I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a car chase
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The best bit in the movie was the car chase through the city.
paper chase
wild goose chase
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It looks like they’ve sent us on a wild goose chase.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
ball
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Just as the wolf will chase its prey, Fido chases his ball .
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Sadly, most soccer sims just involve hoofing it up the pitch and loads of chasing aimlessly after the ball .
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The child Mary, in the hurly-burly of lacrosse, is simply chasing a ball .
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Children still chase a ball there but it isn't the same.
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If not chasing a ball , he plays another game, this time it is Chess.
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His dodging of tackles, chasing the ball less etc.
car
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Two men threw bottles and other material at police cars which chased them after a raid at a chemist shop in Tarporley.
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Even when all the falling in love and car chasing and mystery solving goes on among the white folks.
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Inspired by those ten minutes in Bullitt, film producers even tried extending the car chase to fill the whole film.
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Their car was being chased by police.
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Police cars chased two men after a raid at a chemist shop in Tarporley on Saturday.
dream
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Changing their destiny Shahidul Alam travels with the poor who chase a dream to distant lands.
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Approximately 70 relatives and friends have made the trip from Pittsburgh to watch this grad student in biology chase her dream .
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Now he's prepared to give up his day job to chase the dream .
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Because education isn't only useful for those countries chasing an impossible dream of Western industrial development.
girl
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They're all chasing the good looking girls .
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The gunman began shooting from a watchtower, then chased the girls down a hill, spraying gunfire as he ran.
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Once, he chased a young girl up into the Milky Way.
man
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The man chased me but I ran.
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No man liked to be chased .
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Should the man choose to chase the quail rather than shoot it, he would almost certainly still have his dinner.
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The men in it were chasing me.
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Whatever may seem the case to a man chasing a bus, running involves little work for most vertebrates.
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She kept going, blindly, and with both men chasing her.
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I told him my story, and he and his men chased the pirates down into the cove.
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He had seen a man being chased by two Riotsville hoodlums.
other
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Knowing those rules, Bush and Gore chased each other in and out of the same battleground states.
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I was in New Hampshire recently watching the Republican presidential candidates chase each other and potential primary voters around.
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Wyatt noticed, through the window, two squirrels chasing each other on the lawn.
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A pair of coevolutionary creatures chasing each other in an escalating arms race can only seem to veer out of control.
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Kids were chasing each other and playing.
police
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Despite a police chase the men managed to escape through bushes.
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The incident began early Sunday when San Jose police began chasing the man for resisting arrest and drug use.
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Two men threw bottles and other material at police cars which chased them after a raid at a chemist shop in Tarporley.
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The photographers say city police chase them away only occasionally.
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His body was discovered not by concerned neighbours but by police chasing unpaid bills.
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But he stopped when police chased him and he was almost hit by a passing car.
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He was killed when the police were chasing him; he crashed his car.
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The police chase them off, but they always come back.
street
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On one occasion she was chased through the streets by a car full of excited young Arabs.
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Of course, he was being chased down the street by some westside thug wannabes.
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Early in the morning, after the Rotonde had closed, Modigliani would chase her up the street .
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Reports have the Sharks chasing Gretzky down the street , throwing bills at him.
tail
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A cat chasing its own tail .
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At work they chase their tails , as Neil says.
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Horses kept in small yards by themselves develop repetitive patterns of abnormal behaviour, such as whirling in circles and chasing their tails .
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If you don't want your image tarnished, chase your tail before you get into serious trouble.
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And some of the grander arguments, too, are beginning to chase their own tails .
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The rest of the squadron was still below, plunging and climbing and chasing its tail .
■ VERB
start
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They started chasing after all these hippy cult groups and all the criminals were on drugs.
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Then they start chasing each other again, screaming and laughing and they run off into the woods.
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The climbing predator is in no position to start chasing after the cackling parent bird, nomatterhow tempting it may be.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
chase tail
high-speed chase
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Monday, during a high-speed chase through the streets of the Baja California state capital.
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The high-speed chase began after police spotted the gang with the stolen vehicles at the M1 Woodhall Services near Sheffield.
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They include high-speed chases through densely packed suburban areas, filmed from the air by helicopters.
the thrill of the chase/hunt
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A strange feeling of expectation mixed with our fear as we became caught up in the thrill of the hunt.
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But it is not every image that succeeds in suggesting something of the thrill of the hunt as well as curiosity.
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Was it just the thrill of the chase?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He's been chasing some cute girl he met at the ice rink.
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I chased around all day looking for a birthday present to give her.
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I didn't have the energy to chase him any more.
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Stop chasing your sister!
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The farmer chased the children across the field.
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We chased after him for about five blocks but then we lost him and had to turn back.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But old habits die hard, and Apple has shown a proclivity to chase market share while hand-wringing over shrinking gross margins.
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Fleischmann shouted, chased Dunn with the beam and grabbed with his other hand at the Luger in his belt.
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I chased him with the pitchfork and he ran in the barn.
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I have five or six months before the winter chases me away.
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Manly-Warringah chased Ofahengaue's signature prior to the Wallaby tour of New Zealand but without success.
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Then I'd have had to chase after you wherever you went.
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Weapons forged from finest steel, decorated with bronze and chased with gold and silver.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
wild
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Save yourself a wild goose chase round the shops.
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In a wild chase the crews finally overtake a very old and crippled whale.
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They deliberately sent me on a wild goose chase .
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I thought, Don't know about a wild goose chase , this is a lame duck chase.
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Instead of that, he had become involved in what was most likely a wild goose chase .
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The tracks show a gentle canter, no wild chase after red deer.
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On that occasion their predicament had been spotted and a boat had been sent out from Sharpness on a wild goose chase .
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Each shopping trip is a wild goose chase .
■ NOUN
car
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There are few film directors who can resist a good car chase .
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His heists invariably end in shootouts, explosions and car chases .
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The flash alerted the criminal, and with a few choice words exchanged, the car chase resumed.
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And, of course, the climactic car chase , with Jackie piloting a sports car on to a pleasure boat.
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It was a world which howled with car chases and teetered between excitement and extinction.
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It was going to be a very long car chase .
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Eventually car chases became a clich, and film makers explored alternative transport in their quest for cinematic thrills.
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The cab paused at an intersection to give right of way to a car chase .
goose
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Save yourself a wild goose chase round the shops.
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They deliberately sent me on a wild goose chase .
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I thought, Don't know about a wild goose chase , this is a lame duck chase.
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Instead of that, he had become involved in what was most likely a wild goose chase .
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On that occasion their predicament had been spotted and a boat had been sent out from Sharpness on a wild goose chase .
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Each shopping trip is a wild goose chase .
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Looking around the room, Harry wondered if Potts had deliberately sent him on a wild goose chase .
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The photographs might represent a wild goose chase after the random neuroses of an insecure young woman.
paper
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I was asked to do a straight forward paper chase , as we call it, and a few interviews.
■ VERB
cut
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Alternatively, casual fans can just cut straight to the chase .
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These kinds of hi-how-are-yous can be terribly coy and cumbersome, so I thought it best to cut tothe chase .
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Again and again, he cuts from the chase to the chaser.
give
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It was later spotted in Lisburn at 4.15am on Sunday by police who gave chase .
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He gave chase and quickly caught one and killed it with a snap of his bill.
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The police gave chase and arrested the man.
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The officers gave chase and radioed for assistance.
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Sancho fell dying outside his own pavilion while Rodrigo and others gave chase .
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When a Gingerbread Man jumped out of the oven and ran away, all sorts of people and animals gave chase .
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Matchsticks gave chase , catching her in mid-stride.
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The porter gave chase , assisted by two Bulldogs who happened to be in the lodge at the time.
join
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After the tour, Manly was joined in the chase for Ofahengaue's signature by St. George.
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She started to regret her impulsiveness in joining a wild-goose obstacle chase .
lead
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My parliamentary colleague, the Member for Ludlow, Christopher Gill, has been leading the chase .
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Opener David Smith led the run chase with 82 and was given crucial support by Martin Speight who chipped in with 38.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
chase tail
cut to the chase
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In business meetings, Richardson likes to cut to the chase.
high-speed chase
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Monday, during a high-speed chase through the streets of the Baja California state capital.
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The high-speed chase began after police spotted the gang with the stolen vehicles at the M1 Woodhall Services near Sheffield.
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They include high-speed chases through densely packed suburban areas, filmed from the air by helicopters.
the thrill of the chase/hunt
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A strange feeling of expectation mixed with our fear as we became caught up in the thrill of the hunt.
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But it is not every image that succeeds in suggesting something of the thrill of the hunt as well as curiosity.
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Was it just the thrill of the chase?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Roswell's high-speed chase with police that ended in tragedy
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At one time, this may have been a mill chase with a waterwheel turning.
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Monday, during a high-speed chase through the streets of the Baja California state capital.
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She loved the chase and the battle and her freedom.
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Shots were fired by the police during the chase along Belsteel Road, near Poleglass.
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The chase came to an abrupt halt when nine Mexicali police cars stopped the Jetta and its occupants.
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The three other boats lower away and the chase with the whales begins.
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This chase is described from Ralph's mind which is why some things are incomprehensible.
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Was it just the thrill of the chase ?