camps many times in recent weeks.
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Henderson broke camp with the Padres in a reserve role.
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The Black Book seeks to break with this camp mentality of scholarship.
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But when it was time to break camp , it was loaded on Ram Rahim.
leave
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The women and children were sent into the town until the floods subsided and the men were left to guard the camp .
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The conflict between my parents was the last real barrier to leaving the camps .
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The majority of the displaced are therefore reluctant to leave the camps and prefer what little protection the church can offer.
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We got hit about 3 hours af-ter we left camp .
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Half an hour after leaving camp , I saw the same lorry, pulled off the road beside a derelict shack.
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Amelia was one of 40, 000 sick and starving prisoners left in the camp .
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Abdul Aziz Rantisi said they would all leave their camp or none would.
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Nor did I dare tell anyone that I did not want to leave the camps .
live
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In the seventies everyone seemed to live in a trailer camp or in the crevice of a mountain.
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More than half of the displaced persons live in camps with inadequate shelter.
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Hundreds of thousands of people living in refugee camps and towns near the fighting were scattered and set adrift.
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Do your readers know what it is like to live in a refugee camp ?
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Who else is living in that camp there?
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How did people live in the camps , how did some survive, how did some defend themselves?
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Beginning in 1976, they withdrew from public view, living in camps in Wyoming and then houses in Dallas and Denver.
pitch
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Then, as abruptly as it had pitched camp , the caravan moved on.
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Lugh would make the decisions about where they pitched camp and how much bear meat they brought.
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That evening they pitched their camp on a shoulder of dry ground above a valley, thankful for the respite.
run
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He cycled out of 3-Wing on to the Hay-on-Wye road that ran through the camp .
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Captain Vilcins, who had studied in Paris, ran the camp administrative board with decisiveness and style.
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It is when the Captain, who runs the camp , picks S. for his exclusive use that the novel peaks.
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There is a sewage system, hand-dug, which replaced the open trenches that ran through the camp until recently.
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Once the service was over the men would start work on the railway that ran alongside the camp .
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The next it is two sisters in Rhode Island who run a summer camp for mentally retarded children.
send
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Workers who lose their jobs are sent to farm camps , along with bureaucrats doing two weeks' hard labour.
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There were the political prisoners, sent to concentration camps , who continued to help the Allies.
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I suppose I was lucky, I could have been sent to a camp .
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Their movements were restricted, though relatively few were sent to camps .
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The less fortunate are robbed of everything and sent to labour camps .
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Except for her bright clothing, she was decked out like some one about to be sent to a boot camp .
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Burun had sent Jotan on to the camp .
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To join or be sent to a concentration camp .
set
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Downing Street's double glazing must have proved invaluable as the camera corps set up camp and squabbled on the doorstep.
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Rescue workers, police and other law enforcement agencies set up camp on a levee beside the canal.
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Exploring the terrain or even setting up camp leave too many things wide open.
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As everyone now knows, we set up camp nearly in the middle of a Viet Cong stronghold.
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However, many travellers have set up more fixed camps around the city, which does not have an official site.
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Needless to say, entire platoons of soldiers set up camp at his tomb before battle.
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An opera set in the camps would be a very different thing.
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It boggles my mind how much money it must have cost to set up each base camp .
train
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Hamed will go on a publicity tour around the States next week before entering training camp on February 16.
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Yet Owens is the prize rookie of training camp .
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But equally worrying to the security forces was the age of two of the recruits who were being trained at the camp .
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Collins was benched last week, the result of a series of events that began in training camp with a broken jaw.
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Washington signed late and missed most of training camp .
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Raiders owner Al Davis then switched Williams to tight end during training camp .
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In idle moments, I have often pictured Id! in the training camps , climbing netted gantries.
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The Oilers will open training camp in Nashville on July 18.
visit
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We drank from the crocodile-infested river, and lions visited the camp every night.
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Clinton is the fifth president to visit the camp .
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It was like visiting a Tartar camp !
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The President has already visited a similar camp run by Paul Newman in Connecticut.
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But the ski instructress died trying to fulfill her biggest ambition - to visit the Everest base camp .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
happy camper
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Loville is not a happy camper .
have a foot in both camps
pitch a tent/pitch camp
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A girl's basketball camp is being organized by the City Recreation Department.
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a mining camp in the Yukon
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College students work at a camp for kids from the inner city, leading craft activities and sports competitions.
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He's going to a Boy Scout summer camp for two weeks in August.
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If you like camp , you'll probably enjoy the movie.
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summer camp
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The camp is at the bottom of the Grand Canyon.
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The kids will be at camp all day.
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The YMCA is running a day camp with crafts, sports, and water fun.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Ancient camp sites are still used by people eager to relearn old ways.
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Both camps have long been bound together by a shared interest in the punter's pound.
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He races through a mining camp towards his 20-room mansion with oak floors and a second floor balcony.
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Illegal immigrants would be expelled using chartered transport after being housed in camps set up at ports and airports.
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More than half of the displaced persons live in camps with inadequate shelter.
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She jack-knifed into a sitting position and hastily surveyed their camp .
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Takat Singh ushered me back to camp .
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
out
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Leaver, then camping out on Oz art director Jonathan Goodchild's floor, joined the staff.
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But camped out in their front yard, so to speak, we suddenly felt very exposed.
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For two days the children camped out in the hospital waiting-room as their father clung on to life.
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It may be a special place where you like to camp out .
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They're hippies or gypsies or squatters or whatever, and they've already started camping out there as best they can.
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There are two Los Angeles Times reporters camped out there.
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The First Spiritualists were camped out at the edge of a grove of birch trees.
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We will get some money that normally camps out in stocks going over to the bonds for a while.
there
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It was less than an hour from dusk, and we would have camped there had it been left to me.
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There were often transient correspondents camped there.
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I want your assurance that you will always allow genuine gipsies to camp there .
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Many newcomers were upset that they would be unable to camp there after having made reservations months in advance.
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Many of the dead had camped there .
■ NOUN
concentration
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At the public library downtown I return obsessively to the photographs of concentration camps .
night
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Last night we camped a metre short of the border, a beautiful spot between the upper and lower Sorjus lakes.
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Thompson recommends campers come as early as possible on Friday nights for weekend camping .
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Their demeanor grew more serious the following night as we camped on a peninsula above the lake.
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Hundreds of them had spent the night camped out on the sidewalk in the numbing midwinter cold.
refugee
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They ofren grew on the sites, indeed out of the debris, of old refugee camps .
site
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We camped in the official site at Skaftafell.
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Twin Lakes Fish Camp provides trailer hookups, tent camping sites , and several little cottages.
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Tonight we camped at the site where the first Smith and Miranda expedition ended.
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Towards mid-afternoon we camped close to the site of the old Shyok dam.
■ VERB
go
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And people living at Simonds Yat in Gloucestershire want to know why Hanger was allowed out of the jail to go camping .
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Einar always had his car when we went camping .
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He supported orphanages and schools, underprivileged children went on camping holidays at his expense.
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In her story, Bunting writes about Lin, who is afraid to leave home to go to camp .
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Alyssa is going to camp , and Jason and Alex have summer jobs.
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There, they rehearsed, improvised, went camping and played, with Williams becoming one of the boys.
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They have this experience, and then they can go camping on their own.
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A handful of children went to camp the first year with money provided by the House.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
camping gear/equipment
happy camper
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Loville is not a happy camper .
have a foot in both camps
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A family was camped on a sandy beach under the trees.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In the first 20 minutes, Ipswich were all over their visitors and were camped permanently in their half.
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On our march we camped one night in a vacant lot adjoining a female seminary at Gordonsville.
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She had her own fishing pole and hiking boots, a sleeping bag in case they decided to camp out.
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The soldiers camped nearby also ran to help.
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They always camped at Dartmeet in summer.
III. adjective
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
camping gear/equipment
happy camper
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Loville is not a happy camper .
have a foot in both camps
pitch a tent/pitch camp
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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That outfit is so camp .