noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bullet enters sb's chest/brain etc
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There was a scar where the bullet had entered his shoulder.
a bullet is lodged in sb's chest/brain etc (= is stuck in that part of the body )
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Surgeons are trying to remove a bullet lodged in his neck.
a chest cold (= affecting your chest )
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He’s coughing all the time with a bad chest cold.
a chest infection (= an infection in the lungs )
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I’ve got a bad cough, but the doctor says it isn’t a chest infection.
back/chest/stomach etc pain
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Many people suffer from back pain.
chest of drawers
chest/waist/knee etc high (= as high as your chest etc )
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The grass was knee-high.
clasp sb to your chest/bosom (= hold someone tightly with your arms )
community chest
heart pounding in her chest
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She ran, her heart pounding in her chest .
paralysed from the neck/chest/waist down
sb's waist/chest/leg etc measurement
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What is his waist measurement?
tap sb on the shoulder/arm/chest etc
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He turned as someone tapped him on the shoulder.
tea chest
treasure chest
war chest
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The government’s huge war chest could be used to improve transport.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
bare
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His almost bare chest and the high, curved horns he wears accentuate his height and his slender build.
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She pictured his bare white chest , the fingers so thick and stubby for some one who made a living at dentistry.
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Her hands spreading over my bare chest .
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When Clark Gable removed his shirt to reveal a bare chest , sales of undershirts plummeted.
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His bare , bony chest heaved.
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Crushed against that bare muscular chest , his thighs hard against hers, she felt her head spin.
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Five workmen stood near the heat, bare chests sweating, shoulders goose-pimpled.
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His bare chest was bronzed and lightly coated with dark hair, darker than that on his head.
close
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He himself had other plans, although for the moment he was keeping them fairly close to his chest .
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Lying as shown, raise the elbows, head and shoulders, bringing your chin as close to your chest as possible.
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Data Connection, too, is playing its price-list close to its chest .
wooden
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Just occasionally, wooden chests were used as coffins, but only for very wealthy people.
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I leave her my two good leather suitcases in the wooden chest near the front door.
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There had been no attempts on the jewels, which remained unmolested in their wooden chest .
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They painted murals on the walls, foliage on the ceilings, and patterns on wooden chests .
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In a corner of Frankie's room stood a large wooden chest whose drawers were too stiff for him to open.
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They had a wooden chest for their clothes.
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He put them all away in the big wooden chest .
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A fine old wooden chest covered with intricate brass, nail-head designs was discovered, cleaned and placed in the hall.
■ NOUN
infection
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A sick Gooch should not have played in Calcutta with a debilitating virus which developed into a chest infection .
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They include poor growth, recurrent chest infections , chronic diarrhoea and skin infections.
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She had been admitted suffering from a chest infection .
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A chest infection turned into pneumonia.
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The commonest symptom is a persistent cough, with frequent bouts of chest infection .
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The youngsters had a severe chest infection when he arrived ten days ago which delayed treatment.
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The Castleford star took medicine for a throat and chest infection before the second Test in Auckland.
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Because there's a constant risk of chest infection , antibiotics are usually given at the first sign of a temperature.
injury
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A 64-year-old woman dies of chest injuries from an airbag deployment. 1991&038;.
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Mr Dye is in intensive care with head injuries while Mr Nolan has chest injuries.
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Pathologist's reports established the cause of death as extensive chest injuries .
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Mr Kirwan was treated at Redcar where he is understood to have suffered a minor chest injury .
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One glance told Rachel the pilot had sustained serious chest injuries .
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Father-of-three Andrew Cockle, 31, was taken to hospital with neck and chest injuries but died after emergency surgery.
medicine
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It was well fitted out, with a formidable medicine chest .
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Dana fights his way through the protocol surrounding the medicine chest , has a recipe drawn up, and delivers his balm.
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Only, there on its side on top of the medicine chest was an unstoppered bottle.
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Both statements agree: Get your vitamins and minerals from your plate, not your medicine chest .
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The home medicine chest Every Koi keeper should have one of these, stored in a cool, dark place.
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Under his bed he had a complete medicine chest , full of stuff given him by a veterinary friend in Palm Beach.
pain
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Edrophonium was given to the first 21 patients referred with non-cardiac chest pain .
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The patient may or may not have palpitations or chest pain associated with the attack.
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One resident was taken to hospital with chest pains as a precautionary measure but was released after a check-up.
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Was there any chest pain , palpitation, or shortness of breath just before consciousness was lost?
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She returned to the hospital in the early hours of Saturday 4 July complaining of increased chest pains .
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I had the feeling I was disappointing him, and it filled me with a dull continuous inner chest pain .
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A barium meal confirmed a hiatus hernia but the chest pain continued to infiltrate my left arm.
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Sore muscles are not the only possibility to explain cough and chest pain .
tea
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In the same tea chest he came across a cube-shaped case made of orange plastic.
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He fell on to the tea chest .
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He rested his hand on a cardboard box behind the tea chest and pushed himself up.
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On the left, near the end of the gangway, was a blue suitcase resting on top of a tea chest .
treasure
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They are regions of huge biological diversity, a treasure chest of invaluable worth, representing 60 million years of evolution.
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Charleston is a treasure chest of period architecture and a mecca for antiques buffs.
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There was no church treasure chest as Gabriel had hoped.
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The activity is marred by the inexplicable appearance of treasure chests that spew inane facts.
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This is a utilitarian relationship with nature, in which it becomes a treasure chest of consumer goodies.
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Decorate the room with a treasure chest , and the children all look for hidden treasure when they arrive.
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Again, she was festooned with the contents of the treasure chest - the terrible red leather box.
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This site is a real treasure chest enabling us to find wonderful gems and make good use of them.
war
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Clinton has a full war chest and no Democratic opponent to worry about.
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The dairymen accumulated a war chest of $ 1 million, and spread half of it in congressional elections.
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Lockyer is better known statewide and commands a heftier campaign war chest than Calderon.
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The example of Phil Gramm, who had a large war chest but could not move voters, buttressed his argument.
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Much of that money already was in the Clinton-Gore war chest .
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Martin's campaign war chest enjoys strong support from industry, including mine managers and safety officers.
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It has a war chest of $ 40 million to spend each year on advertising.
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And he still has a war chest of $ 263, 417.
■ VERB
clasp
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His hands clasped tightly in front of his chest .
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She instinctively shrunk back against the wall, her hands clasped tightly against her chest .
clutch
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He collapses to the ground, clutching at his chest as his back arches.
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He dropped to the ground, clutching his chest .
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Nell clutched at her chest , trying to stem the rising swell of nausea.
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But as he turned to flee, Derek slumped at the wheel, clutching his chest .
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Cardiff looked at the blood on his hand, where he had been clutching his chest .
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The broken whisky-bottle neck fell to the carpet and he clutched at his chest , as if in imitation of Cardiff.
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Philpott clutched his chest in agony.
fall
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Straighten both legs and stretch right out of your hips; straighten the spine and let your chin fall to your chest .
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She gulped and took a deep breath before falling against Nathan's chest .
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I placed my hand among the grey curlicues of Hugh's fallen chest .
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His head fell forward on his chest .
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Once his head began to fall on to his chest but he jerked it up again.
feel
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He hardly moved it in my chest but it felt like liquid fire.
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My head was resting against his chest and I felt his heart beating against my eye and cheek.
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His chest hurt and he felt sick, as if some one had just kicked him in the gut.
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I felt something real heavy on my chest .
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Her hands tensed against the solid wall of his chest , feeling the warm, muscular tautness of him.
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My chest feels suddenly empty, in spite of the pressure.
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Fogarty felt the blood rise in his chest , felt needed.
fold
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One hand bore the rosary; the other was folded across his chest in a gesture of welcome.
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He was dressed in radiant white vestments and his hands were folded on his chest .
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I checked his fingers for the red dye, but they were clean, folded on his chest , lifeless.
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He stood gazing off into vistas, legs apart, arms folded across his chest and thought deep thoughts.
hit
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Mr Coyle was fatally hit in the chest .
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When he was 19, three bullets for ever changed his life, hitting his chest , neck, head.
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Mine was hitting my chest in a frenzy!
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He usually hit the chest , and our teeth bared as the hilt of the bayonet quivered in the dummy.
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I struck out feebly in self-defence and hit him across the chest , which increased his rage.
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His parents were told at first that he was hit in the chest during a gun battle.
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It hit him in the chest .
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He was hit in the chest and died instantly along with about 28 others.
hold
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Doyle was flung back across the table, a milk bottle exploding in the bag he held across his chest .
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I saw our lieutenant run toward me, holding his chest with both hands.
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He carried his one camera, a twin-reflex Rolleiflex, the sort that is held against the chest , over his shoulder.
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I wrapped him in my shirt and held him to my chest .
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Mrs Wright had a coughing fit, holding her chest and her eyes watering.
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That morning he woke up holding his chest , thinking it was heartburn.
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He tried to hold a sea chest , but his hands passed through it as through something slightly thicker than water.
pound
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John's heart was pounding out of his chest .
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The Cowboys will sense it and start to pound their chests and dig in.
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My heart was pounding in my chest , the mosquitoes and everything else forgotten.
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Her heart was pounding in her chest .
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Why did her mouth go dry and her treacherous heart start pounding away inside her chest like war drums in the jungle?
puff
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The males responded by puffing up their chests and circling slowly towards each other.
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It puffed its chest , raised its upper body, and threw back the head in a gesture of defiance.
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He puffed up his chest like an exotic bird engaged in a courtship dance.
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At the fence, he suddenly sucked his stomach in and puffed his chest out.
shoot
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After being shot in the chest and back and attacked with machetes, Peter Pegnado, 31, jumped into his car.
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The one who got shot in the chest when Special Branch and MIs tried to pick him up in Bayswater.
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He's been shot twice in the chest and is in pretty bad shape.
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He shot him in the chest , he went down on the ground.
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The boy, Muhammad Arrar, was shot in the chest and killed.
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But the gunman suddenly turned round, took careful aim and shot Jamie in the chest .
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She says he was shot in the chest .
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She felt it pause in her belly and then shoot out from her chest and from the top of her head.
tap
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Franco released him from his embrace, tapped him on the chest and dropped his tone of ghastly jocularity.
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I suddenly felt tapping on my chest .
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He did a routine exam, listening to me breathe and tapping on my chest .
thump
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He felt his heart thumping inside his chest .
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He could hear only his own wheezing, and feel only the thumping in his chest .
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He was hardly aware of lurching downstairs and into the sharp rain, binoculars thumping his chest .
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She thumped her chest with her fist.
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Paige sat up, ice in her stomach, her heart thumping sickeningly in her chest .
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Polly felt as though her heart was still thumping in her chest and she still felt horribly sick.
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He sat down on the bed, his hands in his lap, his heart thumping in his chest .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
play your cards close to your chest
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Roslin, known for playing his cards close to his vest, declined to comment.
play/keep your cards close to your chest
puff out your cheeks/chest
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Gillespie's cheeks puffed out as he blew into his bent-bell trumpet.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a toy chest
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Potter was shot in the chest .
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We use a cedar chest to keep wool blankets in.
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When doing sit-ups, keep your hands crossed on your chest , rather than behind your neck.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Children were to sit up straight and put their chins to their chests.
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Did I care that on his chest he wore no small ribbons indicative of this medal or that yet to come?
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Focusing resentfully on the dark, angular face, her heart had flipped over suddenly in her chest .
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I like looking at the clods of earth hitting their faces, covering their chests, hiding them, completing something.
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She could feel the pounding of his heart against her chest , and the pulse leapt under her lips.
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Sizes: to fit chest sizes 34-38 or 40-46.
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The gun is pointed at directly at his chest .